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WHAT A HOOT! Someone’s ruffled the feathers of this Ural owl baby – or maybe it’s just waiting for its mummy to bring it some tasty worms! (Give us a lovely bacon sarnie any day…) • To see more cute animal photos, and videos of critters doing the funniest things, go to www.lifedeathprizes.com and search ‘Animals’. CELEBRITY SPIN Puzzle 1 £50 We’ve put this prominent public figure in a spin, but can you tell who it is? Here’s a clue: he’s better known for his gaffes than his graciousness… Take a look at the picture on the right and see if you can work out who it is. Your answer: TO ENTER Turn to page 56 for details. www.lifedeathprizes.com/win CASH for your story! Chat is your mag and we pay cash…

People think I should hate him, but I don’t Then, in October 2015, my dad, Mark Hessing, 57, appeared at Manchester Crown Court and denied 13 charges of indecent assault. I had to give evidence, which I did via video link because I couldn’t face seeing him. To my relief, he was found guilty of all 13 indecent assaults and sentenced to four years in prison. ‘Is that all?’ I cried to Mum. Worse, Dad appealed his sentence and I worried that he’d be given an even shorter prison time. In March 2016, Dad’s case was reviewed by the Court of Appeal. But instead of his sentence being cut, the judges deemed it too lenient, and it was upped to eight years. Lady Justice Macur said that he had used…

Sweet treat Serves: 1 Prep: 5 min Cook: 2 min 2tbsp butter 3tbsp cocoa-andhazelnut butter 1 egg 2tbsp sugar 3tbsp self-raising flour Good pinch baking powder Creme fraiche to serve 1 Melt butter in the microwave, checking from time to time that it’s not burning, then add cocoa-and-hazelnut butter and mix well together. 2 In a large mug, beat egg with a fork, then stir in sugar. 3Add flour and baking powder, then mix in butter mixture. 4 When everything is well combined and smooth, microwave for 1½-2min until cooked and risen, then allow to cool for a min or two. 5 Serve pudding in the mug, drizzled with creme fraiche to taste.…

It’d been plain-sailing up until 29 weeks. Pregnant with my first baby, I’d suddenly become unwell. First my hands and feet swelled, but I knew that could happen to pregnant women. Then I started getting really tired and had awful headaches. Plus, I had an achy pain in my chest, just under my ribcage. ‘It feels a bit like heartburn,’ I told my husband David, 33. My midwife gave me a urine test, which revealed high levels of protein in my wee. She said it was probably just a urine infection, and thought my chest pain was indigestion. My symptoms got worse, so, a few weeks later, I saw a different midwife, who told me I showed signs of pre-eclampsia, a pregnancy-related condition. She referred me to Torbay Hospital, where…

‘Ruined’ Clare Campbell from Leigh Day Solicitors says, ‘Trisha’s holiday was completely ruined. Her pain and suffering continued after she returned home, too. We are now pursuing a civil action on Trisha’s behalf against Hot Deal Holidays.’ Packing my suitcase, I checked things off my list. Passport, flip-flops, mosquito repellent. It was October last year, I was about to jet off to Majorca with a friend. And I didn’t want any nasty bites ruining my holiday! I’d spotted an offer with website Hot Deal Holidays. A week at a hotel in the small resort of El Arenal for £588. Bargain! ‘Let’s do it,’ my mate grinned. Settling into our hotel room, we couldn’t wait for some autumn sunshine. Only, next morning, I woke up with a bite on my hand.…

6 reasons to visit... 1 Go to a festival Think babies and festivals don’t mix? Wrong! Gloworm Festival is on the weekend of 19-20 August and is geared for families. This year’s acts include S Club Party, The Cuban Brothers and The Chuckle Brothers. With fairground rides, face painting, a campsite and a much-needed cocktail tent for the parents! 2 Get creative In the 19th century, Nottingham was a leader in lace-making. The warehouses now make up the Creative Quarter, with hotels, cafes, bars and quirky shops. 3 Down on the farm At White Post Farm, regular farmyard animals are joined by deer, llamas and wallabies! Rafters tea room and the Burger Barn make it a great family day out. 4 Hear a story In Southwell market town is historic…

ZOOMED IN! We’ve got up close and personal to an item many of us still have in our homes – although not always in pink! If you can make out what it is, that’s your prize answer. Puzzle 20 £100 Your answer: WHAT'S ON TELLY? Puzzle 21 £30 4 As you can see, our TV’s gone on the blink and we can’t make out what film’s being screened… If this movie looks familiar to you, then that’s your prize answer WHAT'S WRONG? Puzzle 22 £100 The hugely popular US TV series House is predominantly set in a teaching hospital, and here’s Dr Cameron treating a patient But something about this still from the medical drama isn’t as it should be. If you know which item doesn’t belong, that’s your prize answer. Your answer:…

