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A resident of Himley Hall Care home turned 100 on Thursday, and hasn't stopped celebrating yet.

A man once said that the harder he worked, the luckier he got. For some people, that has proven true. Persistence often makes the difference between success and failure. Some people see opportunity, make plans, and charge ahead. Others let life pass them by. Sidney Umsted saw an opportunity before many others realized it was there. His persistence led to him becoming the Father of the Smackover Oil Field, becoming the first to strike oil in one of the richest oil fields in the state in the 1920s.

MAUREEN PATRICIA GRIGAT (nee CUNNINGHAM) 1953 - 2024 It is with very heavy hearts that Maureen's family and...

Chris McKeen/Stuff Dave Yaxley reads the wartime diary of his great-uncle Jack ‘Johnny’ Crawford. “Whether that’s still there – I don’t know. But I’m going to go and have a look some time,” Yaxley, from Beachlands, Auckland, says. “It reads as if they are off on this exciting adventure, never expecting not to return. I think probably once they got there, reality struck.” But it's Crawford’s final entry Yaxley decides to read: “It was bright moonlight with no clouds, and was a suicidal mission from the start. Chris McKeen/Stuff Dave Yaxley says even though World War...