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Newsbeat: 17/04/2014

17/04/2014

BBC Radio 1 - Newsbeat, 17/04/2014

The day's news including figures show 10,000 new drivers had licences revoked in 2012.

The day's news including 10,000 new drivers had licences revoked in 2012 and food regulators step up tests on takeaway lamb dishes after tests reveal some contained other meats.

Today's news including 10,000 new drivers' have had licences revoked in 2012 and the latest on the search for nearly 300 missing people after a South Korean ferry sank on Wednesday. Plus, X-Men director Bryan Singer is accused of drugging and raping a teenage boy and food regulators say they're going to increase the number of tests they do on lamb dishes in takeaways after two different studies found that, in many cases, food advertised as lamb actually contained other meats.

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