Eddy's Good News: Farmers markets in the USA and worlds first hospital train for war times

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6 Jul 2023, 09:10

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Thursday 6th July 2023

Good News from the USA which is bound to echo in the UK and Farmers markets are not just bouncing back but doing better than ever post-pandemic and the reasons why are really interesting.

When they were allowed to operate, Farmers Markets gave us some genuine human contact when we were craving it so much and some even had local delivery services that gave much needed freshies to those who were really struggling to get it.

Now in the post pandemic and post Brexit chaos of broken supply lines or European suppliers finding it no longer cost effective to export their products here and of course raging inflation, we’ve found supermarkets hiking their prices up to extraordinary levels, but because farmers markets get their supplies locally, we’re not seeing the same degree of price rises and profiteering. A supermarket in Newcastle might, for example, get its eggs from a farm in Essex, but the farmers markets are getting theirs from often within walking distance away. People also want to shop locally more, spend less on petrol, have a lower carbon footprint and support local communities because now we know it’s community and not money that is the most valuable thing.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Inspiring news from Ukraine as we meet the world’s first hospital train to operate in an actual war.

Say bonjour to Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) the famous French charity who go about saving the lives of innocent civilians in war torn countries across the world. In the early days of the Russian invasion they partnered with Ukrainian Railways to set up an eight coach train with an intensive care carriage and even an oxygen generator to supply intubated patients.

They can give urgent medical care and also provide much needed psychological care for people who are shell-shocked, grieving, or just traumatised. They have space for 42 patients, whereas an ambulance can take a maximum of two. They’ve so far evacuated over 3,300 people from the eastern warzone to the relative safety of the west on a 621 mile journey from Donetsk to Lviv. These brave doctors and nurses have amazingly avoided a direct hit, but they’ve had near misses. They missed a missile strike by a few hours which killed 60 people and they bravely returned to collect the badly wounded and take them to safety.

Via: positive.news