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Gemma Ryder

Lanarkshire dad working 70-hour weeks to pay mortgage as baby son fights for his life

A dad is working 70-hour weeks to keep a roof over his family's head as his baby son fights for survival.

Lorry driver Gary Milligan says he is trapped in a cycle of unrelenting financial pressure after his little boy was born 13 weeks premature, weighing just 1lb 6oz. His wife Monica Sheen, 34, has given up her job as an NHS nurse to be with little Alfie full-time as he battles for his life at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QUEH).

But the 33-year-old dad says the lack of support for families in their heartbreaking position means he can't to take time off work to be with his family and pay the mortgage, the Daily Record reports.

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