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16/06/2017

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

3 hours

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Fri 16 Jun 2017 06:00

Today's running order


0650

Police have said that some of the dead from the devastating blaze that destroyed a tower block in London may never be identified as officers warned that the painful process of retrieving the victims could take months. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Sanchia Berg reports and Peter Vanezis is professor of Forensic Medical Sciences at Barts and the London.

0710

Who is to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire? The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Matthew Price reports. Mark Prisk was Conservative housing minister during the coalition.

0715

British security officials say they believe hackers in North Korea were behind the cyber-attack that crippled parts of the NHS last month, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has learned. Gordon Corera is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s security correspondent.Β 

0720

HSBC is announcing a Β£10bn fund to assist UK small and medium-sized businesses. Ian Stuart is UK CEO of HSBC.

0725

This year’s prestigious Orwell Prize for political writing has been awarded to John Bew, author of Citizen Clem. We speak live to Mr Bew.

0730

The Lakanal House fire in a south London block of flats in 2009 led to a series of recommendations from the coroner who conducted the inquest. Were these recommendations followed up and would they have made a difference at the Grenfell Tower? Sam Webb is a retired architect who investigated Lakanal House.

0740

What is it about some cinemas that leave a lasting impression? The Plaza in Port Talbot, south Wales, is so well known Radio 4 has made a documentary about it starring Michael Sheen. John Humphrys has been speaking to Mr Sheen.

0750

A City of London event in which the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, was due to give a key speech on Brexit has been cancelled following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. George Parker is political editor at the Financial Times and Katya Adler is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Europe editor.

0810

As sadness turns to anger, questions are being raised of who is to blame for the disaster at Grenfell Tower and how weΒ canΒ stop it happening again. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Matthew Price reports and Sajid Javid is communities secretary.

0835

Brexit negotiations begin on Monday. The Roman Empire lasted for 500 years - what lessons could the EU learn from the Romans? Bijan Omrani is author of Caesar’s Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul.

0840

In a landmark study, Chinese scientists have reported the successful transmission of entangled photons between suborbital space and Earth. Brian Clegg is author of The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon.

0845

There is growing impatience in Europe about how slow and opaque the Brexit negotiations seem. It's a striking contrast with the euphoria felt in Brussels on the day Ted Heath signed the agreements that took the UK into the common market at the end of January 1972. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Europe correspondent Kevin Connolly reports.

0850

What does a fire like this tell us about inequality in the capital? Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist and Simon Jenkins is an Evening Standard columnist.

0855

How do you run a successful public inquiry? Barrister Nicholas Griffin worked on the Bloody Sunday, Undercover Policing and Child Abuse inquiries.


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  • Fri 16 Jun 2017 06:00