Meet Denzel the house duck - a lost and lonely duckling hand-reared by a cleaner who brought him in from the rain
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A kind womans adopted a lost duckling which turned up on her front doorstep in a rain storm - and now it barely leaves her side.
Jessica Clewes, 24, hand-reared Denzel the duck after her dad Michael Clewes, 70, opened his front door when he heard chirping outside.
She nursed the tiny shivering bird back to health - warming him up under a heat lamp and feeding him worms.
But when he was big enough to fly the nest, pampered Denzel didn't want to leave, so she built him a duck pond and outdoor house, but he prefers to be indoors.
Four months since he waddled into their lives, Denzel loves watching TV from his favourite spot in front of the fire.
He follows Jessica and partner, Adam Oliver, 38, around the house in Smallwood, Cheshire, and even sits on their shoulders and nestles into her hair.
Cleaner Jessica, who has experience as a game keeper, said: "We love him to bits. He sees us as parents and we have hand-reared him since he was a baby.
"He sits on my knee at night whilst I watch TV and now it’s cold outside he likes to sit in front of the log burner.
“He’s never ever tried to fly away and he could do at any point really, but this is all he has ever known.
“I’m not sure he would survive in the wild now. I’m not even sure he knows how to be a proper duck.
“He must have only been a couple of days own when he turned up on my dad’s door in the rain.
“I want to keep him forever now. We both have an affection for him.
“He must be happy otherwise he would just fly off. He could do if he wanted to but has never even tried.
"'Gamekeepers, farmers and country people aren't all about killing animals. We are all massive conservationists too."
Denzel, a mallard drake, showed up at Jessica’s dad’s front door during a rainy day in the middle of July.
Former game-keeper, Michael Clewes, 70, opened the door to bring him inside and gave him some TLC.
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Image by: Lee Mclean SWNS
Image by: Lee Mclean SWNS
Image by: Jessica Clewes
Image by: Jessica Clewes
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Jessica lives next door and took over from her dad later that day and has fed, cared for and nurtured Denzel every day since.
She built him an incubator and bought a heat-lamp for when he was young, which Denzel eventually grew out of at the end of August.
Jessica and plasterer Adam chose not to clip his wings and built Denzel a pond and shelter outside and let him roam around the garden for fun.
He spends his days outdoors - like every other duck - but unlike the rest of his breed sleeps in the warmth and comfort of a house.
Denzel typically snoozes wherever he likes at home but his two favourite places to take a nap are in front of the log burner or on the sofa.
Jessica said: “He has a duck house outside with a pen and a little pond. We feed him corn and occasionally give him meal worms as a treat.
“One of his favourite things to do with us is sit in the garden and dig up mealworms.
“He will sit on my shoulder too and I can walk around the house with him on there. When he was young he used to sit on my head. I think he might have seen it as a bird’s nest.
“My boyfriend is obsessed with him and they have a special connection for sure. He pecks me sometimes but follows Adam around wherever he goes.”
Unfortunately for Jessica and Adam, ducks are not the easiest animals to toilet train and they do find themselves cleaning up after Denzel around the house.
Jessica said the couple are now looking to adopt a female duck so Denzel can start a family.
She’s hopeful of one day having her very own duck nursery in her back garden.
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Bizarre footage shows a collection of kitties that appear to have HUMAN faces
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This bizarre footage shows a collection of cats that appear to have - HUMAN faces.
The unsettling yet still incredibly adorable kittens are the result of painstaking selective breeding.
Tatyana Rastorgueva, a 44-year-old felinologist and animal lover, has been breeding cats since 2002.
The unusual Maine Coons are the result of breeding father cat Vatican and mother cat Lucien.
All of the kittens in her care have a recognisable ‘face’ and piercing eyes.
Tantyana manages the Instagram account @catsvill_county and regularly takes videos of the unique cats to share with her eighty-thousand followers as well as the rest of the Internet.
