“Glastonbury, eat your heart out.”
Sir Ed Davey shouts as he waves around a pool noodle at an aqua aerobics class.
Just four days to go until the election…
Fresh from bungee jumping in Eastbourne, Sir Ed Davey is now you along part in a zumba class in Berkshire.
The Lib Dems say they’re increasing the number of seats they’re targeting on Thursday.
Sir Ed Davey sliding into the final four days of the election campaign….
… to the tune of ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’ at an aqua aerobics class in Gloucestershire.
BREAKING GOOD NEWS: Pfizer has got the go-ahead for its vaccine from the regulator. Britain has already ordered 40 million doses. Some will be available from next week.
@guardian
says this means the UK can begin immunisation programmes before any other country in the West 💉
Catalan musician
@PabloHasel
has barricaded himself inside a university to avoid prison for insulting the monarchy.
Never thought I’d be reporting on Spanish rap for
@BBCWorld
Here's Sir Ed Davey drumming along to 'We Will Rock You' on an exercise ball in Hampshire this afternoon 🥁🥁🥁
The Lib Dem leader was visiting a care home to drum up attention for the party's social care pledges.
Sir Ed Davey is getting to grips with a barbecue in Chippenham this morning at an event to mark D-Day.
The Lib Dem leader is wearing a Union Flag oven mitt and an apron that says “King of the Grill”.
Hi
@NICKIMINAJ
, I'm a journalist working for BBC News. I was just wondering if you might be up for a short interview/chat with us tomorrow? Let me know 😊
Sir Ed Davey is now performing a PAT electrical safety test on a hedge trimmer at a repair shop in Bicester, Oxfordshire.
I’m not sure if there is a metaphor this time… but it’s all part of the Lib Dem plan to draw attention to the party and their policies.
🚨 Job news 🚨 Excited to be a Senior Journalist with the loveliest team
#BBCNewscast
🥳
I'm looking after our future planning, so come at me with who/what you'd like to hear!
I'll also carry on producing our
@BBCOne
edition and editing our Friday eps 🎧
🎙 Thrilled and very, very grateful to now be staff
@BBCNews
and
#BBCNewscast
I’m just excited to carry on doing the things I’m doing (ahhh I love it so much!!!) but especially to keep learning from the awesome and talented people. I’m so lucky.
@montie
That’s not a fair analogy. More accurate is Man United voting to leave the FA Cup because they perceive that they are losing, depriving future generations of the chance of ever winning it
Here's Ed Davey performing a bungee jump in Eastbourne.
Sir Ed phoned his wife beforehand to "say his goodbyes" (she didn't pick up).
He told us afterwards, the idea is to urge Conservatives and potential tactical voters to "take the plunge" and vote Lib Dem for the first time.
👑 Here’s the Royal Box where the Prince of Wales will award the trophy to the winning Manchester club.
Lots of legroom!!
William has hot-footed it back from Jordan where he and Catherine were attending the Crown Prince’s wedding.
💼 Work news… 💼 Recorded my last lovely
#Americast
for the year.
I’ll be spending a few months out of Broadcasting House as a foreign field producer for
@bbcworldservice
, mainly in the Middle East.
Proud to be part of a network that taught generations of my family English!
📣 Regular reminder that I still remember what it was like to be a student/aspiring journalist 📣
I’m basically 12 in journo years but would love to pass on what little I know to anyone who DMs/emails me, especially people with different backgrounds to my own
"The more people know, the less power Putin has."
Maxim was in his flat in Kyiv when a missile hit, injuring his wife and son and destroying his home.
When he asked to speak to us, we couldn't not make a podcast.
#Ukrainecast
@vicderbyshire
@ggatehouse
For anyone worried the queen raven is missing from
@TowerOfLondon
and so the United Kingdom could fall – I got the
@ravenmaster1
onto this morning’s Today programme for reassurance
We stopped Andrew Mitchell for his first comments since becoming shadow foreign secretary, outside
@spectator
's summer party.
He told us he thinks the Tories should use their autumn conference to pick their new leader – and joked that
@RhonddaBryant
could run.
Asked if he's
🚨 Please listen to an important new podcast from
@BBCNews
, presented by the great
@bbclysedoucet
.
Calm, clear, contextualised analysis of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Our first episode features Lyse talking to
@BowenBBC
.
An honour to produce it.
For something a bit uplifting, our tribute to Irish poet Derek Mahon.
Privileged to produce this report – and possibly the first ever full reading of a poem on
#BBCNewsTen
– by
@fergalkeane47
🚨 BREAKING NEWSCAST 🚨
We're SO excited to say that
@RoisinHastie
and
@gregjames
are reuniting to co-host Friday's
#BBCNewscast
while
@adamfleming
is off.
Just as happy as
@BBCR1
listener Lizzie who shouted at the Breakfast Show team on the Tube to ask when Roisin was back.
Rishi Sunak was confronted about NHS pay while on a visit in North Yorkshire this afternoon.
The woman identified herself as Chloe and told reporters she was a GP and recently joined the Labour Party.
Proud to have edited my first episode of
#BBCNewscast
!
