
07/01/2017
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0710
A gunman has shot dead five people and injured eight others at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida. The BBC’s correspondent Gary O’Donoghue is in Fort Lauderdale reporting.
0715
The British Red Cross has claimed there's a "humanitarian crisis" in NHS Hospitals in England and called on the government to allocate more money to stabilise the situation. The BBC’s Dan Johnson reports.
0720
English tax-payers could see the repair bill for potholes reaching £14 billion within two years, councils are warning.Martin Tett is a transport spokesperson for the Local Government Association and Conservative leader of Buckinghamshire County Council.
0730
A major Tory donor, Sir Andrew Cook, has warned he will stop funding the party if Theresa May's Brexit plans involve taking the UK out of the single market. Sir Andrew Cook is chairman of William Cook and has donated more than £1.2m to the party.
0740
On January 20th Donald Trump will take the Oath of Office and be sworn in as America’s 45th president. During the election campaign Mr Trump vowed to reverse many of President Obama’s signature policies, such as Obamacare. Martha Joynt Kumar is director of the White House Transition Project and Mike Magan is former special assistant to the President and senior director on the National Security Council to President Bush.
0750
The New Year began on Sunday; by 9pm on Thursday, one road in South London had already breached its annual air pollution limit for 2017. Caroline Russell is aLondon Assembly member and transport spokesperson for the Green party. Sir Michael Marmot is professor of public health at UCL and president of the British Lung Foundation.
0810
The chairman of the UK Anti-Doping agency has criticised evidence given by cycling officials to a parliamentary committee hearing into anti-doping last month. Dan Roan is BBC sports editor, David Kenworthy is outgoing chairman of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) and Damian Collins is an MP and Chairman of the DCMS Select Committee.
0820
Shappi Khorsandi, an Iranian-born British comedian and author, has “respectfully withdrawn” her book from the shortlist of the Jhalak Prize, which aims to highlight the work of British BAME authors. Gary Younge is Guardian Editor-at-Large and shortlisted for the BAME literary prize. Shappi Khorsandi is an Iranian-born British comedian who withdrew her novel from the BAME prize’s shortlist.
0830
The British Red Cross has claimed there's a "humanitarian crisis" in NHS hospitals in England. Mike Adamson is chief executive of the British Red Cross and DrMark Holland is president of the Society for Acute Medicine.
0840
A gunman has shot dead five people and injured eight others at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida. Madeline Fox is a reporter for WLRN and Chris Phillips is a former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office.
0850
David Bishop aka Lord Biro of the Bus Pass Elvis Party announced he would not be standing in any more elections. The BBC’s Sanchia Berg has been speaking to him and taking a look at the British tradition of eccentric parliamentary candidates.
0855
On Saturday night the BBC’s latest talent contest Let It Shine will be broadcast. Gary Barlow has promised that this show won’t have some of the more “negative” elements of other TV talent shows where contestants are humiliated and with cruel comments from the judges. Richard Holloway is CEO of Fremantle media UK and executive producer of The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. Julia Reaside is aGuardian TV critic.
All subject to change.
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- Sat 7 Jan 201707:00BBC Radio 4