let's talk now to martin tett, he is the transport spokesman for the local government association.lem is this? they a lwa ys how big a problem is this? they always seem to do it the busiest parts of the day on the busiest roads when it's most inconvenient. local councils lack the sort of power to make sure we minimise those disruptions which is why we are welcoming these new initiatives. it's not a new issue. i can remember, you may be able to remember, you may be able to remember this, as well, jeffrey archer when he was briefly the conservative candidate for mayor of london making this one of his campaign pledges. that was 20 years ago nearly now. yet nothing has happened since. i wonder is it that the utility companies are just better at lobbying government than you lot are? a trip down memory lane with jeffrey archer! this you lot are? a trip down memory lane withjeffrey archer! this is something that the time has come. local councils have been lobbying through our local government association for many, many years now for this power. government has a lwa ys for this power. gove

councillor simon blackburn is from the local government association. they are both here with us. nt those that do. simon comedy from the local government association. what difference do you think it will make? i think it will make a significant difference. consumers need all of the information they can to make a considered choice when they order food and, at the moment, the sad fa ct food and, at the moment, the sad fact is that if somebody gets a zero food rating they do not have to display that sticker on the door. we spoke about it earlier and what is obvious is that if you are a restau ra nt obvious is that if you are a restaurant that gets a zero rating you do not have a lot to gain from putting a zero rating on your window? what if you don't? what if you don't do that? what if you don't do it? there are no penalties in law at the moment or administrative penalties that they can put on people for failing to do that, hence urgent need for a change in the the urgent need for a change in the law. went to find them? it might be worth doing it and accepting the fine. how much woul

the local government association wants to see businesses that fail to comply fined or prosecuted.on donnison reports. all food outlets, including restaurants, pubs and takeaways, are given hygiene ratings by local councils. the scores range from zero to five. in wales and northern ireland, all food premises are legally required to publicly display those ratings, even if they have received a low score. but the same "scores on the doors" law, as it is known, does not apply in england, meaning a restaurant that might have been deemed to be filthy doesn't have to let its customers know. now, the local government association says brexit should be used as an opportunity to tighten the laws in england. the lga's calling for england to come in line with wales and northern ireland, and scores on the doors, the food hygiene ratings, are published on the premises‘s door, so that you know when you arrive at a restaurant exactly what is rating is. the lga says the change would encourage food outlets to improve hygiene, and reduce cases of food poisoning. jon donnison, bbc news. now the weather

the local government association has welcomed the proposals. simonjones reports. e and money. now the government is considering making companies pay to do work in peak time. i think that's a good idea, and it may cut the roadworks down and stagger them a bit more. you often come past and they'll be nobody here but a lot of the time, and you think, why did you dig it up if you are now working over there, you know, how can you do it? so, yeah, that could make a big, big difference. 2.5 million roadworks are carried out each year. it is estimated to cost the economy £4 billion, as people are late to work or deliveries don't arrive on time. companies could be charged up to £2500 per site, to work on roads during the day. the government says trials have already seen severe congestion fall by a half. we've been trialling it in london and kent and it's proved extremely successful, and we estimate that there's been about 600 less incursions into the highway surface than would have happened otherwise. motoring groups want some reassurances. the idea that lane rental will ac

the local government association wants to see businesses that fail to comply fined or prosecuted.and takeaways are given hygiene ratings by local councils. the scores range from zero to five. in wales and northern ireland, all food premises are legally required to publicly display those ratings, even if they've received a low score. but the same scores on the doors law, as it's known, does not apply in england, meaning a restaurant that might have been deemed to be filthy doesn't have to let its customers know. now the local government association says brexit should be used as an opportunity to tighten the laws in england. they're calling for england to come in line with wales and northern ireland and scores on the doors, the food hygiene ratings, are published on the premises doors, so you know when you arrive what the hygiene rating is. the lga says the change would encourage food outlets to improve hygiene and reduce cases of food poisoning. some of them are beautiful pieces of elegant victoriana. 0thers some of them are beautiful pieces of elegant victoriana. others have seen

