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The Essential Mindful Puzzle Book is an inspiring collection of puzzles to help readers build mindfulness into their day. The puzzles will help readers relax, find focus, and boost your energy levels and connect with others.

Articles on mindful practices like breathwork and 60-second stress busters also provide practical advice on how to incorporate mindfulness into everyday life alongside guided journal pages and activities that can help build healthy daily rituals.

The Essential Mindful Puzzle Book includes 100 pages of:

• Puzzles to help build mindful moments into everyday life
• Classic puzzles, as well as interesting twists on others
• Articles with tips on how to practice mindfulness
• Colouring in pages
• Full set of answers

John Simmonds, Publisher (Puzzles), said: “Our Essential Mindful Puzzle Book has been created to help readers pause, breathe and destress, offering simple, practical ways to bring mindfulness into everyday life. This latest addition to our Essential series continues to champion the proven therapeutic and wellbeing benefits of puzzle solving – supporting the research-backed link between puzzles, relaxation and mental health.”

The Essential Mindful Puzzle Book, priced £6.99, is available on newsstands nationwide or to purchase online at GreatMagazines (www.greatmagazines.co.uk).

Mr Beast, Rowan Atkinson, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Taylor Swift, Stormzy and Claudia Winkleman are among the stars which appear in the commemorative issue, reimagined as their 10-year-old selves.

The special issue reclaims mischief for a new generation, as the mix of humour, creativity and imagination that fuel childhood at its best in support of the National Year of Reading.

The collectible edition features the longest fold-out cover in Beano history and is on sale from Tuesday 17th March.

Research commissioned by Beano shows that kids and adults agree that great mischief makers share three core traits: humour, creativity and imagination, with humour leading at an average of nearly 60%.

Over half of children believe being mischievous is an important part of being a kid, while 42% of parents think too many rules can stifle creativity and 71% say they have joined in on their child’s prank.

Mike Stirling, Director of Mischief at Beano said: “Dennis is forever 10, and for 75 years he’s reminded us that being a kid is the best thing ever. He has sparked mischief, laughter and a love of reading for fun in every generation since 1951. Childhood can feel quite serious these days, and this celebration is all about reminding us all that a bit of creative mischief superpowers childhood at its best.”

As part of the celebrations, 2026 has been declared Beano’s Year of Mischief. It’s a year of live experiences, partnerships and initiatives that encourage families to bring the spirit of creative mischief, fun and imagination into everyday life.

The channel debuts with Spin the Dish, an original competitive cooking series hosted by siblings Kola Bokinni (Ted Lasso) and Yinka Bokinni, devised and produced by Fawkes Digital.

Good Food Tasted aims to bring cooking to life in way that is as informative as it is entertaining, with shows fronted by leading chefs, food content creators, and famous faces. 

Launch series, Spin the Dish, sees two creator-chefs go head-to-head to put their “spin” on beloved family classics like lasagna and chicken pie. Expect reinvented favourites, wild flavour combinations, and debates, as Yinka and Kola taste, challenge and ultimately crown the winning dish.

Spin the Dish guests across six episodes include big name chefs Big Has, Jane Hong (Let Jane Cook) and Omar Allibhoy (The Spanish Chef), new food businesses including Chubby Dumpling and The Flygerians, plus food creator Joseph Denison Carey. Recipes featured on the show will also be available online for people to try at home. 

Following Spin the Dish, a slate of original commissions are planned for Good Food Tasted for 2026 and beyond, including helping audiences explore how to find the best international cuisine; famous faces take on food-based challenges, and delving behind the service of some of the biggest chefs and kitchens across the UK.

You can check out Good Food Tasted here with the first episode of Spin the Dish out now.  

Lily Barclay, Content Director, Good Food, says: “Good Food champions achievable recipes from a wide range of cuisines and Tasted gives us an exciting new platform to bring that spirit to life. This channel is about entertainment as much as expertise, and working with Fawkes Digital and the brilliant Bokinni siblings has allowed us to launch with real energy and ambition.”

