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27/05/2010

Winifred Robinson talks to the new interim Chair of the Student Loans Company, investigates artificial meat and joins gardeners with disabilities at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Catching up with Chelsea Flower Show gold award winners from the charity Thrive - and the High Street shops you love to hate.

Plus feetless meat - is artificial meat now a viable and safe alternative to natural meat production? Professor Brian J Ford explains how scientists may soon be able to recreate the flavour and texture of natural meat in a safe and sustainable way. We discuss whether the public will buy into the idea.

Also in the week that the Student Loans Company lost two of its top brass, we speak to its new interim Chairman Professor Sir Deian Hopkin. Last year he wrote a very critical report about the company and now has the task of averting a repeat of last year's loans chaos.

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  • Student loans

    Will students get their cash on time this year? As the Student Loans Company loses two of its top brass we speak to the new man in charge who wrote a critical report last year - can he turn it round?

  • ASDA bags Netto

    Asda - Britain's second biggest supermarket chain - is buying Netto for Β£778 million.

    Duration: 02:58

  • High Street winners and losers

    A report by Which? reveals the stores we love and hate on the high street.

    Duration: 06:25

  • Gold award winners at Chelsea Flower Show

    For the past 30 years Thrive has promoted gardening as a way of helping rehabilitate people with disabilities. This week they struck gold.

    Duration: 08:26

  • Train cuts

    The Department for Transport is cutting back on spending like everybody else. But can money be saved on the railways without reducing service?

    Duration: 07:04

  • Potential for artificial meat to provide for growing population

    Biologist Professor Brian J Ford thinks that artificial meat is the way to overcome a looming crisis in natural meat production to feed the world.

    Duration: 05:16

  • Knotweed woes

    If you have it in your garden it may stop you getting a mortgage.

    Duration: 03:37

  • Which? Top of the Shops report

    Our reporter Catherine Carr looks at one of the best and one of the worst shops highlighted in a Which? report.

    Duration: 08:35

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  • Thu 27 May 2010 12:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM

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