Through thick and thin

Growing numbers of older people are retraining to be celebrants – and there’s nothing like it for finding joy in life (as well as the odd Highland cow), as we find out

Brenda Willison is part of a centuries-old tradition originating from medieval times

DONNA LLEWELYN, 40 I am called the Queen of Cardiff and I am very famous! I picked that nickname up from the public because I used to sell friendship bracelets. I love it! It was a joke from my friend

Lucy Ashton swapped her corporate job for floristry and now she uses petal power to help others...

I’d love to see more of the world, I’d love to learn to play a musical instrument and I’d like to live abroad sometime. Even if it’s just for a short while, it would be great to embrace somewhere new.

The TV presenter and novelist, who turns 68 this month, on weight loss, her unusual way with words, and why she has fallen in love with going to church