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Chantelle knew her man had a dangerous weapon hidden in their home but she never dreamt that he’d turn it on her (p10). New mum Michele found a novel way to help others - and it involved buying a brand new freezer (p30). And Shelly shares how a traumatic start in life has never held her incredible daughter back (p37). We’ve got luxury looks on a budget (p12) and three tasty British pud recipes (p40) - as good as Granny’s! Plus the puzzles you love and so much more. Stay safe and well this week.…

NUMBER JIG What was the highest official match attendance figure at the 2015 Rugby World Cup? Fit these numbers into the grid. One number doesn’t fit. This is the prize answer. 3 digits 193 203 253 271 477 503 541 581 624 825 4 digits 1452 2360 2384 4870 5023 5027 5697 7232 7775 8927 5 digits 22551 23626 38743 56876 57869 60421 68431 71000 73328 73696 85015 89247 89267 6 digits 373207 739978 743985 787051 791362 802188 972462 7 digits 3117385 7448878 9318614 8 digits 64843711 WIN £250 Puzzle 2 SPIRAL XWORD WIN £150 Puzzle 3 The French colonial slave Edmond Albius invented the horticultural technique that made viable the commercial production of what foodstuff? The answer to each clue (apart from the first) begins with the last letter of…

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World health A new poll from Tonic Health reveals that 85% of over-55s are anxious about the second wave of COVID-19 but, worryingly, 59% admit they’re doing nothing to strengthen their immunity. Swap and see Do you enjoy a breakfast bar as a snack? Swap those high-sugar varieties for a Good Fibrations bar from the The Gut Stuff. Each flavour of snack contains 10g of fibre per 35g bar - a whole third of your daily fix! They’re also gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan. (£15 for a pack of 12, thegutstuff.com) Ease up on those shakes! Are you a fitness fanatic or do you simply enjoy the convenience of protein shakes? Research suggests you should only be drinking these in moderation, and not relying on them as a way to get…

Michele Oller, 34 Laying my newborn baby daughter, Lynnlee, down in her cot, I winced. ‘Ouch!’ I sighed, massaging my tender boob. It was February 2019, and I’d just finished breastfeeding her. Super-sore, all this feeding was taking some getting used to. But it was totally worth it. The bond that it created between us was incredible. It was amazing to know Lynnlee was getting all the nutrients that she needed from my milk. Only, as the weeks went on, I realised my breasts were still bursting, even after Lynnlee was fed. ‘I think I’m producing a lot more than she needs,’ I told my husband Colby, then 35. ‘Why don’t we freeze it?’ he suggested. It made perfect sense. You see, I wanted Lynnlee to have breast milk until…

FILL ME IN Which card game, also known as Argentine Rummy, was invented in Uruguay in 1939? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in the shaded squares to find the prize puzzle answer. WIN £100 Puzzle 14 CIRCLE TIME Which city was the first in Africa to operate a metro? Fit the words into the grid, then read down the letters in the shaded circles to find the prize answer. 3 letters ACE AID AIM CAP NAP ODD OVA SAT SEE STY 4 letters CRAG EACH MILL PEEP POLO REEL TAXI 5 letters AMBLE GRUMP SAVER 6 letters ADORES CHROME GIANTS IRONIC MODIFY UPBEAT 8 letters LOLLIPOP WIN £100 Puzzle 15 TO ENTER Turn to page 56 for details…

3 ways to… save online this Black Friday Whether you’re hoping to snap up cut-price Christmas presents or a treat for yourself on 27 November, here’s how to get the best online deals. 1 Start planning in advance The best deals may sell out quickly, so if you want to bag them, start prepping before the day. Set up online accounts with retailers you’re likely to use in advance and have a clear idea of what you want to buy. Some sites let you set up a wish list of items you’re interested in. And remember many retailers start their Black Friday deals well before the big day, so look for details on the store’s website or social media. 2 Get yourself organised Do your research in advance on items…

Noelle DISNEY+ In this feel-good Christmas drama, Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick stars as Kris Kringle’s daughter Noelle, whose brother Nick is preparing to take over from their dad. But when he disappears, it’s up to Noelle to find him and bring him back in time to save Christmas. Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry APPLE TV+ Get a glimpse into the life of the Grammy and BRIT Awardwinning American singer in this one-off documentary which follows 18-year-old Billie in the year following the release of her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Frank of Ireland C4 Brian Gleeson, better known as Jimmy McCavern in Peaky Blinders, plays failed musician Frank, who still lives with his mum and still gets pocket money in this…

