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Hot Chip has joined forces with the team behind hit children’s animated series Hey Duggee for a new ‘Summer Fun Mix’.The Mercury Music Prize & Grammy-nominated musician teamed up with the hit preschool brand to curate a collection of remixed tracks – each taken from the original series and given a refreshing electro-pop spin.The ‘Hey Duggee: Summer Fun Mix’ spans 30 minutes and was released today on the brand’s official YouTube channel.Songs remixed for the project include ‘The Welcome Badge’, a catchy original track which is designed to help Ukrainian refugee families feel at home in the UK, as well as more original songs including ‘Getting Ready’, ‘Duggee On The Dancefloor’, ‘The Feelings Song’ and ‘Hey Duggee Birthday’.The collaboration stemmed from an A Capella Badge episode of Hey Duggee – which saw the creators of the series pay tribute to the band with an animated quartet of birds called Hot Cheep.“I had a lot of fun stepping into the Hey Duggee universe for this mix and I’m looking forward to working more with the guys in Hot Cheep too,” Martin said of the new partnership.Simon Clarke, Head of Digital Content, Kids & Family at BBC Studios Social agreed, adding: “Following on from the hugely positive reaction to the A Capella Badge episode from Hot Chip and Hey Duggee fans, commissioning Felix to remix original Duggee songs into a Summer Party compilation felt like a natural next step.“We’re really pleased with his creation and think it’ll be the soundtrack to many family get-togethers and kids’ parties this summer!”This is far from the first time that the animated children’s series – which has been the most streamed CBeebies show on BBC iPlayer for three consecutive years – has teamed up with a famous face.

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Prime Minister's 'major mistake' that 'cost Tories at local elections'

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s “major mistake” of dropping housebuilding targets played a role in the Conservatives’ dire local election results, ex-levelling up secretary Simon Clarke said.

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Tories facing humiliation at next General Election as 10 ministers set to lose seats

Liz Truss's Conservative Party is on course for electoral humiliation at the next General Election due to her "reckless" handling of the economy.

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Claims Truss banned King Charles from Cop27 climate change summit ‘simply not true’ - Cabinet Minister

Claims that Liz Truss told King Charles not to get involved in next month’s Cop27 climate change summit in Egypt have been denied by a Cabinet minister. It comes amid questions about the Government’s commitment to the net-zero target.

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BBC Breakfast in chaos as things 'kick off' after guest's awkward on-air blunder

BBC Breakfast descended into chaos on Saturday morning (September 24) as one guest's phone went off on two separate occasions in the middle of an interview. Hosts Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty helmed today's instalment of the breakfast show and discussed the decision to cut taxes for the wealthy during the cost of living crisis.The duo chatted to Paul Johnson, the Director of independent research charity Institute for Fiscal studies, to give his take on the economic side of things, but the interview soon turned awkward.READ MORE: Naga Munchetty slams BBC Breakfast viewer accusing her of 'ruining' MasterChef finalCharlie asked: "We often ask politicians, how will you measure what you're doing? What do you see as the markers in six months or a year from now to get indicators as to whether or not something is changing?"As Paul began responding to Charlie, his phone started to ring off-screen, with Paul ignoring the call and quickly reaching to switch it off.

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BBC Breakfast's Charlie Stayt fiercely shuts down MP with brutal dig during heated debate

BBC Breakfast presenter Charlie Stayt fiercely shut down levelling-up Secretary Simon Clarke during a heated debate over the upcoming tax cuts that are about to be set in place.On Friday’s visit to the BBC studio, the 60-year-old broadcaster welcomed viewers back to the red sofa with his co-host Naga Munchetty to talk about the latest headlines in the news.One of the biggest stories this week is the upcoming cuts to help tackle the ongoing energy crisis ahead of the winter months.READ MORE: BBC Breakfast forced to make huge change as viewers notice everyday item has disappearedYesterday saw the Bank of England raise their interest rates to counter the cost-of-living crisis which some have said are the first signs that the UK could be going into recession.While viewers continue to wait for the chancellor to announce a mini budget later this morning, the morning news programme welcomed the politician onto the show to understand the scale of the tax cuts yet to happen.One of the first questions Charlie asked the MP who will benefit the most from the economic changes in our society set to be announced later today.He asked: “Looking at income scale from those who earn the least to those who earn the most, who will gain most from the announcements today?”At first, Simon explained that everybody across the country would benefit from the economic changes.He explained: “Everybody will gain because stronger underlying growth benefits the whole of the economy.“If the economy grown, tax receipts go up.

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Liz Truss breaks promise to appoint a 'Minister for the North'

Prime Minister Liz Truss has seemingly dropped a key pledge to our region less than 24 hours after moving into Downing Street.

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Over 400 MPs claim £420k expenses to pay their energy bills as the rest of UK suffers

