Examples
INS Features team has helped many people tell their story through newspapers and magazines.
Here are just a few examples of our work.
She started calling me 'old bean'... then she left me for a man of 51 - Mail on Sunday, June 27, 2010
Mike Hollingsworth knew his marriage was in serious trouble but it was only last Thursday that he was forced to accept it was over for good.
Picking up his wife’s passport, a boarding-pass stub fell on to the floor. The date was May 14 and it was in the name of man called Anthony Swift.
‘That was the time she said she had been to Ireland with her friend Rosie,’ Mike says. ‘I realised this affair had been going on for some time. I’d been taken for a fool.’
For a man used to being in control, this is no easy admission. But then recent events have exacted a terrible toll on Anne Diamond’s former husband...
My daughter Starved herself to look like posh - Woman's Own, February 1, 2010
Lynne Johnston talks about how she nearly lost her daughter, Rachael, to anorexia because of a photograph of skinny celeb Victoria Beckham.
Read on for more about Rachael Johnston's story...
I vowed not to eat until I was as thin as Posh - Daily Mirror, August 6, 2009
I'd look at the pictures of Victoria Beckham for hours and hours - those stick-thin legs and jutting collar bones.
‘Doesn't she look amazing’ I'd think.
I was just 13 at the time but I'd pinned a picture of my head on to Posh's body. It was my inspiration - what I could look like if I could just stop eating for long enough.
That picture hadn't been airbrushed but for anyone in doubt about whether photos of celebrities affect the way teenage girls think, I am living proof (though only just living).
For four years I starved myself to look like Victoria and my other idol Nicole Richie.
Anorexia came to rule my life and messed me up so much I even tried to kill myself three times...
Read the full Daily Mirror article here
Rachael's story also featured in Reveal magazine.
A perfect family shattered in the blink of an eye - Daily Mail, November 25, 2009
On that crisp December morning last year, Caroline Johnson was
running through a long mental checklist of things to do as she hurried out to clear the ice from her car windscreen.
First, she had to take her son to school, and was then planning to head off to the supermarket to do the family shop and start thinking about Christmas dinner.
A familiar enough routine for many working mothers, but it was to be disrupted in the most shockingly cruel of ways.
As the 46-year-old part-time veterinary nurse scraped her windscreen outside her home in Langley, Berkshire, she was knocked to the ground by a carjacking thief who jumped into the driving seat and, ignoring her frantic pleas, revved the engine and roared off.
Flung to the floor and trapped under the wheels, Caroline was dragged 65 feet along the road and left in a pool of blood, catastrophically injured...
View the full Daily Mail feature here
Caroline's story also appeared in Best magazine and News Of The World, December 28, 2008. You can view the News Of The World feature here
Vanessa George daughter's agony - News Of The World, October 2009
OF ALL the children damaged by nursery monster Vanessa George, perhaps those who will suffer longest are her own unsuspecting daughters.
Their torment is captured in heart-breaking detail by the words of her own daughter.Pearl George, 15, has written a devastating, revealing and often moving assessment for the News of the World of her terrifying ordeal as the child of a paedophile.
She tells of the night the family home was raided by police - and how she and her sister Grace, 13, later wept with fear.
And she talks of how the normal mum she once had has changed beyond belief until: "I feel I don't know her any more. Her mind is poison, her smile a plague".
Pearl finally disowns the twisted paedophile - declaring she will never call her "Mum" again - and accuses her of robbing her children of their youth.
Through a child's eyes - and in a child's language - this is her story - one that will shock every parent...
View the full News Of The World feature here
Pearl's comments were also featured in Woman's Own, LOOK and Sugar magazines.
A Catastrophic Seduction - Daily Mail, August 22, 2009
26-year-old music teacher, Hellen Goddard, had a lesbian affair with her 15-year-old pupil.
The affair continued for five months before the pair were 'outed' by an anonymous email to the school's deputy headmistress.
Read the full Daily Mail article here
Since this article appeared in the Daily Mail, Helen Goddard was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment on September 21st 2009, of which she will serve half.
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12 Babes of Christmas - Sunday Mirror, December 21, 2008
INS Features reporter Punteha Yazdanian got four sets of identical triplets together for their first christmas...
"After three months of meticulous planning and coordination,
I finally got these four amazing families together to do a Christmas
feature on their babies' first Christmas.
All four mums had miraculously - and naturally - conceived identical triplets...at odds of 200 million to one.
Even more spookily, two sets were born on the same day in January 2008, with the other two following in quick succession in the next fortnight."
See the Sunday Mirror feature here
Mum battles for tug-of-love child in Libya - Sunday Express, November 4, 2007
Sarah Taylor can no longer bear to look at the cherubic face of the girl smiling out from a photo on her bedside table. And after nearly six months of separation from her daughter Nadia, she is unable to cope with the four-year-old's sobs and pleas to return home when they speak on the phone.
Sarah has vowed to ditch these despairing rituals and is preparing to move to Libya in an audacious bid to win Nadia back - under Sharia law.
The 31-year-old Revenue officer is confident the Islamic legal system will help reunite her with Nadia. The little girl was kidnapped by her father five months ago and secretly flown to his native Libya in defiance of a British High Court ruling.
But Sarah refused to stay inactive after learning that under Sharia law, in cases of family breakdown girls must stay with their mothers until they marry, while sons remain with their fathers until they are 12.
She is poised to sell her home in Wigan, Lancs, to live in Colonel Gaddafi's African desert kingdom while attempting to look after Nadia according to the country's laws...