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Sarah Brett & Dan Walker present a round-up of the day's news, sport and interviews.

Best-selling author & queen of crime drama Martina Cole has more than twenty novels under her belt, several of which have been adapted for stage and screen. She tells Sarah & Dan how the criminal underworld has proved lucrative for someone who lives her life firmly on the right side of the law, and describes the day she very nearly threw all her manuscripts away before becoming a successful author.

Labour MP Ann Coffey speaks out ahead of the publication of her report into sexual exploitation & abuse of vulnerable children in Greater Manchester, warning that hundreds of children are at risk as a result of falling off the radar of the relevant authorities.

The Prime Minister responds to criticism from MPs who say the Home Office is failing to deal with the ongoing backlog of asylum application cases; the Serious Fraud Office announces it's launching a criminal investigation into accounting irregularities at Tesco; and the prospect of a UK-based NFL team moves closer as a new report suggests a London-based franchise could be worth over 拢100 million a year to the UK economy.

In our Click Live technology hour : Google seeks a cure for cancer & other diseases, the UK prepares to open the doors on the world's first cultural centre for gaming, and our tech testers try out Amazon's latest entry into the smart TV market, the Fire TV.

Plus two of British comedy's brightest female stars, Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan on their new TV comedy Puppy Love, after the success of their award-winning nursing sitcom Getting On.