Lytham St Annes Express

"When you suffer with anxiety, your fears can run away with you in the quiet, dark night. As a child you might have feared imaginary monsters, now the ghouls are your deadlines, people asking you to do stuff and your overflowing inbox." Read Eli's story here, via The i Paper

The new immigration structure, announced this week, will work on a points-based system - how many would you get? Via The i Paper

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Marianne began suffering constipation, diarrhoea, painful cramps and a bloated stomach in April 2017. Read the full story here, via The i Paper

World news: The ramps have been given to any interested stores free of charge - and are proving a huge success. Read more here, via The i Paper

Calling all brides to be. Don't miss this Sunday Wedding Fair!

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"Everyone assumes that hospitals are safe places to be. For the most part, they are. But not always. For physically vulnerable patients like children, the elderly and people with disabilities, hospitals can sometimes do more harm than good." Another powerful column from The Secret Medic, via The i Paper

Currently, if a driver hits an animal such as a dog, horse or cow they must, by law, report it to the police - but there is no such rule involving cats. Campaigners want that to change. Read Sprout's story here, via The i Paper

"I was left with £4 in my account at the beginning of this month and had to ask my landlord to wait for the next rent payment and ask my mum for money for food - all while still having chemotherapy treatment. It's been a nightmare." A shocking situation, read the full story here, via The i Paper

"This will help individuals and their children who are going through very difficult times." https://www.lythamstannesexpress.co.uk/‚Ä ¶/more-money-for-lan‚Ķ

"We can condemn the tabloids for their part in tearing people down, but the judgement and bullying which drives a huge portion of social media has begun to have an equally disturbing effect." Read more here, via The i Paper

"The law is outdated and contradicts the whole purpose of freezing eggs in the first place. It is completely soul-destroying, I am constantly worried and anxious about the looming deadline. It’s all I can think about, it’s totally consuming." Story via The i Paper

"In the weeks that followed my haemorrhage, life, if you could call it that, became intolerable. I was sick of being sick. I was sick of being dizzy. I was sick of everything spinning. I was sick of being tired." A terrible ordeal for this woman - read her story here, via The i Paper

"I couldn’t stop crying and feeling fatigued. I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. In the end I was unable to work for seven months. You feel guilty because you’re not going to work but at the same time I felt like I couldn’t function properly." Read more of Sahira's story here, via The i Paper

"During the season, we'd start at 7, and finish at midnight or 1am, and did that seven days a week... We had radios and stuff on, but you don’t have anyone face to face. Just sit in your tractor, and keep going and going." A eye-opening insight into the industry, via The i Paper

"A funny, confident, 'life and soul of the party' type, I hero-worshiped him as a young child. But behind closed doors he was a tyrant, and this Jekyll and Hyde persona made it even harder to recognise I was raised by a narcissist." Read the full story here, via The i Paper

"In the past, I did stay in unhappy and toxic relationships, because I was terrified of feeling lonely...I wish I could go back to my younger-self and tell her to run; that being single isn't that bad." Read more here, via The i Paper