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February
Leaving Home
Ian Wood is leaving the parental home to set up house on his own at the age of 40...
Overcoming Leukaemia
When Daniel De Gale was six he developed leukaemia. His mother, Beverley, was told that he could recover completely if he had a bone marrow transplant. Only problem is that suitable donors are scarce for black youngsters.
Big Brother
Laura Tennison and her husband John Femi-Ola have had a sequence of nannies since the birth of their two sons. They were especially lucky with their last one, a 27 year old male nanny called Dalibor.
An uncommon youth
Peter Lawton-Harris' life has been anything but conventional. He lived in a succession of children's homes under the impression that he was an orphan. But when he was 14, he discovered that his mother was far from dead.
The Travelling Nelsons
Andrew and Morag Nelson took their boys, 11 year-old twins Stuart and David and 6 year-old Ewan, out of school and off for a year long family trip for which they'd been saving for 10 years.
On deaf ears
Gemma contacted Home Truths about the problems of being the only hearing person in a deaf family.
Learning to swim
Bryan Gallagher recalls his childhood experience of learning to swim.
TV spirit
Tony Allison noticed some strange goings-on in the lounge shortly after his father's death...
From You
Ian Wood's tale of living at home until the age forty, prompted many of you to contact Home Truths with your own experiences.
The lift & the lobster
In the 1970s, Eamonn Fitzmaurice was working on a building site. One day, just before knocking off time he had reason to go up to the sixth floor of the building on which he was working. The lifts had been installed but were not fully functioning, a circumstance that lead to a potentially smelly problem.
Picture Imperfect
Peter Roche contacted Home Truths because he was disturbed to rediscover photographs taken of him in 1965 by Lord Snowdon.
Forging a path
Over the winter, three young homeless men volunteered to build a path through a nature reserve in York. In the process, they have gone some way to putting their own lives back on track.
Funny Valentine
Maggie Chapman has sent the same man a Valentines day card for forty years, although they've never been romantically linked.
Something to remember
Karen Rayfield contacted Home Truths about her son, George who survived very serious meningitis, but has suffered memory loss ever since.
Mother and Child
Back in 1918, when Joseph Treganza was a baby, he and his mother were painted by the Cornish artist, Harold Harvey, of the Newlyn School. Joseph knew he had to track down the painting.
Overload
Nicola Harrison has been overdoing it a bit lately...
The Wrong Passport
It all started when Andy Howard's wife Jo rang him at work, in a bit of a panic...
From You
Do you work in an environment completely alien to your profession?
Bed-in
When Andrew and Christine Gale decided to do something a little different for Valentines Day this year, little could they have known what an impact their romantic actions would have.
Journey south
Emma's father grew up in Mississippi. She longed to hear about her Dad's upbringing but it wasn't until two years ago when she travelled to Leland, Mississippi, for his mother's funeral that she was able to understand why he had been so reticent.
Getting married
Clare Jenkins got married after twenty years living with her partner.
Return to Jamaica
Minette couldn't have known when she arrived in Britain from Jamaica that it would be 40 years before she returned to the place of her birth. But last year, accompanied by her daughter Donna, Minette returned. Now back in Britain, their memories of the visit are preserved forever through their holiday snaps.
Sticky dilemma
Gary Willis faced a moral dilemma when he found himself disguising South African Orange Juice as Israeli Orange Juice during the time of trade-sanctions against South Africa.
