Maternity care crisis, Paramount v Netflix & Salah’s Liverpool rift
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
Sky News
4.0 • 224 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
A damning report exposes England’s maternity care crisis; mothers ignored, dirty wards, and staff facing death threats.
Ukraine’s president shares a revised peace plan with the US as pressure mounts to end the war.
The government unveils a bold rail revamp. What does it mean for your commute?
Paramount crashes Netflix’s takeover party in a blockbuster bidding war.
And Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah sparks a public spat with his coach. Is his Anfield future over?
Sophy and Wilf have all the day's news, in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:44.7 | Hello, you're listening to Cheat Sheet the podcast where we do the work so you don't have to. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Wilfred Frost. |
| 0:49.2 | And I am Sophie Ridge. It's Tuesday the 9th of December. |
| 0:50.5 | What's happening today? |
| 0:56.2 | Another report on England's poor maternity service showing mothers not being listening to, |
| 0:59.5 | dirty wards and staff who receive death threats. |
| 1:04.5 | We can tell you a bit more about the government's plan to nationalise some railways. And a row continues to erupt at Liverpool Football Club over a dispute they're having with one of their highest paid, |
| 1:13.5 | highest profile players, Mo Salop. |
| 1:18.0 | Now, Sophie, we talk about maternity quite a lot because of all sorts of problems within the NHS on it. |
| 1:25.9 | We're talking about it again today. Why? |
| 1:28.9 | There's another report. And it's yet another report because it just takes me straight back |
| 1:33.6 | to the multiple other reports we've had on this that have effectively shown that giving birth |
| 1:38.9 | is not safe in this country for mums or babies. And it echoes that we've got Baroness Valerie Amos, |
| 1:46.5 | and she has published the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation. In part of that publication, |
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