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Victoria Derbyshire: 17/08/2011

17/08/2011

BBC Radio 5 Live - Victoria Derbyshire, 17/08/2011

Stephen Nolan asks the police if some sentencing for the rioting has been too harsh.

Stephen Nolan sits in for Victoria Derbyshire and looks at sentencing after the riots, the East African famine and Enterprise Zones.

Stephen looks at the famine in East Africa - the worst of its kind for 60 years - speaking to aid workers and the advisor to the Prime Minister of Somalia.

He discusses the 21 new 'Enterprise Zones' announced by the Government today - asking whether they'll work? 

The Assistant Chief Constable of Cheshire Police - Phil Thompson - takes calls and talks about the severity of the sentencing in the wake of the rioting across England

Plus, a woman who came home from a weekend away to find squatters sitting at her kitchen table, drinking her wine and wearing her clothes.

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