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Hello, thanks for getting in touch if newscast featured on your Spotify Rapp, which is the streaming services little viral thing where they tell you what you've been listening to all year.

And then hopefully you tell your friends to give them free advertising from their point of view.

Anyway, it's lovely to hear from you about what your Spotify raps has been vis-à-vis newscast.

Paul got in touch from Oxford to say,

I was delighted to see in my rap this year I was in the top 0.5% of newscast listeners with 11,655 minutes streamed.

And then Paul goes on to say that he listens to newscast mainly in the shower in the morning.

So thanks for that Paul.

We've also worked out now with our number crunching, aka a calculator,

that 11,655 minutes is equal to 194 hours and 15 minutes, which is approximately eight days and two

hours, which means Paul has listened to more than a week of newscast, which is very impressive.

And Paul, we're very, very grateful for your time. And for everyone else who got in touch about how much

newscast they've been listening to. There's always room for more though, isn't there?

Right, we can add to it now with about 38 minutes worth of newscast listening with the latest

episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no solulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, and today we got the final official report from the inquiry into the Salisbury Poisonings in 2018.

More specifically, this was the inquiry into the death of the local woman Don Sturgis, who thought she was spraying perfume onto her wrist, but it was actually a fake perfume bottle containing the nerve agent Novichok, which Russian agents had used to poison the former Russian agent Sergei Scripal, who was living in Salisbury, along with his daughter, Yulia, who was also poisoned as well. And so this was a report by Lord Hughes. And the big headline is that Lord

Hughes has said, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, bears moral responsibility for what

happened to Don Sturgis and what happened in the town of Salisbury seven years ago.

We can talk about it now with two people who've been following this story from the first few

seconds that it actually happened. Here in the studio is my BBC colleague Tom Simons. Hi Tom. Good afternoon. And you covered this story from literally the very beginning, didn't you? Yeah, we were the first team there. Absolutely. Which was quite a day. Yeah, I'll get you to tell us about that later on. But also, we're joined by Marie Lennon, who is host of the Crime Next Door of the Salisbury Poisonings podcast. Hello, Marie. Hi. And you also have covered this story for years and years, haven't you? Yeah, I'm a locally based journalist based in Wiltshire. So yes, this was a huge story for us, and I've covered it since. And Marie, just explain how Don Sturgis got caught up in this in the first place.

Yes, so I suppose the incident really started in March 2018 when Sergo Screepel and his daughter,

Eulia, were taken to hospital, wasn't sure the circumstances at first, and then it turned out they'd been poisoned with what ended up being Novotok, a nerve agent.

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