These are the latest ECHO headlines on Monday, April 25.
Refurbished Pendolinos return to the rails as part of UK's biggest ever train upgrade
Liverpool rail passengers will be among the first to experience one of the newly refurbished Pendolinos when it returns to service today.
The 56-strong Avanti West Coast fleet is undergoing a £117m upgrade programme, with improvements including new, more comfortable seats, a revamped shop and better on-board customer information.
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Widely regarded as the UK's hardest working train fleet, the tilting, electric powered Pendolinos - or "Pendos" - have served towns and cities along the West Coast Main Line for close to 20 years, clocking up more than 270 million miles in that time.
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Student's life 'ripped from under her feet' when doctor's discovered cause of her arm pain
A woman who woke at night with a "really bad pain" in her arm and chest was diagnosed with an "aggressive" cancer that would kill her without treatment.
Eloise May, 20, initially thought the pain was caused by a horse riding injury, or by coming home drunk. She had "absolutely no idea" doctors would find a lightbulb-sized tumour in the middle of her chest, compressing almost a third of the vein returning blood from her brain to her heart.
The diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in February left the third year Liverpool John Moores University student in "disbelief" until she saw biopsy samples of the tumour, which looked like "little white worms" in a pot. The sport and exercise student said: "My life as I knew it, being a student, living in a student house, has been completely ripped from under my feet.
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Obese dad who broke his bed loses weight of a '6ft man'
A dad whose weight caused him to break his bed looks unrecognisable after losing over 14 stone.
Barrie Stewart, from Birkenhead, said he's surprised he's still alive after spending 30 years eating around 5,000 calories a day through a diet of crisps and takeaways, washed down with 6-8 cans of beer or cider. But after going to see his doctor Barrie was given the wake up call he needed to lose weight and he has now lost a whopping 14st 7lbs in total.
Barrie told the ECHO: "I'm shocked now that I've changed my life that I got myself in that position. I'm surprised I'm still here or my bones never crumbled."
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