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05/01/2015

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 5 Jan 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

A Norwegian cargo ship has sunk off the coast of Scotland and its crew of 7 are thought to have died. Tony Redding is a spokesperson for Brise Schoffahrt, the owners of the Cemfjord cargo ship.

0710

Labour has moved to place the health service at the centre of its general election campaign with a warning that the NHS would not survive in its current form under another five years of David Cameron.  In what is being described as a "start of the race" memorandum to activists, the party's election strategy chief Douglas Alexander has called for a four-month campaign to "save the NHS" in the run-up to polling day on May 7.  Professor John Appleby is chief economist at The King's Fund.

0715

Oldham Athletic is not saying officially that it wants to sign Ched Evans, but that seems to be what the club intends.  Evans has been trying to get back into football since being released from prison after serving a sentence for rape. His old club Sheffield United wanted him back but fans and sponsors said no.  There are going to be similar pressures on Oldham. Dan Roan is our sports editor.

0720

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is currently being rebooted after a £97million refit.  It's due to re-open in March after being switched off for two years. The refit will allow particles to be fired at twice the previous speed. Scientists have already used it to uncover the elusive Higgs-Boson particle, so what should we expect to be discovered from phase two of the project when it opens later this year? Professor Dave Charlton leads one of the experiments at CERN, and Claire Lee is a physicist at CERN.

0730

Asylum seekers are being allowed into Britain without checks on possible criminal backgrounds because of a loophole in immigration policy. The 91Èȱ¬ Office has told us the policy is in line with the UNHCR Refugee Convention.  It says it does not routinely contact the country a person is seeking asylum from as this could expose them, or any family who remain in their home country, to serious risk. And that this could strengthen an asylum claim. Labour has called for an immediate review of the policy. Zoe Gardner is from Asylum Aid, a charity which works with asylum seekers. Frank Field is Labour MP for Birkenhead and the co-chair of the cross party group on balanced migration.

0740

David Cameron has revealed in an interview with the Mail on Sunday that President Obama sometimes calls him "Bro", short for ‘brother’, indicating the closeness of their relationship. The urban dictionary defines a bro as a young white American who identifies with hip hop culture. What terms of endearment are acceptable amongst modern men and what are the rules for using them? Nihal Arthanayake is a presenter on 91Èȱ¬ Asian Network. Peter Yorke is a Social Commentator and author of ‘Authenticity is a Con’.

0750

A British nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone is now in a critical condition, the London hospital treating her has said. The Royal Free Hospital said it was "sorry to announce that the condition of Pauline Cafferkey has gradually deteriorated over the past two days". Will the story of Ms Cafferkey dissuade other potential volunteers from travelling to the affected areas? Dr Oliver Johnson, from the King’s Health Partners, has been in Sierra Leone since the beginning of the outbreak.

0810

Labour has moved to place the health service at the centre of its general election campaign with a warning that the NHS would not survive in its current form under another five years of David Cameron.  In what is being described as a "start of the race" memorandum to activists, the party's election strategy chief Douglas Alexander has called for a four-month campaign to "save the NHS" in the run-up to polling day on May 7 (see 0710). Andy Burnham is the Shadow Health Secretary. Nick Robinson is our political editor.

0820

Broadchurch, ITV's acclaimed ‘whodunit’, returns to our screens on Monday. Ten million people watched the series finale of series one where the small seaside town reunited for murdered schoolboy Danny Latimer's funeral.  Why was it such a compelling watch? What will series two have in store? We speak to the crime writers Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves.

0835

A lonely spacecraft is nearing Pluto after a 3-billion-mile journey lasting almost 9 years.Nasa's New Horizons probe awoke from hibernation on December 6 and is preparing to explore the Solar System's mysterious "ninth planet", that is not quite a planet. Dr Hal Waver is a New Horizons project scientist from the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

0840

Nigeria dominates the African film industry but for the first time in nearly 3 decades a film from Ivory Coast was screened at the Cannes Film Festival last year, in what many think is a sign the Ivorian cinema is beginning to re-emerge. Tamasin Ford reports from Abidjan.

0845

A new Change4Life campaign launched today by Public Health England encourages parents to cut down the amount of sugar their children consume by making one or more simple swaps: sugary cereal to plain, ice cream to yoghurt, sweet drinks to plain. Dr Carrie Ruxton is dietician at the Breakfast Cereal Information Service. Tim Lang is professor of Food Policy at City University.

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  • Mon 5 Jan 2015 06:00