Wednesday, April 22, 2026 — Edition No. 68

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Today’s outlook: Unlikely friendships and Clydebank pride

Dogs & Animals

The sheep who coaxed a grieving baby elephant back to life

How Albert and Themba became inseparable at a South African sanctuary — and what their bond tells us about animals in distress

By Helen Cooper

The first time Themba met Albert, he chased him round a watering hole until the sheep barricaded himself inside a shelter and refused to come out for twelve hours.

It was not, on the face of it, the start of a beautiful friendship.

But by the next morning Albert was venturing out, and Themba — a six-month-old elephant calf who had just lost his mother — would not leave his side. The two walked the enclosure together, the elephant's trunk resting on the sheep's woolly back, and they have stayed that way ever since.

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News Clydebank

Clydebank East scoops top national housing honour as 88-home regeneration wins hearts

The former shipyard site is now home to families, flats and a little local pride — and the judges noticed

By Helen Cooper

On a stretch of the Clyde where welders once shaped the hulls of the Queen Mary and the QE2, a quieter kind of building is being celebrated — and it has just been named the best of its kind in Scotland.

Clydebank East, an 88-home development on a former industrial site, has been crowned Affordable Housing Development of the Year at the Herald Property Awards for Scotland. It saw off nine rival projects from across the country to take the title, and for West Dunbartonshire Council it is more than a shiny trophy. It is proof that a town long defined by what it used to build can be defined by what it builds next.

The development is a mix of one-bedroom flats through to five-bedroom family homes, including properties specifically designed for families with additional needs. It is also the council's first Net Zero Ready housing scheme — better insulated, cheaper to heat, and designed with the climate in mind from the foundations up.

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Community

Glasgow's Green Revival: How Community Gardens Are Cultivating Wellbeing

From Govanhill's remembrance orchard to the raised beds of Scotstoun, the city's volunteer gardeners are growing more than vegetables — they're growing a community in recovery

Science

Moonstruck: Artemis II crew become first humans to round the Moon in 54 years

NASA's ten-day lunar flyby ends with a Pacific splashdown, a new distance record, and a clear runway to the Moon's surface

By Damien Day

For the first time since Eugene Cernan brushed lunar dust off his boots in December 1972, human beings have travelled to the Moon and back.

The Artemis II capsule Integrity splashed down in the Pacific Ocean southwest of San Diego on 11 April, ending a ten-day mission that carried four astronauts around the far side of the Moon and into the record books.

It is, by any honest measure, the biggest moment in crewed spaceflight in more than half a century.

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Community Glasgow

From Maryhill to Partick: meet Ash, the Glasgow student quietly running on kindness

Software engineering by weekday, sorting donations by Saturday — 23-year-old Ash Kasibante is the kind of volunteer Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland says it could not run without

By Damien Day

Ask Ash Kasibante what he does on a Saturday in the Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland shop on Dumbarton Road and a grin breaks out before the answer does.

"Everything!" he laughs.

It is, by any measure, the right answer. The 23-year-old software engineering student at the University of Glasgow sorts donations, works the till, dresses the window, chats to the regulars and, when the playlist demands it, hums along to the sixties soul that drifts permanently out of the back room. He has been doing it, in one form or another, since the summer of 2021.

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