03/01/2015
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Buckingham Palace took the unusual step of issuing a media statement to deny "any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors" by Prince Andrew. He was named in court papers in the United States by a woman who alleges that she was forced to have underage sex with him. Someone else she accuses is the former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, who strongly denied the claims against him when I spoke to him yesterday.
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0715
Police investigating three suspected drug-related deaths in Suffolk have made three arrests. Sergeant Louisa Pepper of Suffolk police joins us from Ipswich.
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0720
Search teams looking for the wreckage of the AirAsia plane that came down in the Java Sea have found "two large objects". They now plan to use a remotely operated underwater vehicle to take pictures but the bad weather and high waves are continuing which is limiting what they can do.
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0725
Some of the earliest laboratory films showing the movement of cells under the microscope have been unearthed at Kings College London, and are now available online. They reveal how filming that would be commonplace today was a radical breakthrough in science that allowed researcher to begin to capture for posterity their observations in the lab. The films were discovered by scientists at Kings including Dr Brian Stramer, who is in the studio.
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0735
The allegations against Prince Andrew comes from a complicated legal case in America was first reported by Politico magazine (online). Its reporter Josh Gershtein joins us now.
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0740
The Conservatives say they'll make a manifesto pledge before the general election to cap redundancy pay-offs to £95,000 in the public sector. It's a policy that's supported by the Taxpayers' Alliance. Its chief exec is Jonathan Isaby.
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0745
The abduction and disappearance of 43 students in Mexico more than three months ago has caused widespread outrage. The students were all trainee teachers who were last seen alive following clashes with police in the town of Iguala in south- western Mexico. Mike Lanchin has been speaking to the father of one of the students.
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0810
All the migrants from Syria have been taken off the ship on which they'd been stranded in the Mediterranean. After their ordeal, which involved a long rescue operation, they are being taken by bus to various parts of Italy. The spokesperson for FRONTEX, the European Border Agency, Ewa Moncure, is in Warsaw.
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0815
South Lebanon, in the area that borders Israel, has seen numerous rounds of conflict over recent decades. ÌýIt's a lingering menace especially for children; many have been killed or maimed playing with unexploded bombs. The Mines Advisory Group has come up with a novel way of teaching children to recognise and avoid the danger.
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0820
How are computers changing the way we think and behave? In his new book called "The Glass Cage - where automation is taking us", Nicholas Carr argues that just as humans were affected by the development of books and machines, we are alsi being affected by the arrival of computer automation.
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0840
The accusation against Prince Andrew is made in court papers in the United States by a woman who claims she was forced to have underage sex with him by his friend the wealthy banker Jeffrey Epstein.Ìý One of the women who is identified in the British papers this morning is only referred to as Jane Doe 3 in the court papers. She has made allegations not only against Prince Andrew but also against the former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz. We spoke to him last night when he denied the allegations and complained that they were made in court papers that don't even ask for a hearing to try to prove them.
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0845
There are still many people around who can remember the excitement sixty years ago when the Roman Temple of Mithras was discovered in London, one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in this country of recent times. Sophie Jackson, an archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology joins us in the studio to tell us what they've found.
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- Sat 3 Jan 2015 07:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4