Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
‘Game changer’ as Norwich night bus returns to UEA
UEA The buses will run from the university six nights a week between midnight and 5am University students could have an easier journey home in…
Endometriosis: ‘My appendix was removed’
PA Real Life/PA Ms Spindler said she had her appendix unnecessarily removed A woman who faced years of “medical gaslighting” while fighting for an endometriosis…
Radlett Aerodrome campaigners ‘devastated’ by court ruling
St Albans: Fight the Freight Campaigners went to the Royal Courts of Justice for the hearing in June Campaigners said they were “devastated” and “disheartened”…
Ipswich world champion powerlifter says sport ‘saved’ her life
Jamie Niblock/BBC Lily Churchyard is already a world, European and British record holder at the age of 21 An amateur world champion powerlifter said the…
Campaigner’s success on baby-loss certificates
A campaigner has won her nine-year battle for more bereaved parents to be able to apply for certificates which recognise the loss of their baby…
Teenager Ellyanne Wanjiku Chlystun’s mission to plant more trees
Ellyanne Wanjiku Chlystun A 14-year-old girl from Kenya has achieved global fame for her efforts to save the planet, meeting the likes of King Charles…
The MacArthur ‘genius’ from India who shattered caste barriers
MacArthur Foundation Shailaja Paik is among 22 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur “genius” fellowship this year In a small, crowded tenement in the slums of…
‘I still get nervous on stage’
ATG Entertainment Brenda Edwards has been playing Mama Morton for nearly two decades Singer Brenda Edwards said she still gets nervous when she performs on…
Coventry plaque honouring cycling ‘trail-blazer’ Eileen Sheridan unveiled
George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images Eileen Sheridan died last year at the age of 99 A blue plaque has been unveiled to honour cycling pioneer…
Television’s Beechgrove Garden presenter Jim McColl dies
BBC Beechgrove Garden presenter Jim McColl has died at the age of 89, it has been announced. He hosted the BBC Scotland’s gardening programme since…