Gnaana. Gnaana. Thank you and good afternoon. The top stories this hour , the top stories this hour, Shadow Health secretary wes streeting says doctor dan poulter has not been offered a peerage to defect from the tory party to the labour party. Mr streeting has defended doctor paups streeting has defended doctor pauls decision, saying it shows only sir keir starmer can be trusted with the nhs. Conservative mp doctor dan poulter said hed sit on the labour benches until the general election and then stand down. The decision comes just days before local elections across england and wales on the 2nd of may. The Prime Minister has again this morning refused to rule out a general election in july, amid speculation a disastrous set of local Election Results for the tories could force his hand. Wes streeting says doctor poulter isnt defecting to save his seat. Rather hes defecting to save the nhs. The nhs. There have been millions of people disaffected conservative voters like dan poulter out
Congratulations on your award. How does it feel to be the mercury prizewinner 2017 . It feels amazing its like a dream, to be honest. How did it feel to be even nominated . M was amazing just to be nominated. That was great. Its something ive watched for years. About, i have watched for years, it felt great. Your album, the process is about personal stuff. Can you talk us through what it took to write . Writing helped me through my day to day life. I was going through some hard times of looking after, you know my mother. She was ill. And music really was like a cathartic thing for me, something for me to express myself and not let the world get on top of me. So, yeah, it was an important thing. Now, this is obviously an open time for collaborations. There is a lot of artists we saw skepta come in and hug you, who are you going to work with, you have worked with drake, beyonce, anyone you have your eye on . I would love to work with people like stormzy and owen. Lots of people i love to
The numberof done this before, ive lost count of the number of times mark carney has suggested that this free money, that a lot of people feel they have been enjoying in the last ten years, is about to come to an end. We have heard the same from the European Central bank and the Federal Reserve of the United States as well. We note in the story that a number of organisations have responded for a quickly. The pound has rallied, Sterling Rose 12 to 1. 34, its highest level in 12 months, just because of this hawkish statement. Other observers are saying, yes, maybe we need to raise rates. But in the end, when you look at this story, ijust think its all about the bank of england probably flying this kite, not really intending to do this, itsjust this kite, not really intending to do this, its just about making people realise that sooner or later this has two went. Are you as sceptical, or do you think on november we will hear some news has to end. It will come very slowly, maybe 0. 5 , but
Bears coming to town, and they would call it the weekender. They would take the rvs and come in but some fly in as well. How did you experience your College Game Days . It was pretty exciting. I would come out once a year and id love to be there. We have the heated rhetoric. This is a big game for the bears. I did not expect the cal bears, even though i am a big fan, to be 30 at this point. If they are competitive i will be happy. We break it down later about the College Football. We will also talk about the iphone later because they are selling the iphone 8 today. People are standing in line. I cant think of anything i stood in line for maybe except for college for the concert tickets. You would for your children. I would if it had something to do for the kids, but not for an iphone. We will check in with Christien Kafton in San Francisco in a little bit. The police are looking for the individual driver of the silver sedan that hit and killed the wellknown Grocery Store owner in the c
All right, where do you want me . Bouncing on my knee where do you think i want you . And David Beckham makes his Big Screen Debut in king arthur but his cameo gets mixed reviews. Good morning. Its thursday 11th may. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. A draft of labours 51 page General Election manifesto has been leaked and seen by the bbc and a number of other news organisation. The leak came as the document was due to be formally signed off today. The document contains a number of eye catching policies including bringing the railways back into Public Ownership as franchises expire and repealing the 1993 railways act which privatised the network. Plans to reverse the privatisation of royal mail at the earliest opportunity. The reintroduction of Maintenance Grants for University Students and a pledge to abolish University Tuition fees. 0n energy the document includes a policy of creating at least one publicly owned Energy Company in every region of the uk, with public con