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07/06/2016

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 7 Jun 2016 06:00

Today's running order

0650

How has Teesside coped with losing its steel industry?  It's almost a year since the blast furnaces at the big Redcar plant were shut down and Lord Heseltine was asked by the government to produce a report on how the region is coping without steel. Sue Jeffrey is the (Labour) chair of the Tees Valley combined authority.

0710

Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic nomination for US president after reaching the required number of delegates, an AP tally suggests. The news comes just one day before the primaries in California, where she is campaigning heavily. Sidney Blumenthal is senior advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign and former aide.

0720

There is 15 hours left until registering to vote in the 2016 EU referendum closes. If you have not registered by midnight you will not be eligible to vote. Alex Robertson is the director of communications at the Electoral Commission.

0725

Scientists at King's College London have developed a blood test that accurately and reliably predicts whether depressed patients will respond to common antidepressants, which could herald a new era of personalised treatment for people with depression. Professor Carmine Pariante is from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London.

0730

The billionaire businessman and founder of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley, has said he has "nothing to hide" as he prepares to answer questions from MPs about working conditions at the company's warehouse in Derbyshire. Jeremy Baker is a retail analyst and affiliate professor at ESCP Europe Business School and Iain Wright is chair of the business select committee.

0740

As part of the programmes EU referendum coverage, Sima Kotecha reports from Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, which was once one of the most prosperous towns in Britain and is now one of the poorest. 

0750

A 25-year-old French man was arrested yesterday on the Ukrainian border with Poland. According to the Ukrainian authorities, he was planning to carry out fifteen terror attacks on France during the European Championships which begin this week. Peter Taylor is a security expert and presenter of a recent "Panorama" episode and Sylvie Bermann is France’s Ambassador in the UK.

0810

More on Teesside losing its steel industry: Mike Gilbert was one of 2200 workers laid off at the SSI plant in Redcar in September. He'd worked there for 31 years.

0820

Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary ‘Fuocoammare’ – Fire at sea – tells the stories of people living on Lampedusa as the migration crisis unfolds on their doorstep. The movie, which won the Golden Bear award for best movie at the Berlin Film Festival, is screened for the first time in the UK at Bertha Deckhouse tonight. Mr Rosa and Dr Anna Arnone, anthropologist from the centre for migration and diaspora studies at SOAS, joins us on the programme.

0830

Vote Leave is today publishing a dossier of 50 criminals which the European Court prevented us from deporting. Vote Leave says EU free movement rules prioritise the rights of criminals over public safety and mean we cannot deport dangerous EU criminals. Dominic Raab is the Justice Minister and Vote Leave campaigner.

0840

The director of The Serpentine Gallery in London, Julia Peyton-Jones, is stepping down after 25 years of service. The ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s arts editor, Will Gompertz, reports from the gallery.

0850

How have attitudes towards our membership of the European Union changed in the last four decades?  Two days before the last vote, Oxford University's debating society discussed the subject with a stellar cast: Ted Heath & Jeremy Thorpe for In; Barbara Castle & Peter Shore for Out. Victor Van Amerongen is ex-President of the Oxford University Union and Dr Lucy Robinson is senior lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Sussex.

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  • Tue 7 Jun 2016 06:00