A MOTHER of quins saw her young family taking their first steps after she survived a brain operation.

Lesley Needham, 30, of Holcombe Drive, Burnley, was back home caring for her three daughters and two sons after having a brain tumour removed. When she was a teenager, Lesley was given just weeks to live and told her brain tumour would affect her ability to have children.

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