One digital radio 91 c.s.m. . Your station for Yorkshire. B.b.c. Radio only. See news and 10 o'clock Good morning I'm Sarah Wakefield there are concerns about the safety of children who live close to a controlled red light zone inlaid says a fair scheme of its kind in the u.k. And is intended to make life safe if the vulnerable sank sway because people in holdbacks a used needles are being found outside of the Manage zone Bentley Smith from the residents group Save our eyes which recently set a pace and committee to deal with the problem says they are tackling it we started to realise that lots and lots of people reporting problems with drug and prostitution problems does seem to be a change over the summer months of the sort of severity of what people were experiencing on less streets and around schools there's been a slight rise in unemployment in Yorkshire figures for July to September show an increase of 50000 in the number of people out of work in our region 213-1000 nationally their unemployment has Phoolan 559-0021 point 24000000 the Army in Zimbabwe has taken control of the state broadcaster but insists it has not staged a coup against President Robert Mugabe armored vehicles have been deployed near parliament and government buildings the concept of m.p. Said Nicholas AMC met Robert Mugabe a few weeks ago said he had seemed old and tired and this is a very dangerous moment for Zimbabwe it's a seething mass of trees out of everything when I saw the O.P.'s Garcia the question I mustn't be the opposition leader I was very much boiling up to try I meant since I've been there of course he's not afraid to rise out of being candid looks to me as they are this is the retirement of the. Well faction if it's not the current surge is 1st comes the charity Save the Children is warning the $50000.00 children under the age of 5 are expected to die in Yemen this year from hunger or disease a senior u.n. Official who denies the humanitarian response to the war there has edge the Saudi led coalition to lift its blockade of ports to allow aid into the country Caroline Anning from Save the Children says the situation is desperate what our teams on the ground are telling us is that seeing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis as large parts of Yemen that are on the brink of famine are health teams have estimated there's about $130.00 children every single day who are dying because they're acutely man the rest either as a result of disease or hunger or usually a combination of both the West pays campaign for tougher penalties for people who attack imagines the services workers move a step closer to becoming law later Halifax's Labor m.p. Holly Lynch has been campaigning for better protection for 999 responders who were attacked while doing their job if one is a spate of attacks in West Yorkshire I've a bomb finites and celebrations are being held in Australia after more than 60 percent of the country voted in favor of same sex marriage the Australian prime minister said his government would now and to pass legislation in parliament by Christmas one campaign at James bright May says he has special Cool's for celebration I just proposed to my promiscuity 15 minutes to get here in my field is absolutely incredible but country said yes and then he said yes on to school and I went how does fail town midfielder Aaron more years in Will's Cup qualifying action with Australia they need to beat him dearest in the 2nd leg of match to reach the 2018 World Cup finals kick off was at 9 am and a half time is still nil nil England have started their final woman much before the Ashes taking on a Cricket Australia 11 in Townsville stumps on day one the hosts finished on 249 for knowing they were nervous moments for England as Yorkshire's Jonny Bairstow left the pitch with an injury. But fortunately it's just a bruised finger on his left hand b.b.c. News and sport is coming up to 4 minutes past 10 we've gone 64 minutes then and I've received my 1st text about a nighttime routine that I can't rate out of Wally Yes from Molly in late he consigns the word hemorrhoids town concludes with a sentence and finally brush my remaining teeth. Both. Of. You for cleaning the blacks. With the least said Gallagher dry day to day for with the cloud clearing away to the south who will see brightening up from the north way the temperatures around 11 Celsius 52 found height variable amounts of cloud seeding and even I simply as spells risk a few showers with the breeze picking up towards dawn and levees temperatures on 78 degrees abound of clouds some outbreaks of rain spreading Southwest more morning brightening If the afternoon with plenty of sunshine but a northwesterly wind and temperatures around 10 Celsius 50 found heights. morning you know sometimes we get well on this program we get accused of domain down. I don't I don't think so you know I'm delighted actually to receive this text that full for from Graham in riddles a text which is very much of the moment on currency if it will politics if you will Graeme in riddles and he listens to the program all washing up soft in case play that man. Listening intently to the news on the international situation over in Zimbabwe. An ongoing situation there with rumors of a military coup and things like that and Graham says Richard have you ever notice that the desperately Robert Mugabe surname pronounced backwards is actually. Dumbing down I think. What's the last thing you do before you go to bed. That message with the word late. And we've got quite a few pays to school between now and. Will do that next. President. To negotiate the minefield that buying Christmas presents. A text. Message with the words. If you would like to ask Graham Graham quite contrary. And while you're doing that . a moment if Hal. Wayne no longer needs an apostrophe is it time we dropped it from oclock. That's And many of the burning punctuation issues. Will be answered in the person you're going to mate's new book Caroline targets is the author of The Accidental apostrophe and over misadventures in punch you ation Good morning tell me about the accidental apostrophe Please Well the accidental apostrophe is my attempt at helping people who don't really understand about punctuation it's not a diatribe I'm not absolutely anti him oh geez antic speak and anything of that sort in fact I think it's a wonderful piece of creative writing but only in its place and I think it's terribly important to make a distinction between the casual things that we all do on social media and the correct way of doing things that might be relevant if you were writing a job application