From rags to riches

Docs said I should’ve been dead at 14. Over 30 years later…

Last year, I was standing in the Vue Cinema in Leicester Square, surrounded by start-up founders young enough to be my children. We were waiting for the winners of the London StartUp Awards to be anno

After almost two decades in business, entrepreneur Holly Tucker — whose nickname is ‘Hurricane Holly’, such is her rush to “do the next thing” — has become a real powerhouse in the retail industry, ca

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Are you sure, love? Why not go on a nice holiday with a friend instead?” “Honestly, Mum,” Lucy said, a touch impatiently. “I’m thirty, not a teenager! I want to travel, be on my own for a while. Since

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