29/11/2016
Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
A wheelchair dancer is taking legal action against a company whose staff banned him from taking part in an event last year claiming his wheelchair had damaged the dancefloor. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman reports
0655
The Royal Society of Pharmacists says pharmacists should be allowed to prescribe medication for people with long-term conditions in order to ease the overwhelming demand facing the NHS. Sandra Gidley is chair of the Royal Society of Pharmacists in England.
0710
Today the government will publish its proposals for tackling what it sees as corporate excess, including measures to curb executive pay, plans to force companies to reveal the pay gap between the head of the company and average workers, and whether workers should have a say on the earnings of their bosses. Frances OβGrady is general secretary of the Trades Union Congress and Tom Gosling is a partner at Price Waterhouse Cooper and one of a group of business leaders who've been looking into these issues.
0715
The regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is launching a call for evidence and feedback regarding high-cost credit. Todayβs business presenter Dominic O'Connell speaks to Andrew Bailey, CEO of the FCA.
0720
This afternoon South Africaβs ruling African National Congress will announce the outcome of a motion by the partyβs leaders to remove President Jacob Zuma. Andrew Feinstein is a former ANC MP and member of Corruption Watch UK.
0725
If Zac Goldsmith is re-elected as an MP having resigned over Heathrow, he will sit as an independent, but a pretty supportive one for Theresa May. If he loses, getting difficult votes through the Commons will be even harder. Todayβs Ross Hawkins reports.
0740
Sotheby's is auctioning what they claim to be an original Beethoven manuscript - of Allegretto in B Minor β later today. But Beethoven expert Barry Cooper, of Manchester University, claims that the manuscript being sold is not an original, but a copyistβs transcription. Simon Maguire, head of Musical Manuscripts at Sotheby's, has strongly disputed Cooper's claim.
0750
What does the election of Paul Nuttall, UKIP's new leader, mean for Labour? Stephen Kinnock is Labour MP for Aberavon.
0810
Today the government will publish its proposals for tackling what it sees as corporate excess. John Pienaar is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs deputy political editor and Greg Clark is secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy.
0820
Fish donβt have a reputation for being particularly clever animals. But the scientist Jonathan Balcombe argues in his new book that fish are often incredibly intelligent creatures, with consciences and the capacity to feel pain. Mr Balcombe is director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy and author of What a Fish Knows.
0830
Syrian rebels in eastern Aleppo say they've pulled back to a more defensible front line after pro-government forces drove them out of northern neighbourhoods in the divided city. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Mike Thomson reports and Dominic Graham is the Syria response director for Mercy Corps, one the largest organisations working inside Syria.Β
0840
New research presented at the UK Stroke Forum in Liverpool today will show that mechanical thrombectomy (clot retrieval) is a more effective treatment than the current use of clot-busting drugs for strokes. Charlotte Smith was eight months pregnant when she needed a mechanical thrombectomy and Gary Ford is a consultant stroke physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
0850
The government has failed to endorse any proposals that had βreal teethβ when tackling the sexual abuse and bullying of girls in school, according to the chair of the Woman and Equalities Committee Maria Miller.
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