More cases of cancer than those who consumed the least on average people in the study drank around 93000000 liters of sugary drinks a day research has found that drinking about an extra 2 cans a week increase the risk of cancer by 18 percent doctors a cautious about these findings and they say more research should be carried out but they also say this is further evidence that consuming too many sugary drinks should be discouraged there are more women on the boards of footsie 100 firms than ever before according to a new study there are concerns though that some companies might just be trying to tick boxes the research from Cranfield University's School of Management suggests female board members serve the less time than men and the less likely to get promoted Professor souvenir coom is one of the report's authors the evidence does not suggest that women are not competent till they don't have the qualifications indeed in the report today we actually do analyze the background of the women and they are extremely well qualified I think that what it does point to and I should say there's a big variance here there are some companies that have a critical mass of women women are doing well at every level but there are a lot of companies where really we're still seeing what we call one and down just one woman on the board and that's it you know they're not interested in promoting her any further or promoting any more women on to the fort more ON THE STORY in a way cuts money from 515 a survey of British Social Attitudes has found We're becoming much more relaxed about sex 2 thirds of Brits now see nothing wrong with sex between 2 adults of the same gender and 3 quarters see no problem with sex before marriage Milla for Rahim is from the National Center for Social Research we think there are a number of factors that might be at play what we do know is that as a significant minority of the population who. Do you see something wrong with things like premarital sex or same sex relationships and what we know about that proportion of the population is often people who have very strong religious form part of that population they won't be the only ones but we do know that people have trouble or there's going to be less comfortable with issues such as premarital sex or fame sex relationships Well the survey also found Breck's it now plays a much more significant role in people's sense of identity than traditional party allegiances 3 quarters of the public or 74 percent describe themselves as having a very strong or a strong light and the case and with leave or well as just over a bad people and by strongly with a political party it certainly feels very nice we are finding that the leaving remain identities of forming a I don't 59 figures from you cast show a record number of young people in England have applied for university this year more than $230000.00 teenagers are looking for a place that's 40 percent of the total number leaving school and $4000.00 more than in 28 C. It follows a government review that recommended cutting tuition fees in England and finally what happened for the 1st time 160 years ago today and the idea is while his your answer. That's Big Ben probably the most famous in the country today marks 160 years since it 1st struck the hour it's also the halfway point of a huge program of restoration works which started in 2070 now with the sports his ON THE BALL Well good morning it's a big day for Morgan and the England cricket team they're looking for a place in Sunday's final of the World Cup. They get is way. Australia and England have an excellent record in recent times his correspondents Jonathan act the players I've bumped into this week simply CAN'T WAIT FOR THE going to begin it's edge Bastien all through all their stronghold and a ground where Australia haven't won a game of any type for 18 years it's true that winning the World Cup is more of a target for Morgan's men than finches simply because England haven't won it before the opening partnership of Bastow and Roy has been by far the most successful and damaging of this well Cup but in stark they'll straight into the stand out. The England skipper feels that the edge piston crowd today can be a big factor in the game I think that's partially passive holds a little bit of home advantage but it plays a part here edge person there is a reason we do have a lot of success here the wicket tends to suit us but also the supporters are what today's winners will take on New Zealand in the Lord's find at the weekend they had an 18 run success over India who skipper Virat Kohli was left heartbroken after his side's defeat to told Trafford always feels disappointed when you played such good cricket and then you know 45 minutes of back to get what you thought of the documents so it's difficult to accept it's difficult to come to terms with but look New Zealand deserve it because they put enough pressure on us and they were they were far more sharp when it came to the game to the crunch moment the New Zealand asprin Ross Taylor explained what it felt to be like just one win away from his side lifting that World Cup trophy was a fantastic effort to make the final at home but there's something extra special about doing it away from home as well I think you know I think there's a lot of nerves in the last World Cup final we had played in New Zealand the whole time and then fine across Australia we're now you know we're pretty pretty comfortable with our bus and our bus driver we had to get him on and then we just have to drive down to London tomorrow and just relax and we don't have to jump on a flight and you know use our passports today at Wimbledon is women's singles semifinals stay to the place have never got this far before to Grand Slam events the Czech Republic's Barbara stroke over will face the 7 time we wouldn't singles champion Serena Williams and Ukraine's Elina especially in a place the former world number one Simona Halep looking ahead to these matches on Center Court correspondent Russell for Williams was under the cosh of 3 all in the final set of a quarter final win of Allison risk the 3 consecutive games she reeled off and the form she showed in her mixed doubles partnership with Andy Murray have convinced many that despite little match practice this year she is once again the woman to beat it's a 1st Grand Slam semifinal for street. As well as specific Selena who faces last year's French Open champion Simona Halep the Romanian says she is learning to love the grass and has finally stopped trying to slide in the way she can on clay Roger Federer and