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Daily Mail
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
BBC Breakfast's Charlie Stayt takes cheeky swipe at co-star live on air
BBC Breakfast's Charlie Stayt took a cheeky swipe at his co-star live on air during Friday's instalment. The news presenter, 62, covered the day's top stories on the morning programme alongside Naga Munchetty, 50. During the show, business reporter Peter Ruddick broadcast live from Drayton Manor Resort, in Staffordshire, and discussed increasing ticket prices due to rising running costs. Peter said: 'Charlie, Naga, I've been having a little wander around there is a Thomas Land, it looks quite sedate, I'm quite keen on that.' He joked: 'I think I'll probably keep to maybe having a go on the nice little horses over here. Look at that, that looks about my style, about my speed, not too high, what do we think?' Naga quipped: 'I think Charlie would join you on those, wouldn't you? That would be more your thing wouldn't it?' 'I'd be fine with that, I think what you need to do is a variety of things,' Charlie replied. Peter added: 'I'm a very serious business journalist.' 'Who told you that? Who said that?' Charlie quipped in a cheeky swipe, while Naga laughed in the background. Peter has been a business presenter on BBC Breakfast since October 2023 and before, was a 5Live business reporter. He also worked as a broadcast journalist at BBC news from 2016 to 2022. It comes after BBC Breakfast was unexpectedly interrupted last month due to a technical problem during a live broadcast. Presenters Naga and Charlie were reading the morning's headlines when they handed over to reporter Oli Constable, who was live in Preston. Oli was chatting to TikTok stars The SpudBros, brothers Jacob and Harley Nelson, who were in the middle of an event at Preston's Flag Market. The pair are raising awareness for testicular cancer during Testicular Cancer Awareness Month with a catchy campaign called 'Check Your Spuds.' But just as Oli began his interview with Jacob, the screen froze and the broadcast cut out. Back in the studio, Naga told viewers: 'Okay Oli, we're having some problems there with the technical gremlins in the room but we'll get back to Oli Constable and Spud Bros, of course, to find out what they're doing.' She explained that the aim of the campaign was to get men to check themselves for signs of testicular cancer: 'In a way, 'check your spuds' kind of explains it all.' Charlie joked: 'Meanwhile, they'll be checking the cables.'
Telegraph
06-05-2025
- Business
- Telegraph
Co-op shops stop taking card payments amid cyber attack
The Co-op has stopped taking card payments in some of its shops as it battles the fallout from a devastating cyber attack. The retailer confirmed on Tuesday that some parts of its business have been limited to accepting cash only in response to the breach, which has wreaked havoc across the Co-op's systems and left it facing empty shelves. Pictures of stores displaying handmade signs warning that customers will not be able to use their payment cards have already emerged on social media, although the retailer said it is hoping to restore digital payments later this morning. It is understood that the majority of shops are still accepting card payments. Cash only at the Co-Op today. That's three in Manchester I've seen with similar signs. One directly opposite the HQ. — Peter Ruddick (@ruddick) May 5, 2025 It comes after the Co-op admitted on Friday that the hack was much more serious than first expected, confessing that millions of customers' data had been stolen by a gang of cyber criminals. A group known as DragonForce claimed responsibility for the attack, telling the BBC they had details of around 20m Co-op customers. That was in stark contrast to the Co-op's initial claims that the attack only affected 'back office and call centre services'. DragonForce also claimed responsibility for similar breaches at both Marks & Spencer and Harrods, and threatened further attacks by claiming UK retailers were on its 'blacklist'. The card issue emerged after the attack already made it difficult for the Co-op to secure some food and drink items, leading to empty shelves across its stores. The retailer said that 'sustained malicious attempts by hackers to access our systems' meant some stores would not have their regular selection available. Dalton Philips, the boss of Greencore, a major supplier of sandwiches to the retailer, said over the weekend it was having to resort to 'pen and paper' methods to keep Co-op stocked up. He told the BBC: 'In the absence of having all the systems speaking to each other, you revert to how it was 25 years ago.' The DragonForce group is known for using ransomware to encrypt companies' systems before demanding a payment in order to unlock them. The attacks have also been linked to a gang known as Scattered Spider, a group said to be made up of British and American teenagers. Stephen Bonner, deputy commissioner of the Information Commissioner's Office, told the Today Programme on Tuesday that the chaos was 'a wake-up call to every organisation'.
BBC News
04-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
International trade: Everything you need to know
You may have heard people talking about trade and tariffs you've been asking yourself what on earth these words actually mean - we've got you asked BBC business reporter Peter Ruddick to explain what these things are and why they're he gave us the lowdown on how trade affects our day to day lives. Read on to find out more... What is trade? "It's actually quite simple," says Peter. "All it is is buying and selling.""You might hear a sweet shop boss say 'Trade's good today!'"That means quite a lot of people are coming into the shop to buy sweets."But when it comes to conversations about trade that you might have seen in the news, it's on a bigger scale than the local sweet trade is trade between countries - buying and selling things from other parts of the world. And that brings us on to Lego-fan Peter's next example."I love Lego. I buy it from my local toy shop."Lego is a Danish company, founded in the city of Billund in Denmark, and a lot of Lego is made in the country. Peter says this means Denmark and the UK have a trading relationship as the UK buys Lego from countries which produce the toy bricks, including means countries can access all sorts of goods and services they would not otherwise have, as well as creating stronger relationships with one another."There are hundreds of those trading relationships between the UK and Denmark," says Peter "and between all the countries around the world, buying and selling happening all day long." What is a tariff? "It's a charge, a tax, a payment that has to be paid when a product - like Lego, or a teddy bear, or sweets, or a games console - moves from one country to another."They're quite common and they've been around for a long time," says Peter, "they're charges that try to encourage people to buy local products."And if you're wondering how a tariff might make that happen, Peter's got the answer. "You can buy a teddy from the UK - there are lots of British factories that make them", he teddies are also made in lots of other countries around the world. "The UK might choose to put a tariff - a charge or payment - on a teddy bear that comes from a different country to try and help the British factory. To encourage people to buy teddy bears from the UK." How do tariffs affect people around world? Let's go back to our teddy bear to answer this one."We've decided to put a charge on teddy bears that come from other parts of the world", Peter imagines, "to encourage people to buy the British-made one."Well there's a bit of a problem if we put that charge too high, because that can make teddy bears from everywhere a bit more expensive."That's because other countries might react to this tariff by putting their prices up. "The British factory puts its prices up too, to try and compete - and suddenly you go to the shop and things have got more expensive."And there are other ways tariffs can affect how much things says that tariffs can be used like a weapon - and that if one country puts tariffs on another, that country might fight back with a tariff of their own. "We make cars in UK - and cars are also made in Japan. We might put a tariff - a charge - on cars that come from Japan to help our British car-makers. "Japan might say 'You make a lot of salmon in the UK, we're going to put a charge on that'."And that's when those tariffs - those charges - go up and up and up." And Peter says this can mean that prices for go up in the shops, when all you meant to do was help the British factory."You've ended up hurting other companies, hurting your shoppers in the UK, when you didn't even mean to." Winners and losers When countries around the world start fighting back by putting up their tariffs it's not good for anyone. "People say there are no winners in these kinds of situations."Prices go up for everyone and it can be really difficult for businesses."
