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By Jill Dando News Director of the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), Professor Melanie Davies CBE, has been chosen to receive a 2025 National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Award from the American Diabetes Association (ADA). The awards honour academics, health care providers and educators who have contributed to
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By Jill Dando News Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm has become one of the first zoos in the UK to achieve accreditation by the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) and to be awarded the mark of excellence in animal care, conservation, and education. The rigorous accreditation
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By Jill Dando News NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 completed the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, in the Gulf of America. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and
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By Jill Dando News A heart-warming gesture from Weston College’s carpentry students has brought smiles to the residents of Dewdown House Care Home in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, which is run by The Salvation Army. As part of their ‘Benches and Biscuits Initiative’, the students crafted and donated a beautiful, custom-made
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By Education Correspondent A group of Year 10 students from Clevedon School in North Somerset, UK has won a prestigious £500 prize for their outstanding environmental research and community impact. The inspirational budding eco-physicists investigated Clevedon’s local environment, creating a powerful presentation that sparked meaningful discussions about sustainability. Their
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By Jill Dando News Royal Air Force base’s partnership with Cornish charity Prickles and Paws is helping the region’s hedgehog population to flourish Prickles and Paws Hedgehog Rescue is delighted to share that it has released over 100 hedgehogs back into the wild at RAF St Mawgan since
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By Education Correspondent The two universities in Bath are supporting Bath BID’s Bath Safe Bus initiative, which has run for the past two years. The University of Bath and Bath Spa University have given £20k in funding to support Bath BID's Bath Safe Bus, helping it to
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By Ellise Hollie-Hayward, Disabilities Correspondent 1Voice is a small UK charity dedicated to bringing social connection and positive role models to AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) users, their families, and those who support them. While most people use their voices to communicate, those who cannot or choose not to use
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By Jill Dando News LOVABLE Lottie the Cavapoochon has been walking all over Lancashire, along with pupils from the six schools she visits, in the Top Dog challenge for Derian House Children’s Hospice. The goal of the four-legged fundraiser is to rack up 100km throughout February – equivalent to two
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By Jill Dando News Work to plant 570,000 trees has begun as part of a Scottish university’s nature-based solution to tackle climate change. The extensive tree planting is taking place across the University of Edinburgh’s land in Stirlingshire and the Pentland Hills Regional Park. Over the course
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By Jill Dando News A cat has been honored with an award for drawing customers into a charity shop in Somerset that she visits regularly. Eight-year-old Bean has been making daily visits to the Sue Ryder charity shop on Severn Drive in Taunton for the past five years, whenever the
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By Jill Dando News NASA will provide live coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with Dragon spacecraft hatch closure preparations at 10:45 p.m. EDT Monday, March 17. NASA and SpaceX met on Sunday to assess weather and splashdown
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By Jill Dando News Health and wellbeing experts at Swansea University are sharing the importance of physical activity for everyone, regardless of age, race, or gender. As part of Welsh Institute of Physical Activity, Health and Sport (WIPAHS), researchers at Swansea University not only consider a wide range of issues
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By Education Correspondent In recognition of International Women’s Day 2025, Clevedon School has launched a powerful initiative to promote gender equality and raise awareness of the challenges many still face today. Through a series of thought-provoking assemblies and a specially produced video, the school is providing students with a
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By Business Correspondent Marks & Spencer colleagues work closely with Neighbourly charity partners to redistribute surplus food from store, supporting over 4.7 million individuals. Over 3,000 local charities and community organisations across the UK provide M&S meal donations to support the community, including families in need,
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By Jill Dando News A huge congratulations are in order for Jake and Kirsty from Ashley Leahy Estate Agents, who completed the Bath Half Marathon 2025 to raise funds for the Donate For Defib W-s-M Project. The dynamic duo went the extra mile, pounding the pavement to support a vital