roughen Adele will play each other for the 1st time in 11 years at Wimbledon after booking their places in tomorrow's men's singles semifinals the don't soar off Sam Querrey in straight sets and Federer was the winner in 4 sets of a Kate Nishikori federally turns 38 next month admits that a lot has changed since that 2008 final against Nadal we haven't played in each other a long long time on this surface serving way different remember back in a day how used to serve and now bigger much bigger is serving and how much faster he finishes point impressive to see. Healthy is stayed because a lot of them were saying it's the end in by 2008 similar to me you know 9 and we're still here so it's nice to to play each other again we're going through to the other semifinals defending champion Novak Djokovic and Spain's Roberto about a goot and the journey in the makes doubles for Andy Murray answering a Williams ended with a defeat in the 3rd round losing to the top seeds from memory the good news is that that hip as not caused any problems achieved a lot considering the lack of matches I think I did OK and the most positive thing is that about if my head anyway is a lot of physical work trying to get stronger really quite a long way to go in football Northern Ireland Linfield lost to militant to the Norwegian side Rosenborg in the 1st leg of the European Champions League qualifying 1st round tie Senegal and Nigeria the 1st teams through to the semifinals at the Africa Cup of Nations the vacuum peaches sang and took stage 5 on cycling's Tour de France the defending champion you're right Thomas rain 7th overall 45 seconds off the pace setter the French runner John Allen Phillipe he retained the race leader's yellow jersey looking at a state 6 hour reporter with the tour sirens. The to the mountains can be brutal in the Tour de France and they arrive early in this year's race there are 7 climbs today including the balland Alsace and the summit finish up launched a bell fi it's a finish with an added twist the organizers of helpfully added an extra kilometer at the top which includes a gradient of up to 24 percent what this means is that it's a day for the big hitters and will provide the 1st real early indication of everyone's true form there's nowhere for any overall contenders to hide here again right Thomas starts the day in 7th place ahead of most of the other G.C. Contenders but 5 seconds down on his own teammate Eggen Burnell and this weekend's British for the one Grand Prix won't be the last at Silverstone a new deal has been reached to secure the venue for the next 5 years Thanks Sandy 12 minutes past 5 wake up to money on the way past some weather now though from Thomas Africa very good morning to you it's pretty muggy out there still and there has been for a couple of days now temperatures 1st thing this morning across some southern parts of the U.K. Maybe around 16 or 17 degrees are pretty warm start to the day there's also a lot of cloud around and we've had some rain overnight so it is quite damp in places as well sort of. Way if you like so the forecast then for Thursday itself again very very muggy for all of us across the country and there's also a chance of some thunderstorms developing a little bit some later on I think through the morning we're just talking about bits and pieces of rain here and there almost anywhere in the U.K. But come the afternoon we'll start to see some storms developing across I think particularly northern and eastern Scotland around the borders through Yorkshire I'd say anywhere from around about Lincolnshire northwards especially eastern counties there is a possibility of some thunderstorms today elsewhere across the U.K. Should just about stay dry with partly cloudy skies a few sunny spells as well and it is going to be another warm day. Now yesterday we got up to $27.00 degrees in the south of the I think today probably around $25.00 or 6 it probably won't notice the difference and in the north closer to around 20 and the storms that do pro today will probably rattle or rumble or rather into the evening hours and then Friday fewer showers around I think still a risk of a thunderstorm around but the good news is that if you want say dry weather at the weekend this stage isn't looking bad at all and it should be predominantly dry so the outlook for the weekend is bad at all I'm 5 life weather and a quick look at some front pages this morning where attention is turning to who gets to pick our new man in Washington after Kim Derrick resigned over leaked e-mails Boris must choose is the Telegraph headline with allies of Boris Johnson saying he must be free to make an appointment if he becomes prime minister the Daily Mirror is less positive about Mr Johnson's role calling him the man with no shame who destroyed the diplomats career you're listening to 5 Live it's quarter past 5. Good morning Brunson's in a pickle over the pound with no relish for no deal the pound will collapse to parity with the dollar if there's a hard grapes it. Comes to money with Sean Farrington filmmaking always worth their weight Richard warns that many Virgin Group companies would be devastated in no deal situation and says Virgin Trains do still want to provide a service on the West Coast Main Line will hear more from that wide ranging interview very shortly also there are more women on boards of our biggest companies but there are concerns business is a box ticking and doing the minimum expected of them lots to talk about stay with you and some reaction to those figures we got yesterday as well yeah I was the chief D.P. Numbers we're told right yes the morning very much that be much better than expected very good news as it moved the currencies about a bit as well we'll get the latest on those and also this morning is one of. Most recognizable names in fashion design but wine Hemingway is also keen on improving access to housing around the country so we're going to be talking to him about how he wants to build better homes and communities so we'd like to hear from you this morning how would you refashion Britain's housing if you got a few estates popping up somewhere nearby. Bikie the last few weeks talking about planning permission in the in the local area to him it seems that there's attempts to build right away around the country but how would you build what would you design these buildings as 85 o 5 I get the money if you'd like to get in touch when you look at the stuff what is it we should be building and how should they look and we've got plenty to talk about this morning we've got class your senior profiler