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Kaye Adams asks if medal-winning Olympians and Paralympians should make the honours list.

Kaye Adams asks whether successful Olympic and Paralympic athletes should automatically be honoured by the Queen.

David Cameron has confirmed that successful Olympians and Paralympians are to be put on a separate honour's list to reflect the scale of achievement by the London 2012 athletes. Expectations are already high for medal winning athletes to be nominated, after bagging 29 golds at the Olympics and over a hundred medals so far being picked up at the Paralympics. And the pressure is on for some of the most successful - including Jessica Ennis, Mo Farrah, Sarah Story and Ellie Simmonds - to receive knighthoods. But should winning a gold medal automatically mean they deserve an honour? Or should that be enough of a reward for their achievement at the Games? And does it devalue the honour in the honour's list?

And Kaye talks to former MSP Carolyn Leckie about the rise of women in Scottish politics, after a cabinet reshuffle sees Nicola Sturgeon appointed to spearhead the SNP's campaign for independence. With two of the main party leaders in Scotland being female as well as the Scottish Parliament's presiding officer, are women finally breaking through the male dominated world of politics? And do they make better political representatives? 

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