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Victoria Derbyshire: 07/10/2010

07/10/2010

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Pension review: Are you ready to work for longer?

Pension review: Are you ready to work for longer? Concerns over the water in the Commonwealth Games pool. And the Northern Ireland playwright in hiding.

Are you ready to work for longer? 

A pension review into public sector workers has recommended that nurses, doctors, firefighters and other workers should pay more for their pensions and work for longer before they can receive them. Paul Novak from the TUC joins a man pensioned off from the fire service through injury, and a low-paid self-employed actor to discuss the proposals.

Is the pool at the Commonwealth Games making our competitors sick? Several swimmers say they've suffered stomach problems. Victoria speaks to Jazz Carlin, who won silver for Wales in the 200m freestyle. 

A Northern Irish playwright tells us he's been attacked and forced into hiding because of his work. Protestant Gary Mitchell is set to stage his first play in five years, after he started receiving death threats from loyalist paramilitaries. 

The first ministers of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are warning the UK Government that public sector cuts are too fast and too deep. The leaders of the three devolved administrations say the coalition's programme may put the economic recovery at risk. 

And has the 'Gamu Factor' started overshadowing The X Factor? As the lawyer representing X Factor reject Gamu Nhengu's family says they'll fight "all the way" plans to deport them, the twelve X Factor finalists are presented to the media.

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