Paul Doyle, Director of Video Strategy & Delivery, Immediate, adds: “In launching Good Food Tasted, and our wider Good Food YouTube pipeline for 2026, we are excited to collaborate with industry‑leading producers like Fawkes Digital, Objekt, Backlight, and others to spotlight the richness of the UK food culture for a YouTube audience.

Good Food Tasted is a milestone in our mission at Immediate to build a home for high‑attention, premium, personality‑led video powered by brilliant creators from within the business, as well as talent from across the world.”

Lucy Smith, Executive Producer for Fawkes Digital, continues: “We’re thrilled to be partnering with Good Food to grow out their original entertainment slate, kicking things off with Spin the Dish.  This launch format leans into everything we know does well on YouTube – mashing up cultures, putting playful and bizarre spins on classics with playful creator hosts.  Working with Yinka and Kola has been a dream, they’re total pros and bring their unique warmth and humour to the cooking genre.”

Courtneay Mann, representing Yinka and Kola Bokinni at Insanity Group, says: “With Yinka and Kola, it’s always about strategic fit. Yinka is a proven broadcaster and an incredibly distinctive performer, so the platform has to match that energy. For Kola, whose acting career is going from strength to strength, quality always comes first.

What made Spin the Dish such a natural fit was the combination of food, something genuinely close to him and the opportunity to co-present alongside his sister. Together, they bring a dynamic that feels original and unfiltered, there’s a raw honesty to their chemistry that you simply can’t manufacture. That authenticity is what makes this project so exciting and the ideal next step for them both.”

By combining Poool’s front-end with Darwin CX’s back-end capabilities, the two companies will form a single reader revenue platform, whether through subscriptions, donations, print and digital, built specifically to help media companies manage engagement, conversion, and retention of their audiences.

The acquisition brings together three essential elements of the subscription lifecycle:

• The front-end (Poool): what readers see and experience on-site and on-app, including engagement journeys (newsletters sign-up, app downloads), conversion journeys (dynamic paywalls, registration walls), and retention journeys (onboarding, cancellation flows).
  
• The back-end (Darwin CX): everything behind the scenes to manage and grow subscription revenue (both print and digital), including subscription management (billing, renewals, fulfilment), authentication, a centralised user database, and advanced analytics and reporting.
  
• The expertise (Audiencers): proven strategies, industry benchmarks and actionable data from leading publishers worldwide, powered by a community of 15,000+ digital publishing professionals sharing their daily challenges and figuring out, together, how to better engage, convert and retain their audiences.

The union is driven by a shared vision for the future of subscription growth, focusing on a more connected experience across the entire funnel. By bridging the gap between front-end engagement and back-end fulfilment, clients can expect a clearer, more actionable understanding of their audience and a more scalable approach to growth.

Maxime Moné, CEO, Poool, commented: “We built Poool to give media teams full autonomy over their audience strategy. Engagement, conversion, retention, without depending on developers. Over the years, we realized the market needed more than a good customer journey platform. It needed a unified platform, from the first page view to subscriber renewal. And the existing solutions weren’t delivering that.

That’s exactly what we’re building with Darwin CX: a complete platform, combined with the benchmarks and expertise from Audiencers, so that media companies are truly autonomous in piloting their subscription strategy. Media companies don’t need more tools. They need fewer, better integrated ones.”

Liam Lynch, CEO, Darwin CX added: “Darwin CX was founded to help publishers scale recurring revenue with confidence. By bringing Poool into our platform, we are connecting the reader experience directly to subscription operations. This is the next stage in subscription evolution. Evolution favors those willing to dive in, and together we are giving publishers the tools to adapt, scale, and grow.”

Marion Wyss, Publisher, Audiencers said: “Audiencers is accelerating its mission to help media professionals thrive by bringing them together at a greater scale, sharing what actually works to reclaim audience relationships, and equipping teams with practical intelligence, benchmarks and new tools to make better decisions.“

Existing clients of both companies will keep working with the same people, on the same products, and will now have an Audiencers’ subscription included in their license.

