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Is it time for a zero tolerance approach to drink-driving?

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Matt Cole sits in for Julia George.

The head of policing and safety on Britain's roads says one drink is still too many if you're getting behind the wheel.

Suzette Davenport from the Association of Chief Police Officers is calling for the legal blood alcohol level to be lowered to zero - to drastically reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured each year.

Have you ever been caught drinking and driving? How has drink-driving affected you? What about the stigma attached to it?

Perhaps you didn't know you were over the limit. Police say the accidents the morning after the night before have increased by 60%. Have you any idea when you are safe to drive after a night out?

Also on the programme, they say it is better to have lost and loved than never loved at all. Is this true?

Have you got a missing love? Someone you met briefly and lost contact with? Did someone give you their number, only for you to lose it? Have you had your heart broken?

And do you think it still right that local authorities to hold prayers before council meetings?

There's a challenge in the High Court today against that tradition. In what's being seen as a test case, the National Secular Society is arguing that the prayers breach the human rights of an atheist councillor in Devon. We speak to the President of the National Secular Society, Terry Sanderson.

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Fri 2 Dec 2011 09:00

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  • Fri 2 Dec 2011 09:00