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During the pandemic, care and nursing home residents and staff have been particularly hard hit. The fact that we are not allowed to see our relatives has taken its toll not only on the morale of residents but the family members of residents as well. 

Like many of you, I have not been able to visit my family member who is currently in a care home. I haven’t been able to hug my 101-year-old grandad since the lockdown started all those months ago.

Gazing through a two-inch gap in the window can never be the same as giving him a reassuring hug. We can only hope that it won’t be long now until there is a rapid COVID test that will once again allow us to hug and cuddle our loved-ones who are in care homes. 

One of the most challenging jobs for care home staff has been to keep their residents motivated. I know that the team at my grandad’s care home work incredibly hard under difficult conditions to try and keep his morale up. They do a fantastic job. I admire anyone who works in a care/nursing home – I really do. 

TikTok Saves The Day!

But one care home has taken to making TikTok videos as a way to help stimulate the morale of their residents. And they seem to have gone down a treat judging by the viewing stats of one of the videos which was uploaded to social media recently. 

In the TikTok video (below), residents take on a cameo role as Dolly Parton’s ‘Working 9-5’ hit song plays in the background. The short video (below) has been viewed over 367k times which is quite impressive. There are plenty of other videos too which have been uploaded by @emmathackray who works at the home. And the residents seem to love taking part in them! 

Please have a look for yourself and let us know what you think in the comments below!

A public video has surfaced on TikTok which shows the moment when three lads drive up to a car in the middle of nowhere before turning on a blue light and siren.

In the one minute video, the lads can be seen driving up towards the car as one of them tells the driver to put his high-beam on in an attempt to illuminate a vehicle that was parked in a beauty spot.

The video starts at the same time as one of the passengers says: ‘its the police coming through’ (referring to the fact that they have illegally fitted/activated a blue light and siren to/on their car).

Another lad in the vehicle can be heard to say: ‘We’re gonna pull them over..watch this…they’re gonna get it…they’re gonna s**t themselves from our blue light’.

As they get nearer to the parked car, one of the lads tells the driver to turn on his high beam as they drive towards the vehicle. He then says to the driver: ‘do it now’ as the driver turns on a siren and blue light that appears to be fitted to the windscreen.

The trio then stops next to the red car, turn the siren off and leave the blue lights flashing as they wait for the occupants of the red vehicle to get out of the car.

The front seat passenger then reaches for a public address system that has also been fitted to the car and says: ‘hello, can you step out of the vehicle please…can you pull yourself out of the vehicle…what are you doing there?’.

At this point, a female exits the vehicle from the front passenger side followed a few seconds later by a male who exits the car from the front driver’s seat.

One of the passengers in the fake ‘police’ vehicle then tells the driver to pull away before the male who was in the red vehicle gets to the fake ‘cop car’.

One of the males then says to the male who was in the red car: ‘I had you there didn’t I’ as they all leave the scene, laughing as they drive off.

Using blue lights and sirens on a vehicle that is not an emergency vehicle can land you in some serious trouble with the law.

At a time when there is so much hate and negativity floating around the planet, finding a genuinely ‘heart warming’ story can be quite hard. 

But, we think we have found one such spirit-lifting piece. 

The story and video revolves around the moment when a man asked his younger brother to be his best man at his wedding.

Will Claussen, 24, has an extremely close bond with his younger brother, Henry. 

22-year-old Henry has Down Syndrome, which is a genetic condition where the individual affected has an extra chromosome in their DNA. 

Will wanted to make the occasion an extra special one for his little brother. So he staged a ‘treasure hunt’ and hid a bottle under the sand that had a very special message in it. 

At first, when Henry found the bottle, he thought that it was a prank. But his brother urged him to open the bottle and read the message contained within it. 

As Henry unfurled the paper and saw the message, then he knew that what he had found was indeed something special. 

It was a note, written by his brother, asking Henry to be his best man. 

The heartwarming note said:

“Henry Joe, you are already the BEST bro, and my very BEST frand, so will you please say yes and be my BEST man?”

Of course, Henry said ‘yes’ and immediately jumped into his brother’s arms whilst saying ‘I love you’. 

The video, filmed by Will’s fiancee has been viewed millions of times.

Will, who is from Mankato, Minnesota, had been planning the unique message in a bottle since he proposed to his fiancee, AJ. He knew that he wanted to ask his brother in a way that he would never forget. 

Will said:

“I always knew that Henry was going to be my best man. We have been pretty much inseparable since he was born.

“I decided to use one of his favourite hobbies, metal detecting, as a way to ask him to be my best man”. 

Will mapped out the day so Henry would find the bottle with its unique message while out with his metal detector at the family’s log cabin by Ten-Mile lake in Hackensack, Northern Minnesota.