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Image by: Tatiana Rastorguev
Image by: Tatiana Rastorguev
Image by: Tatiana Rastorguev
Tatyana from Moscow, Russia said: “I really love animals, cats have always been a part of my life.
''But I began to professionally breed cats in 2002, I have been working directly with Maine Coons since 2004. I like what I do, I can say that cats are my calling.
“Each breeder has his own vision of the breed and selects individuals for further selection according to those traits that are important to him.
''I can say that while working with the breed, I focused on the type of Maine Coon that I like, that's why I now have a recognizable ‘face’ type of kittens in my nursery.
''This is just a long painstaking work of the breeder.I love all animals, especially cats. Maine Coons captured my heart completely.''
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DON’T LOOK DOWN! This is the moment a travel vlogger got himself into a tight squeeze as he ascended the spiral stair case of the ancient Ambuluwawa Tower in Sri Lanka.
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DON’T LOOK DOWN! This is the moment a travel vlogger got himself into a tight squeeze as he ascended the spiral stair case of the ancient Ambuluwawa Tower in Sri Lanka.
Standing on the peak of an isolated mountain at at a staggering 3567ft above sea level the elegant Ambuluwawa Tower is a mind blowing spectacle situated in Gampola, Sri Lanka.
The perilous journey to the top of the structure requires a trek up a narrow spiral staircase barely big enough for one person.
The climb is no easy task but it was small potatoes for Australian adventurer Brandon Cody Bruce who filmed his climb on a selfie stick showcasing the precarious ascent as well as some spectacular views of the Sri Lankan countryside.
Image by: Brandon Bruce
Image by: Brandon Bruce
Image by: Brandon Bruce
Image by: Brandon Bruce
Brandon, a 24-year old from Brisbane Australia who gave up the life of a fisherman for a life of round the world travel said:
“I started travelling solo at the age of 19 when I worked on superyachts around the world for 2 years, then at the start of 2019 I began full time travelling. Photography and videography have been a passion of mine for years now as well.”
“I was competing in a 10-day tuktuk tournament throughout Sri Lanka and this Temple climb was one of the challenges to complete to earn points.”
“The video shows me walking up the skinny staircase temple overlooking the beautiful scenery of Kandy and the mountains surrounding”
“It was very cloudy during this day so visibility wasn’t the best. If I could do it again I would love to go up during a clear day so I can see everything.”
Video by: Brandon Bruce
Rescue dogs tuck into an edible gingerbread house - made of doggie treats
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Christmas came early for these rescue dogs when they were let loose on an edible gingerbread house made out of doggie treats.
The hut is covered in 2,000 dog biscuits, 1,600 chewy treats, 12 kilos of melted dog drops for 'cement' and 24 pup-friendly stockings.
It was set up as a festive treat for residents of Manchester Dogs Home in Cheshire.
Anna Stansfield, speaking on behalf of the dogs’ home, said of the event created by wilko: “We were blown away when we got the surprise opportunity to welcome the grotto to our site for a festive celebration.
“We have more than 60 dogs here that are looking for loving homes – many won’t be adopted before Christmas, so this is a brilliant second-best.
“The pets have all had a brilliant day, and to be honest I think we have as well, seeing how much joy it’s brought them.”
A survey of 2,000 dog owners, commissioned by wilko, also found an average of £27 pounds is spent per-pooch on gifts over the festive season.
And more than one in 20 will shell out upwards of £100 on their beloved hound, with an average of three gifts bought per dog.
The most common Christmas present for furry companions is a dog chew (70 per cent) followed by a chewy toy (62 per cent) and a stuffed animal (57 per cent).
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Image by: Dan Rowlands SWNS
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More than two thirds of dog owners will even take the trouble to wrap their pet’s special presents, to ‘unwrap’ on Christmas morning.
And a quarter even confess to spending more on their pet than they have on some friends or family members.
