All news by author: Kate Pounds

Katie Burton, 31, gave her son Harry a grade two buzz cut for summer - but the 12 year old was not allowed to join the rest of his year seven class after turning up to school the next day

Polly Deehy had a rattly cough and laboured breathing when she was just two weeks old. She stopped breathing and turned blue just days later having contracted whooping cough

Katie and Richard Coyne couldn't believe their eyes when they were hit with the astronomical British Gas energy bill, and say they were ignored by customer service

Lisa Murray-Lang, 47, carried hamster Spud's ashes in a vial on a necklace to some of the most recognisable sights around the world as a way of paying tribute to him

Tony Edgar built the one-storey property as an outbuilding to accompany a larger home on a plot he bough. But after a stroke and the death of his wife he decided to give up on the project - and live in the smaller property

British aid worker Ian Purchase, 50, who was held hostage in solitary confinement by the Taliban for five months has told how the mental battle was hardest to deal with in his cell

Rachel Adams, who lives in Oxford, bought two St. Bernard dogs - named Dave and Alan - for £3,600 but now the grandmother believes they may have come from a dubious source

TAHNEE Beck, 33, loves being prepared for the festive season - and usually starts on Boxing Day the previous year.The mum-of-two is hosting seven peop

Attila Cseke, had to fly to Hungary to collect a passport for his daughter after a postal delay and requested compensation for the £300 trip, but was not impressed with the offer

Katie Smith, an office worker from the north-west of England, is a big fan of heading off to Dubai by herself to sip cocktails, swim in fancy pools and enjoy the highlife

Heartbroken Sharon Herrington was forced to put her beloved ten and a half stone St Bernard Bear down over fears he would one day launch a fatal attack and has warned others to be vigilant

The monster Wels catfish weighing more than double the average was hooked by a group of Brits holidaying in Mequinenza, Spain, with locals congratulating them on the catch

A DOTING dad has built a treehouse for his kids - for just the cost of a box of screws.Najib Abou Chakra, 40, made the structure in garden of his home

AN ECSTATIC gran is going to be a bride at 60 - after waiting 35 years for her partner to pop the question.Graham Martin, 56, asked Andrea Murray to m

Zara Edgar her husband Igel say they are 'more worried than ever' after trying to get the 'perfect look' - and wish they had never accepted a deal they found online [WARNING - contains graphic image]

A MUM was left fuming after buying dummies for her toddler on Amazon - which turned up USED.Lindsey Macrae, 30, was horrified when the items - which s

MEET the mum who has named all her kids after characters and actors from her favourite films and TV shows.Louise Hauton, 32, has given birth to four c

Louise Hauton, from Boston, Lincs., looked to her favourite TV shows when it came to picking names for her children - including One Tree Hill and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A GRIEVING daughter whose mum was found dead after suffering with a hormone disorder has spoken of the "frightening" similarities to Nicola Bulley - a

Katie Dunn, 30, was going for a routine eye test at Boots in Romsey, Hampshire when the optician spotted abnormalities and she was referred for an MRI scan which revealed a large tumour on her brain