It wasn’t all bad

A 19-year-old who started waitressing at her local café when she was 15 has now saved up enough money to buy the place. Chloe Campbell says she has “always been a good saver”, having been taught by her parents, a farmer and a childminder, to “work for what you want”. So when the opportunity came up to buy The Coffee Pot café in the Speyside town of Dufftown, she knew she had to “go for it”. Now she has six employees of her own, of various ages.

Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the only allblack, all-female battalion to have served overseas in the Second World War. The 850 or so women of the 6888th central post directory battalion (known as the SixTriple Eight) were mainly stationed in the West Midlands, where they worked around the clock in unheated warehouses, sorting and routing millions of letters and packages to US troops. Their motto was “no mail, low morale”. Only six are still alive, including Fanny Griffin McClendon, 101. “It never occurred to me we would even be considered for a medal of any kind,” she said.

Two Brazilian brothers who got lost in the Amazon rainforest were found alive last week, after going missing for 27 days. Glauco and Gleison Ferreira, aged eight and six, hadn’t been seen since they left their Indigenous reserve to go and catch birds. Their disappearance triggered a major search involving emergency services and hundreds of locals. They were eventually found almost four miles from their village by a man cutting wood who heard one of the boys crying for help. Although badly malnourished, both are expected to recover.