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Mummy's girl: Alexandra Burke's mother on the tragedies behind that X Factor triumph and how the singer saved her life

 
X Factor winner Alexandra Burke now has the pop world at her feet. But here her mother tells the full, dramatic story of the tragedies that nearly killed the dream. (link)

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