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ALIENS landing from space might have been bemused to find the BBC facing an existential crisis over a retired footballer’s recent tweet.

But then it’s faced a number of controversies, hasn’t it? Most recently, criticism of its impartiality and independence following the appointment as chairman of Richard Sharp (who helped Boris Johnson with a dodgy loan), scandals involving Martin Bashir’s conduct in securing THAT interview with Princess Diana and the failure to uncover and prevent the abusive behaviour of Jimmy Savile.

Additionally, the loss of key presenters such as Jeremy Clarkson and Chris Evans has challenged the network’s ability to maintain its popular programming. Looking to the future, the BBC faces several significant challenges, including increasing competition from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, changing audience habits and ongoing pressure to remain financially sustainable.

Overall, while the BBC has faced significant problems and crises in recent years, its future success will undoubtedly depend not only on its ability to remain true to its core values of impartiality, quality and innovation but also on its ability to adapt to a fast changing world.

But above all, BBC, cut the controversies and scandals ­ just TELL the story, don’t be it!

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IT is an honour for me to collaborate with the Linea Directa Foundation, a nonprofit institution founded in 2014 under the motto ‘For Road Safety. Here and now’.

I have worked in road traffic safety for over 20 years with the introduction of the seat belt adaptor for pregnant women. During those years I learnt so much about crash tests, crash dummies and the dummies that take to the roads inconsequentially all the time.

This organisation’s aim is to help build a society free of traffic accidents, a menace that has cost the lives of some 80,000 people in Spain over the last 20 years. Using

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the information collected by the Linea Directa insurance company since its creation in 1995 means they have a lot of data and many statistics to go on. Linea Directa however don’t just evaluate the data, they value the lives behind the numbers, the people with names and surnames whose families will never be the same again.

This is why it’s important that everyone, including administrations, foundations and citizens work together in