Emily Retter

There is a patch of scraped skin still visible on Muhammad Irfan's palm almost two months after it was left red raw.

She has built an unlikely career in mould, maggots and excrement, cleaning for those who most need it. It can take months building trust with a stranger, before she and her boyfriend go in and transform everything

'There might be a dead bird in the box room. We think it has been there for a couple of years," says Bea Elton, raising her voice to be heard through her respirator.

Stress, the cost of living, long working hours and even excessive exercise have all been touted as reasons the illness is rising among women in their 30s and 40s. What can be done to help them?

The "lightning strike" pain was like nothing Francine Jones had experienced before. "That is the only way I can describe it," she says, of the stabbing in her torso that would occur every 10 minutes or so.

Allison Perkins met her current partner while standing outside a pub with a drink. She also met her former partner that way. “We got chatting,” she explains with a smile.

When he saw a messy yard being criticised on social media, Stephen Jalland grabbed his trimmer and decided to help. An overgrown garden, he discovered, often hides an overwhelmed owner

Anita Thursby had been dreading the gas engineer coming to service her boiler. They would have needed to enter her kitchen, where the window looked

Last July, Nigel Davies sat on a plane heading to London Heathrow next to two Swedish police officers, unable to hold back his tears.

SITTING by my local reservoir, the sun was warm and the birds were singing, yet I felt nothing. I just didn’t want to be here any more. I walked to the edge of the water, seconds from ending my lif…