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Everyone has a story to tell, and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ wants to hear yours. If you enter your real life tale into the My Story competition you may see it retold on ´óÏó´«Ã½ One as well as winning a fantastic prize.

The competition closes on 16 December. To take part, visit the My Story website. You can enter online, or print off a postal form.

To give you inspiration, we already have examples from people from Stoke and Staffordshire, who've already given their entries to the ´óÏó´«Ã½. Click on the links in the top right-hand corner of this page for some of them, and there are some more too, as you go down this page:-

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My Story: Peter Nolan

Forty years ago Peter Nolan, from Stafford, was living and working in Libya, as a ward nurse at Tripoli’s main hospital.

It was September 1969, and the ruling monarchy was being overthrown by a group of young nationalist army officers, led by Colonel Muammar al Gaddafi.

That same Colonel Gaddafi was brought into hospital under armed guard for a medical check.

Peter was asked to take his pulse and blood pressure in a chance encounter with someone who – as Peter puts it – ‘had an impact on the world’. Click on the link below to hear Peter's story.

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My Story: Lee Pearson

Lee Pearson is one of the UK's most decorated sportsmen. In all, the para-equestrian rider from Cheddleton in the Staffordshire Moorlands has a 100% record at the Paralympics, winning a total of nine gold medals.

But it could have been so much more different for the 35 year old, who recounts his unusual start to life...

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My Story: Tom Doubtfire

Seeing Africa was always a dream for Tom Doubtfire and when he was offered a job in Ghana he jumped at the chance.

He knew it would be an experience but it was just before he came home that the real adventure started...

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My Story: Crimea Price

Crimea Price is a traveller, in his seventies, who lives at the caravan site in Silverdale. In his younger days he travelled all over the place - mostly around Scotland - where he worked on shipyards loading and unloading cargo.

He'll never forget the day in 1945 when he was working on a container ship of explosives docked at Stranraer:-