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
Scandal later today. Between 1999 and 2015 Hundreds Of Sub Postmasters were wrongly prosecuted due to faulty software. Its the first time shell publicly speak about her role in the scandal for nearly a decade. Our Business Correspondent emma simpson has the details. Its 2012, and Paula Vennells is in herfirst year as the new boss of the post office. Shes already spent half a decade with the business. And here shes on a visit to the shop floor. Retail is detail. I dont know whoever it was that said that, but it is that. And you come to places like this and you find out the Little Things that make the operation much more efficient. Back then, the post office was haemorrhaging money. The pressure is on to turn things around. But did she put profits before people . Theres a sack full of questions waiting for her now. Lee bought the Bridlington Branch in 2003. The losses soon began. Here he is after the post office made him bankrupt with huge legal costs as they pursued him in court. So imp
Security. We will have more on that later myanmar is a country in the grip of a war largely forgotten, by the outside world. And today we have a Special Report from the frontline. Rebel forces there are fighting an intense battle against the military regime. In the past seven months, a country wide insurgency has made gains conquering large swathes of territory. The fighters, among them a group known as kndf, are now presenting the Myanmar Military with the biggest threat to its rule in years. Press freedom in the country is restricted, hundreds ofjournalists have beenjailed, and getting into myanmar to report first hand is tough. But a bbc team has managed. Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville spent a month with the rebels at theirjungle bases and on the frontline. A revolution is rising across myanmar. Hidden from the world by its remoteness. Few countries are more isolated, few conflicts more unseen. We spent a month with the insurgents on back roads and Jungle Tracks in karenni st
I ll be really going to be asking people aged 6a age idea . Let s see what you think about this. Maybe we should go even further. Maybe he has bottled it. Should wejust should go even further. Maybe he has bottled it. Should we just ban smoking . Do get in touch. Rishi sunak has been defending his plan to phase out smoking. He announced at the conservative Party Conference yesterday that the ban on people Buying Cigarettes would go up by a year every year, so eventually no one can buy them. The Prime Minister also confirmed he ll scrap the northern leg of the proposed hs2 rail line. Rents in britain have reached record levels. The Property Website rightmove says the average monthly rent was £1,278, while in london it rose by 12 compared with last year, to £2,627. Complaints about two Water Companies have pushed up the number of customers contacting the regulator. Many of the grievances about thames water and southern water were related to bills. The uk s Cloud Computing market is to
So who could be Prime Minister, sir keir starmer has transformed labours fortune since the partys historic defeat in 2019. He has also transformed what he and his party say that they stand for which has left a few puzzled as to who the real keir starmer is. One thing is clear, though, he has gone from being the man who could not win the next election to the man who, many say, cannot lose. Keir starmer, welcome back to political thinking. Thank you for having me back, my third time. It is what a change since last time you were here in 2021, does that phrase, cannot lose the election, bristle . I do. There is a long way to go. A lot can change until however long it is until the next election and we have to keep utterly focused on what we need to do. Is it one of those things where you lie awake at night . What i do, i always remind myself that, to get the worst result since 1935, to even a 1 2 Seat Labour Majority is a bigger swing than the swing in 1997 and that is always sobering. The