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Putting lives back on track

Putting lives back on track

AFTER a freak accident that almost cost Wendy Edge her sight, she explains why she has spent the last decade helping others who have been devastated through brain and spinal injuries.

 

Slimming risks

Slimming risks

GOING away this year? If by chance you are, then it's likely you're one of the millions of people who are currently crash-dieting their way to a bikini body.

Salute our Land Girls

Salute our Land Girls

THEY helped to keep the nation fed throughout the Second World War. But only now – over 60 years on – are the Land Girls being welcomed into 10 Downing Street to see their wartime contribution recognised, discovers Paul Taylor.

 

Sri Lanka: Everyone's cup of tea!

Sri Lanka: Everyone's cup of tea!

NEXT time you pour yourself a cup of tea, drink a toast to Devastating Emily. That was the lurid nickname of a leaf virus that wiped out the coffee crop in Ceylon in the 1870s.

Summer in the city

Summer in the city

THIS summer, Bulmers has teamed up with the Manchester Evening News to squeeze the best out of the Great British summertime.

 

 
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