all of the day's top stories with alex cairns and candice holdsworth .th. >> tomorrow starts friendship month. oh, isn't that nice? well we'll be speaking to jane nelson. different nelson, this time to explain why it's so important for overfifties to forge friendships later in life. >> yeah. important conversation. yeah. elsewhere, 9 in 10 brits say certain childhood foods evoke nostalgic feelings. so we want to know which generational meal is your favourite. chef hannah young will be here to share some blasts from the past . share some blasts from the past. >> you know, i've been thinking about this nostalgic childhood foods, and i want to add the potato smiley faces. >> oh, yeah, we still have those now, do we? yeah, the kids have them. >> oh, do they, do they like them? >> yeah. and. sorry, jamie oliver, but turkey twizzlers. i know they're probably not too great, but they're still doing the rounds, are they? >> yeah. so you're across all of this stuff? yeah, yeah, keep them coming in. we've had loads, andifs them coming in. we've had loads, and it's

i'm joined now by the barrister sam fowles, writer and broadcaster candice holdsworth and former labourster bill rammell. welcome to gb news lviv to you all, bill, that interesting quote from harris there, a former labour minister. he's right, isn't he? it can't go on like this. >> no, he's not right. and look, tom harris, has ceased to be a labour activist and is now an attack dog in the telegraph , attack dog in the telegraph, constantly attacking the labour party. so it's no surprise what he says. but i think the settlement of these strikes were about fairness and getting britain back to work. there was a very strong economic imperative that the strikes were holding us back . and partly it's holding us back. and partly it's clearing up the legacy, you know, public sector pay is always kept excessively low under tory governments. that hits recruitment. it hits retention , it hits staff morale, retention, it hits staff morale, which impacts upon the public through public services. so it's partly rebalancing, but it's also getting better value for the taxpayer. you know, the rail strike

right, let's see what's in the papers this morning with candice holdsworth and stephanie takyi.ing piece in the daily mail about a village that could become a city. yes. >> so this this is so relevant to our time. so this is a story in the daily mail. it's about a bedfordshire town called tempsford, and it's been earmarked out by the new new towns task force. they want to do all this building and have way more houses. and it's been earmarked for like huge growth and development, but to the point where it's gone from like a tiny, sleepy little village into a town of 350,000 people, which , understandably, the which, understandably, the residents of the town don't want that. >> i mean, we're seeing pictures of what it's like at the moment, andifs of what it's like at the moment, and it's a, you know, a proper little english village. >> yes. i mean, we need houses population 600 at the moment. yes. i mean, there's two sides to this. we obviously need to build more houses. there's a lot there's a huge problem with younger people not being able to get on the housing ladder, but you c

>> yes, and we're going through the papers now with candice holdsworth and emma woolf.h this morning. emma, let's start with you, shall we? and look at the front page of the times. and this is rachel reeves feeling the heat over winter fuel benefit cuts. indeed. >> so we've seen this sort of ongoing mounting furore, really, over the decision to cut winter fuel allowance for those pensioners who aren't on benefits. and it can be worth up to around £300 for the over 80s. and now it seems that she's kind of feeling the heat, i should say, even within her own party, there are mps privately saying that they may well rebel against this. there are ministers actually coming out and saying, you know, this is not acceptable. they're expressing deep concern at the impact of this, and it comes at a really bad time for the energy regulator, have announced this. the energy price cap is rising again. so that will be another £149 a year on average from the start of october. i think a lot of people are looking forward to the winter and thinking, my goodness, not only are their bills goi

all of today's top stories with today, alex cairns and candice holdsworth will be heading to the us because the presidential race with us. >> and is sir keir starmer right to clamp down on smoking in outdoor spaces, or does he need to butt out ? to butt out? >> now, if i was to say to you what food reminds you of your childhood, what would you say? ben curly wurlys chomps freddos space raiders. >> do you remember those? >> do you remember those? >> are they the crisps? >> are they the crisps? >> yeah. rempe.