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Tonight at 10:00pm: an investigation into the banking

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scandal is finally agreed. The inquiry will be handled by

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Parliament after a heated debate among MPs. Which Labour ministers

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were involved? Answer that question. Where is the evidence? He should

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put up or shut up. We'll be asking if the cross-party inquiry can

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overcome the deep political divisions. Also tonight:

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Five infantry battalions abolished in the biggest Army reform for

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decades. We have come to some difficult decisions but they are

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fair decisions, based on clear criteria.

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In London, six people arrested as part of an investigation into a

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suspected terrorist plot. 40 years after the killings of

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Bloody Sunday, police will open a murder investigation.

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And after the wrong calls, goal- line technology is coming to

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And coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, it is Serena

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Williams at the double at Wimbledon. First another singles final and

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then the semi-finals in the doubles Good evening. The banking scandal

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will be investigated by a parliamentary committee, not by a

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judge. And any resulting changes in the law will be passed before the

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next election. That's the outcome of a heated debate among MPs today.

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Labour has agreed to take part, despite reservations about the

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scope of the inquiry and deep animosity between the front benches,

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as our political editor, Nick Robinson reports.

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It was a debate few will forget. It was meant to be about the banks, a

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debate in which the Chancellor and his shadow descended into a bitter

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personal row. He has impugned my integrity. And what I am saying to

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him is, if he has any integrity on this narrow point of his allegation,

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he should stand up now, withdraw the allegation and apologise.

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idea that I am going to take lessons in integrity from a man who

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smeared his way through 13 years of Labour government is another thing.

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There was personal venom, partisan fury, raw political calculation. At

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issue, George Osborne's decision to point the finger at Labour in an

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interview over who was to blame for the Libor scandal. He claimed

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Labour ministers were clearly That is Ed Balls, by the way. Where

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is the evidence, Ed Balls demanded to know. The sight of a Chancellor

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who says one thing to the press but can't defend himself in the

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parliament is embarrassing to his office. The right honourable

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gentleman was the City Minister, and the City Minister, during the

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Libor scandal. And I want to know the answer to the question, which

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Labour ministers were involved. should either put up or shut up.

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Present the evidence, apologise. Why so much anger? Because they

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know voters are furious about the banks and want you to blame the

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other lot for what went wrong. Hence another row about who should

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investigate that. Labour argued for a public inquiry led by a judge,

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going much wider than the recent rate fixing scandal. The government

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insisted that a committee of MPs and peers could investigate

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professional standards in banking and produce results much quicker.

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Normally, a cross-party inquiry would get cross-party support. But

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tonight, the Commons split. ayes to the right, 330, the noes to

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the left, 236. The government got its way, MPs and Lords, not lawyers,

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will quiz bankers. Labour, grudgingly, have said they will

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take part. We will try to get it to achieve as much as it can given the

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limitations it faces. As scandals continued to emerge and people

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continue to demand justice for themselves and their banking system

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they can trust, I will keep demanding and pressing for the

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judge led inquiry. After MPs voted, two men chatted in the middle of

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the Commons. The Tory chairman of the new inquiry, and Labour's Ed

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Balls, who was desperate to reassure. I have been chairing an

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all-party committee for two years. We have produced dozens of reports

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and they have all been unanimous. It is by working together that

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Parliament can show it can do the job. Working together? Now there is

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a thought. After today's bitterness, that might prove easier said than

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On that very point, can this genuinely be a cross-party inquiry,

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given the animosity we saw today? It is hard to imagine. If the House

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of Commons was a playground, the cry would have gone out, fight,

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fight. It felt like a playground. They are fighting not just because

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they loathe each other personally, but because they are fighting for

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their parties, good grief up to the next election. In other words, the

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Tories are desperate to remind voters, Labour's were in charge

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when the banks went bad. Labour are desperate to convince the

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electorate that the Tory are too close to the bankers and can't

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clean up the mess. The row between these two men even goes on tonight.

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George Osborne's advisers told me he had been misquoted and he never

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believed Ed Balls was personally involved in the Libor scandal, that

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he accepted the reassurances that had been given by Mr Balls. Labour

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responded by saying, why didn't he says it for himself and in the

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House of Commons, when he was in there for an hour and a half? The

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one hope that this inquiry can escape all that is that the rather

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low-key chairman of it insists he doesn't want to put anybody in the

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dock for what happened in the past, he wants to come up with ideas

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about how to make things better in the future. Rest assured, even if

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that row doesn't take place in this new committee, in the new inquiry,

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it will happen, because both main parties believe it is the key to

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who wins the next election. Thank you very much.

