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Monday, 2 April, 2007

  • Newsnight
  • 2 Apr 07, 06:08 PM

gordon-brown.jpgTen years after Gordon Brown delivered his first ever Budget, papers released under Freedom of Information laws reveal that he was warned beforehand that abolishing dividend tax relief could wipe 75 billion pounds from pension fund values. Today Lord Turner, former head of CBI, came out to deny Treasury claims that the business group had lobbied for the pension tax changes, and the current CBI boss has accused the Treasury of indulging in "spin". How much blame for the country's pension crisis can be laid at the Chancellor's door?

Plus: We'll have the latest on Iran; Scottish Parliament elections; Immigration and 25 years since the Falklands conflict.

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I鈥檒l compost your corpse

  • Justin Rowlatt -
  • 2 Apr 07, 10:35 AM

justinapril.jpg鈥淚鈥檒l compost your corpse鈥 has to be one of the most unusual offers I鈥檝e ever received. It didn鈥檛 come from some bloke whose pint I鈥檇 just knocked over but from Britain鈥檚 king of compost himself, so I had to take it seriously.

John after our first Ethical Man item to encourage me to explore the virtues of composting. He boasted of how a book called the Humanure Handbook had changed his life. He said it had inspired him to build himself a composting toilet in the back garden of his York semi and since then he鈥檚 hasn鈥檛 looked back 鈥 composting has become his life.

We first met John last summer but now, as I reach the twilight of my the deal was clear: the project would only last a year. The year was up in March so the producer, Sara, and I have been trying to come up with a suitably environmentally friendly way of disposing of Ethical Man.

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