All news by author: Amy Fenton

Residents were forced to flee their homes amidst a series of terrifying explosions when a fire broke out at an industrial site in Blackburn, Lancashire

Camille Hardman's mental health deteriorated significantly in the weeks after her son Ethan Hardman, 16, was found dead in woodland in Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire

Nicola Hanley had spent the afternoon and night of Friday December 30 last year with friends in her local pub in the village of Langho, Lancashire

Jennifer Newby, 29, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, was in crippling pain for months before being taken off the NHS waiting list after doctors recorded her weight wrong by six stone

Alex Murray was out celebrating a new job with friends in Blackburn and staggered home drunk but was found unresponsive by the backdoor by his mum

Jessica Cronshaw, 26, was 28 weeks pregnant when she and her unborn daughter, Elsie, died in December after the young mum battled with an extreme form of morning sickness

Sarah Smith, 32, drove home from a night out celebrating passing her paramedic exams but lost control of her car and crashed into a tree, dying in hospital the next day

Nikata Moran from Fallowfield, Manchester, thought that she'd spotted a spider in her strawberries but it was actually a tiny Egyptian gecko that had travelled thousands of miles in the fruit container

Ava-Jane Van Der Merwe lost both her father and her younger sister while still in her teens, while her heartbroken mother says the biochemistry student struggled with depression for years