Eyes On the Prize ; Rebecca Stevens Left School with Few Qualifications and Had to Cope with the Death of Her Second Son and the Serious Illness of Her Third Son. She Tells Suzanne Savill How She has Nevertheless Achieved Her Dream of Becoming a Trainee Solicitor

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The glass trophy in Rebecca Stevens' sitting room is not only testimony to the many years of hard work that were a factor in her being chosen by the Bristol Law Society as Young Lawyer of the Year.

It is also a poignant reminder of the legacy of her baby son Matthew - who lived for just four months, but whose memory has inspired her to strive for a career she once never thought possible.

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Eyes On the Prize ; Rebecca Stevens Left School with Few Qualifications and Had to Cope with the Death of Her Second Son and the Serious Illness of Her Third Son. She Tells Suzanne Savill How She has Nevertheless Achieved Her Dream of Becoming a Trainee Solicitor

"If Matthew's death hadn't happened I'm not sure I'd have had the confidence to become a solicitor," she says in her warm Lancashire accent.

"I was brought up that solicitors and doctors were from a different world - posh, professional people.

"Someone like me, who had left school after their GCSEs, couldn't possibly hope to be like them."

Yet now Rebecca, 32, is a trainee solicitor with Withy King in Bath.

And she believes the trauma she and her husband John, 39, an ammuni...

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