or writing a report at work or something of that sort How seriously do you take punctuation because I I think there is of a very steep and a very long sliding scale of people and how they take their punctuation because some people get extremely worked up about it while others almost laugh in the face of good English and grammar Well I think if laughing in the face of it is 0 and getting really worked up is 10 I'm about an 8 because yes as everybody says it's a living language things have to change but punctuation can change meaning and it can change new it can change tone and speaking to you and we're not in the same room. I can still pause I can alter my tone of voice if we were face to face I could smile or I could frown or I could track my shoulders at a pinch I can say oh you know what I mean when you're right and you can't do any of those things and that's what punctuation is for is there in particular any part of punctuation I'm not sort of getting you to say the or the apostrophe is better than the semi-colon Richard Already thing is as churlish is that but is there anything that you feel really strongly about well I think that you can have a lot of fun with ellipses dot dot dot for example his views are old fashioned statement of fact his views are dot dot dot old fashioned means how shall I put this I don't want to come right out and say that he's a bigot you can get all sorts of different subtleties and changes of tone just by messing about with punctuation the example the you use on the on the little blurb that we get sent out of these interviews is the old let's seats grandma or. Let's say grandma. If you do actually miss one. A comma or something out in a sentence like that it isn't a new on c. It completely changes the meaning I indeed and I'll tell you a true story that cropped up in conversation when I was researching this book a friend of mine runs a small bakery and she had a text from one of her clients saying is this cake suitable for vegetarians and she replied Well it has aches in it if that's what you mean and the reply came back completely and punctuated no eggs are fine. Whereas in fact what she meant was no comma eggs are fine so not only did she write the opposite of what she meant she did herself out of a cake I think that serious. What do you think or what do you want people to get from this book our life well mostly enjoyment it's a dip in the now to book I always think of my books as Lou books that people can pick up and put down whenever they like but I hope that there are some basics in there there are some things there's a whole generation about my age who when they were at school in the sixty's simply weren't taught punctuation I was at school in New Zealand to my education was very different but lots of people were told No just express yourself let it all hang out in a very sixty's sort of way and they simply don't know and it's surprising how many people feel. Inadequate unconfident because they don't know how to put put a full stop or a semi-colon So I hope it'll help them a bit and it might make them laugh a bit too as this become a course war I'm going to choose my words carefully here addiction with regards to the language because if people think it is the same lady with a 500 words you should know or misadventures in the English language or all these books I mean you very much enjoy and you get a great deal of pleasure I'm guessing otherwise you wouldn't do it's writing and learning and bringing to people's attention the little delicate details of the wonderful English language Exactly exactly so I get completely obsessed with whatever I'm working on when I started researching this book about a year ago my sister and I went on holiday to Brazil as it happens on a long haul flight coming back I'm reading a book and I thought what a really wonderful example of commas and my sister was asleep and I thought. Don't wake her up she's not going to be as excited by this since you are. I'm sorry so I look at the commas in yeah yeah yeah. My big sister you can imagine how that would have gone down in well it's certainly a very very nice book thanks for talking to us about this morning and the accidental apostrophe and all of the misadventures in punctuation with Caroline tag and that is where Caroline we put the full stop thanks for talking to us this morning thanks very much indeed. Radio Good morning 20. 9 with Graham after 10 this morning your questions answered via telephone text an email and we're going Christmas shopping next. Testing times. A lot to discuss so make sure. Special. Special guests managing director. 7 only 3 points off the play offs is everything at. Once the view from the. Journey is for a. Special with. Now when it gets to this time of year. Very very heated debates on radio station phone ins open down the country on social media as to when is the correct time to put your Christmas tree up one's the correct answer to the holes when's the right. Put the cake up Sunday and all the ports it's quite widely accepted that people are now now braving braving the Christmas shop ports. When it comes to getting the right president for the right person and you only get him apparently as a nation we are not good at buying presents many people read gift items so let's speak to a retail expert who might be able to help us as we head towards Black Friday and that big December rush Claire Bailly Good morning hi good morning so we're no good at buying presents basically you know but we think we are apparently something like 70 percent of us are of the opinion we're doing a really good job where 80 percent of us fake that smile when working in the present with disappointment thinking what's on earth is this I asked people what they want is that not the done thing I mean I don't buy loads of presents for loads of people not got a big family or or anything like that book that kind of negates sword to do a lot of people just go blind Claire and think you know I know bash this is what I'm going to buy my mate who I've known for 304050 years or whatever it does appear so and they do admit that they serve are going into it with a bit of a lack of research perhaps panic buying and so on and the research that we're looking up to clip was commissioned by Amazon dot com ek it says that 2 thirds of us are actually giving away those unwanted presents because to other people there's a sort of a rigged and recycling but only 40 percent of us are willing to write those gift lists so if you're asking people what you want some of them are a little bit Caughey now oh no don't worry about me I don't want anything maybe only 