Features

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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