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15/09/2016

Five police officers may face criminal charges after a black student was paralysed following an incident at a nightclub. The latest on the siege of Aleppo. Go-ahead for Hinkley C.

Five police officers may face criminal charges after a black student was paralysed following an incident at a nightclub. We hear from his mother, and Labour MP Chuka Umunna tells us that until there are more senior black police officers, black people will continue to face problems in the criminal justice system.
The UN have said that the Syrian Government is blocking aid from reaching those in need in Syria. Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen reports from a soup kitchen in Aleppo.
The nuclear Hinkley C power plant gets the go ahead. We hear concerns about security, and Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy in the Coalition Government tells us that George Osborne had blocked new safeguards from the original deal.
The Government has published plans for the new BBC Charter, including a requirement for the BBC to publish the names of anyone paid over £150 000. Chair of the Media and Sport Select Committee Damian Collins, and Kenton Allen chief executive of Big Talk Productions, an independent tv production company owned by ITV studios discuss the merits of the plan.
And Andrew Bomford's latest report from the village of Lavenham focusses on the lack of school places.

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