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Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden will return to TV screens tonight (7 November), as she joins pal and Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.The pair first met when Sara appeared as a contestant on Strictly in 2021, and will go head-to-head alongside experts Natasha Raskin Sharp and Steven Moore to see who can uncover the most interesting antiques and make the most money at auction. In a clip released before the show airs tonight, Dragons’ Den entrepreneur Sara has said she made it her “mission” to have Amy as a friend when she appeared on Strictly.

John Cooper Clarke has spoken about his poem, I Wanna Be Yours, becoming a worldwide hit after the Arctic Monkeys‘ song adaptation of it has pushed listening into the billions.The punk poet’s 1982 creation, which featured on his album ‘Zip Style Method’, was covered by the Monkeys for their 2013 album ‘AM‘. It’s since found a new audience on TikTok and will this week pass a billion streams on Spotify.Clarke, who most recently released a covers album, ‘This Time It’s Personal’, with ex-The Stranglers member Hugh Cornwell in 2016 and shared his first new book of poetry in decades with 2018’s The Luckiest Guy Alive, spoke about the landmark achievement in a new interview.He told The Guardian in response to news of its billionth stream: “Is that a lot? An American billion is different to a British billion – and I don’t know what either of them is.

Electric Vehicles (EV) are taking motorists back in time, with drivers now able to travel a mile by car on just one penny of fuel for the first time since the early 1970s. EDF’s GoElectric 35 EV tariff offers an off-peak charging rate of just 4.5p / kwh - the lowest in the UK and equivalent to just 1.3p per mile f or a typical EV.