15/06/2017
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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Politics, elections, Donald Trump and Pokemon Go are just some of the events, people, and subjects that influence British children’s creativity and use of language, says a report published today by Oxford University Press. Vineeta Gupta is head of Children’s Dictionaries at Oxford University Press.
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Twelve people have died in yesterday's west London tower block fire and the number of deaths is expected to rise, police have said. Russ Timpson is a former firefighter and is secretary of the Tall Buildings Fire Safety Network.
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What action can the government take to avoid disasters like the west London fire in the future? The Green party's Sian Berry chairs the London assembly housing committee.
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Before the election there were reports the chancellor was facing the sack. But with Theresa May weakened, Philip Hammond has a stronger hand and he wants to use it to push the economy to the top of the Brexit priorities. Kamal Ahmed is the Â鶹Éç’s economics editor.
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Tim Farron has resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats, saying he wasn't able to reconcile his Christian faith with the demands of leading a "progressive" liberal party. Sir Simon Hughes is former deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats and a friend of Mr Farron since university.
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Last night, the US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said "we are not winning in Afghanistan right now" and overnight, the US President said from now on the Pentagon would be able to set troop numbers. Kim Hughes is the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. In one six-month tour in Afghanistan he defused 119 explosive devices.
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How are those left homeless by the west London fire being helped? The Â鶹Éç’s Sangita Myska reports and Pastor Derek Wilson is from the Tabernacle Christian Centre, which was one of the places inundated with donations for people who had lost everything in the fire.
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For hundreds of years it was believed within the scientific community that women were the ‘inferior’ sex. But a new book aims to illuminate how deeply sexist notions have been woven into scientific research and are still being perpetuated today. Angela Saini is author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story.
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A report into claims of bullying within the Great Britain cycling team has criticised British Cycling's board, former technical director Shane Sutton and funding agency UK Sport. Julie Harrington is CEO of British Cycling.
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Twelve people have died in yesterday's west London tower block fire and the number of deaths is expected to rise, police have said. The Â鶹Éç’s Matthew Price reports and Roy Wilsher is chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council.
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How should we respond to newcomers arriving on our shores? In a new programme, broadcaster and journalist Ian Hislop sets out to explore the rich history that lies at the heart of our conflicted attitudes to immigration today.
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Today is Â鶹Éç Music Day. The poet Tony Walsh has composed a special poem on the theme of the power of music.
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Has outgoing Lib Dem leader Tim Farron been unfairly hounded out of the role because of his religion? Tim Montgomerie is a columnist and blogger for Conservative Home and Andrew Copson is chief executive of Humanists UK.
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This week the film Destination Unknown is released, a documentary that mixes testimony and archive to tell the stories of 12 Holocaust survivors who hid, fought as partisans, and endured concentration camps. Ed Mosberg, 92, is the film’s central character. He was in the Kraków-Płaszow and Mauthausen concentration camps.
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Does the tragedy at Grenfell Tower spell the end of high rise social housing? Oliver Wainwright is an architecture and design critic and writer for the Guardian.
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