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• Will Who Movie Have Piper?
  Jane Tranter, controller of fiction at the BBC, told the online news outlet of the Guardian newspaper that certain film ideas based on BBC television shows "are staring us in the face already and may seem too obvious."
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• PRW.com - Plastics Industry News
  People’s petition faces uncertain path to legislation in National Assembly for Wales. 5 October 2007 – Wales could ban plastic bags if the National Assembly takes to heart the wishes of a recent competition winner.
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• Leinster v Scarlets (Fri)
  Team news ahead of Friday's Magners League clash at the RDS Showground.
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• News Brief
  A company in Monmouthshire, Wales, an area where Dr Rowan Williams used to be bishop before eventually moving on to Canterbury, has launched a line of religious mobile phone products, including a downloadable Bible for £6.
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• Eleven people, one daunting task
  The BBC's Angus Crawford describes an inquest like no other - that of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Blog and News Digest

• Big measles rise in UK
  There is an "unprecedented increase" in measles cases in England and Wales, experts report.
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• Climbdown in housing powers row
  The Welsh Assembly Government gives the Welsh Secretary a veto over new powers to limit the right to buy council homes.
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• 99 patients hit by vomiting bug
  Patients in 10 wards at a hospital have been affected by an outbreak of norovirus, say health chiefs.
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• Volunteer fined for patient death
  An ambulance service volunteer is fined after a patient he was driving home from hospital died in a crash.
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• Motorist dies after two-car crash
  A man aged 68 dies and another driver is hurt in a collision between two vehicles on Anglesey.
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• Brecon jazz goes into liquidation
  The company behind Brecon jazz festival officially goes into liquidation at a creditors' meeting.
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• Jail for 'inhumane' boy cruelty
  A man who tortured his four-year-old stepson, holding his head under water and kicking footballs at him, is jailed.
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• PM's Welsh economy 'health check'
  Gordon Brown is to visit south Wales as part of a tour to see how the economic downturn has hit different parts of the UK.
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