The Leader podcast: Will TfL be nationalised?
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Practise you call up the Eighties and Nineties earworm theme broadcast from Down Nether to goggle box sets in millions of British homes on BBC One twice a day?
At present, it'due south all over for Neighbours as the long-running Australian soap ends its 37-yr run now amid dwindling viewing figures on Aqueduct 5, later a total 8,903 episodes.
While these days y'all've got a never-ending on-demand buffet of online shows and films, simply back in the tardily 80s information technology was four channels and pretty much everyone knew what was happening in Ramsay Street.
Many thousands Londoners are set to tune in for the first time in decades for the last episode afterward it topped the ratings in Commonwealth of australia, watched by an average one.2 million people.
Fans gathered to lookout man the terminal scenes at an outdoor large screen in Melbourne'southward Federation Foursquare, that'southward the city where the show is set up and produced.
All the big guns are back in Erinsborough for a last hurrah, including Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.
The antipodeans were known past households throughout the UK simply by their get-go names, and who were and then popular that over a 3rd of the population tuned in to lookout man their characters' nuptials in 1988 - that'south 19.6 one thousand thousand people.
At present, the pair take joined Hollywood stars Guy Pearce, Margot Robbie and a host of other former, reassuring faces and references - including a tribute to Bouncer the dog - for an emotional extended finale testify.
Simply despite an online petition of nearly 70,000 signatures to relieve the show, it was not to be, and now Neighbours has gone the way of Crossroads and Brookside to that modern soaps resting place, the internet.
To examine the significance of the poignant end of a pre-web icon, The Leader's joined past Nick Clark, the Evening Standard'due south deputy culture editor.
We discuss the big names from the once cultural miracle, reflect on the word-of-mouth hit show and hear from Kylie and Jason themselves, speaking from Ramsay Street.
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The discovery of the Lulo Rose, a pure pink diamond, in Republic of angola is thought to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years - and interest is already intense ahead of its sale.
The aboriginal jewel was found in Angola at the Australian-run Lulo alluvial diamond mine, which focuses on scouring river beds, and then how important is this discovery? Well, just one in 10,000 diamonds is coloured pink, so finding i is very special indeed.
This monster is a type 2a diamond, which means it has few or no impurities.
The Lucapa Diamond Company hasn't given a value for the uncut gem nevertheless, but another such rock, called the Pink Star and weighing 132 carats, sold for over £58 meg at a Hong Kong auction in 2017.
One carat equals 0.2 of a gram.
The Angolan mine is opencast, which means miners sift through thousands of tonnes of alluvial riverbed gravel from the Cacuilo River, hunting for rough diamonds that have collected in deposits over millions of years later on eruptions forced them to the surface.
The earth's largest known pink diamond is the Daria-i-Noor, discovered in Bharat in the 1700s, weighing in at 182 carats.
The largest clear diamond is the 3,100-carat Cullinan I constitute in South Africa in 1905, which is part of the Crown Jewels.
To discuss the importance of this historic notice and what else lies below the Earth'south crust, The Leader'due south joined by Robin Hansen, curator of minerals and gemstones at London'due south Natural History Museum.
Nosotros likewise discuss the cutting process and how to cheque a precious stone's provenance if you're shopping for that special gift.
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It is another strike mean solar day and more than travel chaos on railway services.
Once more there'due south driver misery as chief lines into and effectually London are hobbled on the quaternary day of nationwide runway strikes, with just a fifth of the usual services expected to run.
Industrial action has left many services grinding to a halt, and freight'southward being given priority over passengers.
More than 40,000 RMT union members working for Network Track and fourteen of England's 15 rail companies walked out for 24 hours until midnight tonight.
At that place's more industrial action to come up by the Aslef union on the railways on Saturday, while a Tube strike hitting Transport for London-run services is planned for next calendar month.
Meanwhile, London has the highest proportion of travel complaints to the Ombudsman.
Then, do rail strikes always achieve their aim, and at what toll to passengers?
