Daily Diamond - 'Monster Marketing' - Cashing in on Loch Ness

The Loch Ness Monster has been luring people to the Scottish Highlands for almost 90 years, bringing around a million visitors and an economy for the locals worth tens of millions of pounds every year. Nessie has even made it to number three on Wanderlust’s top 18 Mysteries to Solve in......
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Daily Diamond - New Facebook App to Raise Awareness for Dementia

Having a friend or relative with Alzheimer’s disease can be scary and unsettling, especially as there isn’t anything you can really do to help them. But what it is like for them? A new Facebook app has been created by the charity Alzheimer’s Research UK that tries to give users a......
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Daily Diamond - Lottery Funding for Child Domestic Violence Protection Programme

A project in Wales has just been awarded £2 million Lottery funding from the Big Lottery Fund to go towards helping more young people and children involved in domestic violence and abuse.
Calan DVS, a charity that provides a range of support options for people experiencing domestic abuse and......
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Daily Diamond - 19th Century Sunken Ship Rediscovered

On the morning of 22 August 1888, a steamship called the City of Chester was carrying her passengers along the Californian coast in a shroud of dense fog. As the 202-foot-long ship (around 62 metres) neared the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay, around 10 o’clock in the morning, disaster......
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Daily Diamond - Human Skin Grown in Lab: End of Animal Testing?

Although testing cosmetics and other products on animals is illegal in the UK, as is the selling or importing of products with animal-tested ingredients within the EU, there are still some countries in the world where it is the norm. But that could all now come to an end!
Scientists have managed......
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Daily Diamond - Spielberg to Tackle Live-Action BFG

Award-winning director and household name Steven Spielberg has confirmed that he is going to direct a live-action adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG.
Spielberg has some hefty titles under his belt: Jaws, ET, Gremlins 1 and 2, the Men in Black and Indiana Jones franchises, Oscar-winning......
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Daily Diamond - Violent Crime Rates Fall in England and Wales

According to a study conducted by a team at Cardiff University, violent crime has fallen dramatically in England and Wales over the past 13 years, and it might have something to do with fewer people binge drinking.
Examining data collected from almost 120 A&Es, NHS walk-in centres and minor......
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