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“MOST days we could fill our tables twice over.” Since opening for outdoor service on April 12, The Stansfield Arms has been inundated with calls for table bookings, and staff are doing their best to accommodate people. “We are getting hundreds of enquiries,” said front of house manager Jak Locker. “With the sun shining everyone wants to come to the pub. It is a great atmosphere - people have been taking selfies as they have their first pint.” Although it is wise to book in advance at the Apperley Bridge inn, some walk-ins are able to be seated. “People can be lucky, but...

In the Walt Disney film Dumbo, he could always fly but just needed a feather to help him believe. I have had many feathers in my life. These are the people that played a significant role in making sure that I could grow up and lead a happy, healthy and independent life as a blind woman in a sighted world. I was diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease — a degenerative eye condition — at the age of 11, and it was my parents who first swooped in like Dumbo’s feather to change the course of my life. I cannot imagine how devastating it was for them to hear that I was legally blind. Yet even in ...