Eddy's Good News: From World Champion to World heart warmer & return of the Asian Cheetah!

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5 Oct 2022, 09:18

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:

Wednesday 5th October 2022

Heart warming news from the USA as we add another movie star to the Keanu Reeves list, I’m talking about the list of Hollywood nice guys who just can’t stop doing lovely things for strangers.

Say hello to John Cena, if you’re a WWE wrestling fan, you’ll know him very well. He’s been world champion, a knee buckling 16 times since he started his career in 1999. He’s now better known as an action or superhero film star: He’s Peacemaker and starred in everything from fast & Furious films to Bumblebee or Suicide Squad. 

John has just entered the Guinness Book Of World Records for his astonishing kindness in granting wishes for terminally ill children. The Make A Wish Foundation is something he feels very strongly about: “If you ever need me for this ever, I don’t care what I’m doing, I will drop what I’m doing and be involved because I think that’s the coolest thing”, said John who is the most wished for celebrity on the planet. The previous record for granting wishes stood at 200. John is already at 650 and he’s powering on! He meets kids, brings his wrestling world champ belt, hangs out, takes pictures and gives huge smiles to kids that really need one.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Encouraging news from India where they’ve re-introduced the extinct Asian cheetah and they’ve taken an unusual step to help protect them from poachers, they have guard dogs!

Say hello to the 80,000 acre Kuno National Park, on the eastern edge of Rajasthan, where five male cheetahs and three females have been relocated from a game reserve in Namibia, where cheetahs do really well because of the flat landscape and remoteness from humans as well as an abundance of wild game.

The Asian cheetah was hunted to extinction shortly after the second world war and the Indian government are thinking out of the box to help the cats adapt to life in India, they’re training a team of German Shepherds to patrol the park and sniff out poachers. The detective doggos will also be trained to sniff out tiger bones, elephant tusks, and other animal parts that are highly prized by traffickers. Cats and dogs aren’t supposed to get on but they so often do and this particular pairing is one we’re keeping fingers and paws crossed for.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org