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Phil Williams: 08/09/2015

08/09/2015

BBC Radio 5 Live - Phil Williams, 08/09/2015

Rooney breaks goalscoring record, plus drone strikes and Paula Radcliffe.

Wayne Rooney becomes England's all-time leading goalscorer. Plus the legality and logistics of drone strikes and Bluetones frontman Mark Morriss.

Wayne Rooney becomes England's leading goal scorer. Bob Pendleton, the scout who spotted Rooney playing Sunday league football as an eight-year-old, and Ray Hall, Everton Academy director when the club signed Rooney as a youngster, share their memories of the talented young footballer.

After an RAF drone strike kills two British jihadists in Syria, Phil discusses the legality and logistics of the process with Robert McCorquodale, director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and Dave Cummins, who has operated Predator drones for both the RAF and the US air force.

The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports from on the ground in Syria, as MPs hold an emergency debate on the UK's response to the refugee crisis. 

The Queen passes the record of her great great grandmother Queen Victoria to become Britain's longest reigning monarch.

Mark Morriss, frontman of acclaimed British indie band the Bluetones, chats to Phil on the eve of a UK 20th anniversary tour.

Paula Radcliffe categorically denies any form of cheating after claiming she was effectively implicated during a Parliamentary hearing into the wider athletics doping scandal.

A British man and his Salvadoran wife are reunited with their newborn son in Texas after apparently falling victim to an alleged child trafficking plot. Tanya Eiserer is a reporter for Dallas-based WFAA TV who first broke the story.

Cross-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland's regional assembly break down just two hours after they begin.

As Pope Francis announces reforms making it easier for Roman Catholics to annul their marriages and remarry while remaining in the Church, we hear from one woman going through the process of annulment.

And nutritional therapist Laura de la Harpe offers expert advice on how to eat better and lead a healthier life.

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