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Prices, and what you should do if you still want to book something. And in sport, leicester are given a caning. The outgoing champions are hit for six by tottenham, as harry kane scores four, and is now favourite to finish the season as the premier leagues top scorer, and matt goes back to the Jurassic Period in birmingham for the weather. Yes. Good morning. My guest may be prehistoric but it is all about the weekend forecast. It contains a little bit more rain and sunshine as well. Details in 1...

Toa in the conservative Party Approach to a winterfuel in the conservative Party Approach to a winter fuel benefit, henry . The news on the tory manifesto that if you are in england and ui pensioner and you receive Winter Fuel Allowa nce and you receive Winter Fuel Allowance between £100 to £300 per year, that will now be means tested. Rich people wont get it. But if you are in scotland that would be the case. Itll still be available universally. That tells us something interesting. It is doin...

Im stephen sackur. A dozen years ago, europeans looked to turkey and thought they saw a country becoming more like them, embracing Western Values and on a long term track to eu membership. But today, well, europe sees authoritarianism, conservatism, and repressionm embodied in the all powerful figure of president erdogan. My guest is elif shafak, the turkish novelist and writer who lives much of her life in london. Does the west get anywhere close to understanding turkeys complex culture and pol...

Stephs looking at the issue of transport. Iam going i am going to be talking to commuters and businesses here at out what they want from the election in terms of transport. In sport drama On The Last Day of the season. Arsenal miss out, liverpool are back in the Champions League and john terry stages a theatrical goodbye at Stamford Bridge. And with a week of sunshine on the way, carols at the Chelsea Flower Show. Good morning from the garden designed by chris birchall. It is stunning. There is ...

Bill cosby denies the charges against him. The conservatives have been warned that their chaltion to the social care in england could fail because of variations in how some councils administer the payments. Well bring you all the details. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until iiam. Throughout the morning well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories. The green party launch their General Election manifesto at around 10. 30am. Well bring that to you live and well loo...

Inside the arena described a stampede as panic spread. We have been treating this as a Terrorist Incident and we believe at this stage the attack last night was conducted by one man. Right now the Prime Minister is chairing a meeting of the governments Emergency Committee, cobrament her Home Secretary, amber rudd described it as a barbaric attack. Screaming, shouting, just people mad, chaotic rush to the nearest exit. Suddenly something really hot just flew over us and landed behind me and my mu...

To thank the police and Emergency Services. She has described the attack as devastating. It is an absolutely barbaric attack that has taken place to cut off young lives in this way, and it is absolutely devastating. Police are said to know the identity of the Suicide Bomber and they say theyve arrested a 23 year old man in south manchester. We will have the details of the terrible events in the city for you. In other news, the actor sir roger moore, best known for playing james bond, has died at...

Made desperate appeals to try to find her. Good morning. French Interior Minister said that the Manchester Bomber Salman Abedi is believed to have been travelled to syria and had proven links with so called Islamic State. This from the French Interior minister. He said that the manchester bomber, salman abedi, is believed to have travelled to syria and had, proven links with the Islamic State terror group. Good morning from manchester. Its a cool good morning from manchester. Its a cool, grey mo...

Operations. Really interesting detail is that salman abedi, the manchester attacker, and also khalid masood, who committed the westminster attacks several weeks ago, were both former subjects of these enquiries. They will not live suspects at the time of their attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fa ct attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fact to learn, that they had been under suspicion that they had been deemed safe enough to move on enquiries from. You wonder how the Security Services are mea...

Government, has got to look to what is happening in libya, a huge ungoverned space and apparently a source of some awful extremism. But was manchester a consequence of our Foreign Policy . Manchester was a consequence of one person going into a music event and killing a very large number of people, there can be no defence whatsoever of that. So nothing to do with Foreign Policy . I do not in any way change that view. That is just a vile, horrible event and those people have got to be brought to ...