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The British Army is facing its biggest reform in decades. Five

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infantry battalions are being abolished as the size of the Army

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is reduced by 20% by the end of the decade. The number of regular

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soldiers will fall by 20,000, and there'll be a much heavier reliance

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on the Territorial Army to make up the shortfall. The Defence

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Secretary insists the Army will remain a "formidable fighting

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Over the past decade, the British Army has been able to fight wars on

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two fronts. In Afghanistan, as well as Iraq. Both long campaigns,

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committing large numbers of troops. It is something that the army of

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2020 will not be able to do. With less money, the Army is having to

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change. We need to restructure to face an increasingly uncertain

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world. Ready to intervene whenever and wherever, to protect our

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national interest. With an ability to project force and prevent

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conflict, through agile and adaptable armed forces.

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Controversially, it will mean cutting well-mannered English

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regiments and saving Scottish units that struggle to recruit. The

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bigger question will be, what will be left? This isn't just about a

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small army, many will believe it is also a less powerful army and a

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less influential nation. Today come armed forces, our country and

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families deserve better -- today it our aren't forces. The ministry

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announced it will be losing 17 of 136 units. The regular Army goes

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from 102,000, to 82,000 troops. It will mean that some famous names,

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like the Green Howards, who were involved in the first landings on

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D-Day, and with 18 Victoria crosses to their name, will be lost for

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ever. Are these political or military decisions? They are always

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political considerations in everything we do in the military. -

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- there are always. We have consulted with ministers and come

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to what I believe is a fair and The army of 2020 will have to rely

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more on reservists like these. During the day, bankers, builders

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and business owners. The TA is meant to double in size, to 30,000.

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And there will be greater demands. The formula by which you can reduce

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the regular Army by 20,000, and up the effective reserves by a similar

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number, it is a brave one. It will be quite a challenge. It is not the

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only challenge. How will the nation view these challenges? Just last

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weekend, the public showed support for those who serve. Pride in the

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military, but today, some of their families felt let down. They are

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out there losing lives at the moment, in our eyes for possibly

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the wrong people and the wrong reasons. To get that thrown in

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their face, I think it is a massive slapper in the face. An end to the

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war in Afghanistan is now inside, but no one knows what will come

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next or whether this Li Na army will be able to deal with that

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threat. The bodies of three British

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servicemen killed by an Afghan policeman have been brought home.

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Warrant Officer Leonard Thomas, from the Royal Corps of Signals,

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Guardsmen Craig Roderick and Apete Tuisovurua, from First Battalion,

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The Welsh Guards, died on Sunday in Friends and family gathered to pay

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their respects as the cortege passed through Carterton in

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Six people have been arrested in anti-terror raids in London and are

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being questioned about an alleged plot involving potential targets in

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the UK. Three of them were living just a mile from the Olympic Park

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in East London. In a separate operation, a coach was stopped on

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the M6 motorway by armed police, but it proved to be a false alarm.

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Our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, reports.

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The arrests came at dawn, at this address, the police didn't just

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forced the door, they took it off its hinges. It was left lying in

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the front garden. In the early morning commotion, firearms

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officers used a tasered to arrest one of the suspects here. I saw one

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on the top of a ladder, going through the window at the side

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there. Another one shining a torch at the windows, and smoke coming

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out from around the door where they took the door off. There was a big

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bang. For a minute, I thought it was a bomb, really, that sort of

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nice. Those arrests came in Newham in east London, three brothers

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detained at the same house. One is a former police committee support

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officer. On the other side of the capital in Ealing in west London,

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three people were arrested, a man and a married couple. One of the

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interests is a Muslim convert, Richard Dart, said to have once

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worked as a BBC security guard. He featured last year in this BBC

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documentary, and is now known as Salahuddin al Britani. He and the

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others are in custody because of a possible plot against UK targets,

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allegedly involving Islamist extremists. The east London arrests

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came at a house less than a mile from the Olympic site, although

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today's operation is said not to be linked to the Games. The police

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intelligence services will act far earlier on in an active part,

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because the risk appetites are diminishing rapidly as we move

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closer to the Games. In an unrelated incident in Staffordshire,

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what began as a counter-terrorist operation became a false alarm, but

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only after it had caused major disruption on the M6. Passengers

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were taken off a coach after reports of vapour escaping from a

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back. It turned out to be a fake cigarette being used by someone to

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help give up smoking. From this road, you can see the Olympic site.

