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Record Store Day UK is just around the corner and to celebrate, we are giving away a brand new Rega Planar 3 in the NEW Light Oak Effect fitted with a Rega Exact cartridge.

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In response to a growing dental emergency, I have been following a dental bus which has been visiting food banks in Newcastle.

People can’t access an NHS dentist and going private is out of the question. If something's wrong they have to live in pain, as I told BBC Breakfast...

Really liked this piece on sobriety (or semi sobriety) at festivals

Absolutely loved my many years at BBC Radio 5 Live and whenever I have a story out I am most at home and happy chatting on 5live about it. It’s a brilliant station with the best people behind it

It’s our 30th birthday! 🥳

To celebrate, we got some of our current lineup to react to our first ever broadcast in 1994 🎁🎉

#5LiveAt30

📢 Final chance! 📢

The #BBCYoungReporterCompetition 2024 is open for just one more day!

We want original story ideas from people aged 11-18 across the UK to be reported on 📺📻💻

➡️ bbc.co.uk/youngreporterc…
➡️ bbc.co.uk/cystadleuaethg…

Deadline: 11pm on Sunday 24 March 2024

Egg freezing is booming.

I have spent time with some of the people who’ve done it, including Vicky Pattison, to find out why they chose a procedure described as expensive and invasive but also empowering.

Egg freezing and Me is available on the iPlayer now.

NEW: unprecedented number of women facing investigations suspected of illegal abortions. We’ve spoken to women who’ve NEVER told their stories. Hear When Abortion is A Crime, on File on 4 @bbcRadio4 tonight @ 8pm. By Ellie Doward, AnnaMeisel & me!

Read>bbc.co.uk/news/uk-683059…

Can you help? dkms.org.uk/get-involved/b…

After 23 dog bite deaths in 3 years the government banned xl bully type dogs. I’ve been to meet Ellie and dog trainer Clare “the puppy master” to see how the ban is working. She’s had him exempted from the ban… so much cheese eaten in the making of this bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

I’ve been working with ⁦BBC Radio 5 Live⁩ on my latest story. It’s about off-road bikes & quads & the menace they cause to communities. We’ve heard claims from ⁦Cleveland Police⁩ and ⁦Brake, the road safety charity⁩ that it’s been fuelled by social media… bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Our CEO Karen Tyrell, appeared on this morning's BBC Breakfast show sharing helpful tips for an #AlcoholFree Christmas. 🎄

Thanks for having us! 🙌 Jim Connolly

If you're planning to do the same, click here for more tips 👉 bit.ly/3Ny40Xd

My final piece of 2023 is all about the trend for sobriety. More of us are doing it so that means a lot of people will be doing their first Christmas without a drink. Across BBC news today including this. Thanks to all the people who shared their stories bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Up early to talk to Rachel Burden on BBC Radio 5 Live about shoplifting and why shops fear a spike in it this festive period and what the smaller retailers are doing to fight back.... if you miss it you can hear more here....

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

For six months I have seen the care system through the eyes of those who rely on it to stay alive.

This level of access is rare, sadly their struggles are not.

Thank you to the families for letting us into their world.

Fighting For our Son's Care is on BBC iPlayer now.