Thank God It's Toby: Highlights

Kaylee Golding is a DJ and an award-winning presenter, who can currently be heard on KISS Fresh 1 pm - 4 pm every Saturday and Sunday and weekdays 2-7 pm on HITs Radio Pride. In 2021 she won E4's talent search and is currently part of the E4 Academy.  Kaylee also has a weekly show every Monday from 1 pm - 3 pm on Reprezent Radio and a bi-weekly show on No Signal Radio from 3 pm. She is originally...

Karolyn Grimes is an actress best known for her role as Zuzu Bailey in the classic 1946 Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life. She also played Debby Brougham in the 1947 film The Bishop's Wife. Grimes' film debut came when she was 6 months old. She first attracted attention playing Fred MacMurray's daughter in 1945's Pardon My Past.[4] Her most famous role came as ZuZu in It's a Wonderful Life in...

Author, historian, and vintage book collector Pamela McColl tours America in 2022 speaking on the poem’s vibrant legacy at dozens of museums, bookstores, and libraries.  McColl presents the poem’s story in a new book, Twas The Night – The Art and History of the Classic Christmas Poem. The author calls the masterpiece of juvenile fiction the most often read, recited, reprinted, and collected work i...

Rising UK singer-songwriter The Gleeman gets ready for the festive season with wistful new single ‘I Love Christmastime’, releasing it one month before the big day. Having hit the scene with his debut EP ‘The Gunslinger’ earlier this year, The Gleeman is set to round off his 2022 with ‘I Love Christmastime’, a song sure to stir up memories of childhood glee every 25th December. In the spirit of si...

It’s the most magical time of the year – but is the pressure to work at Christmas fueling a surge of burnout among workers in the UK? Research by Slack highlights that the majority (79%) of UK bosses say they will encourage their employees to switch off during the holiday season, but despite this instruction - a third (33%) of employees say they will be online and available to work during the holi...

Since 2016, Brian Earl has been telling the fascinating stories behind our favourite holiday's traditions through the podcast, Christmas Past. Inspired by public radio-style storytelling, Christmas Past provides a lens through which readers can view Christmas as festive, cheerful, strange, and above all, endlessly fascinating. Think: NPR meets Clement Clarke Moore. Now entering its seventh season,...

Author D.V. Lang has written and published some fun, motivational, and educational children’s books. They’re available on Amazon, Goodreads, and many other popular sites where books are sold. Her first book, I Didn’t Think I Could is a wonderful motivational book that gives kids irrefutable proof that they possess grit and that they’re capable of achieving. Her second book, Saying Hello Around The...

Is cash a Christmas cop-out? 57% said that the increase in inflation had impacted their Christmas gifting A third (32%) plan on giving their kids money this Christmas – with cash reigning king (49%) 55% of kids prefer cash, though would happily accept bank transfers (25%) and gaming currencies such as Robux, V-Bucks, and Minecoins Christmas will be costly this year, with inflation driving up price...

“Envisioned as an imaginary B-side to Bruce Springsteen’s cover of ‘Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town,’ the song is an upbeat rocker that carries a bittersweet sadness,” says Flagpole in its premiere coverage of “Ain’t Goin’ Home This Christmastime” by Sloan Brothers. Click here to listen or follow the link above. “It’s about reaching an age where you no longer go home for Christmas because there’s no...

Award-winning performer John Owen-Jones (Les Miz/Phantom) releases a Christmas single - track one Holly Jolly Christmas and track two On Christmas Eve. Both tracks are taken from John Owen-Jones: The Christmas Album released last year. On Christmas Eve, is a previously unheard track from the vaults of legendary songwriter Les Reed who wrote Delilah and It’s Not Unusual among many others.  John sai...

Christmas brings out excitement, joy, and love of family. For siblings, Ryan and Natalie, it does even more than that. It stirs up anticipation and friendly competition because when Santa visits their house, he leaves clues. He hides them under couches, in cookie jars, outside in the snow, and even in the bathtub. Santa doesn't simply drop off the presents and leave like usual through the chimney....

This year, the Light Lounge's Drama Group have been working towards their Christmas play. They are proud to present you with: SCROOGE - A comedy self-created production. They promise you lots of laughs, drama and of course - CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. They will be raising donations for their local soup kitchen and food bank - Amazing Graze Soup Kitchen All they ask for in exchange for a free ticket is a do...

