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03/11/2015

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 3 Nov 2015 06:00

Today's running order


0650

New sentencing guidelines designed to help courts take a tougher approach with companies that break health and safety regulations will be published today. Michael Caplan QC is member of the Sentencing Council.

0655

New research suggests computer games that challenge reasoning and memory skills can help older people with daily activities such as shopping, cooking and handling finances. Dr Anne Corbett is senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London.

0710

Downing Street has rejected reports that David Cameron has abandoned efforts to hold a Commons vote on military action in Syria. We hear from Laura Kuenssberg, the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú’s political editor.

0715

Speaking at the Conservative conference last month, the Prime Minister said: 'When a generation of hard-working men and women in their 20s and 30s are waking up each morning in their childhood bedrooms - that should be a wake-up call for us'. Chris Tinker is regeneration chairman at the housing developer Crest Nicholson, and Kate Henderson is chief executive of the Town and Country Planning Association.

0720

The head of Russia's Federal Aviation Agency, Aleksandr Neradko, has said it's too early to speculate what caused the crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt on Saturday. Steve Rosenberg is the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú’s Moscow correspondent.

0730

Liam Byrne - who infamously left a note for his successor in the Treasury saying 'sorry there's no money left' - is launching what he hopes will be a fight-back by Labour moderates against ‘Corbynomics’. Speaking live on the programme is the former Labour chief secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne.

0740

The largest Data Observatory in Europe opens today at Imperial College's Data Science Institute in London. Sima Kotecha is reporting.

0750

The Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, will set out plans to track children’s progress from ages five to sixteen, with the aim that more pupils in England should take traditional academic GCSEs. Caroline Hoggarth is head teacher and director of Parkside GGI Academy and Dame Rachel De Souza is chief executive of Inspiration Trust, a group of twelve academies and free schools in Norfolk.

0810

David Cameron has promised a ‘national crusade to get homes built’. Sanchia Berg is reporting, and we also hear from Lord Adonis, former Labour cabinet minister.

0830

A Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three programme broadcast last night explored the issue of sexual consent. Speaking on the programme is Catarina Sjolin, author of the Sexual Offences Handbook, and Kayode Modupe-Ojo, a luxury lifestyle consultant and brand advisor who was falsely accused of rape in 2013 and uses his smartphone to record audio evidence of all his partners verbally consenting.

0840

An international YouGov poll commissioned by the think tank The Legatum Institute and published in The Times today, suggests the public think capitalism has impoverished the poor and that nearly all big businesses have cheated their way to prosperity. We hear from Tim Montgomerie, Times columnist and Conservative activist and Kwasi Kwarteng, Conservative MP and leader of the Free Enterprise Group of Tory MPs in the last Parliament.

All subject to change.

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  • Tue 3 Nov 2015 06:00