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Passengers demand a full refund as Asia cruise misses out key stops 

Hundreds of angry passengers are demanding a full refund from Norwegian Cruise Line after its tour of South-East Asia on its Jade cruise ship visited only 2 out of 7 planned stops.




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What are your rights if you've already booked a holiday in 2020?

Holidaymakers have been told to avoid all but essential travel outside of Britain for 30 days. It means many Easter plans that were already looking precarious are now off the table entirely.




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Coronavirus could change our holidays for a long time, says Lee Boyce

Forecasts predict a 28% reduction in global tourism in 2020, costing the global economy £2trillion, but the more long-lasting change could be to our holiday habits




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Battle to get your holiday cash back as travel shuts down

Marian and John Vessey, face losing vast sums for nothing after being refused a refund for a £381 hotel booking while John and Gillie Coghlan had been due to tour Amsterdam.




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Why can't I get a cash refund online from BA or Easyjet?

Easyjet and BA passengers have been particularly annoyed after the airlines removed the option of a cash refund from their websites recently.




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Travel firms charging MORE to rebook Covid-19 hit holidays

Millions have had holidays ruined after the virus outbreak sent the world into lockdown. Newlyweds Ricky and Victoria Lipman were told they must pay an extra £750 to rebook their dream honeymoon.




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Tourists confused over cover as government extends travel advice

The Foreign Office had previously advised against all non-essential global travel until April 16. This meant holidaymakers booked for travel before that date were legally entitled to claim refunds




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Passengers fuming in struggle for cancelled flight refunds

Passengers are discovering that airlines have pulled their online cash refund option and are instead pushing them to take vouchers or swap flights instead.




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Refund help for holidaymakers with trips cancelled due to coronavirus

We have been inundated with letters asking for help regarding getting money back. Many holidaymakers are being left thousands of pounds out of pocket after being refused refunds they are legally entitled to.




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What are your rights if you booked your holiday through a third party booking site?

Most customers which used a third party booking site are being offered a voucher which they can redeem on the site in the future or the chance to rebook their flights for an alternative date.




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I have only paid the deposit for an upcoming trip. Should I cancel now or pay the £1,600? 

We have a 10 day trip booked at the end of May to Corfu and so far, I have only paid the deposit. Should we cancel the trip or not do anything and hope that we'll still be able to go, or something else?




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EasyJet now offering travellers online refunds in U-turn after customer complaints

The airline has come under intense pressure from customers in the past few weeks to bring back the online form, which was only removed after most of its flights were cancelled due to the coronavirus.




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We reveal what protection is available to you if you book a holiday now

For those who have decided to book a holiday for a future date, there will be some hurdles to overcome, as many of the top insurers have stopped selling new travel insurance policies.




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The £7bn coronavirus holiday refund rip-off

Hundreds of readers have contacted us to complain major airlines are illegally withholding refunds that should be paid in a week.




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No refunds for Sykes Holiday Cottages booked in lockdown

The firm, which has more than 10,000 cottages on its books, instead wants customers to rebook the same property for a later date - and potentially be charged more.




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Beth Chapman dead at 51: Dog the Bounty Hunter loses his wife after cancer battle

News of her death was shared by her husband Duane Dog Chapman, who launched to fame alongside his wife on the popular reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter.




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Dog the Bounty Hunter breaks down as he describes wife Beth's last words before her death

Speaking outside his home in Hawaii on Wednesday afternoon, Chapman held back tears as he told of how he held Beth and called out Jesus' name as she asked him to repeat it again and again.




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IVF woman fearing cancer found her 'mum' is not her biological mother

Robyn Ranford, 22, (right) from London, lost her mother to breast cancer (pictured together left). Her father told her not to worry about any hereditary risk as her 'mum' was not her biological mother.




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Mom, 39, loses battle with cancer after she pens heartbreaking letter to her insurer

Erika Zak lost her battle with colon cancer, even when a much-needed liver transplant had just come through to try and save her life. Her death came after she spent the last five years battling the cancer.




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Kaftan queen Camilla Franks, 42, will have to remove her ovaries

Australian fashion designer Camilla Franks will have her ovaries removed after being diagnosed with stage three breast cancer just months after giving birth to her daughter in 2018.




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Designer Camilla Franks reflects on her stage three breast cancer journey one year after treatment

Australian fashion designer Camilla Franks posted a series of emotional photos to commemorate finishing treatment for stage three breast cancer a year ago, as she prepares to have her ovaries removed.




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Dad's 'sun spot' is a melanoma: doctors remove MASSIVE chunk of skin

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The 37-year-old Perth father had a 40cm chunk of his neck gauged out (pictured) in an effort to remove deadly melanoma.




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Mother avoided bond with newborn when diagnosed with terminal cancer

Hannah Toohill, from Dingwall in Scotland, began experiencing crippling back and chest pain four months into her pregnancy before she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.




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Father-of-six, 33, marries just before dying from lung cancer

Gary Smart told staff at Northampton General Hospital that he wanted to die a married man after doctors gave the father of six just days to live when they diagnosed his terminal lung cancer.




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Bill Turnbull changed diet and gave up alcohol after cancer diagnosis

Bill Turnbull has revealed he is feeling 'remarkably well' after being diagnosed with an advanced form of prostate cancer in November 2017.




