Morning briefing Wednesday 30th September

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0:38Search IG.com to find out more. IG. Trade. Invest. Progress. Your capital is at risk. Other fees may apply. This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Wednesday 30th September. Senior figures in Europe are suggesting Andy Burnham and his team will need to be creative to attract the attention of the EU, after the Prime Minister pledged to set out a clear path on the long-term relationship with Brussels. In his conference speech in Liverpool, Burnham said he will set out options before a summit with EU leaders later this year. Speaking to Times Radio, the former French diplomat, François-Joseph Chichon, said several new approaches are open to the UK.

1:22For example, look at what Canada is doing with the EU. With an associate membership status, we still need to be defined, but that could be an option as well. Over the past few years the EU has changed quite a lot as well and therefore the old template or options, customs union, single market, all of that needs to be reassessed in light of the new situation and I hope that is what is going to happen." One of the five men arrested near an RAF base in Gloucestershire in the early hours of Sunday had earlier contacted the police in a 999 call. The Times has learned the suspects called the police at 12.45 on Sunday morning, almost an hour before a local farmer reported a group of men in balaclavas acting suspiciously.

2:04The crime and policing commentator Danny Shaw says this corroborates claims made by the police. The member of the public, the farmer who was coming back from a night out, saw these suspicious fans, suspicious people in the fields and called the police. That was timed, she said, at about 1.35 in the morning. But the police statement made clear that they were alerted at a quarter to one in the morning, that the call was made actually by one of the five suspects. It's understood the police investigation is now focused on whether the group who've been released on bail were acting as proxies for Iran in either a dry run to test security or a surveillance operation.

2:44Manchester City faced the threat of severe punishments after an independent commission found they had clearly intended to circumvent Premier League rules. The former Premier League champions arranged sham contracts and artificially inflated their revenue by more than£900 million to bypass financial regulations over a period of nine seasons. In one finding, it was established that City recorded£360 million in sponsor fees in three seasons that they won the Premier League, but only£43 million of it was legitimate. but Matt Lorton, the chief sports correspondent of the Times, says the conclusion of this legal battle is still a long way off.

3:23It could well run beyond the end of this season. This thing's been going already for eight years and the one thing I'm sure of is that City will fight this all the way because all their messaging is very aggressive and they will chuck everything at it. City continue to deny wrongdoing and a treatment for endometriosis will be trialled in Scotland as part of a£2.3 million study. The University of Aberdeen will examine whether a remotely delivered pain management programme can help women whose symptoms can't be controlled by surgery or medication. Endometriosis affects one in ten women and causes pelvic pain and chronic fatigue.

4:01There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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