The BBC presenter has revealed that her first Radio 2 Breakfast show will launch on Monday, July 6, (6.30am – 9.30am) with her first guest set to be Hollywood star Tom Hanks.

Speaking on Vernon Kay’s Radio 2 show (9.30am-12pm), about her new venture, Ms Cox said: “Roll on the 6 July!”

She added: “For generations to come people will (probably) say ‘where were YOU when the Sara Cox Breakfast Show was launched on Radio 2 featuring the legendary Tom Hanks?'”

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The Sara Cox Breakfast Show on Radio 2 will feature a fresh new format, packed with fun and games, as well as the world’s biggest stars.

This news comes after a charity she backed, Auditory Verbal, went into liquidation with jobs lost.

Auditory Verbal stars in BBC One appeal with radio presenter Sara Cox in 2018 (Image: AVUK)

Based in Kirtlington Road, Chesterton, near Bicester, the organisation described itself as the “leading provider of Auditory Verbal therapy in the UK”, aiming to ensure all deaf children have the same opportunities in life as their hearing peers.

She was involved in an appeal for the charity in 2018, when it was featured on television.

However, since then – and more than 20 years since it was set up – the charity has found it impossible to continue and announced its closure in a statement on its website.

Bicester-based charity Auditory Verbal stars in BBC One appeal with radio presenter Sara Cox. pictured is Kurran Doal, 15 (Image: AVUK)

Earlier this year, a spokesperson said: “Like many charities, AVUK has been operating in an increasingly challenging and turbulent environment for some time.

“Over recent months, despite strong progress pursing our strategy and continued delivery of high quality, life changing support, the financial pressures facing the charity have intensified to a point where it is no longer possible for us to operate sustainably. 

“We understand that the speed of this closure may come as a shock.

Bicester Mayor Les Sibley (right) with workers at Auditory Verbal UK launching Loud Shirt Day. Pic by Jon Lewis.

“This has been an incredibly difficult decision, taken with the greatest care for the families, professionals and supporters who have placed their trust in AVUK over the years.”

In its latest company accounts the organisation listed 30 employees, all of whom will have lost their jobs.

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In addition it noted creditors falling within a year worth £433,557 although the company’s recently released ‘statement of affairs’ said its creditors were £349,309 in total.

The new documents also listed the businesses that Auditory Verbal owed money to.

Among the major names mentioned are Amazon (owed £476) and the National Lottery Community Fund (owed £2,062).

In addition Auditory Verbal was £83,426 in debt to the tax man HMRC and £12,815 in debt to Lloyds Bank.

KYND has launched Portfolio Analytics for cyber insurers, giving them a live view across their portfolios.

The launch targets a market under pressure to show that cyber risk is being monitored and managed across books of business, rather than assessed at a single point in time.

Built into KYND’s existing platform, Portfolio Analytics is designed to show where risk sits across insured organisations and whether those organisations are addressing it. Insurers can use it to identify exposure to critical vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited and track how long those issues remain unresolved.

That focus reflects a shift in the cyber insurance market. Insurers have spent years trying to map exposure, but losses linked to third-party providers, supply chains and widely used software have made it harder to judge risk through occasional reviews alone.

Lloyd’s 2026 Market Oversight Plan has sharpened attention on evidence-based portfolio oversight, with insurers expected to demonstrate how they monitor and manage cyber risk across their portfolios. At the same time, claims data points to faster-moving incidents and broader spillover effects when a single weakness is exploited across multiple organisations.

According to Chubb’s 2026 Cyber Claims Report, 65% of large companies now rank third-party and supply-chain vulnerabilities as their biggest cyber challenge, up from 54% a year earlier. IBM data cited in the same report showed the average cost of a US data breach rose above USD $10.2 million in 2025, compared with a global average of USD $4.4 million.

Market pressure

Cyber insurers are facing closer scrutiny over how they oversee accumulated exposure. The issue has become more pressing as attacks have spread beyond individual companies through shared suppliers and technology providers.

KYND cited the attack on Jaguar Land Rover in August 2025 as an example of the scale such incidents can reach. The incident affected more than 5,000 UK organisations and cost the economy an estimated GBP £1.9 billion, making it one of the costliest cyber events to hit Britain.

