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By Community Correspondent The Donate For Defib Weston-super-Mare initiative has received a heartwarming show of support from across the globe, this time from a familiar face—Josh Bell’s former headteacher, Peter Turner, of Ashcombe Primary School in Somerset. Now living in Colombia, Mr. Turner made a special trip back
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By Community Correspondent Socially disadvantaged and homeless performers from Underground Lights community theatre group have been exploring a range of new creative skills on a collaboration project with The University of Warwick. Working alongside local musicians and the University’s Theatre and Performance Studies department during a six-week musical co-creation
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By Jill Dando News Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate the women who nurture, guide, and support us through life. While many people mark the occasion with heartfelt messages and gifts, Herefordshire-based water poverty alleviation charity, Hope Spring eCards is offering a unique way to express love and
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By Education Correspondent Winterstoke Hundred Academy, in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset was delighted to welcome Ambassador Miguel Berger from the German Embassy as part of the German Embassy Languages Week and the #ShoutOutForGerman campaign. This initiative, organised by the German Embassy in London, the Goethe-Institut UK, and the German Academic Exchange Service
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By Jill Dando News The Flying Seagull Project, a UK-based charity on a mission to spread laughter and joy to children in crisis, has just reached a monumental milestone – bringing hope, healing, and happiness to over 500,000 children across 24 countries on four continents. Since 2008, the Flying Seagull
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By Health Correspondent Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Scotland are expected to improve with a new tool that helps place public access defibrillators (PADs) where they are most needed. PADmap combines historical cardiac arrest data and the current defibrillator map to identify optimal locations for new PADs. The
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By Jill Dando News Life begins with a single cell in motion. In response to signals from proteins and enzymes, a cell moves, contracts, pinches, and divides. As daughter cells grow and differentiate, they form a complete organism. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists have now used light to control
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By Jill Dando News Window cleaner, Steven Wadlow battles for twelve years against the art establishment to prove he owns a portrait of William Shakespeare, worth two hundred million pounds. For the last 11 years Steven Wadlow has been trying to prove that the painting which hung above the television
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By Jill Dando News Coming face to face with the arsonist who set her car ablaze while she was pregnant became a turning point in Karen Lamb’s life, inspiring her to dedicate herself to helping vulnerable children escape the cycle of crime. Twenty years ago, Karen’s car was
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By Jill Dando News Southampton Airport and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance are bringing back the popular Runway Run for 2025. On Sunday, July 20th, 2025, runners will be able to take part in the 5K with a difference, taking place along the runway of the Central South
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By Jill Dando News Margaret, the chairwoman of the Naserian Women’s Donkey Welfare Group from Maasai Mara, is promoting the wellbeing of donkeys, who are vital to the local economy. In a region where women often bear the burden of gathering water, firewood and taking food to market, donkeys
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By Jill Dando News The 8th annual Smiley Charity Film Awards, dubbed the “Oscars of the charity world,” wrapped up in spectacular style last night at the Indigo O2, celebrating the power of film to inspire change. A host of celebrity guests from the world of film, fashion, TV, music
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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 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 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 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