the local government association wants to see businesses that fail to comply be fined or prosecuted.s. all food outlets, including restaurants, pubs and takeaways, are given hygiene ratings by local councils. the scores range from zero to five. in wales and northern ireland, all food premises are legally required to publicly display those ratings, even if they have received a low score. but the same "scores on the doors" law, as it is known, does not apply in england, meaning a restaurant that might have been deemed to be filthy doesn't have to let its customers know. now, the local government association says brexit should be used as an opportunity to tighten the laws in england. the lga's calling for england to come in line with wales and northern ireland, and scores on the doors, the food hygiene ratings, are published on the premises's door, so that you know when you arrive at a restaurant exactly what is rating is. the lga says the change would encourage food outlets to improve hygiene, and reduce cases of food poisoning. jon donnison, bbc news. let's go back to our lead story.

the paper also headlines research from the local government association which claims some of the poorestwill be 50 pounds a week worse off by the end of the decade. according to the sunday times, former prime minister tony blair claims that if the government brought in proper immigration controls it would be possible to take back control of the uk's borders without leaving the eu. the mail on sunday headlines news that the independent inquiry into child sex abuse is being widened to examine a separate police inquiry which investigated allegations against former prime minister sir edward heath. the sunday telegraph reports that theresa may is considering reducing the interest paid on student loans and ‘strong—arming' universities into lowering tuition fees in an attempt to win back younger voters. and let's find out what our guests think of some of these front pages. good evening to both of you. let's start with the big story about hurricane irma. the observer has the story, obviously the aftermath, about people begging for aid. one has every sympathy with these people. i cannot think of

the paper also headlines research from the local government association which claims some of the poorestwill be 50 pounds a week worse of by the end of the decade. according to the the sunday times, former prime minister tony blair claims that if the government brought in proper immigration controls, it would be possible to take back control of the uk‘s borders without leaving the eu. the mail on sunday headlines that the independent inquiry into child sex abuse is being widened to examine a separate police inquiry which investigated allegation that former prime minister sir edward heath was a paedophile. the sunday telegraph reports that theresa may is considering reducing the interest paid on student loans and strong—arming universities into lowering tuition fees in an attempt to win back younger voters. so, let's begin. we are going to start off with the observer. it is burma that is the big story at the moment, worried aboutjose big story at the moment, worried about jose but big story at the moment, worried aboutjose but it seems to be changing its track slightly. what happens after

the local government association has welcomed the proposals. simonjones reports. for motorists in leeds today, costing time and money. now the government is considering making companies pay to do work in peak time. i think that's a good idea, and it may cut the roadworks down and stagger them a bit more. you'll often come past and there'll be nobody here a lot of the time, and you think, why did you dig it up if you are now working over there, you know, how can you do it? so, yeah, that could make a big, big difference. 2.5 million roadworks are carried out each year. it is estimated to cost the economy £4 billion, as people are late for work or deliveries don't arrive on time. companies could be charged up to £2500 per site, to work on roads during the day. the government says trials have already seen severe congestion fall by a half. we've been trialling it in london and kent and it's proved extremely successful, and we estimate that there's been about 600 less incursions into the highway surface than would have happened otherwise. motoring groups want some reas

the local government association says schools will be thousands of places short over the next few yearsil and chair of the local government association children‘s board gave his reaction. surprised to hear the department for education thing steamy figures are misleading, they are based on the department‘s game figures. you are right it is not a surprise we have the balance coming to secondary schools, we have had 11 years notice. councils have been saying for a while this problem is coming down the road. we don‘t have the powers we need in order to make a good job of the basic responsibility we had to make sure every child has a school place. when you say don't have the power you mean over academies, or generally? two big problems we have had. two thirds of schools are academies. if push was to come to shove, councils don‘t have the power to force them to expand, if that is the only way of getting good school place for any child. have you had to do that with any academy? councils are pretty good trying to solve this problem. we have been doing it for a few yea rs we have been doing it f

the local government association wants to see businesses that fail to comply fined or prosecuted.bs and takeaways, are given hygiene ratings by local councils. the scores range from zero to five. in wales and northern ireland, all food premises are legally required to publicly display those ratings, even if they have received a low score. but the same "scores on the doors" law, as it is known, does not apply in england, meaning a restaurant that might have been deemed to be filthy doesn't have to let its customers know.

