All news by author: Charlotte Hadfield

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Man could only talk by blinking after horror crash left him in coma for 3 months
Andrew Sutcliffe, 48, from Southport, suffered a horror motorbike crash that left him with a broken neck and spinal injuries so severe that he couldn't talk - and had to communicate through blinking
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Ring doorbell captures moment woman wielding 'machete' attacks camera
Susan Blackburn, 41, was upstairs in her bedroom at home in Anfield, Liverpool, with her two daughters asleep, when a stranger approached her front door and cut her Ring doorbell camera off
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'My wedding was put in jeopardy after my Ryanair flight left without me'
Katie Latham and David Moore were due to fly from Manchester Airport to Paphos, in Cyprus, for their dream wedding but after forgetting the bag containing her wedding dress at security they missed their flight
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'My son thought he had a common hand injury - now he's trapped in his own body'
Rob O'Hara discovered he was dying after losing grip in his left hand just weeks before the birth of his son - now the 33-year-old is unable to walk or talk unassisted
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Man has ear 'bitten off' after trying to save brother from attack during concert
Liam and Mark Sephton were attacked after attending a Roger Waters concert at the AO Arena in Manchester on Saturday. As Liam tried to defend his younger brother, he had his ear bitten off, his mum said
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Couple travelling the world on BMW bike devastated after major setback
Lydia Rolita and Stefan Mrozewski parked the vehicle in a designated motorcycle space in Liverpool city centre but, the following morning, it and all its belongings had vanished
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'I thought I was just tired from working - then doctors told me it was cancer'
Megan Horrocks was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer just a week after her 30th birthday. Her first symptoms included fatigue and a bloated stomach which she had put down to stress at work
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'I tried to catch the zorb that catapulted boy sky high - it was chaos'
A man has shared how he rushed to help a nine-year-old boy who was left seriously injured at a family festival in Southport when an inflatable zorb ball blew away in a sudden strong wind
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Body of teenage girl found in lake after huge emergency search at Carr Mill Dam
Emergency services raced to Carr Mill Dam earlier today after police said they were concerned for the safety of a teenage girl. This afternoon, a police spokesperson confirmed her body has been found
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Unlucky woman gets stuck up to waist in mud - and has to be dramatically rescued
A photograph shows the woman firmly stuck in a channel of shallow water at Marine Lake in West Kirby, Merseyside, before the Royal National Lifeboat Institution helped
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Schoolboy screams in pain as skin breaks out in blisters during day at the beach
Jaxon Hallwood was at the beach in Merseyside with his grandparents Debra and Ken Patten when blisters started appearing on his foot, leaving him screaming in pain
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Mum went to bed days after developing pain in her side - and never woke up
Gladys Jones was unaware she had suffered a gastrointestinal bleeding, caused by an ulcer which had ruptured in her stomach, and now her husband Steven has "lost his soul mate"
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'World's luckiest mum' to start buying lottery tickets after incredible find
Katie Lyon, from Gateacre, Merseyside, found a cluster of four leaf clovers while at Bowring Park with her 22-month-old son and has joked she's so lucky she'll play the lottery
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Pub boss banned from being director after running companies with 12 barred names
Christopher Hannon faces bankruptcy after two of his businesses went into liquidation
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Mum told baby has 'ticking time bomb' inside him after noticing change on trip
Lyndsey Rowe said little Mason was his usual happy self during the trip to Hafan y Môr Holiday Park in north Wales but, after they came home, the mum saw he wasn't crawling properly
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Mum-of-three planning her dream wedding dies suddenly after waking up in a sweat
'Happy little soul' Ashleigh de Andrade had just gotten home from a holiday when she began feeling unwell, and was taken to hospital where she suffered several seizures
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Man quits job Wetherspoons - now he's serving 1,000 litres of stew at Eurovision
Adam Noble, 27, quit his job to start his own street food business and has spent the last four months serving pulled pork and pulled jackfruit buns from his food trailer
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Dad's friend spotted odd leg movement on holiday before devastating diagnosis
Friends of Rob Stubbs, 62, first noticed his symptoms of the debilitating condition while he was walking up in the Himalayas, as he was dragging his right foot on the ground
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Dad, 41, dies suddenly on weekend trip to Butlins after watching darts
Tributes have been paid after a 'lovely' dad died in bed as friends desperately try to raise money for his funeral
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Moment teen gang storms McDonald's restaurant and attack staff members
McDonald's customers were surrounding a group of boys wearing balaclavas, then looking on in shock as one of them launches forward and attacks an employee, and chaos ensued
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Male teachers 'inspect schoolgirls' skirt length' as tears shed over uniform row
Rainford High School, in Merseyside, has ended up at the centre of a fierce row over its uniform policy and the length of pupils' skirts that has left some students going home in tears
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Dad dies 3 weeks before daughter from 'broken heart' over her cancer suffering
Angela Courtney and her dad Tony passed away within weeks of each other - according to their loved ones, Tony died of a 'broken heart' after his daughter was diagnosed with terminal cancer
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Three men arrested after mass brawl outside Wetherspoon's pub caught on video
Violence broke out in daylight when a group of men exchanged blows outside the bar. Three men aged 22, 33 and 55, were arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly in a public place
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Couple swap 3-bed house for narrowboat so they can save up for their dream home
Some people think Ellie Jones and Harry Barker are 'absolutely crazy' but they think that living on a narrowboat in Northwich, Cheshire, instead of their three-bed home could save them £1,000 a month
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Woman who was 'housebound' at 29 stone loses weight of an entire other person
Sabrina Lee, who weighed 29 stone at her heaviest, couldn't walk from her bedroom to her living room without getting out of breath during a four year period when she was "practically housebound"
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