Real Fix

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We're excited to join the @pubpodawards virtual ceremony later today - where our RealFix podcast has been shortlisted for the 'Best Lifestyle podcast'🎙🏆. You can listen to our first series here: https://t.co/wuxP0KTYap. Wish us luck!

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Devoted couple's first kiss after eight month Covid separation...Is this what true love looks like?! 👴🏼❤👵🏼

#love #truelove #covid #realfix

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We are super excited our @realfixuk podcast has been shortlisted for the @pubpodawards 🤩.

Thank you so much to all of our interviewees who have shared their incredibly moving stories with us.

If you haven't had a listened, you can find it here - https://t.co/wuxP0KTYap

[The Publisher Podcast Awards & Summit @pubpodawards]

BEST LIFESTYLE PODCAST: We Are Family by @MeredithCorp, Bump, Baby and Beyond by @emmasdiary, @realfixuk by @SWNS, The Dirt by @GYOmag @DC_Thomson, The Upgrade by @SUITCASEmag, Who Cares Wins with @lilycole by @penguinrandom

[The Publisher Podcast Awards & Summit @pubpodawards]

BEST LIFESTYLE PODCAST: We Are Family by @MeredithCorp, Bump, Baby and Beyond by @emmasdiary, @realfixuk by @SWNS, The Dirt by @GYOmag @DC_Thomson, The Upgrade by @SUITCASEmag, Who Cares Wins with @lilycole by @penguinrandom

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My home has flooded with SEWAGE 17 times in two years – and there’s nothing I can do about it! -

“There’s been toilet roll, actual faeces, tampons and food waste like chicken, carrots and sweetcorn.

“We did have a dead rat brought in last year."

https://t.co/fdeoz1UeET

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Hamster named Houdini has reappeared after two month disappearing act – finding a home under the floorboards next door 🐹🎩

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Heartbroken mum shares last photo of her 15-year-old before life support was switched off after sudden asthma attack-

“People should know how dangerous asthma can be.
“You can’t take anything for granted, because you don’t know what’s around the corner.”

https://t.co/Sh1HucSIhn

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Mum and daughter send hundreds of chocolate bars with personalised letters to NHS staff in hope to lift their spirits 🍫👩🏼‍⚕️ -

Full story: https://t.co/8oMUdAyVdP

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I was woken by my toddlers screams as a RAT attacked him as he slept 😶

“Two nights before the attack, I woke up with it on my face! It was stood on my pillow with one foot on my forehead and I remember feeling the size of it before I jumped out of bed."

https://t.co/kmV6ZyzjlD

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ICU receptionist draws portraits of her colleagues to create a Covid-heroes gallery at hospital 👩🏼‍⚕️✏ -

“You do see a lot and I just wanted to show my appreciation to the nurses, doctors and other staff on the ward for everything they have been doing.

https://t.co/Xo4OJYglkA

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Brave mum with brain tumour learnt daughter had achieved her lifelong dream in last conversation before losing her battle -

“The last conversation Isabel had with Helen, she told her she had got into veterinary school."

Full story: https://t.co/byQm8o2q6U

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WARNING for all parents!😮 -

“I still hear his screams” – Two-year-old almost blinded after covering himself in DISINFECTANT.

Full story: https://t.co/IfYLUGphMO

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THANK YOU NHS! – Autistic teen shows gratitude to NHS by sending them thank you cards 💌

"He sees pictures of doctors and nurses and wants to hug them to make them feel better.

"He loves to write, and he just wants to make people happy."

Full story: https://t.co/yi7mlbTycm

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Watch this deer have the time of his life splashing around in the mud! 🦌🤣

https://t.co/TX2bz8rDu2

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Warning to all parents: My toddler needed surgery after having a battery stuck in her throat – for FOUR MONTHS 😯😥

“I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know."

https://t.co/KgB08oV5SM

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“It was such a roller-coaster year; experiencing the joy of becoming a dad within months of receiving a devastating brain tumour diagnosis and undergoing major surgery and cancer treatment."

https://t.co/7mm8QfH1qI

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This German Shepherd loves ambling through the countryside with her best friend – a duck! 🐾🦆

https://t.co/q9aChcIANG

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Childhood cancer survivor qualifies as nurse and now works with same medic who saved her life -

“During the hardest period of my life, my memories are largely filled with positive things the wonderful nurses did, and Kate was one of them."

https://t.co/VUAPH34vW4

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"I started to cry as I didn’t think I was that big."

https://t.co/83uqneCvTy

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We're spending £700 a month on CANNABIS for our poorly daughter because it's not available on the NHS -

“Some of the families we know are paying almost 2,500-a-month. It’s a shocking amount of money. They’re paying almost the same as a mortgage!”

https://t.co/9ef7zVkrcp