Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

Link of the Month:

VW Beetle Spotted in Insect Collection:

https://tinyurl.com/wx6pnss

Links:

01:50 - Updates/ Keep and Eye On:

Ancient rock art at Carnarvon Gorge destroyed after walkway explodes in bushfire:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-08/ancient-rock-art-lost-after-plastic-walkway-explodes-in-bushfire/11848938?pfmredir=sm&fbclid=IwAR3O_-EgrIjZjExzkdBHSyGwDcANSIekWC42yFizI3j5Vp5-7vPK06riAec

Australia fires: rain forecast to fall on NSW and Queensland fire grounds:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/04/australia-fires-rain-forecast-to-fall-on-nsw-and-queensland-fire-grounds

Bovis Homes Petition, shared by Mark Horton:

https://tinyurl.com/vorgkuq

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12:28 - Fall out from Brexit (Independence Day):

Johnson and Javid order Budget Cuts of at Least 5%:

https://www.ft.com/content/2d13dcb0-42c2-11ea-a43a-c4b328d9061c

HS2: Give me the facts, says Shapps:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51171249?fbclid=IwAR1Qrrtff6OoPMN9_0paVqnyG1wQEjDBFG_HHMFPNEI4Soy9G0nsvvWjltw

A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down (Stonehenge):

https://highwaysengland.co.uk/a303-stonehenge-our-approach/

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32:29 - Roman Wall Collapse - The Price of Responsibility:

Roman wall collapses in Chester after private building work:

https://tinyurl.com/s99clfg

Archaeologists seen working by City Walls the day before collapse:

https://tinyurl.com/tpfopk4

42 skeletons that could date from Anglo-Saxon times found in shallow graves in Buckinghamshire:

https://news.sky.com/story/42-skeletons-that-could-date-from-anglo-saxon-times-found-in-shallow-graves-in-buckinghamshire-11920117

Medieval monument in Rotherham damaged by illegal metal detecting:

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/medieval-monument-rotherham-damaged-illegal-metal-detecting-1351113

Tate defends job ad for £40k 'head of coffee':

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-51310516?fbclid=IwAR3Ccw84fBP-PqgP28xEQAlHK_9dDgTnp0-10ZG5Piqr5pFaMY-wANtmisQ