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The Commons Justice Committee has published a report saying that the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body which investigates miscarriages of justice, should refer more cases to the Court of Appeal to avoid wrongful convictions. Clive Coleman is the 麻豆约拍鈥檚 legal correspondent and Richard Foster is chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

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New research published today reveals that exposure to pollution increases the risk of dying from stroke. It comes at a time of increased awareness of air pollution 鈥� last week much of England was covered in smog blown in from the continent. The research, funded by the British Heart Foundation, found that even short-term spikes in pollution were mirrored by a rise in strokes - particularly in low and middle-income countries. Dr Anoop Shah is a cardiologist and researcher at Edinburgh University.

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A German A320 Airbus carrying 150 people crashed in the Alps in southern France yesterday, killing everyone on board. The Germanwings flight was travelling non-stop from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf in Germany. The cause of the crash is not yet known, however, the first "black box" flight recorder has been found at the crash site.聽 Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said it is likely that there were some British nationals on board. The passengers also included a German school class on its way back from an exchange trip as well as two opera singers, Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak. Patricia Granet is mayor of the nearby Digne-les-Bains.

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A new statutory register for lobbyists is being launched today, the first time some lobbyists will be legally required to declare their work. But critics say the register is a sham and will have no real impact on transparency. Alison White is registrar of the new Register of Consultant Lobbyists.

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The results of a joint project by the 麻豆约拍 and Cambridge University surveying and mapping personality types across Britain are being published today. The survey was launched in 2009 and 380,000 people took part. The findings show distinct personality types in different areas - for example cities have more extroverts, Scottish rural areas score highly for people being 鈥渁greeable鈥�, and people in parts of Wales are found to be open but a bit neurotic. David Shukman is the 麻豆约拍 Science Editor and Professor Jason Rentfrow is the report author from Cambridge University.

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The long-running public inquiry in Scotland into the use of contaminated blood products by the NHS across the UK reports its findings this morning. The inquiry, under Lord Penrose, was announced seven years ago by the then health secretary, Nicola Sturgeon. It has been looking into how some patients became infected with hepatitis C and HIV as a result of their treatment. It is expected that the Westminster Government will respond to the report, and the findings are likely to have a UK wide impact. Gill Fyffe was infected with Hep C following a blood transfusion after giving birth, and has written about her experience in her memoir Lifeblood, published on Monday, and Matt Gregory is a trustee of the MacFarlane Trust a charity which supports people with HIV. He is a haemophiliac who has HIV and did have Hep C from an infected NHS blood transfusion.

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After the crash in southern France, seven other Germanwings departures scheduled to depart from Dusseldorf were cancelled last night, including at least one destined for London, after flight crew 鈥� no doubt upset over the death of their colleagues 鈥� told management they did not want to fly 鈥渇or personal reasons鈥�. How does such an incident affect pilots and crew in the industry 鈥� and what do they make of the Airbus A320 and its safety record? Steve Landells is a flight safety specialist at Balpa, the pilots union, and a former A320 pilot.

0740

Today will see the last Prime Minister鈥檚 Questions this side of the General Election. We look back at some of the jibes David Cameron and Ed Miliband have traded at PMQs over the course of this parliament.

0750

An investigation has concluded that Mark Duggan was probably throwing a handgun away when he was shot and killed by police. The shooting of Mr Duggan in August 2011 sparked riots in London which spread to other cities in England in the worst disorder for a generation. The Independent Police Complaints Commission found that the police operation targeting Mr Duggan was "appropriate" but said two police officers who investigated an earlier incident involving the same weapon should be disciplined. Shaun Hall is the brother of Mark Duggan.

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A German A320 Airbus carrying 150 people crashed in the Alps in southern France yesterday, killing everyone on board (see 0710). James Reynolds reports from the crash site, Katya Adler is the 麻豆约拍 Europe editor, and is in Haltern, western Germany, the home town of sixteen teenagers and two teachers on an exchange trip who died in the crash lived and Stephen Harrison is Artistic Director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (in Duesseldorf) and was a friend of baritone Oleg Bryjak, who died in the crash.

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A new album by Mark Knopfler has been singled out as 'pivotal' and 'autobiographical'. It journeys through key points in Knopfler's life - a 15 year old working as a copy boy on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, touring with Bob Dylan. Sarah went to meet him at his studio in Chiswick.

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Today will see the last Prime Minister鈥檚 Questions this side of the General Election, but is anyone listening to the issues they will go to battle over?聽 Profile pieces have been setting the political agenda in the Westminster Village of late 鈥� David Cameron鈥檚 two-terms and Ed Miliband鈥檚 two kitchens. But do these personal details resonate in the country as a whole or will the substance of policy win the election? Ben Page is chief executive of the research company Ipsos Mori and Deborah Mattinson is co-founder of research and strategy company, Britain Thinks, and a former pollster to Gordon Brown.

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British scientists are developing a genetically modified 鈥渟uper spud鈥� free of fungal diseases and other pest problems, as well as being potentially healthier than conventionally-grown potatoes, the Independent has revealed. Jonathan Jones is head of the research project at the Sainsbury Laboratory.

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Parents in a town in north east Nigeria until recently under the control of jihadist militants say that many of their children cannot be found. They fear the Boko Haram fighters took them away as they fled.聽 One parent said more than five hundred children were missing but in the confusion of this conflict it is extremely hard to accurately account for missing civilians.聽 All over north east Nigeria the conflict has torn families apart and as towns have changed hands it has been impossible to work out how many people have been killed and how many are missing. The 麻豆约拍 Nigeria correspondent, Will Ross has spoken to the Senator representing the north of Borno State, Maina Maaji Lawan.聽

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Today sees the launch of the You Have Been Upgraded festival of human enhancement at the Science Museum in London, where visitors can explore the latest biotechnology developed to enhance the human mind and body. From high-tech prosthetics technology to sensory augmentation devices, where is the future of human enhancement headed? Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and the co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and Thomas Piercy is a computer game developer working in the psychiatry department at the University of Cambridge.

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The results of a joint project by the 麻豆约拍 and Cambridge University surveying and mapping personality types across Britain are being published today (see 0720). Juliet Gardiner is social historian and writer and Dr David Howell is lecturer in welsh heritage and politics at Cardiff University and the University of South Wales.

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