Stories to make you smile from across Yorkshire

Every week in Yorkshire, we cover uplifting and feelgood stories across our region - and we like to shout about them.

This week, among other stories, we are featuring a DIY Dalek raising money for cancer research, a teen Scout collecting all 95 badges and an 87-year-old's Parkrun milestone.

An 87-year-old man who completed his 400th Parkrun on Saturday has said he thinks running may have added years to his life.

David Carbert joined the Humber Bridge Country Park event 10 years ago because he did not want to sit at home doing nothing.

Carbert, who said he was feeling "fairly fit and well", explained he had no intention of stopping and hoped to reach his target of 500 Parkruns when he will be nearly 90.

Helen Penn, the event's director, said: "We love him - he is an inspiration."

A 13-year-old Scout has become one of the youngest ever to collect all 95 badges.

Sienna, who achieved the feat within two years of joining the 4th Ripon Scout Troop, said she had "enjoyed it so much".

The haul included 63 activity badges, 15 Staged badges, nine Challenge awards, four You Shape awards, the Earth Tribe award, Assistant Patrol Leader badge and her two-year joining in award.

She has also been presented with the Chief Scout's Gold Award, the top award available to any Scout in the UK.

Children at a primary school in inner-city Bradford have been transforming their grey asphalt playground into a nature haven.

Lapage Primary School in Barkerend is one of 10 schools to receive £25,000 from the WWF as part of a programme to tackle unequal access to nature in schools.

Headteacher Richard Grogan said the children had a key role in deciding how the playground would be transformed.

"It is bespoke to us, but we've taken the idea from the children," he explained.

"So they've had direct input to this, which we feel is really important because they need to own that space to be able to engage and want to engage with it."

Springboard diving, gymnastics, glass-painting - for members of a women's social group, these are just a few of a long list of activities they have had a go at.

Soul & Social Club, based in Sheffield, runs meet-ups to reduce loneliness and isolation. More than 100 women have taken part in the monthly sessions so far.

The group's aim was for people to feel comfortable "trying new activities and to keep pushing ourselves outside of our comfort zones", according to its founders.

Group member Lucy Alexander said: "Sometimes it can be a bit daunting to try things by yourself.

"When there's a big, welcoming group of like-minded people it certainly encourages you to try things and get over that first hurdle."

A retired carpenter and Doctor Who fanatic has created a full-sized Dalek to support life-saving cancer research.

Martin Williams, from east Leeds, was told to head straight to A&E after his kidneys stopped functioning properly due to an enlarged prostate.

Further investigations revealed he had advanced prostate cancer.

Diagnosed in 2020, the 73-year-old decided to put his passion for woodwork towards creating something truly out-of-this-world and help raise funds for Yorkshire Cancer Research.

He said he was proud that his creation, due to be sold at auction, "will help fund research that saves lives in Yorkshire".

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