Rhiannon Edwards

On 20 June 2021, Rhi gave birth to a beautiful baby girl Hendrix Lake and fell head over heels in love. Rhi and Danny spent their days racing each other to her room to see her in the morning and couldn’t believe how much joy she brought to their lives. Four months after she gave birth, Rhi booked a colonoscopy, only to receive devastating news. Her ongoing symptoms were due to stage 3 bowel cancer. What doctors had said was a haemorrhoid was actually a 5cm tumour in her rectum.

Schools are responsible for their own budgets, and musical instrument lessons that were traditionally subsidised by councils have been cut down in some districts. Now, the Musicians' Union has found that children living in the poorest areas are no longer getting the exposure to music and the arts that they so often only get in school. With parents being asked to subside instrument lessons, 41% of low-income families have said that they cannot do so due to their limited household budget.