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The Today Programme host, 48, posted a grainy photograph of the Hailstone portrait of her mother, Shama, now 76, on Twitter on Sunday night with an appeal for help to her over 243,000 followers.

Sarah Sands says she was talked out of the idea by BBC governor Sir Richard Eyre, who told her it would cause a scandal

Closing down discussion in the name of “inclusion” produces nothing but silence and mediocre intellectual work

As Nick Robinson draws ire for telling the Prime Minister to 'stop talking', our critic dissects the delicate art of the '8.10am' interview

The BBC decided not to admonish Mr Robinson after he ordered Mr Johnson to stop talking live on air yesterday in an incendiary interview that has upset No 10 and Conservative MPs.

Will bring you more, there competing on the final of the beam, competing for the first time in a week. the belarusian sprinter krystsina tsimanouskaya remains at the polish embassy in tokyo, and its believed she plans to go to warsaw on wednesday, after poland granted her a humanitarian visa. she refused an order to return home from the olympics after criticising her coaches. in london today, the exiled belarusian opposition leader svetlana tsikhanouskaya is meeting the british prime minister, b...

The Home Office held 56 migrants including mothers with babies and very young children in a cramped and unfit room in Dover covered in thin mattresses, MPs say. The Home Affairs Committee slammed the conditions in Kent this week in a letter to Priti Patel after they made a surprise visit. Members said it was wholly inappropriate and risked spreading coronavirus further and claimed some were being held illegally. The Home Office hit back saying it took the migrants safety seriously but added it...

The Clapham Grand welcomed audience members at full capacity as live performance returns on July 26.  Going one step further, the epidemiologist, who is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) that advises Boris Johnson and the government, estimated when we’ll know that the worst has already passed. Advertisement “The effect of vaccines is hugely reducing the risk of hospitalisations and death,” he said. “And I’m positive that by late September or October ti...

Portugal travel ban is an overreaction, says local epidemiologist Moving Portugal off the UKs green list is "an overreaction", an epidemiologist in the country has said. Professor Henrique Barros, president of Portugals National Health Council, said the overall situation in the country is "relatively stable" and challenged Robert Jenricks suggestion that cases were doubling across the country.  He told Sky News: "I think its an overreaction. But of course you know that people moving from one...

THE Covid-19 pandemic would be over if hospitalisations and deaths remain low, one of the Oxford vaccine group professors has said. Andrew Pollard, a member of the Oxford Vaccine Group which developed the jab being produced by AstraZeneca, also told Radio 4s Today Programme the coronavirus was likely to continue to infect people. But as long as they only caught the symptoms of the common cold as a result of it, then this was good news. The Today Programmes presenter, Martha Kearney, th...