Current Affairs

ITV News Business Editor Laura Kuennsberg examines why in this age of austerity we are creating jobs. The answer, it seems, may lie in a shift in the way we work – with a growing number of people now now working part-time, through choice or necessity.

In this special hour-long programme, Tonight highlights the acute shortage of organ donors and follows the heart-rending plight of a five-year-old boy waiting for, and finally undergoing, a life-saving heart transplant.

Tonight reporter Fiona Foster meets Fabrice Muamba, the now-retired Premier League footballer who suffered a cardiac arrest but survived despite the fact that his heart stopped beating for more than an hour.

In Britain, we throw away more than seven million tonnes of food and drink every year, with most of that waste occuring at the very end of the supply chain – in our homes and in restaurants.