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Phil Mercer: Facebook relent and allow breast cancer scar photos

Facebook relent and allow breast cancer scar photos

BBC Radio Oxford - Phil Mercer, Facebook relent and allow breast cancer scar photos

Social networking site allows pictures showing breast cancer scars to be reposted.

Social networking site Facebook has allowed pictures from profiles posted by breast cancer sufferers - showing mastectimony scars - to be reposted.

Student Protests - Protests are happening in Oxford (ending up in the Radcliffe Camera / Bodliain Library) and London today.  Our reporters have been there.

Facebook - Social networking site Facebook has been removing pictures from profiles posted by breast cancer sufferers (showing mastectomy scars).  We have been in touch with Facebook and have a development to the story who are now allowing the pictures.  Anna Antell from Eynsham was angry when social networking site Facebook took down photos showing her breast cancer scars. The profile pictures were initially deemed to be 'nudity'.

7/7 Inquest -   The inquests into the deaths of the 52 victims of the 2005 London suicide bombings has continued today.  More evidence is being heard from people who were caught up in the Edgware Road explosion.

Mercers Money - Ireland's embattled government publishes details of a four-year crisis plan to slash its ballooning deficit and pave the way for a multi-billion Euro international bailout later today. 

Cameras - BBC Radio Oxford understands speed cameras are set to be switched back on in Oxfordshire in April next year.  We've discovered detail about a plan which would see the police pay for the cameras instead of the county council using income from the courses speeding drivers are sent on.  

Guardian Award - A community services group based in Oxford has won a prestigious Guardian Public Services Award for reducing anti-social behaviour and rough sleepers.

Kenya Exercise - Air Crews from RAF Benson have travelled to East Africa - for what is widely regarded as some of the toughest and most realistic training offered by the British Army.  With High Temperatures to contend with - the exercise in Kenya is designed to give soldiers the skills they need to operate in places like Afghanistan.

Weekly Politics - Peter Henley joins us from Westminster to talk us through the political stories of the week so far.

Words - Whatever your view on David Cameron's big idea - the phrase has been named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year.  Katharine Da Costa's been looking at the lingo that everyone's been talking about in 2010.

Events - A look at Christmas light switch on events at towns across Oxfordshire with Alwyn from Dailyinfo.co.uk

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