More than half - 58 per cent – encourage friends and family to spend money on a present for their pet to open on December 25th, according to the OnePoll data.
When it comes to Christmas dinner, one in five pampered pooches are treated to their own specially-made plate, while 20 per cent of owners allow their dog to have a seat at the table.
A quarter also write their furry friend’s name on Christmas cards, as if they’ve had a hand – or a paw – in writing it.
A third genuinely believe their dog is aware of Christmas Day when it happens, and half make a special effort to include their pet in the festivities.
Daniel Bingham, senior buyer for pets for wilko said: “Most of us will be having a very merry Christmas and as a retailer that sells gifts for all the family, we know that a major portion of the nation will be purchasing presents for their pets.
"But we also know that won’t be the case for a lot of less fortunate pets in rescue shelters and homes.
“Our survey results found Brits are willing to go the extra mile to really spoil their pets at Christmas, be it via gifts or even sitting at the dinner table, but there are still so many that deserve love.
“We were happy to do our bit to bring some festive cheer to Manchester and Cheshire Dogs Home, and hopefully some of these beautiful dogs will soon enjoy a Christmas with a loving family.”
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A Muslim schoolgirl who was "strangled" with her own hijab has said she is terrified to leave her house after the vicious attack
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A Muslim schoolgirl told how she was 'strangled' with her own hijab and punched during an horrific racial attack as she was travelling on a bus.
Redana Al-Hadi, 14, was punched repeatedly by a woman who had shouted racial slurs at her while she was travelling with her 13-year-old sister, Wadaad.
Redana was taken to hospital with a suspected fractured eye socket after the attack, which she says has left her "too scared to get the bus to school".
The teenagers were travelling home from school when the woman, who was travelling with a man, began to "mock" their accent and abuse them about their headwear.
The argument then spilled out of the bus and onto the road, where the woman knocked Redana to the ground and beat her.
Mobile phone footage of the horrifying incident was shared online and shows the woman on top of Redana as blows rained down.
Brave Redana has now spoken out about the ordeal, which took place shortly after 4.30pm on Wednesday, December 4.
Redana, of Sheffield, South Yorks., said: "As we were getting off the bus he stood up and screamed the N word towards my friend and then my friend reacted but a little boy at the back of the bus stood up and said don’t call her that, we’re black.
"Then the lady stood up and started pushing the man towards the back of the bus and then she punched him.”
Redana says a short argument broke out between the man and the woman – who are thought to have known each other – before the man grabbed one of the children.
She said the woman then turned on her and began shouting racial slurs.
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Image by: JP Sheffield Star
Redana added: “She then threw herself at me and dragged me out the bus, and as she dragged me to the floor she strangled me with my hijab and then my little sister tried to stop it and the man grabbed my sister by her waist and threw her into oncoming traffic.
“She kicked me in my neck and knocked me out with her fist and started smashing my head and stamping on me while my arm was over my face and I thought I broke my arm.
"My face is all swollen and it’s a mess.”
She said she has been left traumatised and scared to leave the house.
She added: “I feel targeted because I’m a Muslim girl and I’ve not gone back to school because I’m too scared to go back on the bus or to leave my house.
“I’m scared of adults harassing me and I already had bad eyesight, I wear glasses, and the eye she damaged is my good eye.”
The girls' mother Racheda Ali, 51, said: “When I got the phone call from my Wadaad my youngest saying ‘mum she’s killing my sister, she’s attacking Redana and attacking us’, I just didn’t know what to do.
"When we got there all the children were crying because they were all scared and shaking.
"My daughter was having a panic attack, it’s just ridiculous what they did to her.”
A 40-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man were arrested by South Yorkshire Police, who said the incident "remains under investigation".
The solicitor representing the family, Arshaid Bashir of Adam Law Solicitors, said:
“This is an assault on a child where derogatory language has been used.
"It is a racially aggravated assault.
