15 h. ago Scots mum told she has incurable brain cancer after GP said it didn't 'look like tumour'

Fiona Charles found out her symptoms were actually from an aggressive and incurable brain tumour.

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5 d. ago ‘Mum, my brain’: how I learned to walk, talk and even dance again after a devastating stroke at 36

I was riding high as a music journalist with a new book in the shops when I had what I thought was a migraine. In fact, it was a burst aneurysm and I needed emergency surgery. Two years into my recovery, can I learn how to find joy again?I am a dancer. The dark is usually a friend to me, allowing me to stretch and move my limbs into unfashionable positions as music washes over me. My music journalism career means I have spent more than two decades at gigs and in clubs, falling in love with music, contorting my body, two‑stepping, making any space into a dancefloor, then going home and writing about it.Two years ago, when I was 36, I was riding high at the launch party for my first book, about housing, home and music, and I danced as R, my husband, DJ’d Tems, Asake and Burna Boy. The publishers had put up a billboard about the book; I remember walking to the petrol station to buy the papers and read the reviews, and feeling relieved that they were good. I began preparing fo...

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1 week ago Strictly's Dianne Buswell addresses leaving the show with sights set on judge role

Popular Strictly professional dancers Dianne Buswell and Vito Coppola talk about joining forces for a new tour, their close relationship and how the hit BBC show transformed their lives

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2 w. ago Scientists discover why some babies learn to walk later than others

A new study suggests that a slightly later start to walking is not always a sign of problems

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2 w. ago Mum with migraine has to learn to walk again after doing cartwheel

Susie thought her symptoms were down to being 'too busy'

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2 w. ago Mum of two, 39, killed rapidly by one of UK's deadliest cancers...there were two easy

The broken-hearted husband of a 39 year-old mother-of-two who suffered a rapid death from brain cancer has told of the easy-to-dismiss signs of the shock disease.

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3 w. ago I didn't think I'd walk again after waiting two hours for an ambulance, but something extraordinary happened

A teacher who had to learn to walk again after an accident at home is running this weekend's London Marathon. Dewi Jones from Cardiff fell 15 feet from a ladder while painting the front of his house in Cardiff. He fractured the ball of his femur, smashed up his wrist and it was a slow and painful recovery with "many dark times".

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4 w. ago Young mum given 18 months to live after sudden seizure at family pub meal

A 23-year-old mum was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and her family is now raising funds for life-extending treatment in Germany to give her more time with her young son.

Society

4 w. ago 'Best mum' heard 'demonic voices' and killed son, 6, after he suffered brain tumour

Alexander Zurawski was just six years old when he was found dead at his home in Swansea, Wales, next to his mum Karolina Zurawska - who had a handsaw by her side

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4 w. ago Girl, 7, who had no symptoms diagnosed with brain tumour after mum spotted tiny signs

'It should be as normal as going to the hairdressers or going to see a dentist'

Science