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Grieving Legacy Funeral families arrange second vigil amid police probe
A woman left heartbroken by the Legacy Funeral Directors investigation has arranged a second vigil after 35 bodies and 'suspected human ashes' were removed from one of three branches
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Man 'devastated' as wife's memorial bench destroyed on same day it's installed
John Costello spent three months creating the memorial bench for his late wife Val, but after placing it in a park near his home, it was moved and damaged in the process
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Family of boy, 2, in desperate plea for £200,000 revolutionary cancer treatment
Little Louie and his family are raising money so he can go to the USA for revolutionary cancer treatment after a 17cm aggressive tumour was found in his stomach
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Hundreds of lucky residents scoop share of £3.2m on People's Postcode Lottery
People's Postcode Lottery drew the DN35 code this week - which belongs to the seaside town of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, where residents couldn't believe their luck
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Childhood pals are reunited after 40 years thanks to WW2 note hidden inside book
Bernard Duff, 93, and Barbara Donald, 94, lived three houses apart in Hornsby Crescent, meeting when they were just small children and growing up together into their teens
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Woman keeps pillow free from yellow stains 'for 39 years' thanks to washing tip
The woman - who has a 'phobia' of stained bedding - has revealed how she has kept her feather pillows looking pristine and good as new for nearly four decades
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Concerned friend's plea to help talk man out of 'awful' baby name for his son
The friend has shared they are 'worried' for the child in the future and that they haven't been able to 'make any ground' talking to the dad-to-be about the name
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Melt away stubborn tea cup stains with 3p trick Mrs Hinch fans swear by
Fans of Mrs Hinch have taken to a cleaning tips Facebook page to share their unusual method of getting rid of stubborn stains in tea cups and around the house
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Expert says opening our windows is ruining our sleep during a heatwave
Getting to sleep in the midst of a heatwave can feel unbearable, especially in a small space. One expert believes we're all making it worse by opening the window
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Mum's heartbreaking plea after losing battle to keep baby son's grave memorial
Leanne Thompson has until September 30 to remove her baby son Callum's Iggle Piggle themed memorial garden in Grimsby after North East Lincolnshire Council deemed it 'unauthorised'
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Mother told to remove memorial from her baby son's grave by hard-hearted council
Baby Callum died in 2010 of pneumonia, and his grieving mother Leanne Thompson had a memorial installed at his grave - but has been ordered to tear it down over a technicality
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Girl, 4, on 'road to recovery' as she takes on rare and aggressive brain tumour
Mila Larsen was diagnosed with a grade 3 Ependymoma, an aggressive and fast-growing malignant tumour, after a CT scan nearly one year ago - but has defied the odds since then
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Rat infestation plagues man's garden after '40 bags of rotting food dumped'
Lee, 41, from Grimsby, claims that "40 bags of rotting food" was dumped in an alleyway by his house which has led to an invasion of rats in his garden with the rodents crawling over his son's toys
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The ghostly white figure on UK beach that left woman absolutely gobsmacked
A woman was going for a walk when she happened to spot an unusual white figure on the British beach in the distance, which she believes could be otherworldly in nature
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Warning to cat owners as one dies and another injured in anti-freeze poisoning
Mum Stacey Hughes says her family has been left devastated after beloved cat Dobby died of the poisoning aged just six while Odin 'is not the same cat anymore'
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Workmen go to fix leak at shop - but left stunned after finding a snake inside
Workmen from Humber Homes Heating Ltd were called to fix a leak in a shop in Grimsby. When they arrived and lifted up the shutters to unlock the door, they found a red milk snake
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Angry woman tries to burn down man's home after 'betrayal' but gets wrong flat
Janie Ann Peckitt tried to set fire to a man's flat in Grimsby after she felt he betrayed her following only two dates - but she posted the burning rag through the wrong letterbox
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Mum's hell as 3 kids prescribed inhalers for breathing problems in mouldy home
Marzena Piatkowska, from Scunthorpe, has told how her three children are now on steroid inhalers and have bad coughs due to mould on their home which started appearing last October
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Mum's flat 'destroyed' by mice that eat her underwear leave droppings in bed
Pregnant Jessica Fisher says that mice have nibbled her daughter's toes and destroyed her toys by leaving droppings everywhere, before dropping dead all around her flat