AUDIO: Iain Duncan Smith's 'tough' site for jobseekers

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AUDIO: 'Too late' to remove guns from US

President Obama has said the US must do more to protect its children after the shootings in Newtown in the state of Connecticut.

He spoke at an inter-faith service in the town on Sunday.

If Obama attempts to tackle America's gun culture, he will meet a great deal of opposition.

Richard Feldman, President of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, told the Today programme: "The problem is whose hands the guns are in.

"This particular case, and all the other mass shootings, involved mentally deranged individuals. We have a failed mental health system now in this country.

"Having a ban isn't going to make the very people we would like to prevent from having them, having them. They're already owned by tens of millions of people."

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AUDIO: How to respond to a 'round robin'

It is that time of year when some families take it upon themselves to send out, not just a nice simple Christmas card, but a whole family newsletter to everyone they know.

Writer Lynne Truss has devised six cunning ways you could respond, and maybe put an end to, any smug family boasting.

Here is her slightly sarcastic reply to the Wilson family's Christmas Gazette.

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