Daily Diamond - Nursery toothbrushing scheme saves £6m in dental costs

Glasgow University have carried out an evaluation of a plan that encourages nursery children to brush their teeth, and found the programme has saved more than £6 million in dental costs.
Childsmile is a scheme that encourages and guides young children to look after their teeth properly,......
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Daily Diamond - Miracle baby born amid chaos from super typhoon Haiyan

In the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, it’s understandable that many people will struggle to smile for a little while, so we wanted to focus on the heart warming stories to come out of the country.
One of these stories involve heavily pregnant, 21-year-old Emily......
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Daily Diamond - Passengers do squats to pay for tickets

The Russian Olympic Committee and Moscow city officials have come up with a great new way to encourage metro riders to exercise: paying for their train tickets by doing 30 squats.
Throughout November, subway passengers can choose to perform 30 “Olympic standard” squats in two minutes. If......
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Daily Diamond - Independent Living Fund here to stay

Five people have succeeded in a legal challenge to the government’s decision to abolish the Independent Living Fund.
The £359 million Independent Living Fund (ILF) provides support for nearly 19,000 disabled people in the UK, allowing them to live independent lives within their communities.......
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Daily Diamond - University of Leicester offers paid student internships

The first ever scheme in the UK to provide undergraduates with paid internships is to be launched by the University of Leicester next year.
Paid internships will be offered by the university to students based in the UK or EU, with 500 available, and each internship will be about 12 weeks......
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Daily Diamond - Childhood music lessons give brain boosts

Children and their noisy toys: a new study suggests that the drum kit or piano lessons your child wanted may not be such a frivolous thing.
According to scientists at Northwestern University in the US, children who are learning to play a musical instrument are giving their brain a boost that......
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Daily Diamond - "Hybrid" Solar Eclipse for Africa, America and Europe

A solar eclipse occurred earlier this month, drawing millions of people to gaze at the sky. Partial and complete solar eclipses occur on average about twice a year, but this one was different. This one was a hybrid.
The moon’s distance to Earth varies, so there are different kinds of solar......
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Daily Diamond - Biggest ever Platypus fossil found in Australia

A creature of contradictions, the platypus looks like the strange combination of an otter, beaver, duck, and many more besides, has venomous spurs on its legs and is one of only five types of mammal to lay eggs, with the other four being species of echidnas, known as spiny anteaters.
It was......
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Daily Diamond - New Breast Cancer test identifies seven types of cancer

Scientists from the University of Nottingham have developed a new test that identifies seven out of the ten known types of breast cancer.
Funded by the charity Breast Cancer Campaign, the new check could lead to more accurate testing for women, and doctors will be able to modify treatment......
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Daily Diamond - Spain emerges from two year recession

Only a year ago, Spain was stuck in the middle of both an economic and constitutional crisis. Madrid had to seek help for its declining banks from eurozone partners. The fragile relationship between Catalonia and the central Spanish government was threatened.
Now, the Spanish economy is slowly......
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Daily Diamond - Immigrants receive less benefits and pay more taxes

According to a new study, immigrants actually pay more tax and receive fewer benefits than people from Britain, contributing a substantial amount to the British economy.
The study carried out by University College London’s Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration found that newcomers to......
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Daily Diamond - The positive influence of Internet chatrooms

We’re always hearing about the negative impact the Internet has on people, particularly teenagers, but what about the positive side of things? Experts have recently discovered that it is not only bad that comes from the internet, and people should hear about the good things that come from it,......
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Daily Diamond - Greenland awards London mining with huge iron ore project

Greenland has awarded a groundbreaking and exclusive 30-year licence to UK-based London Mining, allowing it to build and run a huge iron ore mine in what is being called the largest commercial project in Greenland’s history.
London Mining states on its website that it is expecting the £1.5......
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Daily Diamond - Gold deposits found in trees

Gold grows on trees! Well, although scientists have confirmed that gold has indeed been found in some plants, it is not the fruit of the plant but rather the poison.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) made the revolutionary discovery of traces of gold in the......
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Daily Diamond - Syria destroys it's chemical weapons

Syria has disabled all of its chemical weapons facilities, making sure they can no longer produce the banned armament, in accordance with a deal made with Russia and the US.
This was the second stage of the operation and needed to completed by November 1, a deadline which inspectors from the......
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Daily Diamond - Million Mask March - A Peaceful Protest

Many our readers read us because we focus on good news, people who are fed up with all the negativity in the world.
They aren’t the only ones. Thousands of people around the world took part in the Million Mask March on November 5th to protest against everything they feel is wrong in the world,......
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Daily Diamond - Female prisoners will be given sentences close to home

There are currently around 4,000 women in prison in England and Wales, and many of them are too far from home to receive family visits. This means that children are separated from their mothers for extended lengths of time. Although many people will consider the women to be at fault for breaking......
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Daily Diamond - Frank the bionic man

The first ever “bionic man” built completely out of artificial body parts made his Washington debut at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum late October.
Frankenstein, or Frank for short, is a 6ft (1.83m) tall robot with a synthetic human face, created by Shadow Robot Co in......
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Daily Diamond - First UK trial of heart failure operation

Around 68,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed in the UK each year, and now an operation has just performed for the first time in the UK that can improve the function of failing hearts – while they are still beating.
Heart failure doesn’t mean your heart is just going to stop, or......
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Daily Diamond - Stonemasons rebuild Hadrian's wall

One of Britain’s oldest landmarks, Hadrian’s Wall, will have sections rebuilt as part of a conservation project commissioned by the Hadrian’s Wall Trust.
Parts of the English Heritage site are listed on a ‘heritage at risk’ register, leading the trust to instruct that these sections......
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