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Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster and beyond, including plans to make university access fairer, tensions over the Falklands and a UK Border Agency shake-up.

Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster and beyond. Business Secretary Vince Cable explains to MPs why he's dismissed their objections to his choice as the head of an organisation designed to give children a fair chance of getting to university in England.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Secretary, Theresa May, announces a shake-up of the UK Border Agency after a report reveals that hundreds of thousands of people were let into the country without appropriate checks.

The Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, tries to re-assure MPs that Britain could still defend the Falkland Islands 30 years after the conflict with Argentina.

In Belfast, Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly debate the impact of the UK Government's welfare reforms.

And more brass for top brass - a Conservative MP wonders why some civil servants at the Ministry of Defence are paid more in bonuses than he earned as a colonel on the front line.

28 minutes

Last on

Tue 21 Feb 2012 08:31

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  • Tue 21 Feb 2012 08:31

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