Welcome to the Good News Roundup for July 6, 2026
Puffin population thriving on Bristol Channel Island after removal of rats
An island in the Bristol Channel has recorded a massive surge in bird life – including puffins – two decades after the area was declared rat-free.
Lundy Island is now home to more 1300 puffins, after numbers dropped to as low as 13 back in 2000. Seabirds are also rebounding, with numbers increasing to more than 40,000.
Other species are also benefiting from the removal of rats on the island, with razorbills and guillemots thriving, while breeding pairs of storm petrels – once thought lost – have returned.
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Young boy saves man from almost drowning in an apartment pool
An 11-year-old boy has pulled a man from the bottom of a pool in Kentucky in the US, saving him from almost drowning.
Avory Woolery says he saw the man in distress at the bottom of the pool in an apartment complex and jumped in after realising no one else was responding.
He was able to bring the man to the surface and out of the water before someone else started CPR – he was later rushed to hospital in a serious condition.
Read more about the boy’s heroic actions here.
Increasing measles vaccine coverage believed to have saved 20 million lives
New analysis from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed almost 20 million deaths have been avoided in Africa since 2000, thanks to increasing vaccination coverage.
Since 2000 more than 40 African countries have added a second dose of measles-vaccine into routine immunisation programs, assisting to collectively halve the number of deaths from the disease.
The report also found more than half a million African children have been protected by vaccines between 2000 and 2024.
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donate millions ahead of wedding
As Swifties around the world await further details about the wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, it has emerged the couple donated $26US million to various charities ahead of their nuptials.
Among the organisations to receive funds in New York City, Rhode Island and Kansas City were Feeding America, the ASPCA and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
The donation prompted a public thankyou from Parton, who jokingly asked whether she could have the couple’s first child.
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