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Woman found 'spot' on end of her nose was actually CANCER

Mandy Pollard, from Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, first noticed the mark on the tip of her nose two years ago. She only decided to seek medical advice when it became bigger.




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Coffey Anderson's wife's stage 4 colon cancer has spread

Mom-of-three Criscilla was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2018. She was told in the last few weeks that the disease has now spread. She pictured with her husband main and kids inset.




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Val Kilmer in high spirits in LA despite throat cancer battle

Val Kilmer, 59, hammed it up for the camera while hosting artist Tamie Adaya's GLAM Art Exhibition at his HelMel studio in Los Angeles on Saturday.




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Ex-Corrie star Gray O'Brien shares battle with stage four cancer

The actor, 51, revealed he's been secretly battling stage four tonsil cancer, and shared his delight over completing his treatment by ringing a bell in hospital in a clip posted to Twitter on Monday.




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Schamroth window: Simple finger test that 'can reveal cancer'

People should see a diamond-shaped gap between their nailbeds when they hold their forefingers back-to-back, and people whose fingers fit flat against one another may have clubbed fingers.




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Nutritionist shares signs she missed before cancer diagnosis

Kate Callaghan from New Zealand was diagnosed with breast cancer two weeks ago. The mum, 35, wasn't tested when she first visited doctors because they thought she was 'too healthy'.




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Fashion blogger and model Mama Cax, 30, dies suddenly

Stars including model Iskra Lawrence and actress Jameela Jamil have taken to social media to pay homage to Mama Cax, whose real name is Cacsmy Brutus, after she passed away on Monday.




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Cancer-stricken woman's only stem cell match was murdered son

Tania Morris (pictured) from Staffordshire fears this Christmas could be her last after she was struck down with Hodgkin Lymphoma a year ago and has been unable to find a donor.




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Twin, 25, loses brother to brain cancer after two-day headache

Ashan Corrick, 25, from Filton, Bristol, was diagnosed with brain cancer at Southmead Hospital on August 17, after suffering a headache for just two days. He died on December 17.




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Five-inch HORN removed from man's back was skin cancer

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: The horn was the result of a common cancer called a squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Doctors in Chester removed it and covered the hole with a skin graft.




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How your height can show your risk of cancer and heart disease

The size of various parts of our body is now known to provide clues about whether we're at risk from a range of diseases, including gout, high blood pressure, heart disease and even cancer.




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Curcumin compound in turmeric could help beat CANCER

Researchers from Temple University in Philadelphia analysed almost 5,000 studies and found that curcumin interfered with the growth of eight types of cancers under laboratory settings.




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New artificial intelligence finds breast tumours that doctors miss

A computer algorithm developed by British and U.S. scientists can help diagnose breast cancer more accurately than trained doctors, according to new research.




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'Cancer cluster' fears as six residents of street develop tumours

Taylor Wind, 19, is one of 191 people in Mooresville, North Carolina, who were diagnosed with thyroid cancer between 2012 and 2016. which her mother believes is linked to coal ash from a nearby plant.




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Cancer breakthrough: tumour-killing cells can now be activated

Doctors in the UK have for years been using CAR T-cell therapy to make some immune cells directly target tumour cells in blood cancer patients. But exactly how this process worked was a mystery.




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Prozac Nation author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies from cancer at 52

Elizabeth Wurtzel, the author of the acclaimed memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, has died at the age of 52 following a long battle with breast cancer.




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Wife speaks out and says 'we're stronger than ever' after flesh-eating bug devours husband's penis

Andrew Lane, 65, from Essex contracted necrotising fasciitis during surgery in 2013, but speaking to Take a Break magazine, his wife insists their relationship has not suffered.




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Leah Bracknell's widower tries to rebuild his life after her death

Posting an emotional update on Facebook Jez Hughes, 46, wrote that he had never imagined he would become a widower at such a young age. Jez lost his wife to cancer in October, who was just 55.




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Shannen Doherty reveals she has stage IV cancer

The actress appeared on Good Morning America on Tuesday morning to share her condition. She said she wanted to make it public before it emerged in court documents this week.




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Shannen Doherty on why terminal cancer diagnosis was secret

In the second part of her interview that aired on Wednesday, Doherty said she kept it secret for so long because she did not people to look at her and think 'dead man walking'.




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Gay and bisexual men 'more likely to suffer skin cancer'

Rates of skin cancer were 8.1 - 8.4 per cent among gay and bisexual men compared to 6.7 for straight men in a group of more than 45,000 Americans.




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Queen of Katwe's Nikita Pearl Waligwa, 15, dies of brain cancer

Nikita Pearl played Gloria in the film - also starring Lupita Nyong'o - about a chess prodigy from a Ugandan slum. She died at hospital in Naalya, Kampala, last night, Ugandan media reports.




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Lupita Nyong'o shares her 'great sadness' at death of Queen Of Katwe co-star Nikita Waligwa, 15

Lupita wrote: 'In her real life she had the enormous challenge of battling brain cancer. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and community as they come to terms with having to say goodbye so soon.'




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Dame Julie Walters, 69, says she had stage three bowel cancer

She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire she was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer just 18 months ago after two primary tumours were discovered in her large intestine. 




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FDNY firefighter dies from cancer linked to 9/11 rescue work

FDNY firefighter Danny Foley, 46, died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer linked to his rescue work after the 9/11 attacks. Danny spent 11 days searching for his brother Tommy in the rubble.