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Published: Sep 13, 08What exactly is going inside the Labour Party? A junior whip is sacked for asking for the nomination papers that you need if you're going to try to force a leadership election, and there's talk of others on the backbenches who've done the same. The party hierarchy says it means little.
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Published: Sep 13, 08What does President Bush really think about the progress of the war in Iraq? Throughout his presidency he's given interviews to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post for a series of books about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the fourth of which - The War Within - is out this week.
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Published: Sep 12, 08The latest bout in the ongoing spat between Virgin Atlantic and British Airways has erupted. Virgin is launching a new campaign against the proposed partnership between BA, American Airlines and Iberian Airlines. Virgin says BA have not revealed a complete picture of their passenger numbers in their submission to the US authorities over the tie-up. Sir Richard Branson goes head-to-head with BA chief executive Willie Walsh after weeks of feuding between the pair.
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Published: Sep 11, 08A package of measures designed to help people struggling with rising gas and electricity bills are due to be unveiled by the government later. More help with energy efficiency, like loft insulation, new boilers and double glazing, is likely to be offered. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn discusses what the government will have to offer and will it meet expectations.
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Published: Sep 11, 08More than three quarters of a million people in Haiti have suffered in the series of storms that have wound their way across the Caribbean. The UN and a group of Latin American countries are trying to raise more than $100m to help. Hurricane Ike, the latest storm has already passed over Haiti and is now heading for Texas, where in two counties there's a state of emergency. Correspondent Mike Thompson is in Haiti.
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Published: Sep 10, 08Scientists hail as a success the start of an experiment to recreate the conditions a few moments after the "Big Bang".
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Published: Sep 10, 08A judicial review into the death of a lawyer shot dead by police in London is to open at the High Court. Mark Saunders, 32, was shot after a siege during which he fired at police from his £2m house in Chelsea. His sister Charlotte explains why she believes the police acted unlawfully.
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Published: Sep 9, 08Scientists at the CERN research centre in Switzerland are preparing to switch on the LHC, the £5bn particle colliding machine and start learning a lot of things about the universe that we don't know now. Science correspondent Tom Feilden reports on the discoveries to emerge from switching on the machine. Professor Stephen Hawking tells the Today programme about his hopes for the experiment.
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Published: Sep 9, 08A judge has highlighted concerns about security procedures at a psychiatric hospital after a child killer escaped and raped a teenager. Secure hospitals, like prisons, house many patients who have committed serious and violent crimes. The case highlights failures in a system which is backed up by an investigation carried out by reporter Nicola Stanbridge. The Today programme found that at least 116 patients escaped from medium and low secure psychiatric hospitals, or while under the escort of ho
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Published: Sep 8, 08In an attempt to engage with voters outside the Westminster bubble, the prime minister and Cabinet will gather in Birmingham. The last time the Cabinet met outside London was in 1921. Cabinet Office minister Ed Milliband and Labour MP Jon Trickett - who believes the government has lost touch with its grass roots - discuss how the unions are threatening industrial action.
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Published: Sep 8, 08Julie Ward, 28, was last seen alive 20 years ago. She was brutally murdered while on a trip to the Masai Mara game reserve to photograph animals. Her father, who has battled with both Kenyan and British authorities in his search to find his daughter's killer, believes fresh DNA evidence and a renewed police inquiry could yield results. John Ward says he has gained access to an independent police report.
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Published: Sep 6, 08The credit crunch is likely to last well into 2010, the head of the UK's largest mortgage provider has warned. HBOS chief Andy Hornby discusses the impact of US house prices with business editor Robert Peston.
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Published: Sep 4, 08Sarah Palin, the vice-presidential candidate for the Republicans, has launched a stinging attack on the Democrats as she debuts at the US Republican convention. North America editor Justin Webb reports from Minnesota.
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Published: Sep 4, 08Labour is "destined to disaster" and "utter destruction" at the next election if it does not change, former home secretary Charles Clarke has said. He explains his belief that Labour is destined to disaster if they go on as they are.
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Published: Sep 1, 08Republicans open their convention to nominate presidential candidate John McCain with no pomp and little politics, shelving the usual celebration out of deference to the approaching threat of Hurricane Gustav. James Naughtie asks a Republican lawyer, Ben Ginsberg, who was general counsel to George Bush's first presidential campaign, what Mr McCain would use this week to do.
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