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The Home Secretary Theresa May is to order an inquiry into the collapse of the country's biggest ever police corruption trial which fell apart at an estimated cost of 拢30m in 2011. Mrs May is to appoint a QC to look into why the prosecution abandoned the case against a dozen former South Wales police officers charged with perverting the course of justice in the Lynette White murder investigation 27 years ago. Matthew Gold was the lawyer for Stephen Miller, one of the men wrongly convicted for Lynette White鈥檚 death.

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Keeping your children safe online when they're at home with you is tough enough - but more than eighty per cent of teenagers now have smart phones, so when they're out of sight and online there's no knowing what they're up to.聽 A new app to be launched later this year will allow remote access to everything your child does on their phone or tablet.聽 Angus Crawford asks if these kinds of apps are just good parenting tools or something more sinister.

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President Bashar Al Assad is at the centre of the catastrophic events that have engulfed Syria. He says he is defending his country, and its secular ideology, against a brutal insurrection launched by Sunni extremists and led and financed by foreigners. The president's more moderate enemies, who had hopes four years ago for more freedom, say he ordered the Syrian armed forces to crush protests that were originally peaceful. The ferocity of the crackdown, they say, created opportunities for jihadists that are being exploited by Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Rime Allaf is a Syrian writer and researcher who advises the opposition.

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A child and three adults have been killed in a crash involving a tipper truck that hit cars and two pedestrians as it travelled down a hill in Bath. Police said the truck struck "a number of vehicles" as it came down Lansdown Lane in Upper Weston. Norman Pascal is chief inspector Avon and Somerset Constabulary.

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Sir Antony Sher is due to play Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman next month, a part for which he'll be beardless, before he grows a full beard to take on the role of King Lear next year. The RSC apparently wanted to stage runs of the two plays back to back to back, but couldn鈥檛, because Sir Antony needed time for his beard to grow. Just how important is having a real hair or a real beard for a part? How does hair in particular, either on an actor鈥檚 face or head, help a performer get into character? Kate Griffiths is a theatrical make-up artist and Tim Walker is a theatre critic.聽 聽 聽

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Hospice care has changed. It's no longer just about end of life care but can help people with chronic illness or recovering from surgery. More importantly it could help with the bed crisis in our hospitals. Hospice beds are in short supply too but it is a service that can and is being exported into people's homes, care homes and hospitals. From the 大象传媒 archives we begin our look at what hospices offer with Dame Cicely Saunders, who set up the hospice movement in 1967 and Justin visited the Hospice of St Francis聽 Berkhamsted, in Hertfordshire.聽聽

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If you live in Wiltshire you may have been disturbed by reports this week that supersized rats that can鈥檛 be killed by normal poison are thought to be heading to the city. Today鈥檚 Daily Star front page says abnormally large rats are now colonising a second town, in Yorkshire. What is the truth? Justin Holloway of Prokill, a pest control company found and killed the giant rat in Swindon.

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Stephen Green, the man in charge of HSBC at the time they are accused of helping wealthy clients evade millions in tax, is an ordained priest. He has also written a report for the Church of England, to be discussed today in Synod, about business reorganisation. Can tax evasion sit comfortably alongside Christian ethics? Rev Dr Richard Turnbull is the director of the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics, an independent think tank and Rev Dr Giles Fraser is Priest-in-charge of St Mary, Newington.

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President Bashar Al Assad is at the centre of the catastrophic events that have engulfed Syria. (see 0710).

Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen visited Mr Assad at the Presidential Palace in Damascus for an exclusive interview.

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Guidelines warning people to avoid eating fatty foods such as butter and cheese "should not have been introduced", new research published in the journal Open Heart has found.聽 Dietary advice first issued in the 1980s warned millions that fat consumption should be strictly limited to cut the risk of heart disease and death. But experts say the recommendations, which have been followed for the past 30 years, were not backed up by scientific evidence and should never have been issued. Other experts however disagree.

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Hospice care has changed, it's no longer just about end of life care but can help people with chronic illness or recovering from surgery. (see 0730)

Professor Penney Lewis is Law Professor at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King鈥檚 College London.

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Four national academies: Academy of Medical Science, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and The Royal Society - are calling on the next elected Government to put research and innovation at the centre of plans for long term economic growth. They say that by doing so it will improve life in the UK and to ignore it, would put the industry in jeopardy. Professor Dame Ann Dowling is president of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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President Bashar Al Assad is at the centre of the catastrophic events that have engulfed Syria (see 0710)

Anthony Lloyd is a senior correspondent who has covered the war in Syria extensively The Times and Bronwen Maddox is editor and Chief Executive of Prospect magazine.

All subject to change.