"There was serious harm to a child who was attacked due to her appearance.
“The CPS ought to have been consulted prior to any decision being made. Public duty requires the perpetrator to be prosecuted.
“At the very least the perpetrator should have been charged with affray as part of joint enterprise with the co-accused as unlawful violence was used towards another which caused other persons to fear for their safety.
"There are aggravating features in this case as it was a busy public area, children were present and it was a sustained attack.”
A stunned pensioner found a Napoleonic sword in the same spot he buried it as a boy - 70 years ago
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A stunned pensioner found an Napoleonic sword in the same spot he buried it as a boy - 70 years ago.
Peter Pike, 81, was just 11 when he first came across the mystery weapon in a scabbard while playing with friends in the woods.
He was scared by his discovery and didn't tell his three pals, so quickly buried it again in the same spot and forgot all about it.
But several decades later he remembered what he had done and decided to try and dig it up.
And to his amazement when he returned to the woods in Newton Abbot on holiday it was still in the same spot.
The historic weapon now has pride of place on display at his home in Paington, Devon.
Peter said: "We were playing in Bradley Woods. When I was a child that's what you did.
"Every Saturday morning about four of us would go and play up in the woods and we built our own den.
"We all used to go up to where we were playing. I was only about 11 and it was all very sweet and innocent.
"One day one of the lads said 'Can we make another den this one's getting very dirty' and I was pushed under a big bramble bush to have a look.
"As I was pushing back all the roots and leaves I found this sword - a big metal one in a metal holster.
"I was so surprised I didn't know what to do."
Peter, who was raised in a children's home, was worried that he would get in trouble if he returned to his carers with a sword - so he hid it.
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Image by: James Dadzitis SWNS
Image by: James Dadzitis SWNS
He added: "In those days if we did anything wrong they always threatened that you would get sent to Forde Park if you were naughty.
"I thought if I took a sword back to the children's home that I would get sent to Forde Park which was more like a prison for boys.
"So I didn't tell anybody - I covered it up with mud again and left it for later.
"But then I just forgot all about it for years and years."
Peter now has the sword and experts have taken a look at it and confirmed that it probably dates from the end of the Napoleonic wars in the early 19th century.
He added: "I never thought about it once in all that time.
"It wasn't until I was back in Devon on holiday that I remembered. We arranged to go back to the woods and take my daughter's beach spade with us.
"I couldn't believe it - I went straight back to the exact same bush and dug with the child's metal spade and I was lucky. It was still there. I couldn't believe it.
"We decided to bring it home and it's been with us ever since, in pride of place on the fireplace.
"It's in a metal holster and it was well-oiled but it looks like it's seen some heavy action - there's damage on the hilt and I wonder if that's why it was thrown away."
Peter said he has taken the sword to Newton Abbot Museum for evaluation and experts believe it dates from sometime around the end of the Napoleonic War.
Peter added: "The Museum is interested in putting it on display but I don't want to give it away or sell it - maybe at some later time, but not just yet."
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This is the moment a wildlife photographer found him self face to face with a curious leopard
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This is the moment a wildlife photographer found himself face to face with a curious leopard cub.
Game ranger Dillon Nelson was filming a mother leopard and her young daughter when the inquisitive cub decided to get a closer look.
The curious 10-month-old cub got up from it’s overlook on a termite mound in Sabi Sands nature reserve, South Africa, and ended up centimetres away from Dillon.
He froze as the young leopard investigated Dillon's boot before eyeing him up and letting out a defensive hiss.
Dillon, 25, said: "I work in the area as a game ranger or nature guide and take people out on Safari and Bush walks.
“We were following a resident female leopard and her 10-month-old cub as they moved through a very dense Monkey Orange and Bush willow thicket.
Image by: Dillon Nelson
Image by: Dillon Nelson
Image by: Dillon Nelson
“She was presumably taking the cub on a walk about, teaching her some skills about hunting and stalking prey.
