In today's show, our US business correspondent Andrew Clark looks at the global markets slump after the US banking group Bear Stearns was sold.
Pat Doherty, the vice-president of Sinn Féin, hints that the IRA will disband its army council as part of a deal to secure the devolution of policing in Northern Ireland. Our chief political correspondent, Nicholas Watt, also gets the reaction of the former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain.
The Guardian's legal editor, Clare Dyer, looks at the implications for the divorce courts after Heather Mills was awarded £24m in her settlement with Paul McCartney.
The latest Guardian/ICM poll shows Labour's popularity is at its lowest since Gordon Brown took office. Julian Glover runs us through the numbers.
And a royal rendezvous for Steven Morris. He visits the new grocery store owned by Prince Charles which has just opened in Tetbury.
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