Beauty Editor Stephanie Maylor shares her favourites Garnier Moisture Bomb Pomegranate Tissue Mask, £2.99, Boots When winter has left your skin bone dry, this mask is like a tall drink of water. In fact, one 15-minute session drenches skin with a week’s worth of hydrating serum. PS… Brightening Sheet Mask, £1, Primark Lost your glow? Try this, infused with papaya extract, rose water and niacinamide to improve skin clarity and tone. Skin Republic CBD Oil Infusion Mask, £5.49, Superdrug CBD oil has a magical effect on inflammation in sensitive, red- prone skin, which can be particularly reactive in winter. Pop this mask in the fridge for an extra soothing sensation.…

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British DJ Greg James walked down the aisle to a song by whom? To find out, solve the crossword then read down the shaded squares to find the prize puzzle answer. WIN £ 1,001 Puzzle 5 ACROSS 11 Shade, hue (6) 12 Make-believe (9) 13 Puts numbers together (4) 14 Actor and director,_ Olivier (8) 15 Stringed instrument (5) 16 Official language of Egypt (6) 17 Former currency of Greece (7) 18 Restaurant booking (11) 20 Bird associated with Christmas (5) 22 Cartoon hunter in pursuit of Bugs Bunny (5,4) 24 Large American state (5) 28 Salad ingredient (7) 29 Looking for (7) 32 On fire (6) 34 Mended, fixed (8) 36 Reasonable, practical (8) 37 Clears one’s throat (6) 39 Steve _, Reservoir Dogs actor (7) 40 Rich (7)…

In September this year, Joseph Oberhansley, 39, was found guilty of murder and burglary. The jury decided to return a verdict of not guilty in the rape charge against him. The jurors had deliberated for five hours, before delivering their verdict. It was during the initial 2019 trial that Oberhansley’s previous convictions had come to light… The murderer had previously gunned down his 17-year- old girlfriend in a drug-fuelled jealous rage and wounded his own mother - before shooting himself in the head. Oberhansley had spent nearly 12 years in a Utah prison for the crimes. Released in July 2012, he moved to Indiana - where he met Tammy Jo. He claimed the bullet lodged in his head kept him calm However the bullet from where he shot himself remained…

Spasms in my legs Q My calf muscles keep giving little twitches all over. My GP says nothing’s wrong but it looks weird. Is it normal? Ginny, Aylsham Alt’s called fasciculation, where the individual fibres that make up a muscle each twitch of their own accord. Although you don’t feel anything, the result is a series of small twitches which look like worms wriggling under your skin! Usually, fasciculation is harmless - especially in your calves, where it’s most common. Tiredness, stress, excess caffeine or too much exercise can be triggers, and are best avoided if you want the twitches to stop. Rarely, fasciculation in several different muscles, or with muscle weakness or stiffness, can be a sign of a more serious cause such as motor neurone disease (MND). Other…

ARROW WORD American artist Alexander Calder created a fountain running with which substance for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in the shaded squares to find the prize answer. WIN £1,000 Puzzle 10 SUDOKU To solve the puzzle, each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9. Solve the puzzle and the numbers in the highlighted squares will give you the prize puzzle answer. WIN £60 Puzzle 11 WORDSEARCH My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank lero had a famous white Les Paul guitar nicknamed what? The prize answer is the one missing from the grid. ASTER AZALEA DAHLIA DAISY FOXGLOVE IRIS LAVENDER…

QIn 2013, the cat replaced which piece as an official counter in the board game Monopoly? Solve the crossword, then read down the shaded squares to spell out the prize puzzle answer. ACROSS 1 Comedian, _ Reeves(3) 3 Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars character (3) 5 Actor, Tommy _Jones (3) 6 Pull another vehicle (3) 7 Expected to arrive (3) DOWN 1 Official, correct (5) 2 Greek island (5) 4 Expression of tiredness (4) WIN £50 Puzzle 13 TO ENTER Turn to page 56 for details or visit comps.lifedeathprizes.com/puzzles…

Marriage in turmoil Q I’ve been married for 10 years and have a 5-year-old child. I’m pregnant again, but it wasn’t planned and our marriage was already struggling. In fact, I’d already thought about leaving my husband. He shouts and snaps at our son, and is moody and distant. I’ve suggested that he gets help, but he denies there’s a problem and says he wants to be left alone. Should I leave with the possibility of two children, or terminate, leave, and raise my son alone? Marie, 42 A First, petal, you have to ask: do you still love him? If the love is gone, then you have to decide what you truly want next. It’s your body, your choice. Tell him if he doesn’t get help, you’ll leave. Under…

