The weekly weird
School searches for teddy lost in stratosphere
A school in England is seeking help to locate Bradford Bear, a teddy sent into the stratosphere on a weather balloon by seventh and eighth graders with the Southampton University Spaceflight Society. A camera recorded his journey and showed him being jostled free above Henley-on-Thames on 10 November.
He was expected to parachute safely near Basingstoke, but likely landed between Earley and Fawley — the former a town and the latter a village. The school asked for any information, footage or details about his whereabouts. Science teacher Ellie Robinson said Bradford reached about........





















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