Dear readers, we are excited to announce that the Voice of Russia is changing its name and moving over to a new website. We will now be known as Sputnik news agency and radio. You can find all the latest stories from our London bureau here: uk.sputniknews.com. Please update your bookmarks and stay with us!

Polish employees at a Lidl supermarket in Kirkcaldy, Fife have been told to speak only English on the premises. Under threat of dismissal they were banned from using Polish at all, apparently even on their breaks.

Nearly 50 years after tobacco advertising was banned in the UK in 1965, an advertisement showing what looks like cigarette smoke being exhaled is to show on British TV today as new rules take effect.

Dear readers, we are excited to announce that the Voice of Russia is changing its name and moving over to a new website. We will now be known as Sputnik news agency and radio. You can find all the latest stories from our London bureau here: uk.sputniknews.com. Please update your bookmarks and stay with us!

Nearly 50 years after tobacco advertising was banned in the UK in 1965, an advertisement showing what looks like cigarette smoke being exhaled is to show on British TV today as new rules take effect.

Polish employees at a Lidl supermarket in Kirkcaldy, Fife have been told to speak only English on the premises. Under threat of dismissal they were banned from using Polish at all, apparently even on their breaks.

On the eve of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine - the second general elections since the dramatic and controversial takeover of power earlier this year, we look at where the country is headed and how it will change – if change at all.

Sex education remains a controversial subject in Britain. Politicians and parents worry about the over sexualisation of children in the digital age, while some parents worry that schools are failing to provide proper guidance to pupils and other parents believe information being given is too graphic.

US-led forces have stepped up air strikes against Islamic State or ISIS fighters threatening the Syrian town of Kobane, near the Turkish border. This comes after Turkish officials denied reaching an agreement with the US to use its Incirlik airbase in the southern city of Adana, 100 miles from the Syrian border. So what will the US-led coalition’s strategy to tackle ISIS be, and what of Turkey’s role? VoR's Brendan Cole hosts a discussion.

The exit of British troops from Afghanistan and a report into how criminalising drugs has no impact on drug use are among the topics discussed this week on Telling it Like it Is. Joining VoR’s Brendan Cole is the former Kremlin adviser Alexander Nekrassov, the Independent journalist Maggie Pagano and the New York-based writer and broadcaster Jeffrey Robinson.

Journalist Maggie Pagano of the Financial News, and former Kremlin adviser Alexander Nekrassov join writer and broadcaster Jeffrey Robinson on the line to discuss the week's events in Telling Like it Is. They talk about the crisis on the Turkish border with IS militants, the response to the Ebola outbreak and Nick Clegg's speech at the Liberal Democrat conference. VoR's Brendan Cole asks the questions.