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Asda is currently facing an equal pay claim brought by up to 6,000, mainly female shop floor workers, and on Friday four women from Sainsbury’s shop floors took a claim to a preliminary hearing of an employment tribunal. Both rest on the assertion that female dominated shop floor jobs are of equal value to higher-paid jobs in male-dominated distribution centres. So what is the significance of these equal pay cases? To discuss, Jane is joined by Sarah Veale, Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC.

Public Health England are launching their second a nationwide ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaign aimed at raising awareness of breast cancer in women aged 70 and over. 1 in 3 diagnosed breast cancer cases are in women aged 70 or over - that’s around 13,400 women each year.  Jane speaks to Baroness Delyth Morgan, Chief Executive of , and Dr Jenny Harries, Public Health England's Regional Director for the South of England about what older women need to know about their breast cancer risk, and how effectively this is being communicated.

Find more information about the risk of breast cancer for the over 70s .

Bestselling children’s author, , has sold over a million copies of her Tom Gates series in the UK and the books have been translated into 36 languages.. The first one was published in 2011 and since then Liz has produced seven more plus a Tom Gates annual.  Her most recent title is Yes! No. (Maybe).  A new book is coming in October. Liz talks about her career as a writer and illustrator and how the Tom Gates books came about.

As the  celebrates its 150th Anniversary Jane Garvey talks to Major Anne Read their Director of Anti-Trafficking and Modern Slavery about her work, the work the Army  does with women and how it’s evolved since its foundation.