This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. Should we begin with a game?

I get a quick game off the ground. This is quite a good

one actually. Missing word round. It seems to be growing in popularity. Completely unoriginal idea. It's been

on forever. But if you find the right story, they are rather splendid. There's two questions here,

actually. Two questions in one, two games in one. So here's the headline with the word

cunningly removed by me, although there have been occasions

in the past when I've accidentally read out the missing word and then carried on regardless and

pretended as if I hadn't. And you still got it wrong.

South Korean man blank his way out of doing military service.

South Korean man blank his way out of doing military service.

And the second question, which is linked to that, is why didn't I do this yesterday?

I suspect you'll be able to work that out if indeed you were listening yesterday.

If you weren't, you know how it works.

I need a letter off your mum by the end of break today.

Who can ring in?

Well, everyone can technically, theoretically, anyone can,

but who is actually qualified to contribute to a conversation about the floods that have once again

blighted swathes of the United Kingdom? A major incident declared at an aquedrome in

Northamptonshire where people were rescued from

flooded homes and stranded vehicles huge disruption on the rail network in parts of southern

england and wales with lines blocked by floodwater fallen trees debris everywhere fire crews rescued

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