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A water chute ride in Kettering is among the more unusual choices on a new Historic England heritage list. Oliver Wicksteed is chairman of the Wicksteed Charitable Trust.

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Today the Â鶹ԼÅÄ will publish an interactive graphic novel, Tell Me Your Secrets, depicting a little known story from WW2, the Tizard Mission. David Zimmerman is historic consultant on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ game.

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Post Office workers will strike thisÌý week, including on Christmas Eve, after their union said an offer it made to resolve a row over jobs, pensions and closures was rejected. Mark Davies is director of communications at the Post Office.

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The UK could remain a partial member of the EU customs union after Brexit, the International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said. Sir Andrew Cahn is former adviser to Lord Cockfield, the Conservative European commissioner who created the single market in the 1980s.

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The UK’s last remaining aluminium smelter, formerly owned by Rio Tinto, has found a new owner. Jay Hambro is chief investment officer of the GFG Alliance - the group that is buying the company.

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A drug that can extend the lives of brain tumour patients is being withheld by some NHS Trusts on the grounds of cost. Known as the ‘pink drink’, 5-ALA makes brain tumour cells glow under fluorescent light. Stephen Price is consultant neurosurgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

0730

Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria's Idlib province have been burned by rebels. Bassma Kodmani is a member of the negotiating team for the High Negotiations Committee and Michael McFaul is former US ambassador to Russia.

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The actress and celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor has died at the age of 99. Jeane Wolf is a veteran Hollywood reporter who interviewed Gabor many times.

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The number of people taking their own lives in England is unacceptably high, according to a report by the Health Select Committee.ÌýDr Sarah Wollaston is chair of the Health select committee and Hamish Elvidge is chair of the Matthew Elvidge Trust – he lost a son to suicide.

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A wave of strikes will be launched by thousands of workers this week, hitting rail, post and airline industries in the run-up to Christmas. Frances O'Grady is general secretary of the Trades Union Congress and Chris Philip is a member of the Treasury select committee.

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Zuzana Ruzickova survived three concentration camps during the Second World War, including Auschwitz, and went on to become one of the world's leading harpsichordists. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s arts correspondent Rebecca Jones has been to Ms Rusickova's home in Prague to meet her.

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Sinn Fein are to table a proposal at the Northern Ireland Assembly today for the First Minister, DUP leader Arlene Foster, to temporarily stand aside to facilitate an independent investigation into a flawed green energy scheme. Mark Devenport is Â鶹ԼÅÄ Northern Ireland political editor and Mike Nesbitt is leader of the Ulster Unionist Party - he has signed the motion of no confidence calling on Ms Foster to step down.

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In Â鶹ԼÅÄ Panorama’s 50 Years on the Front Line, John Simpson looks back on his career and revisits the people and places that had the biggest impact on him and reveals his thoughts for the challenges of the future. We speak live to Mr Simpson.

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There is new evidence that girls and pupils from poorer backgrounds are missing out on computing education. Peter Kemp is the report author and senior lecturer in computing at the University of Roehampton and Carrie-Ann Philbin is director of Education at Raspberry Pi, a charity that encourages young people to take up computer science.

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2016 has been a momentous year. The Today programme has asked a troupe of top historians which year in history 2016 most resembled, starting with Margaret MacMillan, author and professor of International History at the University of Oxford.

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is performing the music from the Pokemon videogames for two nights at the Apollo theatre in London. Chad Seiter is a composer who arranged the music for Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions and Jessica Curry is a composer and game maker who won a Bafta for her orchestral score for videogame Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.

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