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WHO WILL SAVE THE SAVERS?
On Monday, Panorama examined what awaits people who face an uncertain retirement as the credit crunch pushes Britain's long-running pensions and savings time bomb to a critical new stage.
For the programme Panorama was in Harrogate with reporter Adam Shaw and 14 independent financial advisers to set up a pensions roadshow and hear people's pension problems.
As well as getting them financial help, Panorama also spoke to former Minister for Welfare Reform, Frank Field MP, who said a wrong decision from the government when handling the crisis could lead to civil disorder, even riots.
Read about the programme here.
Watch Adam Shaw's explanation of the programme here.
Watch the full Panorama here.
BIG BROTHER
A quarter of all government databases are illegal and should be scrapped or redesigned, said a report which came out this week.
The report's authors, the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, said storing information leads to vulnerable people, such as young black men, single parents and children, being victimised.
It also said the UK's "database state" wastes billions from the public purse and often breaches human rights laws.
Last November, Panorama's Simon Boazman investigated how much information is held on him, and crossed the UK to discover how his hospital records are not completely confidential and even his child is about to become a number on a Government database.
Watch Panorama's You can run?.
Read the news story behind the report here.
PANORAMA PROVIDES EVIDENCE
Panorama's Omagh: What the Police Were Never has been nominated for a Bafta.
In last year's programme, reporter John Ware uncovered secret intelligence witheld from detectives, which could have helped charge some of the terrorists involved in the Omagh bombing.
Two days after the programme, Sir Peter Gibson was asked to conduct a review into "any intercepted intelligence material available to the security and intelligence agencies in relation to the Omagh bombing and how this intelligence was shared".
His report rejected claims that vital intelligence about the Omagh bombing was deliberately held back.
This week, John Ware told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that Sir Peter Gibson's report was flawed, saying the approach by the author was "adversarial, impatient and dismissive".
You can watch the programme here.
Read about the report here.
Read Panorama's response to the report here.
Read about John Ware in front of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee here here.
PAKISTAN'S TURMOIL
A series of bombs have rocked Pakistan this week, plunging it further into choas.
Two bombs in two days have killed at least 60 people, on the country's boarder with Afghanistan.
North-west Pakistan has witnessed a number of suicide attacks linked to the Taleban insurgency and also to the Shia-Sunni sectarian divide.
Last November reporter Jane Corbin travelled to the region in Panorama: Britain's Terror Heartland.
In the programme she met those fighting on all sides, from US and Pakistani soldiers to would-be suicide bombers, and discovered that what happens there, has become key to the security of all of us.
Read about the bombings here.
Watch Britain's Terror Heartland here.
THE GUNMAN WHO NEVER WENT AWAY
Next Monday, Panorama is back in Northern Ireland to take a look at the recent upsurge in violence, which has seen the killing of two British soldiers and a police officer - the first such attacks in more than a decade.
Offering the most detailed analysis yet of the terror threat in Northern Ireland, it is based on 10 years investigating the breakaway Republican movement, its aims, its roots and tactics.
Panorama: The Gunmen Who Never Went Away - Monday 30 March 2009, 20:30, BBC 1.
 bbc.co.uk/panorama
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