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The man who orchestrated the blockade of the port of Calais - including the burning tyres incident - doesn't usually talk to the British press. The blockade led to terrible queues on the roads in parts of Kent and cost the economy dearly. The 91热爆's Vince Rogers spoke to the leader of the ferry workers union, SCOP, Eric Vercoutre, for the regional TV programme, Inside Out, broadcast tonight.

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A legal challenge to the election of the Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, gets underway in Edinburgh this morning. The case, brought forward by four constituents, claims the former Scottish Secretary misled voters during the campaign about his role in leaking a civil service memo. Glen Campbell is 91热爆鈥檚 Scotland Political Correspondent.

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A senior member of the Swedish government has told the 91热爆 that David Cameron's pledge to take in "thousands" more refugees is "not enough". Our reporter Tom Bateman has been at a pro-refugee rally in Stockholm and has been talking to protesters.

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New television and radio services for North Korea, Russia and the Middle East and plans to help newspapers cover local stories are being proposed by the 91热爆 鈥� plans which include a new pool of 100 reporters. The corporation will today lay out its plans for the future as part of negotiations with the Government over its future.聽 Steve Hewlett is the presenter of the Media Show on Radio 4.

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As MPs return to the House of Commons today for the first time since July, the Prime Minister is expected to tell MPs how many Syrian refugees the UK is willing to accept. David Cameron will set out details of his plan for a major expansion of the government's programme to re-settle refugees from the camps in countries bordering Syria, rather than those that have travelled to Europe to seek refuge. Plenty of questions remain about the practicalities of delivering the Prime Minister's promise. The former Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell will today on our programme call for the Government to work with the UN to establish two so called 鈥渟afe havens鈥� in Syria. Our Chief Correspondent Matthew Price has been speaking again with Hamza, a teacher from Homs he spoke to last week in Hungary.

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A new test which can tell how well someone is ageing has been developed by researchers at King's College London.聽 They claim it could transform medical research by assessing a person's biological age, rather than the number of years they have lived.聽 It could also have rather a negative effect on your pension. Professor Jamie Timmons, from King's College London, headed up the team that carried out the study.

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It's forty years since the first pipeline brought North Sea oil ashore:聽 the first of more than 40 billion barrels. James Naughtie鈥檚 been looking at the story of our oil for Radio 4 - the first of a three-part series is tonight. The difference it made to our economy in the seventies and afterwards, the politics of it - especially how it fuelled Scottish Nationalism - and the sheer drama of the early exploration that turned Aberdeen into a twentieth century Klondyke.

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As MPs return to the House of Commons today for the first time since July, the Prime Minister is expected to tell MPs how many Syrian refugees the UK is willing to accept (see 0650). Reporter Rob Powell attended a demonstration yesterday by people supporting the Refugees Welcome campaign on social media and聽 Yvette Cooper is the Shadow 91热爆 Secretary and Labour Leadership Candidate.

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Fifty years ago this month, a couple of unknown British deep-sea divers made history. They built a no-frills experimental underwater habitat - called the Glaucus - and lived inside it for a week in the murky depths of Plymouth Sound. It cost them a tiny fraction of the money the likes of Jacques Cousteau spent doing the same thing on the Continental Shelf. Since then, this pioneering experiment has all but been forgotten but a team of scientists from Birmingham University have recreated it in Virtual Reality - and the original diver, Colin Irwin, was the first to take the plunge to his former underwater home. Dave McMullan was given exclusive access.

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The Northern Ireland Assembly is due to return from summer recess, amid a political crisis in which the largest party, the DUP, has requested the suspension of the institutions. The First Minister, Peter Robinson, made the request of David Cameron because of a police assessment that members of the IRA were involved in a murder last month. David Ford MLA is the Leader of the Alliance Party and Northern Ireland Minister for Justice.

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As MPs return to the House of Commons today for the first time since July, the Prime Minister is expected to tell MPs how many Syrian refugees the UK is willing to accept (see 0650). Andrew Mitchell is a former Secretary of State for International Development.

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An international team of archaeologists has discovered a series of at least a hundred standing stones buried at a site near Stonehenge. The discovery is the pinnacle of a five year project by the The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes team, which uses the latest technology to create an underground map of the area around the neolithic site. Professor Vincent Gaffney is from the University of Bradford, and the British lead on the project.

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As MPs return to the House of Commons today for the first time since July, the Prime Minister is expected to tell MPs how many Syrian refugees the UK is willing to accept (see 0650). Lyse Doucet is our Chief International Correspondent and Laura Kuenssberg is the 91热爆鈥檚 Political Editor.

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The end of the road for many thousands caught up in the current refugee crisis is Sweden. A聽 senior government minister from the country has told the programme it will continue to open its doors to all those in desperate need - and thinks others, including Britain - should do the same. Sweden has taken in more refugees, relative to the size of its population, than any other EU country; more than 80-thousand last year alone. And the numbers making their way there are growing - as Tom Bateman reports from Stockholm.

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Robert Icke's production of Aeschylus' Oresteia opens today at the Trafalgar Theatre in London. The Greek tragedy examines the trial of Orestes for the murder of his mother Clytaemnestra and is often credited as the world's oldest courtroom drama. The play is two and a half thousand years old and has given rise to one of the most popular dramatic fictions. Today, television networks and cinemas are well stocked - from Twelve Angry Men to Rumpole of the Bailey with a little dash of the Good Wife in between... So what explains the enduring fascination we have for the courtroom drama? Robert Icke is the writer and director of a new production of Oresteia and Peter Moffatt is a former barrister turned writer of TV courtroom dramas including Silk and Criminal Justice.

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