23/02/2017
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0650
Mishal Husain is in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, ahead of next week's elections to the assembly. Its 12 miles from Enniskillen to the Irish border and many firms depend on goods, staff and customers from both sides. Shane Wilson is president of the Lisnaskea chamber of commerce.
0655
The government’s being asked to prove it won’t breach laws on climate change and pollution to justify the Heathrow expansion. Mary Creagh is a Labour MP and chair of the environmental audit committee.
0710
In the Prisons and Courts Bill unveiled today, Prisons will be expected to reform criminals as well as punish them. Peter Dawson is the director of the Prison Reform Trust.
0715
The Met Office says that since we started naming storms in October 2015, we have become more engaged and therefore more prepared. Helen Chivers is a meteorologist at the Met Office.
0720
Voters in Northern Ireland are preparing to go to the polls for the second time in less than a year. Colum Eastwood is leader of the SDLP.
0730
The government has proposed a new funding formula to allocate money to schools, after decades of campaigning by the F40 group about the gap between school budgets in the highest and lowest funded areas.  The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s education editor Branwen Jeffreys reports and Sir Michael Wilshaw is the former chief inspector of schools in England.
0740
Forensic scientists and fire investigators have found that in a new research project with 34 children tested, 80% slept through smoke detector alarms. Niamh Nic Daeid is a professor at Dundee University Forensics department and is the lead researcher on the study and Dave Coss was the fire investigator in the Philpott case.
0750
Iraqi forces are moving closer to the west of Mosul in their fight against so called Islamic State. Small numbers of IS fighters have already escaped the city. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Middle East correspondent Quentin Somerville reports.
0810
Tony Blair and senior members of his Labour government have strongly rejected criticism levelled at the former administration over the release of a British man detained at Guantanamo Bay  who went on to carry out an Islamic State suicide attack in Iraq. Cully Stimson used to work on detainee affairs at the US Department of Defence and Lord Blunkett is the former Â鶹ԼÅÄ Secretary.
0820
Mishal Husain is in Enniskillen, a place indelibly linked to the worst of Northern Ireland's troubles. We look back at what happened on that day an IRA bomb targeted the cenotaph.
0830
Sinn Fein’s leader in Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, says the upcoming elections are ‘not about orange and green’ politics but the RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive scheme) scandal. Gerry Kelly is Sinn Fein’s peace and justice spokesman.
0835
Martin Schulz, the former president of the European Parliament, is doing well in the polls a month after he announced his candidacy to be the next German Chancellor. Jenny Hill reports.
0840
Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, was caught on camera during yesterday’s PMQ’s doing a ‘dab’ dance move. What is dabbing? DJ Semtex is a Radio 1Xtra DJ and presents a hip hop show.
0850
Mishal Husain reports from Enniskillen ahead of next week's elections to the Northern Ireland assembly.
0855
Kenneth J. Arrow, described as one of the most brilliant economic minds of the 20th century and, at 51, the youngest economist ever to win a Nobel prize, died on Tuesday at his home in California. Stephanie Flanders is chief market strategist for UK and Europe at JP Morgan Asset Management.
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