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Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor

Covid-19 cases are on the rise in Scotland, plus will your town be under water by 2030?

The UK鈥檚 Covid cases are still rising and Scotland is being hit particularly hard - so are we speeding up our vaccination programme in response?

Will many of the UK鈥檚 coastal towns, not to mention central London, be underwater in the next few years?

Do the country鈥檚 poorest households really pay more than half their income in tax?

What are the top five places with the best vaccination rates in the world? The answers may surprise you.

We speak to Tom Chivers, a science journalist who has written a book called 鈥淗ow to Read numbers鈥 with his cousin the economist David Chivers.

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Sun 4 Jul 2021 20:00

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