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While the rest CMA not be linked to the games, with just three weeks to

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go, the police know they are moving The Bank of England is to inject

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another �50 billion into the economy to counter the effects of

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the recession. It takes the total amount of quantitative easing so

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far to 300 and Sunday �5 billion. The bank has also decided to hold

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interest rates at 0.5%. When the Bank of England first

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talked about quantitative easing, it was a novelty. Not any more. It

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began in March 2009 with a plan to inject �75 billion into a sinking

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economy. That grew to 200 billion. Then last October, they decided

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more emergency action was needed. With another 50 billion announced

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today, the total has risen to �375 billion. If you spent it all at

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once, that is enough to buy a quarter of Britain's national

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output. That money is supposed to make it easier for businesses to

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borrow, but if so, this mail-order company in Buckinghamshire has not

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noticed. It will make no difference to my business almost of the other

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businesses in the UK. The banks need to retain the low capital from

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the Bank of England, and therefore will only lend on onerous terms and

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that higher interest rates. Here at the bank, they say things would

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have been worse if they had not created all that money and a

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quantitative easing and spent it in the City, buying government debt.

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But there is so much uncertainty hanging over households, banks and

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businesses that critics say the money is not getting out into the

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broader economy. The amount of cash sitting on bank balance sheets has

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risen by 58% since the Monetary Policy Committee restarted the

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policy last autumn. But lending to households and companies has barely

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risen at all, by just 0.2%. Because the Bank's view the riskiness of

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lending to companies and individuals as quite high, the

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money that has been injected has cooled in the financial system. And

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it is not likely to spread outside the financial system until

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prospects for the real economy begin to improve. That is just the

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moment when you will not need it. The European central bank cut its

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key interest rate today to another all-time low, and said it was not

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going to pay any interest at all to banks who part money at the Central

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Bank. China's central bank also cut rates for the second time in a

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month. In his Mansion House speech last month, the Bank of England

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governor, Sir Mervyn King, said the quantitative easing policy could

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still make a difference, but admitted it was not enough. He and

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the Chancellor announced several schemes to get credit flowing to

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companies directly. More details promised soon. But if the global

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economy continues to weaken, the Bank of England will not be the

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only one looking for bright ideas. Coming up: rising above London,

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Europe's tallest building, but will the Investment prove to be a wise

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one? The Police Service of Northern

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Ireland is to open a murder investigation into the events of

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bloody Sunday 40 years ago in Londonderry. 13 people were shot

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dead by soldiers during a civil rights demonstration. The

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investigation is expected to take four years to gather evidence.

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January 30th, 1972. A Catholic priest, Father Edward Daly, tries

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to get the dead and dying to safety, victims of soldiers of the

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Parachute Regiment who opened fire on protesters on the day. 13

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Catholics died, more than half of them teenagers, and 40 years on,

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the possibility that former British soldiers could be tried for murder

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has moved a step closer with the announcement of a police

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investigation. It will build on the Saville Inquiry, which called the

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deaths unjustifiable. Among Lord Saville's findings, the victims

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posed no threat. The report says some were clearly fleeing or going

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to help those injured or dying. The soldiers gave no warning before

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opening fire. And some of the soldiers lied to the enquiry or did

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not care what happened when they opened fire. Those findings two

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years ago delighted Derry's Catholic community. Tonight, the

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families' spokesman welcomed the investigation, but was unhappy that

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police say it could take up to four years. It is too long, because the

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evidence is already there. And Lord Saville has conducted this inquiry

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for 12 1/2 years. I can't see why it has to take four years to finish

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the job. But today's Police Service, part of a completely changed

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Northern Ireland, warns that 30 experienced detectives will be

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needed and no start date for their work has been set. Long-standing

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political enemies of Irish nationalism oppose an investigation,

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and insist that too many victims of IRA atrocities have been ignored.

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It takes natural justice beyond any recompense when you compare it with

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other atrocities carried out by the Provisional IRA and others, where

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there has been no attempt to get restitution or justice or

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prosecutions. But justice for the victims of bloody Sunday is also

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far from guaranteed. Well prosecutors be able to assemble

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sufficient evidence against individual soldiers, more than four

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decades on? World Football's governing body

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FIFA has approved the use of goal- line technology. It follows a

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series of high-profile mistakes by more referees including England's

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disallowed goal against Germany in the 2010 World Cup.

