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a very warm welcome to the programme. breathing life back into the high street — that's expected to be one of the focuses of the queens speech later today as the uk government promises to rid britain's high streets of "derelict shopfronts" and help to restore neighbourhood pride. more money will be given to local authorities and extra powers will enable councils to force landlords to rent out empty shops. the plans are also set to include the ability to make pavement cafes a permanent part of the town centre landscape. joining me now is andrew goodacre, ceo, british independent ret...

OPINION News that businessmen in Napier had begun a service club in 1912 which would exist until the town’s population was 30,000 was not well received by a...

OPINION As the city decides on the future of the Downtown carpark building site, it’s worth looking at how we got here, and why this decision matters. As...

Stay with us on bbc news, still to come: an andy warhol painting of marilyn monroe has become the highest priced american work of art and the most expensive painting of the 20thcentury to sell at auction. the pope was shot, the pope will live — that's the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon, that, as an italian television commentator put it, terrorism had come to the vatican. the man they called the butcher of lyon, klaus barbie, went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sent...

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