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07/03/2017

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Would you like to see an early general election?

Would you like to see an early general election? And how do you start a conversation about mental health? We speak to the man who wears a badge to signify his mental health issue.

Prime Minister Theresa May should call an early general election, former Tory leader Lord Hague has urged.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Lord Hague said bringing forward an election "would strengthen the government's hand at home and abroad" which could help with Brexit negotiations.
Would you like to see an early general election?

We speak to Kerrie Keen whose newborn baby, born with cerebral palsy, took comfort from his twin brother as they lay next to one another in an incubator 
Helen Peck, Scottish coordinator of Twins charity, Tamba

Over the past few weeks, BBC Two has been giving us an insight into life in the House of Lords in it's three part series Meet The Lords.
Later this month, on 21st March there will be an election into the House of Lords following the death of Lord Lyell. 
Joining us now to discuss that election and the relevance of the house of lords to the nation and it's governance are: 
Lord George Foulkes Former MP and MSP and is now in Lords, Millbank, Katie Ghose is Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society and Robert Hazell is Professor of Government & The Constitution in the School of Public Policy at University College London.


See Me Champion Richard Monaghan has started a campaign encouraging people to start conversations about mental health. He asks people to wear a See Me badge for a day and then pass it on to someone else to wear for the next 24 hours, when they pass it on, they share two facts about themselves.
So how do we start the conversation on mental health?


20 years ago Deborah Alessi fled Scotland amid an abusive relationship. Now with the help of her new husband she runs a charity that gives women, who have been disfigured by a violent partner, free facial plastic surgery. 


Can you Name the Place? 

CLUE 1: SCOTTISH PLACE-NAMES COME FROM A WIDE RANGE OF LANGUAGES. TODAY'S PLACE-NAME IS PART OLD ENGLISH, PART OLD NORSE, AND PART CELTIC - BUT THERE ARE ONLY TWO PARTS TO IT!

CLUE 2: THE PLACE-NAME REFERS TO THE SAME TYPE OF BUILDING AS KILMARNOCK AND ECCLEFECHAN.

CLUE 3: DOROTHY L. SAYERS' CRIME NOVEL THE FIVE RED HERRINGS WAS SET HERE.

CLUE 4: THERE IS NO CONNECTION WITH DONKEYS.

CLUE 5: THERE WAS A SONG ABOUT A CENTIPEDE THAT CAME FROM THIS TOWN.

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