Buyers and farmers are rocked in a minimum price dispute ahead of the opening of the cotton sales season this month. Farmers are proposing K1 200 per kilogramme (kg) while buyers want the price to be pegged at K750 per kg. Meanwhile, Cotton Council of Malawi, the crop’s regulatory body, has proposed that the price
Developments in the cotton sector do not seem to inspire confidence in terms of growth as both cotton ginners and output continue to decline by the day with just two this season from eight in 2016. According to the first round crop estimates, at about 15 000 metric tonnes (MT), cotton output this year is
Former Pirate FM presenter and journalist Ian Polmear has died at the age of 54.
Ian was at the station for 15 years from its launch in 1992, and more recently worked in local media in his native Cornwall.
He was also a lecturer at Lincoln College and held positions at BBC Radio.
Ian’s friend and former colleague Aaron James writes this tribute for RadioToday:
“To begin to explain to those not fortunate enough to spend the 1990s and 2000s listening to Ian Polmear, you have to understand that the Pirate FM of that era was an embodiment of a very different radio era to now.
DJ and radio presenter Freddy Zapp is heading back onto the Cornish airwaves from this weekend. Freddy was a weekend presenter at Radio Cornwall for 27 years up until March last year, when his show was a victim of the BBC s restructuring programme. He is now set for a return to the radio after joining the team at Goldmine, the DAB station based at Penstraze, Truro that serves Cornwall, Plymouth, part of West Devon and Bristol. Zapp, a colourful and flamboyant character who has raised thousands for charity with his annual Christmas lights switch on at his house in Redruth, was a personal friend of the late Screaming Lord Such and fought parliamentary elections for the Monster Raving Looney Party.
Justin Leigh on why he had to leave the BBC and doesn t watch Spotlight anymore
The legendary TV presenter says he could have fought to stay, but the time was right to go
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If you see much-loved former BBC Spotlight presenter Justin Leigh on your travels, whatever you do don’t ask him if he’s enjoying retirement.
The TV legend took voluntary redundancy as part of a huge package of cuts by the BBC which has seen hundreds of jobs going across regional TV news and current affairs, local radio and online news.