Shelly Shepherd, 58 Cradling my baby boy, I knew being a mum was my destiny. ‘I already want more,’ I sighed to my husband Rob. Both 21, we’d always wanted a big family. Fast forward 16 years, that’s exactly what we had! As well as our eldest Zachary, born first in 1983, we had five more. Hannah in 1985; Haley in 1987; Ivy in 1992; Chloe in 1994, and Sawyer in 1997. It felt like our family was finally complete. But then, three years on, a talk about international adoption tugged at my heartstrings. There were an astronomical number of children worldwide, all needing a loving home. ‘I think we should adopt one,’ I told Rob. He worried that we already had enough on our plates. But, years passed and…

Guinness sticky toffee pudding Sticky toffee pudding is a British favourite, and with this slow-cooker recipe, it’s never been easier! SERVES: 8 PREP TIME: 15 MINS COOK TIME: 3 HRS • 150g butter, plus extra for greasing • 150g light muscovado sugar • 2 large eggs • 150g self-raising flour • ½tsp salt • 1tsp vanilla extract • 6 dates, pitted • 200ml Guinness • 75g golden syrup • 75g dark muscovado sugar 1 Grease a 3.5ltr slow cooker basin. In a bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy using an electric whisk. 2 Add the eggs, flour, salt and vanilla, and whisk until well combined. Roughly chop the dates and stir through the mixture. Spoon into the slow cooker basin. 3 To make the sauce,…

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Q My hands are really suffering with dry, cracked skin in the cold weather. How can I revive them? Paula Lowe, Dorset A These days we’re all washing our hands a lot more than we used to AND applying anti-bac hand gel too (thanks COVID). The back of our hands are more prone to dryness because the skin there is much thinner than anywhere else on our body and frequent exposure to soap, hot water and the alcohol in anti-bac can suck out the moisture. Team that with colder weather and central heating and your hands don’t stand a chance. Have a hydrating hand cream next to the sink so every time you wash your hands you can massage cream in. Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Unscented Hand Cream, £3.99, Superdrug, gives…

Chat winners issue 34 (20 August 2020) Anyone from your town in the list this week..? £1,001 CASH G Hirsch, Ilford £1,000 CASH L Winstanley, Shoreham-by-Sea £500 CASH E Kinder, Hyde; B Betts, Sheffield £250 CASH N Wood, Chatham £150 CASH K Thompson, Chesterfield £100 CASH L Ellis, Stoke-on-Trent; E Owen, Port Talbot; S Betton, Lytham St Annes; J Wade, Faversham; J O’Grady, Hull £60 CASH A Davies, Nottingham £50 CASH M Taylor, Spalding; B Black, Elland; B Webb, Leicester £30 CASH J Tucker, Clevedon; J Fanning, London; V Rawlings, Bristol; A Bellew, Exeter; M Kershaw, Bristol £25 CASH I Ought, Liverpool; S Parkes, Mickleton; J Robinson, Horsham; V Fitzsimons, Uxbridge; J Pugh, Cardiff; J Ingham, Cemaes Bay; C Chapman, Newcastle upon Tyne; L Dixon, Eastbourne; K Price, Stoke-on-Trent Chat…

As the doorbell rang, my mum hurried off to the front door and I heard a little boy’s voice. ‘My mum says you have a daughter,’ he stammered. ‘I’d love to play if she wants to.’ ‘Sarah!’ my mum yelled. ‘Come here, Tina’s son wants to meet you.’ Tina was Mum’s new friend who lived a few doors down. We’d only moved to the area two weeks before. Feeling shy, I walked to the door and hid behind Mum. A boy who looked about my age stood smiling on the doorstep. ‘Hi, I’m Jack!’ he said. ‘Sarah,’ I grinned. It was June 2002 and Jack and I were both 8, just a few months different in age. As the weeks passed, our mums became best friends. And Jack and I…

Chantelle Bowden, 30, Warrington Cracking open another beer, my friend nudged me gently. ‘I think Dean likes you,’ she teased. ‘Oh, bore off!’ I groaned, shrugging her off me. Yet, seconds later, there was Dean, standing right next to me. ‘You must be Tilly?’ he smiled, using my nickname. ‘It’s Chantelle, actually,’ I said, putting him in his place, albeit flirtatiously! And, just like that, the sparks flew. It was July 2013, and for the rest of the night, Dean had my full attention. He was 29, just shy of 6ft and had a bit of a bad-boy attitude. I couldn’t deny that made him more attractive to me. So when he asked for my number at the end of the night, I happily agreed. At first, we just had…

