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Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Motorcyclist critically injured after collision with MNPD officer on Lebanon Pike
A motorcyclist has been hospitalized following a collision with a MNPD vehicle. According to a police report, Mt. Juliet resident Evan Davis was traveling on Lebanon Pike near Tyler Drive, around 12 a.m. on June 21, when Officer Conner Roell collided with him after making a U-turn. Roell was travelling to a Walmart parking lot with emergency equipment where a vehicle was reportedly attempting to hit pedestrians. He expressed that he saw what he believed was the suspect traveling west on Lebanon Pike and initiated a U-turn when he collided with Davis on the driver's side of the police SUV. Davis is currently hospitalized with critical injuries at Skyline Medical Center. The collision remains under investigation. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Motorcyclist hospitalized after crash with MNPD officer
Telegraph
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
JK Rowling: BBC can't be trusted to report trans issues
JK Rowling has claimed that the BBC can no longer be trusted to report trans issues. The Harry Potter author attacked the broadcaster after it failed to report that a women-only housing development would be open to biological men. The BBC published an online report about the women-only tower block, opening in west London next summer. The block is designed for survivors of domestic abuse struggling to find a home, but the BBC story did not say that the flats would be open to trans women and non-binary people, whatever their biological sex. This prompted her to write on X: 'It's not women only. Men will be accommodated there if they say they're women. 'Our national broadcaster can no longer be trusted to report truthfully or impartially on matters relating to sex, preferring to push its own luxury beliefs on the unenlightened masses.' It is the latest in a series of spats between Rowling, who campaigns on women's rights, and the corporation. Two years ago, the BBC received more than 100 complaints after the Radio 4 PM presenter Evan Davis failed to challenge accusations against the author. Stacey Henley, a trans woman and the editor-in-chief of The Gamer, a video games website, accused the author of pushing 'transphobia', as well as having 'a campaign against trans people'. The BBC was forced to issue an apology, saying that 'we should have challenged the claims more directly'. Rowling has also criticised the corporation over its coverage of sport, after it emerged that Alex Kay-Jelski, its head of sport, had blocked Martina Navratilova and Sharron Davies, the former sports stars-turned-women's rights campaigners, on social media. Brook House, in Acton, will provide 102 affordable rented flats. The tenants will be a mixture of women from Ealing council's waiting list and residents put forward by Women's Pioneer Housing, which was founded by suffragists in 1920. The housing association said its mission was to offer single women access to 'safe, secure and affordable homes and services', and to encourage other housing providers to 'understand the needs of single women'. It said the building would be open to anyone who has a 'gender recognition certificate legally declaring them female'. Flats would also be open to trans women who 'intend to undergo, are undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment', as well as 'non-binary people who meet the aforementioned criteria'. This is despite the fact that the Supreme Court confirmed in April that it would be legal to restrict access to the tower block based on biological sex and not gender identity.
Telegraph
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
BBC bans presenter from hosting heat pump podcast
The BBC has banned Evan Davis from hosting a podcast about heat pumps over concerns that the appliances are too controversial. The Radio 4 and Dragon's Den presenter, has hosted the Happy Heat Pump podcast for 20 episodes. But now he has been forced to give it up, telling listeners: 'Essentially, I am a BBC employee and they very kindly signed off on me doing this side hustle, non-BBC. 'But as the series has gone on – in fact, as the world has progressed over the last few months – they have become concerned that anything like this trying to inform people about heat pumps can be interpreted, rightly or wrongly, as somehow treading on areas of public controversy. 'I take their shilling, they dictate the rules. They know they have to keep their presenters out of areas of public controversy and they have decided heat pumps can be controversial, so they've asked me not to be involved. So the Happy Heat Pump podcast does come to an end. 'It was a difficult decision, they're very unkeen to stop me doing things that I find rewarding … but they want us to stop.' The co-host of the podcast is Bean Beanland, director for growth and external affairs for the Heat Pump Federation. Beanland said he was 'gutted' by the decision and blamed it on the culture wars, adding he had been dismayed to visit the Telegraph website and read comments by readers opposed to heat pumps. 'It's quite extraordinary, really,' he said. 'You see this term 'culture war' being bandied around these days and it does seem to me that somehow the technologies that we espouse have fallen victim to some kind of culture war.' Davis said he understood wariness about heat pumps as 'people feel they're going to be told what to do by some nannying person and it's going to be more expensive and they resent that'. He said that the podcast was 'not here to sell you heat pumps' but joked to Beanland: 'I do slightly worry that you're here to sell heat pumps.' Beanland said he was not, and was simply trying to offer a balanced view. But Beanland likened the transition to heat pumps to other social changes which initially met resistance but are now widely accepted. He said: 'We've been through other things like this. Everyone now wears a seatbelt, or crash helmets on a bicycle.' A BBC spokesman said: 'The BBC editorial guidelines are clear that anyone working for the BBC who does an external public speaking or writing engagement should not compromise the impartiality or integrity of the BBC or its content, or suggest that any part of the BBC endorses a third-party organisation, product, service or campaign.'
