2 o clock am really at the Millennium galleries at the exhibition opens strong in the studios of b.b.c. Radio Sheffield hope to make any Yes I m here running the governments refusing to be drawn on whether it sinks Russia was behind the attempted murder of a former double agent and his daughter who were critically ill after being poisoned with a nerve agent a police officer who was rushed to the scene in Salzburg city center is also in hospital where he s said to be awake and talking the Kremlin is denying any involvement in the matter the home secretary under Rudd told the Commons that it was a brazen and reckless act but it was too early to apportion blame my 1st concern must be the incident in hand the incident in hand and the safety of the people in the area and around the incident itself appears there will come a time for attribution and there will be then consequences and there will be further information that follows but now I m concerned about the incident and the consequences
We are pointed at stared at least heard about. Shot at and sometimes killed but one thing we almost never are is listen to then hate crimes against the community are one group says the media can help with more accurate reporting on 6 stories because if you actually understand who a person is it s harder to judge and stereotype a class of people that s coming up today on cross current Stay with us. First this news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jack Speer another up and down day for Wall Street N.P.R. s John it s the reports the major indices experienced wild swings before ending the trading session up sharply the Dow industrials start of the day plunging more than 500 points but quickly recovered the lost ground and entered positive territory but the market didn t stay positive it was volatile all day crossing the line between gains and losses more than 20 times volatility returned to the market with a vengeance on Monday after being largely absent for years speculators who
Philip Green was giving evidence to M.P. s on the Commons business and Pensions Committee which is investigating why the firm went into liquidation it employed 20000 people across the u.k. And had the contract to build Lincoln s Eastern bypass the conservative m.p. Heidi Allen who s on the committee said she was unimpressed by washy hurt I m somewhere between confused angry disappointed shocked the level of competence or lack of that seemed the time I felt listening to people who were exceptionally well paid allegedly absolutely in their field I found it breathtaking that they didn t see the warning signs and that this you know many of them expressed it was a shock when the company finally crashed I found that quite unbelievable the police are appealing for witnesses to a disturbance at a home in Curtin near Boston it happened on Sunday night on claim on chase a woman suffered stab injuries a 23 year old man s been charged with attempted murder Joshua King will appear at Lincoln crown
$50000.00 will be offered to you k bias for 3 months before being advertised overseas Downing Street says Britain will leave the customs union which is a system way e.u. Countries don t impose import taxes on each other s goods the ease chief negotiator Michel Bania is in London he s having talks about a possible transitional period after Britain lease the e.u. And you study has found mothers are being hit by a paper penalty if they work in part time jobs a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that by the time a 1st child reaches the age of 20 mothers and around 30 percent less on average than similarly educated fathers Robert Joyce from the I.F. s is the co-author of the report the main thing that s going on is that as women reduce their hours of work they see almost no wait progression after that point so there s something going on which is meaning that part time work is not as though they say they see their wages grow less quickly than full time workers it wouldn t be s