Marion and Alex tour the world with their sons teaching and performing hair-raising acrobatic tricks.
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Thursday, 31 January 2019
The message from Darwen, Lancashire to world leaders in Davos
As world leaders gather in Davos, 5 Live gets the views of people in the Lancashire town of Darwen.
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How balloons became a million dollar idea
The BBC's Aaron Heslehurst explains how balloons became a million dollar idea.
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China's economic slowdown explained
China's economic growth is slowing down. But what's really going on?
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The unlikely stars bucking the High Street slump
Museum and gallery shops are reporting rising sales and greater interest. What is their recipe for growth?
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Has Vale become Brazil's most hated company?
Can the country's mining giant Vale recover after its second major disaster in four years?
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Snow disruption: Is my boss expecting me at work?
Can employees refuse to work if they cannot travel to work or their children's school is closed?
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‘Welcome to my high-fashion, trash shopping mall’
Anna Bergstrom runs a shopping mall in Sweden where everything for sale is recycled. Her goal is to make sustainable shopping fashionable.
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Meet the data guardians taking on the tech giants
Facebook, Google and others have grown rich from our data. Some tech start-ups are fighting back.
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New best story on Hacker News: Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
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Oink, moo and brrr: Polar vortex strikes U.S. farm belt
Farmers from North Dakota to Iowa buckled down for some of the coldest weather in a generation on Wednesday, throwing extra rations to pigs or building igloos for chickens in the teeth of sub-zero temperatures and bone-chilling winds.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2SeelvN
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In 'Icebox of the Nation,' arctic blast is just another day
The town that embraces its nickname as the "Icebox of the Nation" barely paused on Wednesday for the polar vortex that is gripping the U.S. Upper Midwest.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2ToOVsH
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Senate hearings to probe unsafe housing of U.S. military families
Troubled by widespread health and safety hazards uncovered by a Reuters investigation into U.S. military housing, Congress will hold hearings next month to ensure that “what we’re seeing now can never happen again,” said Michigan Democrat Gary Peters, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2Gc4obS
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Senator Rand Paul gets $580,000 after neighbor broke his ribs
A Kentucky jury has awarded U.S. Senator Rand Paul more than $580,000 in damages against a next-door neighbor who broke six of the Republican lawmaker's ribs in a gardening dispute.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2DLayOC
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U.S. secretly ships Cold War-era plutonium to Nevada
The U.S. government secretly shipped a large amount of deadly plutonium from a South Carolina site that produced the radioactive metal for nuclear bombs during the Cold War to Nevada, the Trump administration revealed on Wednesday.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2WuK0bL
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New York settles with sellers of 'fake' online followers, 'likes'
New York's attorney general on Wednesday said she has resolved a probe into a group of Colorado companies that once sold fake followers, "likes" and views on social media platforms, in the first U.S. settlement to deem such sales illegally deceptive.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2Bes5gv
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U.S. lawmakers urge Pentagon to revise climate change report
Three Democratic U.S. lawmakers, including the House armed services committee chairman, on Wednesday urged the Pentagon to revise a report on climate change, saying it omitted required items such as a list of the 10 most vulnerable bases.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2RYnlWS
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Elephant seals take over California beach during U.S. shutdown
A herd of elephant seals took over a popular California beach while it was closed during the federal government shutdown and the animals show no sign of wanting to leave.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2WuTjZ8
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Chicago police to release images after attack on 'Empire' actor
Chicago police said on Wednesday they would soon release images of "persons of interest" in the assault of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in which two men yelled racial and homophobic slurs and wrapped a rope around his neck.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2CUxCZz
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Texas executes man for killing police officer in botched 1988 robbery
The state of Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of shooting a Houston police officer to death during a botched robbery of an adult book store in 1988, the state's Criminal Justice Department said.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2CTOPCE
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U.S. safety board opens probe into deadly Florida highway crash
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday it would send a team of eight to probe a deadly Jan. 3 crash in Florida that killed seven, including five children traveling to Disney World.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2WyeYjt
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Youngest member of murderous Manson 'family' again recommended for parole
The California parole board recommended on Wednesday that Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson's murderous "family" of followers, be released early from the life prison term she is serving for her role in the cult's 1969 killing spree.
from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2TiN2Oi
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2TiN2Oi
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'El Chapo' must not 'escape' again, U.S. prosecutor tells jury
Accused Mexican drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's repeated escapes from the law prove that he "knows he's guilty," a U.S. prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at his trial on Wednesday, urging them not to let him escape again.
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from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2RsziyK
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