The Independent
23-04-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Evan Davis being told to stop hosting podcast was ‘tough' for BBC boss
BBC presenter Evan Davis has said the corporation's director-general said it was a 'very tough' decision for the broadcaster to stop the Dragons' Den star hosting a podcast about heat pumps. Davis, who hosts the BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme PM and Dragons' Den, was told a few weeks ago that the Happy Heat Pump Podcast could be seen as a breach of rules around presenters speaking about issues of public policy. It is believed that the podcast focusing on one possible solution to reducing carbon emissions, when responses to climate change are a matter of public policy, was the issue. Davis told the PA news agency on Wednesday that the BBC felt 'there's a danger he will be seen' as having a view on heat pumps and being in favour of the efficient heating technology in his capacity as a PM presenter. 'Perception matters, so they thought it was probably unhelpful,' he said. 'I just did it for the sort of fun of it, but they do always regulate what you do outside, and I totally accept that they have to make those judgments.' Davis, who says he received no money for the podcast, and is not involved in any heat pump business arrangements, added that he is 'not bitter' about the decision. However, he does not 'agree with this judgment, because I thought we were promoting an understanding of heat pumps, not promoting heat pumps'. When asked if he thought political opposition to net zero was the issue, Davis said it was 'very much probably in the minds of the BBC'. 'If you don't like net zero, you're probably not going to think we need to install heat pumps, and … that's a perfectly legitimate point of view,' he said. Davis admitted that heat pumps 'have been an issue that's been argued about, which is why the BBC didn't want me to do it'. He also said there is an 'irony' that air conditioning has not been in the 'middle of a cultural war', unlike heat pumps, when the technology uses a similar refrigerant liquid to make rooms hot and cool. Davis said: 'There were some conversations internally about it, and the decision was finally confirmed about two weeks ago, and we wanted to record a little mini last episode, just closing the series down so that's why we didn't announce it until yesterday. 'I actually chatted to (director-general of the BBC) Tim Davie about it, he thought it was very tough decision and a very finely balanced thing, we had really grown-up conversations about it, it's not like it's been a sort of horrendous process. 'Tim appreciated that for me, this was a bit of a hobby, and I am very interested in this transition, or this potential transition.' Davis, who has heat pumps in his home in France, and a gas boiler in his London house, said he was not 'attacking the BBC decision'. He added the BBC does not want him to take down the 20 or so episodes of the show, and the corporation has said they 'should talk about doing something for the BBC on heat pumps'. Evans hosted the podcast with Bean Beanland, who works at the Heat Pump Federation (HPF), with the first episode being uploaded in December 2024 to YouTube. In March, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said she will task shadow ministers with finding 'achievable solutions' to delivering cheap, clean energy after declaring that reaching net zero by 2050 is 'impossible'. A BBC spokeswoman said: 'The BBC editorial guidelines are clear that anyone working for the BBC who does an external public speaking or writing engagement should not compromise the impartiality or integrity of the BBC or its content, or suggest that any part of the BBC endorses a third-party organisation, product, service or campaign.'
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Evan Davis says it was ‘tough' for BBC boss to tell him to stop hosting podcast
BBC presenter Evan Davis has said the corporation's director-general said it was a 'very tough' decision for the broadcaster to stop the Dragons' Den star hosting a podcast about heat pumps. Davis, who hosts the BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme PM and Dragons' Den, was told a few weeks ago that the Happy Heat Pump Podcast could be seen as a breach of rules around presenters speaking about issues of public policy. It is believed that the podcast focusing on one possible solution to reducing carbon emissions, when responses to climate change are a matter of public policy, was the issue. Sad news about the Happy Heat Pump Podcast. Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we're drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy. 1/2https:// — Evan Davis (@EvanHD) April 22, 2025 Davis told the PA news agency on Wednesday that the BBC felt 'there's a danger he will be seen' as having a view on heat pumps and being in favour of the efficient heating technology in his capacity as a PM presenter. 'Perception matters, so they thought it was probably unhelpful,' he said. 'I just did it for the sort of fun of it, but they do always regulate what you do outside, and I totally accept that they have to make those judgments.' Davis, who says he received no money for the podcast, and is not involved in any heat pump business arrangements, added that he is 'not bitter' about the decision. However, he does not 'agree with this judgment, because I thought we were promoting an understanding of heat pumps, not promoting heat pumps'. When asked if he thought political opposition to net zero was the issue, Davis said it was 'very much probably in the minds of the BBC'. 'If you don't like net zero, you're probably not going to think we need to install heat pumps, and … that's a perfectly legitimate point of view,' he said. Davis admitted that heat pumps 'have been an issue that's been argued about, which is why the BBC didn't want me to do it'. He also said there is an 'irony' that air conditioning has not been in the 'middle of a cultural war', unlike heat pumps, when the technology uses a similar refrigerant liquid to make rooms hot and cool. Davis said: 'There were some conversations internally about it, and the decision was finally confirmed about two weeks ago, and we wanted to record a little mini last episode, just closing the series down so that's why we didn't announce it until yesterday. 'I actually chatted to (director-general of the BBC) Tim Davie about it, he thought it was very tough decision and a very finely balanced thing, we had really grown-up conversations about it, it's not like it's been a sort of horrendous process. 'Tim appreciated that for me, this was a bit of a hobby, and I am very interested in this transition, or this potential transition.' Davis, who has heat pumps in his home in France, and a gas boiler in his London house, said he was not 'attacking the BBC decision'. He added the BBC does not want him to take down the 20 or so episodes of the show, and the corporation has said they 'should talk about doing something for the BBC on heat pumps'. Evans hosted the podcast with Bean Beanland, who works at the Heat Pump Federation (HPF), with the first episode being uploaded in December 2024 to YouTube. In March, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said she will task shadow ministers with finding 'achievable solutions' to delivering cheap, clean energy after declaring that reaching net zero by 2050 is 'impossible'. A BBC spokeswoman said: 'The BBC editorial guidelines are clear that anyone working for the BBC who does an external public speaking or writing engagement should not compromise the impartiality or integrity of the BBC or its content, or suggest that any part of the BBC endorses a third-party organisation, product, service or campaign.'
