Closing the gap

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As Alison Balsom prepares to return to the Proms, Marie-Claire Chappet sits down with the classical trumpeter to discuss success, self-improvement and the unifying power of music

I have Sir Neville Marriner to thank for pointing me in the direction of the podium. It was in conversation after a long Academy of St Martin in the Fields tour of Germany in 2004 that Sir Neville fir

UK charity Women in Sport has released new research which reveals that, despite twice as many black girls dreaming of becoming elite athletes compared to white girls, in reality just one in seven are

At the age of nine, Terri White fled from violence to a woman’s refuge. Today, she talks to Jess Phillips , Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse