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The NHS hospital that replaced controversial PIP breast implants when it shouldn't have.

The NHS hospital that has replaced PIP implants when it should not have, and why planting sunflower seeds might help finish the work of one the 20th century's great mathematicians.

Plans to limit unannounced inspections could make it more difficult to tackle rogue traders, Trading Standards tell us. We visit an allotments for animals. We look at what changes to the ATOL system, which protects those flying abroad, will mean in practice. A new website set-up by a former boss of Waterstone's boasts that it will offer "all the e-books in the world" - will it succeed? Plus a hospital has been offering women who had PIP breast implants cheap replacements. Although inline with what the health select committee recommended, they admit they are doing so because they a misunderstood Department of Health policy. And, why planting sun flower seeds might help finish the work of one the 20th century's greatest mathematicians.

The producer is Joe Kent.

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