MPs who claim their energy bills on expenses have been slammed for doing nothing to help ordinary folk cope with the cost of living crisis.More than 400 MPs, including Tory leadership frontrunner Liz Truss, have claimed expenses for their heating bills on their second homes since 2019.Disgraced former health secretary Matt Hancock, ex-energy minister George Freeman and senior Treasury ministers Simon Clarke and John Glen also claimed expenses for household energy.READ MORE: Top Tory MP 'plied men with rape drug' - alleged victim 'woke to nipples being licked'The revelation sparked fury on Twitter, with one angry customer saying: “All MPs should be made to pay their own utility bills, just like everyone else, They earn a good wage, why shouldn’t they? The poorest of the poor have to.”But Commons leader Mark Spencer played down the scandal, and also said there were “bigger fish to fry” when asked if it was right that energy bosses are paid multi-million pound salaries.He said: “In the context of things, actually, when there’s 65 million people in the country, it’s 30p, 20p, a person, so I think actually there are bigger fish to fry here, which we can try and solve the challenges than to have a pop at the chief exec’s salary.“I think whilst it sometimes makes great politics, it actually doesn’t affect people’s bills, which we need to be focused on, in the autumn.”His comments came shortly before a ‘crisis talks’ meeting between Boris ‘Bozo’ Johnson and electricity bosses resulted in no action being taken.The PM has appealed to electricity bosses to help ease the pressure as on hard-pressed families amid a dire new warning energy bills could top £5,000 by the spring.Representatives of major electricity companies arrived in

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Tour de France rider breaks neck in crash with fan - but still manages to complete stage

Tour de France after colliding with a fan but still managed to complete the stage.The Italian rider endured a nasty crash with an onlooker on Stage 5 - but still managed to finish the stage before being forced to retire. The 35-year-old hit the individual who strayed too close to the proceedings, resulting in serious injury on the cobbles.

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Tour de France stage 5 LIVE result: Tadej Pogacar takes time from rivals as Simon Clarke wins stage

LIVE – Updated at 17:50Tadej Pogacar passed his first Tour de France test with flying colours when he gained time over all his rivals on the cobbled roads in a vintage fifth stage on Wednesday. The two-time defending champion, who was expected to suffer on the 19km of cobbles peppering the 157-km ride from Lille, finished 51 seconds behind stage winner Simon Clarke of Australia but left the overall contenders behind. “It was a really good day for me, I didn’t have any bad luck and I felt good on the cobbles,” said Pogacar, who as a professional has never taken part in the Paris-Roubaix cobbled classic.

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Public sector workers should expect below inflation pay rises, warns Tory minister

Public sector workers should rein in their pay demands to avoid a repeat of 1970s style hyper-inflation, a Tory Minister has declared.

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Can a new partner serve up success for Gino? Timeshare scandal director Simon Clarke teams up with celebrity chef

Gino D'Acampo has joined forces with a businessman once caught up in a major timeshare scandal to launch his latest restaurant venture. The 45-year-old celebrity chef has linked up with Simon Clarke at the Gino D'Acampo Hotels & Leisure business.

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Fourth Covid lockdown likely if restrictions lifted too early, professor warns

A professor has warned of a spike in coronavirus cases if restrictions are lifted too early after a study showed a huge drop in infection rates.

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New coronavirus symptoms to look out for as new Nigerian variant is ‘more severe'

coronavirus has been discovered and it is already on UK soil.First identified in Nigeria, there are real concerns among medical experts that this particular strain of the virus could prove resistant to the vaccine as this mutation contains the 484K mutation to the spike protein, which may help it evade the vaccine's antibodies.The 484K mutation has also been identified in the South African and Brazilian variants.Dr Simon Clarke, an associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, was the first expert to express concerns over the new strain's potential resistance to current vaccines.Clarke told the Guardian: “We don’t yet know how well this [new] variant will spread, but if it is successful it can be presumed that

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Coronavirus tests 'cannot detect worrying new South Africa strain of virus'

Coronavirus tests reportedly cannot tell if you've got worrying South Africa strain of virus.

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Boris Johnson slammed over UK Government 'virus scare tactics' by Tory MPs

Covid-19.The Tory backlash to further lockdown restrictions emerged during a lengthy coronavirus debate in the House of Commons.Former minister Sir Desmond Swayne claimed it was a "sacking offence" for Government' scientists to warn how 200 or more people in the UK could die each day by mid-November if the current rate of infection was not halted.He also questioned if the Prime Minister has been "abducted by Dr Strangelove and reprogrammed by the Sage over to the dark side" - a reference to the 1964 comedy centred on Cold War fears of a nuclear war.Former Conservative minister Simon Clarke insisted a return to national lockdown would be "untenable" and "wrong", warning it would have a "stark and serious" toll on the country.While Lucy

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GMB fans slam 'painful to watch' row over blaming young people for coronavirus rise

Good Morning Britain erupted into a furious row over whether young people were to blame for the spike in coronavirus cases, withe one guest accusing another of being "rude".

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Tory Minister Simon Clarke resigns from Boris Johnson's government

Tory MP Simon Clarke has resigned as a minister in Boris Johnson's government for 'personal reasons', he has revealed.

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Coronavirus: Experts warn lack of test and tracing will force schools to shut their gates

Schools face a “monumental crisis” at the centre of a second lockdown, with the lack of test and tracing forcing them to shut their gates.

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Anyone who goes abroad this year risks quarantine, minister says

Ministers have warned that all Brits who go abroad this year may face a period of quarantine.Speaking to the BBC, local government minister Simon Clarke said that anyone who decides to go on a foreign holiday this summer should have an understanding that "there is a chance that you might be asked to self-isolate on your return"."All holidays have to be taken understanding that foreign travel in the middle of a global pandemic which has caused devastation across the world has to be conducted against the backdrop of the Government’s right to take steps to protect the UK," he said.“We’ve made enormous strides in this country over the last few weeks and we have now got the situation very largely under control.“We cannot jeopardise that, we

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Spanish PM slams UK over islands travel changes - claiming virus is worse in Britain

Spain's Prime Minister has blasted the UK for making another set of sweeping changes to travel rules.

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Hot Chip’s Felix Martin teams up with ‘Hey Duggee’ for ‘Summer Fun Mix’

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