| NEXT PANORAMA - CAN MONEY GROW ON TREES? - MONDAY 8.30PM BBC ONE
Hi there,
THANK YOU
We start this week with a big thank you to all of you who took part in our online Feeling the Pinch questionnaire about how the credit crunch is affecting you.
Nearly 9,000 of you answered our questionnaire which gave us a fascinating snapshot on how you're feeling the pinch.
Monday's programme, How The Economy Got Personal, was driven by you telling us how you're coping fiancially in the current environment.
You can see the full results from the questionnaire on the website. And if you didn't get a chance, you can still fill it in.
One of the questions was about what consumer items had risen in price the most. Of the 8,770 of you that replied, 1,917 of you answered food.
That's not surprising as the BBC Food Price Index has shown. The index, compiled for the BBC, tracked the cost of a typical trolley of UK food items.
It found food prices have risen by 8.3% since January. You can read more about the findings on the BBC News website.
CASH FOR A RAINFOREST
Our team's just returned from the rainforest in Brazil and Guyana where they've been asking Can Money Grow on Trees?
Campaigners and law enforcers have been trying to stop the destruction of the rainforest for years but now the money markets are stepping in.
As the growing food crisis accelerates the speed of destruction of the rainforest, Panorama asks if the trees are worth more alive than dead.
Can a price be put on the rainforest as a resource that captures carbon and generates rainfall, and will this help save the trees?
Ben Anderson will be asking just that on Panorama: Can Money Grow on Trees?, Monday 8 September at 8.30pm on BBC One.
SUING THE MoD
Back in the news this week, the families of some of the 14 servicemen killed when an RAF Nimrod exploded in Afghanistan in 2006, are suing the Ministry of Defence.
Panorama's On a Wing and a Prayer reported in 2007 about concerns among servicemen about the safety of the UK's fleet of Nimrods.
You can read the full report from the programme on the Panorama website.
CHILD PROTECTION
BBC Current Affairs is producing a programme on child protection. We are looking at what progress has been made since the death of Victoria Climbie in 2000, the subsequent inquiry by Lord Laming, and the government reforms which followed.
We want to hear from social workers involved in child protection. What's it like working on the frontline of children's services in the UK today? What has been the impact on child protection of the government reforms contained in Every Child Matters? Are children at risk from harm better protected now than they were when Victoria was murdered?
We would like to know what you think and what you feel would help you to improve the safety of the most vulnerable members of society. Your communications will be treated in confidence.
You can contact us on the following email:
safeguardingchildren@bbc.co.uk
BYE FOR NOW
That's it for this week, but in the meantime you can keep up to date with what the Panorama team are up to via the website www.bbc.co.uk/panorama.
If you missed this week's programme, and you're a license fee payer, you can catch up on the iPlayer after which it will be on the archive pages of our website for 12 months.
And if you'd like to get in touch with a story, comment or idea remember you can email us panorama@bbc.co.uk
Many thanks, the Panorama team.
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