Thursday, 9 March, 2006

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From Kirsty Wark:

At the time of writing, news has continued to come in of a hostage taking at a school in Western France, involving 18 pupils. We will have the latest details.

Secret sales

Few of us are under any illusion about the power wielded by senior civil servants - we just don't get to see it up close.

But tonight Newsnight's Michael Crick and producer Meirion Jones have an astonishing exclusive story about how Britain supplied Israel with plutonium during Harold Wilson's government, despite a warning from British intelligence that the material could help Israel get the atom bomb.

But it was done without ministers' knowledge, by a civil servant in Tony Benn's Ministry of Technology, Michael Michaels, whose full name was Michael Israel Michaels.

Tony Benn told Newsnight, "I'm not only surprised, I'm shocked." More revelations tonight.

ARTICLE: SECRET SALE OF UK PLUTONIUM TO ISRAEL

Traffic lights

When the idea of a traffic light warning system on food packaging was first mooted - ranging from healthy to don't put it in your mouth! - it received what seemed like a generally positive response.

But today the Food Standards Agency has to decide whether it's adopting the red, green, amber code, and the food industry is opposed - on the grounds that it takes no account of quantities, and the balance of a diet.

Liz Mackean is at the FSA meeting in Glasgow and we'll debate what would be a huge change in the way we look at our food.

Shopping

And is there potentially a much more radical change ahead for the way we shop? The Office of Fair Trading has announced it plans to refer the entire supermarket sector to the Competition Commission in a month's time.

Speed cameras

Have you been flashed by a speed camera and are moving inexorably towards that driving ban?

Well, you are one of a million drivers on the brink of losing your licence according to figures out today from Direct Line Insurance. And there may be even tougher fines on the way.

Are there at least a million reckless drivers on the roads or is the system in need of a service?

YOUR COMMENTS: ARE YOU ON THE BRINK OF A DRIVING BAN?

Kirsty

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