July 16, 2026

Harry Styles helps runner PLUS If you see a loose giraffe in Texas it's probably the one we're looking for

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Harry Styles Supports UK Runner’s 850-Mile Tribute, Plus Four More Good News Stories Host Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: Loz ran about 850 miles across the UK in under 17 days (about 50 km daily) to honor his parents, raising a goal of £8,000 for four charities tied to cancer, heart disease, children’s healthcare, and mental health; after Loz posted daily updates inviting Harry Styles to run, Styles’ team invited him to a Wembley show and donated £2,000. Also in the UK, Iceland Foods created an unofficial record “Picky Bits” spread on a 65-foot table with 15,000+ items, including cocktail sausages, sausage rolls, Scotch eggs, and over 100 kg of cheese. In Spain, Bluenewables launched a floating, bifacial solar platform to be tested off Valencia. In Australia, town crier Lord Joseph set a Guinness record with a 122.4-decibel yell. In Texas, authorities seek an escaped giraffe named Gracie with a $5,000 reward.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. A man who ran the entire length

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of the UK to honor his late parents got a

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boost from one of the world's biggest pop stars. I'll

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tell you who it is in a second. Laws set

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out on an extraordinary challenge, running roughly eight hundred and

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fifty miles from one end of the UK to the

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other in under seventeen days. Yeah, that's fifty kilometers a day.

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That means he did over two marathons every day. Wow.

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Laws lost his mother to cancer in twenty twenty after

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a decade long battle with the disease. Three years later,

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his father passed away after living with heart disease. He explained,

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running became my lifeline through grief. What began as a

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way to manage panic attacks and sleepless nights quickly turned

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into something much more a path forward. I hear you.

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When my mother was sick there for a couple of

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years theres One day I was stressed and I ran

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out the front door, and I was running a lot

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at that time, no destination. I just needed to shake

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off the stress. I wound up doing nine miles that

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day anyway. Las's goal was to raise eight thousand pounds

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for four charities that had touched his family's life, including

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organizations supporting cancer research, heart disease, children's healthcare, and mental health.

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As he crossed the country, he posted daily updates on

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social media. Many of those updates included messages directed at

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Harry Styles inviting Harry Styles to join him for a run. Well,

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Harry never showed up, but he was paying attention. A

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few days another challenge, Laws got a message from the

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Harry Styles team inviting Laws to attend one of the

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Wembley Stadium shows, and then Harry Styles donated two thousand

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pounds to the fundraiser. He said, means so much, Thank

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you Harry and Harry's team. Also from the UK, a

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supermarket chain has claimed an unofficial world record after creating

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what they say is the world's largest Picky Bits meal.

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The folks at Iceland Foods assembled a giant snack spread

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covering a sixty five foot long table with more than

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fifteen thousand individual eyes items. The feast included one thousand

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cocktail sausages, fifteen hundred sausage rolls, eight hundred Scotch eggs,

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and more than one hundred kilograms of cheese. Now the

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total sidebar here in my own life. That's the second

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time today that sausage rolls have come up in Now

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I'm craving sausage rolls. I digress. The display was so

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large that organizers used a drone to capture the entire

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table from above. A spokesperson for the Iceland chain said,

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piggy bits have become a bit of a national obsession,

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so we wanted to celebrate them in the biggest way possible.

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Seeing hundreds of people come together to tuck into the

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feast was a real celebration of the nation's love for

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this type of food. In Spain, a new floating solar

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platform could help unlock a vast new source of clean

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energy without taking up any land. Blue Newables lowered a

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platform into the water and a shipyard. They're going to

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tow it to the waters off Valencia, where engineers will

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test how it performs in real world ocean conditions. The

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new platform combines floating structures with bifacial solar panels, which

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can capture online from both sides. Because the insulation sits

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over water, it may benefit from cooler operating temperatures, potentially

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improving efficiency. In Australia, a town crier has made the

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record books. Joseph, professionally known as Lord Joseph, has there

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in the Guinness World Record. His yell is an astonishing

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one hundred and twenty two point four decibels. That's as

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loud as a rock concert and almost as loud as

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a jet. Joseph told Guinness when I was a kid,

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I didn't really have a loud voice. That was very

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shy until I left school and I joined the theater.

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It was very clear then I needed to pipe up.

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And in Texas, be on the lookout for at giraffe.

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I'm pretty sure if you see a giraffe, that's the

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one we're looking for. She's Greasy, and she escaped from

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the Cedar Hollow Ranch and has wandered off into the

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Texas Hill Country. Gracie the giraffe was last spotted on

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a game camera west of the town of Leaky, So

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if you're over there and you see a giraffe, I'm

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pretty sure it's Greasy. The ranch has offered a five

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thousand dollars reward for information that leads to Greasy's safe

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for two officials say Gracie can be identified by her

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rounded ears, and are urging anyone who spots the wandering

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draft to contact local authorities rather than attempting to approach her.

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Thanks for the rounded ears tip, but I'm pretty sure

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if I see a loose giraffe in Texas, that's Gracie.

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You know, Am I wrong? Is this a thing? Or

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they're just drafs wandering they're Texas? Let me know. Those

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are your five good news stories for today