Jane completed the Race for Life in Worthing this year, the second year for her (last year she took part in Brighton) and two minutes quicker than last year! She raised approximately £300 for this very worthwhile cause. Thousands of women ran, jogged and walked the 5km course in Worthing’s second Race for Life. The event, which took place on Sunday 20th July, was one of many organised all across the country. This one in partiuclar raised more than £200,000 in sponsorship for the charity Cancer Research UK.

This is the time of year when the dreaded horsefly is hungry. Their bite is vicious and can often bring on a nasty reaction. The one consolation is that they tend to take a little while on the skin to actually suck your blood so you have time to kill them! Can anyone explain what use they are?

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At the entrance to the Innovation Centre car park at The University of Sussex is a large shed. The UK’s only Professor of Apiculture, Professor Francis Ratnieks will head the newly-created Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University. Professor Ratnieks is a leading authority on honeybee biology, beekeeping and other social insects – the bees, wasps and ants that live in colonies with a queen and workers. Honeybees are the major pollinators of agricultural and wild plants, pollinating around £165m worth of crops in the UK annually. They also produce honey and wax, but their importance to scientists doesn’t end there. Professor Ratnieks says: “The honeybee is the gateway to biology – a huge range of important questions in biology, from agriculture to genetics, can be studied in this one species.”