There isn't much good news around at the moment but Beyond The Joke has managed to find some. Comedian Angela Barnes is to marry her boyfriend Matt.

The new host of Radio 4's The News Quiz posted the news on social media with a picture of her ring and freshly manicured fingers. 

He had been planning to do it sooner but there had been a mix-up with the rings.

She tweeted: "Well. I guess I’m going to be spending my social isolation planning a mother of a wedding then! And yes, that is a concrete ring because I don’t do dainty but I do bloody love concrete... (Something here about cementing a relationship). Bit of happy news amongst the madness eh?"

Also, some further good, romantic news.

Comedian Toby Williams and TV writer and one third of the hit podcast Drunk Women Solving Crime Hannah George have become engaged too.

Hannah George tweeted: "Because if you can’t get engaged during a global pandemic, when can you?"

Top Pic @angelabarnes

Bottom pic: Twitter @HannahMGeorge