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FILE ON 4

Tuesday 1 December 2009, 2000 GMT.

Earlier this year, US troops handed control for security in Iraq back to the Iraqi Government. It was supposed to be the first sign that normality was returning to the streets, so why are thousands of Iraqi refugees still refusing to return home. Kate Clark investigates.

Producer: Sally Chesworth. Editor: David Ross.

Tuesday 8 December 2009, 2000 GMT

The Government's forensic science service is crucial to tackling crime but it is shedding hundreds of jobs and closing half of its laboratories in a drive to make the organisation more commercial. Fran Abrams investigates whether the aggressive cost cutting is beginning to hit the way the service operates and undermine criminal justice.

Producer: Gail Champion. Editor: David Ross.