The Week Ahead with The Yorkshire Post

The Week Ahead with The Yorkshire Post features writer John Blow.

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00:00 Hi there, it's John Blow from the Yorkshire Post Features team here. I'm going to take

00:04 you through some of the things coming up in the week ahead. First of all, Baroness Betty

00:08 Boothroyd's estate will be auctioned off for charity tomorrow. Lady Boothroyd became the

00:12 first woman to be elected Common Speaker in April 1992, staying on until October 2000

00:17 before entering the Lords as a crossbench peer a year later. She died in February last

00:23 year. I'll let politicians' belongings will be going under the hammer at Special Auction

00:27 Services in Newbury, Berkshire and are estimated to fetch £200,000. Born in Dewsbury in 1929,

00:35 Lady Boothroyd worked as a professional dancer from 1946 to 1948 and appeared in Pantomime

00:41 in London's West End before going into politics. The RSPB's annual Big Garden Bird Watch takes

00:47 place from Friday to Sunday when participants are asked to spend two hours each day watching

00:51 and recording the birds that land in their patch. More than half a million people took

00:55 part in the 2023 event, counting 9.1 million birds. However, unfortunately, the RSPB says

01:02 that we have lost 38 million birds from UK skies in the last 60 years. And on Saturday,

01:08 events will take place across the UK for Holocaust Memorial Day. The date of January 27th marks

01:14 the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp in 1945. Landmarks

01:21 across the UK will be lit in purple to mark the occasion and people will also be encouraged

01:26 to safely light a candle and place it in their window.