Breaking the News, Breaking the News, Jay Lafferty, Robin Ince, Sam Lake and Amanda Hursy

Breaking the News

Breaking the News

Jay Lafferty, Robin Ince, Sam Lake and Amanda Hursy

27 February 2026

28 minutes

Available for 84 days

Des and the teams break up the week's big news. Including: the arrest of Peter Mandelson, the opening of new walk-in GP Surgeries in Scotland, if people in their 60s are the luckiest generation, the proposed addition of snowball fighting to the Winter Olympics, Alan Carr’s new Scottish property and more.

Lead Writer: Adelle Cliff

Additional material: Sean Gorman, Alex Buchanan and Mark Granger, Louis Beer, Fearghas Kelly, James Docherty, Nathan Cowley, Jon Paisley, Cooper Mawhinney Sweryt, Oli Higham, Gordon Watson, Stuart Cooke, Neil Bratchpiece, Heather Kondak Ross

Producer: Chris Quilietti

Senior Producer: Lauren Mackay

Researcher: Jodie White

Script Editor: Keiron Nicholson

An Eco-Audio certified Production