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Margaret Giloth remembers being painfully shy as a child. She believes having eclectic hobbies helped find her identity: arranging flowers, collecting hats and modelling in fashion shows. “I couldn’t figure out who I was by following the crowd,” said...

Think your cairn terrier has what it takes to light up the stage? The Gilbert & Sullivan Society is searching for two dogs to play Toto in The Wizard of Oz. The only requirements are that they’re able to bark on command, and are flea-free. “We need t...

Karen Pearman really wanted to run the Bermuda Half-Marathon Derby but she’d only just beaten cancer. She didn’t know if she had the strength. In February, she decided “enough was enough” and started training: six miles four days a week, with a 5.30a...

Esther Zuill’s house is stuffed with books. At the moment, the 88-year-old is reading the Bible from cover to cover. Folks who meet her today would be surprised to learn that books were her greatest nightmare during childhood. “I never in a million y...

Jim Davies expected a few raised eyebrows at Customs. He had travelled to Bermuda alone, yet his luggage was filled with what were clearly women’s clothes. “The customs officer was quite fascinated with a 1937 cap I had in there,” the Londoner said. ...

Ricky Spence was heartbroken when Gregory Bean, his friend since childhood, died three years ago. The Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute orderly was 53 when he lost his battle with high blood pressure. Mr Spence vowed to do something to help tackle the ...

When Leo Custodio and his wife, Katherine, go out to dinner, it takes them for ever to reach their table. That’s because Mr Custodio has to stop and chat with everyone in the restaurant. “Sometimes my wife gets annoyed,” the 90-year-old said. “When ...

Grace and Liam Flannery put their heart and soul into their first art exhibition. The ten and 13-year-old siblings put up sketches, paintings and ceramics in Journeys: Real and Imagined, at the Bermuda College. Gack stole the show. “I made green sli...

Verde Brown was heartbroken when she was turned down for a mortgage. It was four years ago and she and her husband were trying to buy their dream home in Southampton. “We knew we were going to have either a house or a baby,” said the 39-year-old acco...

Quinton Mallory never expected to be a newlywed at 80. When his wife Sharon died in 2009 he thought that was it for romance. Then he bumped into Patricia Price, at the Warwick Bowling Alley. They’d worked together for years at the Bermuda Telephone...