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“Book isn’t a detective who has a super-impossible brain…but he reads a lot.”

The crime series Bookish, written by and starring actor Mark Gatiss, is back for a second season.

Mark tells Today that behind the crime-solving and 1940s glamour, there’s an important message for the audience.

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“Somebody evil came to our synagogue last year and tried to destroy us, and we haven’t let that happen.”

It’s almost a year since the deadly attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, carried out during the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur, which killed two people.

Yoni Finlay was shot while attempting to barricade the doors. Speaking ahead of a memorial service, he says the pain and trauma haven’t gone away.

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“Release does not mean freedom.”

Alex Davies-Jones, the victims minister, has defended the new early release scheme, saying it’s important those released from prison “are managed effectively in the community.”

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“These prisoners need a time frame. They’re living in limbo.”

Shirley Debono’s son Shaun is currently in prison after being recalled for the fifth time since being handed an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence in 2006.

She says the government needs to provide more detail on what will happen to IPP prisoners.

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“When London is held back, the whole country suffers.”

Sir James Cleverly has resigned from his position on the Conservative shadow cabinet in order to run to be a candidate for the next London Mayoral Election.

He says London needs ‘a champion that’s got experience’.

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“If that parent has a diagnosis of a sick child, they’re leaving no matter what you say.”

There are calls for parents of children with serious health conditions to receive 12 weeks of paid parental leave - a proposal that has become known as Hugh’s law, named after Hugh Menai-Davis who died in 2021 at the age of six. He had cancer.

Hugh’s father Cerai speaks to us about why this law is so important.

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“He is choosing between far from ideal options.”

The Prime Minister says that anyone convicted of unlawful killing will be excluded from the new early release scheme starting next month.

Our political correspondent Iain Watson tells us more.

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This weekend, a Falcon Heavy rocket will carry NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into orbit, where it will study dark matter and hunt for exoplanets. Bear Witherspoon, part of NASA’s launch team, explains just how powerful it is.

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"We're hoping she calls us and she comes back."

Rescue efforts have resumed near the Nepal-Tibet border, after fears a lake of rising water could burst its banks halted operations. Rajendra Pudasaini's childhood friend Sarada, a nurse from Dartford, is missing after flash flooding devastated the region.

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"It never entered my mind to go back... I might get some closure.

At nearly 100 years old, Gabriele Keenaghan is going back to the station in Austria where she boarded a Kindertransport train in 1939.

She recalls the 'frightening experience' of leaving her grandmother behind.

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"You can really see him in a toga with a gold laurel wreath on his head... He is an imperial kind of president."

Author Robert Harris compares US President Trump to the rulers of ancient Rome, many of whom feature in his new novel, Agrippa.

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"Many children who went to school yesterday have not returned."

Ayush Joshi, the Director of Programmes for Save the Children in Nepal, describes the rescue and relief efforts after a massive flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border.

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The UK will host a counter terrorism hub to tackle extremism across the world alongside experts from the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

But independent terror legislation reviewer Jonathan Hall says the plans do not 'get to the root problem' of extreme violence online.

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"You're the energy secretary for goodness' sake, what a ridiculous thing to say."

@AmolRajan and Miatta Fanbulleh clash over her role in implementing emergency, or windfall, taxes to raise funds to help with the cost of living crisis.

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"There was no safeguarding... It beggars belief that an organisation that is front and central to our government cannot get it right."

David Moffat, whose daughter Chloe Moffat worked at the Treasury and took her own life after she was told of allegations she had shared confidential information, says 'there wasn't any duty of care' shown to Chloe by the Treasury.

A HMT spokesperson said: "The Treasury’s deepest sympathies continue to be with Chloe’s friends and family... We will learn the lessons from this tragedy. We are working urgently to respond to the coroner’s findings and we have introduced immediate changes to our guidance, support and wellbeing arrangements."

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"Our fiscal rules should never be so inflexible that we can't do things that are urgent, necessary and fair."

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown suggests to @AmolRajan an idea for new taxation which could raise up to £500m for those 'facing difficulty' with their fuel bills.

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The Royal College of Psychiatrists is issuing a public apology for what it says is years of mismanagement of adults seeking mental health support after suffering abuse as children.

Former college president Dr Lade Smith says current care is 'just not enough'.

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Energy prices for millions of households will rise by £60 a year on average from October under regulator Ofgem's price cap.

Neil Kenward, director general of markets at Ofgem, says further price rises could also not be ruled out.