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25/07/2015

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 25 Jul 2015 07:00

Today's running order

0710

Passengers trying to cross the channel are once again facing disruption as services are suspended due to "migrant activity" in Calais. Eurotunnel has suspended services on both sides of the channel. We hear from Matthew Balfour, cabinet member for transport and environment at Kent County Council.

0715

President Obama is due to open a business summit in Nairobi today. Karen Allen reports.

0720

The qualifying draw for the 2018 Russia World Cup is due to take place later today in St Petersburg. Russia's president Vladimir Putin and Fifa's leader Sepp Blatter are both due to give speeches before the draw is conducted. Richard Conway reports.

0725

On Wednesday a YouGov poll for the Times suggested Jeremy Corbyn was leading the race to become the next Labour leader. We speak to Peter Kellner, the president of YouGov, about the reliability of polls.

0730

After the Queen’s Speech included plans to ban psychoactive drugs, so-called ‘legal highs’, Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee says it will hold a short inquiry into the impact this will have. We speak to Michael Evans-Brown, scientific analyst from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

0740

Greece has become Europe's front line for vast numbers of migrants from Eastern Europe and North Africa. From Athens, our Europe Correspondent Chris Morris reports.

0750

Yesterday the government announced it was to scrap funding for the Green Deal, spelling the end for its flagship energy household efficiency programme. Richard Howard is head of centre-right think tank Energy and Environment, Policy Exchange. Ed Davey is former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

0810

Passengers trying to cross the channel are once again facing disruption as services are suspended due to "migrant activity" in Calais. Eurotunnel has suspended services on both sides of the channel. Damian Green is Conservative MP for Ashford. Jean-Marc Puissesseau is president of the Cote d’Opal Chamber of Commerce, which runs the Port of Calais.

0820

For three hundred years, the choirs of Worcester, Hereford and Gloucester Cathedrals have been holding a summer festival of music. We speak to Sir Andrew Davis, who is conducting at the festival.

0825

There's to be a big tax crackdown on online sellers on sites such as Ebay. Paul Lewis presenter of Radio 4's Moneybox programme.

0830

Buckinghamshire County Council has apologised to the two victims of the Aylesbury sex ring for "letting them down", admitting that indications had "probably" been there. David Johnston has been director for children's services at Buckinghamshire County Council since 2014.

0840

It’s been a difficult week for the Labour Party, and for the prospective candidates who hope to lead it. We hear from leadership candidate Liz Kendall.

0850

Last night Disney’s new film Inside Out was released. The film is about a young girl called Riley who is a happy, hockey-loving 11-year-old, but her world turns upside-down when she moves to San Francisco. Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, from University College London, tells us how accurately the film reflects the emotions that a young child moving into adolescence goes through.

All subject to change.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Jul 2015 07:00