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02/09/2016

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 2 Sep 2016 06:00

Today's running order

All subject to change

0653

Almost a third of dogs checked at random across the UK were found to be carrying a tick, researchers say. Richard Wall is the professor of zoology at Bristol University who led the study.

0709

Medical leaders have indicated they are seriously concerned about the latest strikes planned by junior doctors in England. Nigel Edwards is the chief executive of the Nuffield Trust.

0713

The University of Oxford's intake of students this year will have the highest proportion of pupils from state schools for more than 40 years. Professor Les Ebdon is the director of Fair Access to Higher Education.

0720

Latest research shows that people who live in areas where a lot of coal was being used to heat their homes are almost twice as likely to die from respiratory diseases compared with cleaner areas. Professor Stephen Holgate is from the European respiratory society science council chair.

0731

Campaigners say they have identified almost 400 refugee children living in the Calais 'jungle' who are eligible to come to the UK.Β  Paul Carter is the Conservative leader of Kent County Council and Lord Dubs is the Labour peer and long-time campaigner for refugees.

0742

An unmanned rocket operated by the private company SpaceX exploded during a routine test at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Josh Barker is the National Space Centre’s education presenter in Leicester.

0750

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will launch an "autumn of independence" campaign later today. Tommy Sheppard is the SNP MP for Edinburgh East and one of the candidates for the party’s deputy leadership.

0810

More on the splits in the medical profession over the planned strikes by junior doctors. Professor Neena Modi is theΒ president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Stephen Dorrell is theΒ chairman of the NHS Confederation.

0819

The opening film of this year’s Venice Film Festival is the romantic musical La La Land. Does this film herald the rebirth of the golden age of the MGM musical? David Benedict is the former London critic for Variety and writing a biography of Stephen Sondheim, and Kate Muir is the chief film critic of The Times.

0831

The government has announced a Β£20m package to β€œget to grips” with delays and disruption to services run by Southern Rail. Will it work? Sir Malcolm Rifkind is the former transport secretary of British Rail and Paul Plummer is the chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group.

0840

Scientists say more than two and a half billion people around the world live in areas that may be vulnerable to outbreaks of Zika, according to new research. Dr Oliver Brady is co-author of the study.

0848

It's been a year since Angela Merkel first opened Germany's doors to hundreds of thousands of refugees. Jenny Hill reports.

0852

2015 and 2014 summers in the UK were the hottest years since records began, and we are on track to break that record again in 2016. Professor Hazel Rymer is a Volcanologist and Dr David Higgins is associate professor in English literature at the University of Leeds.

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  • Fri 2 Sep 2016 06:00