Happy News Stories

The Olympic torch has been lite in Greece and will hit the shores of the UK on the 19th May to start its 70 day journey around the UK.

It’s very exciting, we’re not lucky enough to be able to go to London to see the olympics first hand, but we will see the Olympic torch pass through our town on its way to London.

I love the design of the Olympic torch, it has 8,000 holes in it to represent the 8,000 people who will carry the torch across the country. People in the community who have done good/inspirational things have been chosen to carry the iconic flame.

Pupils were saved from a potential road accident thanks to the fast actions of a 13-year-old boy in the USA

Jeremy Wuitschick was the only child on the bus to notice the bus driver pass out at the wheel, his fast action resulted in the bus coming to a safe stop on the side of the road preventing what could have been a fatal accident.

Jeremy quickly jumped up and grabbed the wheel when he noticed the driver slump in his seat and start to make unsual noises, his reaction was to take the keys out of the ignition.

Move over tiger bread hello giraffe bread!

The supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is changing the name of their tiger bread to giraffe bread after receiving a letter from a three year old girl.

Lily wrote to sainsbury’s asking “Why is tiger bread called tiger bread? It should be called giraffe bread. Love from Lily Robinson age 3 and 1/2″.

Lily received a letter back from Chris King a customer service team worker for Sainsbury’s, he told Lily “I think renaming tiger bread giraffe bread is a brilliant idea – it looks much more like the blotches on a giraffe than the stripes on a tiger, doesn’t it?”

A woman survived a perilous fall after her bungee snapped and she fell into the water below.

Erin Langworthy had jumped from a bridge above the world famous Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, Erin Said when she hit the water “everything went black and she felt like she had been slapped all over”.

But Erin’s ordeal wasn’t over with no one to help her below, the fast flowing water took a hold of her, Erin had to swim with her feet still bound together by the bungee through the crocodile infest water.

Her bungee got caught on rocks and she had to free herself.

A woman from Sweden has recovered her lost wedding ring in the most unusual way.

Growing on a ‘carrot’ in the garden.

Mrs Paahlsson was pulling up carrots in her garden when she noticed one with the gold band fastened tightly around the top of it.

Lena Paahlsson and husband Ola say it’s incredible that the ring has been found
“The carrot was sprouting in the middle of the ring. It is quite incredible,” her husband Ola said to the newspaper.

Mrs Paahlsson lost her Wedding ring 16 years ago in 1995 when she was doing a spot of Christmas Baking, the family looked everywhere for the ring that had been designed by Mrs Paahlsson herself.

The guys and gals of HMS Ocean sent their families a Christmas Message to remember by telling them they were coming home for Christmas from active duty with a funny YouTube video.

The sailors made a funny version of Mariah Carey Christmas Hit ‘All I Want For Christmas’ and has become a YouTube sensation with over a million hits.

It made me smile, something tells me with some of those dodgy outfits they were wearing they needed to come home, I think a few of them might have been suffering from cabin fever or should that be disco fever

Residence in Oban Scotland saw £5,000 worth of fireworks go up in smoke in 50 seconds after a technical hitch.

The fireworks display was supposed to last 20 minutes but they all went off at once, it might of lasted less than a minute, but what a minute I would have loved to have seen it, it must have been a real spectacle, the person taking the video obviously didn’t know where to look or what to concentrate on.

We all love the finale at the end of the fireworks display can’t think of anything better than having the whole fireworks display as the finally.

English Comedian David Walliams has finished his 140 Mile Swim down the Thames

What an amazing and inspirational person David Walliams is, David swam 140 miles along the Thames to raise money for the worthy cause Sport Relief.

David deserves ever bit of support in raising money for sport relief after everything he’s been through, phenomenal, I made my donation to Sport Relief, have you? support David who showed the world exactly what the term British grit means .

David is a gem in today’s society, it’s not just the Thames he’s swam check out the video below each one of his sport challenges has been extraordinary

The world record for the worlds largest Plate of fish and chips was broken in Yorkshire

The fish was a whole fish fillet and weighed a whopping 44 Lbs, it had to be lifted into the vat of oil by three men wielding garden folks, clean ones of course

The giant battered fish was served up with 52 Lbs of chips to hungry crowds who had turned up to the Yorkshire Pub for the occasion.

The staff at the Wensleydale Heifer beat the record that had been previously set by a restaurant in the USA

Now this is going above and beyond for your students

A head teacher and 100 staff at Bell Baxter High School in Cupar burst in a flash mob and started to dance in the lunchroom filled with kids 600 kids with their head teacher leading the charge.

Staff came up with the idea to help senior students have some fun before their exams leave began

The head teacher was asked by his staff if he would help by starting the flash mob he said ‘I was delighted’.

Staff practiced in secret to keep their plans a surprise for the students