#Hair Loss Treatment London

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Choosing the Best Hair Loss Clinic in London: What to Look For

Hair loss is a concern that affects millions of individuals globally, and London is no exception. As one of the world’s most diverse cities, London offers a wide array of clinics specializing in hair restoration treatments.

Finding the right hair loss clinic London can be overwhelming, but by focusing on specific criteria, individuals can ensure they receive the highest quality care and achieve their desired results.

Understanding Hair Loss

Hair loss can occur for various reasons, including genetics, hormonal imbalances, stress, medical conditions, and lifestyle factors. While it is a common issue, each individual’s journey is unique, and the appropriate treatment depends on the underlying cause. Hair restoration clinics offer solutions ranging from non-invasive treatments to advanced surgical procedures, catering to diverse needs.

Key Considerations When Choosing a Hair Loss Clinic in London

1. Expertise and Qualifications

A reputable clinic will have a team of highly qualified professionals, including dermatologists, trichologists, and surgeons. Prospective patients should look for certifications, accreditations, and years of experience that demonstrate the clinic’s expertise. An initial consultation should involve a thorough examination to identify the cause of hair loss and recommend tailored solutions.

2. Range of Treatments Offered

Effective hair restoration requires a variety of treatment options to suit different conditions and preferences. Some of the common treatments to look for include:

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy: A non-invasive treatment that uses the patient’s blood plasma to stimulate hair growth.

Hair Transplants: Procedures such as Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) and Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT).

Scalp Micropigmentation: A cosmetic procedure to replicate the appearance of a fuller head of hair.

Laser Therapy: Low-level laser treatments to encourage hair regrowth.

Prescription Medications: FDA-approved medications like Minoxidil and Finasteride.

A versatile clinic should also provide aftercare support to ensure lasting results.

3. Advanced Technology and Techniques

Modern hair restoration clinics invest in the latest technology and employ innovative techniques to enhance treatment efficacy. Equipment such as precision extraction tools for FUE and advanced imaging systems for scalp analysis can significantly improve outcomes. Clinics that stay updated with the latest industry advancements demonstrate a commitment to providing top-tier care.

4. Positive Patient Reviews

Reading testimonials and online reviews can offer insights into the clinic’s reputation and the quality of its services. Look for reviews that mention successful outcomes, excellent customer service, and professional staff. Authentic before-and-after photos can also provide a realistic expectation of the results.

5. Personalized Consultations

Every individual’s hair loss journey is unique, and a trustworthy clinic will prioritize personalized consultations. During these sessions, patients should receive a thorough scalp analysis, detailed explanations of available treatments, and an opportunity to ask questions. Transparent communication is a hallmark of a reliable clinic.

6. Hygiene and Safety Standards

Maintaining high hygiene and safety standards is non-negotiable. Clinics should adhere to strict protocols to ensure a sterile environment, minimizing the risk of infections and complications. Patients should feel confident in the clinic’s commitment to their health and well-being.

7. Transparent Pricing

Hair restoration treatments can be a significant investment, and clear pricing is essential to avoid unexpected costs. Reputable clinics will provide a detailed breakdown of expenses during the consultation, including treatment costs, aftercare, and any additional fees. Transparency builds trust and ensures patients can make informed decisions.

Why Location Matters

Choosing a clinic in a convenient location can make the treatment process smoother, especially for procedures that require multiple visits. A centrally located hair loss clinic London offers easy accessibility and ensures patients can attend appointments without unnecessary stress.

Common Myths About Hair Loss Treatments

Myth 1: Hair Transplants Are Painful

Modern hair transplant techniques, such as FUE, involve minimal discomfort and use local anesthesia to ensure a pain-free experience.

Myth 2: Only Men Experience Hair Loss

Hair loss affects both men and women. Clinics that specialize in female hair restoration treatments cater to this demographic with customized solutions.

Myth 3: Results Are Immediate

Hair restoration treatments often take time to show visible results. For instance, hair transplants may take several months for new hair to grow.

Benefits of Choosing the Right Hair Loss Clinic

Selecting the best clinic can lead to numerous benefits, including:

Customized Treatment Plans: Tailored solutions for optimal results.

Professional Guidance: Access to experienced specialists who guide patients throughout the journey.

Improved Confidence: Restoring hair can significantly boost self-esteem and quality of life.

Taking the First Step

Embarking on a hair restoration journey begins with research and consultation. By considering factors such as expertise, technology, and patient reviews, individuals can confidently select a clinic that meets their needs. Taking the time to evaluate options ensures a positive experience and long-lasting results.

