Reaction to Brianna Ghey’s Mum’s interview
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at a campaign from the mother of murdered teenage Brianna Ghey to stop children having access to social media apps on smartphones.
Speaking for the first time since the killers’ sentencing Ms Ghey called for the government to stop children having access to social media apps on smartphones, calling the internet the "Wild West". Esther Ghey also told Laura Kuenssberg she wanted the mother of Scarlett Jenkinson, one of Brianna’s murderers, to know she did not blame her for what happened.
Also, Chris is in Belfast as power sharing has been restored at Stormont. He’s been speaking to Northern Ireland’s first nationalist First Minister, Michelle O’Neill. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg, Paddy O’Connell with Chris Mason. It was made by Jack Maclaren and Josh Jenkins. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Laura. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, Patty. |
| 0:06.2 | We have got serious news to discuss, but why are there so many hot-potted fake plants in here? That's my question. |
| 0:14.1 | Maybe because often if plants are in my care they don't survive for very long? |
| 0:18.1 | They have to be plastic because I spoke to Monte Don. |
| 0:22.1 | Did he have his dog with him? |
| 0:24.0 | He did. |
| 0:25.0 | Did he? |
| 0:26.0 | He did. |
| 0:27.0 | And he was talking about love of house plants. |
| 0:29.0 | Right. |
| 0:30.0 | And I now realize that I'm surrounded by plastic ones yes so I feel a bit of a fraud did |
| 0:35.3 | you tell Monte did you confess that in the newscast studio we only have plastic |
| 0:38.8 | plants I think it I think it's going it was going into dangerous territory because there's |
| 0:42.3 | nothing worse than a |
| 0:43.0 | skanky house plant and we on radio for we've been sent a picture of every |
| 0:46.8 | house plant owned by every listener in the country after mentioning this. |
| 0:50.0 | I suspect there is a lot of what the fancy word would be synergy between the wonderful Radio 4 audience and house plant enthusiasts. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, I mean it's all very well trying to pin down the radio fool listener because I mean, I agree. |
| 1:05.0 | Now, the Asperdistra has emerged as a very popular long-lived plant. |
| 1:09.0 | One woman's got a hundred-year-old one. |
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