Peter Ruddick
@peterruddick.bsky.social
Business Reporter & Presenter for BBC News.
Lover of theatre, #SaintsFC, coffee, #Eurovision and pizza.
Lover of theatre, #SaintsFC, coffee, #Eurovision and pizza.
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After many aborted attempts, I finally started something a year ago today. A fitness journey of sorts.
I lost a fair bit of weight and am now slowly, sustainably building some muscle for the first time in my life 🤣
Feeling stronger, healthier and more alert. Plus, having fun!
I lost a fair bit of weight and am now slowly, sustainably building some muscle for the first time in my life 🤣
Feeling stronger, healthier and more alert. Plus, having fun!
October 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
After many aborted attempts, I finally started something a year ago today. A fitness journey of sorts.
I lost a fair bit of weight and am now slowly, sustainably building some muscle for the first time in my life 🤣
Feeling stronger, healthier and more alert. Plus, having fun!
I lost a fair bit of weight and am now slowly, sustainably building some muscle for the first time in my life 🤣
Feeling stronger, healthier and more alert. Plus, having fun!
When you try, and fail, to combine your BBC Breakfast business duties with a spot of trick-or-treating.
My bucket, still, does not runneth over.
My bucket, still, does not runneth over.
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
When you try, and fail, to combine your BBC Breakfast business duties with a spot of trick-or-treating.
My bucket, still, does not runneth over.
My bucket, still, does not runneth over.
Have you ever bought a greeting card from Temu?
Designers say hundreds of their images are being stolen with the ripped-off versions making fraudulent sellers thousands of pounds.
Now, Temu has said it will remove them more quickly.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Designers say hundreds of their images are being stolen with the ripped-off versions making fraudulent sellers thousands of pounds.
Now, Temu has said it will remove them more quickly.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Temu agrees to remove rip-off greeting cards more quickly
Card firms say their designs are being copied costing them thousands in lost sales.
www.bbc.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Have you ever bought a greeting card from Temu?
Designers say hundreds of their images are being stolen with the ripped-off versions making fraudulent sellers thousands of pounds.
Now, Temu has said it will remove them more quickly.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Designers say hundreds of their images are being stolen with the ripped-off versions making fraudulent sellers thousands of pounds.
Now, Temu has said it will remove them more quickly.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Today is National Coming Out Day.
This year, I shared my story with the BBC Pride staff network for an article for the internal paper Ariel.
I thought I'd post it here too.
It's a very common story really.
This year, I shared my story with the BBC Pride staff network for an article for the internal paper Ariel.
I thought I'd post it here too.
It's a very common story really.
October 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Today is National Coming Out Day.
This year, I shared my story with the BBC Pride staff network for an article for the internal paper Ariel.
I thought I'd post it here too.
It's a very common story really.
This year, I shared my story with the BBC Pride staff network for an article for the internal paper Ariel.
I thought I'd post it here too.
It's a very common story really.
If you're heading to the EU from this Sunday, you might want to have a watch of this from BBC Breakfast today.
Changes are coming!
And yes, they might be the beginning of the end for a stamp in your Passport when you travel to some countries.
Changes are coming!
And yes, they might be the beginning of the end for a stamp in your Passport when you travel to some countries.
October 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If you're heading to the EU from this Sunday, you might want to have a watch of this from BBC Breakfast today.
Changes are coming!
And yes, they might be the beginning of the end for a stamp in your Passport when you travel to some countries.
Changes are coming!
And yes, they might be the beginning of the end for a stamp in your Passport when you travel to some countries.
Dame Patricia Routledge.
There will never be another like her.
There will never be another like her.
October 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Dame Patricia Routledge.
There will never be another like her.
There will never be another like her.
Have you had issues with InPost? Waiting for Vinted deliveries?
Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items.
InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items.
InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Vinted users furious over InPost UK parcel delivery delays
Some users describe parcels not being collected from InPost UK lockers or left stuck in transit.
www.bbc.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Have you had issues with InPost? Waiting for Vinted deliveries?
Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items.
InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items.
InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Have you had issues with InPost? Waiting for Vinted deliveries?
Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items.
InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items.
InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Vinted users furious over InPost UK parcel delivery delays
Some users describe parcels not being collected from InPost UK lockers or left stuck in transit.
www.bbc.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Have you had issues with InPost? Waiting for Vinted deliveries?
Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items.
InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items.
InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Having the space to really talk, express opinions and share experience is so rare these days.
