Category: United Kingdom

Planting trees for newborns!

Since 1 January 2008 the Welsh Government has pledged to plant a tree for every child born or adopted in Wales. The program is called “Plant!” and is helping to create a welsh national forest of native trees. There are…

The Spelling Bee has a new stinger

Spellers beware! The United States National Spelling Bee has changed the rules of the spelling bee competition. Starting this year the contestants will not only have to be able to spell complicated 5 or 6 syllable words, but they will…

Happy 150th Birthday, London Underground

The world’s first underground railway is the London Underground, known lovingly as “The Tube“. It opened on January 9, 1863 and carried its first passenger the next day between Paddington and Farringdon. The Metropolitan Railway, as it was called then,…

Chasing Shadows

The Telegraph reported a very hilarious story: A young undercover police officer, who we will call Don Joe, was doing undercover work in a market town in the county of Sussex in South East England. He was dressed in an…