Bake Off's Candice Brown, Netflix's The Crown, Sun reporter wins appeal

Candice Brown is set for a lucrative career after winning the Great British Bake Off. Photograph: Mark Bourdillon/BBC/PA

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And finally...

‘United by the clacking of bowling balls’: Alan Partridge on Britishness post-Brexit – audio

Steve Coogan’s tour in character as Alan Partridge continues to delight with the fictional TV and radio star telling the Today programme some of the great British traits which will keep a post-Brexit UK united, including warm beer and cold hands, the peal of church bells and a healthy suspicion for human rights.