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0609 | Robert Mugabe willÌýnot be at the Commonwealth summit in Nigeria this week. Our correspondent in Southern Africa is Alistair Leithead. | |
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0609 | The biggest civil service union say that up to 100,000 of its members make take industrial action next year. Stephen Cape is our Labour Affairs correspondent. | |
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0615 | Rebecca Marston has a round-up of today's business news. | |
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0630 | The Independent Audit Commission says part of the reason for this year's record council tax increases is because of a flaw in the system of funding local government. John Andrew has more. | |
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0634 | There's yet more worrying news for women who want to take Hormone Replacement Therapy. Our health correspondent is Adam Brimelow. | |
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0641 | The man arrested by anti-terrorist officers in Gloucester last weekÌýwill beÌýappearing in court later today. Neil Bennett, our crime correspondent, is following the case. | |
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0643 | The World Press Review comes from Frances Kennedy in Rome. | |
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0645 | The Chairman of the Inland Revenue, Sir Nicholas Montague, has admitted that problems with paying out new tax credits have "severely dented" public confidence in the tax man. Our parliamentary correspondent Sean Curran has more details. | |
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0650 | The Queen begins her visit to Nigeria today. She will be going to a market to meet ordinary people ... except that they won't be ordinary people they'll all be actors.ÌýOur correspondent Peter Biles is there. | |
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0655 | A projectÌýto make it easier to pick faces from the crowd on closed-circuit television pictures starts in Yorkshire today. Martin Evison explains how it works. | |
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0709 | The Audit Commission - the body that keeps a watch over the way local government works - thinks the whole the system of paying for it is fundamentally flawed. James Strachan is the Chairman of the Commission. | |
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0716 | The Lambert report - commissioned by the Treasury, publishes its findings into how co-operation between business and universities can be improved. Carl Gilleard from the Association of Graduate Recruiters and Martin Doxey runsÌýa research-funding scheme.
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0722 | Minister, Denis Macshane caused uproar when he said British Muslims had to make a choice: between supporting democracy and extreme Islamist terrorism. Now,Ìýhe has sent an apology to his local paper -Ìýhas this appeased the muslims in his South Yorkshire backyard?ÌýAndrew Hosken reports from Rotherham.
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0730 | For the first time, tables have been published with what is called an "added value" component.. taking account of the school's circumstances. So there will be two tables published this morning. Mike Baker has been to Brackenbury primary school in London. David Milliband is Schools Minister. | |
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0740 | Brian Perkins has a review of today's newspapers. | |
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0743 | If you buy a bottle of whisky labelled "pure malt" you might expect it to be a malt whisky and not a blended one. Beware. Diageo, which produces 40% of the world's whisky wants to change one of its malts - CardhuÌýto a blended product, but still callling it a "pure malt".Ìý | |
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0751 | There's a row brewing over a television drama due to be aired on Channel 5 in a couple of weeks which looks at the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccine. Does it increase the risk of aurism in children? | |
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0810 | Council tax bills have gone up and in most cases by quite a lot. In fact the average increase across England and Wales is a record 12.9% - or several times the rate of inflation. So, who's to blame? Local Government Minister, Nick Raynsford. | |
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0823 | There is a conspiracy theory out - 91Èȱ¬ Sports Personality of the Year is rigged - and Tim Henman will win.ÌýCould this be true?? | |
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0830 | Doctors have been told not to prescribe H.R.T as the first line treatment for the bone disease osteoporosis. DrÌýHamish Meldrum of the British Medical Association's GPs committee. | |
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0838 | We speak to Bill Bache, the lawyer of Angela Canning - the woman jailed for murdering her two babies. An appeal against her conviction starts today. | |
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0843 | The U.S Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld has arrived in Northern Afghanistan - and later today he's due to meet the Afghan President, Hamid Kharzai. 91Èȱ¬ correspondent Lyse Douce is in Mazar-i-Sharif. | |
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0846 | Five thousand miles east of Moscow, the port city of Vladivostok is suffering its worst water shortage in decades. Water is being rationed and doctors are warning of a possible catastrophe. Steve Rosenberg reports. | |
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0849 | The Bash Street Kids celebrate 50 glorious years. Hear from their creator, Leo Baxendale. | |
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