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Gabby Logan: 25/10/2010

25/10/2010

BBC Radio 5 Live - Gabby Logan, 25/10/2010

Colin Murray sits in, talking football, the CBI, cuts in arts spending and miniskirts.

Colin Murray sits in, talking football, the CBI, cuts in arts spending and miniskirts. Text: 85058 (charged at your standard message rate). Email: logan@bbc.co.uk.

Colin Murray sits in for Gabby. 

With Chelsea 5 points clear at the top of the Premier League, just who is going to provide the strongest challenge to stop them making it back to back titles? The sports team in the first hour is made up of BBC golf and rugby Commentator Andrew Cotter, comedian Kevin Day and Gold Cup and Grand National winning Jockey Mick Fitzgerald.

Britain's going to focus on growth and innovation, according to David Cameron at the Confederation of British Industry's conference. Albert Ellis from the recruitment consultancy Harvey Nash gives his verdict from the conference, and our reporter is in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, at a  research centre which the Prime Minister gave as a good example of universities and business working together.

How will The Arts Council of England cope with a funding cut of 30%? Colin Tweedy from the charity Arts and Business says smaller groups may lose out, while Jatinder Verma from the British Asian theatre company Tara Arts says his group has already lost vital funds.

And the mayor of the seaside town of Castellammare di Stabi near Naples wants to fine women €500 for wearing a miniskirt. The fashion director of the Daily Telegraph tells Colin what she makes of the ban, and listeners nominate items of clothing they would like to banish.

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