ALWAYS nice to see a story with a happy ending and the Daily Mail doesn't disappoint with its tale of four year old Daisy Jewkes, from Brierly Hill in the West Midlands, who was distraught when she lost her favourite teddy bear on the M6 motorway.

'Old Teddy' flew out of the window of her parents' car as they travelled along the motorway near Cannock in Staffordshire.

HOW about this for a whopper! A Daily Mail report tells us that the Humphrey family from Seaham, County Durham, are the proud owners of Oscar, a pet rabbit who weighs more than a stone and is 34 inches long!

A heart-warming story appeared in the Daily Mail about 10 year old Labrador dog Daisy who has been awarded a medal for sniffing out cancer!

Her owner Dr Claire Guest trained Daisy to sniff out cancer in urine and breath samples when she was a puppy.

BRITISH children are missing out on foreign exchange trips, warns an article in The Independent.

They report on a survey of 450 headteachers, carried out by YouGov for the British Council, which showed that only 39 per cent of the country’s secondary schools take part in foreign exchange trips involving a stay with a host family. State schools are half as likely as private schools to offer such schemes.

MONEY makes the world go round, says the song from the musical Cabaret and a new survey, reported in the Daily Express, seems to confirm that.

The study, commissioned to find out the things that put smiles on the faces of Brits in line with the launch of Samsung's Galaxy Note 4, reveals that almost half of those polled said that finding or winning money made them happy.

SIMON Cowell, the lead judge on the popular TV talent show X Factor, seems to attract a cross section of opinion. Some people like him, others cannot stand the sight of him.

And, according to the Daily Mirror, 42 year old mum-of-three Michelle Hall, from Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, definitely falls into the latter category.