“The adult went up onto this termite mound to get a better look at her surroundings, with the youngster following right behind.
“With the cub being quite young and inquisitive she came to investigate what my shoe might be. Possibly thinking or hoping it was a scrub hare or squirrel.
“I was quite nervous but more excited than anything else. It's hard to describe how it felt during the sighting because I was trying to keep calm and take in what was happening.
"As I saw her approaching I already knew it was too late for me to move. I thought I should just keep still and allow her to investigate.
"She saw what she needed and then proceeded on her way. Definitely a thrilling experience, and one not many people get to have. “
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One of UK's youngest transgender children starts her transitioning journey aged 13...after realising she was in 'wrong body' aged just THREE
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A 12-year-old who is one of Britain’s youngest transgender children has started transitioning - after realising she was born in the ‘wrong body’ aged just THREE.
Ash Lammin is, biologically-speaking, a boy.
But her mum says she insisted that she was a girl as soon as she could speak.
Terri Lammin, 43, said that watching her daughter - who was born Ashton - grow up confused and upset by her body was “heartbreaking”.
She said: “Although she was born male, from the moment she could speak Ash insisted she was a girl.
“By age five, she was asking ‘when is someone going to chop my winky off?’ - and questioning why she had it at all.”
Family photos from Ash’s upbringing therefore mask a very difficult period for the family, who live near Ramsgate in Kent.
In one, Ash is splashing around in a bath, wearing a sparkly mermaid’s swimming costume and looking like an average three-year-old girl - obsessed with pink and wearing a princess dress, the sort of thing that’s usually seen at birthday parties.
But, Terri revealed, the only reason she was wearing her swimming costume in the bath was to hide her body - which had dismayed her from an early age.
Ash says that it has been difficult growing up as a trans girl, but says she feels that she is firmly on the right path.
She said: “The journey is long and it’s still going, but I feel like the sense of victory is there through it all.
"I do feel accepted sometimes, but other times not.
"Not everyone is going to understand and people have to have their own opinions and I understand that. Some people might not like the idea of trans.
"I hope I inspire others but I just hope that love and acceptance comes through everything."
According to her mum, Ash is the perfect example of a child who has been born in the wrong body.
Now, aged almost 13, she is embarking on a lengthy journey to transition her gender from male to female at an NHS-run clinic - and is one of the youngest in the country to do so.
Ash - who changed her name by deed poll to Ashley when she was eight - will start by taking hormone blockers to halt the onset of puberty.
She has researched the process incessantly - and eventually wants a womb transplant so that she can be a mother when she’s older.
While some critics have accused Terri of taking drastic decisions on behalf of a child who is too young to know better, she points out that Ash will take the blockers until she is 18.
At that point, she herself will decide whether to go ahead with gender reassignment surgery.
If she decides not to go ahead with it, Ash will come off the blocker - and her puberty will kick in just a few years later than her peers.
Terri said: “I never thought it was a phase, Ash was just Ash.
"When she was three she said to me, ‘I’m a boy because you gave me a boy’s name - it’s your fault.’
“I remember feeling horrible, because she blamed me. I personally thought maybe this was what an extremely camp gay man is like as a child.
"I'd never come across it before and I just went along with it. I just thought 'if he's happy, well that's the main thing.'"
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Image by: Matthew Newby SWNS
Image by: Matthew Newby SWNS
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Image by: Matthew Newby SWNS
But Terri, who has seven other children, said that life became much harder when Ash started at primary school.
She said: “I sent her to school in a boy’s uniform. I felt awful, she didn’t want to wear it and I was making her.
"The school were great. The headmaster at the time said 'if you think it's going to make life easier then bring Ash in a girl's uniform', so I did.
"I was in a right state. I thought 'everybody is going to think I'm weird' - but Ash loved it, she found it easy.
"Before, when I was taking her into school, she was biting me and kicking me, she didn't want to go in.
