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morning, morning! it is great to be back. let s give a warm welcome to piers morgan, the broadcaster and chief eyebrow raiser, chef and campaigner hugh fearnley whittingstall, and with kids in england about to go back to school, the woman who speaks up for their welfare, children s commissioner dame rachel de souza. a very warm welcome for this new political season. a very warm welcome for this new politicalseason. let s a very warm welcome for this new political season. let s start with a look at some of the newspaper front pages. quite a mixture today. the observer leads on the concrete in schools story. it s found a whistleblower who says there s a culture of complacency. the people says 7,000 more schools are at risk of closure but the express leads on the chancellor s cost cost of living to halve inflation. and the telegraph says sunak is going to defy the climate change committee s net zero ban on new airports. we will get into that a bit later on. first of all, r ....
clearly these concerns are worrying local people. the government has repeatedly said that the barge is going to be better value for british taxpayers because of the huge costs of housing asylum seekers and hotels, i think it is about £6 million a day at the moment. do we know how much it cost a housing asylum seeker on the barge? we a housing asylum seeker on the barae? ~ ., ., , . .,, barge? we are told it is cheaper. there was barge? we are told it is cheaper. there was a barge? we are told it is cheaper. there was a report barge? we are told it is cheaper. there was a report recently - barge? we are told it is cheaper. there was a report recently thatl there was a report recently that suggested it might only be a little bit cheaper. the government has been very cagey and giving us an exact number over what it will cost because i suspect it has been done before so they don t entirely know. there are concerns that the costs of maintaining a barge should be more ....
who is at the england defender millie bright s former football club. emily, what are excitement levels like where you are? there has been lots of excitement here this morning. this is of course where millie bright started her football career when she was just nine years old at killer marsh dynamos and it was here on these very pitches behind me where she was scouted by sheffield united. of course she now plays for chelsea and has been captain of the england lionesses in the world cup. but people here have been telling me she hasn t forgotten her roots and has been back to visit many times and speak to her old coaches, and in fact one of them joins me now. this is andy poulsen who knows millie bright and you remember the first day she started here, don t you? yes, she was only a tiny little dot, but she was full of running and then when she started playing for me she played up front scoring 80 odd goals in the one season she was with me. but you could always tell there w ....
let s turn straightaway to breaking news of the last few minutes. three hill walkers have been found dead after failing to return from a walk in glen coe that s in the scottish highlands. police scotland said the bodies were discovered during a search, which had been launched after the group failed to return. the alarm was raised shortly after 9pm on saturday and mountain rescue teams assisted with the recovery operation. a force spokeswoman said, there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances. a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal. so that news just coming in, that three people have been found dead after failing to return from a walk in glencoe in the scottish highlands. when we get more on that, we will return to it. now let s move on to the row in the uk about the government use of a barge to house asylum seekers. migrants have started boarding the vessel called the bibby stockholm in dorset on the south coast of england. the government ....
the bbc has been told that the first 50 people will be moved to a barge docked off the south coast of england later today. the barge is called the bibby stockholm and it will be used to house up to 500 men while they await the outcome of their asylum applications. campaigners have expressed concern about the conditions on board, but the government insists the vessel is safe and that it will help reduce the cost of placing migrants in hotels. dan johnson reports. government sources have suggested the first asylum seekers will be moved due to portland today to go on board the bibby stockholm, the accommodation barge that has been more cheer for the last few weeks will so far been emptied, there have been delays because of concerns about fire safety, other health and safety issues that occurred and had to be dealt with, but now sources are suggesting that everything is ready. and we know some asylum seekers have received letters telling them that they will be on the mo ....