manager at C's Asset Management morning she Clare Martin 6 hikes we've got a long list of stories to get through this morning and we're going to go straight into a bit of breaking news because as the global trade war takes a new twist the American president Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into France's planned attacks on the big American tech giants Here's our North American tech correspondent David Lee for now at least France is fairly isolated there had been talks of a Europe wide digital tax like this but that fell through because of opposition from countries like Ireland that have some of these tech companies basing their European operations there France has pledged to go ahead alone implement this 3 percent tax on the revenues that tech companies make in France and the criteria for being part of this tax is that it's a tech company that owns more than $750000000.75 euros every year globally and so the American complaint is that many of those companies that fit that criteria the majority of the companies that fit that criteria for us are American companies Google Apple Facebook firms like that and so that's why America . is it's going to investigates what is happening to say whether or not as that he said that american companies are in their eyes being unfairly targeted by this new types from from sed so you got mckee donald from mixing it up again we've talked about a possible tax like that in the u.k. You know he ever really mention the hang gone the u.s. Might retaliate now the the interesting thing is the this you know the the tech jaunts of they are this is this is a you know a a trough of gul white into beat tat but we were looking 8 from a revenues point of you not from profits this is this is before you've strict out will you cos we're going to tax the revenues that's a very strong use route to be going down for a lot of us and our can understand wall the americans a bit but because they all real all american companies and klatt what's the knock on effect when all of a sudden you see what could be a huge chains like attacks on the big tech joints to their world or that you guys invested and then america's i want going to minute way mart fought back on this can yell 8 to i light the u.s. Response which was they said there were going to consider raising tired of son french why you nor cars half new agreement say kid beat each has you see and the the the section theo one which they're talking by unfair body years and t. Usa export i really does a fate a u.s. Companies i think there are only one french company actually that would be captured by this through it is definitely a disproportionate impact on on the u.s. Companies and yeah i think if what's interesting is looking at the are dial and situation is as is at earlier of as a arland projected if as e.u. White tax is there the most employee hit by and europe given and yellow of these companies are domicile they are because of the the low corporation tax interested i makes you wonder what the chances were be if the u.k. Were him we're not in the european union in the u.k. Wanted to implement a time just to attract he's come is or attack yeah either way we're which which why does it go as that would be an interest in war now another one for us to follow on why could summon east With this we will keep you posted one of the reasons why every carries on in Singapore always poised to top this everybody morning hello gentlemen how are you I'm very well thank you for a more interesting year to diary why why are you interested in me Well I think that way you live about somebody. My God yes. One person a billionaire from the U.K. Has just bought a penthouse unit next to mine. You've got some spare milk for when they move in and ration sugar. My goodness we were really totally shocked when this unfolded overnight you have a surge in Ames Dyson buying what is thought to be Singapore's biggest and most expensive penthouse flat Sean and Mickey guess how much it costs go on. $54000000.00 U.S. Dollars So a big mortgage that's not it's not a mortgage he had a pretty steady paid for it in cash you would home cash grabbers he is I'd want to stay as if I was paying the company of our own Aflac stay is yeah. Well it has 3 floors and 5 bedrooms and this Super this so-called super penthouse unit has its own swimming pool Jacuzzi room and bar facilities and a nice view of a $180.00 degree view off Singapore. View it's beautiful I always spot I always pass this area when I take the bus home. To my apartment and while it. Rested in the trial of its residents and the reason this is actually making all the U.K. Papers this morning as well the pictures of him and he looks like any penthouse apartment you might imagine would look like but as the F.T. Says you know Dar since decision to move its headquarters to Singapore as well as build a factory there to produce its 1st electric vehicle was a blow to the U.K. Says if they spoke fierce criticism from those that will positive about the European Union Q used to James of hypocrisy he was always of course in favor of the U.K. Leave in your opinion but now he's got a self a very nice Princess very nice penthouse but of course when he spoke to the media earlier this year he said the move by by the company was basically for commercial reasons and had nothing to do with bricks and according to the chief executive Jim role when he said it makes the company future proof for where we see the biggest opportunities and of course the biggest opportunities are here in Asia I mean most of the products are designed in the U.K. But manufactured in Asia on making interested I'd say wouldn't it make you how much of the $54000000.00 is when wonder if the estate agent dropped the RICO he's on his name in. The no name drops no name. No name back whatsoever and the real estate sector in Singapore which is of course one of the most expensive in the world. One little tip for you really care when you go around for the barbecue. Don't refer to these products. OK I won't if I do I might never get invited again the other side did immediately once. Habits continue let me give you an update when. He's on thank you bring in a slightly odd take. From Singapore James Dyson barring the most expensive flights in Singapore talking of billionaires British billionaires as well should we talk about Richard Branson Sir Richard Branson has told the B.B.C. No Deal Breakers it would cost the Virgin Group hundreds of millions of dollars. To a collapse in Paris and he said leaving the E.U. Without a deal would mean the group spending a lot less money in