40 percent of them and I bet most those the kids in the teenagers as well most of those people are sort of reluctant in a way so it leads us into a bit of a difficult position this won't work out of all the choices available out there in the retail market one do you buy so I think Sunny's an online applications where you can apply filters and use these gift find a technique say well it's my mom and she's this age and she's really into her cooking or cake decorating or d.i.y. . I who knows but using the hobbies and interests setting a budget and then actually been able to filter right down to get some decent suggestions of what might be more suitable will hopefully mean that we are getting it right more often and we won't have our friends and relatives looking at us sort of their gritted teeth of fake smile and say No you are is lovely and thinking how do I get rid of this junk you know something you know what you've made me do that Claire I've been shifting around uneasily because you have highlighted the fact that I am a horrible Christmas hypocrite because I do ask I said What do you want to tell me what you want what you want gone or what you write Ok and if people say to don't worry just whatever you know whatever your fancy I'm there and I'm not 1st so I am actually the reason that these problems occur it's these people like me planted to look at myself in the mirror maybe but I think the thing is really difficult if somebody doesn't give you any state unless you start asking probing questions will obviously know a little about them hopefully if you find them present you should know them well enough to know what their interests are at least that way you can start to use some of these online tools to fail to things down and get to a better answer because otherwise I mean I am guilty of it too I have to admit you get the Oh no I you know I don't mind it's the thought that counts Well then you're probably gonna get a box of chocolates for a fuck live wine or a parasol because it is difficult to work it out unless you've got you know he's clever tools to help you find a better more inspiring. Chocolate booze and socks are all my Christmas list classes down markedly hacked up about 20 percent who aren't faking the smile. Lovely saucy Thank you have a similar Claire Bailly their retail experts the pitfalls of the Christmas shop on b.b.c. Radio Leeds we're also talking about men many things this morning responsible can about punctuation morning Saddam in a solution is Richard I think there's a big question mark about how relevant punctuation is in today's world. On the subject serve what you do if he gets a bad of any was the last thing you did before you got so bad or what's on your on your bedside table if Chipman will tell us in a moments Good morning. Who's been interested Richard I listen to the sound of ocean waves breaking in my alarm clock the only downside is that the opposite of this peaceful sound is that I've got a foregone alarm that goes off in the morning and that's from Angela notice feel good morning to Angela. Eloise well to see you says 60 years ago I was youngest of 4 kids we would all end up in the same bed and see you could tell the scary stories my dad worked nights when things got too scary we'd all pile into our mother's bad me poor mom never got any place Happy Days happy day says See And good morning this morning Johnny says a whiskey glass of milk and talk to the dill. And if you have too many whiskeys the duck starts it all back into that one as well Dave what was sort of your roots a knowledge of anything interesting on the old bedside table you'd like to share with us this morning the bedside table was a copy of the Beano right yeah Ok the children likely middle things on the side of the bed and a part of drawings as well which have to keep it right that their precious scribbles morning routine just get up right now even if we're going to sleep we're going to sleep Davy it's leaping gang rice and you're sleeping. No no routine now now in the city. The phone that's important it is a very home is everything the phone is the alarm clock it is for most people and I've got to say just on the subjects of the scribbles as you say many kids if you go to our old. 8. 10 thing that I did yesterday telling and just 10 in a week actually with a screw because we're getting a lot of these at the my. You know your kids are older than. The bit of advice the artwork Yeah yeah. I mean we are allowed to think that down our way. To say. How the roads looking good news for you know the. North junction of 46 of the. Broken down car moved on to the hard shoulder still with broken. Markets on the stretch of leaves road the 58 but of course I'm going to be like on the cross roads and if anyone Headingley we had. Moved off the carriage way down into the. Very busy on the speech since as well you can always go. To 3 I want to. Travel. B.b.c. Radio. Good morning I'm Sarah Wakefield there are concerns about the safety of children who live close to a controlled. Zone is intended to make life safer for. People in holdbacks a used needles are being found outside of the managed an area there's been a sly rise in unemployment figures for July to September show an increase of 2000 and the number of people out of work in our region the Army in Zimbabwe has taken control of the state broadcaster but insists it is not staged a coup against President Robert Mugabe armored vehicles have been deployed in their parliaments and government buildings celebrations are being held in Australia after more than 60 percent of the country voted in favor of same sex marriage the Australian prime minister said his government would now aim to pass legislation in parliament by Christmas and after just 4 days Taylor Swift has sold more albums in the us than any other artist this year. The styles 6 album reputation has sold more than a 1000000 copies in the u.s. Since Friday putting ahead of Ed Sheeran look at the weather cloudy day with a few al breaks of drizzle. 10 degree Celsius us 50 degrees Fahrenheit bedside table yes. Yeah a little for my for my cup of. Tea. And my book and normally a few sort of like toys and stuff like the kids' toys. I'm thinking about that. I just I'll just play or echo. B.b.c. Radio. It's the Pointer Sisters and. On b.b.c. Radio we've almost pulled about together just about. We're on that we're teaching on the edge this morning. Anything could just push is of a. Morning so when a case like says Richard decades or so in the email thank you when he by the way decades ago way back in the seventy's my young nephew volunteered to put together a trick