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The European Union may follow Australia in making Google and Facebook pay for news pages. We get the perspective of Maltese MEP Alex Saliba, who sits on a committee examining possible new legislation called the Digital Services Act. And we get reaction from France, which has already struck a deal for Google to pay publishers, from Pierre Petillault, director general of the Press Alliance, which represents hundreds of French daily and weekly titles. Also in the programme, back in 2017 a fire ripped through the Grenfell Tower high-rise residential tower block in London, killing 72 people. In the aftermath, hundreds of blocks across the UK with similar flammable cladding need to have those materials replaced. The 大象传媒's Sarah Corker brings us the latest in an ongoing dispute over whether the government should foot the bill. Plus, the pandemic has seen a rise in contributions to television programmes by people from their own homes, often in front of a bookcase. Books by the Yard usually provides library backgrounds for films, pubs and restaurants, but as its chief executive Nick Bates explains, it has seen a rise in sales to those who want to use their bookcase to impress during meetings and TV appearances.

(Picture: The European Commission building. Picture credit: Getty Images.)