Mark Rowley
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Can you pay for that?
4:57pm on 1 May 2012
On Today’s Show...
I felt so embarrassed for a lady yesterday, she was ahead of me at a supermarket and had everything put through the till and only then when she went for her purse realised she’s left it at home. Anything like that happened to you?
Is there a wider discrepancy between how good an idea sounds and than it actually is than showering together? 9 pm: "It'll be so hot if we shower together!" 9:01 pm "It's impossible to move around in here and I'm freezing. Are you done yet? Get out."
From 6am daily on the BBC we are set to have wall-to-wall Olympic Games: The corporation will show 18 hours of coverage on their flagship channel. Bosses have decided to clear channel's entire schedule, aside from main news bulletins, for 18 hours a day – but they insist they are not 'driving the Games down people's throats'.
Everybody in school had that one GOOD pencil with no eraser. Then that other pencil with a GOOD eraser but no lead.
Non-smoking grandfather who threw away cigarette butt he found stuck to his shoe is fined £75. Ken Morris from Trebanos in South Wales was handed a £75 fine after an eagle-eyed council officer spotted him discarding the cigarette butt he had just found on the sole of his shoe.
Remember when we would just show up at people's houses when we wanted to talk to them? I feel as though it is now intrusive to call people... like I need to send them a text to warn them about the call.
After 36 flood warnings and now officially the wettest April ever it’s STILL not wet enough to end the drought. I actually heard someone say on the news last night that we'd had the wrong sort of rain!
Lazy Britons 'can't even be bothered to socialise' after a hard day at the office. A study of 2,638 adults carried out for Weight Watchers found that lack of time, long working hours, and being too busy were key factors in Brits leading such sedentary lifestyles.
The Palace calls it ‘credit-crunch couture’. Out and about in Windsor yesterday, the Queen wore the same pink coat she has been seen in for at least a dozen public occasions in the past five years. The monarch was given a warm reception as around 1,000 people welcomed her to the town as part of her Diamond Jubilee tour of Britain.
Ever wondered why your seven-year-old’s class is full of Keiras and Scarletts, while you can barely find a Jordan under the age of 14? And why the playgroup may have a Boris or two, but there is not a Blair to be found? When it comes to naming babies, it seems we’re more influenced by the celebrity world than we’d realised.
Trading standards officers test lamb kebabs in 20 restaurants... and found that NONE contained just lamb. An investigation in Warwickshire has revealed that takeaways are misleading customers by selling them lamb that contains a concoction of other meats.
Showbiz
Kelly Rowland's blaming The X Factor's so-called "increasing demands" as the reason she's quit the show. Her exit clears the way for former judge Dannii Minogue to return to the panel.
Philip Schofield insists his wife of 19 years, Steph, isn't jealous of his so-called "screen wives" - his TV sidekicks Holly Willoughby and Christine Bleakley. Philip, who is marking his 30th year on our screens, says he's "a very lucky man to work with all these gorgeous women".
nd Peter Andre's hitting out at claims his cafe is a health hazard. His New York Coffee Club in West Sussex got just one star from hygiene officials, amid talk of dirty floors and bulging bins. But Pete says, "There were so many untrue things" - adding, he "can't wait to be reassessed" to prove himself.
Dancing on Ice winner Matthew Wolfenden admits he's too busy to get married. He and Emmerdale co-star Charley Webb got engaged at Christmas 2009 but more than two years on they have still to set a date. Matthew says they "haven't had a minute to plan" their big day.
Daniel Craig says he and director Sam Mendes risked "legal ramifications" after contacting each other about the new James Bond movie, Skyfall, during the lengthy delay to production. They ignored a ban on discussing the film while the project was suspended in 2010 following the financial problems surrounding studio MGM.
In The News
A powerful committee of MPs will today issue its verdict on the phone-hacking scandal at the News Of The World and how it was handled by senior executives.
Fresh flood warnings have been issued as Britain braces for more heavy rain after the wettest April since records began.
The inquest into the death of GCHQ code breaker Gareth Williams will hear for the second time from the officer in charge of the police investigation.
The cost of trying to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada has reached almost £1m and is set to rise still further as he continues to challenge the Government.
Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck has fallen out of the world's top 10 best restaurants but the chef is still riding high after his newest enterprise rose up the ranks.
Bad teachers could be paid less than their colleagues under new Government proposals aimed at driving up standards in state education.
Marks Bio
Mark has been involved with Rutland Radio since 1996's pioneering temporary broadcast from Preston Garage, and has popped up over the years covering for various people. Now Mark has his own show, from 2 every weekday afternoon.
Mark lives in Leicestershire, and you'll often hear him talking about family life which he shares with wife Giuseppina, he calls her Jo, and daughters Roaina born in 1997 and Georgina born in 1998.
