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With me are the bbc� s deputy Political Editor, vicki young, and shadow business secretary jonathan reynolds, Transport Secretary mark harper, and Liberal Democrat olly grender. Yes, we had that big, important result for the conservatives, ben houchen has held onto the Tees Valley Mayoralty for a third term. You will know if you have been following all the Election Results that labour have won with a pretty historic swing the Blackpool South by election. There are a lot of people, of course, s...

Multilaterally thats why i am pleased of course that britain has signed the arms trade treaty something russia hasnt and we need to persuade russia and coerce russia to do that and we need to make sure that we do that in a diplomatic way not in a aggressive way but the danger is that if we keep watering down our requirements we will become no better than russia no better than iran and that is not what we should do. They have been selling arms to going to try to defeat us in our guidance or yes b...

Britain is really the center arguably over whether it be destroying africas respect you have a country of libya whether really iraq war or to your partys leadership of this country or trying to attack iran because only exactions or afghanistan are totally wrong those actions thats why we need to start speaking up now we need to realize the awful atrocities that this country over generations and over hundreds of years has committed in its International Foreign policy and its policy of exporting w...

Respect you have a country of libya whether review iraq war or to your partys leadership of this country or are trying to attack iran through because only exactions or afghanistan are totally wrong those actions thats why we need to start speaking up now we need to realize the awful atrocities that this country over generations and over hundreds of years has committed in its International Foreign policy and its policy of exporting weapons and it is now is the time we need to realize that jeremy ...

Poverty seven times over from the headlines find out how russia could go nuclear British Defense cuts and how britains migrant policy is all thats see all this and more coming up here but going on the ground. Days ago the u. S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis updated in revised americas Global Defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a Defense Strategy critics say is a blueprint without it. Prescribe medication is widespread on th...

Around 600 knives have been surrendered in Shefford following a police crackdown.

Over 100 knives have been surrendered in Leighton Buzzard following a police crackdown.

A new programme is offering specialist support to young people going in to hospitals with injuries linked to violence and exploitation.

Alistair Strathern, MP for Mid Bedfordshire, on the importance of delivering change together.

Conservative candidate Festus Akinbusoye says "he rejects and refutes the findings" of the panel.