The latest row is over eight per cent pay rises - or the lack thereof - pensions and working weather condition, simply have these kinds of strikes e'er accomplished anything for its participants - are they effective?
To hash out why unions utilise strikes every bit a strategy, we're joined past 1 of Britain'due south leading ship experts, Tony Travers, professor at the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
We discuss the complexities of the negotiating process, Mayor Sadiq Khan'due south fabled "zero days of strikes" pledge back in 2016, authorities proposals to crack down on industrial action and what the futurity holds for passengers fares.
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Russian federation'southward land-controlled energy giant Gazprom says information technology will severely cut gas into the European union that'southward delivered through its primary offshore pipeline.
Gazprom says it's stopping operation of a compressor turbine for Nord Stream 1 - which pipes Russian gas into Germany and is already operating at reduced capacity - due to what it calls the "technical status of the engine".
In an escalation of Europe's energy crisis, the motility means from 4am on Wednesday, gas supplies into Germany will drop to 33 million cubic metres each day, or just twenty per cent of capacity.
The Kremlin previously blamed shortfalls acquired by maintenance issues on Western sanctions, and says a second compressor is also showing defects.
It adds to winter supply security worries for Germany, where the economy ministry building say officials knew of "no technical reason" to reduce deliveries via Nord Stream 1, which stretches 760 miles nether the Baltic Sea.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky and the Eu charge the Kremlin of gas "blackmail", while in the early on hours of Tuesday Russian missiles attacked littoral villages in the Odessa region.
The broken turbine is reportedly nonetheless pending arrival after maintenance by Siemens Free energy in Canada, with Moscow saying it hopes the works will be done "sooner rather than later".
Siemens Energy says in that location are customs problems delivering the repaired turbine.
To unravel this latest geopolitical twist, The Leader's joined by Professor Samir Dani, an operations management expert at Keele University who specialises in global supply bondage and the impact of the Russian-Ukraine state of war on oil and gas prices.
Nosotros discuss the EU'southward strategy to wean off Moscow-backed gas, the touch on on consumers, new sources for energy and how the world's digital economy is "entangled" with the Russian state.
It follows talks on Tuesday, where EU members agreed to 15 per cent cutting in the volume of gas used by member states between Baronial and March, in gild to help build-up reserves.
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The National Health Service faces what'southward described as the "greatest workforce crunch" in its history due to severe levels of understaffing.
A report by the cantankerous-political party Health and Social Care Commission warns poor staffing levels are creating a serious risk to patient prophylactic.
Information technology comes as research by the Nuffield Trust shows the NHS in England is curt of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses and midwives.
Projections suggest an extra 475,000 jobs will be needed in the wellness sector and an extra 490,000 jobs in social care by the early part of the side by side decade.
So what's causing the crisis? Pay concerns, Covid, Brexit, workplace sexism and bullying are all existence mentioned as contributing factors.
As patient waiting lists stretch over the horizon, what can exist done to solve this workforce crisis - and what will happen if information technology'due south not fixed?
We're joined by Alan Lofthouse, a one-time paramedic and now a Unison matrimony national officer, who reveals how emergency crews report ambulance waiting times outside hospitals of up to xx hours.
The Leader likewise discusses the points made in the Health and Social Care Committee study, the affect of staff shortages on morale and whether the Bourgeois rivals battling for leadership take a practiced offer to amend the NHS.
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The great British getaway hasn't got off to the best offset.
A critical incident was declared at Dover on Friday morn, Sabbatum is predicted to be the busiest twenty-four hours on the roads in years and nosotros all know air travel is absolutely all over the place.
Just with families drastic to get away for what is for some their first proper holiday since before the pandemic, the travel chaos doesn't look like it's going to exist calming downwards anytime soon.
Travel announcer and host of the Large Travel Podcast, Lisa Francesca Nand, shares her insight and tips.
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Nosotros take our final ii candidates for the next Tory party leader - onetime Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Strange Secretary, Liz Truss.
