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Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards with the new look 5 Live Breakfast, featuring unique stories from across the UK, explaining the details behind the headlines, and the biggest news and sport.

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5 Live Breakfast: 05/08/2010

05/08/2010

BBC Radio 5 Live - 5 Live Breakfast, 05/08/2010

Naomi Campbell is back in court plus resistance to the scrapping of the UK Film Council.

Resistance to the scrapping of the UK Film Council, Naomi Campbell is back in court, the latest DEC appeal for Pakistan and can religion ever be cool?

The Disasters Emergency Committee is appealing for donations to help people caught up in Pakistan's floods. 

Naomi Campbell will give evidence at a war crimes tribunal at the Hague today - she's alleged to have been given a diamond by the former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who's facing charges relating to the civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. 

Can religion ever be cool? Elliot Bohannon, from Catholics with Attitude who make Catholic clothing, and Poppy MacDonald, a young Catholic who wears her red Yeovil Diocese hoodie with pride, discuss.

5 live's Laura Maxwell on the breaking news that the three children who died in a flat in Edinburgh yesterday afternoon had been on a police missing persons list last month.

Some of the biggest names in British film have urged the government to rethink its decision to scrap the UK Film Council. James McAvoy, Emily Blunt and Pete Postlethwaite are amongst those who've signed a letter that's been published in this morning's Telegraph but Chris Atkins is a film director and producer who says it should be scrapped.

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