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BBC Economics Correspondent Robert Pesto is to launch his own brand pasta products. “I don’t know what gave me the idea for Peston,” Pesto told the BBC Food Programme. “I certainly enjoy...

Woman’s Hour “may not always be ready” to start on time every morning, warned the BBC at a delayed press conference with its new Editor Lucy Jones. Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s flagship...

British Gas surged into a comfortable lead in the race to raise energy prices by as much as possible after announcing a 9.2% increase today. This easily beat the early pace-setters SSE, who last week...

Like it or not, the word ‘like’ has become the most frequently used word in a young person’s vocabulary according to a new study led by teenage etymologist Victoria Cunningham. Overtaking the...

Members of the NUT and NASUWT unions have been forced to re-evaluate their lives and take a break from inspection regimes, dwindling pay and coffee breath. In what was meant to be a day of national...

Family secrets are an age old source of sordid drama, and this has proved the case for the Parker family this week as they finally decided it was time to tell their 22 year old son:, “You’re a...

Solo living is the preferred life-style of people no one else would contemplate living with for a moment, according to a Social Trends report which also says that one third of people in the UK live...

School crossing man Bert Robinson, 67, thought he was just being friendly when school kids crossed the road by brandishing a giant brightly coloured plastic lollipop at them. 'I thought, well, kids...