XL Bully Dogs Banned
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Marianna Spring sits in for Adam. Rishi Sunak has pledged to ban American bully XL dogs, following a spate of attacks.
Marianna is joined by the BBC’s Navtej Johal, who’s been following the story all week and a has spoken to a young victim. Dog law specialist Trevor Cooper is also on.
And thousands of people are still missing in the city of Derna in north-east Libya, after two dams burst. The death toll could reach 20,000. We speak to Ayat Mneina, a Libyan writer and researcher whose family are from the city.
You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Marianna Spring. It was made by Chris Flynn with Stephanie Mitcalf. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The assistant editor is Chris Gray.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's Marianne here, looking after newscast while Adams away. |
| 0:08.4 | Now this week you might have seen a video of a big dog, a dog that's known as an American |
| 0:13.6 | Billy XL attacking a series of people in Birmingham. |
| 0:16.9 | It came up on my social media feed and I almost couldn't believe it was real. |
| 0:19.8 | I went to go check out, turns out it was. |
| 0:22.8 | And then this morning we got the news that a man had died after a separate attack by two |
| 0:27.6 | dogs in Stonewall near Warsaw in the West Midlands. |
| 0:31.2 | And those dogs are believed to be the same breed. |
| 0:34.1 | And then on Friday afternoon we get news from the Prime Minister that this specific breed |
| 0:38.4 | are going to be banned. |
| 0:40.1 | So how do we get here, what's going on, what's the law and how might it change? |
| 0:44.8 | That is everything we're going to be talking about on this episode of newscast. |
| 0:48.2 | Newscast. |
| 0:49.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:50.2 | He got trounced by the former Prime Minister who herself got beaten by a lettuce. |
| 0:55.1 | At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. |
| 0:57.2 | Green economy. |
| 0:58.2 | Larblarblar. |
| 0:59.2 | It's the Guardian reading. |
| 1:01.2 | Tofu eating, woparati. |
| 1:03.5 | I'm actually very right winged. |
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