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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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