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0607 |
International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspectors will release their report on the five cities vying to hold the 2012 Olympic Games today. |
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0609 |
Syria's ruling Baath Party is holding its first country-wide congress in five years this week to choose several new leaders and discuss reform. |
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0615 |
Business news with Greg Wood. |
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0626 |
Sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0631 |
The government is considering replacing fuel tax with a new road charge based on the distance and time motorists travel. |
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0634 |
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is expected to tell parliament today that Britain has shelved plans to hold a referendum on the EU constitution. |
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0637 |
Prime Minister Tony Blair flies to Washington this week to meet President Bush in a bid to win US backing for Britain's ambitious agenda to alleviate the plight of Africa. |
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0639 |
A review of today's papers in the UK and Switerland. |
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0646 |
Iain Watson looks at what's going on beneath the surface of the cross channel spat over the way Europe's economies are run. |
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0649 |
A survey of Britain's towns has found that nearly half are so-called "clone towns" . Nicola Stanbridge reports. |
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0653 |
The Conservatives' Oliver Letwin tells us why we need to appreciate beauty for beauty's sake. |
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0709 |
What are the chances of the government getting a consensus on plans to introduce a new road pricing scheme? Shadow Transport Spokesman, Alan Duncan. |
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0714 |
A report says hundreds of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are being denied the treatment they need. Health minister Jane Kennedy. |
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0719 |
Business news update with Greg Wood. |
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0722 |
How will other European countries react to UK plans to shelve the EU treaty referendum? |
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0724 |
Sports news update with Garry Richardson. |
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0732 |
Are the so-called 'cloned towns' threatening the UK's national identity? Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation and Kevin Hawkins of the British Retail Consortium. |
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0744 |
Conservatives' MEP David Heathcoat-Amory on what an EU constitution should look like. Click here to read his draft EU treaty. |
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0748 |
Thought for the day with writer and broadcaster, Oliver McTernan. |
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0750 |
Labour's Lord Puttnam and Geoff Hoon on why people don't respect Parliament and politicians. |
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0810 |
What's the overriding aim of road pricing? Transport Secretary Alistair Darling, Mike Rutherford of the Motorists Association and Stephen Glaister of Imperial College, London. |
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0823 |
Our correspondent Sean Curran on how the UK Parliament needs to modernise its language and practices. |
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0826 |
Sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0834 |
Will the oil-producing states join in the effort to halve poverty and double aid to Africa? Saudi ambassador to the UK Prince Turki Al-Faisal. |
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0838 |
Business news with Greg Wood. |
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0841 |
Tom Heap examines concerns about the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill, which receives its second reading today. |
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0845 |
Should our leaders pick out the best bits of the EU constitution and apply them now that its considered dead anyway? |
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0851 |
What can delegates of the G8 summit hope for from President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair? |
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