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• Environment Agency: Dredging 'not the comprehensive answer'

  Environment Agency chair Lord Smith discusses the use of dredging in the Somerset Levels.

  

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  5:35

• Should we ban smoking in cars carrying children?

  Luciana Berger and Simon Clark discuss if we should ban smoking in cars carrying children

  

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  4:29

• Resettling refugees 'more expensive' than aid

  Brooks Newmark and Sir Menzies Campbell debate the UK's view on resettling Syria refugees

  

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  7:51

• Trade unions 'would welcome' Labour's new voting system

  The GMB union's Paul Kenny discusses Labour's proposed 'one member, one vote' system

  

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  4:44

• Removing citizenship 'won't work' without amendment

  Dominic Raab MP and Lord Howard discuss amendments to the Immigration Bill

  

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  8:12

• London seeing 'huge increase' in French businesses

  Nadege Alezine, Aurore Hochard and Florentin Collomp discuss French businesses in the UK.

  

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  7:34

• 'Gangs are spreading their wings'

  Sima Kotecha and Dave Thompson look at how London gangs are spreading across the UK.

  

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  9:56

• A day in the flooded Somerset Levels

  Somerset Levels resident Elizabeth Nightingale talks through her day in the floods.

  

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  3:29

• Ofsted replacement 'will be made through independent…

  Nick Gibb and David Ward discuss Michael Gove's decision to replace the chair of Ofsted

  

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  5:14

• Michael Gove: I "want to work with her in the future"

  Martha Kearney interviews Michael Gove about why he didn't reappoint Sally Morgan.

  

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• Tim Yeo on being deselected

  Conservative MP Tim Yeo tells Eddie Mair about being deselected by his local party.

  

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• 'The last attempt' at Pakistan Taliban peace talks

  Rahimullah Yusufzai discusses the Pakistan Taliban peace talks set to open.

  

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  4:20

• 'Entire evidential base of Hillsborough inquiries flawed'

  Phil Scraton and Margaret Aspinall discuss police treatment of Hillsborough survivors.

  

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  4:48

• Boris Johnson: We need to modernise Tube

  Boris Johnson discusses the strikes held by London Underground workers.

  

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  3:50

• The philosophy of Russell Brand

  David Graeber explains the ideas of anarcho-populism or "small 'a' anarchism".

  

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  2:31

• SNP's Sturgeon: 'Cameron has to debate head-to-head in…

  Scotland's Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on David Cameron's referendum speech.

  

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  4:01

• Tessa Jowell: Cameron speech 'will appeal for British pride'

  Former culture secretary Tessa Jowell previews the PM's speech on the Scottish referendum

  

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• "Get your wellies on" and help those affected by floods

  Alex Salmond's message to David Cameron as the PM urges people in Scotland to vote No.

  

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  4:23

• Dredging 'will stop 90% of flooding' says Somerset farmer

  Today presenter Mishal Husain reports from flood-hit Somerset.

  

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  8:51

• Immigration minister resigns

  Colleague Nicky Morgan defends Mark Harper who employed a cleaner illegally in the UK.

  

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  4:07

• BBC trials Instagram news service for 15-second bulletins

  Helen Lewis and John Crace discuss the BBC's trial of Instagram's news service, Instafax.

  

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  5:22

• Michael Gove "could be saving girls' lives"

  Shaun Ley interviews schoolgirl Fahma Mohamed about female genital mutilation

  

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  4:19

• Months before train lines back to normal

  Shaun Ley interviews Robin Gisby of Network Rail about the impact of the floods

  

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• 'Big variability' in social work training standards

  Sir Martin Narey discusses his report into social work training.

  

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