<BULLETIN>
<TITLE>nova 8 21/12</TITLE>
<STORY>
<Slug>019 BREAST LANTEIL</Slug>
<TEXT>(NOTE: translated audio)

Hundreds of thousands of women around the world - including 50-thousand in the
UK - have been warned about faulty breast implants.

French authorities are expected to recommend the removal of P-I-P implants
this week over concerns they could cause cancer.

But British doctors insist there is no evidence yet to prove a link, and have
urged women not to panic.

French plastic surgeon Professor Laurent Lanteil says patient safety is their
primary concern.

[Take AUDIO
NUMBER: 019
OUT WORDS: taken out
Duration: 9"]


[Total 00:36]
</TEXT>
<AUDIO="p:\news\IRN\./300101.mp2">
</STORY>
<STORY>
<Slug>FIRE 1</Slug>
<TEXT>A woman's had to go to hospital - after a fire broke out at her flat in Weston...

Firefighters found the 24 year old already outside the property when they were called to Shrubbery Avenue yesterday evening...

She'd inhaled smoke after cooking caught fire in her kitchen..
</TEXT>
</STORY>
<STORY>
<Slug>ASSAULT 2</Slug>
<TEXT>A man's had his jaw broken when he was attacked in Bridgwater..

It happened as he walked past a group of men and a woman outside the fire station near Cranleigh gardens sometime between 5 and 6am on Sunday December 11..

The man was also left with a black eye.
</TEXT>
</STORY>
<STORY>
<Slug>suarez 8</Slug>
<TEXT>Liverpool have hit out at the Football Associaion after their striker Luis Suarez was banned for eight games for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra.

The club claim the FA were determined to bring charges from the moment the case began...

But the PFA say the punishment is appropriate.
</TEXT>
</STORY>
<STORY>
<Slug>wines 8</Slug>
<TEXT>It's reported the Government will waive VAT on sales of the Military Wives Christmas single. 

The song, Wherever You Are, was inspired by letters to their husbands in the forces. 

It's become the fastest selling single for six years and could hit the half a million mark by the end of the week.
</TEXT>
</STORY>
<STORY>
<Slug>BULLETIN ENDS</Slug>
<TEXT>Nova news - now you're up to date
</TEXT>
</STORY>
</BULLETIN>
