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0609 | The passengers on the P&O ship Aurora assailed by a stomach bug have at last been given permission to disembark in Gibraltar. Our correspondent Lesley Ashmal. | |
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0613 | America had the worst day for casualties in Iraq yesterday since the end of the war. Our correspondent Jill McGivering in Baghdad. | |
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0620 | Greg Wood in Moscow with the business news. | |
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0630 | The Communication Workers' Union and Royal Mail finally reached an agreement during the night. Our Labour Affairs correspondent, Stephen Cape, was there. | |
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0630 | The Anglican Church has its first openly gay bishop with the consecration of Gene Robinson last night. Our Religious Affairs correspondent is Jane Little. | |
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0635 | The tone of Michael Howard's Conservative party is starting to emerge. Our Political Correspondent Norman Smith. | |
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0638 | Peter Donaldson with the paper review. | |
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0640 | Our world press review comes from Chloe Arnold in Georgia. | |
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0644 | The Palestinian militant group Hamas has ruled out a renewal of the unilateral ceasefire with Israel. Our correspondent in Gaza, James Rogers, spoke to senior Hamas leader Dr Abdel Aziz Rantissi. | |
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0650 | Today the European Commission will publish its final report into financial mismanagement at Eurostat, the EU's statistics office. Tim Franks is in Brussels. | |
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0653 | Should junk food advertising for children be banned? Richard D North of the Institute of Economic Affairs in discussion with Jeanette Longfield from Sustain. | |
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0709 | It looks like the post strike is off. We speak to John Simkins, postman on a picket in Central London and a local representative of the CWU. | |
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0714 | Yesterday saw 15 US soldiers killed in a downed helicopter in Iraq. Democrat Congressman Brad Sherman, and Lt. Col David Reynolds, British Spokesman for the Coalition Authority. | |
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0718 | Spain has closed its border with Gibraltar because the British territory has allowed the P&O cruise ship carrying victims of a contagious stomach bug to dock. We speak to Peter Caruana, Chief Minister of Gibraltar. | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott - in Durham today to launch his campaign that will lead to referendums for regional assemblies in three areas of England. | |
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0740 | They've done it - Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud have run seven marathons in seven days. Sir Ranulph spoke to Richard Knight. | |
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0750 | The Anglican Church now has its first openly gay bishop in Gene Robinson, consecrated yesterday. We speak to Archbishop Robin Eames. | |
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0810 | Michael Howard, in his first broadcast interview since he became leader-in-waiting of the Conservative Party.
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0820 | In the Middle East there's concern about the growing numbers of Palestinians being hunted down and killed - not by the Israeli army - but by their own friends and neighbours. Our Correspondent Orla Guerin reports. | |
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0830 | In the latest chapter of the voyage of virus-stricken P&O cruise ship Aurora, Spain has closed its border with Gibraltar. We speak to Gustavo Daristegui, a foreign affairs spokesman from the Spanish ruling party. | |
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0840 | Greg Wood in Moscow with a business update. | |
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0845 | A update from Stephen Moss, writer and ornithologist, on Radio 4's swans, migrating from Arctic Russia back to England. | |
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0850 | Why is a schools' website explaining the reasons for Muslim Awareness Week being launched today? Sher Khan, national organiser of Muslim Awareness Week and Dr John Marks from Civitas. | |
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0855 | How has the consecration of Gene Robinson changed the Anglican Church? Dr Philip Giddings, lay member of the General Synod; Derek Rawcliffe, the first Anglican Bishop to admit he was gay; and Judith Rose, the first woman Archdeacon in the Church of England discuss. | |
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