AN article in The Guardian announces that Grace Jones, who was Britain's oldest person, has died at the age of 112. Grace died at her Worcestershire home, and her 81 year old daughter Deirdre McCarthy said: “I never dreamed when I was a little girl that my mother would be the talking point of the […]

YOU never know what something that has been stuck away in a cupboard or drawer could be worth! The Guardian tells us that a small walrus tusk warrior figure, which was bought for £5 in 1964, has now been revealed possibly worth as much as £1m. The Lewis chessmen hoard was found in 1831 in […]

GOOD news reported in The Guardian for puffins on the island of Lunday, off the coast of Devon. The paper says that since rats were expunged from the island 15 years ago, the number of puffins has trebled to 21,000 birds, according to a study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Apparently […]

IT will be interesting to see the response to suggestions, following a four year study by the charity Youth Music, that school music lessons should be overhauled to include grime, electronic music and hip-hop . The Guardian says that the study concluded that too many schools fail to include current musical genres and recommended that […]

The BBC reports on how a group of diners at Hawksmoor Restaurant in Manchester, who had ordered a £260 bottle of red wine, were accidentally given a £4,500 bottle of the same vintage.

BRENT Council in north London is growing a seven-mile long “bee corridor” of wild flowers in an effort to boost the numbers of pollinating insects this summer. The Independent says that project will involve sowing 22 wild flower meadows in the borough’s parks and open spaces. A council spokesperson said: “Bees and other insects are […]