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0607 |
Schools inspectors in England say specialist schools need to do more to improve standards in their chosen subject. |
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0610 |
The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, is in Afghanistan today to meet the President, Hamed Karzai. |
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0615 |
The business news with Greg Wood. |
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0628 |
The sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0632 |
The Kyoto Protocol, establishing targets for greenhouse gas emissions in 36 countries, came into force at midnight. |
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0635 |
The Conservatives unveil their health manifesto today. James Hardy has more details. |
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0637 |
The Appeal court will rule today on the legality of the hunting ban. |
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0641 |
The General Synod, the Church of England's Parliament, is debating
women bishops again today. |
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0644 |
A review of today's papers both in Britain and Portugal. |
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0650 |
Dr Peter Marsh from the Social Issues Research Centre and Professor Mike Kelly from the Health Development Agency on whether childhood obesity is out of control. |
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0653 |
The world's biggest spider, discovered in a fossil, has turned out to be a sea scorpion. Dr Paul Selden explains. |
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Klaus Toepfer, of the UN Environment Programme, explains why the Kyoto Protocol is still important despite the lack of support from America, China and India. |
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0712 |
Lib Dem treasury spokesman Vince Cable with details of their policy on 'personal debt'. |
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0716 |
A business update with Greg Wood. |
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0720 |
Jon Tucker from the Science museum and Emily Boase from the Union Prospect, on the strike at the Science museum. |
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0723 |
The sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0731 |
Would giving matron more authority help clean up our hospitals as the Tories propose? Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and Niall Dickson of the Kings Fund discuss. |
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0742 |
President Kibaki of Kenya is suffering from depression and is staying in bed and to read books by PG Wodehouse. The author's biographer, Robert McCrum, reacts to this news. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue. |
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0749 |
A new report by Ofsted has revealed that a number of specialist schools are having problems with their subjects. |
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0810 |
The Kyoto Treaty on reducing greenhouse gases comes into force today. Environment Secretary
Margaret Beckett gives her views. |
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0822 |
Does it make a politician or a figure in public life more popular if they show an interest in sport rather than the arts? |
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0834 |
Tom Heap reports on the English hunters going to France to continue hunting and Douglas Batchelor from the League Against Cruel Sports comments. |
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0840 |
A business update with Greg Wood. |
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0843 |
Kim Ghattas reports from the funeral of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. |
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0847 |
Campaigners in favour of women bishops are protesting at the Synod building of the Church of England. Jane Little is there. |
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0850 |
Are our cities becoming too
sanitised? Dolan Cummings from the Institute of Ideas thinks so but architect Sir Terry Farrell thinks otherwise. |
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0855 |
Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker looks at the implications of the Kyoto Protocol for England. |
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