FROM ONLY £1 Chat choice Lees’ 14 Jam Teacakes, £1.25, Morrisons, Asda Choc-flavoured coating, soft marshmallow and a jammy centre on a biscuit base… kids’ll love ’em! McVitie’s Hobnobs 8 Milk Chocolate Teacakes, £1.50 A winning combo of firm, jelly-like marshmallow, combined with a Hobnob biscuit and chocolate. Tunnock’s 6 Milk Chocolate Teacakes, £1 Big, with a huge pillow of soft marshmallow coated with tasty chocolate and on a crumbly biscuit base. A proper treat! NEW Deli Kitchen Tacotillas, £1.25 This cross between a taco and a tortilla is perfect for stuffing at a BBQ, or used flat as a pizza base.…

THE BIGGIE Phwoar – it’s a whopper! Enjoy your puzzling US actress Whoopi Goldberg and Pope Francis have both been made honorary members of what group? To find out, solve the crossword then read down the shaded squares to find the two-word prize answer. Puzzle 3 £ 1,001 £500 winner Issue 44, 3 November 2016 It felt amazing to win. We’re going to treat our grandson and take him on a trip to Disneyland Paris. Lorraine Kent, Newhaven Your answer: ACROSS 1 Fastest land animal (7) 5 Garage worker (8) 9 Practise for a boxing bout (4) 13 Centre of eye (5) 14 Northern Ireland capital (7) 15 Jumbled-up letters (7) 16 Implements (5) 17 Razor part (5) 18 Germany’s capital (6) 20 South American beast of burden (5) 21 Fancy-dress…

He convinced me it was my fault, had this way of getting in my head My phone beeped and I couldn’t deny my heart missed a beat. I blushed as I read the message. Fancy a meal tonight? My treat! Hours later, I found myself sitting in a swish Thai restaurant with Imraan Hasham, who went by the nickname Ash. We’d met on a night out just the previous evening. He was 20, three years older than me. And we just clicked. Ash was funny, charming and attentive. He seemed to really like me. The next day, he collected me from where I work. We drove to the seaside for a long, romantic walk. Soon we were spending most of our time together. I could feel myself slowly falling in…

Amy had 28 rounds of proton beam therapy and chemo They’re back to normal – friends one minute, fighting the next! As I plonked my feet up on the sofa after a long day, I heard a shriek from upstairs. Sighing, I stomped into the hallway. ‘It’s quiet time!’ I shouted up to my son Aaron, then 11, and daughter Amy, 7. Every evening after her bath, Amy loved sitting in her big brother’s room watching cartoons. Only sometimes, like tonight, the pair of them had bags of energy and played long after their bedtime. I’d just sat back down and turned on the telly when Words: Katie Saatchi. Photos: Mercury Press I heard feet on the stairs. ‘Mum?’ Aaron called. ‘Amy’s got tonsillitis, come and see!’ Strange… She hadn’t…

She calmly loaded the revolver, began shooting THE CRIME On the morning of 11 February 2014, Geoward Eustaquio was carrying a basket of laundry when his mother-in-law Cynthia Cdebaca suddenly opened fire. He tried to crawl to safety but the shots just kept coming. Geoward didn’t stand a chance… THE STORY: When Cynthia Cdebaca suffered a stroke, her daughter Laura Salinas agreed to let her move into a granny flat attached to the home she shared with her husband Geoward Eustaquio. It would let Laura nurse her mum back to health. But inside the extravagant home in an upscale area of Fallbrook, California, the scene was far from happy families. The relationship between Laura and her husband was strained at best – and Cynthia witnessed their arguments first-hand. According to…

I couldn’t tell anyone, so I selfharmed, slashing at my arms and legs As the school bell rang out, my friends and I pushed our chairs back and grabbed our bags. I was so excited. I was 7, it was the weekend and, as usual, I was spending the two days with my dad Mark. My parents had split up in 1996 when I was just 2 – too young to have any memories of them together. I lived with my mum Karen in the week, then Friday after school I’d head to my dad’s house until Sunday. I had my own bedroom with a pink duvet and my bed was lined with teddies. We always had fun – he’d take me to the park to play on the swings…

They're YOUR tips! Let’s hang out... Rather than spending a fortune on brackets for my new hanging baskets, I just used some old shelf brackets, bending one end to make a hook. Marie Jennings, Norwich Nailing it If you usually have expensive gel products applied to your nails in a salon, buy some cheap nail varnish to cover any damage between visits. Lesley Dunn, Cranham Basket case Instead of throwing out an empty fruit basket, I realised it made a perfect home for our phone chargers! Catherine Renfrey, Little Neston That’s a wrap To avoid splashing radiators and fittings while decorating, just cover them with clingfilm. When the paint is dry, you can simply remove it. Margaret Flowers, Harlow Hair’s an idea! Hair scrunchies make cheap, cheerful and quirky tie-backs…

