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25/04/2015

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

2 hours

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Sat 25 Apr 2015 07:00

Today's running order

0710

Commemorations started in the early hours of this morning to mark the exact moment, Β hundred years ago, that allied forces landed on the beaches at Gallipoli. Ultimately, the campaign to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the First World War failed, with heavy casualties on both sides.Β  Of the 45 thousand Allied soldiers lost, more than ten thousand were from Australia and New Zealand, and today the sound of a didgeridoo and a Maori 'welcome song' opened the service in Turkey.

0712

Another day of campaigning: who is doing what? Adam Fleming is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔs political reporter.

0715

The Prisons Inspectorate has told the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ that a recent incident at the Yarl's Wood detention centre caused them "considerable concern": they raised it and a staff member has been suspended. They're currently inspecting the controversial detention centre. Detainees claim two weeks ago guards broke up a peaceful protest with excessive force: Serco, who run the centre for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Office, deny the claim. Sanchia Berg is a reporter for the Today programme.

0720

The UK's top family judge Sir James Munby has said part of the job of parents is to make teenagers do things they don't want to do. He was making the comments in the case of 2 teenage girls who refuse to see their father. Are parents opting out of being tough with teenagers and becoming more like friends? Dr Aric Sigman is a specialist in child health education and wrote "The Spoilt Generation: Why Restoring Authority Will Make Our Children and Society Happier". Lucy Cavendish is a journalist and author.

0730

Party leaders have clashed this week over the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. David Cameron has pledged funding and Navy support to curb the flow and rescue those attempting to reach Italy, but for the Green Party, it does not go far enough. Patrick Harvie is co-convener of the Scottish Greens and Glasgow MSPs.

0740

Twenty years ago this weekend a field just off the M4 motorway in Oxfordshire was transformed into a shopping outlet and opened its doors as Bicester Village. The man behind this US-style shopping experience is an American, Scott Malkin, whose family owned the Empire State Building. Louise Cooper is a financial analyst.

0750

Further analysis of the Gallipoli centenary celebrations (see 0710). Catherine Constance’s father fought at Gallipoli, she’s travelled from Australia to London to be part of the commemorations.

0810

Labour says income from private patients earned by leading hospitals in England has increased by more than half since 2010 at a time when performance in some NHS services has deteriorated.Β  The party is now proposing a cap for hospitals on earnings from private services. The Conservatives said private work had increased less rapidly than overall demand for care from the NHS. Hugh Pym is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Health Editor.

0815

HSBC has said it is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK. The bank said the review followed "regulatory and structural reforms" since the financial crisis, mentioning ring-fencing in particular. Baroness Patience Wheatcroft is former editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe and a former board member of Barclays. Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times and served on the Vickers Commission on Banking Reform.

0820

Fish have become the prop of choice in this election. Nick Clegg posed with a cod in Cornwall, Boris Johnson and Ed Miliband have been snapped in chippies, while Nigel Farage visited Grimsby docks. But in many traditional coastal fishing communities, the industry is facing collapse.Β  Fishermen with smaller boats complain the current fish quotas are weighted heavily in favour of large corporations and they aren't allowed to catch enough to survive. All the parties accept the quota given to the 'inshore fishermen' needs to change. Claire Marshall is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Environment correspondent and reports from the marginal seat of Hastings and Rye as part of our visits to 100 constituencies.

0840

Ed Miliband yesterday accused David Cameron and other world leaders of failing to stand by Libya after ousting Colonel Gaddafi from power in 2011, which he said had contributed in part to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. Setting out his foreign policy priorities, he said the UK had repeated the same mistakes in post-conflict planning for Libya as were made in Iraq and the chaos in the country could have been anticipated. Sir John Jenkins is a former UK Special Representative to the Libyan National Transitional Council and former British Ambassador to Libya. General Sir Richard Shirreff was NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander when the Arab League and the UN imposed a no fly zone over Libya.

0845

An exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert museum in London today looks at the changing definition of luxury.Β  Items were once valued by how much they cost or how long they took to make - but is this still the case? Has our view of luxury changed over history? Are time and space now considered Β β€œnew” luxuries? And what might we value most in the future? Jana Scholze is co-curator of the exhibition. Benita Matofska is the founder of The People who Share which is a campaign whose aim is to build a sharing economy.Β 

0850

There’s been a bit of tabloid frenzy in recent days over laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, something increasingly popular with young people and sometimes called 'hippy crack'. It's not illegal, but is it dangerous, and are our footballers encouraging it? Matthew Price is the Today Programme’s chief correspondent.

All subject to change.

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  • Sat 25 Apr 2015 07:00