Health

Elizabeth McNamee, 81, was told by a GP not to fly after suffering a perforated eardrum in her 20s.

Vanessa Wickham, 24, worried Lew Johnston, 65, would be unable to make her special day as he is in the end stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Daniel Edmondson, 35, became a double amputee after falling onto a railway track into the path of a slow-moving train.

Ex-policeman Dennis D’Arcy,'s heart stopped three times shortly after he arrived at the Blacksmith's Arms in Naburn near York for lunch.

American Albert Dolbec has arthritis and type two diabetes and his wife Dawn, 84, who is his carer, said he needs "constant support".

Buck, a 17-month-old labrador, suffers from megaesophagus - which means he cannot eat food without being sick unless he is held in an upright position.

Susi Rogers-Hartley, 52, who is paralysed from the waist down, was pulled out of her wheelchair and dragged across the road outside her home by a young man.

Sabrina and Justin Ernst moved their big day to the hospital after six-month-old Layton suffered a brain bleed when he hit his head in a fall from a baby chair.

Laura Rutherford's six-year-old son Brody - who has a rare genetic condition, autism and epilepsy - is not toilet trained and outgrew regular infant nappies when he was four.

Nicole Rich and her sister Jessica, three, both have Batten disease - a genetic condition which has no known cure and no treatment available on the NHS

Brave Marshall Janson was once described by a doctor as the sickest child he had ever seen when he caught the devastating disease just days after being born.

Basil the beagle, who has his own uniform, provides pet therapy on a one-to-one basis for people suffering from anxiety.

Robert Martin, a mechanical genius who worked on the Orion Mars mission, has been married to Brit Kerry for two years but he still doesn't have the right to live in the UK.

The family of grandmother Beryl Harris, 87, fear she could have died after she spent more than three hours abandoned in the Age UK bus after dozing off.

Isaac Hoey was six weeks old when he "stopped breathing and started to turn blue".

Ethan Boffin, 16, was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome aged seven but benefits bosses said he needed an assessment to maintain his disability allowance.

Jack Withers was just ten when he was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer in 2015 - five years after his twin sister Emily fought the disease.

Lilly-Jo Caldcott overdosed on painkillers and other pills she found at her home after being taunted over her weight and was physically attacked in school.

Paige Thorpe, 16, has struggled with anxiety throughout her childhood - but it peaked during her GCSE exams this summer.

Kelly Sword, 21, was riding her grandmother’s horse Izzy when the 1,100lbs animal “flipped out", pushing its rider beneath the water of a shallow pond.