the local government association has praised the success of the pilot schemes and called for other councilsbe given the new powers as soon as possible. i'm joined now from our bristol studio by pete williams from the rac. let me ask you first of all about this scheme. it sounds like the kind of thing everybody would agree is a goodidea of thing everybody would agree is a good idea and i can rememberjeffrey archer when he was running for mayor of london briefly at the end of the end of the last century saying we should do this, we are nearly 20 yea rs should do this, we are nearly 20 years on, why hasn't it happened, do you think? well, i don't know. i think most people would welcome this novel approach, clearly there's nothing more frustrating than being delayed by roadworks and then finally you get waved through, you can see very little work actually taking place. so the idea that lane rental will be introduced to encourage the utility companies to conduct their roadworks more efficiently is great news. we just wa nt to efficiently is great news. we just want to ensure that the quality of

and with me is david simmonds, the conservative vice chairman of the local government association.tem and start again, targeting just the poorest families. well, notjust the very poorest. i think what we have got to have with the early years is some really clear policy objectives and i think what your film showed as the myriad of schemes that we have are failing many objectives at the same time. there are two reasons why the state should invest in early years and childcare. one is to support working families to go back to work, to boost maternal employment rates. and the second is for social mobility reasons, to close and narrowed that developmental and educational gap that exists already by the age of five. so why would you not wanted to go as widely you could? both reasons apply to nearly all families, right? yes, they can do, but what we are seeing under this government is the skewing of that money now very much focused on working families. and better off working families, not even lower income working families. a report i published yesterday with the social market foundation, t

so, first of all, do you agree with the assessment from the local government association, which is forecastingassociation is the spokes body for the councils, for local councils. and local councillors and their officials know just how many school places they've got and how many they need. their previous forecasts about primary school places have been accurate. and actually, you know, the figures are very easy to get, because these are very easy to get, because these are real children moving from primary to secondary schools the bike as we mentioned in the introduction, the department for education says these figures are thoroughly misleading. i mean, we are getting the part opposite response to what the lg eight years saying. who is right and who is wrong, or is the answer is somewhere in the middle? well, the children that are there, the school places that are there, the school places that are there, the school places that are currently available are there. the councils know the amount of children they have in their schools. a big bulge of children per yearin schools. a big bulge of children

the local government association has praised the success of the pilot schemes and called for other councils new powers as soon as possible. and we'll be speaking to the rac to see what they think of the proposals in an hour's time. it's now believed more than m00 people have died, after catastrophic flooding across several south asian countries following heavy monsoons. about 41 million people have been affected, in bangladesh, nepaland india. millions have been left homeless, and more than 950,000 homes have been destroyed. parts of india's financial centre, in mumbai, are under severalfeet of water; and in the eastern state of bihar more than 500 people have been killed. 0ur south asia correspondent, justin rowlatt, is in bihar where the water is continuing to rise. it is still raining here. we took a walk outside of the compound that we are in at the moment, and we walked down the road and actually floods have risen just from the small amount of rain that we have had this morning. i think that gives you a sense of just how vulnerable these areas are. the ground is waterlogged. even small

the local government of the local government association said they could be a shortage of school places— department for education. which one of you is right? these figures cannot be a surprise, with the primary figures you note what is coming? i'm surprised to hear the department for education thinks these figures are misleading, it is based on their own figures. not a surprise we have this bowl is coming into secondary schools. we have had 11 years notice. councils have said this problem is coming down the road, we simply don't have the powers we need to make a good job of the basic responsibility to make sure every child has a school place. when you say you don't have powers, over academies and generally? there are two big problems, two thirds of secondary schools are academies. if bush was to come to shove, councils don't have the power to force them to expand if that was the only way of getting a good school place for every child. have you had to do that with every academy? councils are pretty good at solving this problem, we have been doing it for a few yea rs we have been doing it

