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This week, as UK cases surge, should COVID precautions move to Plan B?

How does raw sewage affect our waterways,

and is your mobile phone damaging your finger?

Spooky stuff plus since we are recording this program on Halloween we are wandering into the

weird world that is spiders we'll be looking at spiders that can fly

using little silk parachutes and the grisly and gruesome mating habits of the

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Well, let's kick off with the latest science news stories as we always do and to

plan B or not to plan B as COVID cases hit a new high, that's the question that's been hogging the headlines

this week.

Labour has made a stinging attack on the government's COVID strategy and suggested that

Sajijevid is the most complacent health secretary in the history of the NHS.

Speaking in the Commons, the Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth,

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