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Sunbed cancer will kill me in 8 weeks but I’m smiling for kids’ sake

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FLICKING through the Center Parcs brochure, Louise Cook happily plans to whisk her three lively kids away. She knows Summer, six, Mason, four, and Chloe, 18 months, will have the time of their lives. But at just 27, Louise faces the heartbreak that the trip will provide some of their last shared memories. Louise has cancer and has been given just eight weeks to live after using sunbeds three times a week for two years. The brave mum says: “I was young and naive and will pay for that with my life. But I refuse to let cancer define our lives while I’m still here.  I’ll keep happy for my babies, they make me smile every day.” Now, as Louise prepares for her children to grow up without a mum, she is desperate for Sun readers to be aware of the dangers of sunbeds. Louise, who is married to Martyn Cook, 25, was diagnosed with malignant melanoma when she was nine weeks pregnant with their daughter, Chloe. Just 15 weeks later she was told the cancer ...

People blame Muslims for the end of topless models on Page 3

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The Sun stops publishing topless models on Page 3 – it must be due to Muslims and ‘creeping sharia law’ in the UK, right? Wrong. But that fact hasn’t stopped bigots on Twitter suggesting that Islam might be responsible for the paper’s decision to stop publishing topless models. Today’s edition of sister paper The Times stated that the paper ‘Understands that Friday’s edition of the paper was the last that will carry an image of a glamour model with bare breasts on that page’. It’s worth noting that The Sun has replaced topless models with scantily clad TV starlets wearing bikinis, which would be equally unpopular under many interpretations of sharia law. Warning: extreme stupidity lies ahead… So @rupertmurdoch ,you've dropped topless page 3 girls from your rag the Sun.Will you announce your conversion to Islam now? #CreepingSharia — Lucy Buttercup (@MissLButtercup) January 20, 2015 No more page 3 girls Islam agen ? — daft lad (@peterberry225) January 20,...