The new analytics product is already being used by leading insurers, though KYND did not name them. The tool is intended to help insurers identify concentrations of risk earlier and support discussions with policyholders about remediation.

Andy Thomas, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KYND, said the sector now faces a different challenge.

“Growing expectations around active portfolio management present a particular challenge for cyber insurers, given the speed at which cyber risks can emerge and spread across interconnected organisations, suppliers and technology providers. For much of the last decade, cyber insurers have focused on understanding where risk exists across their portfolios, but the threat landscape has evolved. In an environment where a newly exploited vulnerability can turn into loss in minutes and a single event can create losses across multiple insured organisations, a point-in-time view of risk is no longer enough. Increasingly, insurers need to understand not only where exposure exists, but whether it is being reduced,” said Andy Thomas, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KYND.

Remediation focus

A central element of the product is its emphasis on whether exposed organisations are fixing identified weaknesses. That shifts the conversation beyond underwriting at policy inception to ongoing oversight during the life of a policy.

KYND said the platform can highlight higher-risk exposures and emerging areas of concern across an insurer’s portfolio. It also provides prioritised remediation guidance to insured organisations, which can help insurers improve engagement with clients and make decisions about overall exposure.

The approach reflects a broader change in cyber insurance, as underwriters and portfolio managers look for clearer signs that policyholders are reducing the likelihood or severity of claims. In a market shaped by systemic events, tracking unresolved vulnerabilities over time may become as important as identifying them in the first place.

“Insurers need better ways to understand how risk is changing across their portfolios over time. Access to that insight can help them identify concentrations of risk earlier, engage more effectively with insureds and make better-informed decisions about portfolio exposure,” Thomas said.

Oxford city councillors elected to approve Larry Ellison’s further plans for the science park off Grenoble Road in Littlemore.

The Ellison Institute Oxford is building the Ellison Institute of Technology, a science and technology campus on the same site.

But the Grenoble Road site isn’t the only Ellison project in Oxford or indeed Oxfordshire, though.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Abir Sultan/Pool/AP)

The billionaire is also putting his stamp on the city at the former Littlemore Hospital site, transforming the 19th-century chapel in Armstrong Road into a high-end restaurant.

The institute has teamed up with Oxford University in a major strategic alliance worth hundreds of millions of pounds for various projects.

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What’s more, there’s the lengthy opening of the Eagle and Child in St Giles’, bought in October 2023 by Ellison for about £8m and expected to open in 2027.

And he’s bought a lot of land near Kingston Bagpuize with the aim of creating his own luxury compound – to the annoyance of some neighbours, as previously reported in national press.

Alfie Davis, a Green city councillor, said: “Billionaires tightening their grip on Oxford, controlling more of our lives is of concern to all of us as our city is increasingly bought up by an elite few.”

Larry Ellison (Image: Steve Walker/wiki)

The Eagle and Child (Image: Oxford Mail)

Mr Ellison, who has reportedly holidayed with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his private Hawaiian island, is the single largest donor of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

It’s not clear whether the pair remain friends today.

In 2017, he donated the equivalent of $21.8m and said: “Since Israel’s founding, we have called on the brave men and women of the IDF to defend our home.”

He has previously said that his fondness for Israel is not connected to religious sentiments but rather due to “Israelis’ innovative spirit” in the technology sector.

Mr Ellison is also close to Donald Trump, with the US president appointing him to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology earlier this year.

But Mr Davis described the multi-million pound donations to the Friends of the IDF as “reprehensible”.

“The IOF/IDF is recognised as a terrorist organisation by the Green Party, and is well documented as having indiscriminately murdered, raped and tortured Palestinian civilians and deliberately targeted children, doctors and aid workers,” the Holywell councillor said.

“The fact that profits from his ventures in Oxford with the university could be used to fund the murder of Palestinians abroad should concern us all.”

Indeed, various United Nations organs and officials have repeatedly raised concerns about the conduct of the Israel Defense Forces, especially in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory, and have warned of possible war crimes and even atrocity crimes.

The Ellison Institute did not respond to our request for comment.