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We love a good TWiQ episode that celebrates the wins. And in today's episode we did just that. So here goes, we celebrated the following wins...
Diana Dromey ran her first ever 10k, goin...
Ady Stokes
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MoT Ambassador. Currently semi-retired and freelancing. I am, amongst other things, a writer, speaker, and accessibility advocate. Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator and article editor for MoT and WonderProxy. Testing wisdom, friendly, testing songs and poems. Great minds think differently. STEC and SQEC Certified.
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