BUSY Susan McCue dedicates her life to her family.

The 42-year-old juggles two jobs with her everyday duties while looking out for her four children, two step-children, five grandchildren and her elderly mother.

And Susan, from Morris Road, Stansfields, is also preparing to marry her partner of five years Michael James, aged 39, and organise birthday celebrations for her youngest son Jack, who is turning 18 on Mother's Day – the day after her wedding at Hanley Register Office.

Susan, who works at a bingo hall and at the Oddfellows Arms, in Tunstall, said: "I am adopted and I have always been brought up in the frame of mind that the children come first.

"I work seven days a week and have to help care for my mum, who is 82, because she has just suffered a stroke.

"I've got four children and have had to bring them up and at times it has been hard, but that is what I'm here for.

"I don't know anything else, I am a mum and that is my priority."

Susan is mum to Dean, aged 24, Leanne, aged 23, 22-year-old Craig and Jack who is 17.

Susan added: "I think nothing of helping my children out when they need me, if their cooker is broken I don't mind doing their tea or if their washer is broken I tell them to bring their washing round to mine.

"I don't make a special effort or anything, it's just what mums do.

"I will make a roast dinner every Sunday and just plate it up ready for them to come and collect it.

"I enjoy a game of bingo myself and have been wanting to sign up to a gym for a while to get myself sorted for my wedding but I just haven't had the time. It can be a bit manic at times."

To thank her for her efforts, Susan's daughter Leanne has nominated her in The Sentinel's Mother of the Year competition.

We have teamed up with the Trentham Estate to find the best mum across North Staffordshire and South Cheshire.

The deserving winner will be chosen by a panel of judges in time for Mother's Day on Sunday, March 18 and will receive prizes to the value of £250.

Leanne, of Sherwin Road, Stanfields, said: "My mum is a mum in a million.

"She became a mum at 17 and a nannie at 36 and has always been there for us, even now, seven days a week she does washing, cooking, and babysitting on top of her own job, house, partner and my elderly nanna.

"She has never had time for herself and always puts others first.

"If she has just cooked her tea and we walk in she would think nothing of giving it to us.

"To our family she is a rock and such an amazing person."

To nominate, write to Laura James, The Sentinel, Sentinel House, Forge Lane, Etruria, ST1 5SS, or email laura.james@thesentinel.co.uk, including a contact number.