Lance Corporal Matt Croucher threw himself over grenade to save comrades: A Royal Marine who threw himself over an exploding grenade to shield his comrades from the blast has been recommended for a Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest military honour. Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, who was on a reconnaissance mission in southern Afghanistan, escaped unscathed except for a nosebleed when his rucksack took the force of the blast. [Times]
Security guard solves 38-year-old maths poser: A mystery that has baffled the top minds in the esoteric mathematical field of symbolic dynamics for nearly four decades has recently been cracked – by a 63-year-old former security guard. [Guardian]
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