It's a puppet

BBC Children's supremo, Alice Webb, has been outlining her ambitions for Charter renewal, including the new digital offering iPlay. One suspects, like many other departments, there was more on the list before George Osborne's £750m raid on the licence fee.

Meanwhile former head of digital at BBC Children's, Marc Goodchild, who dropped out of Auntie's care in the move to Salford, is part of the launch team of a new app aimed at grandparents and grandchildren, called Gingersnap. It's brought to you by a list of "partners" that would make Alice jealous...