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You got to say . Everybody is welcome. Your phone or needs you. Get in touch. Text and call. The Text Messages are coming in already. Now the news. Former top Civil Servant at the Department For Education says the budget for repairing schools with failing concrete was halved. Jonathan slater said it was frustrating that funding was only given a50 schools after a by rishi sunak. The government says it will do whatever it takes to fix the problem. Keir starmer is expected to reshuffle his cabinet ...

Or partially shut. Its over Safety Concerns about what is known as raac a type of concrete, thats known to be at risk of crumbling. Meanwhile, in the last hour another twist with the Education Secretary caught on camera voicing herfrustrations about the media coverage. This is Gillian Keegan after an interview with itv news. Does anyone ever say, you have done a good job because everyone else has sat on their bleep and done nothing . No signs of that, no . The footage was captured by itv news as...

Is a pretty crucial question at the heart of this which is was the government taking concerns about this concrete seriously enough . And what we found out this morning which i think will be really tricky for the government is that ministers were told some years ago that more money was needed to deal with some of these building defects. Considerable increases in can in funding was needed, in fact the opposite happened and funding was reduced and rishi sunak was the chancellor at the time so undou...

And a mad scramble right at the start of a new school year, to find alternatives. We have three companies coming out today that are trying to help us procure temporary classrooms. We dont know yet whether we have managed to get any, and how long they will take to be delivered. But we are obviously flat out working on it. 104 schools have so far found themselves having to close entirely or partially because of unsafe raac concrete. This morning, the Education Secretary said there could be hundred...

The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme down from 100 a year to 50 a year. The chancellor, of course, was at the time . Rishi sunak. So, what does the Prime Minister make of that . I think that is completely and utterly wrong. Actually, one of the first things i did as chancellor in my first Spending Review in 2020 was to anno...

United striker struggling for form this season, scoring just seven goals in 33 league appearances. Rashford has played for england seven times this season before being left out of the squad for a friendly against belgium in march and now he misses out altogether ahead of a major tournament. These are of course difficult decisions and you are talking about players who are very good players, who have been an important part of what we have done over a number of years, and with marcus, i feel other ...

Microsoft is hoping its new ai checks will help kick start a new era of pc sales. Sticking with al a global summit on Artificial Intelligence kicks off in south Koreas Capital of seoul on tuesday, focusing largely on al safety. This follows an inaugural meeting held in the uk last november. I spoke to Industry Expert wei sun about her expectations from this summit, but started off by asking her if she thinks microsofts new pcs will be a gamechangerfor the industry. I think its a big moment for n...

Its also more climate friendly. Microsoft is hoping its new ai checks will help kick start a new era of pc sales. Sticking with al a global summit on Artificial Intelligence kicks off in south Koreas Capital of seoul on tuesday, focusing largely on al safety. This follows an inaugural meeting held in the uk last november. I spoke to Industry Expert wei sun about her expectations from this summit, but started off by asking if she thinks microsofts new pcs will be a game changer. I think its a big...

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His plane crashed near moscow, his fate ensuring that the russian president s revenge wasnt even a dish that was eaten particularly cold. The war between ukraine and russia, though, where ukraines progress through russias ferocious systems of mines and anti tank defences has been slow and painful during the summer, continues to drag. The americans say ukraine has now started to make notable progress, but ukrainian manpower is being increasingly squeezed, and thats a growing problem. At the same ...