Conclusion

Finding the right hair loss clinic London is a crucial step toward restoring hair and confidence. By prioritizing expertise, treatment options, and patient care, individuals can achieve their desired outcomes. For those seeking exceptional hair restoration services, Este Medical Group offers a range of advanced treatments tailored to individual needs.

Explore their offerings and book a consultation today to begin your journey toward healthier, fuller hair.

Visit them at Este Medical Group to learn more.

[shumailia]

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[hairgrowthcentre]

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Pharma Aesthetics: Redefining Beauty with Fine Line Wrinkles Treatment

Our Fine line Wrinkles Treatment is designed to address the delicate areas where fine lines tend to form, such as around the eyes, mouth, and forehead. Looking for effective smoothing of fine lines around the lips, eyes, or face? Our aesthetic clinic offers injectable dermal fillers specifically formulated to treat these delicate wrinkles. Our experienced doctor will create a customized treatment plan for you using the latest safe dermal filler technology. For more details, kindly visit us at https://pharma-aesthetics.co.uk/fine-line-age-wrinkles/

[nationalnewstoday]

Are you considering a professional FUE hair transplant? Discover everything you need to know in this comprehensive guide. From understanding the procedure and its benefits to finding the right clinic, we cover it all. Learn about the latest advancements in FUE technology and how it ensures natural-looking results. Explore real patient stories and testimonials that showcase life-changing transformations. Whether you're combating hair loss or enhancing your look, this guide equips you with essential insights for making informed decisions. Embrace a new chapter with professional FUE hair transplants today.

[allgirlsareprincesses]

Love At First Sight (2023)

Okay, we’re going to talk about the new Netflix romance directed by Vanessa Caswill, Love At First Sight, because I’m seeing almost no chatter about it and that cannot stand. Full disclosure, I’ve never read the book on which this movie is based, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, so I’m reacting only to the film (which I’ve now seen 4.5 times in 2 days).

The Surface Reading

It’s a perfect, tight, adorable little RomCom that’s heavy on the Rom and light on the Com, with a wrenching dash of angst and the most hair-twirling chemistry between two leads that has graced our screens in years. Truly, if all you want is 90 minutes of two actors being saccharine precious cinnamon rolls, look no further!

There are simple takeaways here, like that chance can only take you so far, but in the end you have to choose to love. Or that change and loss are part of life and you can’t run from them. Or that London is a massive labyrinth of eccentric people that probably looks 400% cooler onscreen than it is in reality (I wouldn’t know, I’ve never visited, so this and the 90s Parent Trap are the extent of my knowledge about the city, sorry).

Anyway, I adored how straightforward the story was - that the narrator (played brilliantly by Jameela Jamil) tells you directly in the first two minutes that it’s a story about love, fate, and statistics. She then repeatedly describes every development as it is happening, the characters’ histories and internal monologues, and all the context you need to follow the thin but fast-paced plot. The writing, performances, and production design are all solid, allowing the audience to get lost in the romance as it unfolds.

BUT if you’re slightly unhinged like I am and you’re always looking for more layers in your media, HAVE NO FEAR! There is in fact more going on in this little movie than you might expect.

Color Theory

For starters, the use of red and green in the film is fascinating. Yes, I realize the action of the story takes place a few days before Christmas, so you might assume it was just a seasonal aesthetic choice, but if you look closer, you can see very carefully selected shades of red and green repeating throughout the film. The red is a cool, deep rose color, sometimes pink, while the green is cool and dark, like oxidized bronze rather than emerald. Further, while they appear over and over, these hues are rarely used in a purely decorative or festive way. Instead, they play a role in the separation and coming together of the couple. On a color wheel, red and green are complements, perfect opposites that are never adjacent but always joined in the middle.

The title card during Hadley’s introduction is literally a green stripe over a red stripe, then the hallways of the airport are green, and of course Hadley’s ever-important backpack is a rosy red. As the couple grow closer on their flight, the light turns pink. Once in London, a green van takes Oliver one way while a red taxi takes Hadley the other. At her father’s wedding, Hadley is dressed in red (“the color of a bruise” she calls it), contrasting beautifully against her green jacket. Upon realizing Oliver’s true purpose, she chases after him on an iconic red double-decker bus. Meanwhile at the living memorial, Oliver’s father is dressed in red while his mother wears a faded green, as if to say she is already beginning to fade away. The event is decorated with green drapery and streamers, and there are even stacks of red and green chairs in the stairwell where Oliver begs his mother to receive treatment.

