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Good morning. I hope your weekend is going well. It's Nimo here, assistant editor of First Edition. It's been a heavy week around the world, so I've been scouring the internet to find some good news stories to brighten your day. Like this woman from New Zealand who has put all of us to shame by single-handedly converting a 29-year-old car into an electric vehicle that's powered by solar energy. And the male Afghan journalists who protested on TV in soldarity with their female counterparts ordered to cover their faces by the Taliban. Below are the rest of our good news stories from this week, I hope you enjoy them.

'The greasy spoon chronicles: a day in the life of the Hope Workers Cafe This traditional British caff is the beating heart of its north London community Full story here   Challenge Anneka to be revived by Channel 5 after nearly 30 years Anneka Rice, who was helicoptered in to complete a good cause on original show, urges fans to 'dig out your lycra' Full story here   Inside tracks: the recording studio offering musical escape in a Cameroon prison As Jail Time Records releases its fifth single, imprisoned and recently released artists describe how making music has changed their lives Full story here   Guerrilla gardening took me back to my roots – and to the Chelsea flower show Our Hands Off Mangrove garden celebrates anti-racism and the power of communities coming together after Grenfell Full story here   Ancient cypress in Chile may be the world's oldest tree, new study suggests The tree, in Chile's Alerce Costero national park, is known as the Great-Grandfather and could be more than 5,000 years old Full story here

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