Northern Ireland declared its coronavirus lockdown will stay in place for another three weeks tonight with the rest of the UK poised to follow. On the eve of a formal UK government announcement, First Minister Arlene Foster said the measures were still ‘appropriate and proportionate’ in the province as the disease continues its deadly progress. … Read more
From Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With… to Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum, Happy Baby and The Shrink Next Door, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 01:27 BST, 15 March 2020 Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With… Comedian Perkins rustles up a celebrity guest and … Read more
From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout, Castaway and The Coronavirus Podcast, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 21 March 2020 Table Manners Every week on this big-hearted podcast, singer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie invite a celebrity guest … Read more
Nikki Bella shows off her baby bump as she reveals she is almost 24 weeks along in her first pregnancy with fiance Artem Chigvintsev By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com Published: 18:43 BST, 14 April 2020 | Updated: 18:43 BST, 14 April 2020 Nikki Bella has taken to social media again to proudly show off her … Read more
From Maggie O’Farrell’s radiant novel to The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield’s captivating latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner and Gwendolyn Smith For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 BST, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 21:22 BST, 24 March 2020 Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell … Read more
From the BBC’s useful new Coronavirus Global Update to Mel Giedroyc Is Quilting and Blackout, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 28 March 2020 Coronavirus Global Update Covid-19 may have come from China but its spread has been horrifyingly global. This useful new BBC … Read more
From The Anthill to the topical Coronavirus: What You Need To Know, Girl Taken and Phil Wang’s hilarious BudPod, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 00:49 BST, 5 April 2020 The Anthill Why are conspiracy theories so hard to suppress? What is the meaning of nothing? … Read more
Dave Lewis, the chief executive of Tesco, announced plans to step down this October some time before coronavirus struck, but had he been harbouring any ideas of winding down as his leaving date approached – admittedly that was never very likely – they went by the board when the pandemic struck. Rather than a leisurely … Read more
From Nobody Panic with Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates to Matt Lucas’ Bitch Bitch Bitch and Popmaster with Ken Bruce, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 11 April 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 11 April 2020 Nobody Panic Each week, peppy comedians Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates offer advice about how … Read more
From A. L. Kennedy’s new collection to novels by Nikita Lalwani and Carmel Harrington and Ingrid Persaud’s debut, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Anthony Gardner and Hephzibah Anderson and Madeleine Feeny Published: 22:01 BST, 11 April 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 11 April 2020 We Are Attempting To Survive Our Time … Read more