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Madeleine Sanders pays tribute to close friend Beth Purvis, who wrote for the Indie about living with stage 4 bowel cancer and has died aged 42.

Bowel disease campaigner Beth passed away peacefully in St Clare Hospice, just five days after her 42nd birthday.

When Harrison Compton's mum Dee was given a devastating diagnosis that turned their world upside down, he knew he had to act.

The curvature in Leventhorpe student Holi Kingston’s spine has nearly doubled and her family are raising £33,000 for an operation in Germany.

Stortford's Tom Ryder contributes with Joe Wicks, Kelly Holmes and Zoe 'Zoella' Sugg to The Book of Hope: 101 Voices on Overcoming Adversity.

How year in lockdown, taking 7,280 tablets with a lack of exercise and social interaction, has affected Indie columnist Julie Walker's Parkinson's.

Stortford man James Gavin, 44, was diagnosed with crippling neurological disorder FND – and now his family's world has changed forever.

Bishop's Stortford teenager and movie fan Matthew Goodeve exorcised his Covid worries in a thought-provoking short film.

By day, he's a motorsport photographer. At night, Colin Brister's focus is on the foxes that visit his back garden in Barrells Down Road.

Amy Fleckney's experience of escaping an abusive relationship is part of an anthology aimed at getting women to talk about their mental health.

Running fan Amy Petridis on the pleasures of pounding the pavements and parks – and the sinister side...

Studying from her Stansted bedroom instead of Bath campus, ex-Birchwood and Leventhorpe student has harsh words for the Govt over uni fees.

Angela Barton writes in memory of Peter Chase, firm friend with whom she shared interests in music, books, politics – and laughter.

Thirst Youth Café provides a safe space for young people to meet and make friends, helping to reduce social isolation.

The Indie's Parkinality columnist Julie Walker chooses her personal highlight, challenge and lowlight from a very different 2020

The Indie is getting behind Bishop's Stortford Salvation Army's £11,400 appeal in aid of 90 families and 230 children in need.

16-hour surgery to remove life-threatening growth left Stortford mum, 39, partly deaf, with partial facial palsy and balance problems.

Tom Ryder: "There's a massive problem in society, bigger than Covid-19, and most people either underestimate it or don't discuss it."

Chris Donovan and Emma Warren at Stansted Mountfitchet-based private practice Dynamic Counselling can offer professional support when times get hard

Uttlesford's three leisure centres welcome back gym users with Stansted's Mountfitchet Romeera opening on Monday, but swimming pools remain closed.