Emma Teague joined Time Out in 2022 and previously served as General Counsel and Company Secretary, where she played a key role in strengthening governance, supporting international expansion, and delivering major strategic initiatives across the business. Her appointment broadens her remit at an important stage in Time Out’s evolution as a global media and hospitality brand.

In her new role, Teague will lead the development and delivery of the Group’s corporate strategy and transformation priorities across both its Media and Markets businesses. She will work closely with the executive team to align strategic direction, operational performance and organisational capability to support continued global growth.

The role brings together Strategy, Transformation, People, and Legal, ensuring governance and organisational capability remain fully aligned with Time Out’s ambitions. Emma will continue to serve as Company Secretary, supporting the Board and maintaining strong governance standards.

Teague brings over 20 years of legal and commercial leadership experience across executive and international advisory roles. She has a proven track record of leading organisational change and translating strategy into execution.

Emma Teague, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer at Time Out, said: “Time Out is an iconic global brand with significant growth potential across both Media and Markets. I am excited to work with the talented team across the Group to sharpen our strategic focus, strengthen execution and help unlock long-term value for our audiences, partners and shareholders.”

By unifying HELLO!’s Digital, Print, Audio, Video and Social properties together into a single product, HELLO! is now offering easier access to the HELLO! audience.

HELLO! FUSION is specifically engineered to drive action across key audiences by enabling advertising partners to combine different attitudinal and contextual audiences together, with the ability to target category- wide down to more niche segments.

HELLO!’s focus is on expanding its audience offering and enhancing the way high quality cohorts can be leveraged together as well as continuing to improve the accuracy of its AI optimised targeting.

HELLO! FUSION was built to move beyond the industry’s dependency on external tracking, offering high-fidelity, first-party signals that provide a level of accuracy and audience depth.

For more information contact: George.spires@hellomagazine.com

HELLO! is also one of the founding partners of Atria, a new premium marketplace giving advertisers easy access to quality audiences and trusted editorial brands.

The initiative has been developed along with the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) and the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).

The licence, along with an online content store, will enable AI companies to legally access and use published works in exchange for a licence fee, under clear and transparent usage guidelines.

Tom West, Chief Executive, PLS, said: “The London Book Fair provides an important opportunity for the industry to come together and consider how established collective licensing models can be extended to this new context.

“The pace of change is rapid, and publishers must remain active participants in shaping how their content is used. This first stage is about engagement and collaboration. By opting in, publishers will be part of collective approach that aims to ensure content use in AI models is lawful and fairly remunerated.”

Saj Merali, CEO, PPA, commented: “Good journalism and specialist content don’t just happen. They take time, investment, expertise, and fact-checking. As AI tools increasingly pull in and summarise this content, often away from publisher websites and behind paywalls, commercial models are impacted, and it’s more than just clicks and subscriptions. It also impacts the audience insight and data that publishers rely on to keep producing high-quality work.

PPA members represent trusted editorial brands from large international media companies to small, independent publishers, and many simply don’t have the scale needed to influence the deal room. That’s where collective licensing makes sense. It gives publishers strength in numbers and a practical way to make sure their content is used legally, transparently and is compensated properly.

And this isn’t just about revenue. It’s about protecting editorial standards and making sure the information feeding AI systems is accurate, responsibly sourced and created to the highest possible standards.”

Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) is a non-profit, government-regulated organisation, owned and operated by the PPA, the Publishers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. Over the coming months, these industry associations will be working with PLS to encourage participation from publishers in the UK and internationally.

After PLS consulted extensively with publishers last year, London Book Fair marks a significant step towards the full launch of this industry-changing initiative.

The initiative builds on the UK’s established voluntary collective licensing model, extending a trusted and proven framework to address generative AI. It is designed to operate alongside direct agreements between publishers and AI companies, providing an additional route for publishers of all sizes to participate in and benefit from AI-related uses of their content.

PLS emphasises that publisher participation will be crucial to shape the next phase of the framework. Following opt-in, PLS will work with its licensing body, the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), to engage directly with AI developers and embed the licensing framework within the technology sector.

Find out more here.