a study by the local government association says 8a% of thoseit government association says 8a% of thosen or couples. 0n the daily telegraph, pictures from strictly last night, their lead story concerns an apparent attempt by the conservative party to bring back younger voters, saying they will be reviewing the interest rates on student loans, possibly looking at cutting them, this after the paper says young voters abandoned the conservatives in droves at the election afterjeremy corbyn promised to scrap tuition fees. and on the front of the sunday times, blair gets tough on migrants, tony blair gets tough on migrants, tony blair demanding tough new immigration rules, arguing that the open borders he presided over as prime minister are no longer appropriate. tony blair has put his name toa appropriate. tony blair has put his name to a report asking for eu migrants that come to britain to register on arrival, so they can be counted when they arrive and then counted when they arrive and then counted when they leave. it says those who fail to register would be banned from doing basic things

the local government association has praised the success of the pilot schemes, and called for other councilsen the new powers as soon as possible. in around an hour's time, we will be talking to a government minister about those proposals. more heavy rain is forecast in south asia, where this year's monsoon season has left millions of people displaced. it is now believed more than 1,400 people have died. parts of india's financial centre, mumbai, are under several feet of water. 0ur south asia correspondent justin rowlatt is in the eastern state of bihar, one of the worst—affected areas. we can talk to him now. justin, we have seen some absolutely... pictures of devastation, awful pictures. i can see people are getting behind you, on with their daily lives, but the impact must have been very, very severe. it is incredibly severe. i mean, just in this one state in northern and eastern india, we are talking 17 million people affected, more than 500 people killed. and as you say, across the region, 1400 people killed. 41 million people affected. as you can see the rains have stopped here. more

the local government association has praised the success of the pilot schemes and called for other councils the new powers as soon as possible. the labour mp sarah champion, who resigned from her shadow cabinet post last month, has attacked her party from moving away from its northern heartlands. she quit as shadow women and equalities minister, after she was criticised for a newspaper article she wrote about grooming gangs in newcastle. —— in the rotherham, her constituency. let's get more from our political correspondent mark lobel, who's in our london newsroom. remind us what it was she wrote about, why she resigned and what she had said now? sarah champion apologised for a poor choice of words for an article written in last month's sun following a child abuse scandal in newcastle, in which he said british has —— britain has a problem with british pakistani men raping white girls. in an interview since she resided in today's the times she said her inbox has gone nuts from members of the police, health professionals and social workers thanking her for raising the issue. she goes into more

the local government association has praised the success of the pilot schemes, and called for other councils the new powers as soon as possible. in a few minutes‘ time, we will be talking to a government minister about those proposals. keen to hear what you think of the idea as well. let us know in the usual way. a former shadow cabinet minister has warned that a significant gap has appeared between attitudes in london and labour's northern heartlands. rotherham mp sarah champion resigned as shadow women and equalities minister last month over comments she made about the newcastle grooming scandal. let's get more from our political correspondent mark lobel, who is in our london newsroom. it is interesting, this is basically her explaining the rationale and high in the article she wrote which proved to be so controversial. that's right, the original article she wrote she apologise for. she apologised for her poor choice of words, she wrote in the sun that written has a problem with pakistani men seducing young girls —— britain has a problem. she says that since that time she has been thanked

the local government association has praised the success of the pilot schemes and called for other councils powers as soon as possible. the former shadow women's and equalities minister sarah champion has been talking about divisions in the country. we are going to talk to our political correspondent, in our london newsroom. sarah champion caused some controversy about an article that her name was put two and comments about men who groom young women? yes, sarah champion has apologised for the poor choice of words used in that article in last month's the sun newspaper, in which it was said britain has a problem with british pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls following a child abuse scandal in newcastle. in herfirst interview since resigning, in today's times, she said her e—mail inbox has gone nuts with members of the police, social workers and health professionals thanking her for raising the issue. she goes into more detail about the issue today. she describes the crime model of the sex gangs, which he says are full of friends and extended family members, trafficking goals to

