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Fender learned to play guitar and write songs as a teenager living paycheck to paycheck with a mom suffering from fibromyalgia.

Now, just over a year on, Miss Cotson said she lived with chronic pain, prolapse, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

Elena, 54, has fibromyalgia and arthritis, and her husband, 62, has had a heart attack.

Ms Choda, who has fibromyalgia which leaves her in "constant pain and fatigued", says as well as giving her weekly respite from her caring duties, Broad Green was also a place of huge practical importance.

The 63-year-old has arthritis, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure and asthma, and cannot use the stairs in her building.