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 m...
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 Bermu...
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 ei...
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 ...
At 6, Mackenzie Paul was trying to imitate Van Gogh.
By the time she was in her teens, her workload at Somersfield Academy was so “intense” her art had to take a back seat.
She was thrilled when her p...
Five years ago, Richard Burchall stuck a beef frankfurter inside some Johnny bread.
Co-workers at Black Horse Tavern, the St David’s restaurant he then worked at, convinced the head chef he was on to ...
Cancer “knocked the hell” out of Jon Beard’s life.
It took his wife, Jennie, in 2009 and then his father, Ray.
In 2014, Mr Beard found out he had prostate cancer, the disease that had killed his fathe...
The Easter bunny has Felica DeRoza’s sympathies; she now knows just how hard it is to make eggs.
She puts a tiny, bubblegum-scented one in each of her Easter baskets.
The handmade items are just two o...
For years, Nicole Dennis-Benn would leave her day job and go home and write in secret.
Her wife insisted she choose between the two.
Ms Dennis-Benn, a Jamaican who was working as a public health rese...
Leona Thompson is 100 today.
Her posture is straight and her mind is razor-sharp; she’s only semi-retired from the job she’s held for 51 years.
She still does her own cooking and cleaning.
“I can scar...