Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. A man who ran the entire length
of the UK to honor his late parents got a
boost from one of the world's biggest pop stars. I'll
tell you who it is in a second. Laws set
out on an extraordinary challenge, running roughly eight hundred and
fifty miles from one end of the UK to the
other in under seventeen days. Yeah, that's fifty kilometers a day.
That means he did over two marathons every day. Wow.
Laws lost his mother to cancer in twenty twenty after
a decade long battle with the disease. Three years later,
his father passed away after living with heart disease. He explained,
running became my lifeline through grief. What began as a
way to manage panic attacks and sleepless nights quickly turned
into something much more a path forward. I hear you.
When my mother was sick there for a couple of
years theres One day I was stressed and I ran
out the front door, and I was running a lot
at that time, no destination. I just needed to shake
off the stress. I wound up doing nine miles that
day anyway. Las's goal was to raise eight thousand pounds
for four charities that had touched his family's life, including
organizations supporting cancer research, heart disease, children's healthcare, and mental health.
As he crossed the country, he posted daily updates on
social media. Many of those updates included messages directed at
Harry Styles inviting Harry Styles to join him for a run. Well,
Harry never showed up, but he was paying attention. A
few days another challenge, Laws got a message from the
Harry Styles team inviting Laws to attend one of the
Wembley Stadium shows, and then Harry Styles donated two thousand
pounds to the fundraiser. He said, means so much, Thank
you Harry and Harry's team. Also from the UK, a
supermarket chain has claimed an unofficial world record after creating
what they say is the world's largest Picky Bits meal.
The folks at Iceland Foods assembled a giant snack spread
covering a sixty five foot long table with more than
fifteen thousand individual eyes items. The feast included one thousand
cocktail sausages, fifteen hundred sausage rolls, eight hundred Scotch eggs,
and more than one hundred kilograms of cheese. Now the
total sidebar here in my own life. That's the second
time today that sausage rolls have come up in Now
I'm craving sausage rolls. I digress. The display was so
large that organizers used a drone to capture the entire
table from above. A spokesperson for the Iceland chain said,
piggy bits have become a bit of a national obsession,
so we wanted to celebrate them in the biggest way possible.
Seeing hundreds of people come together to tuck into the
feast was a real celebration of the nation's love for
this type of food. In Spain, a new floating solar
platform could help unlock a vast new source of clean
energy without taking up any land. Blue Newables lowered a
platform into the water and a shipyard. They're going to
tow it to the waters off Valencia, where engineers will
test how it performs in real world ocean conditions. The
new platform combines floating structures with bifacial solar panels, which
can capture online from both sides. Because the insulation sits
over water, it may benefit from cooler operating temperatures, potentially
improving efficiency. In Australia, a town crier has made the
record books. Joseph, professionally known as Lord Joseph, has there
in the Guinness World Record. His yell is an astonishing
one hundred and twenty two point four decibels. That's as
loud as a rock concert and almost as loud as
a jet. Joseph told Guinness when I was a kid,
I didn't really have a loud voice. That was very
shy until I left school and I joined the theater.
It was very clear then I needed to pipe up.
And in Texas, be on the lookout for at giraffe.
I'm pretty sure if you see a giraffe, that's the
one we're looking for. She's Greasy, and she escaped from
the Cedar Hollow Ranch and has wandered off into the
Texas Hill Country. Gracie the giraffe was last spotted on
a game camera west of the town of Leaky, So
if you're over there and you see a giraffe, I'm
pretty sure it's Greasy. The ranch has offered a five
thousand dollars reward for information that leads to Greasy's safe
for two officials say Gracie can be identified by her
rounded ears, and are urging anyone who spots the wandering
draft to contact local authorities rather than attempting to approach her.
Thanks for the rounded ears tip, but I'm pretty sure
if I see a loose giraffe in Texas, that's Gracie.
You know, Am I wrong? Is this a thing? Or
they're just drafs wandering they're Texas? Let me know. Those
are your five good news stories for today