An urgent appeal has been launched to find more black blood donors for help with those with Sickle Cell Disease. We will speak to two families of those living with the disease. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Wed love to hear from you if youre an eu National Living in the uk. Are you reassured by what you hear . Were also talking about fire safety this morning. If your flat is covered in cladding, has your landlord been in touch about measures to keep you safe . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. German chancellor Angela Merkel has described theresa mays offer to give european Citizens Rights after Brexit Living in the uk is a good start. At a summit last night, the Prime Minister said nobody in the uk lawfully would be forced to leave on the day of brexit, nor did she want to split up families. In return the eu would have to
And locked up for 23 and a half hours a day a court will rule today whether the detention of a teenage boy with Significant Mental Health issues at a Young Offenders institute is unlawful. Well bring you the story. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the morning, the latest Breaking News and developing stories and as always keen to hear from you. A little later well be talking about Snapchats New feature snap maps which allows users to track where other people are. Lots of you are worried about the safety of your kids if other people can check where they are do get in touch and tell us your views. Use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. A plan to revolutionise the treatment that Cancer Patients receive, through individually mapping their dna, is being proposed by the Chief Medical Officer for england. The proposals would mean millions of patients would have treatments that would be
Great britain will be represented in the ladies wimbledon quarterfinals. Johanna konta says shes just focusing on winning the match. She is delighted she has got this far. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Cash jobs like Window Cleaning and decorating are said to be worth up to £6 billion a year, so we want to hear from you this morning if you get paid in cash of if youve paid forjobs in cash around you home. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. And if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Ending cash in hand jobs and changing the rules on the gig economy, where workers get paid per task, are two of the recommendations in a major report into the way we work. The Matthew Taylor review also says there are too many people who are being treated like Cogs In A Machine, rather than human beings. Our economics correspondent, andy verity, reports. In the last ten years,
The film review on bbc news. To take us through the cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode. What have you been watching this week . A very big week, obviously. We have dunkirk, the new Christopher Nolan film, about which everybody is talking. We have city of ghosts, a very harrowing documentary from the maker of cartel land. And Captain Underpants the epic first movie, which is really funny. Everyone is talking about dunkirk. The scale and ambition of this is remarkable. It is and also the ambition of the release. It is the story of dunkirk told by Christopher Nolan who has made things like dark knight, interstellar and inception, and it is the story of the evacuation told through Three Intertwining Strands that loosely follow land, sea and air. But although the story itself is fairly straightforward, it is told over three different timescales, one of the stories lasts one week, one of the stories lasts one day, one lasts one hour and these strands. If you know anything at all about no
Were facing unacceptable stress. The letter comes after two days of unrest at the mount establishment In Hertfordshire. Mark lobel reports. There have been days of disorder at Prisons Wiltshire and hertfordshire where riot trained officers were deployed to subdue unruly prisoners. This past year has brought an average of 20 attacks a day on staff in prisons in england and wales, following a decline in the number of Prison Officers over the past few years and complaints over pay. Now the president of Prison Governors Association is publicly blaming the government for what she calls a crisis in many jails and unacceptable stress and anxiety amongst workers. In an open letter to Prison Governors, Andrea Albutt says the state has failed to help them cope with Population Pressures in prison, having changed the way the prisons are run for the worse. Ms albutt says the governments decision taken earlier this year to separate operational control of the Prison System from responsibility for pol