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  • 1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Liam Kelly

    May 11 marked the high point in the career of Richard Frediani, the BBC Breakfast editor. His programme, which he has run since 2019, won the Bafta for best TV news coverage for its reporting on the Post Office scandal — the first time the gong had gone to an early morning show. “Thank you, Bafta, for recognising the importance of breakfast TV,” a visibly moved Frediani told the great and the good at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Liam Kelly

    Frediani started his career as a local radio reporter in his native Preston, Lancs, in the early 1990s, but really made a name for himself running news at Granada - under his leadership it picked up a Bafta for its coverage of the Morecambe Bay cockling trial in 2007 - and as programme editor of ITV News at ITN. He is said to have been so obsessive about his craft that he recorded rival news bulletins and watched them over the weekend, while he did his family's ironing.

  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Liam Kelly

    Dua Lipa is many things. A pop star with seven Brit Awards and three Grammys; an actress in blockbusters like Barbie; a fashion designer who launched a range with Donatella Versace. To which she can justifiably add: one of Britain's foremost literary tastemakers.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Liam Kelly

    Book worm: Dua Lipa has launched a hugely successful book clubDua Lipa is many things. A pop star with seven Brit Awards and three Grammys; an actress in blockbusters like Barbie; a fashion designer who launched a range with Donatella Versace. To which she can justifiably add: one of Britain’s foremost literary tastemakers.

  • 2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Liam Kelly

    The crowning glory of Google's new, massive headquarters in London's King's Cross is its rooftop garden. More than 300m long, with hundreds of trees across four stories and a running track, star designer Thomas Heatherwick envisaged it as a haven for the tech giant's 7,000 staff, as well as bats, bees, birds and butterflies. At least, it is meant to be the crowning glory.