Summary
Rebekah Vardy loses libel case against Coleen Rooney in the ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial.
Adam is joined by Abi Clarke, host of the BBC Sounds podcast, ‘It’s… Wagatha Christie’, and media lawyer Mark Stephens to analyse the ruling.
It’s cold showers for the people of Hanover in Germany as the city responds to the Russian gas crisis. Energy economist Dr Carole Nakhle is in Germany to explain how the country is adapting to reduced gas supplies.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Alix Pickles and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, the Royal Meteorological Society have condemned the trolling of weather presenters |
| 0:11.2 | after some of the BBC's big names said they had received unprecedented levels of abuse |
| 0:16.4 | last week when they were bringing us all details of the unprecedented heat wave in the UK. |
| 0:23.3 | Here is Friend of the Podcast and Weather Presenter Matt Taylor. |
| 0:26.3 | I've been in weather for nearly 25 years and of course been in the UK, weather sort of |
| 0:30.5 | changeable, the public, very passionate and so you have to grow a little bit of a thick |
| 0:34.6 | skin but in those 25 years this past week I've not seen the intensity and the sort of |
| 0:40.6 | threatening language and abuse that we did during that last week because we reached those |
| 0:45.3 | record temperatures and it was down in sort of three different camps. |
| 0:48.7 | There were those complete and out climate change deniers who didn't want anything to do |
| 0:52.8 | with it. There were those who wanted a bit of sunshine and heat and didn't want to be |
| 0:57.2 | told there was something wrong with it and then you've also actually got the opposite |
| 0:59.9 | side of the scale, those who actually want you to stand there on every single time in |
| 1:03.4 | front of the weather, Matt, we discuss climate change. |
| 1:05.8 | And if you want to find out more about that story, visit the BBC News website and in more |
| 1:10.9 | potentially welcome news on social media, Instagram say they are going back on some of the |
| 1:16.3 | changes that we were reporting on the other day that people were so unhappy about. |
| 1:21.0 | I see what else has been happening in this episode of newscast. |
| 1:24.4 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:26.0 | Nobody said to me this is an event that is against the rules. |
| 1:29.6 | Be on the back better. Blah blah blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. |
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