Britain and just putting their energies into other countries not the 1st time he's warned about Brecht's it he said in the past that BRACKS It is of great concern to all businesses and entrepreneurs he no longer lives in the U.K. British virginal of course he has repeatedly warned about risks to businesses about the prospect of no deal he said it would be devastating for many companies in the Virgin Group let me just give you one example Virgin Atlantic Coraline. You know the pound was 153 when. When the referendum took place the pound today is 812-2123. And the pound will collapse to parity with the dollar if there's a heart breaks it. Well all costs are in dollars maintenance plane costs you know pretty pretty well every every cost is in dollars and therefore you know the bottom line hit of that was $100000000.00 E.S.A. Heartbreaks it will result in the freight that we get from Europe that we put on Virgin Atlantic going to America just disappearing we won't we won't get any of that freight that would be another $100000000000.00 just down the drain. And I can carry on the list of no enormous list when when you look at each person company. So that's some rich Bronson's concerns about the pound under the things I sure is with this morning from sees us IT management. When you look at currencies it seems of all the predictions before the referendum when we had it the one that was most accurate most quickly was how currencies would move. Is there general thinking that the pound would head towards parity with the $1.01 for one if the U.K. Left with no deal yet certainly certainly interesting and those are poor I think it was yesterday I'm by Goldman Sachs said the hedge funds actually increase their bets nearly actually double their bets from 1200000000 to 2000000000 that the Sterling will fall and you know the currency markets are the most reactive I'm certainly as a C. Is looking certainly looking like it is heading further scythe not sure parity but as you say is certainly yes I think it is just a sterling fell to the lowest level I think is 2 years and that's the 10 2nd 2 for breaks there bars his comments in the deepening economic concerns really a Mickey Browns that you know of course if if this is going to hit these companies going to be coming out shouting about it and they you know the Virgin Group has a big impact Citi brand wise in the U.K. Yeah I'm never quite sure about the structure of Virgin Group. Runs I mean had a big stake in the Westlaw in. This country of course which I believe is now lost so he's not going to be very happy about that as to is how the business is. Always seems to be a very complicated structure Virgin Atlantic for years. Never quite sure if you know. Other partners in there so you must be a bit peeved about about the British economy but you know once you've done the deal you've done it. I'm sure will be short lived. The talk of gloom and doom is classic. American banks as exactly what it is a bay Well I mean. Quite covers lots of different areas yeah back in the 1970 S. They founded it controls a few 100 companies in fields from transport travel media services as well and then Virgin trains of course these you know I think. Ended up having half of that West Coast Main Line to Stagecoach give or take a percentage and then they didn't get the new franchise Richard Branson signed at the time for rights of reasons they did not want to take on the West Coast Main Line with one of the big ones being the pensions risk that came with it that's what the government wanted a company to take on as well he was also asked in this interview how he felt about losing the opportunity to bid for the franchise very disappointed for everybody who works the Virgin Trains. You know they've done the extraordinary job 22 years. And. You know from Virgin's point of view we've got you know thousands of challenges around the world that we'll get on and get on and doing a bit just you know sad that I think. A great company. May be coming to an end. I mean you know one thing I am working on is to see whether we can come back with open access on to the West Coast Main Line now when we're not going to be able to offer the committable but at least it will keep the Virgin Trains running. And you know we and you know we must be able to offer up an hourly service and. I think it's very more likely than not that we will actually come back. With open access if we lose the franchise interesting so we may still see the occasional Virgin train. On the West Coast Main Line Yeah I mean he's not one there to give out and one of the complaints that we all make about the trying to structure in this country is really the lack of competition for these companies because it's all done on a regional basis through franchises and it means they have complete dominance of those routes thank you for all of you on everything we talk about today many more topics to get through as well we've got Wayne Hemingway coming up live on the program to talk about how we should be designing. Building in the U.K. We've had Joe in Bradford get into it she says building modern versions of the old Victorian Edwardian terraces the have their own small garden good density but with your own bit of space stop building shoe box flats that sold off plan to foreign investors thousands of flats currently being built in Bradford where people in families want to live in houses lack of outdoor space and many new developments and bad for mental health and well being that's now what's popping up in a year and what you would do if you had the planning permission and the money and the ability to build homes near you what kind of homes would there be but lots of people would qualify as these days with a smile on your face Mickey you've got you've got big plans no I haven't but every farmer these dogs is a property developer these days especially Randy you know he just put you know homes up in a field and to be hunky dorey from about where the jobs are they're going to pay the mortgages and that was something we spoke to Nigel Wilson the Chief Legal and General chief executive about a couple of weeks ago and has the infrastructure around as well as no good just building homes if there's no bus routes or schools and all that kind of stuff that's now you thoughts as well Stephen says Well done to the French for taxing Google's revenue these firms say they have no profit and therefore by little tax shops need a level playing field or they will die he's been in touch on Twitter using the hash tag wake up to me you can do that today or you can send us a message at 5 o 5 from digital B.B.C. 