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BANKING IN THE DOCK
In Monday's Panorama we took a closer look at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
As the bank's former chief Sir Fred Goodwin's pension was on the rise, RBS' share price was plummeting, so it seemed a good time to look at how the bank's rapid growth from trusted local bank to financial powerhouse had rung alarm bells for some in the City.
Panorama also heard from one analyst that RBS' takeover of ABN Ambro, which was highly exposed to the sub-prime market, was badly received in the City at the time.
The programme also went to the US, to speak to a law firm who are raising a class action lawsuit on behalf of thousands of angry US investors who bought into RBS in an American share issue.
Read about Sir Goodwin's pension here.
You can read the background to the programme here.
Have you tried our banking quiz? If not, try it here.
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME
An investigation into the UK charity Interpal, by Panorama in July 2006, is back in the news.
The investigation centred on Interpal and its partner organisations, which make up a coalition of Islamic charities called the Union for Good.
The programme alleges that some of these charities and the partners Interpal work with, in the Palestinian Territories, are linked to Hamas.
The Charity Commission this week ruled on the evidence handed in by Panorama, and while it concluded there was not enough evidence to link the British charity with terrorism in the Palestinian Territories, it did order Interpal to "dissociate" itself from the Union for Good.
Read about our orginal programme here.
You can read Panorama's response to the charity Comission's findings here.
DYING WITH DIGNITAS
A British couple from Bath have both died together, with the help of a Swiss assisted suicide clinic.
Peter and Penelope Duff, who both had terminal cancer, have reignited the debate around euthanasia.
In May 2006 Panorama asked if we should allow people who are suffering unbearably 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.
You can read about the Duffs here.
You can watch I'll Die When I Choose here.
Read about the programme A Good Time To Say Goodbye - featuring Diane Pretty's husband here.
"SCREWED UP WITH RAGE"
Knife crime is back in the news, with the courts handing down a life sentence to Karl Bishop.
Bishop had repeatedly stabbed 18-year-old, Harry Potter actor, Rob Knox to death. He was also convicted of wounding the young actor's friends.
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.
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.
This programme was called Jailed for a Knife and you can watch it here.
Read about Bishop's sentencing here.
IMMIGRATION - TIME FOR AN AMNESTY?
Next Monday's Panorama looks at a proposed amnesty for hundreds of thousands of long-standing illegal immigrants, offering them the right to work and full citizenship. London mayor Boris Johnson is in favour of the idea, and ninety-three MPs from across the country support it. But it is a big ask, with the UK in the grip of a credit crunch, and amid protests calling for British jobs for British workers.
Immigration - Time For An Amnesty? - is on BBC One, Monday 9 March at 8.30pm GMT.
 bbc.co.uk/panorama
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