local government. it was not widespread by any means. did you see any signs of it in your stores. it's been about making sure that the associatested for. the majority of the stores have a generator. we are working on refueling and being able to reopen at the stores we understand how vitally important the supermarket is to the community. i imagine they were sold out of a lot of the stuff the people now need i am sure your employees are looking to do all they can to resupply your guys and get you back in business. are they all accounted for. our associates are accounted for. they had been great as well. and then just under seen understand the needs of the community. we will have a great team of folks. the name is known by every floridian. everybody has a publix it seems in their neighborhood. his estate helping you out. as estate helping you to recover. we are working with local government and officials trying to get back into our stores and understanding the magnitude it takes everyone working together everyone from the associate to the distribution to the support folks. everybody is working together. no matter what we will pull

in south carolina, she served as managing director for a local history museum and on the governing board for the south carolina archival association. serviceshe director of for the louisiana state museum, a state like vcm system that maintains nine museums. she has an active in the southeast museums conference and currently serves as the vice president. she also bachelor of arts degree from louisiana state university, a master of liberal studies from the university of oklahoma, and is currently enrolled in a professional certificate program in nonprofit ministries and at the university of montana. our second speaker, dr. david nichols joins us by phone. he is a presidential historian and leading authority on the presidency of dwight eisenhower. the spoken president eisenhower and civil rights. 2007. published in this publisher, simon & schuster, describes it as the definitive book on eisenhower's civil rights policies. he wrote a book on the suez canal crisis, and his name's book, "eisenhower and mccarthy: eisenhower's secret campaign against mccarthy," documents how he destroyed senator mccarthy's political influence. dr. nichols

local governments. secondly, what we're being told here, about the government's so—called concession i think is pretty miserable. i talked to the prison officers associationd police officers and it's just nowhere near good officers and police officers and it'sjust nowhere near good enough. would you say members of your union would be minded to strike over this because it's something that len mccluskey has been very vocal about today? yes. we seconded the motion here yesterday, unanimously carried. we called for co—ordinated industrial action against the whole of the public sector if the government doesn't use the budget to scrap the pay cap, put money into the public sector, to increase budgets and allow for above inflation pay rises. members working injob centres, courts inflation pay rises. members working in job centres, courts and inflation pay rises. members working injob centres, courts and prisons had seven years of pay cuts, £3,500 worse off in real terms. any pay rise this year that is less than inflation is a further pay cut. we are balloting all of our members next month on the question of industrial action to see whether they are prepared to t

the associated press reports most of the letters were sent right before lawmakers were re-elected. >> new storm water fee. new legislation was approved. it will give local governmentson to charge for storm water management systems without going to the voters for approval. the supporters say this will help prevent flooding and save water. opponents say this violates the right to vote on taxes. >>> taking on a controversial breitbart. right-wing figures like my low yannapoulos arguing they just want to provoke people. napolitano addressed the political science group last night saying white supremacy cannot be tolerated but stopped short saying such people should be denied the right to speak on college campuses. >>> 4:52 and looking live at the bay bridge will be closed briefly tomorrow as we say good-bye to the old eastern span. crew also start the final round of implosions to remove the foundation piers that once supported the bridge. divers who can take note -- drivers, i should say -- will briefly close the eastern span of the bridge for about 20 minutes for each of the implosions. there are 11 piers. implosions began 10:30 saturday morning. if the seals get too c

joining me now is alan wood, a former president of the association of directors of children's services. he led a government review into localn. a lack of professional curiosity is the upshot pretty much of this serious case review into this terrible death. effectively, the care workers, and other agencies, failing to look into the interests of the child and taking at face value of the mother was saying. i think this lack of authoritative curiosity is common feature in serious case review reports. in this case, it is not just in the social work profession, it is across health and other agencies. it is an issue that is of significant concern. it has been pointed out in a number of reviews and we don't seem yet to have been able to establish a way of assuring that her social workers have the authority and ability to look beyond the parental information and to challenge and ask questions of pa rents, challenge and ask questions of parents, but also make sure that they can find what the thinks, even very young children like ayeeshia—jayne. 0ur very young children like ayeeshia—jayne. our best police officers and social workers d

