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With Kaye Adams

Have you had the conversation with your teenager about drugs?

PHONE-IN
The father of a 13-year-old girl who died after taking ecstasy has warned other parents that, if it can happen to his daughter, it can happen to anyone.
Have you had the conversation with your teenager about drugs?

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SELECTING GENDER
A Daily Mail investigation alleges that some British couples are paying up to £14,000 to select the gender of their babies, despite gender selection being illegal in the UK. Should UK couples be allowed to choose the gender of their baby? Model and TV personality Danielle Lloyd is 'set to fly to Dubai for gender selection treatment' next summer. Dr Marco Gaudoin is Medical Director at the Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine.

PROPERTY SURGERY
We are looking at self builds in this week's property surgery. If you are thinking of your own grand design or very modest design and you'd like some advice….financial or logistical …..call our experts on 0808 5 92 95 00. Brian Gilmour is from Indigo Square property and Tom McSherry is from BuildStore. Tom, has specialised in finance for self-build and renovation for 13 years.

END OF LIFE DOULA
We speak to one of Scotland's first End of Life Doulas - someone who promises to be ' a friend at the end'. Hiliary Peppiate is an end of life Doula at BTO solicitors in Edinburgh. Professor Dame Sue Black says we should celebrate death in the same way that we celebrate birth.

MEDICAL GUINEA PIG
Sir Billy Connolly has volunteered to be a medical guinea pig in the search to find a cure for Parkinson's. But what's involved when you're part of a clinical research trial? Professor Rob Jones is Head of the Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials in Glasgow, Keith Roxburgh took part in the Stampede trial, which is supported by Cancer Research UK and Pennie Taylor is a Health Journalist.

OCEAN YOUTHS
How learning to sail has turned around the fortunes of kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. Ashley Reid is Head of Fundraising at the Ocean Youth Trust and Shaun Wiseman is a student at Clydeview Academy.

MARATHON DEATHS
Two runners have died after competing in Sunday's Cardiff Half Marathon, police and organisers have confirmed. The pair, aged 25 and 32, went into cardiac arrest after crossing the finishing line. Is your heart fit for a marathon?

STRICTLY
Seann Walsh's girlfriend Rebecca Humphries has insisted "I am not a victim", after he admitted kissing his Strictly Come Dancing partner. What will be the repercussions of the latest relationship to fall foul of the strictly 'curse'?

CAN YOU NAME THE PLACE? with Professor Carole Hough, Professor of Onomastics Glasgow University
Clue 1: Today's place-name is partly Semitic, and partly Scots.

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