BBC's Christmas crackers, Milo Yiannopoulos's talk and Baddiel's rule-breaking

Mrs Brown’s Boys is among the Christmas specials coming up this year. Photograph: Alan Peebles/BBC

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BBC Christmas crackers to include Sherlock and Doctor Who

BBC serves up favourites old and new with added tinsel this Christmas

Milo Yiannopoulos talk at Kent school cancelled over security concerns

David Baddiel show breached rules with jokes on Queen’s sex life

Regulator prevents BT and EE bidding for more 4G mobile spectrum

Strictly dancer Gorka Márquez ‘loses two teeth in Blackpool attack’

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Caitlin Moran’s attempt to get a third series of Raised By Wolves crowdfunded has failed Photograph: Adam Lawrence/Channel 4

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City University journalism students stage ‘mannequin challenge’ protest over Students’ Union newspapers ban (Press Gazette)

Donald Trump skips TV for YouTube to offer brief transition update (Variety)

Amol Rajan appointed as the BBC’s first media editor (Press Gazette)

And finally...

Helen Mirren interviewed by Michael Parkinson in 1975 Photograph: BBC

Michael Parkinson has repeatedly refused to apologise for the tone of his notorious 1975 interview with Helen Mirren, often held up as a prime example of institutionalised sexism, because he is “Yorkshire”. So Stuart Heritage has come up with a a quiz to help everyone work out whether they are sexist or Yorkshire. Take it here.