Scattered around the relaxing fields of Appin Park on Sydney’s urban fringes, six high schools from NSW have come together to complete their spring course in the National Rugby League’s (NRL) In League in Harmony…
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First Pig Liver Transplant in Living Recipient Shows Promise – Medscape
- First Pig Liver Transplant in Living Recipient Shows Promise Medscape
- World’s first pig-to-human liver xenotransplant in a living recipient reported in the Journal of Hepatology EurekAlert!
- A man in China lived more than 170 days after…
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Television and movie productions help boost Somerset economy
Bulldog Film DistributionUnmoored was set on Exmoor and used local crews to film it Films and television productions, including The Salt Path and 28 Years Later, have helped boost Somerset’s economy with millions of pounds worth of investment.
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Mission to Mars — The new space race
This is an audio transcript of the Tech Tonic podcast episode: ‘Mission to Mars: The new space race’
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Staffordshire teens create app to tackle mental health stigma
Ethan Saundersin Blythe Bridge
BBCThe team of six who came up with the idea for Mindful Mondays are: Sophie Hodgkinson, Anneliese Costain, Tilly Hyatt, Lucie Woodworth, Paris Bell and Lydia Booth A group of students are having an app developed to help break down the barriers around mental health for young people.
It comes after the teenagers, from Blythe Bridge High School in the Staffordshire Moorlands, won a competition put on by suicide prevention charity the Oli Leigh Trust.
Their app, Mindful Mondays, hopes to break down the barriers that young people face around their mental health.
Sophie Hodgkinson, who is 15 and one of the female students behind the idea, said: “A lot of people struggle with it silently and don’t feel like it’s ok to talk about it. There’s a lot of negative stigma around it.”
Tilly Hyatt, also in the team of six, felt it was better the idea came from young people as adults might not fully understand the pressures facing teenagers.
She said: “We know what causes the stress and how to help it.”
The app hopes to offer a safe space for students to talk anonymously about their mental health, while also giving them challenges to help improve it.
“It will build towards having the positive foundation, so people can be happier, focus better in school and help in small increments to have better mental health in the future,” said Anneliese Costain, another member of the team.
Kristopher Knight teaches at the school and helped bring the Oli Leigh Trust project to the school as part of the PSHE curriculum Kristopher Knight teaches science at the school and feels issues with mental health are one of the biggest problems facing schools.
He said: “We are seeing students not attending lessons and a lot of this is about a lack of provisions in and out of schools, because of external factors such as funding.”
“We are not professionals [when it comes to mental health], we are there to support students but our main priority is being in the classroom to teach them,” he added.
Asked about what he thought of the idea the girls had come up, with Mr Knight said he was proud of what they had achieved.
“Any support we can throw out to our students, and any small things they can do themselves or talk to parents about can only be a positive thing,” he added.
“I couldn’t think of anything better to champion than young people’s mental health.”
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Pakistan Reports New Clashes With Afghan Forces Across Border – Bloomberg.com
- Pakistan Reports New Clashes With Afghan Forces Across Border Bloomberg.com
- ‘New Normal’: Is Pakistan trying to set new red lines with Afghan Taliban? Al Jazeera
- Army responds to ‘unprovoked fire’ by Afghan Taliban, TTP at Kurram border:…
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Former Stanley library to become community gym
Pamela BilalovaNorth East and Cumbria
GoogleWork on the site should start within three years A former library will be turned into a community gym aiming to boost people’s mental health.
The empty building, on High Street in Stanley, County Durham,…
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WFW advises Ovolo on strategic APAC franchise partnership with Wyndham
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) advised boutique hotelier Ovolo Group (“Ovolo”) on a strategic partnership with Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (“Wyndham”) that will see five Ovolo hotels join the Wyndham portfolio, and Wyndham rolling the brand out in Asia Pacific.
Under the agreement, Ovolo retains brand and operational control of the hotels whilst exclusively partnering with Wyndham for distribution and to pursue franchised growth opportunities throughout the Asia Pacific region. The five hotels – one in Hong Kong and four across Australia – will be integrated into Wyndham’s global sales, marketing and distribution platforms, including its 120 million-member Wyndham Rewards loyalty programme.
Hong Kong-based Ovolo is an independent hospitality company known for its innovation and disruption, owning and operating a collection of award-winning and individually designed lifestyle hotels and serviced apartments. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the world’s largest hotel franchising group by number of hotels, with over 9,200+ hotels in over 95 countries on 6 continents.
The cross-border WFW team that advised Ovolo was led by Sydney Hotels & Hospitality Partner Robert Williams, supported by Sydney Corporate and M&A Consultant Chris Greiner and Singapore Corporate Associate Meryl Tan.
Robert commented: “We are delighted to have supported Ovolo on this innovative and transformative transaction, which reflects the growing appetite for experiential travel and the increasing relevance of lifestyle brands in the global hospitality landscape. This transaction highlights the focus even the biggest global players have on genuine lifestyle brands and platforms, and WFW’s continued commitment to supporting hospitality entrepreneurs and ventures break the mould across the Asia Pacific region and beyond”.
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Liverpool friends finish childhood kung-fu movie 47 years on
Lynette HorsburghNorth West
Paul SudburyPaul Sudbury and his friends re-started filming The Big Boss after 47 years A group of friends who spent their childhoods in the 1970s making mini-movies reunited to complete one of them 47 years later.
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Paralysed jockey Graham Lee says ‘without hope you have nothing’
Jamie CoulsonYorkshire health correspondent
BBCGraham Lee was paralysed from the neck down after a fall in November 2023 A Grand National-winning jockey has spoken about the importance of keeping a sense of hope, after a horrific fall left him…
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