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A report from the home office seems to be telling us that there is no link between tough drugs policies and the level of drug use -- in other words you could reduce the penalties and not see many more people harmed. Danny Shaw reports.

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Jim Murphy says he is seeking a "fresh start for Scotland and the Labour Party" as he confirms he will stand for leadership of the party in Scotland. Colin Blane is Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland correspondent.Ìý

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The first national sperm bank is being launched to meet increasing demand - including from same sex couples. Birmingham Women's Hospital and the National Gamete Donation Trust have been awarded £77,000 to provide the new service. Laura Witjens,Ìý is Chief Executive of the National Gamete Donation Trust.

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A previously unknown species of frog has been discovered - in the very urban surroundings of New York City. It is a new type of leopard frog - which researcher Brad Shaffer explains was first identified thanks to a distinctive sound heard near the Statue of Liberty.

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The Mercury Prize was awarded last night to the ultimate outsiders – a Scottish hip-hop trio whose album has sold only 2,000 copies. Colin Patterson is Â鶹ԼÅÄ Entertainment Correspondent.

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There is no link between "tough" penalties for the possession of drugs and lower levels of use -- that is one of the findings of today's Â鶹ԼÅÄ Office report which looked at drug policies across the world and seems to have been particularly influenced by the experience in Portugal. For the last 13 years it has focused on a health led approach, referring drug users for treatment rather than prosecution. Our Chief Correspondent Matthew Price asked spoke to Dr Jaoa Goulao, Portugal's National Coordinator on Drugs and Drug Addiction.

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The authorities in the US state of Maine appear to be heading for a showdown with a nurse who has had enough of being in quarantine since she returned from treating patients in West Africa. Kaci Hickox has tested negative for Ebola -- her lawyer says she is being bullied by politicians. Last night she gave a press conference outside of her house. Tom Esselmont in Washington reports.

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The gaming community is reeling from a row - a vicious row - over allegations of corruption in the gaming press. Gamergate they are calling it - not everyone is impressed - in fact the counter accusation has been that this is yet another opportunity to abuse women who work in the industry. Dave Lee, is Technology Reporter.

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Business with Tanya Beckett

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How do you rebuild the UK after a massive nuclear strike? Files we've found, just released at the national archives, show how in the 1980s home office officials drew up plans for this - and tried to test them through a war game.Ìý One idea -Ìý briefly considered - was to make use of psychopaths to restore order after the bombs fell. Sanchia Berg reports.

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Are we at a point in society where the sexual exploitation of children is so widespread that some young girls - and boys - regard it as a part of life? That is one of the conclusions of a report by the Labour MP Ann Coffey into the situation in the Greater Manchester area -- where it says there have been nearly 13 thousand reported cases of serious sexual offences against children in the last six years.

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He's six foot 5 and 18 stone and he's come to England to blow up the world of rugby union. Sam Burgess is a big star in rugby league - he's been playing in Australia but he's just arrived in Bath.Ìý Stolen by rugby union, just ahead of next year's rugby world cup. Justin Webb spoke to him.

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We have heard a lot about the rise of antibiotic resistance in recent months... How our profligate use of these wonder-drugs - and the failure to develop new ones - threatens to plunge us back into a medical dark age when treatable infections or minor injuries could once again kill.Ìý What we haven't heard much about is the role played in all this by farming. Half of all the antibiotics prescribed in the UK every year are administered to livestock -- and mis-use in farming can contribute to the build-up of resistance. Today’s science editor Tom Feilden reports.

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For decades we have argued about drugs. Everyone accepts that drug abuse is harmful: it hurts – and kills - people. It costs huge sums of money - for the NHS, for the criminal justice system. 14 billion pounds a yearÌý in drug related crime. But how can all that harm be fought? Would fewer people use drugs and their cost be reduced if they were taken out of the criminal law? Liberal Democrat Norman Baker.

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It is forty years since the boxing event that became sporting legend which pitted the then world heavyweight champion George Foreman against a 32-year old widely thought to be past his best in 1974. The Rumble in the Jungle. We hear what happened in the 7th round - with commentary by Harry Carpenter.

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In an age when there are real fears about resistance to antibiotics - and the public health implications of them no longer being effective against infection - how much responsibility lies with their use in agriculture? Half of all the antibiotics used in the UK are given to livestock - campaigners say often on a routine preventative basis. Professor David Heymann, from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Professor Dik Mevius, Head of National Reference Laboratory on Anti-Microbial Resistance in Animals.

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Probation officers are up in arms - warning that government action is going to put them - and the public - at risk. Clive Coleman reports.

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Shiraz Maher has written a cover story for the New Statesman, being published on Thurs, about the British radicals fighting in Syria and Iraq. He recounts Skype discussions with men like Ifthekar Jaman, who grew up in Portsmouth and last year slipped into Aleppo, via Turkey, to join ISIS. Maher argues that social media has "empowered individual fighters to become recruiting sergeants in their own right" and is allowing jihadis to have two-way conversations with potential recruits where once they simply issued edicts.

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You have a new choice for broadcast news as from today - RT (Russia Today) has launched a UK dedicated service. Laura Smith, RT UK Senior correspondent, and Oliver Bullough, Russia specialist and author.

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