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Meta will launch a Twitter rival app on Thursday. Adam is joined by Shiona McCallum, BBC tech reporter, and Vivian Schiller, the former head of news at Twitter, to talk about the effect they expect it to have on our online lives. Chris Mason is also on with the latest as the police reopen an investigation into a 'jingle and mingle' event at Conservative HQ while Covid restrictions were in place. And, business editor Simon Jack has been investigating what’s going on with Nigel Farage’s bank accounts, after Mr Farage claimed an account of his was shut for political reasons. We hear what he’s found. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Alex Collins and Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The news editor was Damon Rose.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, how is this for a chain of events? |
| 0:08.0 | The wrestler John Cena from WWE says that the UK should get to host the WrestleMania |
| 0:15.6 | Bonanza, which is a big deal in world wrestling next year. |
| 0:19.9 | That's the exciting thing that happened first. |
| 0:21.9 | The next exciting thing that happened was it turns out Westminster has an all-party parliamentary |
| 0:27.6 | group, an APPG, a cross-party grouping of MPs dedicated to wrestling. |
| 0:35.4 | The next exciting thing was just hearing how excited the co-chair of the all-party parliamentary |
| 0:40.6 | group on wrestling Alex Davies Jones was on Newsbeat. |
| 0:44.8 | Nobody predicted John Cena coming out and announcing the possibility of a WrestleMania |
| 0:50.3 | in the UK. |
| 0:51.3 | I mean, it was utterly incredible and got the whole place buzzing with excitement about |
| 0:56.4 | the possibilities of what that could mean for wrestling fans, but also for the UK economy |
| 1:00.8 | and also for future fans as well. |
| 1:03.2 | The attention that the UK would have for having a WrestleMania here is incredible and really, |
| 1:09.3 | really exciting at the prospect. |
| 1:11.2 | But what is going to make this even more exciting is we're now going to do an APPG quiz |
| 1:14.8 | because how well does Chris Mason know his APPG's? |
| 1:18.8 | Hello. |
| 1:19.8 | Terrific, hello. |
| 1:21.2 | And just to live it up and combine it with the wrestling theme, we've got some exclusive |
| 1:25.8 | wrestling arena sign facts. |
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