Here are the happiest news stories from this week:
Student graduates against the odds A student battled with the effects of the pandemic, family ill health and grief to graduate from Oxford University – becoming the first person from her family to get a degree, Sheshadri Kotterachchi, a first-generation student from Sri Lanka, lost her father just days before her final dissertation was due. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, she was unable to return to Sri Lanka to attend the funeral, so instead was left in Oxford grieving alone. The student was also struggling financially so had to work night shifts to pay for her rent.