Summary
Boris Johnson still has questions to answer about how the Downing Street refurbishments were paid for, after another investigation into possible spending offences was launched today. Laura and Adam talk it through. And, it’s bye bye Arlene... Stephen Nolan explains why Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Arlene Foster, says she is resigning. Oh, and we’ve got the Secretary of State for Tourism in Portugal on to talk about how foreign travel could work this year.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Daniel Wittenberg, Alix Pickles and Ben Cooper. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe and the Editor is Dino Sofos.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I would like to introduce you to my new travel agent, it's Rita Marcheh, who is the Secretary of State for Tourism in |
| 0:14.5 | Portugal. Hello Rita. Hello hello how are you doing? I'm doing very well I would |
| 0:18.8 | like to get a Portugal travel guide from you to get me excited about international travel maybe restarting in the summer so I've been to Lisbon I've been to Porto |
| 0:28.0 | Where is a kind of less famous but just as good place I should go in Portugal? |
| 0:33.0 | Well it's difficult to find the best spot in Portugal because we do have so many but I will |
| 0:39.1 | advise you to go to one of our islands as orders or Madair, or why not in a great beach in the south of Portugal in Algar. |
| 0:47.6 | Okay, what is the main dish that I should be eating? |
| 0:51.2 | What's the best food? Well, you like fish then you have in Portumatousinos. It's a city nearby Porto. You have awesome fish or a nice, I don't know if you like, I don't know if you are a veggie by the way. |
| 1:05.0 | No, no, no, I eat pretty much everything except mushrooms. |
| 1:08.5 | Okay, so, well, we do have mushrooms, but I guess that I will find out a nice place for you to have fun and enjoy a good meal for sure. |
| 1:17.6 | And Port, I do like a glass of Port, but I don't know much about it. |
| 1:22.0 | What's your favorite glass of port? |
| 1:24.4 | Well it depends with whom am I taking that glass of port. |
| 1:29.0 | Well let's say I'm meeting you for a chat about the tourism industry? Well you know the port has this |
| 1:34.8 | flexibility because you can enjoy a glass of ports as an appetizer but also as a |
| 1:39.6 | dessert so it really depends on the mood, but I will advise you to go to Gaya near one of the sellers and why not to taste you know every glass of fort that they will put you in front so that's a good always a good plan. |
| 1:54.4 | It's going to be a fortnight holiday then I think two weeks and finally do you like |
| 1:58.9 | those little custard tarts? Oh yes Bastille de Nadas of course. By the way you are most invited to come and enjoy |
| 2:06.7 | the Bastille de Nata with me whenever you want so as soon as the British government |
| 2:11.6 | decides to allow you to get out for sure, so most invited. |
| 2:15.0 | Well, in an ideal world, I'd be finishing this episode of newscast and then jumping on the train to the airport and then going |
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