Money mules allow cash to enter their account to send on to others, often with financial incentives. Even without knowing they are doing so, they may be partaking in money laundering and therefore, breaking the law. You can be approached in person or online, with perpetrators often being criminals or part of gangs seeking to ‘clean’ money through multiple transactions. They often target those they...

Timothy W Young wrote a textbook which explains the power of the number one in great detail with examples and illustrations to emphasize the amazing power of the simplest of numbers. The textbook is a must-read by all students in college who are preparing to be elementary teachers or secondary mathematics teachers. The topics covered in the book range from finding equivalent fractions, performing...

Vic Ferrari, author of NYPD: Through The Looking Glass: Stories From Inside America's Largest Police Department, The NYPD's Flying Circus: Cops, Crime & Chaos, Grand Theft Auto: The NYPD's Auto Crime Division, and NYPD: Law & Disorder is a retired twenty-year member of the New York City Police Department who refuses to write in chronological order. With no formal training or Harvard degree...

Cooper is a Dallas-based Pop/R&B/Rap Recording artist signed to Dream Media, LLC. His style has been described as a "mature Justin Bieber with a message". His music combines pop, house, rap and R&B to create a unique yet relatable style that is groovy, yet positive. Cooper takes us on a journey of Love and Loss with his 1st CD to be released this December 15, 2022. "BabyGurl" is the first...

The government is being urged to support a campaign that hopes to tackle the £1.5bn engineering skills shortage by placing greater emphasis on how engineering can be taught in primary and secondary schools. Tonight, Kevin Burke education consultant, ex-Department of Education and author of the IET’s new report Engineering Kids’ Futures will head to a Parliamentary event at Westminster to remind MP...

Country music singer and activist for Alzheimer’s, Debby Campbell was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1956 to Diane Kirk and Glen Travis Campbell. She is the eldest of 8 children and the daughter of the most famous “Rhinestone Cowboy” Glen Campbell. Debby loved singing from an early age and spent many summers with her dad on tour, and in the television studios with his Glen Campbell Goodtime Ho...

Kim Lengling is a bit different, she listens to shadows and talks with animals. She also happens to write a monthly column for a local newspaper sharing veteran stories, she is a guest columnist on USMILITARY.com and is the co-host of a twice-weekly local radio show focused on veterans. She currently has two veteran-related books published. When she’s not writing or dog-sitting for her friends and...

Daniel Ross and his alter ego, Donald Duck, may take home the Emmy at the first annual Children and Family Emmy Awards (CAFE) in the category of "OUTSTANDING VOICE PERFORMANCE IN A PRESCHOOL ANIMATED PROGRAM" in "Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas" (Disney Junior). The Tale of Momma Duck – As a young child of 3yrs old, Daniel Ross' Mother- Michel Sadur, affectionately known as "Momma Duck", t...

Do you know where your energy comes from? Do you know that last year in the UK we produced 93% of our own electricity? What’s more, 2020 and 2021 were the highest years on record for the amount of renewable energy we generated from wind, solar, hydro and biofuels. Despite this, new research from Smart Energy GB reveals that lots of Brits are unsure about where our energy comes from, but are keen t...

As wind-driven snow beats a tinny symphony against the windshield of his car, Jason Colson, co-founder of Micro-Tech, an emerging Giant in the software industry waits on an impending date with doom. With Jason’s anxiety running on overdrive his thoughts turn to his daughter Jennifer and his failed marriage to his wife Linda. On the other side of a breath frosted window, the city streets echo with...

From author Sam Libraty, comes a new science fiction contemporary series, The Time Agents. Book one of this series follows time agent Jon Howe, as he travels from the 25th century to 1939 Morocco to stop an invasion from a parallel universe. Jon faces many challenges when he teams up with a beautiful and powerful woman from the parallel world; Shoshanna. Together, they must get the Leon Key away f...

This Christmas Jumper Day (Thursday 8th December) we will put on a festive outfit at work, school or with friends and make a donation to help give children the magical future they deserve. Let's decorate ourselves with knitted elves, reindeer and Father Christmas, style our outfits with bells and tinsel, and help raise money for children in the UK and across the world. Save The Children Ambassador...

Michelle Skeer QPM is the Chief Constable in Cumbria with over 30 years’ experience within the police. It’s the question that everyone gets asked throughout their childhood, ‘what do you want to be when you are older?’ - for one in five working adults in England and Wales (21%), the answer to that question was a police officer. The main attractions that piqued people’s interest in a career with th...