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Best of Brakfast Episode 174 Yana Bolder
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News 26/08/26
A woman killed in a house fire near Middlesbrough has been described by her mother as a beautiful soul who would have done anything for anybody. Thirty-four-year-old Natalie McDonald died alongside her seven-year-old niece, Valentina Foster, in the blaze in Grangetown early on Wednesday. Cleveland Police confirmed a forty-eight-year-old woman remains critically ill in hospital, while three others received treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. Two men, aged twenty-three and thirty-one, have […]
Everyday Life: The Little Things We All Do, Say and Think
There are some things about everyday British life that don't really need explaining. You just do them. You say certain things without thinking. You have little routines that you've probably never discussed with anyone. You get irrationally annoyed by things that aren't really important. And you somehow end up having conversations about exactly the same subjects as everyone else. Perhaps that's one of the things that makes everyday life so […]
News 08/07/26
The Metropolitan Police officer who shot Chris Kaba is unlikely to face misconduct proceedings due to new government regulations. Firearms officer Martyn Blake shot the twenty four year old in south London in 2022 after Mr Kaba rammed a police stop. Mr Blake was cleared of murder, but the watchdog says the disciplinary case will now be dropped. The Kaba family has been given three weeks to challenge the decision. […]
What’s Something You Own That Nobody Else Wants But You’ll Never Throw Away?
We all have one. That item sitting in a cupboard, garage, loft or drawer that nobody else understands. It has no real value. It probably hasn’t been used for years. Someone has probably suggested getting rid of it. But you can’t. Because it’s not really about the object. It’s about the memories attached to it. Gen X especially grew up in a time when things weren’t automatically replaced every few […]
News 07/07/26
The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has posted on social media to say he will be making an announcement this afternoon about his future in public life. The statement follows recent reports regarding donations made to the party leader and his official declarations of them. A series of explosions have been heard in Damascus near the hotel where the French President Emmanuel Macron is due to stay in Syria. Roads […]
Workplace Rules That Have Completely Disappeared
Work has changed a lot since Gen X first entered the workplace. Some changes were definitely improvements. Some are slightly confusing. And some make older generations sound like they survived employment during Victorian times. Because back then, offices, shops and workplaces had rules that now seem completely unbelievable. Yet at the time, everybody just accepted them. Mostly because there was no internet to complain about them publicly. Here are some […]
News 06/07/26
A 23-year-old wild card has reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals after a fightback. Arthur Fery entered the tournament ranked 114, with only two grand slam victories and no five-set match wins. He has won two matches from positions, beating former semi-finalist Grigor Dimitrov 7-5 3-6 4-6 6-4 7-6. After trailing Zizou Bergs in the fourth and fifth sets, Fery recovered to earn a meeting with ninth-seed Flavio Cobolli. A mother has […]
