Utrecht University was recently granted the largest ever single legacy in its history. Ms Johanna Alida van Leerzem left her entire estate, with a value of 1.2 million Euros, to the university where she studied medicine in the 1950s.

Earlier this year, large numbers of dead and dying common guillemots washed up along the Dutch coast. Examination showed they did not die as a result of the containers lost from the MSC Zoe.