GUNNY BAGS, FLAX AND BOSTON DANCING | We Saints love a good street and float parade and today’s celebration of St Helena Day brought on smiles, foot tapping and merriment as the island marked 516 years since discovery. The floats are always the highlight
THOUSANDS AROUND THE WORLD TUNED IN TO ST HELENA The largest ever audience for a live event taking place on St Helena, watched as Gemma Lawrence, a 21-year-old Customs Officer from the St Paul’s district, was crowned Miss St Helena 2018 on Saturday night
SAMMI CHERRETT, 37, PUTTY HILL | “When I first arrived here I was working at the Marine Department. One day somebody brought in this little tiny Fairy Tern chick in a box. It was going to be put to sleep because there was nobody
CHARLIE GEORGE, 68, JAMESTOWN | Sharon Henry “I used to be a mason first, building houses. Then I got into carpentry, got to like it and been doing it for over 30 years now. The only teaching I had was at school with Dover
STEVE YON, 30, LONGWOOD AVENUE | Sharon Henry “When the RMS asked me to do this I was really chuffed and felt quite privileged because I wasn’t expecting it. Normally this would have been made on the RMS itself. To do a 3-D cake
TREVOR MAGELLAN, 85, BRIARS | Sharon Henry “It took me about two weeks to make my first guitar. “When I was a boy about 16-17 (1948-49), one of my closest friends Herman Anderson was given a nice Brazilian guitar. I felt a wee bit envious
THE PLACE TO BE AT SUNSET ON ST HELENA | Darrin Henry Rosie’s Bar and Restaurant on St Helena welcomed over 450 guests on Friday night, 8 December 2017, for a sparkling Grand Opening event, with owner and first-time entrepreneur Rosemary Bargo, known to all as Rosie
CAPTURING THE MEGHAN SPARKLE | Sharon Henry Negotiating cobbled streets in killer heels requires serious light-footed deftness and on this Cape Town photo shoot, in beautiful Bo Kaap, our fashion model, Meghan seems to have a black belt in the discipline. She’s skipping along
BUILDING THE MODERN DAY SOLDIER | Darrin Henry #remejobs I’ve just spent the day with the British Army’s Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), climbing into a Challenger 2 tank, checking the fit of the pilot’s seat in a Lynx helicopter and peering
VISIT YORK, THEY’RE MORE FRIENDLY UP NORTH | Sharon Henry Once considered 'boring' the City of York today is anything but, thriving with pubs, tea rooms and restaurants to water and feed the millions entering its medieval walls for a spot of sightseeing. "It was
