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Portuguese man-of-wars have a way of slipping their tentacles into Katherine Summerville’s art. The 37-year-old painter loves the siphonophore’s delicacy and beauty. One of her pieces will go up for auction on Wednesday at a fundraiser for the Adult...

For Queena Cannonier, a passion for pastry arose out of a need to cook something new. “I was in the kitchen one afternoon and I had this brilliant idea to make something different for the children’s lunch,” she said. So she turned to her mother, She...

Zoe Lopes never expected to take the top prize in the BSoA student art competition. She’d actually created the winning portrait, of a young woman in watercolour, pen and ink, for her GCSE last year. Her former art teacher at Berkeley Institute, Chr...

Tina Laws’s boyfriend gave her a black eye; she told people she was hit by a golf ball. She’s sure no one believed her, but no one questioned her story either. “We talk about cancer, we talk about lupus, we talk about all kinds of things,” she said....

Every couple has that special something they like to whisper in each other’s ear. For Vivienne Lochhead and Chris Cabral that sweet nothing might be “eat my dust”. When they hit the Appleby Bermuda Half-Marathon Derby ever year they are serious comp...

Only chef Srinivasan “Srini” Nandagopal knew how to make chicken fried rice the way Mazahim “Maz” Shabdeen liked it — hot and spicy. For years, Mr Shabdeen ordered the dish from Traditions Restaurant in Sandys every Saturday afternoon on his way to ...

When the wrecking ball hit The Haven in 2000, Eugene Stovell and Timothy Sousa felt crushed. The building was once their refuge, Mr Stovell in the 1950s when it was a children’s home, and Mr Sousa in 1981 when it was a home for young mothers and thei...

Damn, I’m still alive. That’s what Tania Stafford thought when she awoke from a failed suicide attempt in October 2010. She’d neatly cut an artery in her arm, hoping to quietly slip away from the world. Luckily, her cat woke her up. “At first I thou...

They’re either going to really, really love it, or really, really hate it. That’s what Afnan Farooqui’s teacher said when she entered a Canadian high-school essay competition in January. The teacher was worried because the CedarBridge Academy student...

It’s difficult to pass by Leslene Daniels’s home without stopping for a look. Her garden is filled with toilets and sinks the 86-year-old has repurposed as plant pots. It’s a stunning image that has put Mrs Daniels’ Paget home on the tourist map. She...