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Practical support helps a Somerset great-grandmother keep her family together
When Valerie’s daughter died, she was grieving while taking responsibility for her two great-granddaughters. Support from Somerset Council’s kinship team helped her manage the…
Kettering café keeps offering friendship as its founder retires
A Kettering café described by a regular visitor as a lifeline will continue welcoming people as its co-founder steps back. Denise Mackay, 78, is retiring for health reasons after…
Exercise offers another way to support wellbeing during menopause
Walking, dancing and yoga may give women another way to manage low mood during menopause. A new UCL-led review brings together trials in which regular physical activity improved…
National Trust gift secures a home for London’s oldest restaurant
Diners at London’s oldest restaurant will keep eating in a building whose future now has a new safeguard. The owner of Rules’ historic Covent Garden premises has donated them to…
Garden volunteers reveal the wildlife value of ivy and other overlooked plants
Gardeners wondering what to leave for wildlife have some useful evidence: ivy attracted more insect visits than any other plant in eight years of UK volunteer counts. The UK…
Rescued Norfolk dogs return to meet their carers with new families
Eight poodle-cross dogs have returned to the Norfolk rescue centre that cared for them, this time with the families who adopted them. The reunion at Eau Brink, near King’s Lynn…
Basildon maternity staff secure compensation after unsafe gas exposure
Maternity staff at Basildon Hospital have secured £735,000 in compensation after prolonged exposure to excessive levels of nitrous oxide at work. NHS Resolution confirmed to the…
A gym night gives Nottingham students another way to meet
A Thursday night out in Nottingham has brought students together around weights and a live DJ, with alcohol kept off the premises. Castle After Dark opened at 10pm at Castle Gym…
Bristol’s food scraps come back as compost for local growers
For one Bristol allotment grower, food scraps now come back as something she can use. Generation Soil collects them from her home, makes compost and returns it for her shared…
A meal-deal outing brings Birmingham students together
More than 60 Birmingham students turned a supermarket trip into a chance to meet people, joining the first outing of their revived Meal Deal Society . The University of Birmingham…
Swansea’s new men’s shed makes room for practical help and conversation
Men in Swansea have a new place to fix tools, grow food and find company: a men’s shed at Cae Felin, the community growing project near Morriston Hospital. A £1,800 council grant…
Birmingham’s rescued baths prepare to welcome bathers again
Restored cast-iron baths are waiting to return to Birmingham’s Moseley Road Baths, where a community campaign has protected a place to swim, wash and meet. Swimmers and residents…
A welcome in London at &soul
London can feel lonely, even with so many people around. &soul offers a way to join in, with shared spaces and activities built into a stay. I spent five months there and made…
What a $500 gift has helped me do
Back in July, I received $500 from Drop Dead Generous , which funds people’s ideas for acts of generosity. Since then, I’ve fed around 15 people, bought food and medicine, and had…
Goats get to work on a hard-to-reach Leeds meadow
A herd of Royal Golden Guernsey goats is now helping care for Asket Hill in Leeds, where steep, uneven ground makes ordinary maintenance difficult. Leeds City Council has brought…
Relief from years of pain helps a Worcester woman take up running
After years of endometriosis pain and exhaustion, Carys Thurlby has completed the Worcester Half Marathon. Eighteen months earlier, she could not run for more than a minute. The…
Local detective work brings a stolen wedding album home
Michael Dawson has been reunited with some of the few photographs he has of his late parents, after a Wakefield history enthusiast traced the family in a stolen wedding album. The…
Cambridge plants a park meadow using a tested wildflower mix
Shire horses have helped prepare a new wildflower meadow at Parker’s Piece in Cambridge, bringing an approach tested at nearby King’s College into a public park. The city council…
Practical support helps frequent A&E visitors rebuild life at home
A Cambridgeshire resident who repeatedly needed emergency care has completed rehabilitation, moved into supported housing and reunited with their sons, according to a newly…
AI helps experimental vaccines withstand two months of heat
Vaccines are harder to deliver where reliable refrigeration is scarce. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have used artificial intelligence…
Transect helps researchers inspect long AI runs
When an artificial intelligence (AI) system spends days writing code or running experiments, a final score cannot show everything it did along the way. Britain’s AI Security…
Reported US shift could strengthen Britain’s AI safety checks
Catching flaws before an artificial intelligence (AI) system reaches the public gives developers a chance to fix them. Britain’s researchers could have more room to do that…
Wetter, wilder landscapes could help Britain withstand wildfires
Britain’s growing wildfire risk is worrying. But restoring nature offers a practical way to make the countryside more resilient. A new Rewilding Britain report says just one of…
Young volunteers help preserve Cardiff’s live music memories
Young volunteers in Cardiff have helped save more than 70 residents’ memories of live music, giving audiences a place in the city’s musical history. The Our City, Our Stories…