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On Interstate morning surely Labor has strongly dismissed claims from former party officials who say members of Jeremy Corbin's top team tried to interfere in disciplinary processes involving anti semitism a Panorama investigation last night said concerns from people who had worked in the party's disputes Team U.S. Officials say Iranian boats have tried to stop a British oil tanker in the Arabian Gulf reports say the ships belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard withdrew after a warning from a Royal Navy warship Sir Richard Branson says a no deal breaks it would cost his companies hundreds of millions of dollars the billionaire says it would mean his business is investing more in other countries and less in Britain and a major study in France suggests drinking sugary drinks including pure fruit juice can increase the risk of cancer research has been published in the British Medical Journal doctors say more data is needed Tom now has the sports after an 11 year wait Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal will go head to head once again at Wimbledon after they became Sam Querrey respectively to secure places in tomorrow's semifinals world number one Novak Djokovic sped to a straight sets victory over Davi got and last year's winner will face Spaniard Roberto but. Who's never been this far before in a Grand Slam India out of the men's cricket will cope after New Zealand produced the bowling performance of the tournament to book their place in Sunday's final thanks to an 181 victory it's Old Trafford England and Australia will battle it out for the remaining place at best than today for commentry all 5 on a sports section the B.B.C. Sports were on air from 930 gallon Thomas was less than a 2nd behind stage when a piece is the gun on day 5 of the Tour de France the defending champion holds on to 7th overall in his 45 seconds off the yellow jersey and arsenal of condemn the unacceptable racial abuse of that's 20 year old defender Jordi Aussie to soften whilst playing on loan for the German 2nd see a side V.F.L. Beauchamp in the pre-season. Friendly. Street. British. Police country Alice reaction. On a. Very good morning to you is nearly 534 it's wake up to money with Nikki Clark I'm a show in front and it's Thursday morning the 11th of July thank you for get in touch on all topics that we're talking about today we are speaking to Wayne Hemingway of the famous fashion designer later in the program but he is on to talk to us about he's role in designing the buildings the homes that we want built around the U.K. Some interesting thoughts to come from Wayne Hemingway than we'd like your thoughts as well not just about Mickey back gardens from just texting Mickey same building to Ellington I was develop rock filmmaking by going to caravans and prefabs to maximize revenue stream you be your friend of both of those things one 0 yeah yeah yeah I'll go with needed all well and good a badge of reserve as well somebody says if you be so happy that Anyway we'll be talking about the type of homes we want built to last night interesting one from Greg from Plymouth just come in we'll mention that in a moment but we're going to get on to another story now where it's about the number of women on boards generally something we have followed now for for many years lots of people are watching it much more closely footsie 100 boards in particular 100 biggest companies listed on the stock exchange while those firms should reach the target of 33 percent by next year but there are concerns that some of the appointments being made are merely symbolic with women serving shorter terms than their male counterparts often in non-executive roles as well not exactly old. Here are more sort of. Save the companies being on them not the real people not the remuneration committee are often only sick Dorothea and these are some of the findings in a new report from crime filled University's School of Management found just one in 10 women on boards are from black Asian or the meth minority ethnic background as well so lots to discuss here we've got Dorian actually going with us who is the director of the gender leadership and inclusion Center at the university morning to you Daryn good morning. I guess 1st up is there an improvement yes certainly there is an improvement we are thrilled that we are on target T. We are on track to meet the target of 33 percent gender diversity on boards by 2020 it's going up from 29 to 30 percent this year for the Fitzy 124 to 27 percent for the Fit C T 50 so the Fitzy to 50 still has a little bit but we are we are pleased that we are on track good I mean if you going to set a target and it looks like people are going to hit it is it difficult to then criticize businesses on the back of its. Criticize businesses for Walked for the make up of how they have gone about achieving the target because it's not just this report today we've seen particularly You mention their footsie 250 and then you go 350 the smaller companies that are listed on our stock exchange and getting a bit of criticism for how they are going about maybe box checking to make the they're not official quotas but the targets that people are setting them we know from the research that the Creator diversity there is on boards the better it is for organizations in terms of innovation in terms of bottom line performance so generally speaking have in a view on the numbers of women these of the men and focusing on that really quite mindfully targeting of the diversity of boards is a good thing for businesses but what we're also saying this year is for rest for to move beyond the numbers and focus on the experiences of the women on boards and the roles they're written so that gives us additional insight into the contribution that gender diversity will bring to boards and what we found correctly is that the woman appointments a pair to be shorter in terms of tenure and women don't seem to be put into positions of significant power such as the chair positions and we're surprised that there is because there is the we expect there to be a parallel pace where we have this as I said earlier on women seemed we seem to be approaching this target of 33 percent we're making good progress and this pipeline of women any D.'s is often kind of used as a source of chair position certainly for men so the women are there the women are being appointed we are saying that they should be appointed into more powerful world interest and so even got some paper. Criticized the number of