Michele CrossBbc South

A charity has helped a mum of three pay the mortgage after she was diagnosed with cancer. The Dorset Cancer Care Foundation (DCCF) provides financial assistance to Dorset residents and their families who are struggling with money due to cancer. It paid the mortgage of Sam Funnel, who had just given birth to her third child when she learnt she had breast cancer. Mrs Funnel said the charity kept a roof over her family's heads.

A woman who had her eggs frozen wants to "remove the shame" surrounding it among the Asian community. Kohinoor Sahota said she made the decision after being made redundant and becoming single during the pandemic. "I felt like I wasn't just mourning the loss of a partner but the loss of a potential family", she said.

A child therapist in the south of England is calling for more understanding of and its wider impacts. Lucy Nathanson is a specialist on selective mutism and is on a mission to raise awareness of the issue. The condition affects one in every 140 children. Ms Nathanson said that it could be overcome and children needed help "to do that tiny little step more than they could in the past".