Panorama's Week That Was - March 4th - March 9th
On Wednesday, the ever prevalent issue of knife crime was back in the news, as Karl Bishop was of Harry Potter actor Rob Knox outside a bar in south-east London.
Bishop had repeatedly stabbed the 18-year-old to death. He was also convicted of wounding the young actor's friends. Eric Ditzian, writing for MTV online, reports that Rob Knox had at the time of the incident, and signed up for another Harry Potter film.
Panorama has looked at youth crime and knives a number of times, most recently when Raphael Rowe spoke to convicted knife attackers in their cells for Panorama's Jailed for a Knife.
In contrast to Bishop, all five young men interviewed for the programme claimed to have been carrying knives for self-protection, and although they were aware that using a knife was illegal, insights from these young men suggest that the immediate threat of violence held greater sway than the distant threat of a prison sentence.
On Thursday, , with the help of a Swiss assisted suicide clinic.
Peter and Penelope Duff, who both had terminal cancer, have reignited the debate around euthanasia. The Telegraph reported that and Ruth Gledhill writing in The Times' blog, Articles of Faith, wrote that the paper had obtained copies of the draft General Medical Council guidelines, which suggests .
In May 2006, Panorama asked if we should with terminal illnesses to receive medical assistance to die.
We spoke to people from both sides of the debate, including the husband of the late Diane Pretty who is forceful in his belief that assisted suicide for the suffering and terminally ill should be legalised.
Panorama, with politician and Parkinson's sufferer Margo MacDonald, also looked at the truth behind assisted dying last year, in the programme I'll Die When I Choose.
In this film we uncovered shocking evidence of 'suicide hoods' and showed a moving interview with Margo's life-long friend and leader of Scotland's Catholics, Cardinal Keith O'Brien.
On Friday, Lauren Milligan writing in vogue.com reported that Katherine Kirk, formerly of Gap, has been brought on board by Primark - as a about the brand.
The Times reported back in October how the country's 'green' consumers believe that, out of all the clothing retailers on the high street, when it comes to failing to address social and environmental issues. This is noted by a blogger at Daisy Green Magazine who says it will make them on whether to buy cheap clothes, which may have been made by children.
Panorama recently won awards for it's expose on Primark which aired in June last year but as recently as January 2009, the a Primark supplier -TNS Knitwear - was employing illegal workers in poor conditions at its Manchester factory.
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