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Best of Brakfast Episode 174 Yana Bolder
A teenager has drowned during a Duke of Edinburgh's Award trip in Wales. Emergency services were called to Powys on Tuesday evening after the eighteen-year-old entered the River Wye and could not be found. Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed his body was located following a search involving mountain rescue. A spokesperson for the scheme confirmed he was on his award expedition. A sixteen-year-old boy has been left with potentially life-threatening injuries following […]
Britain has invented some genuinely world-changing things. The World Wide Web. The telephone. The jet engine. The light bulb. Chocolate bars that mysteriously shrink every year. But while the big inventions get all the attention, there are loads of underrated British creations that quietly made everyday life better without getting the recognition they deserve. And Gen X grew up surrounded by many of them. Some were practical. Some were strange. […]
Serena Williams has lost on her return to Wimbledon, four years after her move away from tennis. The 44 year-old American was beaten by Australian Maya Joint, who is twenty-four years her junior, in their round-one clash on Centre Court. Williams, a seven-times Wimbledon champion, lost the match in three sets as Joint triumphed six-three, six-seven, six-three. It was her first singles match since the 2022 US Open. A patient […]
There was a time when you bought something… and then owned it. Simple. You bought a CD. It was yours. You bought a car. Also yours. You bought software. Yours again. You even bought a TV and somehow managed to watch it without creating an account, accepting cookies or signing up for a free trial that mysteriously became £9.99 a month. Gen X remembers this world well. Now? Everything feels […]
A long-delayed military spending plan will be published on Tuesday. Sir Keir Starmer said the defence investment plan will keep Britain safe and secure long into the future. The Ministry of Defence confirmed it includes five billion pounds to increase the Armed Forces' use of drones. It follows a thirteen-point-five billion pound funding increase agreed by the Treasury and Downing Street. A commercial pilot has reported colliding with a drone […]
There was a time when starting a conversation was easy. You’d mention what was on TV last night, complain about the weather, ask somebody what music they were into or debate whether anyone could actually beat Mike Tyson in Punch-Out!!. Now people stare at phones in silence while pretending not to notice each other. Gen X grew up talking to people because we had no choice. No WhatsApp. No social […]
The US Supreme Court has rejected Donald Trump's appeal to overturn a five-million-dollar verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming magazine columnist E Jean Carroll. Justices refused to hear the president's appeal against the 2023 jury verdict. Carroll alleged that Trump assaulted her in a department store dressing room around 1996, a claim which Trump denies. Rishi Sunak's former aide Craig Williams has pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown […]
There was a time when if something broke, you fixed it. You didn’t rush online at 11pm looking for a newer version with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and an app nobody asked for. You grabbed a screwdriver, dug out the instruction manual from “that drawer,” and gave it a go. Gen X grew up in the golden age of repairing stuff. Our parents repaired things. We repaired things. Half the time, we […]
A thirty-four-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car hit multiple pedestrians in west London. Five people were injured when the vehicle collided with them in Ealing Broadway just before 2:30 on Saturday afternoon. The Metropolitan Police confirmed the driver failed to stop at the scene but was detained a short time later in nearby Grange Park. Two men from Slough have been charged with […]
Everybody has done it. You wake up, stare at the ceiling and think: “I really cannot face work today.” Sometimes you genuinely feel ill. Sometimes life gets overwhelming. And sometimes you simply need a break from emails, meetings, customers, spreadsheets or pretending to care about another motivational team update. Over the years, people have come up with some incredibly creative excuses for taking a day off. Here are some of […]
