Morning briefing Thursday 20th August

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0:43The Sun has revealed that Archie and Lilibet have been enrolled at a British school, with the family expected to live in a private home outside of London. Harry and Meghan are not expected to return as working royals, but Jack Royston, Newsweek's chief royal correspondent, told Times Radio it will still be difficult. It's highly likely that Harry will be going out there visiting the charities that he worked with when he was a working royal. It will be the same organisations. And it will look very much like he's back doing the work of a royal family member, which is obviously going to be very difficult for William and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, because the very fact that Harry and Meghan are newly returned to Britain will make every single thing they do massive, massive news.

1:26Shibana Mahmood has exclusively told The Times that the government will spread asylum accommodation more fairly across the UK, with more migrants housed in wealthy areas. The Home Secretary says she wants a mixed model system where large military sites, old student apartments and homes of multiple occupancy will be used to house asylum seekers. She's also stressed that no type of community will bear the brunt. Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, told Times Radio this is good news. Go back 10 years, 75 % of council areas weren't hosting any asylum seekers at all. It's only 10 % now. There are relatively few areas that don't have anybody at all.

2:03It's still true of the Cotswolds. for example, or the new forest, but it has been spreading out. But I think we should be changing everything about the way we do this, because I think it's been really bad the way we've done it for communities. I think it's been bad for the taxpayer. I think it's been pretty bad for asylum seekers. Donald Trump's again threatened Iran with the most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country. Posting on social media overnight, the US president said it's after Iran failed to take a deal, resulting in what he called economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.

2:35A cancer specialist has told Times Radio it's great news that a cancer vaccine, personalised for each patient, has succeeded in a large final stage trial. The Moderna and Merck jab was given to patients with high-risk melanoma after they had surgery. The pharma companies found combining it with an immunotherapy drug significantly extended the time people remained cancer-free. Pat Price, an oncologist and chair of Radiotherapy UK told Times Radio we have the Covid vaccine to partly thank. We took so long to make vaccines before and then suddenly all that technology, a good thing came out of Covid and now this is it because you have to do it for the patient's tumour so it takes about four to six weeks but if we had the old way of making vaccines it just wouldn't be undoable.

3:22Of course it's not for everybody's tumour and it won't work in everybody and it's not appropriate for everybody but let's hope there'll be a small group of patients who it's going to be really successful in. And the Prime Minister's pledge that the days of criminal gangs making easy money from dumping waste are over. Andy Burnham's ordered a new crackdown on gangs profiting from illegal waste and promised to clean up three more of the country's toxic dumps. Fines for waste offences will rise from£300 to£5 ,000, while the use of drones will also increase. Local mayors will also be expected to lead efforts in their areas.

3:57And you can hear more on all of these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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