It wasn’t all bad

The School Prints scheme is to be revived for a new generation. Launched in 1946, the scheme aimed to nurture an interest in contemporary art in children, by supplying schools with high-quality lithographs of works commissioned from John Nash, Henry Moore and the like. Now, The Hepworth Wakefield gallery has commissioned a new range, by artists including Martin Creed and Jeremy Deller. The prints will go to local schools, but posters will be available more widely.

A team of British soldiers have become the first allfemale group to ski across Antarctica using muscle power alone. The Ice Maiden expedition reached Hercules Inlet this week, having covered 1,000 miles in 62 days. Led by Major Nics Wetherill and Major Natalie Taylor, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, the six women had walked for up to 27 miles a day in temperatures as low as -40˚C, while pulling sledges that weighed more than 12 stone. “I have spent the last few days trying to imprint this beautiful landscape in my mind,” said Major Taylor. “I will, in a strange way, miss it a lot.”

A man wrongly convicted of stealing mailbags 43 years ago has finally cleared his name. Stephen Simmons, 62, was convicted in 1976 and sent to borstal for eight months. Five years ago, still haunted by the injustice, he rang a radio phonein programme to ask advice from a lawyer, who suggested he Google his arresting officer’s name. When he did so, he learnt that the man had been jailed for seven years for a similar crime in 1980. The Court of Appeal overturned his conviction last week. “This is one of the happiest days of my life,” he said.