‘We made a mistake’: BBC finally APOLOGISES after social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin said ‘n****r’ in news report about hit-and-run attack on black NHS worker Social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin said highly-offensive term on July 29 Tony Hall said they ‘made a mistake’ and ‘should have taken different approach’ More than 18,000 people complained to the … Read more
Sophie Ellis-Bextor nails casual chic in a white T-shirt and gold miniskirt as she makes an appearance on Sunday Brunch By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 13:53 BST, 9 August 2020 | Updated: 13:56 BST, 9 August 2020 She has had a successful singing career since her debut album Read My Lips was released in … Read more
Huw Edwards, 58, reveals he weighed 16-and-a-half stone at his heaviest as he battled depression following his father’s death – before shedding 3st after taking up boxing The news presenter struggled after father died from cancer in 2010, aged 75 Started eating to numb the pain and ballooned to 16-and-a-half stone at heaviest He enlisted … Read more
BBC 1Xtra presenter Sideman has quit today after the broadcaster defended its decision to air footage of a white person using the N-word. The presenter said he ‘can’t look the other way’ after BBC social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin repeated the word in a report on a racially motivated hit-and-run attack. The presenter, whose real name is … Read more
Casualty star Jason Durr devastated by double tragedy as sister-in-law dies of cancer while his mother passes away from coronavirus just four days later By Niomi Harris For Mailonline Published: 00:15 BST, 8 August 2020 | Updated: 02:48 BST, 8 August 2020 Casualty star Jason Durr has been left devastated by a double tragedy after … Read more
Courts could become clogged up with pensioners who get prosecuted for failing to pay their BBC licence fee, warn MPs and campaigners Some over-75s revolting against the fee change say they are willing to risk prison The BBC is prepared to spend £38million chasing down pensioners for payments 1.5million households claiming pension credit are eligible … Read more
From The Joe Wicks Podcast to Homo Sapiens with Alan Cumming, The Pargetter Triptych and The Town That Didn’t Stare, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 25 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 25 July 2020 The Joe Wicks Podcast The lockdown has made a king of Joe Wicks, the fitness … Read more
BBC iPLAYER, ALL 4 & YOUTUBE I May Destroy You Although not exactly unknown before I May Destroy You – her E4 comedy series Chewing Gum was much admired and she gave the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 2018 – Michaela Coel is now being hailed as a TV superstar. … Read more
From Adele in 2016 to David Bowie in 2000: The BBC has gone retro-Glasto with The Glastonbury Experience to celebrate the festival’s 50th birthday By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 27 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 27 June 2020 The Glastonbury Experience BBC iPlayer, available now Rating: This weekend, the … Read more
NATURE DIARY OF A YOUNG NATURALIST by Dara McAnulty (Little Toller £16.99, 224pp) Dara McAnulty is a brilliant young teenage naturalist from Northern Ireland who writes a popular blog about his sightings and adventures, and has also appeared on BBC’s Countryfile. He’s on the autistic spectrum, and doesn’t so much coolly observe nature as passionately … Read more