15 h. ago Brain damaged child shares three words that moved mum to tears

On day two of our Mirror Christmas campaign, we meet the children whose lives have been enriched by Lifelites assistive and sensory tech, including nine-year-old Seb with cerebral palsy. His mum Hannah shares their story...

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22 h. ago Bolton actress Sophie Willan welcomes first child and shares adorable names and photos

The Bafta-winning actress shared the happy news on social media

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47 h. ago ‘I took literary revenge against the people who stole my youth’: Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu

As the first part of his acclaimed Blinding trilogy is released in the UK, the novelist talks about communism, Vladimir Nabokov – and those Nobel rumoursIn 2014, when he was travelling around the US on a book tour, Mircea Cărtărescu was able to fulfil the dream of a lifetime: a tour of Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection. Cărtărescu is a great admirer of the Russian-American author, and shares with him a literary career that bridges the western and eastern cultural spheres – as well as a history of being mooted as the next Nobel literature laureate but never having won it.Above all, the Romanian poet and novelist shares Nabokov’s fascination with butterflies. As a child, he harboured dreams of becoming a lepidopterist. On a visit to Harvard, Cărtărescu was allowed access to Nabokov’s former office and marvelled at specimens the St Petersburg-born author had collected. “His most important scientific work was about butterflies’ sexual organs, and I saw these very tiny vials w...

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3 d. ago Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol

Methanol, a cheap relative of ethanol, is entering the supply chain, causing thousands of deaths around the worldFor Bethany Clarke, poison tasted like nothing. There was no bitter aftertaste, no astringent sting at the back of the tongue. If anything, she thought in passing, the free shots she and her friends were drinking at a hostel bar in Laos had probably been watered down – she wasn’t detecting a strong vodka flavour through the veil of Sprite she had mixed it with.All in all, Clarke remembers drinking about five of those shots, sitting with her best friend, Simone White, and a crowd of others at the hostel’s happy hour. CCTV footage shows the group laughing in the warm air of the open bar in the town of Vang Vieng, green and red lights dancing over their shoulders. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Jennifer Lopez cooks Thanksgiving meal with child Emme inside $52M Bel Air mansion she used to share with Ben Affleck but is struggling to sell

The 56-year-old pop diva hired a personal chef to prepare the hearty meal as she had just flown back to California from India hours earlier

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4 d. ago Mum welcomes benefits change after being so stretched she had to move home

Chloe, 25, says they had no idea how expensive being parents would be

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4 d. ago Made In Chelsea's Maeva D'Ascanio and James Taylor welcome second child and reveal beautiful name

Made In Chelsea stars Maeva D'Ascanio and James Taylor have welcomed their second child, a baby girl, and shared her first pictures and her beautiful name

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4 d. ago Bianca Wallace gives birth to first child with Ioan Gruffudd and reveals sweet name

Actress Bianca Wallace has given birth to her first child with Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd after they shared their happy news just months after they tied the knot

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7 d. ago 'Dementia gene' now linked to another devastating neurological disease, study shows

A key gene known for its role in Alzheimer's disease has been found to play a second, damaging role in a different brain condition.

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8 d. ago BBC Breakfast star shares 'devastating' news after child's 'brutal' health battle

BBC Breakfast stars Sally Nugent and Jon Kay shared a groundbreaking story on Monday

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8 d. ago Paloma Faith shares glimpse of baby bump as she ends Celeb Traitors feud

Singing sensation Paloma Faith recently took to her Instagram page to share that she was pregnant with her third child at the age of 44

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1 week ago Married At First Sight star welcomes first child and reveals adorable name

Australian MAFS star Ella Ding announced the happy news that she and husband Guy Palermo have welcomed their first child, a baby girl, and shared her lovely name

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1 week ago Inside Donald Trump's 'unstable' mind after vile 'piggy' outburst at female journalist

The US President has a bleak track record of sexist outbursts against women, but what really drives him to go as far as calling a reporter a 'piggy'? Here, experts share chilling details about Donald Trump's 'calculated' yet child-like psyche

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2 w. ago Rise of the baby roomers: Why more young people with children are moving back in with their parents

'Being a parent is wonderful, but the costs can be overwhelming,' says 25-year-old Chloe Crichton, who moved back in with her mum when her partner lost his job.

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2 w. ago South Carolina executes man by firing squad, in state’s third such killing in year

Stephen Bryant, 44, convicted over 2004 murder, was shot dead despite growing backlash against ‘barbaric’ methodSouth Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday, marking the third time the state has used gunfire to kill a person on death row despite growing backlash against the method.Stephen Bryant, 44, had been sentenced to death for the October 2004 killing of Willard “TJ” Tietjen and pleaded guilty to two other murders. Bryant’s lawyers had argued in final appeals that the sentencing judge had been unable to consider his brain damage from his mother’s alcohol and drug use during pregnancy, but South Carolina’s supreme court declined to halt the execution on Monday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago BBC Breakfast guest in tears as hosts share child's heartbreaking cancer battle

BBC Breakfast hosts Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty shared a heartbreaking story on Friday

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2 w. ago Cambridge professor cleared of faking poor IQ test in £1m compensation claim

Dr Mohamed Atef Hakmi argued that medical errors had left him with brain damage

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2 w. ago WAG Taylor Ward shares first photo of newborn baby after giving birth to second child with footballer Riyad Mahrez

WAG Taylor Ward has shared a first photo of her newborn baby boy, after giving birth to her second child with footballer Riyad Mahrez.  This summer Taylor, 27, gathered friends and family for a lavish celebration, where she and husband Riyad, 34, opened a giant box to discover they’re expecting a baby boy. And now...

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2 w. ago Inside Princess Eugenie's £3.6m mansion as mum 'Sarah Ferguson eyes Portugal move'

The former Duchess of York is understood to be moving to a swish villa on the seafront around 80 miles from Lisbon and owned by Princess Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank

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2 w. ago Coronation Street star Melissa Johns gives birth to first child and shares adorable pics

EXCLUSIVE: Coronation Street actor Melissa Johns says 'I have never felt anything similar to this' as she reveals she has given birth to her first baby with her husband Dan

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