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Meet the inspiring women still lacing up their trainers in their ninth decade

Jane Taylor, 67, a retired nurse, lives in Cheshire with her husband Robert, 72. Ever since I was a little girl, I’d dreamed of becoming a ballerina. I started dancing aged three, and continued long i

I was lucky enough to have grown up a stone’s throw from Clapham Common, south London. There was a pond where you could catch tadpoles and sticklebacks to take home in a jam jar, a bandstand where chi

It’s time to fight back against female inequality when it comes to working out

If you’re feeling creaky as the end of the season approaches, take heart from these tales of the more mature thruster, says Tessa Waugh