02/10/2014
Payday lender Wonga to wipe debts of 330,000 customers, and the foreign secretary calls for rapid and decisive action to combat the West African Ebola epidemic. With Mark Mardell.
Payday lender Wonga to write off debts of 330,000 customers, after an investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority. We hear from our business correspondent Jonty Bloom, and Labour's Stella Creasy.
The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond tells us decisive international action is needed to combat the ebola epidemic in West Africa, saying "we don't have months to deal with this crisis, we need to be moving in days and weeks". We also hear from Sierra Leone, from Liberia's Vice President, and from the International Development Select Committee: its chairman Sir Malcolm Bruce criticises the UK aid effort.
Lawyers for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge threaten legal action against a photographer if he doesn't stop trying to obtain pictures of Prince George.
We have the latest from Hong Kong, more on the dropping of terror charges against Moazzam Begg, and we drop in on the Clacton by-election a week before voters there go to the polls.
Presented by Mark Mardell.
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"We've pledged together to raise our game to defeat Ebola"
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"I don't feel vindicated, I just feel angry"
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