01/07/2015
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
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Boris Johnson: Heathrow third runway "won't happen"
Duration: 01:10
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0650
A level 3 heatwave warning, the highest, is expected to be issued for the UK today as temperatures in many parts of England hit the low- to-mid thirties Celsius. Scotland could see highs of 28. Professor James Goodwin is head of research at Age UK and academic expert in the influence of temperature on older people.
0710
Sir Howard Davies releases his report outlining recommendations for airport expansion in the south-east: a third runway at Heathrow or a second at Gatwick are two of the options on the table. There's also a third proposal: an independent plan to lengthen the northern runway at Heathrow. 'Boris Island', the proposal for an island airport in the Thames, has been rejected. Once the Commission delivers its final report to the Government, the decision on what to do next is expected to be taken in the autumn. Sir Howard Davies if chairman of the Airports Commission.
0720
England’s Women’s football team face Japan in Edmonton late this evening. The Lionesses are the first English team to reach a World Cup semi-final since 1990. To capitalise on the current level of interest in women’s football the FA has launched a campaign called #WeCanPlay, encouraging young girls to pursue their interest in sport. Annie Zaidi is the youth engagement coach at Leicester City Football Club.
0725
The first RAF flight carrying the bodies of Britons killed in the Tunisian beach massacre will arrive at Brize Norton today. Seifeddine Rezgui, the Tunisian man who killed 38 people at the beach resort of Sousse, is thought to have been trained in Libya, security sources say. Richard Galpin reports.
0730
Mishal Husain takes a look at the UN’s millennium development goals and the effect they have had in Bangladesh.
0740
Sir Howard Davies releases his report outlining recommendations for airport expansion in the south-east: a third runway at Heathrow or a second at Gatwick are two of the options on the table. There's also a third proposal: an independent plan to lengthen the northern runway at Heathrow. We hear the latest.
0750
Greece's bailout programme has expired. Last minute requests by Athens for an extension were rejected by its international creditors. Greece has also become the first developed country to default on a loan repayment to the International Monetary Fund, failing to pay back 1.6bn euros. It's now formally in arrears. The move has increased fears that the country will be forced to leave the Eurozone. Eurozone finance ministers have rejected a last minute attempt by the Greek government to extend its current international bailout. Pier Carlo Padoan is Italian finance minister.
0810
Sir Howard Davies releases his report outlining recommendations for airport expansion in the south-east: a third runway at Heathrow or a second at Gatwick are two of the options on the table. There's also a third proposal: an independent plan to lengthen the northern runway at Heathrow. Kamal Ahmed is our business editor. John Holland-Kaye is chief executive at Heathrow. Boris Johnson is London mayor.
0825
A level 3 heatwave warning, the highest, is expected to be issued for the UK today as temperatures in many parts of England hit the low- to-mid thirties Celsius. Carol Kirkwood reports from Wimbledon.
0840
Sir Howard Davies releases his report outlining recommendations for airport expansion in the south-east: a third runway at Heathrow or a second at Gatwick are two of the options on the table. There's also a third proposal: an independent plan to lengthen the northern runway at Heathrow. Zoe Conway reports from Gatwick. Stewart Wingate is chief executive at Gatwick.
0845
Today will be full of bright sunshine, with temperatures predicted of around 35 degrees. Not a great day to go to work, so why bother? Beth Mcleod has been talking to residents of Bath about pulling the perfect sickie.
0850
Greece's bailout programme has expired. Last minute requests by Athens for an extension were rejected by its international creditors. Simon Johnson is a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and is former chief economist of IMF.
0855
The playwright Owen Sheers, who has never served in the military, has nonetheless been described as the war poet of his generation, standing alongside the likes of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. We speak to Mr Sheers and to Ed Poynter, who wrote poetry while he was serving as an officer in the British army in Afghanistan.
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