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14/07/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.

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Tue 14 Jul 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

A man was arrested by British Transport Police yesterday for trying to charge his phone on a London Overground train. He was taken into custody on suspicion of ‘abstracting electricity’. Last week a man climbed on stage in a Broadway theatre to try to charge his mobile. So, why despite the rise of technology are we still being let down by poor batteries? John McCann is from Tech Radar.

0710

Iran's foreign minister has said the negotiations with six world powers on a comprehensive agreement on its nuclear programme will not conclude on Monday. Dennis Ross advised Hillary Clinton about Iran when she was secretary of state.

0715

On Wednesday, Westminster MPs from the Scottish national party will side with Labour to try and block controversial proposals to water down the ban on fox-hunting in England and Wales. The decision came after a meeting of the 56 strong SNP Westminster Parliamentary Party on Monday night. Nicola Sturgeon is First Minister of Scotland.

0720

Scientists have begun to glean new information about the dwarf planet Pluto, as the NASA spacecraft New Horizons approaches it. Early measurements show that Pluto is probably bigger than previously thought. The spacecraft, which is almost 3 billion miles from Earth, will today get a close up look at the last truly unexplored world in the solar system. Prof Monica Grady is professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University.

0730

The annual report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons is expected to say there's been a substantial increase in violence in jails with a growing number of attacks on staff. Nick Hardwick has been in post for 5 years but is leaving the job at the end of the year. This is his last annual report and will be his most damning yet. We hear from Today reporter Sima Kotecha and Mark Ike, Vice President of the Prison Governors Association.

0740

A clinical psychologist who has treated a man with a very rare form of amnesia for ten years is trying to find other people with the same condition or experts who can explain the disorder. The patient, known as WO, has only been able to remember things for a maximum of 90 minutes since he had an injection at the dentist in 2005. Dr Jerry Burgess is consultant clinical psychologist at the University of Leicester.

0750

Forcing large firms to reveal the difference between the average earnings of male and female staff will "pressure" them to improve women's wages, David Cameron said.  A consultation on the measure is being launched as the government announces that a target of getting women into at least a quarter of boardroom seats at the UK's biggest firms has been met. Ann Francke is the chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute. Nicky Morgan is minister for Women and Equalities.

0810

There are signs that an agreement is imminent at talks between Iran and six world powers over Tehran's nuclear programme. Discussions continued into the early hours of this morning in the Austrian capital, Vienna. Lyce Ducet is chief international correspondent. Sir Richard Dalton is former ambassador to Iran.

0820

Harper Lee’s second novel ‘Go Set a Watchman’ hit the bookshops at midnight last night in one of the biggest literary events of the decade. Whilst some people will have been frantically reading the book overnight, author Tracy Chevalier is one of the privileged few to have been given an advanced copy.

0830

On Wednesday, Westminster MPs from the Scottish national party will side with Labour to try and block controversial proposals to water down the ban on fox-hunting in England and Wales (see 0715). We speak to Conservative MP Dr Liam Fox and Ian Murray, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland.

0835

One of MI5's greatest wartime agents was treated terribly by the service after the war, according to his son. Eric Roberts was only identified last autumn as the man who ran what was called the Fifth Column operation in Britain, posing as a Gestapo officer, he kept tabs on nearly 500 Nazi sympathisers. Sanchia Berg reports.

0840

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has returned to Athens and gone straight into a meeting with Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and other party officials following marathon bailout talks in Brussels. At the talks, eurozone leaders agreed to offer Greece a third bailout that is conditional on Greece passing agreed reforms by Wednesday. Valdis Dombrovskis is European Commission vice-president for the euro and social dialogue. Gillian Tette is US Managing Editor of the FT.

0850

The Francis Crick Institute, the UK’s newest biomedical research facility, is announcing its first collaboration with a pharmaceutical company - GSK. The collaboration will explore new avenues of medical research and drug discovery across a broad range of diseases, with a view to speeding up the way biomedical discoveries can be translated into patient benefits. Sir Paul Nurse is chief executive and director of the Francis Crick Institute.

0855

There's been a big rise in modest fashion youtubers/vloggers. They're young hijabi Muslims that are making hijab-wearing cool and accessible and dressing stylishly using high street shops like Topshop, but having to layer up because actually you can't dress modestly with most clothes in high street shops. Nabila Bee is a hijabi vlogger who has had 60 million views on YouTube. Reina Lewis is professor of Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion UAL.

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  • Tue 14 Jul 2015 06:00