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24/08/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 24 Aug 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

The middle classes are turning their backs on marriage in their droves, a report says. Sir Paul Coleridge is founder of Marriage Foundation. Fiona Weir is chief executive of Gingerbread, a children鈥檚 charity which supports single parents.

0710

IS appears to have destroyed or significantly damaged a temple in the ancient city of Palmyra. Dr Amr al Azm is a former director of conservation at Syria's ministry of Antiquities and Museums.

0715

The Civil Aviation Authority has begun reviewing its safety standards after a Hawker Hunter jet that had just commenced its display at the RAFA Shoreham Airshow crashed into traffic. Steve Barry is Assistant Chief Constable of Sussex Police.

0720

Hundreds of migrants, many from Syria, are continuing to stream into Macedonia after the authorities opened the border with Greece. They are taking trains and buses to Serbia, hoping to enter Hungary and then travel to northern EU countries. Nick Thorpe reports from Budapest.

0730

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will meet the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, in Tehran today, following the re-opening of embassies in London and Tehran. We speak to Mr Hammond this morning.

0740

One Direction, the 鈥渂iggest band in the world鈥, are calling it quits saying they鈥檙e splitting up as from March and will not tour their new album. We speak to Dan Wooton, showbiz editor for the Sun, who broke the story.

0750

The Met Office has lost its contract with the 大象传媒, and newspaper reports indicate it is Dutch and New Zealand companies which are in the running to take on the new contract. We speak to weather presenter John Kettley and Peter Moore, writer of The Weather Experiment.

0810

The Civil Aviation Authority has begun reviewing its safety standards after a Hawker Hunter jet that had just commenced its display at the RAFA Shoreham Airshow crashed into traffic. We hear from reporter Tom Bateman and John Turner, chairman of the British Air Display Association.

0830

There鈥檚 been a spate of unpleasant scenes at weddings held in Sikh temples involving couples where only one partner is Sikh. The weddings are being interrupted by uninvited guests who object to inter-faith weddings. We speak to Shamsher Singh, spokesperson for the National Sikh Youth Foundation, and Anita Kapoor, former member of the Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education.

0835

Behavioural scientist Dr David Halpern heads up Number 10鈥檚 鈥楴udge Unit鈥, the world鈥檚 first government institution that uses behavioural economics to examine and influence human behaviour, to 鈥榥udge鈥 us into making better decisions. We speak to him this morning.

0840

Europe is facing what the EU has called the worst refugee crisis since a World War Two. Greece alone has seen almost 160,000 people landing on its shores since January, the majority of them Syrians. We hear the story of one young man, who fled the war-torn city of Aleppo in pursuit of a new life in the UK.

0850

Michael Peppiatt's new biography of Francis Bacon is out this week. We speak to Mr Peppiatt and Michael Clark, an artist and friend of Francis Bacon.

All subject to change.

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  • Mon 24 Aug 2015 06:00