It wasn’t all bad

A millionaire property developer who once nearly lost his home after he was made redundant is to provide 200 compact homes to help the homeless. Andy Hill, founder of the Hill Group, is donating £10m for the 24 square metre factory-built, portable homes, and will kit them out with everything from plates to pillowcases. Local councils and charities will help find suitable land for the galvanised steel homes, and will manage the properties once they are built.

A loggerhead turtle that spent 20 years living in an aquarium tank in South Africa has swum more than 22,000 miles since being released into the wild two years ago. Yoshi – named after the cook on the Japanese fishing boat that originally picked her up aged three or four – was released off the coast of Cape Town in December 2017. Experts were doubtful about her ability to survive in the ocean, but the turtle was soon heading up the west coast of Africa, to a feeding ground in Angola; she then came back, swam around the Cape of Good Hope, and headed across the Pacific to northwestern Australia.

With a combined age of 257, four Britons in their 60s have become the oldest crew to row across the Atlantic – beating the previous team by 33 years. Mike Winn, Guy Munnoch, Steve Hughes and John Moorhouse, who call themselves the “Ancient Mariners”, reached Antigua last week after 49 days at sea. The team – a retired accountant, a businessman, a former soldier and a dentist – raised £20,000 for charity. “Your muscles might not be the same as when you were in your 20s, but mentally you are much tougher,” Munnoch said.