‘Do you have to get up early?’ ‘Do you get the train a lot’ and my favourite… ‘Can you take your cat to work with you?’

All great questions I had the pleasure of answering from kids at Aldermoor Farm Primary School for their aspirations day.

A wolverine - capable of travelling up to 50 miles a day for food. Can survive in temperatures as low as -20 degrees.

Hugo - naps all day. Purina gourmet in his bowl, guaranteed. Has his own blanket.

#Mammals

🗣️ Martin Bayfield sat down with Max Llewellyn to chat family, rugby and all things Gloucester 🍒

Catch him and Gloucester Rugby 🍒 tonight when they take on Ospreys in the #ChallengeCupRugby Quarter Finals!

📺 TNT Sports & discovery+ UK

Sometimes the news day just ends up with you editing a radio package on a bin 🥲

Love the summary here of the famous door from the Titanic film being sold.

Godddd my eyes are PUDDLES whenever I hear MOLLIE KING on her pedal power challenge. BBC Radio 1 is at its absolute BEST on weeks like this 🥇🚴🏻‍♀️

That. Game. 😮‍💨!!!!! #SixNations

Saw my favourite version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The RSC last night. Hilarious contemporary takes and the cast 😮‍💨👌🏻

Don’t you dare ask him to make a radio package.
Grumpy cat and I have your news on energy bills in today’s 1745 Newsbeat 🐱👍🏼

A Monday mission for Greg James + a morning message from Calum Leslie but operation get Big Bayfs on the phone failed ❌ visiting family isn’t that important Martin Bayfield !?!?

It’s reassuring to know that 2 weeks before my 30th I can still get ID’d for even a scratch card 🥲

Was gifted the Harry Potter version of Dobble this Christmas. Very difficult to play with my boyfriend who doesn’t know the majority of the characters. So he shouts out;

- magic man
- ⁠magic woman
- ⁠your dad
- ⁠hippie with glasses
- ⁠the sad boy
- ⁠Helena bonham carter

“I don’t work here. I’m doing the news.”

Me and my boyfriend moved to a new place in September. Glad to see our cat’s made more of an impression for the Christmas card.

Great to talk to sixth form students at Solihull School this morning about a career in journalism. Promise there were more people.

Newsbeat 🤝 BBC Newsnight

Intense competition for places to live is driving rents up and up, but is there hope for change?

Our reporter Polly Bayfield spoke to renters, landlords and MPs to try and find out.

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Worth pointing out that #landlords are taking home their lowest margins since 2006 - there are no winners.

Rather than focus on banning bidding wars, Labour should increase rental supply which will have the same impact and reduce rents.

Better to focus on the cause not symptom

Rental bidding wars pit tenant against tenant with landlords the only winner.

The Tory Renters (Reform) Bill is silent on the issue.

A Labour government will act to prohibit bidding wars just as other countries like New Zealand have already done.
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You can hear Ben Beadle’s take on rental bidding wars as he represents landlords in tonight’s piece for Newsnight.