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These positive news stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.

A sign reading “thank you for visiting Cullompton” with a hanging basket filled with flowers under it. The sign is beside a road which goes through green fields.

Cullompton is filled with kind people.

“I was walking my dog when a bramble got tangled in the lead and sliced through my finger. It started dripping with blood and with only my small ROKA bag containing poo bags and treats, I didn’t have any tissues to wrap round it. As it happened I had just come into the car park […]

a double deck number 109 red bus parked in a bus stop in Streatham. Two other busses are driving onto a main road beyond it and people are walking and waiting on the pavement beside the bus.

Busy Streatham bus filled with kind people.

“I was on a very busy bus at tea time in Streatham. Just as I was thinking the bus couldn’t get any fuller – a harassed mother got on carrying a big baby and pushing a buggy. I was sitting in the seats reserved for older people (I’m 74) and mothers and babies. We all

a metal kissing gate between a concrete path and a green grassy area.

Help for wheelchair user with kissing gate.

“While out with the dogs in my new powerchair, I navigated some kissing gates which, thankfully, were designed for wheelchairs. But several people offered help in case I needed it which was really kind.” It’s so wonderful that multiple strangers showed kindness – such a great example of how kindness really is the norm! What

a pair of legs covered in black jeans with brown boots stretching down to rest on a motorbike with is parked on some grass.

Biker from Liverpool helps fix puncture.

“I was riding my motorbike home along the A6 when a man in a work van pulled up next to me and informed me that I had a flat tyre. As he was a fellow biker, he said he had the kit to fix it in his van. So we pulled up on the side

A red number 8 double decker bus driving through London streets. Behind it are skyscrapers reaching up to a clear blue sky.

London bus passengers are kind.

“London: trying the buses instead of taxis between train stations. Bus packed, wheelchair space full of standing passengers. They leapt off, loaded me in, and re-packed around me with ‘Which stop do you want, luv?’ I was used to this travelling through Paris; was good to meet it in London too.” We hear so often

two double decker busses driving through Norwich city centre. There are buildings on one side an what seems to be a pedestrianised area the other side.

Norwich bus driver ensures passenger gets right bus.

“Norwich. Complicated bus route; I got on the one that didn’t do the loop to the hospital, and realised after it stopped at the next stop. Help? to driver. He laughed, pulled out to block the correct bus which would pass without stopping, shouted to explain to other driver, and they got me on the

a wheelchair and pushchair space on a train marked with a pink sign on the floor. Above are places for people to grab if standing and across is a seat.

Team effort to make space for wheelchair on busy train.

“When in holiday season the combined wheelchair-bicycle-area in a train was completely occupied with bikes and a wheelchair user entered, everybody (not only the owners) got up at once and helped to free the space and someone organised a bicycle stack with each bike attached to each other in the order of when the owners

a village road with a white stone cottage with thatched roof and porch on the right and stone buildings along the left. It looks very quaint and traditionally English.

Somerset village shows kindness to tourists.

A whole Somerset village showed kindness this summer – what kindness did you see during your holidays? “Summer during the high holiday season must be a nightmare for the tiny quaint communities that have holiday lets. Tiny country lanes, parking is a premium and then the Grockles arrive! My husband and I arrived at a

a modern building on a main road with a blue sign for “The Gate Clock” above the entrance and “Wetherspoons” painted on one of the columns holding up the covered area of patio.

The Gate Clock Wetherspoons kindness superhero.

Help us get Monica’s gratitude to the mystery kindness superhero at the The Gate Clock! “I would like to say a very big thank you, to the lovely person who handed my mum’s rucksack in to the bar of The Gate Clock Wetherspoons in Greenwich on Monday 15th September. We had left the pub before

the underpass of a highway with several large tents set up under it. There is an adult and a child standing outside one of the tents.

Home cooked food for homeless people.

“I live next to an off ramp from a limited access highway in America, and frequently see homeless people begging at the top of it. A lot of times, I’ll go down and offer them some home cooked food. I usually have a vat of something in my fridge, but I’ll at least whip them