Category: GoodNews
Pub Owner Adopts Dog After it Dashed into Bar When Owner Died in Car Crash–Now He’s a Local Favorite
Shih Tzu dog named Rex adopts English pub as new home –SWNS An adorable dog was adopted by a kind-hearted pub manager after the pooch’s owner died in a car crash. The two-year-old Shih Tzu named Rex dashed into the busy bar after surviving the tragic car accident. Regulars at The Leaping Wolf in Wolverhampton,…
BBC Hayley Jarvis got a text out of the blue saying she owed her energy supplier £5,768 for her old home Hayley Jarvis was shocked when she received a £5,768.09 bill in early January for energy from two and a half years ago. “It was a vast amount of money that would have taken me…
Clay mounds on Mars were formed by ancient water – via SWNS / UK Space Agency A new British study reveals the mysterious mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water. Thousands of mounds and hills in the Red Planet’s barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks here…
Ben King Business reporter BBC Advert for heated tobacco product on display in a Sainsbury’s store in London Sainsbury’s and Morrisons are displaying adverts for tobacco products in their stores which Trading Standards says are against the law. Video screens and posters promote devices that deliver nicotine by heating tobacco rather than burning it. The…
Credit: Jan de Keijzer (Unsplash, public domain) Age-related declines experienced by older adults have significantly slowed down, according to a new study published last month in Nature Aging. Improvements in education, nutrition, and sanitation across the 20th Century likely played key roles in the improvements of cognitive, locomotive, psychological, and sensory capacities. The study—from the…
A small plane has crashed into several homes in northeast Philadelphia on Friday evening, local police told BBC’s US partner CBS News. Two people were aboard the plane and there are reports of others injured on the ground, police said. Fire officials in Philadelphia said multiple homes are on fire following the crash and explosion.…
6 years ago today, the Chew Valley Hoard was discovered in the Bath countryside. Sold for £4.3 million, it is the most valuable coin hoard ever discovered by English metal detectives. Consisting of 2,528 coins minted during and after the conquest of England by William of Normandy, with 1,236 coins bearing the seal of Harold…
Laura Bicker China correspondent Reporting fromJiangsu, China, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia Inside the factories that could be hit by Trump’s China tariffs A hiss and puff of compressed air shapes the smooth leather, bringing to life an all-American cowboy boot in a factory on China’s eastern coast. Then comes another one as the assembly line…
She Hasn’t Purchased Groceries in 4 Years–All Her Food Comes From Dumpsters Behind Supermarkets–LOOK
Sofie Juel-Andersen with dumpster diving groceries – SWNS A woman has found a positive side to the problem of food waste—and now gets all her groceries for free from supermarket dumpsters. Sofie Juel-Andersen began her dumpster diving saga while living in Sydney, Australia, taking only fresh produce from designated bins, but soon realized she could…
France: Ramos; Attissogbe, Barassi, Moefana, Bielle-Biarrey; Ntamack, Dupont (capt); Gros, Mauvaka, Atonio, Roumat, Meafou, Cros, Boudehent, Alldritt. Red card: Ntamack 71 Replacements: Marchand, Baille, Colombe, Auradou, Guillard, Jegou, Le Garrec, Gailleton. Wales: L Williams; Rogers, Watkin, Tompkins, Adams; B Thomas,-T Williams; G Thomas, Lloyd, H Thomas, Rowlands, Jenkins, Botham, Morgan (capt),Wainwright. Replacements: Dee, Smith, Assiratti,…
