A mum who suffered a brain tumour while pregnant left her husband for her childhood sweetheart when doctors told her she had just five years to live.

Natalie Whiteside, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, was diagnosed after she had a seizure while pregnant with her second child.

Medics told her the cancer was terminal and she would have only five years to live - but six years on, she is still alive.

Natalie said the cancer diagnosis was 'the moment that changed everything', prompting her to alter her lifestyle - and also her life.

She ended her marriage and began a relationship with her childhood sweetheart, David Brown, 44.

She now lives with David and her two children, Harriet, 11, and Bridget, six, from her previous relationship.

Natalie, 45, said: