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99-year-old woman abseils down building

A 99-year-old pensioner abseils down building. Credit: ITV Meridian

A pensioner has celebrated her 99th birthday by abseiling from the top of an 11-storey building.

Doris Long, from Hayling Island, Hampshire, took part in the fundraising event off the 110ft (35m) high University of Portsmouth's Mercantile House in aid of The Rowans Hospice in Waterlooville.

It is the 13th major abseil for Ms Long who took part in her first such challenge at the age of 85. In 2012, Ms Long broke her own Guinness World Record for the oldest person to abseil.

Watch the full interview at ITV Meridian.

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UN agency pushes for more insects on the menu

A United Nations food agency is pushing a new kind of diet high in nutritional value and good for the environment - edible insects.

The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilised food for people, livestock and pets.

A woman poses with a locust between her teeth.
A woman poses with a locust between her teeth. Credit: REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

A new report says two billion people worldwide already supplement their diets with insects.

Eva Ursula Muller, Director of Forestry Economics Policy and Product Division at FAO, "While most edible insects are gathered in forests, the UN says mechanisation can ratchet up insect-farming production".

"In the West people don't eat insects yet, even though in some restaurants we can already see them. But once we have developed better technologies for farming insects, they have really a large potential for becoming a major food source," she added.

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