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Aletter rack donated to a Cardiff charity shop sold at auction for how many pounds? Fit these numbers into the grid. One number doesn’t fit. This is the prize answer.

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8 digits 35339455

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My husband had the great idea of using a coat rack as a shoe rack, low on the wall, to keep things tidy. Leona Heckman, Trefnant

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I have so much lavender growing in my garden, I decided to make essential oil with it. I use it to polish the oak furniture in my kitchen, which makes the room smell lovely! Lisa Marie Strzeszewski, Tardes, France

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His good behaviour was a sign of something sinister Fauve Syers, 31, Salford A s my newborn son Theo snoozed in his cot, he didn’t as much as stir. It was May 2017 and I couldn’t believe how lucky we were with him sleeping through the night.

‘He’s a godsend, isn’t he?’ I smiled to my partner Steven, then 34.

I’d heard horror stories of babies wailing constantly in those first few days. Not our little Theo. But when Theo was just eight days old, I noticed his little lips looked blue. ‘Stick the heating on, will you?’ I asked Steven. But minutes later, his lips were still tinged blue. ‘Something’s wrong,’ I panicked.

Ringing 111, I listed his symptoms – he was breathing with his tummy and his head was frantically going up and down as he breathed in and out, but at the same time he was lethargic.

Within minutes, they’d sent an ambulance.

Taken to Salford Royal Hospital, we were shocked to find a team of 40 medics waiting for us.

Respiratory, sepsis, cardiac , were the words on a whiteboard on the ward.

A list of potential diagnoses from the symptoms I’d described over the phone. Terrifying. After Theo had undergone tests, Steven and I were ushered into a side room. ‘Theo has heart failure,’ the doctor explained. ‘If we don’t operate, he will die.’ We soon understood Theo’s quiet nature hadn’t just been good behaviour. It’d been a sign of something sinister. He was in a critical condition. As soon as Theo was stable, he was rushed to the Intensive Care unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, in Liverpool.

Four days later, on 25 May 2017, 12-day-old Theo had open heart surgery.

Sick with worry, all we could do was wait. And after an excruciating 13 hours, the doctor had news.

‘He suffered a heart attack as we were operating, but it’s gone as well as it