01/06/2015

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Last night in an unusual and dramatic Sunday sitting of the Senate, the laws allowing bulk collection of phone records and other measures were not renewed. Jon Sopel is our North America editor.

0712

David Cameron will today announce that the government will bring forward plans to double free childcare for working parents, from 15 hours to 30, with some families in pilot areas to benefit from September next year.  Neil Leitch is chief executive of the Pre-School Learning Alliance.

0715

The former head of the civil service Lord Kerslake will use his maiden speech in the House of Lords on Tuesday to lay into the government’s flagship plan to extend the “right to buy” to 1.3 million housing association tenants. Lord Kerslake was head of the Civil Service from January 2012 to September 2014.

0725

The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft is attempting a six-day, six-night flight over the Pacific Ocean, the most ambitious leg of its quest to circumnavigate the globe powered only by the sun. It took off early on Sunday morning. Pilot Andre Borschberg, 62, left the ground in Nanjing, in eastern China, heading for the US island of Hawaii, after extended delays awaiting a suitable weather window over safety concerns. Bertrand Piccard is one of the pilots who has flown the Solar Impulse on other stages of the voyage.

0730

A review of the general election by the Electoral Reform Society claims that the result was "the most disproportionate in British electoral history". They say 50% of votes in the election went to losing candidates and 74% of votes were "wasted". Katie Ghose is chief executive of the Electoral Reform Society. Dame Margaret Beckett is Labour MP who was chair of the No to AV campaign.

0740

The ICA has just launched a new exhibition to look back at the pirate radio renaissance of the early 1980s. Stations broadcasted music from the roofs of residential tower blocks and tended to celebrate black culture. Lindsay Wesker presented on Kiss FM when it was a pirate and helped the station earn a legal licence. Elayne Smith is a former presenter on pirate station LWR.

0750

The independent inquiry into infant cremations and baby ashes at Emstrey crematorium in Shrewsbury is to be released at 2pm today. The inquiry was commissioned by Shropshire Council last year at the request of bereaved families to look into cases where no ashes were returned to families following the cremation of a baby or unborn child at the crematorium. Glen Perkins is the founder of campaign group Action for Ashes. Nick Southall is the BBC Shropshire journalist who broke the story.

0810

David Cameron will today announce that the government will bring forward plans to double free childcare for working parents, from 15 hours to 30, with some families in pilot areas to benefit from September next year.  Priti Patel is employment minister.

0820

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the introduction of the driving test. Some voluntary tests were conducted in the early months of 1935, but on 1st June that year the test was made compulsory. Costing just seven shillings and sixpence (37.5p in today's money) the first test lasted half an hour, with the first to pass it being a Ronald Beere. Maria McCarthy has written about the driving test and studied its history.

0830

David Cameron continues his European tour with the aim of persuading leaders to agree key reforms before the British people decide whether to stay in the Union in an upcoming referendum. Could the Norwegian model could be a viable model for the UK in the event of a no vote? Børge Brende is Norwegian foreign minister.

0835

It's the final week of campaigning before Turkey's general election on Sunday. The votes of Turkey's 15 million Kurds could decide whether the governing AK Party consolidates its grip on power or whether it's deprived of its majority by the pro-Kurdish HDP party crossing the parliamentary threshold. Our Turkey Correspondent Mark Lowen is in Diyarbakir as part of his election road trip.

0840

There were major developments yesterday in the corruption crisis gripping world football. The South African FA appeared to accept that it had paid $10m (£6.5m) to Concacaf, the football body led by Jack Warner, a figure at the centre of Fifa corruption allegations, although it denied the payment was corrupt. Plus, two UK banks have launched internal reviews into whether they were used for corrupt payments by Fifa officials. Matthew Booth is a South African footballer who was in the 2010 World Cup squad. Dan Roan is sports editor.

0845

General David Petraeus, the man behind the 2007 US surge in Iraq, claims Islamic State is a formidable enemy but it can be beaten.  Speaking exclusively to our diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus, General Petraeus admits that the fall of Ramadi has been a big setback.

0850

Today the New Hall Art Collection will publish a catalogue documenting its collection of art by women. It is Europe’s largest collection of contemporary art by women at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge and comprises 450 works. Featured artists include Tracey Emin, Paula Rego, Barbara Hepworth and Eileen Cooper. Dame Barbara Stocking is president of Murray Edwards College. Eileen Cooper is an artist and keeper of the Royal Academy of Arts.

All subject to change.