News
By Jill Dando News Researchers in China have developed a robot that identifies different plant species at various stages of growth by “touching” their leaves with an electrode. The robot can measure properties such as surface texture and water content that cannot be determined using existing visual approaches, according to
News
By Education Correspondent The Meadows Primary School in Bristol, part of the Futura Learning Partnership and rated 'Good' by Ofsted in May 2022, has launched a new initiative supporting families of children with special educational needs(SEN). The program introduces regular coffee mornings designed to create a welcoming
News
By Jill Dando News Statement between the UK and US will bring countries closer on joint priority of creating a safer online world. * First joint statement on online safety between the UK and US governments calls for platforms to go “further and faster” to protect children * Closer co-operation will include
News
By Health Correspondent, Jill Dando News These days in the UK, America and other western nations, health has become big business. So if you want some good news on healthy life and aging, a pop to visit the 16,000 residents of a tribe in the Amazon rainforest may be
News
By Health Correspondent, Jill Dando News The late health journalist Michael Mosely did some tremendous work on giving hope for those living with diabetes. Now a major study has found that the radical NHS “soups and shakes” programme is also producing brilliant results. The study shows that the scheme is
News
By Jill Dando News * M&S Food is the UK’s first retailer to move single and twin garlic baguettes into paper packaging * The change is expected to remove 5.5M units of plastic from M&S’ Food business every year * As part of Plan A, M&
News
By Jill Dando News New student accommodation at UWE Bristol which is the largest low carbon development of its kind in the UK has been completed. Purdown View, a 900-bedroom student village at Frenchay campus, will be fully occupied for the next academic year starting in September. With sustainability at
News
By Jill Dando News * A new report from SumUp, the leading global fintech company, has revealed the best cities in the UK for working parents. * London, Edinburgh, and Birmingham are revealed as cities with the best child support and activities over Summer holidays. * The study analysed factors including the number
Good News Tonic
By Jill Dando News Kind-hearted Bristol has been crowned the most caring place in the UK, according to the country’s leading charitable giving initiative, the Movement for Good Awards. Bristol residents have shown more love than anywhere else, submitting nearly 40,000 nominations to the annual awards over the
People
By Jill Dando News There were lots of smiles and happy faces at TKASA this Thursday as students collected their A Level results. Staff, parents and students gathered at the Sixth Form Centre at the school to receive their envelopes and discuss the exciting adventures ahead of them as they
News
By Jill Dando News Thousands of pieces of soft plastics, such as bread bags and crisp packets, dropped off by customers at Tesco stores are to get a new lease of life as outdoor furniture and garden equipment in a series of community gardens being designed for NHS Property Services.
People
By Jill Dando News The country’s leading children’s charity has launched a new service to help care-experienced young people manage their own home and to live independently. This new service – ‘South Lanarkshire Futures’ – is funded by, and will operate in partnership with, colleagues from South Lanarkshire Council Housing
Animals
By Jill Dando News Seagulls are famous for stealing food from holiday makers on beaches - with their favourites seemingly ice creams and chips. Now researchers at the University of Sussex have worked out why. Their findings published in one of their university papers has found that the seagulls’ cheeky
News
By Jill Dando News Encouraging signs of new life are emerging at the site of the illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland In the UK. Ten months after the iconic tree was vandalized, eight new shoots have sprouted from the base of the stump, each with small leaves measuring
People
By Jill Dando News Two new plant species have been discovered on the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve. The findings are according to Paulo Baleeiro, a PhD student at The University of Queensland and Dr. Richard Jobson, a Senior Research Scientist at the National Herbarium of NSW in Sydney. One of
News
By Jill Dando News It’s good news in the wake of Labour’s landslide victory and their declared manifesto goal of creating “a new Young Futures programme with a network of hubs reaching every community”. Now the Oasis Trust will open a pilot at the beginning of September to