Category: GoodNews


  • Catherine Connolly elected as president of Ireland

    Catherine Connolly: “I will be an inclusive president for all” Catherine Connolly has been elected as the president of Ireland after a landslide victory. She has become the 10th president of the Republic of Ireland after defeating Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys, who had already conceded to her rival. The result, long clear from early tallies,…

  • Just Half an Hour Less of Sitting Each Day Can Boost Energy and Metabolism

    by Getty Images For Unsplash+ Cutting your couch time by 30 minutes every day would give you an energy boost by improving metabolism, according to new research. It shows that reducing the time youโ€™re seated can improve your bodyโ€™s ability to utilize fats and carbohydrates for energy production. Study author Dr. Taru Garthwaite explained that…

  • How to cope with long winter nights when the clocks go back

    BBC Let there be light – a therapeutic lamp can counter the darkness indoors on short days As the clocks go back and the darkness draws in, spare a thought for those living with the longest nights in the UK. In the depths of winter, Scotland’s northern isles will see barely six hours of daylight…

  • You Can Buy This 100-year-old Convent for a Promiseโ€“That You Preserve its History

    Convent in Gravelbourg c. 1926 โ€“ Credit Town of Gravelbourg This is the convent of Gravelbourg, a small town in Canada that boasts a long-time motto: โ€œa touch of Europe on the prairie.โ€ For over a decade this stately buildingโ€”a true stunner in the middle of very little elseโ€”has been useless and vacant, but the…

  • Harlequins Women 52-22 Loughborough Lightning: Ellie Kildunne returns in PWR thriller

    Harlequins: Kildunne; Torley, Pena, Parry, Wilcock; Tuima, Packer; Turani, Powell, Hanlon, McIntosh, Fleming, Wythe, Svoboda, Konkel Replacements: Phillips, Sims, Delgado, Shirley, Brooks, Burgess, Cromack, Shillaker Sin-bin: Svoboda [64] Loughborough Lightning: Green; Mataitoga, Kelter, Morrall, Westcombe-Evans; Nelson, Brebner-Holden; Young, Calladine, Sagapolu, Boyd, Ives Campion, Hibbert-Jones, Kabeya, Lutui Replacements: Treder, Williams, Belisle, Brody, Waudby, Maude, Brown, Scantlebury…

  • Quarter Century of Collecting Seeds From Around the World Safeguards Them From Extinction

    โ€“ Jeff Eden ยฉ RBG Kew After 25 years of diligent work, an English botanic gardens is ready to face whatever reality climate change may throw at us, safe in the knowledge that a large chunk of the worldโ€™s plant diversity lies safely tucked away underground for future generations. By the numbers, the Millennium Seed…

  • Retail sales hit highest level since 2022

    Retail sales volumes have risen for the fourth month in a row, driven by consumers buying gold online and new tech gadgets. Monthly sales rose by 0.5% in September 2025, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show, defying an expected decrease of -0.2%. “Although food stores saw very little growth, good weather…

  • Good News on This Day in History โ€“ October 24

    Happy 40th birthday to Wayne Rooney, former Manchester United talisman and captain of the England national team. Part of a golden generation that helped to cement the English Premier League as the best in the world, Rooney made 559 appearances for Manchester United, scoring 253 goals from a variety of forward positions. Rooney is the…

  • Rapper Ghetts charged after fatal hit-and-run in Ilford

    The rapper Ghetts has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a fatal crash in north-east London. The musician, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, allegedly failed to stop after hitting a 20-year-old man in Redbridge Lane East, Ilford, on Saturday, 18 October, the Met Police said. Mr Clarke-Samuel, 41, appeared at…

  • Woman Rescues Cat That Survived in Derelict Bathroom for Two Years: ‘Rescuing starts with noticing’

    credit โ€“ Chiku Singh / SWNS A British woman recently rescued an abandoned housecat who had been living for 2 years in a derelict bathroom, and is arranging to fly the โ€œgentleโ€ animal back to the UK. Hobbyist animal rescuer Chiku Singh was sent a picture of the long-haired cat by a stranger and drove…