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14/11/2014

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 14 Nov 2014 06:00

Today's Running Order

Subject to change.

0630

The number of suicides in prisons has risen to its highest level in 10 years. Sima Kotecha reports.

0635

The government has agreed the details of a new counter terrorism bill to be presented to parliament this month.

0640

The government says its allocating another Β£300 million to preparing the NHS in England for the extra pressures it usually sees in winter. Hugh Pym reports.

0645

There's been a twist in the historical child abuse story. Tom bateman reports.

0650

The SNP hold their first conference today since defeat in the independence referendum . They gather in Perth as polls suggest they could win up to twenty seats at next year's general election - even hold the balance of power. Norman Smith reports.

0655

Millions of motorists who have been fined outside train stations and NHS hospitals could obtain a refund, if a legal campaign promoted by Michael Green turns out to be successful. We hear from Michael Green and chief executive of the British Parking Association.

0710

In a speech to the Australian parliament in Canberra overnight, the Prime Minster has announced more details on three policies designed to combat the tide of British jihadis going to fight in Syria which will be put before parliament in a Counter Terrorism Bill this month. We hear from Lord Carlile, the former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.

0715

A peer who is leading an independent review into suicide in prisons says too many people are being jailed unnecessarily.

0720

Ebola audio diary from Dr Geraldine O'Hara.

0725

David Cameron has said this morning that he is going to warn the Russian president Vladimir Putin that he risks dragging the world into a new cold war. We hear from Washington State Department's Jen Psaki.

0730

Both NATO and the OSCE say that Russian troops and military hardware have been crossing the border into eastern Ukraine. Michael Bociurkiw, the Spokesperson for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, tells us what his team of monitors has seen on the ground.

0735

Baroness Trumpington reviews 'The Imitation Game'.

0740

At ten o'clock this morning, at the SNP annual conference, Nicola Sturgeon will formally takeover from Alex Salmond as leader of the Scottish National Party. We hear from her.

0810

Lord Harris was asked by the government earlier this year to conduct a review and make recommendations on how to reduce self-inflicted deaths in custody. He is expected to present all his findings next summer - but he says so far the evidence suggests resources are stretched because the penal system is having to deal with people who shouldn't be there in the first place. We hear from Michael Spurr, chief executive of the National Offender Management Services.

0830

This morning at 0700 UK time the Federal Statistical Office will publish the third quarter results of the moribund German economy. Jeromin Zettelmeyer said yesterday he does not expect the economy will enter recession today.

0840

Tonight at the Barbican in London the newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia Orchestra Julian Rachlin will lead the orchestra through a performance of works from Mozart and Beethoven. We hear from him.

0850

A Latin enthusiast in Rome has launched the world's first Latin puzzle book. We hear from Luca Desiata editor in chief of "Hebdomada Aenigmatum", and Eleanor Dickey, Professor of classics at Reading University.

0855

European science has a lot to be happy about. Both the recent Rosetta mission and the CERN's hadron collider and discovery of the Higgs Boson have been lauded as huge breakthroughs in science. We hear from Chris Llewellyn Smith, former head of CERN and Dr Jean-Claude Worms, head of science at the European Science Foundation.

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  • Fri 14 Nov 2014 06:00