You got to say . Everybody is welcome. Your phone or needs you. Get in touch. Text and call. The Text Messages are coming in already. Now the news. Former top Civil Servant at the Department For Education says the budget for repairing schools with failing concrete was halved. Jonathan slater said it was frustrating that funding was only given a50 schools after a by rishi sunak. The government says it will do whatever it takes to fix the problem. Keir starmer is expected to reshuffle his cabinet today, although most senior roles will be unchanged. Former Civil Servant sue gray is set to begin her role as chief of staff. The First Supplies of the weight loss jab wegovy is arriving in the uk. It will be available via weight loss management clinics. And huddersfield and Manchester Victoria are the Railway Stations in britain with the highest rates of cancelled trains this year. Network rail says it is working with Train Operators to make improvements. The state of our schools, and as i sai
Is a pretty crucial question at the heart of this which is was the government taking concerns about this concrete seriously enough . And what we found out this morning which i think will be really tricky for the government is that ministers were told some years ago that more money was needed to deal with some of these building defects. Considerable increases in can in funding was needed, in fact the opposite happened and funding was reduced and rishi sunak was the chancellor at the time so undoubtedly Prime Minister will be asked whether he took these very seriously enough, whether one of the problem is that is now being faced is that there was not enough funding in the first place. I suppose there is a broader political question at this going to be asked which is has the government Austerity Drive which of course was quite a long time ago now but also some of the ramifications of that, the of that, how is that i had an impact as well . There will be many Opposition Politicians who qui
Of Nagorno Karabakh. Armenian separatist Officials Say almost 300 people have been admitted to hospitals, with dozens in a critical condition. The blast, the cause of which is not known, came as thousands of Ethnic Armenians flee the contested enclave after it was seized by azerbaijan last week. Armenia says more than 13,000 people, 19,000. Or about 15 of the territorys population, have crossed the border, fearing persecution and Ethnic Cleansing. Envoys from armenia and azerbaijan are in brussels for eu backed talks. Its the first such meeting between the countries since azerbaijan seized the enclave. Nagorno karabakh is at the heart of one of the worlds longest running territorial and ethnic conflicts. Its recognised internationally as part of azerbaijan, but has been controlled by Ethnic Armenians for three decades. The head of the us agency for International Development said the us would provide 11. 5 million in humanitarian assistance and called for the International Community to
wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister and a dear friend to so many people. she died 11 months ago tomorrow. her death has left an un fillable hole in all of our lives. today, the coroners s conclusion validate what our family has known all along coroners s conclusion validate what ourfamily has known all along high say that ruth took her own life as the direct result of the process, outcome and consequences of an ofsted inspection of the school she led and loved. caversham primary school. the inquest into ruth s death has shown the brutal inhumanity of the system of the ofsted inspections. ofsted likes to judge people with a single word labels. we could judge the current ofsted system with our own labels. callous, perverse, inhumane. ruth s death and this inquest have laid bare the imbalance of power that exists in our education system. schools and teachers should be accountable to the families and communities they serve. ruth of all people understood this. she was let down by