One plan involves bringing it on air half an hour earlier to replace Farming Today and using Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray, regarded as one of the best broadcasting voices in the country, on the Today programme to broaden the show’s reach. When Woman’s Hour was moved six year ago the BBC was inundated with complaints; four years ago, street demonstrations were organised in a successful campaign to stop Radio 4 losing half its frequency to a rolling news service.The Archers may move to an earlier time slot in an effort to grab more listeners and it could find itself with a longer omnibus edition on a Sunday morning. The new schedule, which is being put together by Radio 4’s new controller, James Boyle, is expected to be without early-morning institution Farming Today and a number of long running discussion programmes such as Analysis and Medium Wave according to BBC insiders and the industry magazine Broadcast.
The changes, which will be announced at the end of July so that producers can commission new programmes for next year, may also see the Archers, Woman’s Hour and arts magazine programme Kaleidoscope move their slots.The Radio 4 audience is notoriously resistant to change and is vocal and well-organised. The BBC is bracing itself for a barrage of complaints from listeners when its unveils its new schedule for Radio 4 next month. The reaction is aided by a second substance, ascorbate, in saliva.Allowing your pet to administer the cure may also be good for you. The researchers report that Fijian fishermen encourage their dogs to lick their wounds to promote rapid healing SECURITY.

Nitric Oxide is a powerful antimicrobial substance formed from nitrite present in saliva, which is oxidised on contact with the acidic surface of the skin. countries. Licking one’s wounds makes scientific sense, researchers have discovered. The instinctive reaction, shared by man and animals, to slobber over the injured part, aids healing because saliva is a natural antiseptic.
Scientists in the department of clinical pharmacology at St Bartholomew’s hospital asked volunteers to lick both surfaces of their hands and found levels of nitric oxide on the licked skin was massively increased. The key change would have occurred between 15,000 and 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age was ending and humans invented farming to replace hunting as a food source.”The change from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to more sedentary agricultural population centres may have imposed new selective regimes on dogs,” say the team, led by Robert Wayne of the University of California at Los Angeles. Essentially, dogs and wolves would no longer have been able to interbreed – locking dogs into the genetic patterns they now exhibit The work is reported today in the journal Science.. The scientists examined samples of mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited only from the female, in 27 different wolf populations and 67 dog breeds, as well as from coyotes and jackals.
The tests showed that during most of the late Pleistocene Era, from 600,000 to 12,000 years ago, humans and wolves coexisted in many regions of the world.

The number of telephone taps and mail interceptions carried out by the police, M15, M16 and Customs has increased by more than 20 per cent in the past year to an all-time high, it was revealed yesterday. One of the main reasons for the large increase was the growing use of interception warrants by smaller police forces, as well as an upsurge in action against IRA suspects. The Annual Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner revealed that the number of warrants rose from 1,135 in Britain in 1995 to 1,370 last year. This is biggest total since the Interception of Communications Act came into force in 1985.. Humans took about 100,000 years to domesticate dogs from wolves, possibly beginning up to 135,000 years ago, according to new genetic analysis. The pets we own today evolved through a combination of breeding controlled by humans as well as “genetic exchanges” with wild wolves, says a team of American scientists. Fans of the sci-fi series Star Trek can become addicted to the programme, showing similar symptoms to users of illegal drugs, according to psychological research published today.

But Dr Sandy Wolfson, who has spent four years investigating “Trekkies”, says that addiction to the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew is psychologically beneficial, because of the enrichment the show brings to fans’ lives.
She believes her findings should kill forever the stereotype of the nerdish Star Trek “anorak” who tries to make up for an empty life with obsessive interest in the TV series and movies.She said: “My research found that about 5-10 per cent of the 1,000 fans questioned met the psychological criteria of addiction, showing withdrawal symptoms such as agitation and frustration if they miss an episode and developing higher tolerance levels, so they need increasing `doses’.”But Dr Wolfson, principal lecturer in psychology at the University of Northumbria, whose research is published in the Times Higher Education Supplement, said: “I found that they are normally very lively, happy, well-adjusted, family-type people, not the deranged and lonely nerds of the stereotype.”. Britain comes in 15th, a small improvement on its 16th place last year, but still with eight other EU member states above it – including Spain. Poverty in Britain rose by more than half under the Tories, between 1979 and 1991, to 14.6 per cent of the population, with a significantly higher percentage of poor among children and the elderly than other leading industrialised. They have already been served with refusal notices and will be returned to France where they had their first opportunity to seek asylum. Average life expectancy in Canada is 79 years, 99 per cent of adults can read and write and Real Gross Domesetic Product per person is $21,459.