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I heard the other day that 60 is the new 40 - and two amazing ladies in this week’s mag make me believe it. Punk fan Ruth rocks out with her band just as hard at 61 as she did at 21. And bodybuilder Ilene only started transforming her figure at 60. N

I’m nominating fabulous care worker Mary Hague as my local hero. Mary, 47, supports four elderly women at a bungalow in Whitton. Helping them to keep their independence, Mary is on call no matter the time, day or night. She even gave up her Christmas

Marine Biomedical are aiming to develop a bone substitute from what substance? The answer to each clue (apart from the first) begins with the last letter of the preceding answer. The shaded squares will spell out the one-word prize answer. WIN £100 P

Richard Roose, a cook accused of poisoning in 1531, is perhaps the first person to be statutorily executed in England in what way? Make three nine-letter words using all of these three-letter sections and enter them in the grid as the starter letters

Treat matching trousers and tops as a chic, easy to wear jumpsuit. Cost per wear you’ll also get three outfit options for the price of two! Give a silky jumpsuit a tailored spin with a smart blazer. For the beach, add a printed headscarf, slides and

WIN 10x £20 Puzzle 5 Look closely at these two pics - there’s a difference in five squares. The five grid references (eg, 1A, 2B, 2C, 3C, 4D) are your prize answer. Your answer: TO ENTER Turn to page 56 for details ■

Q Sometimes my eight-year-old son’s testicles disappear! He can pull them up into his body – is that normal? Klara, Barrow A It’s a neat trick, called retractile testicles, that many grown men would love to be able to copy! There’s a muscle that pull

True-life PATIENT CASEBOOK Head groggy, I blinked my eyes open to see a nurse peering over me. ‘You’re in hospital, love,’ she smiled. It was June 2019, and I was in Milton Keynes University Hospital, having just had a second laparoscopy to look insi

‘It’s recommended that we have a minimum of two litres of water a day, but this can be supplemented with fruit and veg,’ says nutritionist Saba Stone (saboush.com). ‘While not as nutritious as dark greens, iceberg lettuce is very hydrating and it has

Q I hate my small, flat nipples. Boosting cream hasn’t helped – am I using the wrong one? Pippa, Huntingdon A There are several nippleenhancement creams that you can buy. Some contain hormones such as oestrogen, or chemicals from plants that mimic th

Opening the door to her mum and brother, Nicole Zavala, 30, takes a deep breath. ‘Don’t look at me like that!’ Nicole says to her mum Gladys. But there’s a reason Gladys has a worried grimace etched on her face. Her daughter is looking very different

Can you set a puzzle in this format? Send it, with a photo of yourself, to the address on p5. There’s £20 for every one we use! This week’s puzzle was compiled by Nicola Richardson, Withyham, East Sussex WIN 5 × £20 Puzzle 6 1 Of similar nature 2 Aga

What precious stone derives its name from the Greek for ‘fingernail’ or ‘claw’? Get from Start to Finish, making words by joining two boxes together as you go, eg: MO + VE, VE +… you decide! When you reach Finish, two unused boxes join together to gi

Which comedian voiced Pip Bin, the young protagonist of the Dickensian parody Bleak Expectations on BBC Radio 4 from 2007 until 2012? Hidden in this grid, reading forwards, backwards, up, down or diagonally, are 10 items beginning with T, one for eac

Which annual folk festival is known to locals as ‘Wiesn’? To find out, solve the puzzle… Add a letter anywhere in each of the boxed-off words to fit the clue, eg, Small rodent = MUSE + O = MOUSE. Write the added letter in the space provided. Read dow

To solve the puzzle, each 3 × 3 box, each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9. Solve the puzzle and the numbers in the highlighted squares will give you the prize puzzle answer. WIN 2 × £30 Puzzle 11 Your answer: ■

WIN £40 Puzzle 12 Limbo in the French town of SaintTropez was the sandfloored first boutique to be opened by which fashion designer? The answer is the one missing from the grid. ARMANI BOSS CAVALII CHANEL DIOR FORD GAULTIER GUCCI GUERLAIN JACOBS KLEI

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Festac, Victoria Island and the Lekki Peninsula are districts in which African city? Solve the crossword, then read down the yellow squares to find the prize puzzle answer. 1 Tiny (5) 4 Thick mist (3) 5 Fishing pole (3) 1 Secure (4) 2 Enraged (5) 3 C

Reaching the peak of Ben Nevis in August 2020, I admired the view of the mountain range below. ‘We did it!’ my son Caeden, then 8, cheered as he high-fived his dad Alan, 38. As our other two kids, Khya, then 10, and Ashton, 8, caught up, along with o

WIN £100 Puzzle 14 A mixture of scripted drama, dance and music, El Güegüense is a foundational cultural feature of which modern country? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in the shaded s

What word can describe a person offering impartial expert advice in a law court and a springloaded camming device used by climbers? Fit the words into the grid, then read down the letters in the shaded circles. CAT SAD SIN SIR SKI SUE TAD TAR TOE ACE

Q My dad’s becoming harder to look after, due to the fact he has dementia. He recently set fire to his kitchen curtains and flooded his bathroom. I think living in a home would be the best thing for him but my mum begged us to take care of him before

Q My partner is in a wheelchair. He has no sensation from the nipples down and it causes real problems in the bedroom, which means we hardly ever have sex. We’ve been together for three years and I love him but this is putting a strain on our relatio

The subject of various documentaries, by what surname is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage (né Schreibvogel) known professionally? Unscramble each group of letters to discover six unfamiliar words. Now fit them across the grid and you’ll spell out the a

ITV1 & ITVX ● Stars from Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks gather at The Lowry in Manchester for the awards bash that celebrates another great year in British soap. Among the categories is Best Leading Performer, which s

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Walking from the pub, my date’s arm slung around my shoulders, I felt a flicker of happiness. It was December 2017, and I’d met David, then 43, on Tinder. A handsome police officer with a cracking sense of humour, I thought he was just what I needed

Hate the heaviness of sun cream? This lightweight formula absorbs almost instantly for an invisible finish with plenty of protection. This clever conditioner rebuilds the bonds in our hair that can be broken by things like heat styling, bleaching and

The smiling faces of Nathaniel Carrier and his two children beamed out from his social media page. A doting father to Bentlee, then 7, and little sister Kendrah, 5. It was March 2020 and Nathaniel was proudly posting a stream of happy photographs of

Solutions to Chat issue 19 (11 May 2023) Puzzle 3 Comedy Puzzle 4 Michael Douglas Puzzle 5 1C, 2A, 3A, 3C, 4D Puzzle 6 Late Puzzle 7 Straw Puzzle 8 Madonna Puzzle 9 Petula Clark Puzzle 10 Mauritius Puzzle 12 Vase Puzzle 13 Mouse Puzzle 14 Rhubarb Puz

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Chat winners issue 10 (9 Mar 2023) £1,001 CASH C Armstrong, Coventry £500 CASH C Rhodes, Epsom K Garner, Dudley £250 CASH J Mooney, Bathgate S Pickles, Doncaster £200 CASH K Young, Limavady £100 CASH H Espie, Omagh P Clayton, Ilkley J Jebbett, Birmin