Police Help Blind Novelist Recover Pages Written Without Ink
Part of a novel lost when a blind woman's pen ran out without her knowing has been salvaged with the help of a local forensic police team.
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The Amazings: Join a UK Website to Teach Your Skills and Get Paid
Everyone has a skill. Now retirees and other talented individuals in London are invited to share their passions by joining The Amazings, a new social enterprise that helps people with skills to teach others by way of group classes and activities. The website explains, We handle the advertising and payments – all the Amazing has to do is decide when they want to run their experience, turn up, be amazing, and then collect the cash.
Apps for Good: Disadvantaged Youths Invited to Develop Mobile Applications
The group of altruistic technology professionals working under the name Apps for Good is now recruiting immigrants or unemployed youths from East and South London to develop phone programs relevant to their needs, and in the process teaching entrepreneurial skills and encouraging confidence.
Strangers Unite Online to Save Barbershop Ransacked in Riots
89 year-old Aaron Biber's barbershop has been a mainstay in his Tottenham neighborhood for 41 years, but it took one night of rioting to nearly destroy it. But some kindhearted strangers launched a fundraiser online to help restore the shop to its former condition.
Happiness Movement Launches This Week in Britain
A growing band of British economists, politicians and academics is thinking seriously about happiness — and they are putting theory into practice by starting a "mass movement for a happier society." Action for Happiness launched Tuesday in London, encouraging hugging, meditation and random acts of kindness.
Watch This Joyful Deer Go For a Morning Skip Across an English Beach
We guarantee that this happy, bouncing, sun-lit fawn is the most beautiful thing you will see this week.
Community Responds to Attack With a 'Love Bomb' of Support for Shopkeeper
When an arsonist attacked a shop catering to immigrant tastes, a community in England came together to help the shopkeeper, and stand with love.
Guy Turns His Life Around, Studying Every Inch of London Streets (WATCH)
This ex-con's chosen method of therapy is driving with the wind in his hair – and memorizing 3,000 different streets in London.
British Kids Perform Random Acts of Kindness With Record Levels of Cuteness (WATCH)
English schoolchildren spread out across Bristol in an attempt to set a new world record for the most random acts of kindness in a single day.
UK Football Stars Buy Hotel, Invite Homeless to Stay For Winter
Usually, the cops are called when homeless squatters show up, but the Manchester United football stars who owned the building welcomed them in for the winter.
Watch Florence & the Machine Perform Surprise Concert for Teen in Hospice
English indie rock band Florence And The Machine heard that a teen fan girl couldn't leave hospice to attend the show–so they brought the music to her.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Donates $1.3Mil For Arts Education in US Schools
At the 70th annual Tony Awards, it was announced that Andrew Lloyd Webber was giving $1.3 million to music and theater education in America.
African Man Flew 3000 Miles to See Favorite Team; When Match was Cancelled, Fans Rally to Help
After a bomb scare nearly dashed his hopes, a man from Sierra Leone found out how wonderful the English football fans can be...
Quiet Hour Instituted at Grocery Store is Gift for Autistic Shoppers
After seeing a mother struggling to help her autistic son, a store manager got the idea to start a "quiet hour" to help customers who have sensory issues.
Dramatic Video Shows Crowd Lifting Double-decker Bus Off Unicyclist
Incredible video footage has captured the moment up to 100 bystanders in London lifted a double-decker bus to save the life of a unicyclist trapped underneath its wheels.
8-Year-Old Entrepreneur Builds Online Fortune Selling Marbles
Harli Jordean found his true passion before most other entrepreneurs -- at eight years old. While his friends are playing computer games, he is busy liaising with suppliers, buying stock and handling orders for his internet marble empire.
Racing Team Helps Boy Fulfill Dream: A New Bionic Hand
A 14-year-old British boy born without a hand is getting his wish after writing to the boss of his favorite Formula One racing team, Ross Brawn, who had previously been a student at the boy's school. The high-tech bionic hand costs £30,000, and the boy's family had nowhere near the money to purchase the advanced equipment. His plucky letter moved Mr. Brawn to action.
Why This Welsh Granny is Pulling 300 Pounds Across America
At 68, Rosie Swale Pope isn't slowing down, she's running straight ahead—from New York to San Francisco—which doesn't impress her all that much. She once ran around the world.
Boys Win Right to Wear Shorts By Wearing Skirts in Heat-Wave Protest
These overheated schoolboys wore skirts to protest their academy's stuffy dress code – and were rewarded for their rebelliousness.
Adele Surprises Grenfell Tower Firefighters with Cake
The Grammy award-winning singer is being hailed for saying "Hello" to the Grenfall Tower firefighters and victims alike.
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