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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 ...

No progress is too little for Samantha Hillier. Having witnessed the wheelchair-bound ride and the speech-impaired sing, the WindReach instructor extols the healing power of horses. Being around the animals is her biggest reward. “The connection betw...

Everyone was shocked by what they heard, including her mother. “I used to be very shy as a child and there was a part of me that thought ‘I can’t sing’, so I kept quiet,” said Mrs Burrows, the wife of Pastor Eldridge Burrows of West Pembroke Penteco...

TODAY • Women Aglow Int: Please join our fellowship worship service at 9.45am when the topic will be “Explore the Possibilities”. Light refreshments will be served. Come and praise the Lord. All are welcome. Astwood Hall, Church Street, Hamilton. For...

The No Trump bid at bridge is often at the centre of many bidding sequences — in most cases it is a very exact and descriptive bid and as a result should hand over “captaincy” of the auction to your partner. For instance, when you open 1NT you tell ...

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...

There are quite a few fortified wines available. By this I mean that distilled spirits, (mostly grape brandy), are added to bring the alcohol level up to 20 per cent or thereabouts. Well-known examples are port and sherry, but madeira and marsala s...

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...

Making music was second nature to Kevun Arorash. He grew up in Jones Village, where he was immersed in the dancehall scene. Three years ago, after people began singing along to his songs, he began to take his talent more seriously. “The feedback I’v...