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 0607 |
Contrary to reports Saddam Hussein's most wanted aide has not been captured. Mike Donkin is in Baghdad. |
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 0609 |
Hurricane Frances is still battering Florida. Daniel Lak has the details. |
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 0615 |
Greg Wood has a round-up of the business news. |
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Two days of official mourning begin in Russia today. Sarah Rainsford is in Beslan. |
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The BBC has commissioned a big survey into our attitudes to public health ahead of the government White Paper. |
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Two Royal Colleges of Medicine are publishing a report into the way sudden deaths of babies are investigated. |
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Charlotte Green has a review of today's papers. |
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Today's world press review comes from Bridget Kendall in Moscow. |
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A BBC investigation has uncovered serious security lapses at Manchester airport. |
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A National Inquiry into self-harm shows children as young as five are hurting themselves and the number is increasing. |
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Official mourning began in Russia today for those who died in Beslan. The Russian Red Cross is appealing for international help.
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 0715 |
The Conservative Party say they could save £5.7 billion from the education budget. Oliver Letwin is the Shadow Chancellor. |
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 0719 |
Animal rights activists have been gathering in Kent to learn about new campaigning techniques, but critics say the conference is a training camp for extremists. |
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 0722 |
Greg Wood with more business news. |
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A BBC survey suggests 80% of UK people want the age for buying tobacco raised to 18. The Public Health Minister is Melanie Johnson. |
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 0741 |
Charlotte Green has a review of today's papers. |
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 0744 |
Penguin are publishing 20 books which have had a 'huge impact' on the world. Simon Winder of Penguin
& Professor John Sutherland. |
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Tony Blair is to meet Ireland's political parties at Leeds Castle to try and get things moving in the peace process. Gerry Adams is President of Sinn Fein. |
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 0810 |
The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, reacts to the tragedy in the Russian town of Beslan. |
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The Beslan siege prompted a remarkable public declaration from the Muslim managing editor of an Arabic news Channel: "...almost all terrorists are Muslims". |
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 0833 |
A scientist who claimed that toxin levels in Scottish-farmed salmon were unacceptably high has apologised for the job losses caused by his research. Professor Dame Julia Higgins. |
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 0845 |
William Pitt the Younger was the youngest prime minister. William Hague has written a biography of the Prime Minister who spent 19 years in office. |
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What does Labour make of Tory plans to cut £1 billion from the education budget? Paul Boateng is Chief Secretary to the Treasury. |
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What will be the major political implications following the Beslan siege? Tom de Waal and Andrei Kortunov. |
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