Senior journalist, @BBCNews. Probably old enough to know better.
London, UK
Joined January 2009
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Alan Rickman once walked past my mum bollocking me and my brother in the street for misbehaving, interrupted her and told us to be as naughty as possible 'by order of the Sherrif of Nottingham!'
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Cool cool cool cool.
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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TFL are now claiming the 'Are they hiding something?' poster is unauthorised flyposting... but official news sources covered these posters going up, including variants of that exact poster.
TFL say they have reported it to British Transport Police, but... it looks like BTP themselves ran the campaign.
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A longer read on BBC cuts:
-BBC not halfway to £500m goal
-More radical savings required
-BBC Sounds under threat?
-Bosses mulled axing CBBC
-1,200 of 2k layoffs confirmed
-Industrial action threat lingers
-Concern at charter talks urgency
deadline.com/2026/10/inside-…
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Rare feeling of patriotism rising from within upon learning that this advice even needed to be given. What a country.
Outstanding PA drop:
Alcohol should not be the priority when preparing an emergency box of supplies, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has advised the public.
Under a new Government “be ready” campaign, households are being urged to be prepared in case everyday services are temporarily disrupted, with three days of key supplies set aside.
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner previously joked that a bottle of sauvignon blanc and mascara would be part of her kit.
Asked if wine would also be part of his emergency box, Mr Burnham said: “I’m not sure that that’s the top of the list in terms of the advice that we’re giving to the to the public.
“You need to have a clear head when it comes to a challenging situation.
“So yeah, some tins of food, some bottled water. But I’m sure people are allowed a glass or two as well to get them through a difficult situation,” he added.
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European diplomats attacked by Israeli settlers in West Bank bbc.in/4dIcFmZ
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The most important takeaway from this incident, published in CNN of all places:
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A bride surprises her groom with an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 graphics card during their wedding reception in China, October 2026.
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Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs theguardian.com/technology/2…
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The NUJ BBC Audio chapel said:
“The BBC’s decision to cut You and Yours alongside other much-loved TV and radio programmes utterly undermines the BBC’s core mission to ‘act in the public interest’ and provide ‘high-quality and distinctive output.’”
nuj.org.uk/resource/bbc-cuts…
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not to be a hater, but these are 0% alcohol, so I count them all as 0 pints
Introducing The Cheeky Pint Benchmark.
We made our intern watch every episode of Cheeky Pint to bring you this breakdown of pints drank by guests to the nearest sixth.
Congratulations to @elonmusk who is currently in the lead with three full pints of Guinness.
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New story: there was much pearl clutching when billionaire David Reuben was reported to have left the UK due to tax fears. It turns out he’s been tax resident in Monaco for at least a decade
theguardian.com/news/2026/oc…
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Israelis mourn 7 October attack victims three years after deadly Hamas raid bbc.in/4zo3gte
I'm going to keep saying this, despite it being a very route one idea:
IMO, an AI assistant at the BBC *has* to be called 'Auntie'
Lean in to the nostalgia and history!
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We have been made aware of scam emails being sent purporting to be from a Today members of staff inviting authors onto the show for interview.
We want to make clear that our team would only ever send invitations to appear from a bbc .co.uk email address – and we would never ask people to pay to appear on the programme.
These emails have been referred to the BBC’s Corporate Investigations team.
Similar scam messages were covered in this recent edition of You And Yours ⬇️
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002wh…
Whomst amongst us wouldn't love a shot at a "battle of size, skill, snack acquisition, and strategic loafing".
'Backpack' declared Alaska's Fat Bear Week winner bbc.in/4jBNqpY
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We have so little insight into what the government wants to do with the BBC during a seismic charter renewal, BBC News is having to re-heat an interview with the culture secretary that originally aired on The Media Show two weeks ago. xitter.cf/BBCNewsnight/status/21…
“Income is falling and that means the cuts have to bite somewhere.”
@katierazz asks Lisa Nandy MP whether she is surprised by the “scale” of cuts at the BBC, with the Culture Secretary adding “through the Charter we are determined to put the BBC on a sustainable footing.”
