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How might the pandemic affect the numbers of those seeking treatment or being diagnosed for cancer in the future?Stephen Nolan talks to people who have been undergoing cancer treatment during the Covi...

22 Aug 202029min

Schools Minister Nick Gibb MP speaks to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Nicky Campbell about the government’s exam algorithm, which downgraded around 40% of last week's A level results, leading to a public outcry ...

20 Aug 202016min

Tens of thousands of students may now have the grades to trade up to their first-choice university offers, following the government's grading U-turn. But will there be enough university places for eve...

18 Aug 202046min

With so much anger around about the A-levels situation, on today's Your Call Nicky Campbell focuses on the solutions. What could have been done better?

14 Aug 202048min

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham tells Stephen Nolan that we have the month of August to get track and trace sorted out or we should be closing pubs when schools go back.

8 Aug 202025min

The Hiroshima bomb, known as "Little Boy" devastated an area of five square miles. The initial blast killed nearly 120,000 people - with the after-effects of radiation killing many thousands more. A...

6 Aug 202021min

Rescue workers in Lebanon are searching for more than a hundred people who are missing after a huge explosion devastated the port area of the capital Beirut on Tuesday.The blast killed at least 100 pe...

5 Aug 202047min

Millions of people in parts of northern England are now facing new restrictions, banning separate households from meeting each other at home after a spike in Covid-19 cases.The rules impact people in ...

31 Jul 202048min