10 December 2002

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Transport Policy

On the day that Alistair Darling announced a massive increase in the funding of road-building in this country, we talked to him about whether there's been a U-turn in the government's transport policy.

Watch or read the interview with Alistair Darling

And Madeline Holt reported on the havoc one such plan to improve roads in Hull - John Prescott's constituency - has wreaked on the lives of individuals.

Cherie Blair
The Prime Minister's wife comes out denying everything except misjudgment. Would a confession and a plea for sympathy be enough to lift the cloud over Number 10?

Iran
Our special correspondent Sue Lloyd-Roberts reported from Iran. She was deported for being too curious. Are the stories true about public hangings and floggings, of an epidemic of suicides among women, and of millions addicted to drugs?

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