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A hundred years ago the Women's Institute first met in England. Today, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has re-listed four buildings because they are such an important part of the history of the WI. Emily Unia reports from Sussex.

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Researchers are publishing new information today about how locusts swarm. We hear from Dr Christian Yates, lecturer in mathematical biology at the University of Bath.

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The Chancellor is expected to say he has reached agreements with some of his cabinet colleagues on spending limits over the course of the next parliament. Paul Johnson is director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

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An independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency is due to report its findings later today. Roger Black is a retired British athlete who won silver medals at the Olympics and World Championships.

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As the steel crisis in Europe intensifies Sajid Javid will meet his EU counterparts and Commission officials today. Axel Eggert is director general of the European steel trade body, Eurofer.

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Jeremy Corbyn is locked in a constitutional stand-off with the military after the head of the armed forces warned the credibility of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent would be undermined if he ever became prime minister. Admiral Lord West is former first Sea Lord and chief of the Naval Staff and Dr Kate Hudson is general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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Research released today shows that thousands of lives have been saved in Africa by injecting cows to prevent sleeping sickness being passing onto humans. Sue Welburn is professor of Medical & Veterinary Molecular Epidemiology at Edinburgh University.

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The chief of the defence staff Sir Nicholas Houghton has said Britain was letting down its allies by not taking part in airstrikes against the so-called Islamic State in Syria. Our Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville has spent time with a group of fighters, near the Syrian city of Hassakah.

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Athletics faces a "long road to redemption" over allegations of bribery to cover up doping violations, according to the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, Lord Coe. Speaking on the programme is Louise Hazel, London 2012 heptathalete, and Baroness Tessa Jowell, former Olympics Minister.

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The writer Clive James is well known for his criticism, columns and poetry, but his favourite form is the lyric: he writes songs with the musician Pete Atkin. Although Clive James is terminally ill, he's still writing, and you can hear more about Pete and Clive this afternoon on Radio 4. Sanchia Berg presents a preview.

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If it was a bomb that killed the 224 Russian passengers听in a plane over Egypt, how might that change Russian policy in Syria? Dr Igor Sutyagin is a senior research fellow in Russian Affairs at the Royal United Services Institute.

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The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone was declared over on Saturday, and now the country is beginning its long road to recovery. The 大象传媒's Global Health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has been looking at how the听health system and the economy were affected from the capital Freetown.

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It is 50 years since the historic suspension of the death penalty in Britain under the Murder Act 1965. Speaking on the programme is Robert Douglas, a听former prison officer who guarded one of the last men to be hanged in the UK; he is joined by Adrienne Jacobs, a distant relative of a Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully hanged in 1950 for two murders he did not commit.

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