non-executive roles the being made up in in these reports that are by women and not executive roles but you'll say naturally if if men had those number of non-executive roles it would still lead to being chair of companies and that's not happening with women Correct correct so there is a more significant issue with regards the executive positions and that's when we look into the business is that we say Come on where's your type Where's your pipeline where the senior women in these businesses why they not really get into the top sitting there in match at the positions of power but in addition to that when we look at executives think about in non-executive roles we also need to understand what positions of power the women are holding on these boards a director once said to me of a company that it was he's produced 3 Jussi to make sure that anyone that was appointed to the boat was the best person for that job whatever the cradle genda. In the case of many women you have to be 100 percent committed to this job it's not like a $9.00 to $5.00 job. Is not going to hold some women back who choose to go and have a family well one of the things that we found at really was that Y.R.'s we would expect that woman who have had more career breaks coming back into boards will be. Because they've had more career breaks we would expect women to be generally older we expect mature more mature woman to be on boards we're finding that the women on average are younger than their male counterparts so that doesn't seem to hold it doesn't seem like the career breaks and a manifesting in an older age an older woman professionals are being used as a talent pool for any deep position and when you speak to women who you know are good enough for these roles but you you can see from a distance that they're not being appointed What do. I say to you as being the reasons they're not getting the roles or or even getting the interviews for the roles that they feel they should we know 11 hand and we talk about the old boys' club we've been talking about that for years we know that still many things stand we know there are inherent stereotypes about what leadership roles look like about what the commitments required are and whether people and the different assumptions about different types of people being able to step into these roles and what we would say is to the gate keeper who are involved in these decisions typically shares typically executive search for is if you look for these women they are their crime filled has for the last 10 years developed a supplement to this report are women to watch list and this woman to watch this was really developed to essentially counter the argument that these women that you know we have tried with looked around and they're not they're like No Here they are and this year we are really thrilled because we have a special focus on 50 women leading across industry academia and the 3rd sector from a range of ethnic cultural and national backgrounds to again counter there are some that it that these women aren't there they are there they just need to be acquainted and just finally before we end of this thought of the figure of one in 10 women on boards being from A B A M A background. How do you feel about that figure is that one need be satisfied with it's there's no sort of official target like the 33 percent by 2020. Correct there is no official target and what we want is that the leading industries in the U.K. Really tap into the range of talent that is in the U.K. So anything that focuses on ensuring that we move beyond the numbers to really thinking that the best of the U.K.'s diversed haven't pool is access an executive and an executive positions is what I'm up for good. Great to hear the passion behind that door and thank you very much for joining us this morning going out to well again there from the crime filled University School of Management director of Gender leadership and inclusion center there very interesting some interesting texts coming Mickey somebody suggesting why don't we Cathy like she says What are we refurbish existing houses instead of building blocks is something we will put away in any way very shortly but you got to put some of those figures that yes they make quite a surprise when it comes to the economy yeah we what we talked about G.D.P. In great depth yesterday and we were expecting weaker figures because of the fire used to leave the you on March 31st which meant that inventions have been built up prior to that and now coming off Clair Shores from Zs Asset Management in Korea was there much concern but certainly surprised these numbers it showed a believe growth of no point 3 percent followed the kind of no point 4 percent in April yet is as you say make it a figure is stronger than I think it was 0 point one percent was that was a forecast and it came in it is 0.3 So yeah it was obviously I'm better than expected but I think the headline figure play masked some interesting underlying data which was that the recovery in me was really just to the upturn and car production you know if you remember the day on your factory shutdowns or move from August it really had returned to normal levels of car production you know bestowed U.K. . D.D.P. And me but the wider picture I would say is still fairly subdued I mean services I picked which is about 80 percent of the economy remained flat and me within that financial services which is about 87 percent of U.K. Cheapie contract actually And so the sector is not seen positive growth and since I think 2017 and this is interesting as we've been talking about this morning about the week a band on the back of a new deal bricks and everything else but there are certain European countries that would you handle for these G.D.P. Numbers they have us well that's true I mean it depends it depends what you're basing off you know versus the U.S. Obviously which is which is growing you know very very strong the D.P. Doesn't look quite so good but you have versus them some countries in Europe yeah as you say the U.K. Does does look a little bit better so I say is all relative in terms of who you're benchmarking against and talking of better not to starve or not the S. And P. 500. Record high street there is this I think from Jerome Powell that we might now have a almost certainly a cut in interest rates in America before too long yeah you're right that the S. And P. M. Tech to both 30000 for the 1st time in its history I think actually die joined as well joined all time highs and this is after the Fed Chairman Powell as you see pretty much guaranteed July and