They've managed to brand it through five rounds of voting, fending off half-dozen other official nominees. But, the hardest part of the race has merely just begun. They take hustings to face up, Goggle box debates and it's a while yet until the outcome is known on 5th September.
The Evening Standard's Deputy Political Editor, David Bond, explains everything yous need to know about the potential PMs.
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Another dour affiliate in the cost of living crunch, inflation has reached a xl-year high at 9.4%.
Simon Clarke, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says the Regime and the Depository financial institution of England are focused on tackling this issue and nosotros should run across a 'marked improvement' past next year. But is it enough?
Those on low and center incomes are already feeling information technology and many are struggling to brand ends meet. 2023 seems similar a long time to hang on until.
Jack Leslie, Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation, explains why this is happening, the impact information technology is having and how we're only just at the kickoff of this cost of living crisis.
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Another record breaking day for UK temperatures, at the time of recording the Met Office says London Heathrow reported a temperature of forty.2°C - and there's still fourth dimension for that to be beaten.
During the extreme heatwave, roads accept melted, train lines have buckled and there'south been a big dip in productivity across the state. It's got many wondering that with the hot conditions set to get a more regular thing in London and the residuum of the UK, is information technology fourth dimension for us to heat-proof our infrastructure?
Professor Hannah Cloke, climate skilful and natural hazards researcher at the University of Reading gives her insight.
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Hotter than the Sahara. The Met Role has given the United kingdom'south first crimson extreme rut warning and the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Health Security Agency has issued a level four heat-wellness alert - both running from Monday to Wed.
It's officially 'also hot' and our city isn't exactly made for this weather… simply information technology might be virtually time nosotros accept to showtime looking at changing that.
Ross Lydall, the Evening Standard's City Hall Editor & Health Editor, explains both the risks to our health also as the pressures on our infrastructure.
In office ii, we're joined by Andrew Tucker from Thames Water who addresses concerns over potential water shortages.
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Bonus content taken from our How to be a CEO podcast:
William Reeve knows a matter or ii about how to sell a successful start-up. His commencement, Fletcher Research, was bought for around £20m in 1999. He followed that up in 2011 with a reported £200m sale of LoveFilm to Amazon. Since so he's worked with household names like Secret Escapes and PaddyPower, helping to develop their businesses. Now he's CEO of digital holding lettings platform Goodlord and a non-executive director at Dunelm.
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The final five candidates to go our new Prime number Minister are to take part in ii TV debates this weekend.
Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat volition go before the cameras this evening and on Sunday nighttime, before the next round of voting on Monday, and Tuesday.
Then the final 3 candidates will take part in a tertiary TV fence on Tuesday night.
It's the first opportunity for them to challenge each other, and defend their ideas in a live setting.
The Evening Standard's Deputy Political Editor David Bond explains how significant the Telly debates will be, the key subjects being discussed, and who may benefit the most from them.
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Emirates has today rejected Heathrow'south order to finish selling some plane tickets, to comply with its to 100,000-a-day cap on rider numbers.
The airline issued a statement accusing Heathrow of showing "blatant disregard for consumers" by attempting to forcefulness carriers to "deny seats to tens of thousands of travellers".
In response Heathrow said it had asked airlines to "assistance come upwardly with a plan to solve their resourcing challenges", but no clear plans were put forward, and the drome had "no choice" but to impose a capacity cap.
Travel Announcer Simon Calder explains what it all means for air travel out of Heathrow, and what might happen next.
And Travel Expert Rob Staines discusses the wider problems facing passengers, and when things might become back to normal.
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As the U.k.'southward heading for what could be a tape heatwave, UK government officials have declared the kickoff ever national heatwave emergency in England.
Temperatures are ready to soar above 30 degrees celsius between Sunday and Tuesday prompting a Met Office 'Amber Alert', warning that exceptionally high temperatures "could lead to widespread impacts on people and infrastructure."
It'south the latest reminder that global warming is escalating, and has provoked fresh calls for a focus on cutting emissions and using light-green free energy.
