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On the programme today, are we going in to a double dip recession or aren't we? We'll be finding out after 5pm.

Tributes continue to be paid to Whitney Houston who died at the weekend. We'll be hearing from a local family who met her a few years ago.

Extremist preacher Abu Qatada is to be released from jail, while the government explores more avenues to try and get him deported to Jordan, where he is wanted for terrorism offences. You can hear more from our reporter who has been following that story after 5pm.

In our week-long Hidden Life of the Hospice series, 大象传媒 Radio Stoke's Phil McCann finds out how pennies help the Douglas Macmillan Hospice raise four million pounds a year.

After 6pm, three songs from one year in the 1960s, a magic musical moment and your chance to pick the song for our "...and finally" story!