“Henry was beginning to worry he was going to get left out of the wedding party – he was so happy when he read the message” Will added.

When asked how he felt about the video going viral Will said it was “crazy” but he was glad that he and his brother had “spread some positivity and happiness”.

AJ and Will, who met at college, have been together for two-and-a-half years and plan to get married next summer.

At the end of the video, even the family dog seemed to want to get involved with the celebrations as she came running down the hill towards the happy duo. 

During these troubling and uncertain times, it is great to be able to share such a heart-warming story. 

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A young girl had a fortunate escape from an almost inevitable tragedy after she was spotted by an ocean-going ferry as she floated out to sea on an inflatable unicorn. 

The young girl, estimated to be around five-years-old, was spotted by the crew and passengers of the vessel around 1000 metres off the Greek coast. 

The young girl had been playing in the sea on a beach in Antirio when sea currents and the wind blew her offshore. 

A video posted on social media, filmed by one of the passengers on the ferry, shows the moment when the captain of the ferry and his crew pulled the girl out of the sea.

In the video (below), the crew can be seen to lower the ramp at the front of the large vessel before hauling the girl to safety.  

Captain Karneses said that he was navigating his usual route when he received a call from the coastguard asking if he or any of his crew had spotted a girl floating on a giant inflatable unicorn. 

He told Skai TV:

‘The child was flabbergasted. 

‘She was terrified, and that’s why she grabbed so firmly onto her inflatable swing ring.

The captain played down claims that he was a ‘hero’. He said:

‘I’m obligated to do it, not because of the nature of my work, but as a person. 

‘There is no need for someone to thank me. I did something that any one of us would do’.

Safety campaigners have long voiced their concerns regarding the use of inflatable toys on the sea. 

It only takes a moderate current and slight winds for an inflatable toy to be taken out to sea; often with tragic consequences.  

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A video has emerged on Twitter of the moment when a male makes a shop assistant cry after he refused to wear a mask and started to record the awkward encounter. 

The video has been shared not by the person who filmed it (as that person appears to have deleted their Twitter account) but by someone else. 

In the video, the male starts by pointing his phone at a startled shop assistant. He asks her: ‘Would you like to say that again?’

The bemused member of staff walks over to her colleague and says: ‘he is recording me’. 

It would appear that the member of staff who the male is filming had just asked him if he wanted a mask (because he was not wearing one, despite the government’s rules). 

The amateur ‘videographer’ then walks over to her colleague and says: ‘its ok; she just asked me to place a mask on so I thought that I would record it, thats all’. 

The male shop assistant, walking away from the person filming, says ‘thats fine’. 

The person filming then says: ‘do I still have to wear a mask? Cos i’m just shopping in the shop mate that’s all. I have just walked in and been told to wear a mask by some woman I don’t even know’.

The male then walks up to another female shop assistant and, pointing the camera at her face, says: ‘Are you still telling me to wear a mask?’.

The shop assistant clearly distressed over the male aggressive, and gruff demeanour says: ‘I haven’t said anything to you’. 

The argumentative and aggressive male then said: ‘You have just said to me, ‘would you like to wear a mask’.

The shop assistant replies: ‘that wasn’t me’. 

The belligerent male then asserts to the startled shop assistant: ‘Are you forcing me to wear a mask?’. 

The shop assistant replies: ‘I haven’t forced you to do anything’. 

‘So why are you asking me to wear a mask’ the male replies. 

The shop assistant then becomes physically upset as the moronic male continues to film her. 

He then says: ‘Why are you getting upset for? I would suggest that you go and calm yourself down and go outside and relax. Don’t come to customers and tell them what to do, for shopping’.

As the upset shop assistant is led away by a colleague, the idiot then says to her: ‘And sort your emotions out first, before you get a job’, as he still films her. 

What the muppet who is filming the encounter appears not to have comprehended, is that the shop assistant who offered him a mask (because he is ignoring the rules and is not wearing one) was not the same shop assistant who he then made cry. 

It would seem as if the idiot filming thought that perhaps he could become the next ‘big thing’ on social media by making a mountain out of a molehill. 

When, in reality, he has just made himself look silly, as highlighted by the hundreds of comments on the video. 

Most people with a bit of common sense and decency will wear a mask because they know that it can help to stop the spread of the virus. 

Obviously, anyone with medical conditions which prevent them from wearing a mask is excluded from the life-saving rules.

But this moron just seemed to be intent on causing an argument with people who were just doing their job. 

Let us know what you think in the comments below.

@MartinVonHaller You find this funny? Think you're a big man.. pic.twitter.com/O7ysjMw82h

— Christopher Foster (@ChrisFoster88) July 29, 2020

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