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It's all moving along very nicely this morning.

There's hardly anything to complain about, and everyone is getting along swimming.

Even Emmanuel Macron is calling on the EU to offer Theresa May a deal on Brexit.

So I'm not sure what we're going to do a show about this morning.

Well, at least I wasn't sure until I saw this story.

Don't worry, we've managed to find some people who aren't entirely happy with their lot.

Apparently 13 weeks holiday and an average salary of 38,000 quid isn't good enough for the teachers of this country.

And they're all leaving the profession in droves. Where are they going to get better conditions and better pay than that?

We'll be finding out.

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We'll be talking to Jerry Glazier from the National Union of Teachers.

Daisy McAndrew is here and we'll be looking at whether a government ban on energy drinks to the under 18s is actually a good idea and indeed is it workable.

And why air conditioning is the new battleground in the war of the sexes we'll be turning up the heat well actually i'll be

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We are talking about the classroom this morning because apparently there's a shortage of teachers.

They're going to be an even bigger shortage of teachers in the coming years if we don't do something about it.

We're just talking there to a member of the NUT who said the idea of offering bonuses to bring more teachers in to teach maths and science

is the wrong idea and it won't work. Samantha says the thought of today's often unruly kids

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