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0609 |
Libya claims to have struck a compensation deal with the French government which should remove a stumbling block to payouts to the families bereaved by the Lockerbie bombing. Caroline Wyatt is in Paris. |
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0615 |
Greg Wood has a round-up of today's business news. |
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0630 |
The leader of the CBI, Digby Jones, has accused the unions of obstructing reform in the public services. Stephen Cape is our Labour Affairs correspondent. |
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0635 |
The UK takes over presidency of the United Nations security council today and Iraq will remain top of the agenda. Valerie Jones is in Baghdad.
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0637 |
Today the widow of Dr David Kelly will be giving evidence at the Hutton Inquiry. Norman Smith is our Political Correspondent. |
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0640 |
There is great concern for Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi - she has gone on hunger strike. Our reporter Larry Jagan has more details. |
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0645 |
The World Press Review comes from Damian Grammaticus in Moscow. |
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0650 |
If you're constantly making resolutions to be more organised with your time, then you may be interested in the start of work life balance week.ÌýFrancene KayÌýis a life coach with the Fiona Haroold consultancy. Emma Bridgwater runs a pottery company. |
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0655 |
They're changing the driving test again. From now on you won't only have to prove you can drive a car... you'll have to know a bit about how it works, too. Peter Burton is the Assistant Chief Examiner at the Driving Standards Agency. |
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0709 |
In the 1980's as well as the Lockerbie aircrash, a French plane was also blown up over North Africa and 170 people killed. The French governement said they would block the agreement to pay compensation to the British and US families unless a deal was struck to help their own people too. Now Colonel Gadaffi, the Libyan leader, has said an agreement has been reached. Saad Djebbar advised Gadaffi on Lockerbie and Charles Norrie lost his brother on the French plane. |
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0715 |
Today the widow of Dr David Kelly will give evidence at the Hutton Inquiry. Julie Flint, a journalist who specialises in the Middle East was a friend of the government scientist and yesterday released a previously unseen article by him.
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0720 |
Sir Christopher Gent has a new job. He's the man who ran Vodaphone and turned it into the world's biggest telecoms group. Now he's running a new political think tank called Reform. He's accused the govt of putting the economy at risk by spending so much more money on the public services. |
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0724 |
AÌý14 year oldÌýgirl has been found safe and well after going missing with a middle-aged man last Thursday. Stacey ChampÌýfrom Gillingham in Kent was found with 46 year old David Milner in Caithness in Scotland. Police say they received a tip-off from a member of the public. Terri Stiasmi has more details. |
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0730 |
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims have joined the procession following the coffin of their religious leader Ayatollah Hakim killed in Friday's bombing. With that increased violence, the question of an international peacekeeping force in Iraq has arisen. But there is resistance to a greater role for the UN amongst more hawkish Republicans. Laurent Murawiek of the Washington-based think-tank the Hudson Institute and Shashi Tharoor is Under Secretary General of the United Nations. |
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0738 |
Charlotte Green has a review of today's papers. |
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0744 |
Charles Bronson has died at the age of 81. He starred in more than 60 films - from The Magnificent Seven to the series of Death Wish movies. And the director of Death Wish - I, II and II - was Michael Winner. |
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0748 |
There's no greater responsiblity on society than protecting the most vulnerable children. Recently there have been too many casesÌýin which a child has been either neglected or tortured to death even though there have been plenty of warning signs. Now the governmentt is about to produce a set of proposals (a green paper) which will lead to new laws to try to stop it happening again. Our Social Affairs Editor, Niall Dickson has seen them. |
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0810 |
The head of the CBI, Digby Jones says the country's trade unions are obstructing reforms in the public services.ÌýHe's worried about the number of left-wingers who've taken over big unions in the past couple of years and the rise in union militancy and he says employers and unions will grow apart if it carries on. Martin O'Neill is Chairman of the Trade and Industry Select Committee and Sir Bill Morris is outgoing Secretary of the TGWU Union. |
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0822 |
What do medieval poetry and modern dance music have in common? When dance magazine Mix Mag sent a batch of dance lyrics to a medieval literature academic and asked him to compare and criticise them, they were in for a surprise. He liked them. Mark Coles reports. |
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0830 |
Fifty years ago , a law came into force which revolutionised the British livestock industry. It gave farmers permission to add small amounts of penicillin to their animals' feed. Since then, fears have grown worldwide that the over-use of antibiotics has helped to breed bugs resistant to human medicines -- and the EU is phasing out the practice. But the ban on growth-promoting drugs still leaves antibiotics to treat animal diseases -- and some scientists argue this could create an even greater hazard to human health. Tim Hirsch reports.
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0840 |
We're getting a new National Park today inÌýthe Cairngorms. It's the second one in Scotland and the biggest in the country. Some enviromentalists have their doubts that this is the right way to protect the countryside. Our CorrespondentÌýisÌýHuw Williams. |
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0850 |
Illegal migration is a huge issue here in the UK - it has been for years and it's the same across the European Union.Ìý But how far can one of the EU's own long standing policies be blamed for exacerbating the economic plight of these people left outside the economic union.Our Europe Correspondent, Tim Franks went to Albania to find out. |
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0855 |
The widow of Dr David Kelly will give evidence to the Hutton inquiry today. Our Political Correspondent, Mark MardellÌýwill be there. |
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