It wasn’t all bad

A woman who fell over and broke her ankle in Cornwall was rescued by a man 200 miles away, after he spotted her plight on a webcam. Frankie Davies had gone to do some shopping in Boscastle when she “fell in a heap”. She couldn’t phone for help because she had no signal on her mobile, and no one was around. But a man in Worcester had seen her fall over and called his mother, who lives in Boscastle. She found Davies, took her back to her house, and helped her get to hospital.

An 11-year-old from Nottingham is to become the youngest person in the world to conduct a 75-piece orchestra. Matthew Smith will conduct the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in the overture to Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus next month. One of seven children, Matthew (pictured) – who plays violin, guitar, drums, piano and viola – first heard the piece when he was seven, and has since memorised it. “There aren’t many children who [can] conduct a 75-strong orchestra from memory,” said Derek Williams, the NSO’S main conductor. “It’s a really incredible thing to witness.”

A former CEO of the American outdoor clothing company Patagonia has donated a million acres of land to the nation of Chile, to create three new national parks. Kristine Mcdivitt Tompkins had owned the land with her late husband, the founder of the North Face brand Doug Tompkins: a billionaire and keen conservationist, he bought up vast swathes of wilderness in South America in order to preserve it, before dying following a kayaking accident in Chile in 2015. The donated land will also expand three existing national parks.