It’s a friendship born out of the most terrible experiences, yet two Yorkshire women, Joan Lawrence and Claire Throssell, are supporting each other as they cope with the most unimaginable pain any parent can endure and as two milestone anniversaries loom.
Later this month, Joan, from Malton, faces the 15th year since her 35-year-old daughter Claudia, was last seen on March 18 2019, after leaving her shift as a chef at York University on a sunny afternoon. There has been no sighting of her since and her disappearance is being treated as a murder inquiry by North Yorkshire Police.

In October, Claire, from Penistone, near Barnsley, will mark the 10th year since her two sons Jack and Paul aged 12 and nine, were murdered by her estranged husband Darren Sykes during a custody visit. He lured the boys into his attic on pretence of showing them a train set, then set the house on fire, killing himself at the same time.