"As soon as she put the girl's uniform on, she wanted to go every day."
Despite the school’s willingness to help and the kindness of Ash’s classmates, Terri says that other parents were very difficult - leaving her out of social events and complaining that Ash was using the girls’ toilets.
She added: "When Ash was Ashton, she was invited to all the kids' parties, even though she used to turn up in a princess dress.
"The parents didn't mind then. But as soon as I let her be Ashley all the time, for a whole year she didn't get invited to one party.
"The kids were fine; it's not the children, kids play with anybody. It's not until an adult comes in and says you shouldn't do that then it changes."
When Ash turned 11 and went to secondary school, she became a target for bullies who would throw things at her on the bus and shout ‘tranny’ at her - forcing Terri to take her out of the school after just one term.
Ash is now being home-schooled, and Terri is calling for better education within schools to teach children about transgender people.
She said: "I'd like to see the subject of transgender people included in some lessons, like there are about same-sex families.
“There needs to be more about liking people for who they are, not what they are."
Ash suffers from anxiety and, her mum said, has openly claimed that she wants to die.
Terri said: “Some days she says ‘I’m so glad I’m me’, but other days she feels terrible. She asks why it has to happen to her and she hates herself.
“I tell her that some people are born with one leg, and they have to deal with it. I question whether it was a chromosome disorder that led to this - I would like to know why it happened.”
"She is so inspirational. She could easily have said 'I'll just be a boy' but she feels so strongly about who she is she accepts the difficulties.
"But it's a lot for a child to deal with."
A gym addict was given the all-clear from pelvic cancer from the NHS despite having secondary tumours in her spine - that were found when she had a PRIVATE scan
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A gym addict told she was cancer-free by NHS doctors was stunned to find she was riddled with secondary tumours just a month later when she had a private MRI scan.
Super-fit Gemma Sisson, 38, says medics MISSED the tumours in a three separate scans taken in the seven months AFTER she was given the all-clear.
Her last NHS scan, which revealed no cancer, was taken just a month before her private one.
Now Gemma, who has been told she is terminally ill, is calling for better NHS screening for all cancer sufferers.
Her ordeal began in the summer of 2017 when a lump she discovered in her groin was diagnosed in March 2018 as pelvic cancer.
After chemotherapy sessions at the Leeds Cancer Centre, attached to St James's University Hospital, she was given the all-clear in January this year.
A final series of scans were taken and in July it was confirmed she was cancer-free.
But shockingly, after complaining to a physiotherapist about pain in her neck and back she had suffered since March this year she was advised to pay £330 for a private MRI scan.
To her horror it revealed that she had secondary tumours in her neck, back, liver and stomach.
Gemma said: "Obviously I wasn't all-clear.
"I had a final, bigger CT scan from the NHS in July to check the cancer had gone.
"They missed small tumours that had developed in my stomach and they did not scan far up enough to spot the cancer at the top of my spine - they missed it by millimetres."
Gemma has now started a petition calling for thorough checks for the life-threatening illness before patients are told they are cancer-free.
It has so far attracted almost 50,000 signatures with many contributors telling their own horror stories of how they did not find other cancers until it was too late.
Gemma, who now has a collapsed spine, feels lucky to have at least found her secondary cancer before she became completely paralysed, but feels it could have been detected earlier.
Her diagnosis came after a private physiotherapist she was seeing for chronic back and neck pain told her she ought to have a scan as what she was suffering was not normal.
The scan she paid £330 for in August - just one month after her last NHS scan - revealed cancer in her spine had eaten away at two and a half vertebrae.
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Image by: Simon Galloway
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Image by: Dan Rowlands SWNS
The scan showed the tumours growing on her spine, liver and her stomach, and Gemma was dealt the heartbreaking blow that they were secondary cancer and incurable.
Project manager Gemma said: "I was given the all-clear in January and was having three monthly scans after that.
