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Weekend Breakfast - 05/09/2010

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The big sports stories, news, weather, plus previews of the weekend's sporting events with Rachel Burden and Phil Williams. There's news that Wayne Rooney may not go to Switzerland for the latest Euro 2012 qualifier. It follows allegations in the Sunday papers about his private life. Whether it's 'mint' in Manchester, or 'tidy' in Port Talbot, regional slang words are spreading away from their roots because of social networking websites and texting. Fiona McPherson, senior editor of the Oxford English Dictionary of New Words, explains the trend, while Lynne Truss, author of punctuation polemic Eats Shoots and Leaves tells us she's a fan of mixing and matching our dialects. And Rachel and Phil meet a man who's very good at holding his breath. Jim Lawless has set a new British freedive record by plunging to 100 metres under water. He got there in a single breath - which had to sustain him for two minutes and seven seconds.