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Hello, our search is continuing to find a newscaster in every single country that's going

to be at the World Cup next year. And we've got a message from Tim, who's in British Columbia

in Canada, who says, originally from England, I'm now living in the southern interior of beautiful British Columbia, Canada. I might fit the criteria for your yet-to-be-named World Cup feature. Let's see, Tim. As a truck driver, cruising the highways of Western Canada, up and down the west coast and the top left-hand quarter of the US, yours is one of the many pods that keep me company on the road. I'm a Watford

FC fan and get to follow all the games, plus many others while I'm eating up those miles or parked

up. We're on the lookout for tickets for the Vancouver or Seattle games, which at the moment are

available for eye-watering prices. Newscast is a daily listen for me, usually after the six o'clock

news podcast. Keep up the great work. Well, Tim, usually after the 6 o'clock news podcast.

Keep up the great work.

Well, Tim, keep up the great messaging and keep up spectating on the World Cup for us from Canada,

one of the host nations, because they're doing it alongside the USA and Mexico.

And while Tim is hitting the highway, you'll be listening to the next episode of Newscast, which is our regular Thursday night TV show, last one of the year on BBC 1, where we look back at some of the big events of the week and actually the entire year. 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 salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. I'm Chris in the studio. And Alex in the studio. I'm Faisal in the studio. I've just realized we haven't got a Christmas tree this year. How miserable.

Normally we do. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And Chris in the studio. And Alex in the studio. And Faisal in the studio.

I've just realised we haven't got a Christmas tree this year. How miserable. Normally we do have a Christmas tree. We've got regular foliage, but that's not like best of foliage. You could just put some bobbles on your plants. Our tinsel is green. Minimalist Christmas this year. By a humbug. Now this is our last show on BBC One of this year.

We'll be back in the new year.

You'll be pleased to hear. And normally, as a tradition in news and journalism, we'd be reflecting on how the government's done this year. But we don't have to because West Streeting, the health secretary's done it for us in a wide-ranging interview in the new statesman. And he ain't happy. No, he says he's frustrated and he did the thing that many a minister who has ambition does, which is to stray a little bit beyond their ministerial brief.

This wasn't a interview that was entirely focused on the ups and downs of the National

Health Service, it's fair to say.

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