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0607 |
British Airways is warning its passengers听of possible delays for those听flying from Heathrow over the Bank Holiday weekend. Tom Symonds. |
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0609 |
Was听Mark Thatcher about to leave South Africa when he was arrested? Adam Mynott. |
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0615 |
Rebecca Marston has a round-up of the business news.听 |
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0632 |
The Government's all-postal voting experiment has hit a snag. James Hardy. |
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0634 |
The top Shia cleric in Iraq, Ali al Sistani, seems to have had a remarkable impact in Najaf. Alastair Leithhead |
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0638 |
The radical cleric Abu Hamza is being questioned about new offences today. Danny Shaw. |
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0639 |
A look at the newspapers in the U.K and Hong Kong. |
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0647 |
It is going to be more difficult for schools to sell off their playing fields. Sophie Hutchinson. |
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0649 |
The Chilean former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, may yet face trial for war crimes. Marta Lagos, head of MORI opinion research in Chile. |
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0652 |
A man has had his lower jaw rebuilt using bone grown on his back. Dr Patrick Wernke of the University of Kiel in Germany was his surgeon. |
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0709 |
The Shia cleric Ali al-Sistani, has听negotiated an agreement with Moqtada al Sadr and his Mehdi army. Haji Salam al-Maliki, deputy mayor of Basra and al-Sadr's representative at the shrine, and Hoshyar Zebari,听the Iraqi foreign minister.
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0715 |
Electoral Commission is recommending that all-postal voting should stop in all UK elections. Sam Younger is the chairman of the commission. |
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0720 |
This Sunday, Chechyna is holding elections to chose a new pro-Moscow leader and rebel fighters have vowed to disrupt the vote. Sarah Rainsford. |
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0730 |
The second of Tom Feilden's reports on the war of attrition between Britain's universities and animal rights activists threatening the future of medical research in the UK. Dr Simon Festing, from the Association of Medical Research Charities and Penny Hawkins, deputy head of research (animals) at the RSPCA. |
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0745 |
After our poll shows you, the listeners, want to see more philosophy taught in schools, we speak to two teenage enthusiasts. Tom Middlehurst leads the Philosophy Club at Kingsbrook School in Milton Keynes, and Amy Sellman-Bartlett, is a
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0752 |
We hear from Paul Higgins, an unashamedly ambulance-chasing lawyer, who's offered GPs 拢175 for every patient they send his way, and Jane O'Brien, Head of Standards at the General Medical Council. |
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0810 |
Did postal voting work? The Electoral Commission is unconvinced. Caroline Spellman, the Conseravtive local government spokesman, and Nick Raynsford, the local government minister. |
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0820 |
On publication of the Booker long-list we speak to Tibor Fischer, one of the judges, who says the books entered shared a "distaste for the Middle Class". He's joined by Erica Wagner, The Times' literary editor.
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0830 |
Education Secretary Charles Clarke tells us he's hardening the criteria that schools must meet before they sell off their fields. |
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0840 |
Was Sir Mark Thatcher planning to leave South Africa? The police there think so. We ask Ron Wheeldon, his solicitor, what happens next.
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0845 |
The听business听update with Rebecca Marston.
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0850 |
Political activists have been told they can't stage an anti-war rally in New York on the eve of the Republican Party Convention.听Jeremy Cooke. |
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0854 |
Lord Rodgers, former Labour Cabinet minister and one of the founders of the SDP, and Peter Kellner, pollster, on the postal voting experiment. |
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