Just Heartwarming News Content Archive
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- California teenagers recycled 22,000 used sports balls in a day. In a Wisconsin prison, twenty men raised a hundred monarchs
- Volunteers replanted five neglected railway stations — one has won a new national award for it. Tonight, more than 450 people sleep on the Kop
- Cindy Wilson gives her flowers away by the basketful. Matthew Buller spent 140 hours on a school clock that had been silent for decades.
- Two friends pushed 310 miles to Amsterdam on skateboards. In Staffordshire, a group helps people with hoarding disorder recover their homes.
- Devizes' white horse had gone green, so volunteers are putting up to 30 tonnes of chalk back on it. In Vermont, a first cleanup pulled 1,300 syringes off a riverbank.
- A mother in Shropshire has given 90 pints of breast milk to other people's babies. In Ely, a ten-minute favour has run for 50 years.
- A 670g baby gave a Birmingham restaurant its name. In Hampshire, volunteer bakers give children their birthday cakes.
- Angela Hallam has made football mascots at home for nearly 40 years. William Hunt, 15, fed the calves before school and after.
- A Corsham dumping ground is now an award-winning garden one volunteer calls a reason to get up. A Lincolnshire school found a 23ft Bayeux Tapestry copy in its attic.
- Haxby's old netball courts are now the Val Kennedy Courts, named for the woman who helped start the club in 1980. In Devon, a man who left the TV after Arsenal lost found a woman stuck chest-deep in mud.
- Redditch and Bromsgrove's talking newspaper has read the local news aloud, free, for 50 years. In Lancashire, a man who had two kidney transplants and his partner have fostered 13 children.
- More than 100 scooter and motorbike riders answered a Garstang care home's appeal. And a man left his old primary school £8,000, more than 80 years after a teacher guided him through the long grass.
- Free Winnie-the-Pooh books are being put into 150 phone-box libraries around Britain. And a diary found in a skip near Stourbridge in 1965 has finally put a name to the soldier who wrote it.
- A stranger promised a tarp for a storm-damaged Kansas roof, and came back with lumber and a crew. In Kansas City, ten years of turning rejected produce into somebody's dinner.
- A great horned owl hung from a barbed-wire fence near Spearfish, South Dakota, and one driver after another stopped. In Northumberland, twenty volunteers spent two years putting a closed railway back together.
- A stranger folded a girl a paper crane while she waited for her grandfather, and she kept it for ten years. In Gateshead, a book group's walk in the woods brought a man outside again.
- A 1957 wedding album was dumped behind a Wakefield cafe. A few miles away, a stranger worked out whose it was.
- Barefoot up Snowdon three and a half times in a storm — and a Nottinghamshire exhibition about eight and a half months sleeping rough
- A supercar designer thanks his surgeons with a robot named George — and a Cincinnati lemonade stand that has raised $5 million
- A mechanic turned eleven junk-filled plots into a farm that gives every pumpkin away — and in York, a spare room that has taken in five young people
- Stourbridge's station cat has a book and 260,000 followers — and in London, 15 frogs the size of a pencil tip have just been born
- A Wirral toddler's donor match arrived the night before treatment — and a Derby 12-year-old who once had no words is about to give a speech
- A £400 estate car, a 10ft Marshmallow Man, and an app built for the day the signal dies
- He read his wife's anniversary card at 86 — in Bedford, a Roman villa has been coming out of a field since 2011
- Three manikins, a man in the road — and the sixth Beatle a city took 18 months to paint
- A cry in the Asda car park, 40 births later — and a school that answered a fire with fairy doors
- Twenty-eight years of asking for a hospice — and a 16-year-old who rebuilt his race car nut and bolt
- A 62-foot steel boat in a Texas front yard — and a canal Parliament abandoned in 1914
- A Vermont woman cleans the gravestones of people she never met — and 57 retired hens are looking for a garden in Hereford
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