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SSI have said that their Redcar plant – where 1,700 jobs went this week – could be mothballed for up to five years. What does mothballing a steel plant actually involve? Dave Cox is former technology manager for the blast furnace at the Redcar steel plant.

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Kinder politics, a caring society. That's what Jeremy Corbyn said he wanted yesterday as part of what he described as the ‘modern left’ movement. But parts of it sounded distinctly old left: Do the electorate like what they hear from this leadership? We speak to Sadiq Khan, Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London at the elections in May next year.

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David Cameron has arrived in Jamaica on a two-day visit aimed at reinvigorating Britain’s relationship with the Caribbean and strengthening trade links. Our political correspondent Carole Walker is travelling with the prime minister.

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At the last election, Labour failed to take the Brighton Pavilion seat from the Greens or the Brighton Kemptown seat from the Tories. We asked four local voters to watch the speech and give us their reactions.

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Different ways of repelling sharks have been discussed at a summit in Sydney after a series of attacks in eastern Australia.  Among the ideas are phone apps that track the predators when they are lurking out at sea.  From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.

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One point eight billion dollars has been pledged at the United Nations to help the desperately under-funded aid agencies trying to help refugees around Syria's borders. We spoke to the EU's Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avrampolous at the UN General Assembly in New York about EU proposed systems to deal with the flow of migrants.

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The first womb transplants in the UK could take place next year after doctors were given the go ahead. Ethical approval was granted at Imperial College London for ten women without wombs to have the procedure. Richard Smith is a consultant gynaecologist at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

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The Information Commissioner has slapped a record £200,000 fine on a solar energy company which bombarded the public with millions of nuisance calls. The campaign was said to have made people's lives a misery. Christopher Graham is Information Commissioner.

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We interview Jeremy Corbyn for the first time since he became the leader of the Labour Party.

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The film-maker Robb Leech has had unparalleled access to London's Islamist groups through his half-brother Richard who converted to Islam and became radicalised. In his latest film, 'Welcome To The Mosque', Leech is invited back to the East London Mosque in Whitechapel. We speak to Mr Leech and Salman Farsi, press officer at East London Mosque who features in the documentary.

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A rising number of students starting university are struggling to cope and seek help from over-stretched counselling services. Dr. Ruth Caleb is head of counselling at Brunel University and chair of The Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education working group.

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We've heard the speech, we've heard the interview. Just how optimistic should the Labour party be? Can Jeremy Corbyn do enough to win back Scotland and the marginal seats in England? We speak to Darren Jones, Labour candidate for Bristol North West in 2015and Katy Clark, former Labour MP who lost her seat to an SNP candidate in 2015. 


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