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Hello, I'm Sean Curran and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Tuesday the 6th of January,

when senior officers from West Midlands Police defended the decision to ban Israeli football fans from a match in Birmingham last year.

I understand the frustration, but there is no conspiracy here. This was a decision based on safety.

There are tough questions for the boss of South East Water after his customers were cut off for six days.

You weren't half a million pound last year.

Why the hell were you not working at the weekend during a crisis?

And as the government announces plans to tighten up the UK's cyber security,

one MP thinks it's about time.

It cannot be acceptable that the most popular password in the United Kingdom is, and I quote, password.

But first, senior police officers have defended the decision to ban supporters of an Israeli football team

from attending a match in Birmingham in November.

The ban was controversial.

The Prime Minister called it the wrong decision and West Midlands

Police was accused of anti-Semitism. MPs on the cross-party Home Affairs Committee have been

investigating and they recalled West Midlands Police to give further evidence today. The forces

chief constable Craig Guilford insisted that politics had not played a part in the

decision to ban fans of Maccabee Tel Aviv from attending a Europa League game against Aston Villa.

My honest personal opinion is that the decision wasn't influenced by politics. Lots of local politicians and local members of the community,

I'm sure wanted to try and influence it, but I honestly don't think it was influenced.

Birmingham's Safety Advisory Group, which is made up of representatives from the council,

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