local governments. >> never before has there been anything like this. thejor company -- headquarters will cost $5 billion. they do have an association for this.cal robot -- they would keep the systems back in 2012. they do have infrastructure there, which would give them some experience in the region. >> it's not a lot, it's not that they've decided everything. other factors in proximity to harvard, m.i.t.. >> we should mention amazon declined to comment. as we continue to look for details, we will keep you posted. amazon has been in e-commerce for decades. hopefully this has been aggressively lowering prices. when you look at this -- targeting customer data, it is still missing a mark. here to talk about this paradox -- is a columnist who writes about this. and a bloomberg news reporter who covers amazon. about amazon and its brick-and-mortar duction want to get your thoughts on potentially choosing boston as a second headquarters. it was a west coast and the east coast. >> we have been looking at boston for quite some time. we've been closely tracking, there have been a lot of job postings there. this high-level palette -- mainly facial rec

local governments. both of the hurricanes have katrnstrated that. it had good intergovernmental cooperation. ever since the unfortunate aspects of what happened during katrina many years ago, a lot of lessons were learned in the national governors association'' has worked hard to make sure there's talking between the federal government and states before disaster occurs so we are ready.av i think we seen the evidence of that in these two disasters. >> host: you brought up the opiate crisis across the country, do states want the president to declare some sortrt of emergency? >> guest: there's different views on that. i think what it comes down to and were seen it now is that states want to make sure there is enormous amount of cooperation between the federal government states and local governments to deal with it. there has been sun but i think we need to continue to do what we cam into until the deaths go down were not seen the result that governors want. there really focused on the actual result. >> what are governors doing? are they spending taxpayer money on a statein level? >> guest: they are. it's a high priority for governors through the national governors association virtually every governor signed on ensuring collaboration among the

local governments and others which. we found epa does not have sufficient information about the work load associated with the grants. the agency is not able to effectively allocate staff across offices and regions to manage these grants. because the agency did not know its grants work load it sometimes has to shift staff from other mission areas to address the work. we recommended that epa collect and analyze data about grants management work loads and use these data to inform staff allocations. epa agreed with this recommendation and initiated steps to address it and we will continue to monitor epa's actions to figure out what the status is. we have identified many benefits such as programmatic and process improvements based on epa taking actions on our recommendations. for example, we issued several reports on drinking water and wastewater infrastructure issues. in particular, we reported on drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs for rural and small communities. we found that some communities faced potentially duplicate programs resulting in delays and increased cost to communities. we recommended that

local governments and others which make up almost 50% of the agency's budget. we found that epa does not have sufficient information about the workload associated with these grants. consequently, the agency's not able the effectively and efficiently allocate staff across its offices and regions to manage these grants. because the agency did not know its grants' workload, it sometimes had to shift staff from other mission areas to address the work. we recommended that epa collect and analyze data about grants management workloads and use these data to inform staff allocations. epa agreed with this recommendation and niche candidateuatedded step -- initiated steps to address it, and we will continue to monitor epa's action to make sure -- to figure out what the status of the reqs are. .. they were to make government programs more effective and efficient. the implementation of our recommendation will help improve performance and efficiency and effectiveness of its operation. we will continue to work with congress to monitor and draw attention to these important shifts. this concludes my statement. i would be happy to answer any questions. thank you for your words o

association owned tower blocks have full sprinkler systems, are you surprised? not at all. the government isn't backing for it all pushing for it so why should localto do that retrospectively it would cost, what, hundreds of millions of pounds? it would cost quite a bit. the experiment where they retrofitted to a tower block a few years back was coming out at £1500 per flat, less few years back was coming out at £1500 perflat, less than few years back was coming out at £1500 per flat, less than a top range washing machine. it is not that expensive. the perceived problems with it don't actually exist. they are hidden away so you can't see them until they actually are needed, then they will pop down and come out and spray the area. had they been fitted at grenfell, the fire would have been at least retained in the kitchen if not com pletely retained in the kitchen if not completely extinguished.” retained in the kitchen if not completely extinguished. i was going to ask what difference you feel it would have made to the grenfell disaster. it would have been a life—saver. if the remote situation, that it had escaped through the window, the sprinkles