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16/10/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 16 Oct 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

The SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, says she wants her party's conference in Aberdeen to be the launch pad for a third successive term in government in Scotland.

0655

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to hold talks to calm the recent surge of violence. Ìý

0710

Kevin Hyland – former head of the Met Police’s Human Trafficking Unit - has set out his two year plan to tackle slavery in the UK.

Kevin Hyland is anti-slavery Commissioner.

0715

President Obama has announced that the United States will still have troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office, a reversal of his plan to have troops out by the end of next year.

Hanif Atmar is President Ashram Gani's national security adviser in Kabul.

0720

Further analysis of SNP conference (see 0650).

0735

The case of Georgia Williams, murdered in Telford in 2013, has revealed a catastrophic failure in cooperation between police, children’s services, the local probation services and mental health authorities.

Lynette Williams is Georgia Williams’s mother.

0750

Scottish prosecutors want to interview two Libyans identified as new suspects over the Lockerbie bombing. Only one person was ever convicted of blowing up the Pan Am plane and killing 270 people in 1988.

Ken Dornstein’s brother was killed in the Lockerbie bombing.

0810

Further analysis of SNP conference (See 0650 & 0720).

Nicola Sturgeon is Leader of the Scottish National Party.

0820

Sculptor Antony Gormley has unveiled an English Heritage blue plaque to commemorate the life of the art historian E.H. Gombrich.

Sir Anthony Gormley is a British sculptor.

0830

The Hajj stampede in September which resulted in the deaths of over 700 people has prompted calls for greater scrutiny into how the Saudis run the annual pilgrimage.

Kamal Khashoggi is a Saudi Journalist and former advisor to Prince Turki Al-Faisal.

Jane Kinninmont is senior research fellow on the Middle East at Chatham House.

0840

The British Heart Foundation is launching a campaign to train thousands of students at hundreds of schools across the country in CPR.

Maureen Talbot is senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation.

0845

The new Egyptian president, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, is promising a return to stability. A key step starts this weekend with the beginning of voting to create a new parliament.

0850

The widow of the late literary giant Ted Hughes, Carol, has attacked a new biography of her late husband by Professor Jonathan Bate.

Professor Jonathan Bate is author of ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’.

0855

Further analysis of SNP conference (See 0650, 0720 & 0810).

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  • Fri 16 Oct 2015 06:00