Politics and Brexit are just a drop in the ocean for the BBC
The Invictus Games continue all week in Toronto, Canada. They are a ‘parasport’ championships for wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel, established by Prince Harry. Seventeen nations are competing with Prince Harry attending.
Jeremy Corbyn will also be hoping to bring his ‘A’ game as the Labour Party Conference continues in Brighton. So, while Theresa May and Boris Johnson are off jousting with EU negotiators over Brexit, he will be telling anyone who will listen that it should be him in Number 10 and that if the country went to the polls now, that dream would become a reality.
Meanwhile, Saturday will see the UKIP National Conference in Torquay. A new leader will be announced on Friday; Nigel Farage has ruled out himself but 11 candidates will battle to lead a party, which many have argued has after Brexit lost its
Article 50 negotiations will be going on all week but on Thursday Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s chief Brexit coordinator (as opposed to chief Brexit negotiator, which is Michel Barnier) will be speaking at an event in London, so expect overtures mixed with thinly veiled threats and just threats.
The Duke of Cambridge has a busy week ahead, with the 50th anniversary celebrations of Milton Keynes tomorrow, the launch of the 2018 International Business Festival at Lancaster House, London on Wednesday and a visit to the Imperial War Museum to meet survivors and veterans of World War II. The Duke will meet Freddie Knoller, who took part in the French Resistance and survived imprisonment in Auschwitz, Monovitz and Bergen-Belsen, as well as two veterans of the Second Wold War: Ted Cordery and John Harrison.
Two bottles of port from 1871, believed to be some of the oldest in the world, will go on sale in Derbyshire today. The the 146-year-old bottles were discovered in the cellars of the Manor House in Bredon, Gloucestershire. They are still not as old as the rum found in the cellars at Harewood House, several years ago, which dated back to the 1780s.
Tomorrow will see a test run of Blue Bird K3, Sir Malcolm Campbell’s hydroplane powerboat which set three speed records. Blue Bird K3 was commissioned in 1937 by Sir Malcolm Campbell, father of Donald, who died during a record attempt on Coniston Water in 1964. Campbell senior set three water speed records, two in two days on Lake Maggiore in September 1937, raising the bar to 130.91mph at Lake Hallwyl in Switzerland in August 1938. Part of the Foulkes Halbard Collection housed at Filching Manor Motor Museum near Eastbourne, Blue Bird K3 has undergone an extensive restoration ahead of its test run.
The BBC will stage a midweek unveiling of which will be attended by Sir David Attenborough and The Duke of Cambridge. The upcoming series, which was announced in 2013 and comes 16 years after the original series, focuses on life in the oceans. It is hoped it will inspire the next generation of marine conservationists.
And finally, the four artists shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize will be announced as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017.