When Kim Parkinson began to lose her sight, her years of enjoying an active outdoors lifestyle seemed far behind her. Instead she focused on making sure she could retain her independence on a daily basis and mastering her white stick technique. But a walking group, established by Henshaws Society for Blind People, means Kim is now back out in the hills she loves.

Real ale fans club together to help save a Hebden Bridge pub by selling shares to the tune of £130,000.

When young Amy Mullen first felt sad, she put it down to experiencing the teenage blues and assumed her friends felt the same as she did. But Amy, now 19, gradually realised she was experiencing different emotions than those around her and depression led her to temporarily give up her studies.

Entrepreneurial fundraisers have made the most of the snow by creating an igloo which is being auctioned online to support the work of a cancer charity. The igloo is described as a smartly appointed ground floor stand-alone studio apartment overlooking Harrogate Stray, in Yorkshire. It also comes with its own snowman.

Album chart-topper Newton Faulkner took his music to the streets as he busked to raise awareness of youth homelessness.

Freida Pinto, the actress best known for her role in Slumdog Millionaire, was so touched by a trip to Africa where she met some of the world's poorest girls that she has signed up as a charity ambassador.

Alan and Kat Thomas are proud to wear their pasts on their sleeves – literally. They spoke to Nic Irwin

Health campaigner AlanBowley went to the Houses of Parliament to plead with MPs for a revolutionary cancer treatment which saved his life to be made available on the NHS.

A HEALTH campaigner has taken his fight for a pioneering cancer treatment to Parliament

A college student in the US was so moved by the story of a British girl's cancer fight, she penned a track which is now listed on the iTunes charts. Ashley Frangipane, 18, who is a creative writing major from New Jersey, learned about five-year-old Ruby Owen's battle against cancer via Twitter. Ruby's story inspired her to write the track For Ruby which is now for sale via iTunes and Amazon with proceeds going to the Donna Louise Children's Hospice Trust, where little Ruby was cared for in her final days.

Ear plugs will be given out at a series of clubs nights designed to raise money for the British Tinnitus Association (BTA).

Artists have created a giant book maze from Oxfam's donated books at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Picture: Oxfam. A maze constructed from 250,000 books has been installed in the Royal Festival Hall as part of the Southbank Centre's Festival Of The World with Mastercard. The project called aMAZEme has been created by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, in collaboration with production company HungryMan.

Brian May, the Queen guitarist and animal rights campaigner, is to perform at the inaugural Wildlife Rocks.

Live blog coverage of Virgin London Marathon 2012.

FINE Art graduate Behjat Omer Abdulla is having his work exhibited at London's Southbank Centre as part of a Festival of Britain.The 35-year-old Staffordshire University graduate was invited to take...