"At my last scan in July they decided I could now switch to yearly scans.
"I dread to think how bad I would have become waiting another year for a scan."
About her neck and back pain, Gemma said: "I never connected the two.
"I was going to my GP and was getting very strong pain killers but it did not enter my head that it could be anything to do with cancer.
"Unfortunately, nobody else - including a chiropractor and medics at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) A&E - made the connection either or even looked any further to investigate my back pain.
"When I went for private physio care, the pyshiotherapist told me straight away that I ought to go for a scan on my neck to see what was going on - the pain was so severe I had to pick my own head up to get up in the morning.
"He had worked at the LGI in the spinal injuries unit for several years, and he literally saved my life and stopped me being paralysed."
Gemma underwent major surgery at the LGI on her spine, which took seven hours, during which they removed the tumours and collapsed vertebrae and relieved pressure on her spinal cord.
At this stage doctors are unable to give Gemma a prognosis, but it is uncurable.
Gemma will undergo chemotherapy every three weeks from now until the cancer ultimately takes her life.
So far the pain has improved but she has good and bad days.
At the moment her only form of exercise is to go out for walks.
Gemma said: "I am very fit and healthy, I eat well and exercise, I've never smoked and don't drink to excess, sadly I think this possibly went against me as I was ill.
"Even I didn't think this could happen to me."
Gemma, who lives in Leeds, but comes from Bridlington, East Yorks., is now hoping to make a difference to others and show how important it is to have better investigation - and possibly full-body scans - before giving the all-clear.
While she campaigns she is also trying to make the most of her life.
She has got back together with her ex, gym owner Ricky Moore, 39, who she dated for 14 years before breaking up in December 2017.
Gemma's friends Rachael Harrison and Sarah Brown started up a GoFundMe page to raise funds for her to cover rent and day-to-day expenses - and tick off some activities on her bucket list - now she is no longer able to work, which has already raised almost £15,000.
To donate to Gemma's page, visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/fundraising-for-gemma.
To sign Gemma's petition go to: Change.org/fullbodycheck
Dr Yvette Oade, Chief Medical Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said:
“Full body scans are offered to cancer patients where it is appropriate and there is
clinical evidence to support this, in order to assess the patient’s response to
treatment.
"Unfortunately there is never a guarantee, even if there is no evidence of active
disease after treatment, that the cancer will not recur in another area of the body.”
Where have you FIN all my life- Meet the worlds friendliest dolphin who has made best friends for life in both humans and dogs!!
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Meet Jojo - the world's friendliest wild dolphin who has made best friends for life with both humans and dogs!!
Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin Jojo, who lives in the waters of Turks & Caicos, has a rare personality and actively seeks out human interaction.
He will chase his human friends at 'Wake to Wake Watersports' as they whizz past on their surfboards and speedboats - or enjoy a gentle swim with his 'best friend' - eight-year-old cocker spaniel Zyzz.
The heart-warming footage of the playful dolphin was provided by Wake to Wake Watersports, who operate out of Jojo’s home of Turks & Caicos.
Image by: Adam Harnett
Image by: Adam Harnett
Image by: Adam Harnett
Image by: Adam Harnett
Mark De Fraine, on behalf of Wake To Wake, said: "We feel extremely lucky as Jojo seems to love our boat as much as we do!
"We often stop when we see him and he will swim over and look at the bottom of the boat.
“There is a tracking fin on the underside which resembles a dorsal fin and we have found that Jojo seems to really enjoy examining it.
“When we start moving and we kick up a good surfing wave Jojo jumps right in and loves to surf with us!
"On many occasions we bump into him as we are heading out onto the water and he will join in for the ride, or just wants to hang out.
“Jojo has spent time surfing, swimming and even Subwinging with our guests - it’s always an unforgettable experience!”
To keep up to date with all of JoJo's amazing adventures follow @waketowaketc on Instagram
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