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Hello, hope you had a nice festive break. Mine was, hmm, a bit mixed like everyone's

was, and I have to confess, I did not pay a massive amount of attention to the news.

So should we get all caught up on a new edition of newscast? And stay tuned right to the

very end because you'll hear an interview with Lord Sugar who's back for the 973rd series

of The Apprentice. Newscast, newscast from The Baby Say, that will take some time before

we figure out what our new normal is. Now if that is the argument then we are going

into unprecedented territory. Combined with contract tasting, contact tasting,

tortesting, tracing food. Yes, yes, yes. I'm a vegan so of course I don't like meatball.

Let's make slow please. Blah, blah, blah. Lose, lose, lose. Hello, it's Adam in the studio,

gladly back in the studio. And it's you in new broadcasting house, happy new year.

Happy new year. Haha, very good. Very good. How was your break?

It was pretty good. We were sort of on tentahooks for a possible press conference, weren't we

last week and each day that would seem to be looming. Then of course it was ruled out

and you never quite knew what was going to be said or happened. So I'm not quite as relaxing

as it could have been, but I'm not complaining. You had to hold off the Sherry till about

730 just to be sure of something like that. You mentioned press conferences though. We're

recording this inaugural episode of newscast in 2022 and we've just had a dining street

news conference. Hughes prayers have finally been answered. It was Boris Johnson, it was

Sir Patrick Valens and Sir Chris Whitty newly knighted. It wasn't exactly clear here what

this press conference was kind of for. There wasn't any huge, huge announcements, although

there were a few that will go through. It seemed to be sort of tied to this milestone

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