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0710

The bank of England has a task force looking at what happens to the UK if we vote to leave the European Union. Joe Lynam is the 大象传媒鈥檚 correspondent and Chris Leslie is shadow chancellor.

0715

The US has been conducting air strikes around Ramadi. They say they've hit armoured vehicles, tanks, personnel carriers and improvised explosive devices. These come as the most prominent Shia cleric in Iraq, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called on armed groups in the country, including Shia paramilitaries, the army and tribal militias, to go on the offensive against IS. Jim Muir is our Beirut correspondent.

0717

Counting will begin later this morning following yesterday's Irish referendum on whether to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples. Ireland is the first country in the world to put the issue to a public vote. The result is due to be announced this afternoon. Jon Brain is our Dublin correspondent.

0720

The army has removed a Second World War bomb which had been discovered by builders near Wembley Stadium in West London.聽 The public had to be excluded from an area around the site for nearly twenty-four hours, until a military team took the device away yesterday afternoon. Paul Jefferson is a former Royal Engineers officer in bomb disposal.

0730

The man responsible for the regulation of publically operated closed circuit television has said he's concerned that many councils in England and Wales are shutting down their networks to save money. Tony Porter, who was appointed Surveillance Camera Commissioner last year, said switching cameras off would result in a postcode lottery for crime detection. Tony Porter is the surveillance camera commissioner.

0740

The Premier League season ends tomorrow and it's worth taking a look back at some of the wisdom, and a lot of the nonsense, we've heard from managers and players in the past ten months. Garry Richardson has enlisted the help of Alistair McGowan to tell the story.

0750

Next week's Queen Speech will include specific new powers that will require councils to combine their adoption functions if they fail to do it under their own steam within the next two years. The government says adoption is happening at too small and localised a scale, and if councils worked together better, the choice of potential matches for a child would increase significantly, getting them out of care and into adoption with a shorter wait. Adoption groups don't object to the idea of children being found places in a wider geographical area but they worry about adoption services being taken out of local areas and out of the overall chain of children services.聽 Alison O'Sullivan is president of The Association of Directors of Children's Services. Edward Timpson is children and families minister.

0810

The Home Office is being urged to introduce an immediate ban on the sale of so-called 'legal highs'. The Local Government Association, which represents 400 councils in England and Wales, says ministers should draw up legislation similar to that in the Republic of Ireland, which outlawed the drugs five years ago. It wants the proposals to form part of the Queen's Speech, on Thursday. Professor Niamh Nic Daied is from the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee. Councillor Peter Fleming is spokesman for the Local Government Association.

0820

Alistair Carmichael the former Scottish Secretary yesterday admitted responsibility for leaking the memo which claimed the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon had told the French Ambassador to the UK that she wanted David Cameron to win the election. He has said he and his special advisor will forgo their severance payments as he would have resigned if he was still a minister. Nicola Sturgeon has called for him to consider his position as an MP. Stewart Hosie is SNP Deputy Leader.

0830

The head of press at the Bank of England has inadvertently stirred up a hornet's nest by sending to a Guardian journalist an internal note that revealed that the Bank is conducting an exercise to consider the financial effects of a British departure from the European Union, ahead of the promised referendum. Professor Mark Taylor is former economist at IMF and Bank of England researcher.聽Owen Patterson is a Eurosceptic Conservative backbencher and former environment secretary.

0840

The US has been conducting air strikes around Ramadi. They say they've hit armoured vehicles, tanks, personnel carriers and improvised explosive devices (see 0715). Mowaffak Al Rubaie is an Iraqi MP and former Iraqi National Security Advisor. Hikmet Suleiman is advisor to the Anbar Council.

0845

The counting of votes will begin this morning in yesterday's referendum in the Irish Republic on whether to legalise same-sex marriage.聽 It's the first national ballot on the issue anywhere, although there have been many state votes in the United States. There's a contrast with Northern Ireland, where the assembly recently voted against gay marriage for the fourth time. It's not only the question of gay marriage that's controversial and divisive. Campaigners for a more liberal approach are now trying to encourage dialogue with political leaders.聽 Our reporter Sima Kotecha reports from Belfast.

0850

HOME, a 拢25m, multi-disciplinary arts centre billed as the largest in England outside London opened this week in Manchester. Special events will take place over the Bank Holiday weekend to mark the opening of the centre - which boasts a theatre, gallery, five cinema screens, digital production and broadcast facilities, and of course, a bar. This comes after the 拢15 million restoration of the city鈥檚 Whitworth Gallery, which will display a Gerard Richter exhibition during the course of Manchester International Festival in July. The festival itself has been dubbed the 'most influential cultural festival in the world' by The New Yorker. If all that didn't provide enough evidence that the 'Northern Powerhouse' is as much about culture as it is about business and infrastructure, George Osborne has promised a 拢78 million theatre and arts venue to be built on the former Granada TV site by 2019. Dave Moutrey is director of HOME. Kate Denby is executive director of Newcastle's Northern Stage.

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