Simon Hancock 🦋
@newsmansimon
Freelance Journalist with BBC World Service. Previously heard on BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Wiltshire and BBC Somerset. Message me with stories. Available for freelance writing commissions. He/him.
At the Cenotaph at November’s Remembrance Sunday there will be 9 former Prime Ministers.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the Miliband brothers are only the second pair of siblings ever to hold the same Cabinet post - UK Foreign Secretary. The first were the Stanley brothers - Colonial Secretary
In a Mirror article about BBC cuts, man is quoted saying R4’s Woman’s Hour should be scrapped due to its whinging. Sounds to me like the programme is needed more than ever with a view like that
It’s only taken me six years to find @channel4.bsky.social’s Bristol Creative Hub at #finzelsreach 🤷♀️
In the final episode of Twenty Twenty Six, they did not BLEEP the word "Cup". So the previous ones were bleeped for humour, not for legal reasons!
Hungary should be offered hosting duties at #WorldPride & @epoa.eu #EuroPride from 2029 #BudapestPride 🇭🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Don't know why there's been criticism of @claudiawinkleman.bsky.social's new chat show. Four great guests, a brilliant host, and a 🐶 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Looks like the companion show to The Apprentice has done away with a live audience for the visual podcast format instead. Photograph has an empty chair for the apprentice who got fired in week one but I didn't want to spoil it for those who have not yet watched it. I'm nice like that!
20 years on... we're back to Police mergers... but it did not end well two decades ago. Will it be different this time?
England's most deprived areas named - here's how it's looking in the West of England #Bristol #SouthGloucestershire #NorthSomerset #Bath&NorthEastSomerset #BBCVerify www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Another #BBC programme partially filmed in #Bristol. #FilmClub could have easily found some locations in #Manchester to use as a Bristol backdrop but they decided to be authentic & film around the #Harbourside & other areas. Impressive performance by the @bristolfilmoffice.bsky.social
How Are You (Bristol)? #AlanPartridge #SteveCoogan #Bristol makes it into the opening sequence of another BBC series.
This headline has been bothering me for several days now. Having worked in Bristol's financial services industry, I was pretty sure HL moved to its Harbourside location around 2010 (not 4 decades ago). So I decided to do some digging. Read on...
I know we are on season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK but does the rest of the world still have any clue as to why they give out RuPeter Badges?
Nice to see Bristol in one of the opening segments of this season's BBC Strictly (that's La Voix in George's hand)!
President Trump referred to the Princess of Wales by her nickname, "Princess Catherine". HRH is either the Princess of Wales or the Princess William (which is confusing & outdated in the modern world). But she graciously smiled at the President's compliments. Photo credit: PA Media.
Season 3 of The Newsreader has landed on @bbciplayer.bsky.social 📺 🇦🇺 🎤
🎭 Just take a moment to think of the sheer number of famous names she discovered at an early age. Remarkable achievement. Such a legacy 🎭
UK-USA tariff deal document spills onto the ground & President Trump refers to the document as a trade agreement with the EU (not the UK)
Israel's latest strikes on Iran were to thwart missile attack, Israeli media suggests, from the BBC's overnight coverage on its live pages. Continues here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
So there's a "No Kings Day" anti-Trump protest in the US on his birthday but Americans in the UK have had to rename it "No Tyrants Day" because it's King Charles' official birthday on the same day and they don't want to conflate the two very different styles of heads of state.
I've just discovered that this LEGO™️ Retro Radio actually exists. I've handled the physical box in the store! Not AI as I thought it might be when I saw images online!