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Phil Williams: 17/02/2016

17/02/2016

BBC Radio 5 Live - Phil Williams, 17/02/2016

Meningitis B vaccine; chocolate shortage; EU talks; Pacquiao; Rio athletes; Team Talk.

Meningitis B vaccine; chocolate shortage warning; Cameron's EU talks; Nike cut ties with Manny Pacquiao; triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee and Paralympian Jack Rutter.

Meningitis B vaccine: Professor Andrew Pollard, chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination & Immunisation, and Sue Davie from Meningitis Now discuss calls for all children to be offered the vaccine. The campaign has been backed by the parents of two-year-old Faye Burdett, who shared a photo of their young daughter showing the impact of meningitis shortly before Faye's death.

Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee and Paralympian Jack Rutter chat to Phil about their preparations in the lead-up to this summer's Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The author of a report into a global cocoa shortage explains why we could be facing a chocolate deficit.

A government review into how unsafe products are recalled concludes that the current system isn't fit for purpose.

John Pienaar reports from Brussels on David Cameron's EU negotiations ahead of a key summit, Lesley Ashmall prepares to spend the night in the Channel Tunnel and Nike severs its ties with boxer Manny Pacquiao following his comments on homosexuality.

Apple challenges a demand from the FBI to access private information stored on the mobile phone of one of the killers in December's mass shooting in San Bernadino, California - but does the FBI request really set a dangerous precedent, as critics suggest?

In Team Talk, Conor McNamara and Ian Ladyman discuss the football stories of the moment, including Wayne Rooney's injury, losing streaks and penalty taking etiquette.

And midnight expert Gulshinder Johal answers listeners' questions on diet and nutrition.

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