| NEXT PANORAMA - BRITAIN'S DIRTY BEACHES - NEXT MONDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER AT 8.30PM ON BBC ONE
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UNDERCOVER CHARGES DROPPED
Arifa Farooq will not face criminal proceedings after she was arrested last month.
The Panorama reporter went undercover for a programme which exposed failings in care providers looking after the elderly in South Lanarkshire.
She was arrested for failing to provide accurate information to her employer. You can read more about the story on BBC News Online.
If you missed Panorama: Britain's Homercare Scandal you can watch it on the Panorama website.
BANK HOLIDAY AND BEACHES
With the weather set to make this Bank Holiday a sunny one, many will be hitting the beach to make the most of it.
Panorama will also be taking a break with television schedules taking us off air on Monday night, but that hasn't stopped us from investigating what lies beneath Britain's golden sands and rolling waves.
Returning to our Monday slot on 7 September the programme will reveal the decline in quality of bathing water on Britain's coast and the results from scientific tests commissioned by Panorama.
It is not a pretty picture, with outflow pipes discharging sewage, tampons and condoms after heavy rain.
But the problem of sewage strewn beaches first came to public attention more than 50 years ago as the Panorama archive reveals. Back in 1957 the programme interviewed the parents of a six-year-old girl who contracted polio and died from bathing in sea water.
Mr and Mrs Wakefield went on to found a charity that later merged with the Marine Conservation Society which is still active today. You can read their story and watch the original footage on the Panorama website next week:
www.bbc.co.uk/panorama
GIMME SHELTER
Protesting pensioners made their position clear in last Monday's programme, Gimme Shelter. They want to save residential wardens in sheltered housing from the axe.
This week they took their fight to Trafalgar Square. Sculptor Antony Gormley's fourth plinth played host to Viv Todd, the daughter of one of hundreds of elderly and frail people living in sheltered housing who are seeing their wardens facing the chop.
If you missed the programme you can watch it on the BBC iPlayer.
BACK IN THE NEWS
The US announced this week that it was appointing a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of abuse of terrorist suspects.
The news comes just weeks after Panorama investigated the interrogation methods used by the Americans and asked, 'Who approved them?'
Reporter Hilary Andersson interviewed former terrorist suspects, Bush-era insiders and former CIA agent John Kiriakou who spoke openly about the use of the controversial method of water-boarding. You can watch his interview on the Panorama website where you can also watch Licence to Torture in full.
That's all from us for this week, and remember we are off for the Bank Holiday Monday, but back on 7 September. Until then you can keep up to date with us on our website.
You can e-mail us anytime at panorama@bbc.co.uk
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