This week’s cover stars are Ollie and his 12-year-old daughter Cora, and they join Bex to share their story, from Ollie’s bowel cancer diagnosis and how a Week Junior article helped Cora spot the signs, to meeting the King and Queen and climbing Big Ben, and why it’s so important for all of us to talk about cancer.

There’s also Joe on the US midterm elections and what the results could mean for President Trump, Eve on the 2026 Youth Olympic Games getting under way, a flower pharmacy for Real or Rubbish, and a big debate on whether COP, the global climate change conference, is worth the effort.

Plus Stevie from Science+Nature with an amphibian true or false quiz for Bex, your voice notes on which flower should be the UK’s national symbol, the results of the creepy Halloween costumes debate, long-time listener Alfie and Scarlett’s Twilight Walk for Marie Curie from the inbox, Onyinye Iwu’s African Queens as Book of the Week, and your chance to win a copy.