10 h. ago Woman who lost vision from rare condition hails ‘phenomenal’ new treatment

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11 h. ago Miracle jab restores woman's eyesight in 'phenomenal' vision treatment breakthrough

Nicki Guy, 47, says a "phenomenal" bout of pioneering treatment has restored her vision after suffering from hypotony - or low eye pressure - which forced to give up driving

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1 week ago Cecilia Giménez’s botched Monkey Christ became a global meme. The real marvel was the humble, graceful woman behind it | Sam Jones

The restorer, who died on Monday, brought unwanted attention to herself – and her small Spanish town. Then, slowly, a small miracle took placeVery few of us find fame quite as late, or quite as brutally, as Cecilia Giménez did in the summer of 2012. The Spanish amateur artist was already 81 when her efforts to restore a decent, if unremarkable, fresco of the scourged Christ brought her a renown that almost destroyed her.Almost overnight, Giménez, who died on Monday at the age of 94, was stripped of her quiet existence in the north-eastern Spanish town of Borja, and recast as the well-meaning and unwitting creator of what would become known around the English-speaking world as Monkey Christ. In Spain, the meme phenomenon was dubbed Ecce Mono (Behold the Monkey), a play on the painting’s Latin title Ecce Homo (Behold the Man).Sam Jones is Madrid correspondent for the Guardian Continue reading...

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1 week ago Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94

Spanish woman’s attempted restoration of church artwork was widely mocked but became lucrative tourist attractionCecilia Giménez, the woman who achieved unwanted international fame for her botched “Monkey Christ” restoration of a 19th-century mural in Borja, north-east Spain, has died aged 94.In 2012, Giménez, an amateur artist, decided to restore Ecce Homo, a mural by a local artist, Elías García Martínez, that hung in the Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja. However, her talent as an artist was not equal to her good intentions and she produced what was described as the worst restoration in history. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Spanish painter Cecilia Giménez behind viral botched Jesus fresco restoration dubbed ‘Monkey Christ’ dies aged 94

THE woman responsible for "Monkey Jesus" - the butchered restoration of an historic Jesus fresco - has died. Cecilia Giménez, from Borja, Spain, made headlines in 2012 when she painted over a century-old antiquity at her local church in a good-natured effort to restore it. The flaking fresco had deteriorated after many years of water...

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1 week ago Pensioner who became famous for botching Spanish fresco restoration dies

A Spanish woman who became famous after she botched a restoration of a painting of Jesus Christ has died. 

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2 w. ago Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents

As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony“I hate beavers,” a woman tells the beaver hotline. Forty years ago she planted an oak tree in a small town in southern Zurich – now at the frontier of beaver expansion – and it has just been felled: gnawed by the large, semi-aquatic rodents as they enter their seasonal home-improvement mode.The caller is one of 10 new people getting in touch each week at this time of year. Beavers, nature’s great engineers, can unleash mayhem during winter as they renovate their lodges and build up their dams. For people, this can mean flooding, sinkholes appearing in roads and trees being felled. A single incident can clock up 70,000 Swiss francs (£65,000) in damages. Continue reading...

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