OVER TO YOU Can you set a puzzle in this format? Send it, with a photo of yourself, to the address on p3 - there’s £20 for every one we use! This week’s puzzle was compiled by Jayne Benham, Whitefield, Manchester ACROSS 1 Wound covering 2 Melody 3 Travel alliance (inits) 4 Obsessive enthusiast DOWN 1 Male deer 2 3D shape 3 Stake 4 Bird’s bill WIN 5x £25 Puzzle 6 CHAIN WORDS What name is shared by an American rapper whose 1994 debut album was called Fear Itself and a TV comedy series starring Michaela Watkins and Tommy Dewey? Get from Start to Finish, making words by joining two boxes together as you go, eg, MAN + NER, NER +… you decide! When you reach Finish, two unused boxes join…

ROAD-SIGN RAGE Eight defendants appeared in court on 27 April 1971, accused of conspiring to damage, remove or destroy English-language road signs in Wales. One of the accused, Dafydd Iwan - Chairman of the Welsh Language Society - said, ‘We are here as Welshmen. What has brought us up against the law is that it is impossible for a Welshman to live life in his own language.’ In the May, seven of the accused, including Iwan, were found guilty and given suspended sentences, from three to 12 months. FRENCH TOURISTS KILLED A man killed himself on 14 July 1971 after murdering three French tourists in Cheshire two days before. Monique Liebert, 22, her sister Claudine Liebert, 20, and Claudine’s fiance Daniel Berland, 20, were shot by Staffordshire man Michael Bassett,…

Q Where did you store your milk? A Colby and I did have to buy a new chest freezer so we had room for all the milk! But now I’m not producing as much - only enough for Lynnlee to breastfeed - the freezer’s pretty empty. But with another baby on the way, we figure it’ll be used again in no time. And after that, when the babies are both properly weaned, I’ll have a family of four to feed, so I can’t imagine it will go unused. Q How did Colby feel about the creepy messages? A He was definitely worried for me. I was worried for myself! It really did give me the creeps. I felt sick to my stomach after reading those messages. The fact that I…

Lisa Green, 40, Solihull Crading my newborn nephew in my arms, I could hear my biological clock ticking loudly. ‘He’s gorgeous! Can we share him?’ I laughed to my sister Jodie, then 29, only half-joking. It was March 2016 and she’d just given birth to Charlie. The first in the next generation of our family. And his arrival brought home just how much I wanted a baby of my own. See, being the eldest of three girls, I always thought I’d be first. But after years of unsuccessful dating, it wasn’t to be. Career-driven, I’d worked in recruitment for 13 years. Splashing out on holidays, shopping trips, weekends away and tickets to see my beloved band Take That, I’d had a great life. I was even saving for a deposit…

Holding Haven tightly, I told her everything. What her birth father had done, the state in which she’d been found. I expected tears, or anger, but Haven just blinked up at me, unfazed. ‘Well, that was stupid of him,’ she shrugged. Moments later she’d wandered off to play, leaving me stunned. But Haven was incredibly resilient and accepting of the hand she’d been dealt. At school, her prosthetics would fall off if her legs became sweaty, some kids said she had a funny walk. But Haven just laughed along with them. In 2007, while watching her sister Ivy, then 15, race around the school running track, Haven was inspired. ‘I’m going to be an athlete, too!’ she exclaimed. Haven tried track for the next three years. But running with her…

I was rushing around, trying to find my favourite lippy and pack my handbag when my boyfriend Tony, 22, walked into the room. ‘Don’t go out with your friends tonight,’ he said, stroking my hair. It was November 2011 and he’d not long moved in with me. We’d been together since January, after meeting through mutual friends. Tony had me in stitches, and always made me feel special. Suddenly, a cosy night in with him seemed much more fun than heading out into the cold. ‘I’ll text them and say that I can’t make it,’ I said to him, smiling. In the end, I was glad I stopped in that evening. Then, a month later, I missed a period. ‘I’m taking a pregnancy test, just for peace of mind,’ I…

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Dear Luca, Walking into the lounge, I smiled with joy at your dad Jas. ‘I’m pregnant,’ I said. His jaw dropped and we cried happy tears as he pulled me in for a cuddle. We’d been together since 2008, married in 2010. And now, in October 2011, we were going to be parents. Your mum and dad. ‘Everything looks great,’ the sonographer smiled at a 12-week scan. Painting the nursery and buying sweet sleepsuits, we started to prepare. At our 20-week scan, I asked the sonographer to write down the sex. See, I wanted to know, but your dad didn’t. I cried with happiness when I found out you were a boy. ‘Dad will be so pleased,’ I whispered to you in my belly. Then, at 24 weeks, we went…