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0608Ìý | The man put into the Department of Health to come up with ideas to help patients in the NHS comes up with his first set of recommendations today.ÌýOur health correspondent is Karen Allen. | |
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0610 | Some of the shine is being taken off the success President Putin has enjoyed at the polls by accusations that the voting was manipulated. Damian Grammaticas is our Moscow correspondent. | |
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0615 | Rebecca Marston has a round-up of today's business news. | |
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| Britain's first toll motorway opens this morning - our Transport correspondent Tom Symonds is on the new M6 Toll - as it's being called. | |
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0634 | The Americans are sending 2000 troops to Southern Afghanistan where the security situation is deterioriating. Our correspondent inÌýKabul is Crispin Thorrold. | |
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0637 | The New Policy Institute think tank has produced its annual assessment of poverty in Britain - Kim Catcheside is our social affairs correspondent.
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0642 | This morning's World Press Review comes from Caroline Wyatt in Paris. | |
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0648 | Sixteen drinking days to Christmas, and the 91Èȱ¬ Secretary made a plea yesterday in parliament for revellers to be moderate in their intake of alcohol. But said he still wanted people to enjoy their festive period. Sean Curran reports.
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0653 | Harry CaytonÌýhas been appointed to the Department of HealthÌýas the 'patients tsar' to come up with ideas to help NHS patients make suggestions for changes in working practice. Today he publishes his first recommendations. | |
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0709 | The chairman of the government's Integrated Transport Commission, Professor David Begg, is going to suggest thatÌýmoney raised fromÌýspeed camera fines should go towards road safety. | |
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0714 | The Government held the first of its seminars last night to win sceptical MPs over to its plans for top-up fees. Are they succeeding? Our political correspondent Iain Watson was stalking the House of Commons committee corridors last night.. | |
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0718Ìý | There are reports from Iraq this morning that 31 American soldiers have been injured in a car bomb attack on their barracks. Our correspondent James Rogers is in Baghdad. | |
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0722Ìý | The pre-budget report will be published tomorrow and one of the Chancellor's key changes is expected to be how the Bank of England measures inflation. Our economics editor, Evan Davies explains all...
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0730 | It's the last few days in office for Lord Robertson, the secretary general of NATO.Ìý He leaves NATO after years in which that organisation has been thrown into the challenges of the post Cold War era - war in Afghanistan, war in Iraq, the war on terror. There are now questionsÌýover the future of the Alliance... | |
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0740 | Chris Aldrige has a review of today's newspapers. | |
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0745 | In preparations for his re-election campaign it's inevitable that George Bush is giving special attention to Florida. It's the state where the last election was decided by fewer than a thousand votes.Ìý Justin Webb reports from Miami, where theÌýsupport of Cuban Americans - could be decisive. | |
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0750 | The price of global coffee has hit an all time low - but at what price..? Mike Thomson reports from Ethiopia where the farmers are turning from coffee to growing amphetamine-like substances. | |
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0810 | The M6 through the West Midlands is one of the busiest sections of motorway in Europe. As of today you can pay to avoid it by taking the new M6 Toll - it is Britain's first toll motorway.ÌýTransport Secretary, Alistair Darling. | |
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0824 | Police in Cleveland are facing a disturbing problem in trying to solve the murder of a convicted sex offender. Silence.ÌýArnold Hartley was battered to death in his home and had been the subject of attacks and robberies in the past. Are people really content to turn a blind eye when someone has been killed?ÌýVera Baird is the local MP. | |
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0830 | A report from Oxfam International claims thatÌýcoffee is cheaper now than it was 100 years ago. Ethiopia's been particularly badly hit. Joanna Scott is corporate affairs director at Kraft UK which sells Maxwell House and Kenco. | |
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0836 | The property baron Nicholas van Hoogstraten is free - he'd served just a year of aÌý10 year sentence for manslaughter and has now won his legal battle to have the charge dismissed. Amjad Raja is the son of the murdered businessman. | |
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0840 | Does planting more trees really save us from global warming? In the music industry bands like Coldpay and Pink Floyd claim they are are 'carbon neutral' - that is they plant enough trees to off-set the impact of concerts and CDs. Our environment correspondent, Tim Hirsch reports. | |
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0846 | Following last weeks anouncement that 2,500 insurance jobs were to move to India - the Today programme has learned that Lawyers in England and Wales are already moving legal document production to India. Advances in technology mean that solicitors can drastically reduce the numbers of legal secretaries. Rory MacLean investigates. | |
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0850 | We're getting news of a bomb explosion in the centre of Moscow - Jamie Coomerasamy is our correspondent on the ground. | |
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0855 | The sweet chariot victory parade attracted nearly a million yesterday in the centre of London. The English rugby team could hardly believe the turnout themselves..so why did so many people bother? Former England rugby international Brian Moore and Hunter Davies. | |
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