Sunday 12 February 2017
Giant dog manages to get trapped after roof jump and has to be coaxed down in an unusual way
An adventurous dog took his walkies to a new height by jumping onto his roof.
Pyrenean mountain dog Ollie was stranded on the 30ft high rooftop while his owners out on a shopping trip.
A shocked neighbour spotted the giant fluffy white dog tottering around on the slate roof instead of his mountain breeding.-read more
Say yes to wheelchair.
From April 6th 2017 any taxi who refuses a wheelchair user will face a 1,000 pounds fine and hit with penalties if charge more.The covers wheelchair accessible taxis and private hire taxis .
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Alice's Bear Shop is a Teddy Bear and Doll Hospital, situated in Lyme Regis, a beautiful, Dorset, seaside town.
We are proud to offer you our beautiful collection of Heirloom, jointed Teddy Bear and Calico Rag Doll making Kits and Patterns. Created using the very best partners we can find and offering you a product that is as green as we can make it while still being affordable.
We are also very pleased to offer you our gorgeous, organic and wonderfully ethical clothing range, EarthPositive®. You can choose from a large selection of colours and sizes.
Ethically created with People, Play and the Planet in mind. read more
Deadman's Island: Six things you wanted to know
The remains of dozens of people who were buried more than 200 years ago are being slowly exposed on an island in Kent.
Horror stories have been handed down the generations about the mysterious site, known as Deadman's Island, so the BBC's Inside Out South East programme took a boat across to investigate whether any of the rumours were true.
Lots of people have since been talking about it on social media sites.
Here are the answers to six things you wanted to know.
1. Where is Deadman's Island and who owns it?
It lies at the mouth of The Swale, opposite the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, off the north Kent coast.
The uninhabited mudbank is owned by Natural England, who lease it to two people.-read more and see video
Sunday 5 February 2017
Deep Thought' - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy dream computer - to be realised by British scientists
British scientists have taken the first steps towards building a real-life version of Deep Thought, the supercomputer programmed to solve the "ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything" in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
The team has come up with the first practical blueprint for constructing a giant quantum computer, a thinking device capable of rapidly providing answers to problems that would take an ordinary computer billions of years to solve.
A proof-of-concept early prototype is planned within two years at the University of Sussex.
But the ground-breaking modular design could theoretically pave the way to a machine as large as a football field with undreamed of levels of computing power.
While Deep Thought's solution to the meaning of life was "42", the Sussex scientists hope their creation will prove a lot more useful than the supercomputer in Douglas Adams's comic space opera.-read more
Scientists find a gene that makes some people taller
The first gene linked to tallness, one of the most heritable of traits, has been discovered by scientists, a finding that is expected to shed light on human development and further understanding of cancer. An international team including researchers at Oxford and Exeter analysed DNA from 35,000 people and found that a single letter in the human genetic code was responsible for making some people taller than others.
The scientists zeroed in on a gene called HMGA2, of which we inherit two copies, one from each parent. Inheriting a form of the gene that has a C written into the genetic code instead of a T adds about half a centimetre to a person's height, the scientists found, while inheriting two copies adds nearly a full centimetre.
The discovery is the first to identify a single gene that directly influences natural variation of height. Around a quarter of white Europeans will carry two versions of the "tall" version of the gene, with another quarter carrying two "short" versions.
Scientists at Harvard University and Children's Hospital Boston joined British researchers at Oxford University and the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter to scour the genomes of 5,000 white European patients who had volunteered DNA samples and details of their height and weight for medical studies into diabetes -read more
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