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0609 | The Guardian newspaperÌýis going to the High Court to challenge an injunction which bans it from naming a royal servant. Peter Hunt is our royal correspondent. | |
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0613 | An all-party group of MPs has concluded that more police officers need to be armed. Neil Bennett is our crime correspondent. | |
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0620 | Rebecca Marston with the business news. | |
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0630 | Firefighters' leaders are meeting employers today to talk about the problems which are producing wildcat strikes. Stephen Cape has more. | |
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0635 | Westminster Council has made a breakthrough in its attempts to recover Dame Shirley Porter's huge debt - following an investigation by our own Andrew Hosken. | |
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0640 | A Royal Marine has been killed in Iraq. Jonny Dymond is in Baghdad. | |
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0644 | A review of today's papers. | |
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0647 | Our world press review is from Anna Horsbrugh-Porter inÌýSri Lanka, where yesterday the President suspended parliament and sacked three key government ministers. | |
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0650 | MPsÌýyesterday got their teeth into food...Our parliamentary correspondent, Mark Darcy, reports. | |
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0655 | Rebecca Marston with a business update. | |
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0657 | The Liberal Democrats are claiming that more than 20,000 elderly people in nursing homes in England are being kept under sedation for no good medical reason. Their Health spokesman is Paul Burstow. | |
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0658 | The government is planning to ban the possession of fireworks by anyone under eighteen - we speak to Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt. | |
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0709 | It is very nearly a year since firefighters began what became a prolonged period of industrial action over pay. Now many of them are taking action again. Sir Jeremy Beecham, chairman of the Local Government Association. | |
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0714 | Part of the experimental badger cull, designed to reduce the incidence of TB in cattle, is being suspended. Professor Stephen Harris and Professor John Bourne, who chairs the group advising the government on TB. | |
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0718 | The Somercotes Methodist Chapel is close to Birkbeck School in Lincolnshire whereÌýa fourteen year-old boy died after being stabbed yesterday. Jane Cole is Deacon there. | |
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Ìý | Our reporter Zubeida Malik speaks to Sohair Kashoggi - author and Dodi Fayed's aunt - about the recent claims by Paul Burrell that Diana predicted the manner of her death. | |
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0730 | Following an investigation by this programme into Dame Shirley Porter's finances, assets of around £30 million pounds believed to be controlled by the former Tory council leader have been frozen by Westminster Council. Andrew Hosken reports. | |
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0740 | In August the Daily Star newspaper carried a headline which read "asylum seekers eat our donkeys". ÌýThere's been no sign of the donkeys, but the story has left a residue of bitterness among people who feel they've been unfairly blamed. Robin Aitken reports. | |
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0750 | More police should be armed, but not all of them, according to an all-party group of MPs. We speak to their chair, Diane Abbott, who hasÌýrecently been accused of hypocrisy for sending her son to a private school. | |
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0810 | Day by day the number of casualties inÌýIraq rises, withÌýCorporal Ian Plank the nineteenth British soldier to die since major hostilities were declared over in May. We speak to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon. | |
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0820 | Can rich kids sing the blues? In the clubs of New York a 16-year-old singer from Devon is drawing deafening applause...Steve Evans reports. | |
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0830 | Gordon Brown'sÌýcomments on Europe have caused a bit of a splash, and now it seems he might want to get onto Labour's ruling executive. What is he up to? Andrew Marr is our political editor. | |
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0840 | Rebecca Marston with a business update. | |
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0845 | In the wake of the tragic death of a 14-year-old boy at Birkbeck School in Lincolnshire yesterday, how do we tackle violence in the classroom? David Hart, general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers, andÌýMichelle Elliott, director of the children's charity Kidscape. | |
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0850 | How are our migrating swans getting on? | |
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0855 | City fund managers are squaring up to do battle over the appointment of James Murdoch as chief executive of BSkyB. Michael Hughes is director of Barings Asset Management. | |
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0857 | Diane Abbott MP spoke earlier about her decision to send her son to the City of London School where the fees are ten thousand pounds a year. The school's head, David Levin, is with us as is Labour MP for Hackney, Brian Sedgemore.
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