It seems as though Hannah has fought against the odds all of her life. When she was born - a mere scrap at little over 4lbs - she was all legs and feet (in fact when her uncle Clive first saw her at the hospital he called her ‘Skippy’).

Looking back she was like a leggy foal who turned into a beautiful thoroughbred. An apt description of her considering her lifelong passion for horses.  more

Kyle Thompson
My darling grandson, Kyle, died suddenly and unexpectedly on the 15th April 2008 just four days before his 14th birthday on the 19th April 2008.  Kyle collapsed while playing out in a children’s park just in front of his mother’s home (on a very steep hill near Sowerby Bridge, Halifax). 

Kyle’s mother, my only child Sarah, and Kyle, my only grandchild, had just been living back together for one year.   Due to unforeseen circumstances Kyle had been living with my partner Julian and I from being 6 years old up until the age of 12 when he returned to live with his mother.

My daughter and her partner rang us on Tuesday 15th April to say they were in an ambulance on the way to the hospital and that Kyle had collapsed earlier in the park.  more

Matthew Bailey
It was a Monday towards the end of September 2004, our W.I. evening.  We had a speaker coming who used to live locally, but who had moved to Edinburgh and was coming all the way down to be with us.  Consequently, we were making it a “special evening”, and I was busy preparing my share of the food.  The telephone rang. “May I borrow your car, please?”

“Well, yes, Paul, if your need is greater than mine.”

It transpired that Paul, my son-in-law and a farmer, had taken a call on his mobile from Woodruffe School, to say that Matthew, his eldest son, had had an accident and had been airlifted to the Devon and Exeter General Hospital.  more