Rhys Evans from Wales became the first person in the UK to receive a new gene therapy in 2001, as a baby who had spent his first year in a medical bubble. Now 26, he is living a full life and works as a sound technician in Minehead, and the treatment has since helped many other children. Doctors say it has now been given to 136 people with a range of illnesses since 2001.
Harry Kay, from Preesall in Lancashire, has kept weightlifting into his 80s, using television advert breaks to fit in repetitions at home. He says strength training has helped him lose weight, lower his high blood pressure and feel good, and he encourages others his age to give it a try.
John Morgan Jôb, who is 92, was surprised to learn from his smartwatch that he had walked the equivalent of 60 marathons in a year. He walks around 30 miles a week, six days a week, near his home in Llanfairpwll on Anglesey, and says walking lifts both his body and his spirits.
Volunteers including Sheila McHale rescued old photographs, reports and papers documenting the Peak District National Park from a barn clear-out and have been cataloguing them. The collection now has a home at the park's head office in Bakewell and the team plans to create an online archive.
