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22/10/2014

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Wed 22 Oct 2014 06:00

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Eight years ago the home secretary Charles Clark was forced to resign when it emerged that 1000 foreign nationals had been released from prison but were not deported. The National Audit Office says that despite now having ten times as many resources and more powers, the home office has not improved the number of foreign criminals it deports. Danny Shaw reports.

0634

Naval vessels are still scouring the waters around Stockholm for traces of what the Swedish government believes is a Russian submarine. They've been searching for five days. ±«Óãtv Europe correspondent Chris Morris is there.

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GPs will get £55 every time they diagnose a case of dementia - the first time the NHS has offered cash for diagnoses. Sarah Jane Bungay reports.

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Writers from the Caribbean are often bundled together unfairly under the term 'post colonial literature' but the assumption has often been that they're bound to be dealing with the experience of newly-independent countries, and the British colonial past. But that's changing, and the writer Marlon James, who's just published his third novel - a Brief History of Seven Killings - is a prime example. He's with us. The story is based on the 1976 assassination attempt on the singer Bob Marley.....

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We heard yesterday about the paralysed man who had walked again thanks to a remarkable new treatment. Cells from his nose had been transplanted into his spine and had the effect of making his spinal cord cells regenerate. He is the only person to have received the treatment but it obviously holds out hope that it might also work for others. Is it false hope? Jane Sowerby had an accident in 2003 that left her paralysed from the waist down. She now works for the Spinal Injury Charity Back Up and has skied for Great Britain in the Paralympic games in 2010.

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Two of the law firms representing victims of child sexual abuse are still questioning the role of the woman appointed to chair in the independent inquiry into historical cases. She's Fiona Woolf, former president of the Law Society, and the current Lord Mayor of London. Yesterday she told a parliamentary committee that she was determined to get to the truth behind alleged cases, But Alison Millar, partner at the solicitors Leigh Day, who represent a number of victims is still unhappy.

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Drones use in British skies will expand rapidly over the next 20 years, posing a serious security risk and significant privacy concerns, intelligence experts have warned. The report comes a day after Britain's defence ministry says Royal Air Force drones will fly intelligence-gathering missions over Syria, in a broadening of U.K. operations against the Islamic State group beyond Iraq. Sir David Omand is Visiting Professor of War studies at Kings and former director of GCHC.

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Business news with Justin Rowlatt.

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Tesco's has taken blow after blow in the last year. Tomorrow the supermarket will give an update on the progress of an investigation into how it misstated it's accounts by £250 million. It will also publish new numbers likely to show both profits and sales falling. So what has gone wrong at one of the UK's biggest businesses? Business Editor, Kamal Ahmed, reports.

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The family of Reeva Steenkamp - who was killed by the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius - have welcomed the five year sentence he's been given. But the Women's League of the ruling political party in South Africa, the African National Congress, says it's planning to appeal against what it sees as a lenient sentence. What are the lessons to be learned from this sensational trial - and why were juries replaced by judges in the South African legal system? Albie Sachs, veteran human rights activist and lawyer who was appointed by Nelson Mandela to serve as a judge on the post-Apartheid Constitutional Court.

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We've heard a good deal recently about ways of devolving power from Westminster to parts of England, particular big cities in the north. It's been the subject of a commission established by the Royal Society for Arts and headed by the economist Jim O'Neil, formerly of Goldman Sachs.

0750

The Government has been severely criticised for failing to make enough progress on the deportation of foreign national offenders - in spite of increased resources and tougher powers. The National Audit Office said as much as one-billion pounds of public money was spent last year on dealing with foreign criminals in England and Wales - and revealed that dozens were missing. Paul Houston, whose 12 year old daughter Amy was knocked down and killed by an Iraqi asylum seeker, Aso Mohammed Ibrahim in 2003. James Brokenshire is Minister for Security and Immigration at the ±«Óãtv Office

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Two law firms representing victims of child sexual abuse have questioned the continued role of the woman appointed to chair the official inquiry into historical cases. The Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf yesterday made her first appearance before MPs since being appointed to the inquiry, which is examining whether public institutions in England and Wales failed to act on evidence of abuse. Sharon Evans, is a journalist and campaigner and a panel member for the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

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The newspaper industry in Africa is facing some of the same challenges faced by publishers here in the UK as more and more people access the internet. Over the next five years internet use on mobile phones is set to increase 20 times in Africa. That's double the growth rate in the rest of the world. As Will Ross reports from Accra you won't find many young people in Ghana getting news print on their hands.

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When public funding falls, how do you get more paying people through the doors of theatres, galleries and exhibitions? And - as another round of spending cuts looms, are the arts in England in good shape? Alan Davey has led the Arts Council England since 2007 - he's stepping down next year to become Controller of Radio 3.

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Recently we heard about a paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord. But when you have a spinal injury what's it like when you hear about a story like this? Does it give you false hope and excitement and is there a danger that it could stop people coming to terms with their life changing injuries? And what is it like for scientists who spend their whole lives investing in one area science? Sir Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience & Philosophy, in the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

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Nigel Farage has defended his decision to join forces in the European Parliament with a far-right Polish party accused of racism and sexism. The Board of Deputies of British Jews said it was "gravely concerned" UKIP MEPs would be sitting in the same group as Robert Iwaszkiewicz of the Polish Congress of the New Right. Its leader has expressed doubts about the Holocaust and said women should not be allowed to vote. Mr Iwaszkiewicz recently told a Polish newspaper hitting women helped them come "back down to earth", but later claimed it was a joke. Krzysztof Bobinski is a journalist.

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Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree books are going to be brought to the big screen by Sam Mendes' production company. What is the enduring appeal of Blyton - and what are the challenges are of taking a much-loved children's book to the big screen. Marlene Johnson, head of the Enid Blyton estate at Hachette publishers and Jason Solomons, film critic and broadcaster.

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  • Wed 22 Oct 2014 06:00