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Man admits assisting suicides by selling chemicals online

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A Canadian hotel chef, Kenneth Law, pleads guilty to assisting suicides by selling lethal substances online to people around the world. We speak to David Parfett, whose son Thomas used the substance said to have been sold by Law to kill himself. Also, General Sir Richard Barrons, who co-authored last year’s Strategic Defence Review tells us his frustrations in the government not implementing it. We have an update on the Russian drone which injured two people in Romania. And the Dartford Warbler makes a return in Dorset.

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