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0710
The post office has settled a case in which an actress who has dwarfism took legal action because she couldn't reach the chip and pin machine.聽

0713
A controversial bill from the Conservative Peer Lord Saatchi to give doctors more flexibility to use innovative medical treatments on terminally ill patients has inched a little closer to passing through the House of Lords. 聽But there were warnings from the fertility expert Lord Winston about patient safety and about damaging unintended consequences. 聽

0717
Two questions arise from the flight chaos across southern England on Thursday - first how quickly will things be back to normal and secondly how can we stop it happening again. 聽

0720
The Mayor of New York wants to ban the horse drawn carriages that meander around central park. He says they're inhumane. Over the past century the sight of animals doing things in our big cities has certainly reduced, should it be expunged completely? 聽

0730
The new leader of the Scottish Labour party will be announced in Glasgow this morning. An important moment for Scottish politics because the party, which had once been the political powerhouse in Scotland, has not been doing as well. It's the Scottish nationalists making the running, Why?

0740
The European Union says it is still seeking clarification of an announcement earlier this month by President Putin that a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline running under the Black Sea, known as South Stream, has been abruptly and unilaterally cancelled. It's the biggest casualty so far of the dispute between Russia and the EU over Ukraine. The pipeline was due to come ashore in Varna on the Bulgarian coast.

0750
The authorities in Sierra Leone have banned all public celebrations for Christmas and New Year in an effort to limit the continuing spread of Ebola. The government's Ebola response unit said soldiers would be deployed during the festive period to make sure people didn't gather in the streets or other public places. Although Islam is the predominant religion, many Sierra Leoneans are Christians who traditionally celebrate Christmas in church.聽

0810
The air traffic control system went down over southern England yesterday, a lot of frustrated travellers waiting for flights that were cancelled or delayed.Over the weekend the backlog will be cleared and those who still can travel will get away but how sure can we be that this will not happen again, that our major air traffic control system functions as it should.

0818
The Footsie index of the leading 100 shares fell so sharply it knocked more than 拢100bn off the value of shares. And one of the reasons was because the price of oil keeps falling. 聽

0822
This week the former Plaid Cymru president and folk singer Dafydd Iwan has said the song Delilah sang when Wales play rugby should be abandoned for its violent lyrics, which he says "trivialise the idea of murdering a woman". Dr Simon Warner is the author of Text, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll and a lecturer in Popular Music at Leeds University.

0840
Labour won 41 of the 59 Westminster seats at the last general election but no-one thinks they'll be able to do the same in May. Which is why the announcements of their new leader this morning is of such interest. It's widely expected to be Jim Murphy and if it is he will have to find a way to challenge the Scottish National Party, which has enjoyed a huge surge in membership since the independence referendum in September.
0842
More than 200 activists were arrested in Hong Kong this week as police cleared the main pro-democracy protest camp at Admiralty. Demonstrators were calling for Beijing to allow free elections for the territory's next leader and at their height, the protests were seen as the biggest challenge to Beijing's rule in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover. The campaign those was seen as a 鈥渜uiet鈥� protest, noted for its calm. How is the nature of a protest determined? And is a 鈥渜uiet鈥� movement more effective than a 鈥渓oud鈥� one?

0848
Relations between Washington and Moscow are at such low ebb that people talk about a new Cold War. But poisonous as things are following Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea and repeated incursions in eastern Ukraine, they come nowhere to the crisis in 1962 which brought the world close to nuclear Armageddon. Though long forgotten now, the New York City Ballet happened to be touring the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis, and Nick Bryant has been talking to the dancers who found themselves at the sharp end of the old Cold War.
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