In a specially authored Panorama, Dame Joan Bakewell, who recently stepped down as the government's explores the challenges ahead in caring for our ageing population.
With the first wave of baby boomers about to turn 65, the question of who should be asked to pay for that care could not be more timely. As Dame Joan, 77, points out, amid talk from successive governments about tackling the problem, the old keep on getting older.
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Panorama's investigation into some of the banking fees customers have been paying over the past couple of years since the government bail-out of two failing banks has perhaps made for some in the industry.
Research for the programme revealed that the average interest being charged by the high street banks surveyed is 167% on unauthorised overdrafts.
For authorised overdrafts, the average interest charged hovers around 32%.
Many feel such practices fall foul of the spirit of the situation given the amount of public money which helped to keep banks afloat when the credit crunch hit in the autumn of 2008.
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary seems to agree. He bluntly claims .
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The banking industry has defended some of the higher charges. The British Bankers' Association denied consumers were being ripped off and said that .
Either way it's clear that the standards of the banking industry will remain under close scrutiny as the economy continues to stutter.
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In the last 40 years fewer than 20 teachers have been in the whole of the UK.
That is despite registered teacher numbers totalling around 500,000 and the fact that education experts put .
Panorama's investigation has uncovered an informal system which has allowed - moved on to teaching jobs in other schools - rather than being subjected to a formal process to test competency.
The story has provoked great reaction in online debates and in the media.
There seems to be a consensus of opinion that not enough is being done to address incompetent teachers.
The Independent reports on the new chairman of the House of Commons select committee on education, Graham Stuart's comment that head teachers and senior school management .
Others take a more hard line approach, calling the current system .
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