12 good stories this week, from the trend for cocktails to a plumber’s Hollywood break – iNews

Locals raised more than £320,000 through a community share offer and crowdfunding to buy The Old Forge in Inverie, Knoydart, from its previous Belgian owner, who put it on the market last year.

Britons are drinking cocktails in record numbers, according to research from drinks group AG Barr.

Channel 4’s 2021 drama about a group of friends navigating the 80s Aids crisis leads the Bafta TV nominations, which were announced on Wednesday.

Now, Hollywood has come knocking and this week Crane sold the rights to his story to Stacy Sherman and Billy Ray, who wrote the screenplay for ‘The Hunger Games’, and plan to turn Crane’s tale into a film about ‘the human spirit and music’.

Scientists have nicknamed the star Earendel – an Old English word meaning ‘morning star’ – which is so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach us.

Scientists think they may have found a way to create cats that don’t trigger allergies.

New research has found that eating an avocado a week can cut the risk of heart disease by a fifth.

The world record for the largest crowd to ever watch a women’s football match was broken on Wednesday evening when 91,553 spectators attended the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona.

Three paramedics from the Great North Air Ambulance Service are being trained to pilot the suits, which have five mini jet engines and can reach speeds of 85mph.

The EU approved the merger of train companies Eurostar and Thalys on Tuesday, meaning the new cross-border rail operator will serve five countries.

A packaging material that keeps coffee and food hotter for longer could soon be used for takeaways, after scientists were inspired by an unlikely suspect: the squid.

After 111 days at sea, Jack Jarvis, a 28-year-old soldier from Hamble, Hampshire, has successfully navigated 4,500 nautical miles from Portugal to South Florida as a solo rower.

Funding for almost 1,000 new zero-emission buses has been approved by the Government.

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