Alma Nunez Debretzeni, a 17-year-old from St Albans, was runner-up in the BBC Young Musician competition and is proud to champion the recorder. She said her classmates welcomed her warmly back to school and that the experience has inspired her to pursue music as a career.
Twin brothers Marc and Tony Stevenson run a Kent workshop in Bethersden that makes and restores rocking horses for customers, including older models for families wanting to keep childhood memories. Customers often become emotional when they see their restored horse again, and the brothers, both recently turned 70, say they still enjoy the work and feel it keeps them young.
Brenda Willison, a town crier from Norfolk, has been named in the Guinness World Records as one of the world's loudest women. She holds two records, for the loudest female town crier and the loudest female shout, after reaching 105.9 decibels while fighting a cold.
Experts used CT scanning to crack the four-letter code on a 400-year-old brass padlock found in the sand near Margam in Port Talbot. The lock is part of a treasure hoard from the Ann Francis ship, which was lost in a storm in 1583, and it now sits on display at Swansea Waterfront Museum.
