Nursery World - TV and radio (16)

26 January. 'Five Live Report - Terminal Care' (BBC Radio 5 Live, 12.05 to 12.30pm)

(BBC Radio 5 Live, 12.05 to 12.30pm)

There are at least 15,000 children with terminal illnesses in Britain and only 25 children's hospices specialising in the type of dedicated care that hospitals are not geared to provide. But the Government only covers their core costs and the hospices have to find 90 per cent of their funding from charitable donations. Rebecca Sandles asks if it is acceptable for dying children to front publicity campaigns to fund hospice care.

'The Food Programme'

(BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm)

Fruit juice counts as one of the five daily portions of fruit and vegetables recommended by the Government, but will any kind of juice do? Sheila Dillon finds out just how many vitamins remain in a glass of pasteurised, freshly-squeezed orange juice.

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