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Use a trouser hanger to hold your recipe book! This useful tip will stop you from losing your page and getting your recipe covered in ingredients when you’re getting creative in the kitchen. Simply hook the hanger onto one of your kitchen cupboard handles and clip your book to it for a stress-free, hands-free, cooking experience.

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A teenager who made and gave out thousands of COVID-19 ‘survival packs’ for young people during lockdown has been rewarded for his good will, BBC News has reported. Alfie Dixon-Clark, from Peterlee, came up with idea as he saw “a lot of people suffering”; he hopes his actions will inspire “others to be kinder”. The 14-yearold was the youngest winner of a North East COVID Acts of Kindness Community Awards, backed by his council. The student estimates he has made about 14,000 activity packs for others during the pandemic, which also saw him produce special VE Day bags for local care homes. The bags contained activities such as colouring pages, craft supplies and snacks including fruit and chocolates.

There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. Amanda Gorman

The odds of getting a royal flush are exactly one in 649,740. Poker fiends have a slightly better chance of laying down a straight flush - try 72,192 to one. However, out of the 7,462 distinct five-card poker hands, you have a 42% chance of getting a single pair.?

BBC News is reporting that marine explorers have discovered a ‘pristine’ 3km coral reef at depths of 30m off the coast of Tahiti, in French Polynesia. It is one of the largest ever discovered at that depth, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which led the mission. UNESCO’s Dr Julian Barbiere said there were probably many more of these ecosystems that “we just don’t know about”. UNESCO director general Audrey Azoulay said the “remarkable” discovery extended our knowledge of “what lies beneath”. The reef was found in November during a diving expedition to a depth known as the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ - part of a global seabed-mapping mission called the Seabed 2030 Project.

1. Name the coffee shop in US sitcom Friends 2. How many human players are there on each team in a polo match? 3. In what year did Tony Blair become British

Prime Minister?

1. Central Perk 2. Four 3. 1997 4. Once (1966) 5. Wellington

Cloudy with a chance of sausages As reported by Sky News, a dog in Hampshire has been rescued from rising tides with a sausage attached to a drone. The Jack Russell terrier, called Millie, went missing after getting free of her lead in Havant. She was found stranded on mudflats near Portsmouth, with rising tides threatening to sweep her out to sea, prompting a rescue effort to swing into action. Police, firefighters and coastguards tried tirelessly for four days to rescue her, but were left scratching their heads when even kayaking out to her wouldn’t work. The chances of Millie being reunited with her owner seemed increasingly slim when a rescuer had the idea of attaching a sausage to a drone in the hope of tempting her to safety. Luckily, the pork-dangling plan worked, with the terrier following the sausage towards her rescuers, and away from the rising tides, to safety.