Books True Stories A woman whose mother twice tried to kill her as a child has won a ground-breaking battle in the Supreme Courts for the right to claim compensation. Monica Allan’s legal victory set a precedent & has opened the floodgates for others to claim in her wake. Thanks to her 12-year legal fight, other victims now have hope. Other victims now have a voice. In her memoir, Monica, 54, tells the story of her childhood, when her mother, Betty Mount, forced her head under running bathroom taps & tried to strangle her. She had previously tried to kill Monica as a baby. Monica was taken into foster care, where her new parents ran a brutal regime. To the outside world, the family was devoutly religious & respectable, but behind closed doors, Monica was physically & sexually abused. Failed by a second mother figure, she moved into her own home aged 18 & went on to have four children. Monica loved her children but battled constantly with the demons from her past. She carried her dark secrets around with her for 40 years until in 2010, haunted by her trauma, she finally decided to seek justice. She was told she could not seek compensation because of the ‘same roof’ rule, meaning victims who lived with their attackers up to 1979 were ineligible for pay-outs. For the past 12 years, Monica has been fighting her case through the Supreme Courts & was recently awarded compensation from CICA regarding the sexual abuse she suffered in foster care. She is awaiting a second settlement for the attacks by her mother.  Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781915306326 •†Author: Monica Allan, Ann Cusack & Joe Cusack  •†Publisher:†  Mirror Books •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 288 •†Dimensions:†19.8 x 12.9 cm ...

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This 13 disc box set marks the 70th anniversary of the formation of Abbott & Costello, the American comedy duo whose work in radio, film & television made them one of the most popular & respected teams in comedy history. The Box Set

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Double-bill of Abbott & Costello comedies. In Buck Privates 1941 Bud & Lou join the army to avoid going to jail. They soon, however, fall foul of the company's drill instructor. In One Night in the Tropics 1940 Bud & Lou end up on a tropical island mixed up with an insurance salesman in a plot that owes more than a little to A Midsummer Night's Dream. ...

Double bill of Abbott & Costello comedies. In ' Buck Privates Come Home' (1947), Bud & Lou play two former soldiers who find themselves mixed up in a crazy scheme to build a midget race car, & run into their old sergeant on the way. In ' Comin' Round the Mountain' (1951), Lou plays a travelling magician with Bud as his inept assistant. When the boys end up in rural Kentucky, they find themselves mixed up in a feud between two rival families. ...

Double-bill of Abbott & Costello comedies. In ' Buck Privates Come Home' (1947), Bud & Lou play two former soldiers who find themselves mixed up in a crazy scheme to build a midget race car, & run into their old sergeant on the way. In ' One Night in ...

Double-bill of Abbott & Costello comedies. In ' Here Come the Co-eds' (1945), Lou is conned into thinking he's a female basketball player after a bout of amnesia, whilst ' In Society' (1944) sees the boys as two inept plumbers who get invited by mistake t ...

Double-bill of Abbott & Costello comedies. In ' Here Come the Co-eds' (1945), Lou is conned into thinking he's a female basketball player after a bout of amnesia, whilst ' In Society' (1944) sees the boys as two inept plumbers who get invited by mistake to a high society social event. ...

Double-bill of Abbott & Costello comedies. In ' Hit the Ice' (1943), the boys star as a pair of bumbling newspaper reporters who get mixed up with some gangsters in an exclusive ski resort. In ' Lost in Alaska' (1952), Bud & Lou play a couple of New Yor ...