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0607 | Five girls were killed when their school bus crashed in the Republic of Ireland yesterday. | |
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0609 | Six men from the Pitcairn Islands have lost their appeal against their conviction of a string of sexual offences. | |
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0615 | Business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | Sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0632 | Our media correspondent, Torin Douglas, discusses the effects of the BBC strike yesterday. | |
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0635 | The Conservative Party has produced a new constitution, which includes a new way of choosing a leader. | |
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0638 | After losing its safest seat in Wales, Labour must decide how to deal with the disloyal party members who supported an independent candidate. | |
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0640 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Washington. | |
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0645 | Ric Bailey reports on Yesterday in Parliament. | |
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0650 | A fall in profits is expected when Marks and Spencer's full year results are out this morning - largely blamed on poor sales in women's clothing. Polly Billington reports. | |
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0654 | Suzi Leather, Chair of the HFEA, discusses the launch of their new guide on fertility clinics today, which will allow couples to compare clinics for the first time. | |
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0709 | An investigation is underway into why a school bus crashed, killing five teenagers and injuring many more, in the Republic of Ireland yesterday. | |
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0712 | Lord Puttnam is Chair of the Commission on Communication of Parliamentary Democracy, which has launched a report today claiming that the public doesn't understand the workings of Parliament. | |
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0716 | Greg Wood interviews the Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer, Staurt Rose, as their annual results are announced. | |
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0719 | As President Mugabe accepts the need for foreign food aid, the BBC's former Harare correspondent, Grant Ferrett, visits Zimbabwe to assess the scale of economic decline. | |
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0724 | Sports update with Garry Richardson. | |
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0732 | Labour lost their safest Welsh seat at the election to an independent candidate, who was protesting against all-women shortlists. The defeated Labour candidate, Maggie Jones, joins us. | |
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0742 | We have been bombarded with emails from listeners following our absence from the airwaves during the BBC strike yesterday. | |
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0745 | Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue. | |
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0750 | The Tories are in the process of changing the way they elect a new leader. One former holder of the post, Iain Duncan Smith, discusses their future. | |
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0810 | Further BBC strikes are looming. Mark Byford, the BBC's Deputy Director General and Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, discuss the failed negotiations. | |
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0820 | The National Waterway Wildlife Survey is launched today. To take part click here. | |
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0827 | Sports update with Garry Richardson. | |
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0833 | Ahead of our programme from Africa tomorrow, Mike Thomson reports from Lagos, Nigeria, on the economic contradictions that riddle much of the continent. | |
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0842 | Business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0848 | Mark Seddon, a member of Labour's National Executive Committee, discusses whether they should expel 20 party members who supported an independent candidate in Wales, in a vote later today. | |
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0853 | What will happen if the French and Dutch fail to ratify the European Constitution? Conservative MEP, Daniel Hannan, and Charles Grant from the Centre for European Reform, discuss the alternatives. | |
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