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24/02/2016

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 24 Feb 2016 06:00

Today's running order

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0650

A report by the national deafblind charity, Sense, chaired by Lord Blunkett, has revealed the problems faced by disabled children in accessing play areas. Lesley Rogers is a mum of eight-year-old Ruby, who is deafblind. She co-chaired the inquiry alongside Lord Blunkett.

0655

Britain is setting a "dangerous precedent" to the world by "undermining" human rights, Amnesty International has claimed in its annual report on the state of the world’s human rights, published on Wednesday. Kate Allen is director of Amnesty International UK.

0710

Specialist teams have been searching throughout the night forÌýthree missing people after part of a building collapsed at Didcot AÌýPower Station in Oxfordshire. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Sima Kotecha reports.

0715

Chocolate maker Mars have ordered a recall of chocolate products in 55 countries after a customer in Germany found bits of plastic in a Snickers bar in January. Vince Shiers is managing director of RQA Group. He specialises in product recall and crisis management.

0720

A trail of emails seen exclusively by the Â鶹ԼÅÄ shows Whitehall officials attempted to cover up the fact that the Health Secretary had seen a sensitive study into weekend deaths at least two months before it was peer reviewed and published. Hugh Pym is the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Health editor.

0725

The Brit Awards have come a long way since the first ceremony in 1977 - it was a formal affair back then - hosted by Michael Aspel in a dinner jacket. Tonight the O2 arena will be packed for the show which now attracts international stars like Rihanna and Justin Beiber. We asked Radio 1's Huw Stephens to talk us through this year's nominees.

0740

We spend £713m a year on pork sausages - but how has the humble British banger been changed by the European Union? In the run up to the referendum, we're going to look at ten everyday objects - and the impact or otherwise that EU membership has had on them - The EU in Ten Objects. First is the sausage. Matthew Price is Today’s chief correspondent.

0750

One person has died and three people are missing following the collapse of a building at Didcot A Power Station. Ed Byard runs Didcot Power Station and Mark Anthony is editor of Demolition News.

0810

What will the EU referendum mean for the UK, and for Europe more widely? Sarah Montague has been speaking to Martin Schulz, president of the European parliament

0820

The father of 27-year old Ryan Myers, who took his own life after getting into debt because of his gambling addiction has called for a ban on fixed-odds betting terminals - touch screen machines found in betting shops across the UK. Speaking live on the programme is Ryan's father John Myers.

0830

The Queen's former doctor has called for an urgent public enquiry into drugs firms’ ‘murky’ practices. Dr Aseem Malhotra is a consultant cardiologist and Professor Sir Robert Lechler is president of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

0835

Three years ago Londonderry in Northern Ireland became the UK's first city of culture. Next year Hull will become the second. But what about the third - scheduled for 2021? In the first of an occasional series profiling the contenders, Nick Higham went to Paisley, south-west of Glasgow.

0840

A 34-year-old researcher from London spent the six days last year as a goat and challenged himself to cross the Alps. Speaking live in the studio is Thomas Thwaites, author of GoatMan – How I Took A Holiday From Being Human.

0850

Widely shared pictures across social media of children severely ill with meningitis have shocked people and caused them to act. Speaking live on the programme is Sophie Batterbury, head of Pictures, Independent Newspapers and Alan Sparrow, chair of the UK Picture Editors’ Guild.

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  • Wed 24 Feb 2016 06:00