And it's our last of the summer, so no excuse not to listen as
@adamfleming
@ChrisMasonBBC
(or is it
@jonculshaw
?) recap the political talking points of 2021 so far, helped by our headline interviews
It feels like Christmas morning all over again 🥳
In the past couple of hours, I’ve had the chance to report on nearly every BBC network news outlet, including my first VT for
@BBCBreakfast
, introduced by
@luxmy_g
@mrdanwalker
👇🏼
This 🚨 personal news 🚨 is a month late (still scared I’ll jinx it), but this summer I’ve been loving filling in for v hardworking producers on the BBC’s News at Six/Ten and working with inspiring reporters worldwide, which I’m also carrying on doing on the Foreign Desk 😊
What if one day your partner is a government politician – and the next they're a prisoner of what you feel is a foreign country.
Last week for
@Independent
, I spoke to the wives of two of the Catalan separatist leaders currently standing trial 🎗️🎗️
Much more important things happened yesterday, but I also had my first chance to stand outside No 10.
It looks smaller in real life, and the shiny door and old-fashioned lampposts almost fake. It felt like being at Universal Studios.
🇩🇪 Some German news 🇩🇪 After two years of paperwork and lots of words lost in translation, I've just had approval to become a national.
I will now immediately be trying to get into the cricket/darts/snooker teams...
Brilliant interview with the one and only
@j_smithcameron
.
Loved when J turned the tables on Marianna to ask what journalists can learn from Succession.
On this week’s Americast we talk DeSantis launch and Twitter spaces - with my Undercover Voters at the ready!
And I interview Gerri from Succession, which was v exciting. We chatted parallels between the show and real-life in the US (with some spoilers!)
👋 Introducing your
#BBCNewscast
presenters for the day…
We’re talking strikes, Rishi Sunak’s seatbelt, Andrew Tate, women’s rights in Afghanistan – and obviously Animal News – with guest hosts
@RoisinHastie
and
@gregjames
📻
#BBCNewscast
brought together political editors
@BethRigby
,
@Peston
and
@ChrisMasonBBC
. Beth and Robert give their verdict on Liz Truss’s future after the Tory party conference.
Watch tonight on BBC One after Question Time.
SCOOP: I've seen messages sent to London teachers inviting them for Covid vaccine appointments against official priority rules.
They had working bookings links with working passwords – and some have even got their jabs 💉
More on
#BBCNewscast
and
@BBCNews
website tonight...
NEW: Senior Lib Dem source tells us they're aiming to gain a record number of seats – but are coy about their exact target.
They're trying to lock down "traditional" Lib Dems while hunting "Tory switchers".
Our piece by
@BBCTomSymonds
@DavidSamFrancis
.
🚨 Recently took on responsibilities for planning
#BBCNewscast
on
@BBCOne
on Thursday nights and for editing the bumper weekend podcast on Fridays.
If you work for (or are) a politician or politically active name whom we might like to interview, my DMs are – as they say – open.
Privileged to produce
@bbclaurak
’s interview with
@RishiSunak
for
#BBCNewscast
on her last day as political editor.
The Chancellor told us his priority isn’t being popular and that his approach to the cost of living has been “difficult for people to hear.”
She’s made so many memories for
@ChelseaLFC
fans but receiving this gift from
@frankirby
last night was a special personal one. It’s incredible how invested you get – two games to go
Didn't expect to be doing this today. Or ever.
Listen for calm, insightful analysis of Russia's invasion of Ukraine – and what it means for all of us – from
@ggatehouse
and
@vicderbyshire
It’s my day off so having a few chats with new and aspiring journalists today ☀️
A reminder that I’m here for that sort of thing – young people who don’t feel represented in the media, that includes you!
I still remember what it feels like not being sure whether to reach out…
🚨 Something a bit different from me…
I’ve been speaking to loads of young British Jews about their reaction to Kanye West’s anti-Semitic rants.
Questions for all of us about cancel culture versus complicity.
🚨 Attention young journalists 🚨
An exciting and rare external opportunity to work as a researcher on BBC podcasts like
#BBCNewscast
#Americast
: .
If you're interested (and would make a nice colleague!) feel free to get in touch with any questions.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨
Our
@bbcworldservice
team were among the first visitors to a centre in Kyrgyzstan where women and children who went to live with the Islamic State group are being brought home.
Long read ➡️
Video ⬇️
Meet ABCD - a special Christmas
#newscast
tonight with Justin Welby and Bramble, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Dog who manages, just about, not to snaffle the mince pies off the table
L'Equipe are reporting that French officials are looking into possible match-fixing of
@PSG_inside
's 6-1 Champions League win against Red Star Belgrade last week.
A director of the Serbian club allegedly bet €5million that they would lose by five goals. Talk about pessimistic.
🇺🇸🎙 In which guest presenter
@NickBryantNY
finds free beer in Buffalo and
@maitlis
waxes lyrical about Eurovision, which
@awzurcher
discovers is not a football tournament.
Loved producing on
#Americast
for the first time this week.
My first radio package reporting as well as producing has been running on
@bbcworldservice
and
@BBCRadio4
.
Here’s part one of my story on the curious reasons why Spain could soon be turning its clocks back for the final time 🕰
Beyond proud to be a colleague of
@bbclysedoucet
and
@sarahrainsford
, whose sensitive and brave coverage from different countries has inspired reporters around the world, and this week is just an example…