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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper (3rd November, 2025)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The death of my beautiful daughter</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (February 8th, 2025) My daughter Iona was born 32 years ago. She arrived at home, in such a rush to enter the world [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (4th July, 2023) My daughter is lovely. She has learning disabilities and a life-threatening health condition, however, so my family is reliant on a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (30h December, 2020) This is a note to the woman I passed a few weeks ago on the street. But it could also [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (15th October, 2019) I was one of those strange kids who was always interested in politics, almost as a spectator sport, learning the names of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (26th September, 2018) My daughter Iona had a seizure at 5am yesterday. Her eyes rolled, she screamed, her limbs flailed and her body [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (7th May, 2018) On Friday morning, as the nation woke up to local election results, a report was slipped out by the National [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Telegraph (2nd December, 2017) Theresa May wants to get a million more people with disabilities into work over the next decade, pledging to tinker with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th November, 2017) I came downstairs to find my wife looking dismayed and frazzled. One of the team caring for our disabled [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2017) At the centre of the Charlie Gard  story, which has captured global attention, is one simple thing: the tragedy of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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