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Clare Balding to host new BBC Radio 4 literary quiz show

The show is one of a series of quiz pilots that will air on Sunday afternoons on BBC Radio 4 this summer.

Evening Standard · May 6

‘It ends with me crying in a pink cycle helmet’: Edinburgh fringe comics pitch their own Baby Reindeer

With every streaming service now searching for their version of the Netfix hit, Mark Watson, Lucy Porter, Celya AB and more pitch the TV show of their lives, from real-life origin stories and flights of fancy to, erm, Baby Reindeer

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3, 2024

The rise of speed dating — and how to do it right

It’s official: the Nineties are back, and apps are out. Speed dating is the hottest new dating trend — and Emma Loffhagen explains why it’s taking the capital by storm

Evening Standard · Feb 9, 2023

Activists gather to support ­'Barclays 7' women who broke windows at bank’s headquarters

Climate activists want to draw attention to Barclays’ role as the UK and Europe’s largest fossil fuel investor – and their tactics were inspired by the suffragettes’ window smashing protests of 1911 and 1912

Daily Mirror · Feb 2, 2023

Climate protesters spared jail after smashing Barclays windows

Six women have been given suspended sentences after being convicted of criminal damage.

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2023

Climate change protesters who smashed Barclays bank HQ windows ‘could face jail’ after being convicted of criminal damage

Judge Milne KC said ‘all options’ have to be considered before adjourning the sentencing to January 27 next year at the same court

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2022

Climate protesters found guilty of criminal damage at Barclays headquarters

Seven women were convicted at Southwark Crown Court on Monday over the incident on April 7 last year.

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022

Mystery as millionaire vanishes while on walk in Ireland as wife says he ‘slipped and fell into sea’

Arthur Kingsley Porter was last seen alive by his wife Lucy on the tiny Gaeltacht Island Inis Bo Finne or Inishbofin off the northwest coast of Donegal. His mysterious disappearance is re-examined in a TG4 documentary.

Irish Mirror · Aug 29, 2022

Climate protesters storm Royal Academy and glue themselves to Leonardo Da Vinci painting

Five Just Stop Oil supporters have spray-painted "No New Oil" in white letters onto the red slab under the vast painting in central London as police were called to the protest

Daily Mirror · Jul 5, 2022

Just Stop Oil demonstrators in protest at London’s Royal Academy

The protesters glued themselves to the frame of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper.

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2022