But the idea is to be entertaining. Youve been personally committed, havrnt you, to trying to reverse the decline of the english cartoonist. Yes. Why have you and private eye kept up with your investment in cartoons . Um, because, um, people like them and the mag sells. No, obviously, its a much more elevated reason than that. No, i love cartoons and that i think that one of the things that print can do is reproduce sort of beautiful drawings that are funny. And english cartooning tradition is very old and i think absolutely remarkable. So i am basically i doubled the number of cartoons and people said well, you know, there arent any young cartoonists. You wont get anyone. It is funny if you offer money, people become cartoonists its amazing. We have got a brilliant raft of young cartoonists. I mean, this is a genuine skill and there are lots of people who do it really well. I mentioned politics, which is what most of your covers are about. Now, we seem to be in an age of polarisation,
And Northern England. Our next frontal system bringing rain into western scotland and northern ireland. Elsewhere a lot of dry weather, cloud, some glimmers of sunshine breaking through. Western parts will feel milder, 12 celsius for belfast, plymouth, further east, Single Digits for the time being. Frontal system still running across the north west on saturday, brisk winds as well. Further south and east, we are looking at a lot of dry weather. Largely dry on saturday. Cloud around but sunny breaks, largely fine for northern ireland, rain clipping into the north west. Eastern scotland dry, the western side seen outbreaks of rain. All of us just about by this stage in double figures. It stays very mild as we get into sunday, we should see more sunshine developing across england, wales, the south and east of scotland. Still some outbreaks of rain at times, temperatures of 11 14 degrees in one or two places. As we head into the last couple of days of 2019, most will see dry weather, some
Scrutiny of all of this. The guardian, christmas is barely over and thoughts are turning to the new year and and thoughts are turning to the new yearand an and thoughts are turning to the new year and an interesting story in the guardian about what will happen in edinburgh at this new year, if you wa nt to edinburgh at this new year, if you want to start . What will happen is if you live in certain parts you will struggle to get your own home so will struggle to get your own home so the big hogmanay celebrations coming up and an Entertainment Company is dealing with that, 70,000 expected and if you live in the streets where this is going on, you must apply for permission to actually get into your own home. Should you wish to hold a party yourself, you then can only get up to six tickets for guests because it is already going ahead in the area. Not unreasonably, residents are up in arms i predict a rumpus the city council says she will not need passes but the Company Running this insist
In sport, england are chasing a target of 376 runs to win the first test against south africa. Join us, the brexitcast gang, in half an hour to look back at the year that was in the world of brexit. Good afternoon. Welcome to bbc news. Leading figures from the world of entertainment, sport, politics and charity have been recognised in the new year honours list. Sir elton john receives the highest accolade, hes been made a companion of honour, and Olivia Newton john becomes a dame. Four members of englands World Cup Winning Cricket Team are also on that list, but of the more than 1,000 people receiving honours this new year, around two thirds are being recognised for their work in the community. As kathryn stanczysyn reports. Youre the one that i want. Olivia newton john says she is grateful beyond words to be made a dame for services to charity. A damehood, too, for former tv presenter Floella Benjamin for her lifelong work with childrens charities. Volunteering always features heavily
Wales declares a bushfire emergency threat levels are set to rise of the country bottles a record heat wave and drought. Premier. Taking a long long. Time to say goodbye to the latest Star Wars Trilogy as the final movie in the series has its world premier. Im told me a lot of people thanks for joining us. Donald trump enters the history books tonight as only the 3rd us president to be impeached the house of representatives voted to send the president for trial in the senate on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Lawmakers adopted both resolutions along party lines almost all democrats voting yes on the republicans voting unanimously against the articles of impeachment now need to be passed to the senate the majority republicans there are expected to vote to keep President Trump in office. Democrat Jerrold Nadler is the chair of the House Judiciary Committee the man who signed off on the articles of impeachment he is speaking shortly after the vote gives us no pleasur