we will come to lord ricketts in a moment- _ since. we will come to lord ricketts in a moment.photograph. my mum and dad lived in sussex. my headquarters where one i sussex. my headquarters where one mile away from where we lived. but we were stuck about an hour's drive away. i was the dispatch rider to take papers up every night. and then used to sleep at home. and with it, on the last weekend, i said to mum, i think we are moving, mum. straightaway, i was taken into ew copnall the photographer in horsham for a photograph. copnall the photographer in horsham fora photograph. i copnall the photographer in horsham for a photograph. i never thought about it, it was a nuisance, but as you can imagine, it was mum and dad thinking, wherever you are going, he is going to be killed. and that is the story of the photograph. a weird story but that is how it happened. the reality was so many young men like you lost their lives. we can speak to lord ricketts. looking at the pictures of the memorial, it looks poignant. how important that is there? , , looks poignant. how important that ist

lord ricketts, former national security adviser and former ambassador, now a crossbench peer.n england has told the bbc that hospitals are still under pressure and there must be an open debate about plans for a further easing of restriction. 0pposition politicians in israel are moving closer to forming a new government and removing the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, from power. and borisjohnson has married carrie symonds in a secret ceremony at westminster cathedral yesterday afternoon. vietnam has detected a new variant of the coronavirus that appears to be a combination of the indian and uk variants. the country's health minister said the latest mutation is more transmissible than previously known versions and described it as "very dangerous". after successfully containing the virus for most of last year, vietnam is now grappling with a spike in infections. doctor deepti gurdasani is an epidemiologist at queen mary, university of london and says this new variant is yet another reason to accelerate our vaccination programmes. i think it is certainly concerning. if we are

deval -- | lord ricketts, thank you very much.ivities. in an interview with the bbc, mr blinken said iran was getting closer to the point when it could produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon within a few months. here's our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. antony blinken, america's new top diplomat, at one of his first major international meetings this week, letting the world know the us was back on the diplomatic stage, ready to engage after four years of america first. but will he and the us agree to lift sanctions on iran in an attempt to revive the agreement that curbed the country's nuclear activities, a deal known by diplomats as thejcpoa? i think we've demonstrated our very seriousness of purpose in terms of wanting to get back into the so—called jcpoa, compliance for compliance. what we don't yet know is whether iran is prepared to make the same decision and to move forward. he also warned that the longer iran remained outside the deal, the time the country could take to produce weapons—grade nuclear material

lord ricketts is the former british ambassador to france and national security adviser, he's now a crossbenchste of money, because i don't think it's at all relevant to the way that modern business and modern contracts are negotiated. the government says it wants britain to be a science and technology superpower, which is great, but i don't think the corporate bosses of the world's great high—tech companies and financial companies are going to be all that impressed with an invitation to go to some distant port and have a cocktail on board a ship in the harbour. so, i think it harks back generations to the way export promotion was done many, many years ago. it isn't relevant to promoting modern high—tech britain in the modern world. so, how does an idea like that get signed off, then? because, presumably, enough people must think that this is a terrific idea if that much money is going to be spent? well, i mean, clearly some people think it's a great idea inside the government and the conservative party. i wonder how many senior british business leaders have been consulted. i doubt that they w

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lord ricketts is the former british ambassador to france and national security adviser, he's now a crossbenchink it's at all relevant to the way that modern business and modern contracts are negotiated. the government says it wants britain to be a science and technology superpower, which is great, but i don't think the corporate bosses of the world's great high—tech companies and financial companies are going to be all that impressed with an invitation to go to some distant port and have a cocktail on board a ship in the harbour. so, i think it harks back generations to the way export promotion was done many, many years ago. it isn't relevant to promoting modern high—tech britain in the modern world. the three peaks challenge, in which walkers tackle the highest points of scotland, england and wales one after the other, is one of britain's most popular endurance events. but three climbs aren't enough for one pair of fitness enthusiasts, who are planning to throw in a fourth — in northern ireland. oh, and they're going to row between each nation. alison freeman went to meet them. their home fo

lord ricketts is the former british ambassador to france and was national security adviser.. the government says it wants britain to be a science and technology superpower, which is great, but i don't think the corporate bosses of the world's great high—tech companies and financial companies are going to be all that impressed with an invitation to go to some distant port and have a cocktail on board a ship in the harbour. so, i think it harks back generations to the way export promotion was done many, many years ago. it isn't relevant to promoting modern high—tech britain in the modern world. the government will miss its deadline for completing applications for £5 billion worth of funding to remove flammable cladding in the wake of the grenfell tower fire. the bbc understands that managing agents who administer most tower blocks with dangerous cladding have yet to sign any contracts with the government which would release funding. hundreds of thousands of people remain concerned they won't be able to get dangerous cladding removed from their homes. here's our consumer affair