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13/10/2010

The Chile mine rescue continues, 4,500 jobs go at Lloyds, and Ed Miliband condemns a benefit cut. With Peter Allen and Aasmah Mir. Text: 85058 (at your standard message rate).

The latest news, sport and travel updates with Peter Allen and Aasmah Mir.

The Chile mine rescue continues, with fourteen miners now safely back on the surface. We speak to Dr Iya Whiteley, a psychologist who's worked closely with the military and also astronauts to see what psychological support they need on long exploration missions to Mars or the moon.

4,500 jobs are going at Lloyds Banking Group. The Accord union says the redundancies will be 'devastating'. We speak to its deputy general secretary, Clive Webster.

Ed Miliband has used his first Prime Minister's Questions to call David Cameron's plans to restrict child benefit a "shambles". Our man in Westminster john Pienaar assesses the new boy's performance in the Commons.

And in Sport, the High Court denies Hicks and Gillette, and paves the way for Liverpool to be sold to the Boston Red Sox owner John W. Henry. 5 live's Brian Alexander updates us on a dramatic couple of days at the High Court.

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Wed 13 Oct 2010 16:00

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