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23/06/2017

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

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Fri 23 Jun 2017 06:00

Today's running order

0650

On yesterday’s programme, Channel 4’s news presenter Jon Snow described student tuition fees as a "terrible disincentive” and favourable the richer student. Have tuition fees proved to be a disincentive for poorer students? Professor Les Ebdon is director of Fair Access to Education.

0652

Glastonbury Festival starts in earnest. Although many have been camping since Wednesday, the main stages officially open up today. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Gemma Cairney reports.

0709

The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ has learned that Premier Inn is "extremely concerned" about cladding on three of its hotels. Lawrence Waterman is the former head of health and safety at the London Olympics.

0720

EU leaders agreed on Thursday that the post-Brexit locations of key bank and medical agencies which are currently based in London would be decided by November. Elizabeth Kuiper is the director of European Affairs at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Association.

0730

About three million EU citizens living in the UK may be allowed to stay after Brexit, Theresa May has proposed. Maria Demertzis is the deputy director at the Brussels-based economic think tank Bruegel and Anne-Laure Donskoy is founding member of the 3million - the grassroots organisation set up to lobby the government to protect the rights of EU citizens living in the UK.

0740

Woody Allen is famous for being a filmmaker but he has also been part of the New Orleans Jazz Band for 35 years in which he plays the clarinet. They will be performing a one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall next month.

0750

Police in England and Wales would struggle to deal with riots on the scale of 2011 due to budget cuts, an officer who oversees funding has said. Dave Thompson is chief constable of West Midlands Police and the finance lead for the National Police Chiefs’ Council.

0810

Theresa May delivered a short speech at the EU summit on yesterday which made clear the points she would like to negotiate in the coming months.Μύ Justin Webb reports from Brussels. Laura Kuenssburg is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s political editor.

0820

New research shows that how birds fly is determined by the shape of their eggs. Dr Joe Tobias is senior study author and senior lecturer in biodiversity at Imperial College London.

0830

Bank of England's chief economist Andy Haldane has said falling union membership, flexible working hours, and the rise of the "gig economy", which dubs workers self-employed, appear to mark a return to the labour market of the past. Margaret Prosser is the former president of the TUC.

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0840

The British and Irish Lions rugby team are currently touring New Zealand in the hope of winning a series for the first time in 46 years. Todd Blackadder is former All Black rugby captain, Ugo Monye is former Lions player.

0850

Alan Moorehead's The Desert War is being re-published 75 years after the Battles forΜύEl Alamein in July and October 1942. Moorehead covered the desert campaign which is one of the epic stories of WW2 largely thanks to his account. Professor Richard Overy has written a new introduction to the book.

0855

How has Theresa May faired at her first Brexit summit since reducing her majority? Eszter Zalan is a journalist with the EU Observer, Efi Koutsokosta is a journalist at Euronews and Alex Barker is the Brussels bureau chief and the Financial Times.

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  • Fri 23 Jun 2017 06:00