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17/07/2015

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 17 Jul 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

The Local Government Association has written to the government to ask for a delay in bringing in the social care cap. Councillor Izzi Seccombe is chairwoman of the Local Government Association Community Wellbeing Board.

0710

The FBI says it has no evidence at this stage of anyone other than a lone gunman being involved in the shooting in Tennessee that killed four US Marines. Tom Bateman has the latest.

0715

Scientists are expected to call for the halving of levels of added sugar in food and drink. Prof Judy Buttriss, director general of the British Nutrition Foundation, explains why.

0720

Phillip Hammond will publicly support the establishment of an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Our reporter Anna Holligan has been speaking to three parents whose children were on board.

0725

The new 拢20 note will be introduced into circulation in three to five years. How many nominations have come in so far and what are they like? Victoria Clelend is chief cashier at the Bank of England.

0730

British military pilots have been conducting airstrikes over Syria, despite a House of Commons vote against military action there. Sir Michael Graydon is former chief of the Air Staff. John Baron is a Conservative MP who campaigned against military action in Syria at the time of the last vote.

0740

What is the 大象传媒 for?聽 What should it be doing differently? Or, more pertinently, not doing? Our reporter Sima Kotecha has been talking to one family.

0750

Michael Gove is expected to acknowledge that prisons aren't working as they should do and are failing to rehabilitate offenders. We hear from Steve Gillan, general secretary of the Prison Officers Association, and Jonathan Robinson, who served a sentence for fraud in 2011 and now campaigns for prison education.

0810

Tim Farron has been voted in as the new Liberal Democrat leader. In his victory speech last night he said "a new army" of Liberal Democrat supporters could help the party recover in the polls. We speak to him today.

0820

Four US Marines have been killed in shootings at two US Navy buildings in the state of Tennessee. The gunman was shot dead by police following the attacks in the city of Chattanooga. We鈥檙e joined by Chris Swecker, former Assistant Director of the FBI, and Fred Fleitz from the Center for Security Policy.

0830

If you were a computer gamer in the 1980s, the chances are you played on a ZX Spectrum personal computer. Now, a remodelled version is set to make a comeback. Dr David Levy is chairman of Retro Computers, the company behind the re-launch.

0840

British medical student Mohammed Fakhri Al-Khabass, who graduated from a university in Sudan last year, was responsible for recruiting at least 16 others to join so-called "Islamic State" in Syria and Iraq. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford has been investigating.

0845

Nine-time Paralympic gold medallist swimmer and disability commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Lord Holmes, is writing to Premier League football sponsors to put pressure on the league's authorities to address what he calls the "glacial speed of progress in tackling stadium access and discrimination against disabled fans." We speak to him today.

0850

A study is being carried out in Sierra Leone to try to establish whether Ebola can be passed on through sexual contact with male survivors of the virus. Tulip Mazumdar, our Global Health Correspondent, is in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

0855

Sir David Attenborough is launching a campaign encouraging the public to monitor the different species of butterflies they see in their gardens. 'The Big Butterfly Count' aims to reverse the decline of butterflies in the wildlife. He tells us about it this morning.

All subject to change.

Broadcast

  • Fri 17 Jul 2015 06:00