It wasn’t all bad

Millions of people with partial sight could be helped by a pair of hi-tech goggles that films the outside world, and projects the footage into the wearer’s field of vision. Users can also use a remote control to enlarge the footage. About 200 people are involved in a trial of a prototype; many of them have macular degeneration, which affects the central part of the retina, leading to problems with central vision. The device’s developers hope it could be available on the NHS by 2025.

Of the 3,449 students admitted to Cambridge in 2015-16, only 38 defined themselves as black, and of them, only 15 were male. Now, a group of black male students have posed for a photograph (right) in front of St John’s College, in an attempt to change that. The university’s Afro-caribbean Society says that Cambridge is working hard to attract black students – but that the figures won’t improve if people don’t apply. “Young black men don’t grow up thinking they’ll make it here. They should,” said Dami Adebayo, one of the students in the photo, which has since gone viral online.

The National Trust is to open its first public pool – a Victorian lido, found buried in undergrowth at a property in Sussex. The pond was built at Standen House in 1895, when it was owned by the horticulturist Margaret Beale. Letters reveal that her children enjoyed the pond over many summers, but they stopped using it when they grew up; after Beale’s death, in 1936, they neglected the beautiful garden she’d created, and the pool was lost. Now, both are being restored: the pool could be ready for the public to dip in by next year.