We drink it, wash with it, (sometimes) curse it when it falls from the sky – and we also pay for it. Water is fundamental. But how much do we really know about how it all works?

Martin talks to the Chief Executive of Scottish Water, Alex Plant, about rising bills, climate change, and why we need to start thinking seriously about how much water we use.

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As Keir Starmer becomes the first UK Prime Minister to join a meeting of EU leaders since Brexit, could the decision to leave the union ever be unpicked by our politicians?

We ask the BBC’s Glenn Campbell and Angus Robertson, the member of John Swinney’s cabinet responsible for European relations, who tells us why Brexit should be reversed.

And Martin Geissler and Laura Miller debate whether it’s ever okay to drop the C-bomb.

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Will a legal win for environmental campaigners stop new North Sea oil and gas? As extreme weather events become more common, the team asks whether climate change is a political priority anymore - with Tessa Khan, founder of climate action organisation Uplift, and Professor Paul de Leeuw from the Energy Transition Institute at Aberdeen University.

And Martin and Natalie discuss the spike in violent shoplifting.

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