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03/04/2015

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

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Fri 3 Apr 2015 06:00

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0650

In July 2005, 52 people died in bomb attacks in London. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ has now obtained a recording of a radical preacher speaking in Dudley in the West Midlands to an audience which included three of the men who went on to carry out the July 7th attacks. An agent for British intelligence was also present at the meeting; they have been speaking to the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Security Correspondent Gordon Correra reports.

0655

Two in five council areas in England could have more primary school pupils than places in September - according to the Local Government Association. With a week to go before parents find out if their child has a place at primary school - the LGA says in some areas councils will struggle to find enough capacity.Β  It's estimated that nine hundred thousand more children will enter school in England over the next ten years. David Simmonds is chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People's Board.

0710

The UK's party leaders clashed on a range of issues including the NHS, immigration and the deficit in the TV leaders’ election debate. It is the only time Ed Miliband and David Cameron will appear together on TV ahead of 7 May's polling day. The Labour and Tory leaders debated zero hours contracts and spending cuts in the ITV-hosted contest. But some of the sharpest exchanges in the two hour event came when Lib Dem Nick Clegg clashed with Mr Cameron. Snap polls taken after the debate gave a mixed verdict. Norman Smith is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Assistant Political Editor.

0715

A doctor in the Channel Island of Alderney who is at the centre of an investigation into four suspicious deaths at his practice has been suspended by the General Medical Council.Β  Dr Rory Lyons runs the Eagle Medical Practice in St Ann's which was raided by ten police officers on Thursday morning. Police searched the property and a private address and removed boxes of documents.Β  No arrests have yet been made. Mark Inchley is a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ reporter in Alderney.

0720

The UK's party leaders clashed on a range of issues including the NHS, immigration and the deficit in the TV leaders’ election debate (see 0710). How did Nigel Farage do in last night's political leaders' General Election debate? Steven Woolfe is a UKIP MEP and the party's immigration spokesman.

0725

Have you ever scribbled a note on a scrap of paper for your kids or other half on your way out the house? You might imagine that - once read – such notes would end up in the bin. Not so. Many of them end up on the street - and more than a thousand of them have ended up in the hands of Daisy Bentley. She's spent the last six years collecting all sorts of notes she's found and they're on display at an exhibition in Hackney, east London for the next month.

0730

President Obama has hailed what he called a "historic understanding" between world powers and Iran over its nuclear programme. Under the deal - reached after exhaustive negotiations in Switzerland - Iran will reduce its uranium enrichment capacity in exchange for a gradual lifting of sanctions. The announcement was greeted with celebrations on the streets of Tehran – but Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the deal with Iran `would threaten the survival of Israel’ and urged the world to increase pressure on Iran until a better deal is achieved. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ chief correspondent Lyse Doucet and Sir Richard Dalton is a former British Ambassador to Iran who participated in negotiations until 2006.

0740

One of nine Britons detained in Turkey for allegedly trying to cross illegally into Syria has been named as the son of a Labour councillor. Rochdale councillor Shakil Ahmed said he had thought his son Waheed, 22, was on a work placement in Birmingham. He wants his son to come home "as soon as possible so I can find out what's going on". Greater Manchester Police and the North West Counter Terrorism have launched an investigation into nine people. The 5 adults and 4 children are reported to be related. Shiraz Maher, is a senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London.

0750

The UK's party leaders clashed on a range of issues including the NHS, immigration and the deficit in the TV leaders’ election debate (see 0710). Matthew Price, the Today programme chief correspondent, watched it with some voters in Bolton.

0810

The Kenyan Interior Ministry says at least one-hundred-and forty-seven people have been killed at a university in the east of the country, in the deadliest attack yet by the Somali militant group, al-Shabaab. Heavily armed gunmen stormed the campus in Garissa, early on Thursday. The Kenyan government have offered a reward for the man it says planned the attack - Mohamed Mohamud - a Kenyan former school teacher believed to now be in Somalia. Tomi Oladipo is ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Africa Security Correspondent and Dr Monica Juma is Principal Secretary of the Kenyan Interior Ministry.

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The UK's party leaders clashed on a range of issues including the NHS, immigration and the deficit in the TV leaders’ election debate (see 0710). Will Nick Clegg's "honest broker" pitch be enough to help the Liberal Democrats on May 7? Lord Ashdown is a former Liberal Democrat Leader and their election campaign chairman.

0830

Labour have called David Cameron the "invisible man" over his performance in last night's TV debate while George Osborne said Mr Cameron was in control from beginning to end. So who got the better of the only occasion in which we’ll get to see Ed Miliband and David Cameron arguing head to head in the election campaign? Michael Gove is the Conservative Chief Whip and Caroline Flint is the Shadow Energy Secretary.

0840

β€˜Postcards from Paradise’ is Ringo Starr’s 18th studio album and he spoke to James Naughtie about the Beatles, his life in music and the new album.

0845

One of nine Britons detained in Turkey for allegedly trying to cross illegally into Syria has been named as the son of a Labour councillor (see 0740). Usman Nawaz went to the same school as Waheed Ahmed, and was also a former member of a panel called the β€œYoung Muslims Advisory Group”. He is also a mentor to young Muslims through the Youth Council of Rochdale.

0850

The Lord’s Prayer has been the focus of a special series of five essays broadcast on Radio 3 this week. This morning, on Good Friday, Andrew Motion will be considering the penultimate lines of the Lord's Prayer, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil". Earlier in the week, Rabbi Julia Neuberger considered the middle section of the Lord's Prayer - β€˜Give us this day our daily bread’. The poet Andrew Motion and Rabbi Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the West London Synagogue.

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The UK's party leaders clashed on a range of issues including the NHS, immigration and the deficit in the TV leaders’ election debate (see 0710). Tim Harford, presenter of Radio Four's More Or Less, Financial Times columnist, has been doing a fact check of the claims made by the politicians and Michelle Harrison, global head of Political and Social Practice at research company TNS, held a focus group yesterday evening where most of the participants didn't intend to vote or watch the debate.

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