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07/12/2010

The health panel on the benefits of taking aspirin to beat cancer, an amnesty of illegal piercing parlours, and Oxford defends lack of black students.

News from around the UK with Gabby Logan.

The health panel in the first hour considers the benefits of taking aspirin to beat common cancers, and why doctors may be reluctant to advise it.

Also, there's scepticism about claims that exposure to mobile phone signals in the womb can lead to behavioural problems in children in later life.

And we hear about the rise of body piercing services that are being setting up in private homes without proper regulation.

In hour two, is it helpful to be white, middle class and southern if you want to get a place at Oxford or Cambridge university?

Labour MP David Lammy tells us it is - and that one Oxford college has not admitted a single black student in five years.

The director of undergraduate admissions at Oxford, Mike Nicholson, defends his university's procedures in a passionate debate in the final half-hour.

2 hours

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Tue 7 Dec 2010 12:00

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  • Tue 7 Dec 2010 12:00