So kudos to Sean Farrington, @felicityhannah.bsky.social and my colleagues for creating this new pod.
Proper big bosses talking at length.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
So kudos to Sean Farrington, @felicityhannah.bsky.social and my colleagues for creating this new pod.
Proper big bosses talking at length.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - Big Boss Interview - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Big Boss Interview on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Having the space to really talk, express opinions and share experience is so rare these days.
So kudos to Sean Farrington, @felicityhannah.bsky.social and my colleagues for creating this new pod.
Proper big bosses talking at length.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
So kudos to Sean Farrington, @felicityhannah.bsky.social and my colleagues for creating this new pod.
Proper big bosses talking at length.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
This was a beautiful moment of symmetry.
I first saw @ollyalexander.music-social.com with Years and Years at Glasto in 2015. It was the same day as London Pride and Olly made a beautiful speech.
Then, I got to see them more than a decade later at Manchester Pride. Very special.
I first saw @ollyalexander.music-social.com with Years and Years at Glasto in 2015. It was the same day as London Pride and Olly made a beautiful speech.
Then, I got to see them more than a decade later at Manchester Pride. Very special.
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This was a beautiful moment of symmetry.
I first saw @ollyalexander.music-social.com with Years and Years at Glasto in 2015. It was the same day as London Pride and Olly made a beautiful speech.
Then, I got to see them more than a decade later at Manchester Pride. Very special.
I first saw @ollyalexander.music-social.com with Years and Years at Glasto in 2015. It was the same day as London Pride and Olly made a beautiful speech.
Then, I got to see them more than a decade later at Manchester Pride. Very special.
Just when I thought I'd covered every plant theft pun going, my BBC Sounds colleagues bring 'shrubbery snatchers' to the party!
Amazing!
Full report is well worth a three-minute listen...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Amazing!
Full report is well worth a three-minute listen...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Shrubbery snatchers at large - why plant theft is growing - BBC Sounds
Expensive plants like Japanese Maple Trees and designer hydrangeas are more at risk.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Just when I thought I'd covered every plant theft pun going, my BBC Sounds colleagues bring 'shrubbery snatchers' to the party!
Amazing!
Full report is well worth a three-minute listen...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Amazing!
Full report is well worth a three-minute listen...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Happy Birthday Mum!
I hope wherever you are you're having a blast, dancing away, enjoying some cake, maybe having a tipple.
Missing you today, as always.
I hope wherever you are you're having a blast, dancing away, enjoying some cake, maybe having a tipple.
Missing you today, as always.
August 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Happy Birthday Mum!
I hope wherever you are you're having a blast, dancing away, enjoying some cake, maybe having a tipple.
Missing you today, as always.
I hope wherever you are you're having a blast, dancing away, enjoying some cake, maybe having a tipple.
Missing you today, as always.
Been thinking a lot about the line writer Jonathan Harvey said at his Scene festival event in Manchester recently: "to entertain is to make people stop and listen". How true.
August 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Been thinking a lot about the line writer Jonathan Harvey said at his Scene festival event in Manchester recently: "to entertain is to make people stop and listen". How true.
Keys.
From living in temporary homeless accommodation, after my late Mum had her dream home repossessed when I was a kid, to flat owner.
Can't quite believe it.
Couldn't have done this without my amazing husband. And the bank, of course.
From living in temporary homeless accommodation, after my late Mum had her dream home repossessed when I was a kid, to flat owner.
Can't quite believe it.
Couldn't have done this without my amazing husband. And the bank, of course.
August 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Keys.
From living in temporary homeless accommodation, after my late Mum had her dream home repossessed when I was a kid, to flat owner.
Can't quite believe it.
Couldn't have done this without my amazing husband. And the bank, of course.
From living in temporary homeless accommodation, after my late Mum had her dream home repossessed when I was a kid, to flat owner.
Can't quite believe it.
Couldn't have done this without my amazing husband. And the bank, of course.
What did we do for our first anniversary? We went back to the theatre we got married in. We walked the same way. Except this time we came back with a bit of the theatre. Some lovely seats!
August 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What did we do for our first anniversary? We went back to the theatre we got married in. We walked the same way. Except this time we came back with a bit of the theatre. Some lovely seats!
August 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
FOOTBALL. IS. BACK.
a man in a red shirt with the word ig on it
ALT: a man in a red shirt with the word ig on it
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August 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
FOOTBALL. IS. BACK.