Ask our Doc Don’t be shy – Chat’s Dr Martin Edwards is a family GP who’s seen it all before… Head pain Q I get one-sided headaches, which a specialist has said are cluster headaches. Treatment isn’t really helping. Is there a cure? Louise, 37 A Cluster headaches are one of the worst pains ever, often striking many times a day, lasting weeks. Treatment is trial and error with migraine drugs, tablets to widen blood vessels, and oxygen therapy. Brain surgery has helped some sufferers. Eye floaters Q I’ve got floaters. My optician says they’re harmless, but I want them gone! Ann, 58 A You’re seeing a shadow cast on the back of your eye by fragments of dead tissue floating inside. Floaters are harmless, although a sudden increase, or…

NUMBER JIG Wembley Stadium has the largest number of toilets of any single building in the world. But just how many is that? Fit these numbers into the grid. One number doesn’t fit. This is the prize answer. 3 digits 157 200 334 361 447 516 679 728 732 833 915 926 4 digits 1642 2304 2618 3155 4924 5166 6030 7357 8733 9341 5 digits 16050 29112 36196 40038 43780 58417 64276 74489 86674 88592 93812 6 digits 304129 483868 663272 767554 971753 7 digits 2524433 4239635 6450398 7193592 8 digits 90576268 Your answer: SPIRAL XWORD In the US, you can be fined up to $25,000 for possessing what natural item, which can include simply picking up one that’s lying on the floor? The answer to each clue (apart…

Mark first mentioned the pink stuff on a dinner date People don’t believe me when I tell them my full name Yes, that really is my name – Anne ‘I Love Spam’ Benson. And I live up to it! But it hasn’t always been that way… It started when I got together with Mark in 2009. We used to drink in the same pub, but lost touch. But on New Year’s Eve that year, I got a friend request. Remember me? he messaged. He was looking up old friends on the Internet. We got chatting and there was instant chemistry. Before long, he’d asked me out. And it was on our dinner date that he first mentioned the pink stuff… ‘I wish there was a restaurant that did Spam!’ he…

Meal Deal 1 Preheat oven to 180C/ Gas 4 and line a baking sheet with foil. 2 Cut 340g of Spam into cubes, then fry in a dry pan until lightly golden. 3 Slice a large, round or oval-shaped, uncut crusty loaf diagonally – first one way, then the other – about 2.5cm apart, to form a lattice effect, making sure not to cut through bottom crust. 4 Stuff 200g grated Cheddar between each of cuts in the loaf, then scatter cooked Spam over the top, pushing some pieces in between slices. 5 Spread 75g of garlic butter over the top of the loaf, sprinkle with 1tsp dried parsley, cover loaf with foil and bake for 15 min. 6 Remove foil and continue to bake for another 5-10 min, before…

LETTER of the week! Together in love… It was tragic to read Catherine Ignarski’s story (23 Feb issue). Her family lost both parents, Angus and Margaret, under awful circumstances. None of us can ever really know how we’d cope with a situation like this, but the family can be sure the love between their parents was true. Angus just couldn’t cope with Margaret’s dementia. May they rest in peace together. Anne Forrester, Kings Lynn WE PAY CASH Wined and signed We all have a memory like a goldfish at times, when it comes to our favourite drink..! Lucy Hill, Halifax Pooch priorities My two young sons and I had been away visiting my elderly gran and, on our return, my hubby met us at the station with our dog. As…

ARROW-WORD Actors Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor and Cary Grant all turned down the offer to play which movie role? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in the shaded squares to find the two-word prize answer. Puzzle 17 £ 1,000 Your answer: 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, then read down the numbers in the highlighted squares for the prize answer. Puzzle 18 £60 Your answer: WORDSEARCH Puzzle 19 £50 Eleven of the 12 men who’ve walked on the Moon were what? The answer is the one missing from the grid. AMERICAN ANGLERS BACHELORS BALD BEARDED BOY SCOUTS FIT GRADUATES…

Next day, our worst nightmare was confirmed People think that you only get skin cancer from sunbeds Ever asked yourself where the time went? Hearing about the holiday of a lifetime my daughter Linzi and her fella Darren Reid, both 21, had planned – to Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh – I certainly did. It seemed like only yesterday she’d brought him home to meet me, her dad Colin, 55, and brother Jamie, now 30, for the first time. Linzi was just 15 then. ‘Be nice!’ she’d pleaded. See, in September 2010, she’d had a cancerous mole removed from her left temple, and the experience had made us over-protective of her. Knowing she had typically fair, Scottish skin, Linzi had never been a sun worshipper – she’d just been unlucky. But…

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REAL ROBOCOPS Alloy, alloy, alloy, what have we got here, then? A troop of real-life robot police officers are now patrolling the streets of Dubai, complete with touchscreen chests, and authorities hope to make the androids a quarter of the police force by 2030! RIGHT ROYAL CHAT Learning to talk posh, like? A social anthropologist has revealed the words the royal family would never say, and top of the list is ‘toilet’. Apparently, the Queen is more likely to ask where the nearest ‘loo’ is. We’re more fancy than we thought! ME-WOW! Aussie puss Omar is said to be the world’s longest cat, measuring a whopping 3ft 11in! His Instagram page has made him an overnight superstar, but his owner Stephy said, ‘He hasn’t really been coping with all the…