Daily Diamond - Dedicated Teacher Returns 20-Year-Old Letters Students Wrote to Themselves

Most of us have a favourite teacher from school – the one who pushed us, the one who inspired us, the one who believed in us, the one who let us get away with anything… But it would be a rare thing indeed if we were able to say that teacher was still inspiring us 20 years on.
But the......
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Daily Diamond - Scheme to Help More Pupils Pursue After-School Activities

Thanks to a new offshoot scheme called Pupil Offer, pupils from poorer backgrounds that attend one of the 40 schools involved will be able to get the help they need to pursue after-school interests.
Pupil Offer is the latest feature of an existing programme called Schools Challenge Cymru that we......
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Daily Diamond - Songs of the Operating Theatre

Surgeons from the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff have been looking at which songs make for better listening in the operating theatre. And using this information, they have come up with a list of Dos and Do-Nots for them to work to.
Of course, the song list is only meant to be a bit of......
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Daily Diamond - Police Officer Buys Eggs for Woman Caught Stealing

Helen Johnson from Alabama in the US hadn’t eaten for two days, and all that was on her mind was scraping together enough money to feed her family – two daughters, a niece and two grandchildren aged one and three.
On Saturday 6 December, armed with all the money she had left ($1.25),......
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Daily Diamond - Vital-Sign "Optical Monitor" to be Tested at Broadmoor

Patients at Broadmoor Hospital could be set to test a camera that remotely monitors a person’s vital signs, such as their heart rate or breathing. But before you go thinking that such cameras would, of course, be a huge invasion of the patients’ privacy, they are simply detection devices and......
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Daily Diamond - England and Wales Water Charges to Fall

We don’t get to tell you often enough that your bills are going to fall slightly over the next few years. But according to England and Wales water regulator Ofwat, that is just what is going to happen to your water bills.
Not including inflation, household water bills will be falling by an......
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