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0710

Police forces in England and Wales face further cuts to their budget after the election. Their funding from the home office has already been cut by 20 percent since 2011; it'll be cut by a further five percent next year. 聽Olly Martins is Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire. Chris Sims is Chief Constable of West Midlands Police.

0715

Ed Miliband is to warn Scottish voters that voting for the SNP will increase David Cameron's chances of a second term in office. He will be speaking to the Scottish Labour Party's spring conference at the end of a week in which polls predicted that Labour MPs will be all but wiped out by SNP candidates in the General Election. Paul Sinclair is a former Special Advisor to Gordon Brown and Johann Lamont.

0720

Favourable weather conditions have contributed to the most successful breeding season for blackbirds since records began. Female blackbirds, which, confusingly, are brown, produced more than twice as many chicks last year as in a normal year, according to the British Trust for Ornithology. It said last year was the most productive year for the blackbird in the 75 years in which it has been keeping breeding records Carl Barimore is from the British Trust for Ornithology鈥檚 Nest Records Organiser.

0725

After three east London school girls ran away to Syria last month, their families found letters from police that the girls had been told to give to them but which they'd hidden. Their families have criticised the police and their school, Bethnal Green Academy, for not giving them the letters direct because they say if they had seen them they might have been able to stop the girls going. Mike Thomson is the 大象传媒鈥檚 correspondent. 聽

0735

Broadcasters have announced that they intend to go ahead with plans for three televised leaders' debates during the general election, despite Prime Minister David Cameron saying he will only partake in one before campaigning begins. 大象传媒, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 have all said they will continue with the debates as originally planned on the 2nd, 16th and 30th April, even if this means effectively "empty-chairing" the Prime Minister. Jonathan Levy is Director of News-Gathering & Operations at Sky News and Sky's main negotiator with the parties. Peter Bone is the Conservative MP for Wellingborough.

0740

With the destruction of the ancient Assyrian artefacts in Nimrud by supporters of the so-called Islamic State, other ancient treasures which have been destroyed during conflict have been brought to light. Al-Rashid is a Lecturer in Assyriology at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University. Peter Stone is a Professor at Newcastle University, in 2003 he was archaeological advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence prior to the invasion of Iraq, he is also Secretary General of the Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield.

0750

Gary Walker, a former NHS chief executive who says he was sacked for raising concerns about patient safety has asked the health secretary for England, Jeremy Hunt, for an apology and a "comparable" job. In a letter to the secretary of state Mr Walker argues he is a whistle-blower whose actions have been have been vindicated by events. Gary Walker is the former chief executive of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.

0810

Further analysis of police cuts (see 0710). Peter Vaughan is acting president of the Association of Chief Police Officers and Chief Constable of South Wales Police. Damian Green is Conservative MP for Ashford and former Policing Minister.

0820

With Wolf Hall over, the rehabilitation of Thomas Cromwell is now complete. Is it time to reconsider the bad reputation of other villains from our history? One contender might be King John. Mocked as the thumb-sucking cowardly lion by Disney, he, like Cromwell, fought the pope and was castigated by chroniclers of the time as a thoroughly nasty piece of work. Is it time we started thinking more favourably about Good King John? Stephen Church is professor of Medieval History at University of East Anglia and co-author of 鈥淜ing John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant鈥�. Marc Morris is a historian and co-author of 鈥淜ing John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta鈥�.

0830

Further analysis of Scottish Labour (see 0715). James Naughtie is in Edinburgh. Kezia Dugdale is Deputy Leader of Scottish Labour.

0845

Further analysis of the three missing girls (see 0725). Secunder Kermani is Newsnight's correspondent.

0850

As part of our 100 seats in 100 days series Today鈥檚 correspondent Matthew Price has been to the constituency of Wyre Forest to speak to people taking an active role in the politics of their constituency.

0855

Big bushy beards have gained such fashionable ubiquity that there's now an art exhibition dedicated to them. Brock Elbank's photography exhibition of pogonophiles, the Greek for beard lovers, is at Somerset House in London.