The students from Philip Morant School and College in Colchester worked throughout the day on several TV pieces about a range of subjects from a Madonna-mad fan to child evacuees.

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The British tabloids have repeatedly fulminated about the "madness" of Polish workers in Britain whose children back in Poland receive British child benefit payments: which is not mad at all, but legal and reasonable, as their fathers are working legally in Britain and paying their taxes and National Insurance contributions.

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To mark the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, NPR's Fred Child has the story of Scotland's "Mad Piper" Bill Millin, who played on the beaches for his regiment on June 6, 1944.

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