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Victoria Derbyshire: 13/12/2011

13/12/2011

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The wife of a Lib Dem MP who was given a nine-month suspended sentence for stealing a cat.

With Christine Hemming, the wife of a Liberal Democrat MP who was given a nine-month suspended sentence for stealing a cat from the home of her husband's lover.

The wife of a Liberal Democrat MP who was given a nine month suspended sentence for stealing a cat from the home of her husband's lover has told this programme that her conviction and punishment were totally unjustified. In her first interview since being sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court in October, Christine Hemming says she'd just asked her husband, John Hemming, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, to move out of the marital home - and she was under intense stress as a result.

Also 2.6 million people are currently unemployed. 4 out of 5 firms say they have no plans to hire people over the next few months. So are you bucking the trend? 

and thousands of children might be missing school every year as a result of M.E, properly known as chronic fatigue syndrome. That's according to research that's been done for Bristol University by Dr Esther Crawley, who's a consultant paediatrician.

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