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Phone Scam Sketch

This is a sketch I submitted to Newsjack S24 E4. Apologies as always if the formatting is odd as it is pasted straight from word. Phone scammers asked for £1000 to stop calling Trading Standards has announced that nuisance and scam calls have been on the rise during lockdown - with some people reportedly being stung for thousands of pounds. I had someone call me recently saying my Just Eat account had been hacked as someone had used it every night for a week, I had to explain I just couldn’t be bothered to cook. With so many people being caught out by scammers, could it give others ideas on how they could make some extra money…              FX:                          MEETING ROOM EFFECTS PERSON 1:              OK, as you know Rishi announced some very costly new measures in the budget and we’ve been tasked with coming up with new ways in which we can bring extra money into the Treasury. I hope that you’ve had time to work with your teams to really think outside the box. So,

Police Line Up Sketch

 This is a sketch I submitted to S24 E3 of Newsjack. Apologies if some of the formatting is off, pasted it straight from the Word Doc for ease. Brits struggle to identify some veg Whilst most Britons know they should be eating more green vegetables, it was announced this week that millions of us don’t actually know which plant is which. A recent study saw one in 10 people surveyed fail to identify a cabbage and one in six couldn’t identify leeks. A lot of those surveyed obviously weren’t Welsh. Apart from the health implications, what consequences can there be from not knowing your artichoke from your endive…             VEGETABLE POLICE LINEUP   FX:                          POLICE STATION EFFECTS PC:                          Now take your time, have a good look and tell us if you think you can spot the perpetrator in this lineup? VICTIM:                  Oh, I’m not really sure it was quite dark. PC:                          I thought it was the middle of the day?