‘if i can’t run, i’ll walk, if i can’t walk, i’ll crawl’

Meet Bella, who was paralysed during surgery but vows to defy expectations

By the time Lis Van Lynden found herself trekking across the icy tundra of Svalbard – the remote Norwegian archipelago just shy of the North Pole – she had already been through more than most people e

My illness left me lifeless

Esmée Gummer learnt to run twice. Once when she was a young kid, running with her mum, and then decades later as an adult, six years after being paralysed by a routine surgery that went dramatically a

2025 has been a breakthrough year for soul gospel sensations ANNIE & THE CALDWELLS . A major new album, the patronage of David Byrne and ecstatic live shows have expanded their base beyond West Point, Mississippi to the global stage. Catching up with the Southern matriarch, her husband, daughters and goddaughter in Nashville, Stephen Deusner hears how their mission to spread joy to their audiences is the culmination of a lifelong dream. “I have to smile and tell God thank you because He could have chosen anybody to do this.”

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