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0607 |
Armed police will be at the funeral of a man linked to a series of murders today. Richard Wells. |
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0610 |
There's a water shortage in the Shetland Islands whilst parts of Scotland have been flooded. |
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0615 |
The business news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0632 |
The radical Shia cleric, Moqtada al Sadr, is reported to have been wounded during clashes with American troops in Iraq. Alastair Leithead. |
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0635 |
The Olympics Games opening ceremony is tonight, but the drugs scandals have already begun. Tim Franks. |
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0638 |
The Governor of the US state of New Jersey has resigned after admitting an extramarital affair with a man. |
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0641 |
A review of today's papers both in Britain and Singapore. |
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0650 |
Presenter of Radio 4's Face the Facts John Waite onÌýhis investigation into so called 'miracle babies'. Plus Patrick O'Brien of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. |
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0708 |
Two Greek athletes have missed a drugs test and could be banned from the Games. Makke Marseilles is in Athens. |
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0713 |
Ralph Seymour of The Student Loans Company and shadow education minister Chris Grayling on the computer problemsÌýwhich have delayedÌýstudent loans being processed. |
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0716 |
Paul Hendron, BT's director of Payphones, on why he has asked locals in Kent to pay £3,000 to keep four phone boxes. |
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0719 |
Lieutenant Dave Roberts of the US National Hurricane Centre on hurricane Charlie's war path. |
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0732 |
Former Shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe and Labour MP Debra Shipley on the rapist, Iorworth Hoare, winning £7m. |
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0743 |
"I Vow To Thee My Country" ... heretical? It was written by Cecil Spring-Rice. Here from his biographer, David H. Burton. |
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0752 |
Stephen Farrell of the Times newspaper with the latest on Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr's condition and Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesman Sir Menzies Campbell. |
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0810 |
Tim Franks in Athens plus Dr Gary Wadler of the World Anti-Doping Agency, on the doping scandal overshadowing the opening of the Olympic Games.
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0819 |
How much will the Olympics cost the Greek tax payer? Lianna Capelli is a publisher and a parliamentarian plus Gianna Angelopoulos who has been organising the Olympic committee. |
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0825 |
John Spencer-Churchill, the 11th Duke of Marlborough, on the 300th anniversary of the battle of Blenheim. |
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0830 |
A British journalist has been taken hostage in Basra. Our World Affairs correspondent Paul Welsh.
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0832 |
The computer game Doom 3 is on sale today but why is all the violence in it so appealing? Sarah Nelson reports plus Roger Bennett, Director General of the European Leisure Software Publishers' Association. |
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0840 |
A business update with Rebecca Marston. |
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0845 |
Jonathan Bell of Wallpaper Magazine and Sean Griffiths from the architects firm FAT on whether having a trendy office is a ploy to get people to work longer hours. |
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0850 |
Iraqi Vice President Ibrahim Jaafari, via a translator, gives his reaction to the news that Moqtada Sadr has been wounded. |
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