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Radio 4,23 Apr 2026,30 mins

Private medical data donated to UK Biobank is touted for sale on a Chinese website

Six O'Clock News

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Confidential medical data donated by half a million British volunteers to the UK Biobank project has been put up for sale on a Chinese website. Also: President Trump tells the BBC Sir Keir Starmer can recover his popularity, but only if he's more robust about immigration and opens up the North Sea for more oil drilling. And the virtuoso pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, has died at the age of 101.

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