A brave Ayrshire mum has told how months of back pain turned out to be stage 4 cancer.
Nursing assistant Lauren Boyle, 35, has faced a year of gruelling treatment on cancer which has spread to her blood, bones and kidneys.
The mum-of-two from Tarbolton has undergone intense blasts of radiotherapy to try and stop the cancer in its tracks since being given the shock diagnosis last February.