26/08/2016

All subject to change:

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The Local Government Association says councils should be allowed to monitor how academy schools in England spend money. Richard Watts is chairman of the Local Government Association Children and Young People board.

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Parents who claim extra free childcare from September will be asked to pay charges to help make up for a funding shortfall, nurseries have warned. The BBC’s Ross Hawkins reports .

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A deal has been reached to allow civilians and rebel fighters to leave the Syrian town of Daraya after a long government siege. Lyse Doucet is the BBC’s chief international correspondent.

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Hundreds of aftershocks have rocked devastated areas of central Italy, hampering search efforts after a deadly earthquake. The BBC’s James Reynolds reports on the rescue efforts in Amatrice and Danilo Giannese is from Save the Children Italy.

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Apple has release a software update to its iPhones after a serious security flaw was discovered by a human rights lawyer, Ahmed Mansour.

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NHS services across England could be dramatically cut as part of wide-ranging efficiency plans seen by the BBC. Laura Townshend is director of the campaign group 38 Degrees and Stephen Dalton is chief executive of the NHS Confederation.

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The US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to hold talks on Syria with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today. Yogita Limaye is the BBC’s correspondent in Beirut and Tom Fletcher is former UK ambassador to Lebanon and former foreign policy adviser to three prime ministers.

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In an article in the Sun on Sunday this week, Brexit campaigner Iain Duncan Smith argued that the UK has to “leave as soon as possible”. So when should Article 50 be triggered, and is it a wise idea to accelerate the process? We speak live to Mr Duncan Smith.

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KPM, one of the most famous of the ‘library labels’, gave us the theme tunes for Grandstand, Grange Hill, the ITV News At Ten and Wimbledon, among others. Some of the composers and musicians behind those classic tracks have been brought together again for a new album KPM 1000, which is out later this year. Dr Alan Hawkshaw composed such theme music as Grange Hill for KPM, and Pete Cox was creative director of KPM for 30 years.

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At least 250 people are known to have died in the earthquake that hit central Italy early on Wednesday morning, at least three of whom were British nationals, a local official has told the BBC. Livio Sacchi is an architect and professor at Pescara university.

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The US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to hold talks on Syria with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today. Fyodor Lukyanov is editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs.

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The North of England has all the characteristics of a country in itself. That is the conclusion reached by Melvyn Bragg, who begins a 10-part series called The Matter of the North on Monday on BBC Radio 4.

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France's highest administrative court is being asked to overturn beach bans imposed by 26 towns on women in full-body swimsuits known as "burkinis". Nadira Mahamoud has stopped wearing her hijab after being racially attacked and Duree Tariq wears her hijab proudly.

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A new book, called The Blind Photographer, has brought together a collection of photographs from blind and partially sighted photographers. Candia McWilliam is an author who wrote the introduction to the book The Blind Photographer – she has suffered from a condition which affected her vision. Mickel Smithen is a visually impaired photographer whose works appear in the book.