that rate cut is not because someone wants one. I mean to Donald Trump has certainly been openly pushing Shelvey say the central bank to cut rates which is obviously you know drawn some criticism about he's seeking to undermine the independence of off the Fed but yet Trump is as definitely been pushing for them and just a quick one see him make up its dividend. Before too long to fund its father Bill program across the country some months I should have been doing that. Yeah this is an interesting news the committee A.G.M. Yesterday saying that it's prepared to cut its dividend which is which is quite a big yield a big it's a big holder for all of the income funds in the U.K. . To fund which could be about I think you said between 40600000000 to connect 15000000 homes for fiber by the middle of next decade they said they're going to try and are just Capek some cost savings maybe increase borrowings but really the headline number was really this potential of reducing the dividend which is which is quite a big deal given as a big holding aloft you can compress the big company quandary you please the shareholders or the cost is one of those A. Clear many things about class Sure there from Zs asset management. This is B.B.C. . 47 with a few more headlines. Labor has dismissed concerns. 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So lots of interesting suggestions from people this morning Greg in Plymouth saying what about the student housing He said many times what Plymouth had to build much new build should an accommodation some of which is now empty the bubble bursting should there not be an obligation for local authorities to take over these empty properties and use them for a much needed social housing we're talking now about how we go about building homes in the U.K. What kinds of home should we be building the design behind them we're joined by the designer Wayne Hemingway you might know him as fashion designer for a chain of stores Red or Dead he's become famous for his work as well with developers on housing around the country in places such as Gates said but Maidenhead joins us on the line now morning to you why morning the fame of the housing development stuff caught up with the fame of the fashion world just yet well it's sold 20 years ago now so if it seems like a lifetime ago and spent the last 20 years mainly doing regeneration and housing so yeah and this is what's more important than passion I mean just way way more important question how do the 2 we had one person a few people get into it so I'm still there's. Still going strong from the eighty's but one person saying how does a fashion designer end up being in the world of designing buildings. Memo I've never studied fashion we were into nightclubs and just fell into it I studied geography in town planning basically went back to where I know back to your roots right so everything over the last couple of decades when you've seen the U.K.'s property market and the struggles to achieve what everybody seems to want to achieve what do you think when you look at it now is the challenge. Well the biggest challenge obviously is affordability because we've got you know we've got now a very different generation to my generation now we've got 2 generations who have been worse off than their parents and and worse off and in one of the worst possible ways in being able to to afford to live in a day in a decent home and you know what homes are about well being more than anything else more than cars more than anything they're absolutely about about your well being and if we're negatively impacting on that we better do something about it and we've been trying so you know when I 1st went to university in 1979 that it was the same and studied and studied this very subject the same arguments not quite as strong as they are now and things obviously weren't as bad because you know obviously I was able to buy a home in London 422000 pounds in 1983 or whatever. Maybe I think it was and so things have got worse. And we've been rehearsing the same old arguments every single government same old arguments and really now I think it needs something radical and we need to start looking at some of the things that they're looking at in and in Europe and one of them is for me is really working out if we could make a land price cap So what happens basically is what you want you sign is that they don't make land anymore in this country whereas in Europe there are vast open spaces that you can develop without causing too much hassle Well there were cockamamie and you scream in this country well that there is that side of it I'm not quite set up but you are right so 1 point one percent of land in this country is given over to housing and that's less than golf courses now that puts it for me that puts it in perspective what's more important a golf course you know I'm sure to some of your listeners they'll think all golf courses are more important but they're not but the thing that I'm talking about is when it went to let's say a farmer has a land and it's worth $20000.00 pounds as a great cultural grazing land it can be a company were. Less than that it rises in the southeast so within reach of London when that becomes NET developer land for housing it rises to 2000000 pounds so that's that's you know that's a 100 times a 100 child ganglion the carrot in front of the founders really yeah and any land owner and obviously they're going to they're going to take it and there are cases around London of a list of $250.00 times now you know it's that is immoral really and and in play in Europe now in quite a few places in Germany and in Holland they're restricting it to around about 20 in some places they're doing it at 10 so if you're still getting 2020 times the amount of what something is worth you know if you if you if you're selling something on a bag for 2020 times more than you bought it you're going to be very very happy and so maybe it's the time to cut out one or 2 people making so much money because what it will lead to is that 70 percent of the cost of all our new homes are given over to the land price and that means the squeeze on quality is enormous and that means that developers. You know there that cutting down on everything on space standards on quality of build and what it's also doing it means that since 2008 when the crash happened and we lost you know we lost so many of our S.M.A. Our small medium and surprise builders and those builders are often working in local areas where and local local builders don't do stuff on their own doorstep I probably can't is the word