Hadley gifts her red and green bouquet to Tessa, and when she is driven away, a green-clad narrator returns the red backpack to Oliver. Wandering London alone, Hadley exchanges her painful red heels for a pair of green trainers (“sneakers!” she insists), and tries to call her dad first in a red phone booth and then on a phone from a stranger sitting in a cluster of red chairs. Finally, Oliver chooses to pursue Hadley to the wedding reception which is lit in pink, and where they finally share the long-awaited kiss.

There are many more examples, but in general we see that green indicates separation and loss, while red symbolizes joining, intimacy, and (what else?) love! It lends the film a gorgeous, subtle aesthetic without being garishly festive, and shows the lovers’ emotional journey from lonely childhood to vulnerable, loving adulthood.

Death and Rebirth

Speaking of which, there’s plenty of rebirth imagery too! When Hadley and Oliver meet, they are both still children, struggling with the impending loss of parental security through divorce and death. Thus, when they board the plane, it is as if they enter an underworld or womb, separated from their families and remade as new adults. They emerge on the other side into a hallway (read: birth canal), as each must still confront their own dying childhood before they can join as full and equal partners. Hadley journeys to a bright, red-strewn celebration of life, while Oliver must enter a dark green commemoration of death, his fear driving him deeper to hide in another hallway. Here his mother comes to find him, begging him to emerge into life, but Ollie still can’t confront her death alone.

Thankfully, Hadley travels to this underworld to find him, bursting into the memorial like a bright red flower. Even the bruise metaphor works, acknowledging the pain they are both experiencing at the changes in their lives. But Oliver still refuses to face his fears, trying to take a shortcut around death to life with Hadley. Still, she knows he’s not ready (likely because she’s not yet, either), and gently pushes back. And so, Oliver returns to the underworld, and Hadley walks off alone until she descends barefoot through a soggy riverside tunnel (birth canal again!). Finally, she calls her father and admits she is “lost.” When he arrives, Hadley at last gathers the courage to ask why he ended their old life, and to tell him how much it hurt her. But as Oliver predicted, she forgives her dad and even begins to accept his new bride.

Back at the memorial, Oliver is reminded by Hadley’s red backpack - his unaddressed emotional baggage - to be honest about his pain. In at last openly mourning his mother and his own childhood, Ollie takes a step into adulthood, just enough for his family to nudge him that extra bit to go after Hadley. And so, the family delivers him to his bride, who has meanwhile learned to dance again, even through her heartbreak. With one last confession, the two consummate their love with a kiss, bathed in pink light before an open door.

Happily Ever After

There’s so much more, with the hand-holding, numbers, Shakespeare, Dickens, the music, and beyond, but the point is that this cute, charming little romance is actually very deliberately constructed. It follows timeless patterns and motifs which we instinctively understand through visual and auditory language. And the narration plays a huge role in this as well, not unlike the prologues and epilogues of the Bard’s plays in that they state the story’s lessons plainly: that we cannot always be prepared for unwelcome surprises, but that we can make the choice to love every day.

Anyway, Vanessa Caswill deserves all the flowers and if you haven’t seen her gorgeous adaptation of Little Women (with all due respect to the marvelous Greta Gerwig and Gillian Armstrong), please do yourself a favor and watch that after you finish this!

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

The Royal Family’s Apology for their treatment of Meghan Markle:

I’m sorry we spent £32 million on your heavily promoted wedding 

I’m sorry The King stepped in to walk you down the aisle 

I’m sorry we spent £1 million on your first-year wardrobe 

I’m sorry you only undertook 72 days of royal work

I’m sorry we gifted you and your husband the titles of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Earl and Countess of Dumbarton and Baron and Baroness Kilkeel

I’m sorry we spent £4 million-a-year on your security

I’m sorry we hid your alarmingly shady past from the public 

I’m sorry we covered up your rampant bullying of young professional women and then covered up the results of the bullying investigation in order to protect you

I’m sorry we gifted you an 11-room house on the Windsor estate, for free

I’m sorry we footed the £3.2 million bill to renovate your house to your liking

I’m sorry we granted you the honour of marrying in the historic Royal Chapel at Windsor Castle

I’m sorry we gave you your own independent team of staff

I’m sorry we appointed you your own adviser and assistant to make the transition to royal easier

