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Oh my God, I’m dancing on the Royal Opera House stage! That’s all Ravi Cannonier-Watson wanted to shout during his first Royal Ballet performance last month. But the 12-year-old couldn’t move a muscle. “I’m a tall soldier in The Nutcracker, said Rav...

If angels exist, then there must be a few at Agape House. That’s Betty Rech’s belief. The hospice helped her brother, Roger Henderson, after doctors diagnosed melanoma, bone and prostate cancer. He battled for two years until his death on July 9. “I...

Bank officer, Justice of the Peace, world traveller ­— Dorothea Butterfield is proud of all she has achieved. She never imagined such a future when she was a teenager. Her family couldn’t afford to send her to high school, so she had to work at 14. ...

The average author holds a signing at a bookstore to promote a new novel. Patrice Frith Hayward is inviting her fans to follow her out to sea. She’ll be on the Celebrity Summit in April, sailing from Puerto Rico to Bermuda to promote her latest work,...

The first thing you notice at Perform to Learn preschool is the puppet theatre. The North Street school is all about self-expression and the arts. But since September, in between the puppet shows and the dance, children have been learning more high-t...

When Kandra Dears says she is a psychosexual therapist, not everyone gets it. Last week, a guy called expecting she would hook him up with a prostitute. Rather than slam the phone down, she stayed on the line. “I felt he had to be asking for a reaso...

Retirement isn’t something 84-year-old Edwena Smith has ever considered. She was a teacher at the Berkeley Institute for 25 years and then worked in insurance. For the past 18 years she’s run a business teaching English as a second language, out of...

When inspiration knocks, writer Eric Murphy answers. It’s not unusual for the Canadian writer to be hammering out a chapter at 4am. “If you don’t answer when the muse knocks, she leaves,” laughed Mr Murphy. It’s a formula that has worked well for hi...

What woman hasn’t occasionally wanted to put a spell on her husband? Julia Kempe might have her chance as the witch in the BMDS pantomime, Adventure in Pantoland. Her husband William is the baddie and her daughter Billie-Rose, 8, is in the chorus. I...

Jennah Robinson is obsessed with baking. She spends long hours making pastry at Mario Batali’s New York restaurant Babbo. In her spare time she does pretty much the same thing. “I love to bake when I’m off,” said the 32-year-old. “That’s how I know...