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Gabby Logan: 02/02/2011

02/02/2011

BBC Radio 5 Live - Gabby Logan, 02/02/2011

Live from Westminster for coverage of Prime Minister's Questions.

Live from Westminster, coverage of Prime Minister's Questions.  On the MPs panel, Michael Fallon, Meg Hillier and John Thurso, with analysis from David Akinsayaa and Kevin Maguire.

News from around the UK with Gabby Logan. Including sport, politics, and money news.

Joining Gabby, 5 live's chief political correspondent John Pienaar, David Akinsayaa, a writer and broadcaster with a special interest in care and prison issues, and Kevin Maguire, associate editor at the Daily Mirror.

This week's guests on the MPs Panel are Michael Fallon, Conservative deputy party chairman and also a member of the Treasury Select Committee, Meg Hillier, shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change, and John Thurso, Liberal Democrat MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross and also a member of the Treasury Select Committee.

Topics for debate include plans to sell off forests, and whether public spending cuts will be 'formidably hard to deliver' and an economic 'Plan B' is needed.

Also, we're live in Cairo's Tahrir Square where pro-Mubarak protestors battle opposition campaigners. Our correspondent Kevin Connolly describes "scenes of great passion and intensity turning to violence".

And we hear from Australians preparing for the Queensland cyclone.

Text: 85058 (charged at your standard message rate).  Email: logan@bbc.co.uk.  Twiiter: @Gabby_Logan or @bbc5live.

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