youtube.com/shorts/ppZ87... On 15 October 1940, a delayed-action bomb exploded inside Broadcasting House during the Nine O'Clock News. Listeners heard a muffled thud. The newsreader, Bruce Belfrage, covered in plaster dust, kept on reading.
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m.youtube.com/shorts/vw5lD... In the 1850s an iron post near Peterborough was set level with the ground. Today it stands about four metres clear of it. This is Holme Fen, the lowest point in the UK, and the land that draining made sink.
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Wales' oldest man, 107, credits fish and chips for long life Owen Filer, a 107-year-old World War Two veteran from Cwmbran, marked his upcoming birthday with a celebration where he was presented with a com… #LongLife #Celebrated #GoodNews
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Volunteers needed to help clean up York Volunteers are being sought to help with a community cleanup in York. #Volunteers #CommunityCleanup #GoodNews
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Young fundraiser's Halloween spectacular returns for third year A young fundraiser's Halloween event is returning for a third year. #Fundraising #YoungFundraiser #GoodNews
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Callender wins 50th Wales cap as Metcalfe sisters start Alex Callender is set to win her 50th cap for Wales in Saturday's WXV Global Series match against Japan in Tokyo. #Milestone #Celebrated #GoodNews
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Community volunteers take action to tackle speeding in Hemingfield Community volunteers in Hemingfield, near Barnsley, have started taking action to tackle speeding on local roads. #Volunteers #CommunityAction #GoodNews
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Five North Somerset volunteers honoured for decades of service Five volunteers from North Somerset have been honoured for decades of community service. #Volunteers #Honoured #GoodNews
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Scotland Loves Local Awards honour High Street Heroes High Street Heroes are being honoured at the Scotland Loves Local Awards for transforming their towns. #HighStreetHeroes #TransformingTowns #GoodNews
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Four capybara quadruplets born at Shepreth Wildlife Park Shepreth Wildlife Park in Cambridgeshire welcomed four newborn capybara pups, born overnight on 15 October to mother Pepita. #BornSafely #NewArrivals #GoodNews
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Historic Anglesey almshouses to become affordable homes for young people A historic Grade-II listed almshouse building on Anglesey, empty since 2011, has been granted permission to be converted into… #AffordableHomes #Community #GoodNews
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Pottery judge Keith Brymer Jones to marry in Welsh chapel home Pottery judge Keith Brymer Jones and actor Marj Hogarth are planning to marry in their renovated chapel home in Pwllheli in May next… #NewLeaseOfLife #CommunitySpace #GoodNews
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Cairngorms wildfire habitat to be restored with funding More than £1m of Scottish government funding is being spent on nature recovery projects across Scotland. #NatureRecovery #Restoration #GoodNews
youtu.be/e4SBIHGdluc On the sixth of January 2009, the last 199 Woolworths shops in Britain opened their doors for the final time. Woolworths had taken ninety-nine years to build. It took six weeks to disappear.
youtu.be/9hubD24RlDg?... You could once walk from Norfolk to the Netherlands
youtu.be/Rb3nQ0UZnyc Christmas 1839, the ground above the sea at Bindon, East Devon split open, and tens of millions of tonnes of rock slid towards the sea. This coast has been falling into the sea for thousands of years. Every fall destroys a little more of it, and every fall reveals something new.
youtu.be/gsnxLB9s9bs An iron post in a birch wood near Peterborough was set level with the ground in the 1850s. Today it stands about four metres clear of it. The post didn't rise. The ground fell.
youtu.be/QFoQbTOpPxU On 15 October 1940, a delayed-action bomb exploded inside Broadcasting House during the Nine O'Clock News. Listeners heard a muffled thud. The newsreader kept on reading.
youtu.be/QyJCo0mhH_o On a hill above St Austell, someone once sprayed four words on the wall of a house: Kenwyn. Do not demolish. It was the last house in Greensplat, and it came down anyway. For about 250 years, mid-Cornwall has been dug for one soft, white mineral.
Listen to a supermarket. Every beep is a barcode being read, more than ten billion times a day. This is the story of the barcode, from four lines drawn in the sand on Miami Beach to the QR code that may be about to replace it. youtu.be/QagSurNC0VE?...
Ask who invented the computer and you'll get a dozen answers. Most of them are true. It depends on what you mean by "first". youtu.be/L3AuR8OcbMo?...
Ten thousand years ago you could walk from Norfolk to the Netherlands. This is the story of Doggerland, the lost country under the North Sea, and how it slowly drowned. youtu.be/X95SyK_86R4?...
Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire…" For almost a hundred years the Shipping Forecast has been read the same way, in the same order, late at night on BBC Radio 4. It began with a shipwreck. youtu.be/87ddMKXnMPo?...
Under London runs a river you'll never see. This is the story of London's sewers, from Roman drains and the Great Stink of 1858 to Joseph Bazalgette's Victorian tunnels and the new £4.7bn Thames Tideway super sewer. youtu.be/3yUpl0O-M-I?...
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