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Man who tipped the scales at nearly 23st turns his health around with ‘fat-busting football league’

Ashley Smith, 23, of Oxfordshire, slims down to 14st 2lb after ditching McDonald’s burgers and KFC fried chicken and taking up MAN v FAT footie

The Independent UK

Club helps man lose 117lbs of lockdown takeaway weight in a year

Ashley Smith, 23, saw his weight spiral out of control in lockdown eating up to two takeaways a day

Wales Online

Nurse plagued by acne for seven years cures her skin problems with an £18 fake tan

Glasgow paediatric nurse Emma Young, 23, had tried everything to cure her acne without success only for a self tanner to clear her skin

The Independent UK

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Dancer loses legs to unexplained blood clot but gets chance to waltz again thanks to ‘bionic limbs’

County Durham executive Jo Spencer, 54, plans to dance with her husband to the song that sealed their love

The Independent UK

Meet the champion snowboarder who has no feeling below her knees

Nina Sparks, 31, refused to let her love affair with mountain sports end after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in March 2021

The Independent UK

The woman who can’t smile: Meet the mother with a permanent poker face caused by rare genetic condition

Canadian mother Alexandrea Comstock, 26, has facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and was friendless until she adopted her pig, Hammy

The Independent UK

‘Eyes in the back of my head!’ Meet the blind woman fearlessly scaling walls as high as London’s 180m Gherkin

Hampshire Guide Dogs volunteer Theresa Osborne-Bell, 41, climbs walls with the agility of a squirrel despite being blind

The Independent UK

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Support worker reveals how a ‘pearly pimple’ turned out to be aggressive skin cancer

Yorkshire mother Debbie Lindley, 49, fears she will eventually lose most of her face because of skin cancer

The Independent UK

‘I’ve never felt happier’: Triathlete reveals how freak accident that left her with PTSD led her to true love

Kat Parkin, 39, of Somerset, found romance with a fellow athlete who she was introduced to by the mindset coach treating her for PTSD

The Independent UK

Young barista left stunned after pimple-like lump turns out to be rapidly growing breast cancer

Siobhan Harrison, now 24, of South Wales, was horrified when tests revealed she had stage 2 triple negative breast cancer

The Independent UK

‘Now I know who I am’: Adopted woman reveals how she reunited with her birth mother after 44 years

Londoner Katherine Samwell-Smith, 45, was six months old when she met her adoptive parents on a luggage trolley at Gatwick Airport in 1977

The Independent UK

Woman left balding and bedbound by chronic eczema clears the condition with a £9 face cream

Kimberley Reardon, 30, of South Lanarkshire, could not move without her skin weeping or peeling until she used a simple over the counter remedy

The Independent UK

Portrait artist marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by creating a ‘wrinkles and all’ Her Majesty Barbie doll

Bristol mum-of-three Lou Gray, 61, started creating portraits during the March 2020 lockdown using Barbie and Action Man dolls as her blueprint

The Independent UK

Woman left balding and bedbound by chronic eczema clears the condition with a £9 face cream

Kimberley Reardon, 30, of South Lanarkshire, could not move without her skin weeping or peeling until she used a simple over the counter remedy

The Independent UK

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Woman left balding and bedbound by chronic eczema clears the condition with a £9 face cream

Kimberley Reardon, 30, of South Lanarkshire, could not move without her skin weeping or peeling until she used a simple over the counter remedy

The Independent UK

How a ‘monster lurking in a pond’ helped an author heal trauma of a shattering childhood tragedy

Londoner Alex Woolf, 58, a father-of-two, faces his demons 50 years after his sister drowned on a picnic in 1972

The Independent UK

How a ‘monster lurking in a pond’ helped an author heal trauma of a shattering childhood memory

Londoner Alex Woolf, 58, a father-of-two, faces his demons 50 years after his sister drowned on a picnic in 1972

The Independent UK

‘It’s all about rebellion’: Meet the woman making £1,350 a month as a ‘medieval queen’ on TikTok

New Yorker Queen Astraea, 28, has 1.7 million viewers on TikTok where she posts videos wearing frocks worth between £250 and £12,000

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The Independent UK

Mother once ‘drowning in debt’ with bailiffs at the door shares the simple money tips that saved her

Rosie Forshaw, 33, of Cheshire, aka moneysavingrosie, is sharing her clever ideas in the hope of helping people as the cost of living crisis hits

The Independent UK

Spot the difference: TikTok-famous secretary entrances millions with epic ‘illusion cake’ clips

USA -based Marian Sarkisian, 29, honed her cake making skills on a week-long “basics” course in Britain where she says the best bakers originate

The Independent UK

Waste-conscious cook shares simple trick to making inflation-busting meals for less than £1 a head

Tyne and Wear therapist Clare Rice, 33, says the perfect recipe for beating rising food prices starts with savvy supermarket shopping

The Independent UK

Adrenaline junkie paralysed in a freak accident reveals how his best friend saved his life

Thanks to fundraising by his partner Alex Brown, 30, Bristol professional Will Taylor, 32, has £46K towards the £50K needed for intensive treatment

The Independent UK

Joey the rescue pooch attracts ‘poodle paparazzi’ with his rainbow ‘furstyles’

Hampshire animal lover Katie Darcey, 25, first dyed toy poodle Joey’s fur like a rainbow to support the NHS during the initial 2020 Covid lockdown

The Independent UK

‘A parallel life’: The medical mistake that saw a woman watch her entire family fight incurable brain disease

Alison Holland, 64, of Gloucestershire, says she married teacher Bert Holland, 69, thinking they had escaped the “curse” of Huntington’s disease

The Independent UK

‘I’ve jumped so many hurdles’: Meet the student on track to become the UK’s first deafblind doctor

Alexandra Adams, 28, of South Wales, was inspired to become a doctor by her medical team during an 18-month hospital stay when she was 16

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