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The Prime Minister has called on companies who are benefiting from the fall in the oil price to pass on the benefits to staff by increasing wages.

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There's been an increase in the number of drug seizures in prisons in England and Wales, including legal highs.

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Peers have spent another day debating a bill to allow assisted dying for the terminally ill.  There was argument on Friday over the language used, and an appeal against the measure from a disability campaigner. 

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The Green Party said this week it had more members than UKIP, after a surge in people signing up including two thousand on a single day.  It's a contrast to the pattern over the last twenty years of declining membership in political parties. Dr Stuart Wilks Hegg is head of politics at Liverpool University.

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When the oil price is low, the global economy has done very well. Are we likely to see something similar to the golden age of the post-war period? William Keegan is senior economics commentator at The Observer. Frances Cairncross is an economist and journalist.

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British police say there's "heightened concern" about the safety of Jewish communities here after the attacks in Paris.  There will be more patrols in Jewish areas. Sanchia Berg visited one London synagogue on Friday as the rabbi prepared for prayers.

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Pope Francis has held an open air mass in Tacloban,  the city in the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan just over a year ago.

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‘Abide with Me’ sung by the crowd at the FA Cup Final in 1953 has become a tradition and the hymn is sung before every FA CUP Final, in recent years by a well-known singer. This year, just before kick off on May 30th, it will be sung by a choir made up of fans, one for every one of the 64 teams who have made it to this year's final round. The choir will be called ‘The Songs of Praise FA Cup Fans Choir’ and we're joined by the presenter of Songs of Praise David Grant.

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Waiting times in A&E departments in Wales are at the highest level for more than five years. The figures released on Friday also showed waiting times in Wales and Northern Ireland worsening in the past month and dropping well below performance in England. The worst performing A&E unit in Wales was identified as Wrexham Maelor where 65 percent of people are seen within four hours, the target is 95 percent. Dr Aruni Sen is a consultant in A&E at Wrexham Maelor. Mark Drakeford, health minister for Wales.

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Some bankers and foreign exchange dealers will be cursing the Swiss central bank this weekend after it decided to end its policy of pegging the Swiss currency to the euro. Barclays Bank is reported to have lost tens of millions of dollars, Deutsche Bank was supposedly hit by $150 million according to the Wall Street Journal and two leading foreign exchange brokers have gone under.

Jim Rogers the investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund predicted this would happen in his 2013 book Street Smarts.

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More drugs are being seized in prisons in England and Wales with a particular problem emerging with substances such as spice: chemicals made to act like the active ingredients in cannabis. The composition of these synthetic drugs keeps changing, some are legal in the UK but banned in prison, where they are believed to contribute to violence, drug debts and bullying. Caroline Cole is from the Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust and Mark Icke is a governor of Swaleside Prison and on the National Executive Committee of the Prison Governors Association.

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DJ Edu from 91Èȱ¬ 1Xtra has a job many young people would envy. He's on a journey to find 'The Best Nightclub in Africa'. The series launches today as part of The World Service's Richer World season - which over the next three months will explore equality and global prosperity. DJ Edu and team are reporting on the music and culture of clubbing in Africa as people get richer across the continent. In his native Kenya, Edu met the biggest band at the moment, Sauti Sol, fresh from winning the MTV Best African Act award. They're on a mission to reclaim the identity of East African music and dance after the dominance of music from West Africa, particularly Nigeria, in recent years.

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Police in Belgium are questioning thirteen suspects and have charged five people with terrorism offences after the raid in the town of Verviers. Two suspected jihadis were killed .The Chief Executive Officer of Verviers, Pierre Demolin, has been speaking to our reporter Beth McLeod. On the World Tonight, Europol's Director Rob Wainwright spoke of the challenge for the security forces.

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The two American climbers who spent 19 days clinging to a vertical rock face, without the usual rock aids, say they hope their achievement will inspire others. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson became the first free climbers to scale the sheer Dawn Wall of the El Capitan rock formation in California. I spoke to them and asked them about their sense of accomplishment.

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Many pupils in England are choosing not to shower after PE, despite facilities being available in their schools. For the first time we have a study of showering habits and it turns out two thirds of girls and more than half of boys in secondary schools never shower after their PE lessons. The lead researcher for the study is Dr Gavin Sandercock reader in sport science at the University of Essex. GP Zoe Williams who once starred as 'Amazon' in the Sky One show Gladiators