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Lewis Goodall hosts a special report from Port Talbot, South Wales, where thousands of jobs are about to be lost at Tata Steel.
Port Talbot is Britain's last great steelworks, and a community has been built around it for generations. But Tata has announced 2,800 job losses across the UK as part of the closure of the site's blast furnaces and a transition to greener steelmaking.
We visited the site and the town itself, to assess the impact it could have on an economy already battered by the de-industrialisation of the 1980s.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Field Producer: Rory Symon
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
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This week on The Sports Agents, Gabby & Mark took a closer look at a controversial new rule in cricket - the impact player in the IPL - and whether it's introduction became a threat to the fabric of the sport.
The Telegraph's Nick Hoult joined us in the studio to discuss it's impact on the game and whether the current domestic schedule demands too much from players.
And with the 'fight of the century' a week away between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, just how big is the latest drug scandal to hit boxing?
Two-weight world champion Carl Frampton and broadcaster Adam Catterall explore how sensation Ryan Garcia is making headlines.
Catch up with full episodes for more on how much Declan Rice's West Ham depature impacted David Moyes and his final season at the club, and just how do Real Madrid always find a way in the Champions League?
New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.

Did the Labour Party screw up in welcoming Natalie Elphicke into its party?
One former frontbencher tells us Keir Stamer got this wrong.
They're calling on him to now re-admit Dianne Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn into the Labour fold.
Has Keir just made his life much harder in search of onesexy headline?
Later, Is Biden about to stop arms sales to Israel - and why doesn't the Speaker of the House know about this?
And what's happening to Israel's Eurovision entry. Can we remove politics from the cultural stage?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Shane Fennelly & Arvind Badewal
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Very little political news is truly jaw dropping. But this morning's was. Natalie Elphicke, on the Conservative right of the party, and MP for Dover, has defected to Labour.
She crossed the floor before Prime Minister's Questions and was warmly welcomed by Keir Starmer. It was not so long ago that Rachel Reeves was telling Elphicke to "fuck off", after her comments about Marcus Rashford. And it was not so long ago Elphicke herself was defending her convicted sex offender husband as being the 'victim of dirty politics'. Is this really the new face of Labour?
Later, why has Astra Zeneca pulled it's Covid vaccine from the shelf. Is this about legal woes? Or commercial ones? And where is this country now on vaccine hesitancy?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Shane Fennelly & Arvind Badewal
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The government is determined not to let a little thing like a disastrous set of local elections put it off its stride.
Over the course of the bank holiday we were told that 'the plan is working... it just needs a little more time'.
Labour is having none of it - accusing the PM of 'gaslighting' the public over the state of the UK economy.
But what if the economy DOES start to improve? What if inflation DOES start to fall? Can the public be pursuaded things... can only get better...?
We have an extended interview with Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
Later. What do Javier Milei and Liz Truss have in common? Erm, nothing. Nothing whatsoever it transpires....
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Cip Credits:
Rachel Reeves speech on Tuesday 7th May
Andrew Mitchell on Sky News
Andrew Griffith on BBC Radio 4
Rishi Sunak on Sky News
Mark Harper speaking to Lewis Goodall on LBC
Ione Wells speaking to Javier Milei in Buenos Aires for BBC News
Liz Truss interviewed on GB News

The local election and mayoral results flood in.
How bad are they for the Tories? How much of that is Reform? And how well have Labour actually done?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Shane Fennelly & Arvind Badewal
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Cip Credits:
Ben Houchen with Sophie Ridge on Sky News
Rishi Sunak talking to BBC News
Andrea Leadsom with Jo Coburn on PoliticsLive on BBC Two