I’m sorry you were the first girlfriend to be invited to spend Christmas at Sandringham with Queen Elizabeth II and family

I’m sorry The Queen invited you to a theatre charity less than four weeks after marrying H - the earliest ever joint engagement with The Queen

I’m sorry we invited you to the funeral of the longest-serving monarch in British history after you continued to slander everything she ever worked for in multiple interviews and podcasts

I’m sorry we granted you, an American, your own coat of arms from the 500-year-old College of Arms

I’m sorry we didn’t silence you by making you sign any NDAs, allowing you to sign multi-million-dollar deals for books, interviews and podcasts

I’m sorry we’re the reason George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey and Elton John pretended to like you

I’m sorry we gave you the opportunity to co-write a cookbook, guest edit British Vogue, and ‘curate’ your own fashion capsule. 

I’m sorry we advised you twice not to wear those blood diamonds gifted by Jamal Khashoggi’s murderer

I’m sorry our support made you feel emboldened to behave appallingly towards staff and ticket-holders at Wimbledon

I’m sorry your behaviour on the Oceania tour angered your hosts and we covered it up by encouraging positive coverage from the press

I’m sorry we invited you to The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee after you’d called us all racist abusers on international television

I’m sorry we thought you’d like to be patron of the UK’s National Theatre, we didn’t realise you’re not interested in the theatre

I’m sorry nobody stopped you from wearing a maternity coat and announcing your 8-week pregnancy at the wedding of your husband’s cousin

I’m sorry you publicly announced your first pregnancy on Infant Loss Awareness Day

I’m sorry we lied to the press about the existence of the nude pictures you took of yourself, easily available on the internet

I’m sorry we let you live free-of-charge in a two-bedroom London property while the free five-bedroom country house we gave you was renovated

I’m sorry we introduced you to world leaders, high-ranking officials and A-list celebrities

I’m sorry we helped perpetuate your lie that your degree was in ‘international relations and theatre’ and not ‘communications’

I’m sorry for all the jewellery we gifted you, including a pair of expensive pearl earrings from Queen Elizabeth II

I’m sorry we helped perpetuate your lie that you worked at the US Embassy in Argentina for several months instead of attending classes at the Embassy school organised by the uncle you didn’t invite to the wedding

I’m sorry we loaned you the use of a historic diamond-encrusted tiara

I’m sorry we took an interest in what colour your future yet-to-be-conceived baby’s hair would be

I’m sorry we permitted you to only allow American press to the unveiling of your first child in Windsor Castle, as requested, instead of British press 

I’m sorry we helped cover up that you worked with the authors of Finding Freedom

I’m sorry for allowing you to keep all those freebies you’re definitely not allowed to keep

I’m sorry your husband, a prince, didn’t explain how to courtesy to The Queen 

I’m sorry we acquiesced to you inviting celebrities you’d never met before to your wedding

I’m sorry we didn’t clamp down on you monetising your official royal engagements

I’m sorry we respected your boundaries by not hugging on first meeting

I’m sorry we allowed you to mistakenly believe you were more popular than Catherine and William

I’m sorry for providing a team of highly-trained, expensive doctors at your disposal

I’m sorry we funded a household staff of cooks, cleaners and nannies for you

I’m sorry nobody asked if you’re okay.

So sorry about all that.

😂😂😂😂

[logically-asexual]

okay hear me out.

after hawkmoth is defeated luka and his family can stay in one place again, so jagged and penny decide to go to london, and luka and juleka stay with them over the summer. jagged has a new album because his tour around the world inspired him a lot and he’s been doing a few concerts to promote it. there’s an after party for one of them and a bunch of cool celebrities are invited, including audrey bourgeois.

she was planning to just show up for a couple pictures, she had a new dress she wanted to show off or something, but chloe hadn’t stopped clinging to her all night complaining about her struggles with school*, and she followed her all the way to the party. once there, before the cameras are all on them, she finally gets fed up and tells chloe to get lost.

(*amongst the chaos of her dictatorship, the school year ended and she managed to use her power to get her middle school diploma, but now she had to get into high school and even with her money she still had to make it through admission paperwork and exams that her parents refused to help her with)

so chloe, once again heartbroken by her mom’s treatment, runs and finds somewhere to hide in the huge mansion where the party is happening. she is in a corner on some patio or terrace crying in silence when luka finds her. he sits next to her and asks her what’s wrong. at first chloe is defensive like “it’s none of your business, get away from me.” with her face still hidden. and luka being luka is like “chloe, right? i can feel your inner tune is overpowered by too much noise coming from every direction at once and not letting it find its way.”

