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Lynette Gibson has heard every imaginable excuse for not getting a mammogram. They all take her back to her mother, Olive Richardson. She died in 1992 after a nine-year battle that started with breast cancer. It’s possible she might have survived the...

Shun Ng is often called a “virtuoso” for his unique fingerstyle guitar playing. The 27-year-old has performed his blend of soul, funk and blues with the likes of Quincy Jones, and won numerous accolades for it. But as a youngster he was considered ...

How did Bermuda become the focus of a Romanian’s YouTube travel series? Well, Sorin Mihailovici threw a dart at a map, and it landed squarely in the middle of the Atlantic. Tiny Bermuda became his only choice. “I was actually happy when I saw the dar...

Freeman Trott lights up when he gets a drum in his hands. To him it’s not just an instrument, but an old friend. For 70 years he played the bongos and other instruments, and sang in hotels and nightclubs. Although glaucoma took his sight 25 years ag...

Samantha Warren was a ball of nerves as she waited to walk the runway in her first fashion show. But once she stepped on to the stage, she felt like she was home. “I felt so confident in the clothes I was wearing,” she said. “Everyone was looking at ...

Hogan helped make The Wizard of Oz a hit in October.Few in the audience would have guessed it was the papillon’s acting debut: he ran into Dorothy’s arms, and barked on command, without fail. Owner Maureen Burke would probably say it is because the 6...

Boyd Smith sobbed when he was told he had to drop out of school. He had dreamt of becoming an architect. “Two of my older sisters went to Berkeley,” the 90-year-old said. “My father, Seward, couldn’t afford to send me also. “There was only one schol...

Elizabeth Player thought it would be a cinch to write a romance novel. She’d read a lot of them, and done tons of research. To her, the plots seemed pretty formulaic. And then she tried to put pen to paper. “It was really hard!” she said. “I cut and ...

Model Sophie Fraser-Smith died tragically last summer, but her memory lives on in the London fashion world. The Sophie Fraser-Smith Models Model Award is now part of the annual Top Model Worldwide competition. It will be given to the finalist most no...

An agent, a modelling contract, her picture in British Vogue — it’s all a possibility for Jaime Proctor. She’s one of 42 finalists hoping to win Top Model Worldwide 2018. “The runway show in the competition is watched by agents and photographers,” s...