Happy News Stories

This news report gave me tingles down my spine, it’s such a wonderful opportunity for the blind to see

A British soldier blinded by a grenade in Iraq has said his life has been turned around by technology that allows him to “see” with his tongue.

Craig lost his eye sight in 2007 after being hit by a rocket propelled grenade in Iraq. With the help of the device which comprises of a tiny video camera attached to a pair of sunglasses linked to a plastic “lolly pop” which the user places on their tongue to read the electrical pulses, Craig can see black and white 2d images that the device draws on his tongue

Well Done to Amy Williams who won Gold in the Women’s Skeleton Event in the winter Olympics in Vancouver Canada.

Britain hasn’t won a Gold Medal for 30 years and a Woman hasn’t had a Gold since 1952 Amy did exceptionally well, smashing her opponents times.

I watched on T.V the track Amy practices on here in the UK and I was even more impressed!

Here in the UK we don’t get much Snow and with not many Mountains it’s difficult for British winter athletes to train in real wintry conditions and as a result Amy Williams has been practising on a tarmac track, it doesn’t even have any of the twists and turns that the real Skeleton ice track has it’s just a straight run down a hill.

A dog was found 75 miles out in the Baltic sea floating on a piece of ice

The dog was found by scientists who were doing research in the area, it’s thought the dog may have got stranded on the ice sheet on a river which then floated out to sea.

The dog was taken back to Poland by the scientists were he had a full examination from a vet, remarkably the dog suffered no ill effects from being stranded out at sea on a ice float and is making a wonderful recovery.

Several people have placed claim to the dog after he appeared on polish television, but none have been it’s owners.

A seven year old boy from England has raised a staggering amount of money for the Haiti earthquake fund. The little boy did a sponsored bike ride around his park was hopping to raise £500, but he ended up raising over an astonishing 100,000 after posting on the Justgiving website telling people about his 5 mile bike ride.

In his message he said “I want to do a sponsored bike ride for Haiti because there was a big earthquake and loads of people have lost their lives.

“I want to make some money to buy food, water and tents for everyone in Haiti.”

Some local good news in my area for 2010, Natureland Seal Sanctuary have had a new arrival in the form of a baby penguin . There hasn’t been a penguin birth at the Sanctuary in 15 years.

Two eggs were laid but only one hatched, previous years the eggs had been unfertilized this is the first time Pip and Pepsi have hatched a chick and the new parents are doing a great job by themselves at rearing their new baby, the cold weather meant staff considered hand-rearing the chick, but its parents proved very protective and are looking after the chick themselves.

Good for them humans interfere to much in the rearing of animals and as Pip and Pepsi have proven it’s not necessary for human interference.

This news story made me laugh out loud . A BBC News reporter was doing a piece about a new “unbreakable” Mobile phone and he managed too break it in the interview OOPS!! Hilarious

Put this News story up because I love beat boxing, watch the video it’s cool!

I’ve decided to keep an eye out for good news stories, the type that make you smile instead of the usual news which makes you frown and cry a little inside.

Good News Stories 2010

A 14 month old baby had a chopstick lodged into it’s brain. The baby had been playing with the chopstick while the baby’s mom was in another room.

The toddler is thought to have fallen on the chopstick resulting in the chopstick penetrating 4mm into baby’s brain though the nasal cavity.

Doctors in China removed the chopstick successfully and the child came out from the ordeal with no adverse effects