After winning WBO’s Oriental Super Middleweight Belt, Indian Boxer, offers it back to his Chinese Opponent in a Gesture of Peace Physicist Designs Birth Control App Gold Nanoparticles could Boost Drugs treating Lung Cancer Satellite Firm looking to Create jobs in Snowdonia British Army training Gamekeepers to combat Poaching in Gabon New Grass Snake Species […]
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Kidnapped Journalists freed in Colombia Clinical Trial Date set for Britain’s 1st Artificial Heart Pump SpaceX Completes Back-to-Back Launches Suicide Attack foiled in Saudi Arabia Retired UK Ambulances helping to save lives in Syria Gmail to end Ad-Targeting E-Mail Scans Financial Services firm to create 300 Jobs in Edinburgh Wonder Woman Movie continues to break […]
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Welsh Assembly to be renamed Welsh Parliament Defibrillator Drones Rubber Algae helps create Artificial Reef Ocean Plastics turned into Laptop Packaging DIY Handheld Games Console hopes to Teach kids about Electronics Hand Reared Birds released to support rare Black Tailed Godwit population Man Rescued from cliff in Gwynedd Queen Elizabeth recreates Historic Train Journey Retired […]
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Apologies for the, extended, time away. Between work, holidays, family and, my brain wanting to eat me alive, Reasons to be Cheerful has fallen a little by the wayside. However, we are back with a bumper crop of great news stories. My favourite? Has to be Wiltshire’s answer to Iron Man, inventor Richard Browning. Having […]
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Malta bans ‘Gay Cure’ Conversions Google Data Centres to be Powered by 100% Renewable Energy 1st Photos from Cassini’s New Orbit Woman gives Birth to Grandson for Daughter Queen’s University Belfast to lead International Research into Body Toxins Secret Life of Seals Kidnapped Greyhound comes Home Terracotta Warriors coming to the UK Prestwick Spaceport […]
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Great News for Peace in Colombia as a new deal is on the table. Having been following this story for a while and, like many, shocked by the referendum result earlier in the year this is great news. Definitely making me smile today: Colombian Government & FARC to Sign New Peace Deal UN Aid Resumes […]
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Monday’s are always tough, so here are some amazing news stories to help you make it through the day. Muslims across France attend Mass in show of Solidarity Tokyo to elect 1st Female Governor Yorkshire Dales & Lake District National Parks Extended Record Breaking Jump as Skydiver falls 25000ft without a Parachute Thousands in UK […]
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When I started Reasons to be Cheerful, it was in part, to shine a light on British sporting successes and dispel the myth that Britain is bad at sport, and widen the focus from just association football. However, I have to say that hearing that Britain now boasts 13 reigning boxing World Champions is jaw […]
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Apologies for missing yesterday, the path of parenthood rarely runs smooth. So, here is a double issue of your daily dose of the positive out there. Favourite story, going into the weekend, without a doubt, is that the bullethole plugging syringe, that was approved by the FDA last year, has saved its first life. A […]
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WOW!! Bumper batch of good news from the weekend. Solar Impulse’s progress is great, can’t complain about the great news about rescued women and children, and one of the largest insurers in the world ending its investment in tobacco is certainly good to hear. However, the stories making me grin appeal to the gamer in me. First, […]
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