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If you've been anxious to get a ticket for a sold-out event you may well be aware of the 'secondary ticket' market: the companies on the web who offer seats that are hard to get in any other way - and sometimes at a very high price. There are attempts in the Lords to amend the consumer rights bill which is going through parliament to put obligations on such companies.

听Sharon Hodgson is Labour MP for Washington and Sunderland West who's been campaigning on the subject.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has weighed into the debate about food banks. He says they should get more help from the government and there should be more of them. There's a report by a group of MPs and peers being published today that says "our aim should be a zero hunger Britain". The inquiry was chaired by the Conservative MP John Glen.

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The government set up a task force to look at the problem of nuisance calls, and its report says companies should consider the problem at board level, and if they don't, the Information Commissioner should have powers to intervene. Richard Lloyd chaired the task force.

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The latest twist in the immigration debate: crowded motorways, according to Nigel Farage. He blamed high levels of immigration and the state of the M4 for missing a meet-the-leader event ahead of UKIP's first Welsh conference. About 100 supporters each paid 拢25 for Friday's reception to meet the UKIP leader in Port Talbot on Friday evening but he did not arrive in time. The event at Margam Park was part of his party's conference which was held on Saturday. Labour criticised Mr Farage, calling his excuse "absurd".

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How should Britain鈥檚 biggest police force the Metropolitan police tackle corruption by its own officers?听 This year, fresh doubts have emerged as to whether the force has ever dealt with it properly. They were sparked by a review by the barrister Mark Ellison. He suggested a detective who investigated Stephen Lawrence's murder had acted corruptly and that documents had been shredded. The Ellison review also added to concerns about the conduct of undercover officers in the Met.听 This week we'll be running a series of reports from our home affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw who's been given unprecedented access to the Scotland Yard department which carries out internal investigations.

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It is a painfully difficult decision for a government to take when their citizens are being held by a group of ruthless terrorists. Should the government negotiate for their release (even pay a ransom) or risk using force to rescue them?听 One of the men being held by terrorists in Yemen was an American system and, as we now know, Washington sent in a team to rescue him. It went horribly wrong and he was killed. So was another man being held with him, a South African, Pierre Korkie. In Mr Korkie's case his wife had also been kidnapped and she was released after negotiations by the charity Gift of the Givers.听 They believe her husband would have been released as well.

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A team of psychologists and computer scientists from the University of Bath are assessing a new way to use sounds to help blind people create images in their heads. The technology, called The Voice, works by translating images from a camera built into a visor into "soundscapes" transmitted to the user via headphones. Michael Proulx is a senior lecturer in psychology involved in the project and he explained how it works.

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Thought for the Day with Rev Professor David Wilkinson, Principal of St John's College, Durham University.

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The mother of a man who travelled to Syria to fight as a jihadist has told the 麻豆社 she wouldn't have gone to the police if she had known how long his sentence would be. Yusuf Sarwar has been sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison. The judge praised his mother, Majida Sarwar , for her bravery in coming forward to report her son, but Mrs Sarwar said she felt 'betrayed' by police and claimed the sentence would deter other parents from coming forward.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was more shocked by what he saw in a food bank in Britain than in a refugee camp in one of Africa's poorest countries filled with children: homeless,听 abandoned by their families in the panic of an attack by militants, all of them sick, most of them disabled.

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It may not be the weather suitable for jumping on a trampoline in the back garden, but they've become hugely popular in recent years. But the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents says that they're responsible for a huge number of injuries, some of them very serious. ROSPA says that more than half of the sports-related injuries among children come from trampolines. They don't want trampolines banned - but think that families should be more aware of the danger. We're joined by John Beer, former British gymnastic technical director and international trampolinist, and by the columnist Lucy Cavendish.

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Everyone said the coalition would be under strain in the last few months before the general election. Maybe it was inevitable that Liberal Democrats and Conservatives would feel it necessary to distinguish themselves before the vote. There's more evidence this morning : Danny Alexander, who as chief secretary to the Treasury, was a co-author of the Autumn Statement with George Osborne says the Conservatives are pandering to UKIP and, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says they are 'inflicting pain' by trying to reduce the size of the state too far. He joins us now.

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MPs have urged the government to change planning rules to protect vulnerable people from air pollution. The Commons Environmental Audit Committee says new schools, hospitals and care homes must not be built next to air pollution hotspots in order to help reduce the tens of thousands of deaths currently being caused by nitrogen dioxide and particulate pollution every year.

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Typhoon Hagupit has weakened as it continues to slowly sweep across the Philippines, causing some damage but not as much destruction as originally feared.听 At least three people were killed.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been in Tacloban, which was so badly hit by Hurricane Haiyan last year and earlier went to where the storm hit land.

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A judge will decide today whether a case against UK businessman Shrien Dewani, accused of the murder of his wife, should continue. Mr Dewani is accused of organising the killing of his wife Anni while on honeymoon in South Africa in 2010. Defence lawyers claimed taxi driver Zola Tongo, who is serving 18 years for her murder, was an unreliable witness. But state lawyers said Tongo's financial difficulties led him to take part in the murder plot.

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The respected scientist Lord Winston has criticised a Conservative MP for what he says is his 'lunatic' backing of homeopathy. The MP in question - David Tredinnick - sits on the Commons Health Select Committee. Lord Winston says - given Mr Tredinnick's support for homeopathy - his presence on the committee is 'barmy'.

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