Posted 7 days ago
In this week’s issue: on sale Thursday 16 May
My tuneful tribute to my drowned fisherman husband
Trapped in her body – how my sister fought back
Groomed by a wicked window cleaner – he tricked my teenage daughter
Meet the real-life Cracker
Art among the aliens!
Summer’s a whizzkid!
I’m bonkers about my colourful poodles!
PLUS: Stripey fashion, puzzles amd prizes, all the latest on the Soaps,…
Posted 29 days ago
Losing It! Barbara Randall, 51, Cardiff
Was… 17st 9lb Now… 9st 13lb
‘Come on, Barbara, come to Curves with me after work. You’ll enjoy it.’
My friend Jackie had been nagging me for weeks and, after running out of excuses, I finally gave in and went to the gym with her.
Well, I wished I’d gone sooner. I loved it! The 30-minute circuit routine…
Posted 57 days ago
The missing wife, her barrister hubby and a trail of oil…
THE STORY SO FAR…
August 2007, Perth, Australia. Corryn Rayney left for her weekly dance class in good spirits – she’d asked her husband for a divorce and was excited about the future. But then she went missing, and was found upside down in a makeshift grave…
THE CASE – DIVORCE…
It was…
Posted 57 days ago
Lucy Brownhill, 31, south London
Was… 18st 8lb Now… 12st 8lb
We’re a family that eats well so, while I’ve never been skinny, it’s not been an issue. But after my brother became very ill with cancer, I piled on about 5st.
Before he died in September 2010, he asked me to promise I’d get fit and lose weight. But despite joining a gym,…
Posted 85 days ago
Would there finally be justice for Jo Anne, 27 years after her murder?
THE STORY SO FAR…
On 29 April 1985, bubbly, aspiring model Jo Anne Marie Jones left her boyfriend and set off to work. Life was good, and the world seemed to be her oyster… briefly. Because Jo Anne never reached her workplace. Instead, the mystery of her murder continued…
Posted 85 days ago
Jacki Beard, 42, Peacehaven
Was… 20st Now… 11st 13lb
Kids (and teachers!) can be very cruel. Unkind jibes about my weight forced me to join a slimming club aged 13!
Then all my adult life, I ate poorly, or dieted and failed and, after a back injury, I could
only get around on crutches.
So, in April 2011, when even tying my shoelaces was a…
Posted 119 days ago
Was Michelle’s sick story the reason Aleks died?
THE STORY SO FAR…
New girl in town Aleks was desperate to make friends. She fell in with a group of teenagers who smoked, drank, and – in the case of her new friend Michelle – had some dark fantasies that would soon become terrifyingly real…
THE CASE…
It’s never easy, moving to a new area. Especially when…
Posted 119 days ago
Losing It!
Jacqueline Etherson, 49, Glasgow
Was… 19st 10lb Now… 12st 11lb
The doctor had just told me I’d got gallstones and it was a relief, as I thought I was dying! I’d had such terrible pains in my chest.
I was told I’d have to wait about four months for an op, but if I stopped eating dairy and fat, the pains wouldn’t be as…
Posted 140 days ago
Mum Lynn made some wrong choices in life. But did that make her a killer?
THE STORY SO FAR…
When mum Lynn DeJac finally rolled home after a night’s drinking – and fighting – the drama wasn’t over. Police received a phonecall, telling them a 13-year-old girl had been murdered in her own bed. The girl was Lynn’s daughter…
THE CASE…
It was the day before Valentine’s Day…
Posted 168 days ago
A young wife, a lover, a dying husband – was it murder?
THE STORY SO FAR…
Florence Chandler was swept off her young feet by the older, wealthy tycoon James Maybrick. But a whirlwind romance soon turned into an unhappy marriage – was murder the only way out?
THE CASE…
Sea voyages between New York and Liverpool were long and boring. But in March 1880,…
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