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Robert Sutcliffe

Leeds mum's anguished plea for help to try to save her daughter's life

A young woman is hoping to raise £200,000 for private brain tumour treatment at a hospital in Germany that her family hopes could save her life.

Scarlet Maughan, a 28-year-old mother-of-one from Cross Green, Leeds, began to complain of headaches in 2015 and initially, medics thought she was suffering from migraines.

Her mother Helen Maughan said she then went for an eye test and then for a brain scan in 24 hours when she was diagnosed with a stage 3 brain tumour. Surgeons removed it and then she was well for a while going for scans, but sadly after 18 months it came back.

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