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Dawn Griffiths
Daily Mail
19 August 2008
Being kidnapped as a baby was the best thing that ever happened to me.
For Dawn Griffiths, it was a moment she had dreaded and dreamed of in equal measure: the day her beloved teenage daughter would leave home, and her mother's watchful care, to set off alone into the world.
Earlier this week, she waved off her 18-year-old daughter Alex from Middlesbrough train station on the first leg of a trip to the Italian Riviera. To her surprise, she was able to hold back her tears.
While thousands of such scenes are played out across the country every summer, for years Dawn felt it was something she could not contemplate.
Leanne Salt
News of the World
17 August 2008
World's fattest mother of 3 tells her story.
JUMBO mum Leanne Salt has become the fattest woman in the world to give birth to triplets.
A enormous 68-strong team of medics weighed in to deliver 40-stone Leanne's three healthy babies.
And the total bill to the NHS added up to a hefty £200,000—four times the normal cost of a triplets pregnancy. ...
Marie-Noëlle Baroni
Sunday Times
17 August 2008
In the lair of the fox lady.
Meet the woman who coached the animal stars of The Fox and the Child
Peter Higgs
Sunday Times
17 August 2008
The man with the answer to life, the universe and (nearly) everything.
British scientist Peter Higgs dreamt up a theory explaining the tiny particles that make up everything, including you, decades ago. At last he's set to be proved right.
Moira Cameron
Sunday Times
17 August 2008
A Life in the Day: Moira Cameron.
The 43-year-old became the first female Beefeater (they are also known as Yeoman Warders) in the 522-year history of the unit. Single, she lives in an apartment inside the Tower of London
Loretta Phillips
Daily Mail
15 August 2008
When my little girl was born with Down's, I felt like I'd given birth to an alien and just wanted to get rid of her.
Caroline Hedges
Daily Mail
14 August 2008
"Yes, I was drunk. But I didn't asked to be raped."
This week it was revealed that a number of rape victims have had their payouts cut by the Criminal Injury Compensation Authority after being told their drinking was a 'contributing factor' to the attacks. Inevitably, the story has provoked fierce debate.
Can a woman really take any of the blame if she is drunk when she is assaulted? Here, Caroline Hedges, 29, a PR account director from Clapham, South London, who was raped while drunk on holiday in Corfu ten years ago, tells her story.
Shevaun Pennington
Daily Mail
13 August 2008
The innocent victim, 12, of an internet paedophile describes: 'The abduction that RUINED my life'.
All 17-year-old Shevaun Pennington has to do is close her eyes and she is 12 again, but for her there are none of the carefree summer memories a girl of her age might expect to treasure.
Four days, in particular, haunt her still. Four days in July 2003 during which Shevaun sparked an international police hunt and became Britain's most famous missing child, after being abducted by a 31-year-old American paedophile who'd spent a year grooming her over the internet....
Julie Pratt
The Sun
12 August 2008
"As I grieved for my husband I found he hasd a secret family". Widow shock after trucker fooled her for 24 years.
JULIE PRATT held hubby Trevor as he died of cancer while whispering to her: “I love you.”
She was consumed with grief that the man she shared her life with had been torn away from her and their two children.
Yet while still mourning her world was further torn apart as she was told that, during all their years together, she had been sharing her man with a secret family.
Ray Nind
Daily Mail
12 August 2008
'When I kept falling over, my wife said I was drunk': One man's battle with the disease that killed Dudley Moore
Sarah Carmen
News of the World
10 August 2008
Woman has 200 orgasms a day.
Sarah, 24, suffers from Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome.
PRETTY Sarah Carmen is a 200-a-day orgasm girl who gets good, good, GOOD vibrations from almost anything.
The rumble of a train on the tracks, the purr of a hairdryer, the rhythmic drone of a photo-copier are all enough to make her go oh oh oh, ahhhhh.
She had FIVE orgasms during our 40-minute interview. But I can't take the credit—it was just talking about her sex life that set her off....
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Lucy Fairbrother
Mail on Sunday
10 August 2008
Tibet protester Lucy Fairbrother took on the might of China - and won. Here she explains how...
Elizabeth Cameron
Daily Mail
9 August 2008
At 16 she was gang raped and left pregnant. Now one mother explains... Why I love my rapist's baby.
Like so many teenage mums, Elizabeth Cameron doesn't like to talk much about the father of her toddler daughter.
She shrugs when asked about him, and admits that when questioned about his whereabouts - as people inevitably do - she likes to keep things vague.
'When new people ask, I say I have nothing to do with him - which is true,' she says quietly. 'But I'm not sure yet what I will tell Phoebe herself when she is old enough to ask.
'My daughter was snatched by a paedophile, but her rescue was just the start of our nightmare'
Daily Mail
8 August 2008
Two childhood photographs, taken just a year apart, reveal the dramatic extent to which six-year-old Jane has changed. They could be of two different children.
The first, taken in November 2005 when she was three, shows a pretty little girl with long hair, sparkling eyes and a big smile.
In the second, taken 12 months later, she is almost unrecognisable.
'In the first picture, she looks like a beautiful doll, and in the second she's like a little old lady.
'It's as if something has died in her,' weeps her 36-year-old mother Angela.
'The light has gone out of her. It breaks my heart when I look at how she is now.'
Jane, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is the child who was snatched from her home on the night of January 2, 2006, by 26-year-old convicted paedophile Craig Sweeney. ...
Fang Zheng
The Independent
6 August 2008
Olympic hopeful who lost his legs in Tiananmen Square
Fang Zheng was a promising discus thrower when he dared to join the demonstrations in Beijing in 1989 – and fell under a tank. His national pride will forever be tinged with anger. Clifford Coonan hears his story
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