“i told you to get away you little—“ she finally looks up and upon seeing his face she stops and finds herself unable to think of an insult, so she says “ugh, you might be cute even with those old rags but you still have no right speaking to me!”

so luka just smiles at her and asks if he can sit in silence then. which leaves chloe at a loss for words and in the end she just nods and turns back to face away from him. they stay like that for a while, with chloe sniffling and wiping away tears every once in a while. later she checks her phone and sighs because she has no calls or messages.

luka sees and says something like "you know, i'm glad that you're here. these events can get kind of lonely. it's weird to have all these strangers in the house all night, and my dad is always busy trying to keep them entertained ... don't get me wrong, it's really cool that he's a rockstar but. he's so famous and amazing that sometimes it's easy to feel lost under his shadow. and he was away for so long, it's hard to--"

he hesitates to continue so chloe, finally looking at him, says "it's okay. i know exactly what you mean."

luka smiles at her and it's like he's radiating calmness, enough for her to forget everything that had made her angry that day. he moves his guitar from his back to hold it in place and asks her what kind of music she likes. she's like "uh.. XY?"

"come on, you really like his music?"

"i mean his hair is SO cute, and the way he dances on stage and--"

"no, i didn't say the artist. what do you think about the music?"

she stops to think. "i don't know.. i don't pay that much attention to it, i guess. it's.. kind of boring. but who am i to judge, i was never able to play that utterly useless flute my daddy got for me once, it sounded like a caged bird with asthma. although, at least that would probably be more entertaining.."

luka laughs at that. "that's the spirit." and then "come on, let's find your sound."

..

and they spend the next hours there talking, and find that they're so different yet,, chloe feels so at peace with him in a way she hadn't in.. she can't even remember when she felt so calm. and luka can see that there's a hidden side of chloe that dares to peak out when she's feeling comfortable and that he likes and wants to see more of. and he doesnt immediately forget everything she's done to marinette and juleka and the rest of their class, but he sees hope in her, maybe he can be there for her now as she starts over.

[finalgirlkateausten]

³⁸⁾ familiar cologne and a black eye

you know how much i love a good baby fic Reveal™️... this is like, the second part of the Reveal™️. Ashley has seen Declan exactly once since she found out she was pregnant, but she hasn't told him anything. He's been on the surface, struggling to stay above water with all the pressure put on the London Sanctuary, and she's been benched ever since Helen discovered she would be having twins. Ashley is 21 weeks along here!

Ashley taps her foot, huffing as the elevator slides up from the sublevels to the above-ground-- as it were-- building of the Hollow Earth Sanctuary. The kids always seem to sense when she's stressed or worked up, and one of them is kicking now, or maybe doing a backflip. Their movements are getting more intense every day, and she's already bracing herself for the day when both of them gang up on her.

Her strides are shorter than she would like as she finally exits the elevator and beelines for her mother's office, opening the door without knocking. "Mom, I get why you wanted your office all the way on the top floor, but really, didja have to put tactical comms so far in the basement?" A familiar scent fills her nose, and she turns reflexively-- cologne and the like bothers her more these days, but this one smells warm. Her mouth is too busy for her mind to present the memories she's reminded of as she turns. "We've got some new friends that our scouts are saying might be Jeholodens abyssinicus maybe? And I think our last Sanctuaries that had specimens of them fell last year, but they're new to Hollow Earth, and they're messing up--" But halfway through her sentence, her brain catches up to her eyes. "Declan?"

He's standing there gaping at her, and well, yeah, she looks a little different than the last time they saw each other, but hey, so does he. His hair is nearly buzzed right now, must've just been cut, and she can't help but think that she likes it better when it's softer. He's standing at attention like he always does when they're in deep shit, not quite looking her in the eye. He's marred with bruises, one of his wrists swollen, a deep gash that the Jeholodens relative is probably responsible for on his calf. He's got a nasty black eye, but she doesn't think that's the reason his eyes are watering right now.

"Ash," he says, his voice quiet. "Long time, no see."

"Um." She swallows, sure she's turning bright red. "Yeah."

"You're looking... well."

It's probably the nicest thing he can manage right now. Acid crawls up her throat, even though she usually only gets heartburn right after a meal. What is he doing here?