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Lampard! Brilliant! They are the goal line - that have finally

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forced football to move with the times. With the white line

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something of a grey area, high- profile injustices have blighted

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matches for years. But the game's lawmakers to date decided the time

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had come for technology to help match officials get it right, and

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the most powerful man in the sport tonight told me that football had

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taken a leap forward. How significant a day is this for

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football? I think we could say that 5th July 2012 was, and still is, a

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historical day of international football. It is difficult to score

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goals, so when we have the possibility to identify that a goal

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is scored, it is a help for the referee. Two different systems have

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been given the go-ahead. The German-Danish PIN uses sensors

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inside the ball and a magnetic -- magnetic field in the Gold to

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determine whether a gold has crossed the line. The English

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system uses a different method. An alternative has also been approved.

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But technology has been used effectively in other sports for

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years, and the Premier League could follow suit as soon as the new year.

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It would be potentially possible during the middle of the coming

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season. It is up to the need to decide whether they want to bring

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it in, and if they do, whether they want to do it during the course of

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a season. The decisions taken here at FIFA HQ today a share in a new

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era for the game. But the combination of opposition and cost

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means that technology will not be applied universally, and in the

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majority of matches, decisions as to whether a goal has or has not

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been scored will still be subject to human error. Disputed goals have

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been part of football for decades. Technology has been a line the

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government has been reluctant to cross, but with the stakes growing

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ever higher, the means are now at least available to make some of

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sport's biggest decisions more black and white.

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To Wimbledon, where Andy Murray has been making final preparations for

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tomorrow's semi-final. If he wins, he will become the first British

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man to reach the final since 1938. Today the line-up for the women's

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final was decided. A knock up like 1000 others, except

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it isn't. Tomorrow Andy Murray will be aiming to reach a Wimbledon

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final. The thwack of ball on racket a severe distraction from the

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Mermoz of "could he? Should he?" from those watching him. Most

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tennis fans around here will say they don't like to tempt fate, but

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the truth is that Andy Murray has his best chance yet to get a place

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in the Wimbledon finals. It is something no British man has done

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since 1938. Andy Murray is of course have

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refusing to look beyond the hulking frame of his opponent tomorrow, Jo-

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Wilfried Tsonga. Very tough matches. He has played very well this

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tournament. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga can be unplayable. He has also proved

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beatable. As Murray has done, the past four times they have met.

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Today on Centre Court, the first women's semi-final produced its own

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moment of history. Agnieszka Radwanska became the first Polish

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woman in the Grand Slam final in 75 years. She will meet Serena

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Williams, who thundered past the second seed, Victoria Azarenka.

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Memo to Murray - this is how good it feels.

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Europe's tallest building, the Shard, on London's South Bank, has

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been officially opened. But the 300 metre tower, paid for with money

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from Qatar, is certainly dividing opinion.

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The sharp rises as if it were a rocket bound for outer space.

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Dwarfing its surroundings like Gulliver in Lilliput. A 310 metre-

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high, 30 acre town in the sky. There is even a vertical

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Billionaire's Row at the top, each department reported to be costing

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up to �50 million a pop. I have just, been one of the Shard's 43

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lifts to the 69th floor to the public viewing gallery which will

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open in February next year. This is what you will see - London. You can

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see the Gherkin. To its right, the Tower of London. And in the middle

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distance on the right, Canary Wharf. Standing here at to and from 40

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metres in the air makes the whole place look a bit like Legoland, a

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jigsaw of a million pieces, and organised chaos that feels alive.

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The celebrated Italian architect Renzo Piano designed this tapering

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Tara of glass. He has high hopes for it. Somebody told me, watch the

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faces of people watching the building when you finish. So this

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is what I did in the street this morning. I went around, and I was

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stopping on the corner, watching people watching the building. There

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is a sense of surprise, a sense of stupor, a sense of amazement.

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majority of the Shard is owned by the state of Qatar, which invested

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heavily in the building. For some, it is a new icon for London and a

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demonstration of the city's energy and modernity. Two others, a blot

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on the landscape, ugly, arrogant and inappropriate. It would look

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wonderful in Dubai. It has little to do with the architecture or the

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language of London. It is an outrage. It has been implanted in a

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part of London that had no high buildings of that sort. It is a

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gesture, a statement, a virility symbol. The sharp took over a

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decade to get off the ground. The majority of the space has yet to be

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let. It is in many ways a hi-tech building, but not in all respects.

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It will still require a man with a sponge and a bucket of warm, soapy

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