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BBC News
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
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Dame Mary Berry moved to tears by William's 90th birthday wishes
Dame Mary Berry is celebrating her 90th birthday on Monday, with the Prince of Wales among those marking the milestone by sending messages to the "true national treasure".Prince William's birthday wishes to the TV chef will be shown on a special pre-recorded episode of BBC One's The One Show One Show host Alex Jones told BBC Radio 2: "We had lots of messages throughout the programme for Mary - but one in particular blew her away. I mean, there were tears before we'd even started."In his message, the prince tells Dame Mary: "I want to wish you a very happy 90th birthday. You are a true national treasure and we've loved working with you over the years." He adds: "Have a fantastic day today. "I dread to think who's cooking your cake and the criticism they might get but good luck and I hope it goes really well."The One Show's birthday party does involve a cake - made by fellow celebrity chef Monica Galetti. 'Massive celebration' Claudia Winkleman will also appear, as will Dame Mary's former Great British Bake Off co-stars Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins."It's a massive celebration," Jones said. "We have got lots of guests that have touched her life over the years."Claudia is on because they did a show together and they're great friends. "And then we may have two ladies who were on a very popular programme with her on BBC One."It's like a reunion."Dame Mary has also marked her birthday by joining Instagram for the first time.
BBC News
22-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Irish bench made 'massive impact'
Ireland captain Dan Sheehan hailed the impact of his side's bench in Saturday's 27-18 win over Wales in Cardiff as they survived a major scare to clinch the Triple Crown and keep alive their Grand Slam hopes. "That was exactly what we expected, a proper Test game in a beautiful stadium in front of some seriously passionate fans," Sheehan told BBC One."Fair play to Wales, that was a proper Test match and I'd say we'll feel it for a few days, but I'm proud of the boys."We said it all week, they'd have their purple patches and their moments of strength."We just have to stick to what we do all the time, that's our process, it's staying calm, we didn't panic and we had to eke it out one minute at a time. That's what all those lads have practised for years."We rely heavily on our bench. They came on and made a massive impact, James Ryan, Bundee [Aki] both made a huge impact to lift the boys with fresh energy. "That was the making of the game there, relying on our bench to bring that energy."
BBC News
22-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Gibson-Park pleased to beat 'unbelievable' Wales
Ireland scrum-half and player of the match Jamison Gibson-Park gave his thoughts on his side's 27-18 Six Nations win over Wales in Cardiff."We have to give a lot of credit to Wales, it was very tough out there today," Gibson-Park said on BBC One."They're an unbelievable team, a proud nation and they sure showed that today."It'd be a dangerous thing to come over here with any pre-conceived ideas, playing here against Wales was always going to be tough and sure they proved that to us today."It's mentally tough more than anything. We're lucky to have a some pretty good coaches so we were well prepared for those things."
BBC News
09-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
What do Irish think of latest Scotland collapse?
Losing to Ireland is depressingly familiar to Scottish rugby now 11 losses in 11 matches against the Irish, a dismal run of form spanning more than eight have been narrow defeats and crushing beatings across those 11 games, spanning from Edinburgh to Dublin and Paris to every time the post-match dissection of what went wrong has alighted on a similar theme: just how far behind Ireland are Scotland?It was the same again at Murrayfield on Sunday after Ireland asserted their dominance in the first half, before halting their hosts' early momentum after the break without every hitting top Scotland captain John Barclay spoke of the "alarming" start, and how Gregor Townsend's side must find a way to deliver 80-minute all been said before, and written about after most, if not all, the 11 matches. But what do those in the Irish camp make of Scotland's latest inability to compete whenever the boys in green stand before them? 'Scotland game plan was wrong' After Jack Conan's try put Ireland 29-11 in front on the hour, former Ireland lock Donncha O'Callaghan - a Grand Slam winner - tore into Scotland's lack of preparation on BBC Radio 5 spoke before the game how Scotland were focusing on their own plan, in an attempt to not become too focused on Ireland."You can make excuses for them, but we're in international professional set-ups here and for this Scotland team not to scenario coach, to not plan for this, is quite frustrating," O'Callaghan said."We'll be tough on the players, they need to bring more physicality, but they need to have a look at this game plan. I think they've got it badly wrong."Having had time to digest the full picture, O'Callaghan doubled down on his criticism of Townsend's approach after the full-time whistle."I think Scotland got the wrong set-up," he said. "They tried to run from too far in their half. "The players lacked physicality and, though they brought that in the second half, they left themselves too much work to do." 'It felt like a 40-point victory' Ireland fly-half Sam Prendergast's comments after the game told their own story."It wasn't perfect from us," he said. "But it was better than last week and we'll keep trying to get better week on week."Prendergast is a relative newcomer on the international stage - the 21-year-old only made his Test debut in November, but bossed it at Murrayfield, kicking magnificently both off the tee and out of fact Ireland cruised to victory yet their young fly-half felt there was room to improvement shows how far ahead Ireland was only a late try from scrum-half Ben White that made the scoreboard respectable for Scotland, with the 14-point margin perhaps flattering the hosts."If you're looking for a formula of how to win away in the Six Nations, you should study that," Ronan O'Gara - another Irish Grand Slam winner - said on BBC One."It was ruthless from minute one. Total domination. Normally in a Test match, the lead changes hands a couple of times and it's in the balance."Today the biggest surprise is that it finished 32-18. It felt like a 40-point victory and maybe if Ireland need to, I think they've another couple of gears to go."And it wasn't just Irish pundits critical of Scotland's performance and application. Martin Johnson lifted a World Cup as England captain. He knows what it takes to win, and in his opinion, Townsend's side never gave themselves a chance. "Scotland didn't have any attitude in the first half," he said on BBC One. "It was like they didn't think they could win the game."They made mistakes and made it too easy for Ireland. That scoreline flatters Scotland." Have your say What did you make of yet another Scotland defeat at the hands of Ireland?Did Townsend get it wrong? Or are the players to blame?Let us know here, external
