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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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0632 | Two days of official mourning begin in Russia today. Sarah Rainsford is in Beslan. | |
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0634 | The BBC has commissioned a big survey into our attitudes to public health ahead of the government White Paper. | |
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0640 | Two Royal Colleges of Medicine are publishing a report into the way sudden deaths of babies are investigated. | |
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0643 | Charlotte Green has a review of today's papers. | |
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0646 | Today's world press review comes from Bridget Kendall in Moscow. | |
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0649 | A BBC investigation has uncovered serious security lapses at Manchester airport. | |
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0651 | A National Inquiry into self-harm shows children as young as five are hurting themselves and the number is increasing. | |
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0708 | 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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0731 | 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
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0751 | 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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0820 | 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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0848 | 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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0850 | What will be the major political implications following the Beslan siege? Tom de Waal and Andrei Kortunov. | |
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