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Good morning. It's Nimo Omer here, assistant editor of First Edition, bringing you this week's Upside. This week the uplifting news came from all kinds of places: from the silly delightfulness of Eurovision, all the way to the more serious, like Deborah James shining a much needed light on bowel cancer. Below are our favourite good news stories, rounded up from from this week's First Edition newsletter (which you can sign up to here). Enjoy!

Doctor Who: Ncuti Gatwa to replace Jodie Whittaker, BBC announces Sex Education star will be first black actor to play role full-time when Russell T Davies returns to run show in 2023 Full story here   A story of 90,000 trees: how Kenya's Kipsigis brought a forest back to life Indigenous trees were being lost, and a way of life with it. So local villagers decided to replant their historic woodland Full story here   Giant puppet Little Amal to meet Ukrainian refugee children in Poland Model of 10-year-old Syrian girl that has become symbol of compassion will visit border town of Przemyśl Full story here   'We're bringing people together': when football meets therapy' After trying to take his own life in 2019, Aaron Connolly realised he could use football to bring people together to talk Full story here   'We absolutely love it': horror-themed treasure hunt thrills Canadian town Thousands of locals in Miramichi, New Brunswick, have been swept up in the hunt – and Friday's clue promises $1,300 Full story here

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