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Three inspiring women volunteer their time and make a difference

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Eileen Hutchings is determined to pass on her love of music

‘In memory of Alison, I want to help others’

Annie Bennett, 58, shares her moving story of discovering she had not one but two types of cancer, and how both have brought a new positivity to her life.

IT was one of those conversations on the bus that makes you keen to hear the rest of it. “You know, I really wasn’t in the mood to go,” the woman on the seat in front of me was saying to her companion