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Simon King says he had just two minutes to run between studios, including up flight of stairsA BBC weather presenter who suffered shortness of breath during a live broadcast has reassured listeners he was merely suffering the effects of running up a flight of stairs on his way to the studio.Simon King said he had received messages from worried members of the public, but...

The Princess of Wales’s video was intended to calm the fevered speculation about her but may just spark yet more incessant coverageWhen she met Prince William, the heir to the British throne, more than 20 years ago at St Andrews University, Catherine, the Princess of Wales had her first taste of the appetite for news about her life and her budding romantic involvement with...

Duchess of Sussex finds the ‘cruel’ hatred being ‘spewed’ online disturbing and keeps her distance for her wellbeingThe Duchess of Sussex has said she received hateful abuse on social media while she was pregnant with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.Meghan gave a keynote speech as part of a panel that included the US actor Brooke Shields at the annual SXSW Conference in Texas to...

Slump in ad revenue outweighs record income from studio businessITV has recorded a sharp drop in annual profits as the brutal advertising downturn seen last year outweighed record revenues in its studios business, which made the recent hit drama Mr Bates v the Post Office.The UK’s largest free-to-air commercial broadcaster said pre-tax profits had fallen 61% to £193m in 2023 against £501m in 2022...

Two-day hearing will weigh up whether WikiLeaks founder can be granted leave to appeal against 2022 decisionLawyers for the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, will begin a last-ditch attempt on Tuesday to fight his extradition to the US where he could face life in prison if convicted of spying charges.A two-day hearing in the high court will consider whether Australian-born Assange, who has been held...

Matt Le Tissier and John Hartson recommended product but did not reveal they were being paidFormer footballers Matt Le Tissier and John Hartson broke UK advertising rules by posting promotional tweets about a cannabidiol (CBD) product without telling consumers they were being paid by its retailer, the industry watchdog has said.The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) investigated complaints about a number of posts on X,...

Some interviews will still be shown on TalkTV but Morgan calls commitment to daily show ‘unnecessary straitjacket’ Piers Morgan has announced he is leaving his TalkTV daily evening show, less than two years after its launch, to focus on his YouTube channel.The Piers Morgan Uncensored channel has grown to 2.3 million subscribers since 2022. Continue reading...

Online publication Polyester will train writer in honour of its managing editor who died last yearA new fellowship to train an aspiring working-class journalist is aiming to help diversify the media landscape while honouring the memory and spirit of Eden Young, who died in an accident last year.The Eden Young Fellowship for Aspiring Working Class Journalists aims to provide a year-long training and mentorship...

BBC host talks about cutting screen time and how some of the press are ‘obsessed with trying to do me’, in Guardian interview‘The levels of attack are extraordinary’: Gary Lineker on punditry, podcasts – and why he won’t stop speaking his mindGary Lineker has said he received threats after he retweeted then deleted a post by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural...

Swearwords increasingly used for emphasis and to build social bonds, rather than to insult, say academicsSwearing has become more widely acceptable over the past two decades because it is increasingly used for other purposes than to insult people, linguistics experts have said.“Fuck” and “shit”, the two most commonly used swearwords in the UK, are frequently used to emphasise a point in conversation or to...