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News • British Broadcasting Corporation
Firefighters in England and Wales are to strike on 1 and 4 November in a row over pensions, the Fire Brigades Union says.
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The Chairman of the company which owns the Grangemouth plant says that the petrochemical plant will stay open and investment will be made in it after a new deal was struck with workers.
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Children are being urged to take back their "wild time" by playing outside more to regain a connection with the natural world.
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Shares in French luxury and retail firm Kering fall 3.6% after its Gucci fashion brand posts its weakest quarterly sales growth for four years.
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The BBC looks at the impact of exports at a Cheddar cheese-maker.
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The Grangemouth petrochemical plant near Falkirk is to stay open after a new deal was struck with workers.
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David Cameron wins the backing of EU chief Jose Manuel Barroso for his push to limit the number of new regulations coming out of Brussels.
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The Nationwide has cut some mortgage rates for those unable to raise a large deposit, but it remains undecided on whether to join the Help to Buy scheme.
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Re-privatising the East Coast Main line will "revitalise" it, ministers say as they kick-start the franchising process, but Labour and unions attack the move.
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French football writer Julian Laurens explains footballers are striking over having to pay a "supertax".
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Joe Grice from the Office for National Statistics gives a breakdown of the latest GDP figures.
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Actor Robert De Niro is among investors in a new property complex in the Chinese city of Shanghai, to include an arts centre, a boutique hotel, a cinema and global retailers.
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UK economic output rose by 0.8% between July and September, official GDP figures show.
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It is a year to the day since the news that ash dieback had been found in Britain's native woodland was officially confirmed. The Today programme's science correspondent Tom Feilden reports on the status quo of the ash dieback.
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Supermarket chain Sainsbury's apologises after a worker tells a new mother she "shouldn't be out of the house with a baby this young".
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Truckmaker Volvo cuts 2,000 jobs after investments in new models and a rising Swedish kronor hold back third-quarter profit.
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The BBC's international correspondents look at which countries implement daylight saving time and which do not.
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The campaign group Energy Bill Revolution is calling for Britain's housing stock to be better insulated to combat fuel poverty.
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Archaeologists in Peru have found two mummies more than 1,000 years old in a suburb of the capital, Lima.
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Oxfam is set to cut 125 posts in the UK and close several of its regional offices to make it more "efficient", the charity says.
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Should our forests be managed or left entirely to nature?
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A new colony of water voles is captured on film using a hidden camera in the Kennet and Avon canal.
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Archaeologists in Peru find two mummies thought to be more than 1,000 years old at an ancient burial site in a suburb of the capital, Lima.
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Samsung Electronics posts a record quarterly operating profit due to strong smartphone sales and a recovery in its chip business.
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The world's largest online retailer Amazon posts its third straight quarterly loss this year due to higher spending and new product launches.
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