Well Autumn has turned up with avengance, I’m bruised, battered but generally unbowed after a rainy Sunday afternoon getting hit by big dudes in body armour. Season is over for the Phoenix but be sure the boys will be back in 2014.

But when you hear the US & Russia are making plans and that Iran & the US are talking you can hold on to a little sunshine and then I read this…

Ethiopian child mortality rate more than HALVED!
Child ICU deaths at an all time low

Today is a BLOWOUT day on Good News. Rain starrted falling and someone has turned round and dug up an extre helping of WOW!
Read on and maybe you’ll be smiling as much as Mexico’s first openly gay mayor.

• Ethiopian child mortality rate more than halved
• Child ICU deaths at an all time low
• US & Iranian presidents exchange letters
• Huge Tidal Energy project approved
• Japan halts last nuclear reactor
• Somalia set for ‘New Deal’
• Mexico’s first openly gay mayor in Zacatecas
• Child cataract blood test developed
• Kenyan & Zimbabwean conservationists honoured
• Japan launches affordable rocket
• Man rescued from Belfast flat fire
• Confidence growing for small firms
• Work restarts in Kaesong
• Costa Concordia Salvage underway
• Bale Scores in debut for Real
• GB in Davis Cup Win
• World Canoe Slalom Gold for GB
• British clean sweep at world Paratriathlon
• Footballers invited to wear rainbow laces in anti-homophobia launch