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Our girl is shown how to reclaim old outfits

Reap what you sew

I hate to mention it because I know we’re all painfully aware of the fact, but we are in the middle of a recession and news that women wear 20 per cent of their wardrobe 80 per cent of the time prompted me to think that something must be done.
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Inside Features

Bernie loves her charity work

We talk about the credit crunch and recession but we don’t know poverty

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Bernie Walsh has returned from a disturbing trip to the slums of Calcutta a changed woman. In distressing scenes which mirrored those in this year’s smash hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, the Weight Watchers leader — who helped fundraise for a new hospital for street children — says nothing could have prepared her for the sheer scale of the poverty.
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Physio Ruth Hunter with Glentoran player Paul Leeman at the Oval.

Ruth’s gentle touch

Sunday, 7 June 2009

Ruth Hunter is in the pain game — and Glentoran players and fans are delighted. For she is the only first-team female physio practising her skills in the Irish League Premiership.
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Lizzie runs a highly successful card business from her home and her products can be bought throughout the province and on the internet

Driving home the right messages

Sunday, 31 May 2009

Lizzie Keyes had just celebrated her 19th birthday at a party in her local pub when tragedy struck and her life was dramatically changed forever.
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Beyonce Knowles attends the premiere of

From bootylicious babe to badass

Sunday, 24 May 2009

Beautiful Beyoncé Knowles (27) is the soul singer with the looks, the voice like cream in coffee and the perfect marriage to Jay-Z. And apart from her mega-hits such as Crazy in Love, Beyoncé is known for her political correctness and sheer niceness.
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Claire Murray - Miss Belfast 2009

Belfast’s new Misses are hits

Sunday, 17 May 2009

Two local beauties have beaten off stiff competition to take the coveted titles of Miss Belfast and Miss Earth Belfast. But unlike the tanned, made-up pageant winners of past years, these women have broken the mould.
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Wig specialist Therese Hughes, who runs Treeses Wig Shop on Belfast's Lisburn Road, and also has a wig store in Newry.

The heroine of hair loss

Sunday, 10 May 2009

A chance to help out a customer who had cancer led Newry hairdresser Therese Hughes to discover her true vocation in life. The perfectionist in this remarkable business woman meant that only the best would do when her client, who was dealing with the trauma of losing her hair during chemotherapy, asked Therese if she could find her a wig.
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Super slimmer Rosie Cummings, who lost over 6st.

I ditched six stone and my diabetes

Sunday, 3 May 2009

Lisburn taxi controller Rosie Cummings (38) is now a shadow of her former self. And she’s thrilled. She has lost six and a half stone at her local Rosemary Conley slimming club and has managed to maintain her new sylph-like size eight shape for 18 months.
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Model Jill Wallace from just outside Enniskillen poses for photos on her fathers farm.

I still get down and dirty

Sunday, 26 April 2009

Life may be a hectic round of glamorous engagements for Face of Ireland winner Jill Wallace, but the Fermanagh girl is still not afraid to get her hands dirty down on her dad’s farm.
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Benromach Distillery Speyside Scotland.

The 10th annual Speyside Whiskey Festival

Sunday, 19 April 2009

Robert Burns would have appreciated the many events marking the 250th anniversary of his birth — but one in particular would have stood out for the legendary Scottish poet.
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Andrea Reilly and her son, Aidan.

I diagnosed my son with meningitis the day after I learnt the symptoms

Sunday, 19 April 2009

Just hours after learning how to spot the signs of meningitis, an Ulster woman was caught up in a race against time to save her four-year-old son who was struck down by the potentially deadly disease.
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Tracy McCausland with Jimmy Nesbitt

Why I’d go to any lengths to give my two boys the chance of a normal life

Sunday, 12 April 2009

Mum-in-a-million Tracy McCausland cried for two hours on St Valentine's Day when her seven-year-old son |Callum told her for the very first time that he loved her.
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Actress Rose McGowan

The wild Rose

Sunday, 5 April 2009

Rose McGowan is the sultry actress who took off her clothes in horror movie Planet Terror, covered up a murder as a high school student in Jawbreaker, and is crushed to death in an automatic garage door by a crazed killer in Scream.
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Twitter: What are you doing?

Why I'm such a Twitter

Monday, 30 March 2009

I have a confession to make, I am now fixated with sharing my most inane ramblings on Internet phenomenon Twitter.
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I always thought cervical cancer happened to older women, not those in their twenties

Sunday, 29 March 2009

The death of Jade Goody has raised awareness of cervical cancer to previously unimaginable levels.
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Kirsty and George with kids (from left) Isla, Toby and Brodie

Chips are down for rubbish food

Sunday, 22 March 2009

As the recession grips, fast food firms such as KFC and Dominos are defying the downturn with growing profits.
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Huge risks taken by shunning condoms

Sexual healing

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Have you ever found yourself daydreaming while standing in a shop queue, thrust into consciousness by the shocking realisation that you're staring intensely at the condom section?
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Jen’s best friend

Sunday, 8 March 2009

Former Friends star Jennifer Aniston says her latest movie is not just about a naughty dog but also explores the balance |between relationships and work.
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Katie Larmour interview with Fiona Hurley.

I can never betray Jon

Sunday, 1 March 2009

UTV's newest golden girl Katie Larmour is hurt by claims she was responsible for the break-up of Tudors heart-throb Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ relationship.
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Tattoo artist Helen McDonnell from Skulduggery shows off just some of the many tattoo's that adorn her body.

Drawn to the ink

Sunday, 22 February 2009

Helen McDonnell (37), single and originally from Drogheda is the proprietor of Skullduggery Tatu on Dublin Road in Belfast. She says:
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Actress Angelina Jolie

Pitfalls of the podium

Sunday, 15 February 2009

Every year they get us squirming in our seats, choking on our TV snacks and hurling abuse at the screen, but the Oscars just wouldn't be the Oscars without the speeches and a flood of tears from the winners.
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