Met Office Meteorologist Greg Dewhurst explains what exactly is causing this week's heatwave, and why models suggest more are probable to occur in future.
And Climate Scientist at the University of Bristol Dr Eunice Lo explains the health concerns behind the heatwave, and tells u.s.a. more than action is needed to cutting dorsum on carbon emissions.
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Thirty years afterward existence illegally trafficked into the Britain nether the wrong proper name, Sir Mo Farah has finally revealed the story of how he came to the state.
In a BBC documentary the iv-time Olympic golden winner revealed that he was trafficked from his dwelling house in east Africa to the UK at just nine years erstwhile and forced to work equally a domestic servant.
He explains how he confided in his PE instructor, who helped him eventually motion in with another family.
The story has prompted a lot of reaction, and we speak with Social Worker Lauren Starkey from anti-trafficking charity Dearest 146 and the charity'south Managing director of Services Imogen Spencer-Campbell about the impact his story will accept.
And refugee and asylum specialist Louise Calvey explains the bug with processing those who've been trafficked into the country, and her hopes for change following Mo'south story.
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A total of eleven Bourgeois MPs accept officially launched campaigns to replace Boris Johnson every bit Prime Minister.
In various campaign videos from the likes of Tom Tugendhat, Sajid Javid, Suella Braverman, and Rishi Sunak we have seen promises around tax cuts, delivering Brexit and tackling immigration.
On Mon Environment Secretary George Eustice said he expected the number of candidates to be whittled downward to just two inside a fortnight.
The Evening Standard's Deputy Political Editor David Bond discusses his 'superlative 5' candidates; those most likely to become our new PM, and the most important policies during their campaigning.
Plus nosotros speak with Tory MP for the Isle of Wight Bob Seely almost his views on the candidates, who he believes are most likely to win, and what the conservative party is looking for in a new leader.
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The Queen's had a working relationship with 14 prime ministers during her 70-year reign, beginning with Sir Winston Churchill from 1952 to 1955.
Now, this week as the Downing Street psychodrama unfolded, the monarch and her staff will accept keenly followed developments.
Subsequently all, our monarchy remains woven into matters of state happening just downwardly the road from Buckingham Palace in Whitehall and the Palace of Westminster.
Could the Queen go dragged into the fallout from the Johnson premiership, and what was her relationship similar with the outgoing prime government minister?
We await at the Queen's role in times of national political flux and has the latest on the race to succeed Boris Johnson after his resignation voice communication.
It comes as Johnson defies calls to leave No.10 immediately as the hunt for his successor hots up, with senior Tories looking to September for getting a new prime number minister installed following shortlist selection, voting by party members and Parliamentary summer recess.
To requite usa a glimpse into the protocols and legal practicalities of the Queen'due south rapport with Boris Johnson, nosotros're joined by the Evening Standard's royal editor Robert Jobson.
The Leader also discusses whether there's ambition for constitutional reform under future monarchs Charles and William.
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Subsequently more than 50 MPs' resigned in a painful 24 hours for Boris Johnson, he's going, going...gone.
At about 12.30pm, the ominous Downing Street lectern was carried out into the road, for a speech marking the finish of 2 years and 348 days since Johnson became resident of United kingdom'due south most famous address - the aforementioned as Neville Chamberlain.
And while his innings weren't as long as Theresa May or David Cameron, he does vanquish the likes of Gordon Brownish and Sir Anthony Eden.
So what, or who, did for the scandal-ridden PM in the finish?
The knife was certainly twisted by Nadhim Zahawi, who called for Johnson to go but a day subsequently being made Chancellor - with the asking made on Treasury-headed notepaper.
The pound had a pocket-sized bounce and while the Conservatives seek to bless a successor, Labour are calling for an election to let the British public decide.
So, who'southward the all-time person to get our country back on an even keel?
We're joined by the Evening Standard'southward deputy political editor David Bond and ES columnist Ayesha Hazarika to examine today's bombshell developments.
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