Now, extra, good morning.

Good morning.

It is Friday, the 26th of April 2024.

I'm Ritchie Allen.

This is the newspaper podcast

or the papers. I tell you

what, it is bright, it is

blue, it is lovely

here in Salford this morning. But

it's brass monkeys.

It's freezing out there.

You don't expect towards the end of April

to be needing the old gloves for your hands, for your fingers. You don't expect towards the end of April to be needing the old gloves for

your hands, for your fingers. I didn't have any. I realized that I was in the old park. My fingers

were turning white. The dogs didn't care though. They had fun. But yeah, it's pretty cold this

morning. I hope you're in good form and, as I say every Friday, I hope you're looking

forward to the weekend and you've got something interesting planned. And interesting now in the life

of this 49-year-old gammon is just getting out for a walk locally with the dogs. Now, the front

pages of the newspapers in the UK. The Guardian, Yusaf in peril,

as Greens say, they will back no confidence motion. Now, if you follow politics closely,

you will know that the Scottish National Party was in coalition with the Green Party in Scotland.

And yesterday it was announced by the SNP and by the Greens that that arrangement had been terminated

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