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Is it possible to plant thousands of trees a year without pushing out farmers?
How green is my valley? A key part in moving the UK to net zero is to plant trees on a massive scale. But the right trees, in the right places.


PM visits Scotland as UK and Scottish governments agree green freeports deal
Boris Johnson has declined to say if he has completed a questionnaire sent to him by the Metropolitan Police to account for parties he's accused of attending during lockdown. 


‘We have to do better’ – ex-chief executive of Royal College of Nursing on inequalities in UK healthcare
We were joined by Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, who was chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing until last year, and Lord Victor Adebowale, the chair of NHS Confederation.


Call for action to tackle ‘overwhelming’ ethnic inequalities in NHS services
There is "overwhelming" evidence of  inequality for ethnic minorities in healthcare and within the health NHS workforce, according to a review of a decade's worth of research published today by the NHS Race and Health Observatory. 


Post Office scandal ‘ruined lives’, inquiry hears
A public inquiry into the Post Office IT scandal, which saw hundreds of sub-postmasters given criminal convictions and many more in debt paying off counts, has begun.


Russia-Ukraine crisis: British nationals told to leave Ukraine
British nationals have been urged by the foreign office to leave Ukraine immediately "while commercial means are still available". 


Some drawn to policing by ‘perverse satisfaction’ of abusing power, ex-police chief says
We spoke to Sue Fish, a former police chief constable, and began by asking her why some officers are attracted to policing for all the wrong reasons.


Met Police: How will scandal-hit force tackle its culture?
From the handling of Sarah Everard's murder to the sexist, derogatory messages shared by some Met officers only just brought to light, recent scandals have shone a spotlight on how women are routinely mistreated by the police, both as victims of crim...


Cressida Dick: ‘Strong leadership’ needed for new Met Police chief, says Priti Patel
Strong and decisive leadership will be needed to restore public trust in the Metropolitan Police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has warned. 


What now for the Met police?
We were joined by Anna Birley, co-founder of Reclaim These Streets - a campaign group set up in the wake of Sarah Everard's murder, and Parm Sandhu, who is a former chief superintendent in the Met and wrote a book about her experience in the force.


Dame Cressida Dick: Why did the Met Police chief resign?
What led to Dame Cressida's departure? 


‘It was only a matter of time’, former chair of Black Police Association reacts to Cressida Dick’s departure
We were joined by former Met Police superintendent Leroy Logan, who spent 30 years as chair of the National Black Police Association.


PM and officials broke lockdown laws, says Sir John Major
Rarely has a former prime minister been quite so scathing about a successor - from his own party.


David Lammy: ‘Vladimir Putin has behaved as a despot’
We spoke to the Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy and began by asking him if he supports the most recent sanctions against Russia brought in by the government.


Ukraine : Boris Johnson warns crisis has entered ‘most dangerous moment’
From Moscow to Brussels - along with tougher sanctions there's been a flurry of diplomacy from Britain over Ukraine - Boris Johnson warned the stand-off had entered its "most dangerous moment" as he met the Nato secretary-general.



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