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10/08/2015

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 10/08/2015

Gibraltar, Ferguson one year on, doping allegations, SAS training and the Haiti elections.

Spanish incursion in Gibraltar's waters, Ferguson shooting remembered one year on, London Marathon doping row, SAS training, the Haiti elections and Fantastic Four reviewed.

With Dotun Adebayo. Our athletics correspondent Mike Costello explains how the sport is facing up to new doping allegations surrounding winners of the London Marathon.

Alfredo Vasquez from the Gibraltar Federation of Small Businesses and Lord Hoyle, vice-chair of the UK all-party Gibraltar committee, discuss what course of action Britain should take in response to the latest Spanish incursion into Gibraltar's waters.

Adolphus Pruitt from the NAACP & Chris King from the St Louis American newspaper assess the longer term impact of the Ferguson shooting in Missouri, one year on from the death of Michael Brown.

Bruce Reynolds rounds up the latest news from Brazil, including the killing of a Rio crime leader; and the BBC's Akbar Hossain reports from the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on the fight against the Bengal tiger poachers.

Former SAS soldier & author Phil Campion explains why he's not keen on the prospect of the elite military unit changing its training procedures in response to a recent inquest into the 2013 Brecon Beacons tragedy.

Vania Andre from the Haitian Times gives her analysis of the frustrations facing voters going to the polls in Haiti for the first time in four years

Variety film critic Brent Lang gives his verdict on the Fantastic Four movie, after it brings in disappointing takings at the US box office; the so-called Golden Voice of Togo, King Mensah, talks about the influences behind his music, and an unlikely Olympic gold medallist remembers his moment of glory half a century on.

And unusual words abound as Terry Victor & Nevile Gwynne field listeners' calls in the Grammar Phone-In.

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