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Well this has just set me up just lovely for the season starting tomorrow. Can't wait. Really looking forward to more misery. #SaintsFC
Every fan thinks their club is the hardest done by.
Now there’s data to prove who’s truly had it worst.
Using 13 Opta-powered metrics, @ladbible.bsky.social and Sky Bet ranked every team across English football to reveal which fanbases have suffered the most.
➡️ bit.ly/40UHWwJ
Now there’s data to prove who’s truly had it worst.
Using 13 Opta-powered metrics, @ladbible.bsky.social and Sky Bet ranked every team across English football to reveal which fanbases have suffered the most.
➡️ bit.ly/40UHWwJ
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Well this has just set me up just lovely for the season starting tomorrow. Can't wait. Really looking forward to more misery. #SaintsFC
War of the worries.
I have a feeling it WON'T catch on, but it's how I'm describing today's interest rates decision.
Why?
Which worry is the Bank of England most worried about? Which worry is worse?
Inflation or the economy?
Follow it on BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce....
I have a feeling it WON'T catch on, but it's how I'm describing today's interest rates decision.
Why?
Which worry is the Bank of England most worried about? Which worry is worse?
Inflation or the economy?
Follow it on BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce....
August 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
War of the worries.
I have a feeling it WON'T catch on, but it's how I'm describing today's interest rates decision.
Why?
Which worry is the Bank of England most worried about? Which worry is worse?
Inflation or the economy?
Follow it on BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce....
I have a feeling it WON'T catch on, but it's how I'm describing today's interest rates decision.
Why?
Which worry is the Bank of England most worried about? Which worry is worse?
Inflation or the economy?
Follow it on BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce....
Buying your first place is an adulting revelation, isn't it?
There's the cost and stress, obviously, but also the legal/paperwork overload.
Just when I thought I'd seen most things in life I am suddenly considering a Conveyace from 1789 and terrorism insurance for a car park.
There's the cost and stress, obviously, but also the legal/paperwork overload.
Just when I thought I'd seen most things in life I am suddenly considering a Conveyace from 1789 and terrorism insurance for a car park.
August 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Buying your first place is an adulting revelation, isn't it?
There's the cost and stress, obviously, but also the legal/paperwork overload.
Just when I thought I'd seen most things in life I am suddenly considering a Conveyace from 1789 and terrorism insurance for a car park.
There's the cost and stress, obviously, but also the legal/paperwork overload.
Just when I thought I'd seen most things in life I am suddenly considering a Conveyace from 1789 and terrorism insurance for a car park.
Thanks to the Roving Canal Traders Association for being impeccable hosts today.
And to Steve Lammiman for the 🎥, Marta Newman for the production.
Some really interesting points made about the revival of our canals, but also the climate challenges and funding issues facing Canal & River Trust.
And to Steve Lammiman for the 🎥, Marta Newman for the production.
Some really interesting points made about the revival of our canals, but also the climate challenges and funding issues facing Canal & River Trust.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thanks to the Roving Canal Traders Association for being impeccable hosts today.
And to Steve Lammiman for the 🎥, Marta Newman for the production.
Some really interesting points made about the revival of our canals, but also the climate challenges and funding issues facing Canal & River Trust.
And to Steve Lammiman for the 🎥, Marta Newman for the production.
Some really interesting points made about the revival of our canals, but also the climate challenges and funding issues facing Canal & River Trust.
From coal and cotton to bars and bakeries!
I'm off to Market Drayton tomorrow to find out for BBC Breakfast how our canals are once again helping to keep our economy afloat.
Except it's leisure now, not industry.
But could a few challenges barge in to spoil the party?
I'm off to Market Drayton tomorrow to find out for BBC Breakfast how our canals are once again helping to keep our economy afloat.
Except it's leisure now, not industry.
But could a few challenges barge in to spoil the party?
July 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
From coal and cotton to bars and bakeries!
I'm off to Market Drayton tomorrow to find out for BBC Breakfast how our canals are once again helping to keep our economy afloat.
Except it's leisure now, not industry.
But could a few challenges barge in to spoil the party?
I'm off to Market Drayton tomorrow to find out for BBC Breakfast how our canals are once again helping to keep our economy afloat.
Except it's leisure now, not industry.
But could a few challenges barge in to spoil the party?
Agyemang. Kelly. That corner flag pose. ICONIC
July 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Agyemang. Kelly. That corner flag pose. ICONIC
The story of Mum's glass...
July 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The story of Mum's glass...