She opens her mouth to ask that exact question, only to be interrupted by her mom clearing her throat. "Declan, I'm going to send a containment team to keep our new friends from sending the biome they've entered into disarray. You need to get to the infirmary to have that leg debrided... and find some antibiotics."

"I'll live," Declan argues. "My team should've been able to recapture them before they made it this far. I won't see any more loss of life without trying to intervene."

Helen fixes him with a severe look that has Ashley wincing even though she isn't the target. "You've done your part," she says flatly. "You've got a serious injury, which makes you a liability. Get treatment-- I have other people who can handle this." She stands and moves from behind her desk. "Ashley?" she asks neutrally, inclining her head.

Ashley gulps, wondering if she could escape that hawk-like stare with an excuse about a bathroom trip. One of the kids is definitely mauling her kidney right now, anyway.

"Is it too much to hope you're going to ask me to lead the containment team?"

Her mom laughs as Declan slinks out the door, but the smile fades quickly. Ashley goes ahead and lowers herself to a seat on the sofa, cradling her belly.

Her mom raises an eyebrow, and she's pretty sure she's done for.

[shumailia]

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[scotianostra]

The actress, singer, and X Factor contestant Kerry McGregor was born on October 30th 1974.

Kerry had an extraordinary life of triumph over tragedy with so many people describing her attitude as an inspiration to us all. Kerry’s first set back was the loss of her father George, who died in a road traffic accident when she was just 5 years old. Kerry was raised by adoring and single mum Margaret.

She was a budding gymnast, identified to compete at national level but when aged 13, Kerry suffered a broken back, when she fell from a tree, resulting in incomplete paralysis from the waist down. Kerry attended West Calder High School and at that time, the authorities told her, she would need to attend a special school.

Through sheer determination, proving the experts wrong, Kerry defied the odds and crammed all the physiotherapy of 2 years into just 6 weeks. Kerry developed her upper body strength and by using leg braces and crutches alone, Kerry showed she could make her way around the school and was permitted to remain in mainstream schooling. The following year, Kerry won the UK Child Achievement Award and described it as her “proudest moment”.

Kerry continued on crutches for as long as she could and developed her passion for the Arts. Furthering her education and dream of becoming a recording artist, she attended Jewel and Esk Valley College, in Edinburgh and learned her trade. From 1993, Kerry formed various bands and recorded albums which were minor hits. She was talent-spotted by Kenny MacDonald (manager of The Proclaimers) and in 1997, recorded an entry to the Eurovision Song Contest that was runner up in the UK competition. Kerry had also found fame as an actress, in both theatre and on screen, appearing in BBC1’s Grange Hill and Channel 4’s The Book Group. Kerry’s desire to lead a normal life while getting results continued, exposing the stereotypes associated with disability.

It was as a contestant in The X Factor TV show where Kerry was to capture the hearts of millions. Mentored by Sharon Osbourne Kerry reached the final 10, featuring weekly on the live shows in the memorable year Leona Lewis won the show. After the show, Kerry continued to perform sell out shows and managed to juggle being a singer-songwriter and mum to Joshua and loving partner to Dean Robertson. Kerry used her popularity and celebrity status at every opportunity to drive media attention for those affected by disability, giving hope and inspiration to millions. She worked with several charities representing women, children and the disabled including; Spinal Injuries Association, Voluntary Sector Gateway, Leonard Cheshire Disability, CLIC Sargent and many others.

Kerry’s achievements and attitude made her the perfect role model and obvious candidate for many events associated with various disabilities. However, in September 2010, after a long period of feeling unwell, Kerry was diagnosed with bladder cancer. She underwent extensive treatment but continued to support and raise awareness for a number of charities and also develop her own projects. She was appointed Ambassador to the UK’s first charity dedicated to fighting bladder cancer, Action for Bladder Cancer (ABC). Despite losing her trademark long blonde hair and the treatment almost leaving her deaf, she also continued writing and recording.

Kerry had been supported to perform at the opening ceremony for 2012 London Paralympics Games and was also set to record a charity duet with superstar and fellow West Lothian lass, Susan Boyle, who had paid tribute to Kerry in her book as her inspiration to go on the hit TV show Britain’s Got Talent but sadly Kerry’s health quickly deteriorated and on 4th January 2012, she passed away at her home aged just 37.

Kerry’s funeral took place on Tuesday 10th January, near to her home in West Lothian. Police closed off roads as hundreds of friends and fans attended to pay their respects to a truly inspirational but humble lady, who was loved by so many