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03/12/2015

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 3 Dec 2015 06:00

Today's running order

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0650

Executives at Manchester City FC are discussing plans to offer free tattoo laser removal services if the club goes ahead with planned changes to its badge. So how painful is tattoo removal, how much does it cost and how long would it take? Dr Vishal Madan is a consultant dermatologist and president-elect of the British Medical Laser Association.

0655

A tailor's shop in Savile Row has kept a record of every single suit that's ever been made there. Now the records are being made public. James Sherwood is live in the studio.

0710

MPs have overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, after an impassioned 10-hour Commons debate. Speaking on the programme is Jonathan Beale, Defence correspondent, and John Baron, Conservative MP and member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee - he opposes airstrikes in Syria.

0715

This programme has been shown emails sent to a Labour MP who backed military action calling her a "war monger" and threatening her with deselection. We have also heard demands that Jeremy Corbyn must now do much more to stop his MPs being bullied by left wing activists. Our political correspondent Ross Hawkins reports.

0720

Trading standards officers have seized more than 15,000 unsafe hoverboards at ports and airports around the UK. Speaking on the programme is Lord Harris, chairman of National Trading Standards.

0730

The decision has been made: we will be conducting airstrikes in Syria. So what happens next? What would success look like and how could we measure that? Dr Patricia Lewis is research director of international security at Chatham House and Major-General Jonathan Shaw is a former British Army officer and colonel commandant of the Parachute Regiment.

0740

The European Space Agency has launched a probe that is designed to help prove an idea developed by Albert Einstein a hundred years ago: the existence of gravity waves. Dr David Robertson is research fellow for the Institute of Gravitational Research at the University of Glasgow – he has been working on this project for 10 years.

0750

MPs have overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, after an impassioned 10-hour Commons debate. Speaking live in the studio is John McDonnell, shadow chancellor.

0810

We knowÌýParliament has approved plans for British warplanes to attack the Islamic State group in Syria, but how will we know that the international forces are weakening IS with airstrikes and is the wider strategy of using moderate rebel forces in Syria against IS really credible? Speaking on the programme is Michael Fallon, Defence Secretary.

0820

Rozin Khaleel Hamjool came to the UK when she was 10 years old because Iraq wasn’t safe and her community was being targeted. Ms Hamjool keeps in touch with the community in Iraq, many of whom were tortured by ISIS and are now living in camps - she says the UK should get involved in Syria because they are the only hope. Ms Hamjool speaks live on the programme.

0830

The parties are split on Syria – except the third-biggest party in Westminster: the SNP. All 54 of their MPs voted against military action. We hear from the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesman, Stephen Gethins.

0835

Should scientists be allowed to do research which would alter the DNA of human embryos?ÌýThe ´óÏó´«Ã½'s medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

0840

Wednesday night saw the last of aÌýthree-part documentary of The Murder Detectives. Speaking on the programme is detective superintendent Andy Bevan and David Nath, the director of the programme.

0850

We have been told time and again that bombing doesn't win a war - but clearly it plays a part.Ìý Professor Richard Overy of Exeter University has written a book on the bombing of Europe from 1939-1945 and we've asked him to give us a short history of the role played by aerial bombardments over the years.

0855

MPs have overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, after an impassioned 10-hour Commons debate. We hear from political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

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  • Thu 3 Dec 2015 06:00