that I would use but you probably know the phrase understood. And so we lost all of those small medium low local local builders and now they can't come back in the market because the amount of money it takes to bed the land and the amount of borrowing you need to bed for this really expensive land is holding them back so it's left to all of the big boys who are making 20. Percent return on capital employed which is a much larger return that a lesser me would would would an athame would traditionally have taken around 12 percent so you get in double the profit by a small amount of developers because they've got no competition it's something radical has to happen and I can hear your enthusiasm for the idea as I word yes to put it to put it mildly but in the idea of a cap on land prices in the U.K. Does it not feel pie in the sky to you in terms of it actually coming into play any time soon to sort the housing crisis out I don't think it is because because in the left wing report the Oliver Letwin reports so you know that's a conservative government and I think it was only in November you know he was talking about it and it's a pretty major report and it's and it's pretty fresh so I think it's that it would need absolute cross party agreement on this but I think there is cross party and agreement on well being I mean it because if you don't have cross party agreement if it's not. Bedded in law what you would get quite possibly is a phrase a lot of market phrase where people were saying well I'm not going to let my market I'm not going to let my land come to market until a new government comes in and they're going to lift this cap so that is for me that's the real danger it would mean that actually as a nation we decided that when it comes to selling land for housing there was a limit to the amount of profit that the landowner could make and as I say that would have to be every single party agreeing to it but I actually I actually think it's common sense when. There are certain things where the free market should not be allowed to to impact and that and that is on our well being and there is nothing quite like coming home from work putting you know putting your slippers on and being in a place that. You know is either yours or that you can't be kicked out of and you can just turn off from the pressures of life that's what home is about a few people get in touch. Tracey says Kent is no longer the guardian of England due to housing being built hundreds and hundreds of them losing beautiful countryside population matters needs to be addressed golf course is more important to you to be in a safe home for wildlife How do you counter those that are concerned that the beautiful areas they live in will no longer be as beautiful in the years to come I'm not talking about building housing. The greenest of green a green there are plenty of areas on the edge of town and in fell sites that that will satisfy our need 430-0000 homes a year and the thing is that. We hear this all the time generally from older people who are who are being a little bit selfish about thinking about young people and their needs we have a housing shortage but we don't we don't have to bells on the grain is the grain and as I say we have $1.00 per only 1 point one percent of the contrary it is housing but we have a shortage when we've had it for years and the System 80 there is the best part of a 1000000 homes in this country are not pupil right and look at the percentage of those you know they're on occupied and it's not all about and they're not in green fields there in towns where they are in a lot of they're in private ownership remember so what do we get so that's an a completely different. Well yeah or not allowing people to leave that are not allowing to leave their homes empty being punitive in terms of taxation for people who don't. You know Random House all of the people leaving these homes becomes leaving them on occupied so that eventually they can put in for plans of mission to have half a dozen homes built on that one so much because that seems to be a popular trend at the moment well if you look at. That but if you look at what shelter is saying that they will say that that yeah there are vast numbers of homes that could that could be lived in and you know it's very easy for the media to blame councils for that but the vast majority of private individuals and again it's that it's that we have to change the narrative for people to understand that. That we have to start thinking about people's well being and not just your own grain where you know just before we go out using your experience of selling clothes and come to market decades ago to be involved in major regeneration projects what would you do with the high street. Well it again that that's pretty obvious when we started when we started Red or Dead Red or Dead you know what we never thought we're going to we had 23 shots what we never called it a chain of shops it was a place where you went to experience club culture you went in there to find out about we we always had the latest club music playing we always it was always about which club to go out to when you when you bought it when you bought your clothes and I grew up when I grew up in Blackburn The 1st think that the main thing that you went into town for was to watch a band or go dancing or to meet a girl to meet your friends. Have a of a pyres is it black when we. And another drink and then the byproduct of that was shopping and I think you know my generation was to blame and kind of putting you know I would never use the word High Street because I associate that with shop with just pure retail and the idea that shopping as a leisure function for our town centers is the main thing was just an aberration and now I think we're going back and again a new generation is sensible and we're going back to our town centers being social spaces where we dance we drink we we meet friends and we meet our future future partner and all that makes us happy that we might spend a bit of money on clothes and stuff while Wayne next time you're out for a night out in black and Soul Food will very happily join you down the road Thank you for joining us this morning and wake up to many women having where they're talking about what we should do to build our homes a little bit better in the U.K. Thank you for everybody's got in touch as well that's it from Wake up to me breakfast Up next thank you very much to sure all the team Good morning everyone Thursday the 11th of July and the time is 6 o'clock. 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