Any idea that Tim Davie might enjoy a honeymoon period as the BBC’s new director-general has gone up in smoke. He takes over the job today, with the row about the Last Night of the Proms still reverberating and with every opinion poll confirming that the public firmly thinks the BBC got it wrong with … Read more
By Kathryn Knight for the Daily Mail The work was done by lamplight, over a small kitchen table in North London. Night after night throughout the early months of 1934, Captain Fred Hill and his 13-year-old daughter Hazel burned the midnight oil, plotting graphs and labouring over complex algorithms. It was tiring, unrewarding work but … Read more
A far-right councillor has suggested that he wants his town to become ‘whites only’ as he launches a campaign against asylum seekers being housed in an Essex hotel. Councillor Julian Leppert, alongside former BNP campaign chief Eddy Butler, of the For Britain party launched a campaign against the Home Office temporarily housing asylum seekers. He … Read more
BBC’s new director-general Tim Davie is ‘open’ to replacing licence fee with Netflix-style subscription Davie, 53, has been ordered to come up with a viable funding model for the BBC Among measures floated is a subscription model similar to Netflix or Amazon Conservative minister said there is ‘real optimism’ about Davie’s pragmatism By Helena Kelly For … Read more
Greek police have said they treated Harry Maguire ‘like just another drunk Brit’ after the Manchester United captain claimed that plain clothes officers refused to identify themselves during his arrest. The £85 million centre-half, 27, was last week found guilty of assaulting police and attempted bribery after officers arrived to break up a brawl outside … Read more
It’s Titchmarsh vs Marr! Gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh will go head-to-head with veteran journalist Andrew Marr for Sunday morning TV crown Andrew Marr’s programme interviewing political heavyweights airs at 9am Mr Titchmarsh will present Love Your Weekend on ITV at 9.25am as it airs Mr Titchmarsh’s two-hour show is being compared with the BBC’s Countryfile … Read more
She enjoyed a night out at a Libertines concert in Newcastle on Saturday with her fiancé Iain Stirling. And Laura Whitmore was back to work on Sunday as she headed to the BBC studios for her Radio 5 Live show. The Love Island presenter, 35, opted for an unusual boho look as she slipped into … Read more
Dread and paranoia had settled over Prague like smog. Dissent was brutally crushed by the Communist regime, suspected traitors executed on the flimsiest of pretexts. But when MI6 officer Robert Gardner, having flown in from London, passed through the revolving doors of the famous Alcron hotel on February 20, 1951 – just as Winston Churchill, Charlie … Read more
BBC’s new director general Tim Davie ‘is considering reversing decision not to sing Rule Britannia! at Last Night of the Proms’ insiders say Tim Davie is set to take over on Tuesday and could overturn unpopular decision BBC decided to remove lyrics from Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory at the Last Night … Read more
Manchester United star Harry Maguire was arrested by a team of undercover police drafted in from mainland Greece to target organised crime in Mykonos, police sources have revealed. The officers are on the popular tourist island to crack down on drug dealing and are specially trained in anti-corruption and bribery – an accusation levelled at … Read more