A family holiday ended in tragedy after a British boy, aged six, drowned in a hotel swimming in Cyprus. The youngster, from Inverness, was found unconscious floating in the pool by his mother, the Mirror reports.
25.09.2023 - 04:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
When Barbara Geraghty-Whitehead first started experiencing a 'dizzy vertigo feeling' during the first coronavirus lockdown, she put it to the back of her mind.
She had been a healthy and active woman who enjoyed travelling abroad, walking her dogs, and going out for meals with her family.
When she began experiencing regular hot flushes on top of symptoms of dizziness, she just put it down to the warm, balmy weather at the time and 'thought no more of it.'
But as her symptoms persisted and eventually, after months of hesitation, she decided to address the niggling feeling that something wasn't right and visited her GP.
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Within a matter of hours, Barbara, who lives in Cheshire, received a phone call from her doctor saying: "We're concerned about how high your white blood cells are, it could be blood cancer.'
Just a week later, after further tests, the mum-of-two received the devastating news that she had chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and that it's incurable.
"You say you want to carry on as much as normal, but from that second nothing else was going to be normal anymore," she told PA Real Life. "I wanted to go in and for them to say, 'No, it was a mistake, it’s something else,' but they didn’t, they said it was CML."
Barbara started taking chemotherapy tablets that same day – and despite experiencing side-effects of fatigue, nausea, acid reflux, and a loss of taste, nearly one year later she has responded well to treatment and has been able to see her daughter get married in Cyprus, which was "brilliant."
After nearly ignoring her own symptoms, she wants to encourage others not to “make excuses”, as “people need to know
A family holiday ended in tragedy after a British boy, aged six, drowned in a hotel swimming in Cyprus. The youngster, from Inverness, was found unconscious floating in the pool by his mother, the Mirror reports.
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Stephen Gerard Kelly and Garry Keane’s documentary In The Shadow of Beirut has been submitted as Ireland‘s entry for the 2024 Oscar International Feature Film race.
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Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis, and Derry Girls star Louisa Harland have signed on to star in Ulster American, a new stage production from Irish playwright David Ireland (Cyprus Avenue) and directed by Jeremy Herrin (A Mirror, Best of Enemies).
Former Love Island star Gemma Owen took to Instagram to show off a a rare snap of her garden at home, which is so big it could be mistaken as a park. The Love Island finalist, 20, appeared on last year's summer version of the show and lives in a sprawling home in Cheshire with her football legend dad Michael Owen, mum Louise, sisters Emily, 15, and Jessica, 12, and brother James, 17.
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The Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood suffered an unfortunate family snub during his wedding day on Wednesday, according to reports. The famous cook and TV star got married for the second time to pub landlady Melissa Spalding, but it's been said that his son and only child Josh chose not to attend the nuptials.
Paul Hollywood has become a married man for the second time, after he and fiancée Melissa Spalding exchanged vows at a Cypriot chapel this week. Having gotten engaged last year, three years into dating each other, the 57 year old Great British Bake Off judge and the 39 year old pub landlady invited 75 guests (made up of family and friends) to celebrate their union, which took place at the Anassa Hotel of the Akamas peninsula on Wednesday.
The Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood has tied the knot with his girlfriend Melissa Spalding this week at the same resort in Cyprus where he first met his ex-wife. The five-star Anassa is a luxury hotel resort on the Mediterranean shores of Cyprus.