6PR Breakfast with Millsy and Karl

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Baz noticed today's date is 20/02/2020 so we spoke with self confessed maths nerd Adam Spencer about the significance of the date. 

Listener Ron called in to add to the coincidence... his daughter celebrates her 20th birthday today.

Peter Ford and has all the latest and breaking entertainment news daily on 6PR Breakfast just after the 8.30am news.

On Thursday Peter told us Steven Spielberg's daughter wants to be a porn star.

Award winning sports news breaker, Kim Hagdorn, joins Steve and Baz at 6:55am and 7:45am every weekday on 6PR Breakfast.

On Thursday, Haggers told us the WA player who made his AFL debut in the Grand Final for Richmond, Marlion Pickett, is set to play in Round 1.

With the international threat of Coronavirus and many passengers still held in cruise ships, the cruising business has slashed prices. 

17-day cruises would normally cost thousands of dollars, but some savvy travelers have snapped up a cheap deal. 

Bicton Travel filled in the 6PR Breakfast listeners with the best cruising deals, but Steve and Baz asked, would it be worth the risk. 

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Channel 44's future is again being threatened with the WA based community TV station going into liquidation.

Originally named Access 31, WTV changed with the times taking on Channel 44 with the forced introduction of digital TV, but the Station Manager told 6PR the Government has now killed off community TV.

Bob Tarlau gives a detailed account of the news of the day in the United States of America every weekday morning.

On Thursday, Bob told us Michael Bloomberg is set to make his debate debut.

Enda Brady is 6PR Breakfast’s UK Correspondent bringing us the news from the day in the UK.

On Thursday, Enda told us Harry and Meghan are already on their way back to London.

You will no longer see discarded shopping trolleys on the streets of Midland with the council saying they will conduct regular pickups from dumping “hot spots” and charge retailers to collect them.

The City of Swan has introduced the scheme to clean up their city, Mayor Kevin Bailey told 6PR:  

"Over a period of time we will build a database there of  more information about individual locations and the number of individual retailers trolleys that are being abandoned in those spots. From there we will be able to talk to the retailers about taking some further action."

Steve and Baz asked the 6PR Breakfast listeners; where are the trolley hot spots around Perth?

Hospital cover is now at its lowest level in more than 12 years after almost 10,000 Aussies dumped private health cover in the last three months of 2019. 

Dr Stephen Duckett is the Health Program Director at the Grattan Institute says things will continue to get worse as younger people are dropping their health insurance while older people are signing up at an extraordinary rate.