this is bbc news, where our coverage continues now with a special programme, a tribute to the remarkable life of his royal highness, the duke of edinburgh, from those who knew him best. i think you d probably want to be remembered in his own right, really. i remember him festival going up as someone i remember him festival going up as someone who was a bit controversial. except someone who was a bit controversial. except no someone who was a bit controversial. except no shadow has ever been as sorted and independent than this man. his story is more interesting than that word, consort suggests. born on a kitchen table onjune ten, 1921 in he was baptised prince of greece and denmark. but philip was born into a royalfamily greece and denmark. but philip was born into a royal family whose grand names offered absolutely no protection. afterfour names offered absolutely no protection. after four elder sisters he was the long only son of prince andrew of and princess alice of b
hello and welcome. i m sean ley standing in for christian fraser. the drama surrounding the british prime minister borisjohnson has added fresh scenes and new characters. after the claims about a rules breaking christmas party, there are now questions over whether he misled an investigation into refurbishments at his downing street flat. if that wasn t enough, some conservative mps are furious over his new coronavirus restrictions. and to cap it all, mrjohnson s wife carrie, hasjust given birth. our political editor laura kuenssberg has been following it all. nightmares on downing street. behind every window, a different dilemma. what s the truth about last year s christmas party in the building? who paid for thejohnsons expensive interior design upstairs? how can they control another surge in the pandemic? can they keep their own party under control? when thejohnsons moved in upstairs, they had thousands of pounds of renovations. when the lavish expenses emerged, this w
secretary and long term trump staffer and tom peck political sketch writer at the independent. hello welcome to the programme. the european commission will set out next week emergency measures to reform the structure of the european electricity market. the exact makeup of that intervention is still to be decided. but a growing number of eu member states are calling for electricity prices to be decoupled from the price of gas which has soared as a result of russia s war in ukraine. the commission president, ursula von der leyen, said prices which havejumped ten fold in the last year have exposed the limitations of how the market is currently managed. it is no more fit for purpose, and that is why we, the commission, are now working on an emergency intervention and a structural reform of the electricity market. it is the czech republic that has summoned eu s energy ministers to this meeting next week, they currently hold the rotating presidency of the eu council. and just befor
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Once marked by a certain elitism, signet rings now come in both classic and more irreverent, even decidedly zany versions. ‘We are now empowered to choose the symbols that represent us for ourselves.’