Fatima Al-Kassab

In a pre-recorded TV message, the king urged Britons to get screened and talked about the difference an early diagnosis can make.

And he gave a rare update on his own progress.

He has not said what type of cancer he was diagnosed with and has continued to work and go on foreign trips since his diagnosis.

Now the 77-year-old said his holiday message is to ask Britons to play their part in catching cancer early.

Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR News, London.

Sophie Kinsella, whose real name is Madeline Sophie Wickham, sold more than 45 million copies of her books around the world.

Dubbed the Queen of Romantic Comedy, she first wrote novels under her real name before publishing her Shopaholic series under the Kinsella pseudonym.

Like the main character, Kinsella started out as a financial journalist before becoming an author.

She once said the inspiration for her best-selling series was how shopping had become a pastime and nobody had written about it.

The first two shopaholic books were adapted into Hollywood films starring Isla Fisher.

She went on to write 10 shopaholic novels in total.

Her most recent novella, What Does It Feel Like?, was a semi-fictional account of her cancer diagnosis.

Fatima al-Kassab, NPR News, London.

The BBC's leadership had been under mounting pressure.

after a newspaper report suggested that a BBC documentary, which aired a week before last year's presidential election, had edited two parts of a speech by President Trump, so he appeared to explicitly encourage the January 6th Capitol Hill riots.

The memo, from an external advisor to the BBC, accused the corporation of serious and systemic bias in its coverage of issues including President Trump,

Gaza and trans rights.

The president's press secretary, Caroline Levitt, described the corporation as a propaganda machine following the allegations.

In his resignation note to staff, BBC boss Tim Davey said the decision was entirely his own.

Fatima al-Kassab, NPR News, London.