Summary
The Conservative Party is investigating claims that an MP watched pornography on his mobile phone in the Commons. Adam and Vicki Young discuss the latest following another busy day in Westminster.
Also… the High Court has ruled that government policies on discharging untested patients to care homes in England during the pandemic were unlawful. Newsnight’s Sima Kotecha and Nadra Ahmed from the National Care Association chew over the details.
And Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, joins Adam to talk about the Church’s role in Ukraine and what he thinks about the UK’s plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade, Ben Cooper, Alix Pickles and Lauren Stanley. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, British Gas has done some research about the devices you have in your house that consume |
| 0:10.3 | electricity even when you're not using them and they're just on standby and they've |
| 0:13.8 | christened them vampire devices. |
| 0:16.4 | You can see why. |
| 0:17.4 | Now it turns out on the newscast production team there are quite a lot of vampire experts, |
| 0:22.1 | so what they've done is taken the list of vampire devices and compared them with vampires. |
| 0:28.9 | You the spooky music. |
| 0:34.7 | So the worst of all is your television which is on standby costing you probably on average |
| 0:39.8 | £24.61 a year. |
| 0:41.8 | Obviously that is the baddest vampire of them all. |
| 0:45.0 | Dracula. |
| 0:46.0 | We all know about him. |
| 0:48.4 | Next, your microwave which could be costing you £16.37 a year while it does nothing. |
| 0:55.7 | Apparently that's Carmilla. |
| 0:58.6 | The vampire you knew nothing about from an 1872 Gothic novella by the Irish author Sheridan |
| 1:05.0 | the Fanou. |
| 1:06.7 | Next is your games console which on average costs you £12.17. |
| 1:11.9 | We thought that was basically like angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer because it's basically |
| 1:18.1 | okay but there is a bad sight to him. |
| 1:21.8 | Then there's your washing machine £4.73 just to sit there. |
| 1:27.2 | We think that's kind of like Edward from the Twilight saga. |
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