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30/06/2011

UK strikes, taking the grunt out of tennis, French hostages released

- Britain is facing one of its biggest strikes in years as public sector workers stage industrial action against proposed changes to their pensions - a fifth of all employees are expected to stop work

- two French journalists kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan eighteen months ago have returned home following their release from captivity on Wednesday

- taking the grunts out of Wimbledon - the new BBC technology that lets television viewers control separate sounds

55 minutes

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Thu 30 Jun 201109:05GMT

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  • Thu 30 Jun 201109:05GMT

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