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Calls for a change of direction from within the Conservative Party

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after they're beaten into third place in the Eastleigh by-election.

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Despite torrid headlines, the Lib Dems hold on to the seat, though

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with a reduced majority. This has been a by-election we have had to

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fight in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Our opponents have

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thrown everything at us. Jubilant UKIP celebrate just how

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close they came to winning the seat. The Prime Minister acknowledges his

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party's poor showing. It is a disappointing result for the

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Conservative Party but it is clear that in mid-term by-elections

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people want to register a protest. But David Cameron insists the

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Tories can still win the next general election. We'll be

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assessing what the results mean for the parties.

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A court hears the 999 call made by the couple accused of killing six

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of their children in a house fire. Eight South African policemen are

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arrested for murder after a man was handcuffed to the back of a van and

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dragged along the road. And he was on the pitch before some

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of his team-mates were born - Ryan Giggs prepares for his thousandth

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In Sportsday: World number one Rory McIlroy says

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he's "in a bad place mentally", as he pulls out of a tournament with

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Good evening. David Cameron has insisted that the

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Conservatives can win the next general election, despite coming

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third behind the Liberal Democrats and the UK Independence Party in

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the Eastleigh by-election. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg,

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described the win as a stunning victory, but the biggest surprise

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was the share of the vote garnered by UKIP, which came so close to

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snatching victory. The Prime Minister dismissed the result as a

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mid-term protest, but it's caused division within the party, with

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some calling for a change of direction. Labour came fourth. Nick

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Robinson's report contains flash Ever wondered what relief looks

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like? It looks like this. Relief that after a campaign marred by a

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Lib Dem scandal, in a by-election triggered by a Lib Dem scandal,

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their man had still won. I do hereby declare that Michael

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Thornton is duly elected. But there was another political winner in

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Eastleigh last night. The UK Independence Party may have come

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second, but the smiles tell you they think they have made the big

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time. So, what of the losers? This is the look of a party coming to

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terms with coming third in a seat the Conservatives had hoped they

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could win. The Tory candidate, tearful on stage, left it and the

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election count unable, or unwilling, to say a word.

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REPORTER: You can speak, Maria. On the morning after the night

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before, Nick Clegg was a picture of fist clenched defiance. His party's

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vote share may have dropped by more than 14% but he believes he has

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shown that the Lib Dems can still win. This has been a by-election we

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have had to fight in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Our

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opponents have thrown everything at us. We hold our nerve, we stood our

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ground, we worked as a team, we went out and campaigned on every

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doorstep, we overcame the odds, and we won a stunning victory.

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almost got there. UKIP leader Nigel Farage considered becoming a

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candidate for this election after - -. After Diane James did so well,

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he must be wondering, what if? is something nobody could have

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predicted and the remarkable thing is that it happened in a very short

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campaign indeed. We really connected with voters in his

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constituency, and that is because we are talking about issues the

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other parties would prefer to brush under the carpet. The Conservatives

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are consoling themselves with a group hugging and the fact that

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their vote dropped ever-so-slightly less than the Liberal Democrats.

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is a disappointing result for the Conservative Party, but it is clear

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that in mid-term by-elections, people want to register a protest.

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But I am confident that at the general election we can win those

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people back by demonstrating that we are delivering for everyone who

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wants to work hard and who wants to get on. That is what we will be

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focused on. That is not the view of the Conservative's vice-chairman.

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Michael Fabricant tweeted that the UKIP message connects with the

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electorate, and it is not just Europe, but crime, immigration,

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etcetera. With UKIP announcing policies the public want to hear,

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we must do the same. Many Conservative MPs agree. We need to

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be aware that gay marriage did not play well in terms of activists and

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supporters, and some of them would directly to UKIP. The Prime

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Minister needs to think about that. Despite the cheering for the

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cameras, what Ed Miliband calls one-nation Labour failed to extend

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its appeal to this part of the nation, getting around one-third of

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UKIP's vote. Clearly, I would have preferred to have got more votes

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than we did, but this was always going to be a tough fight for

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Labour. It is a seat we have never won. It convinces me that we need

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to redouble our efforts, reach out to every part of the country,

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including areas where Labour has not traditionally been strong.

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Those who do well in by-elections tend to tell you that they changed

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everything. Those who do badly tell you that they change nothing. What

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was really striking about this one, though, was the more than a quarter

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of the voters chose to vote for none of the above. And more than

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half of those who voted UKIP told opinion pollsters that what

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mattered most to them was immigration. The question that will

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be asked around Westminster in the weeks and days to come is, what do

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we do about UKIP? What do we do about immigration? By-elections are,

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of course, just a little bit different from those in which

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reaches governments, but Eastleigh will be remembered as the poll in

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which so many voted for none of the above.

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Our political correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. This

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result has relieved the pressure on Nick Clegg, but how much will

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UKIP's strong showing worry the Prime Minister? Well, when you

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speak to those around David Cameron they say, mid-term by-election

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protest vote, no need to panic. The trouble is there is a growing body

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of Conservative MPs who think that is precisely what they should be

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doing, because they believe this confirms their view that David

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Cameron is not a winner, that he cannot deliver victory at the next

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election. They say here you have a choice Lib Dem target seat where

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Nick Clegg enters the ring wobbly at the knees, having received an

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uppercut to the cheer Nova Lord Rennard, and still David Cameron

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makes absolutely no progress, despite throwing everything at it.

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-- an uppercut to the tune over Lord Rennard. Worse, you have UKIP

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chlorine away great chunks of traditional Conservative support.

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Their answer is to say to Mr Cameron that he has to adopt a more

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traditional Tory agenda to win back those UKIP supporters, to talk less

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about gay marriage and more about things like immigration. So it may

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only be a by-election, but it could have much longer term consequences

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in terms of the Tory party direction and unity, or disunity.

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A court has heard a distressing 999 call made by the couple accused of

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killing six of their children in a fire at their home in Derby.

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Details of a secret recording were also released in which prosecutors

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claim the father Mick Philpott is heard saying, "I didn't mean to do

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it". The couple deny the charges. This report from Jeremy Cooke.

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It was a fire which killed six children while they were sleeping

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in their own beds. Today, a jury was told that their parents, now

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accused of deliberately starting the blaze, were the ones who raised

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the alarm. The court was played a Good morning. The jury was also

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shown footage of the Philpotts at a press conference shortly after the

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fire. Give me a minute. But two weeks after this, the couple were

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arrested, and on 31st May they were driven to their first court

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appearance, unaware that their conversation was being recorded by

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a police surveillance team. In court today, the jury was told that

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during this journey, Mick Philpott had told his wife, don't you worry,

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we will walk through it, I promise you that, unless you want me to

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blab about it. Mairead says, No. The prosecution also alleges that

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Mick Philpott so as to Mairead, you are definitely sticking with the

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story? I didn't mean to do it, on my life. But those words, I didn't

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mean to do it, are disputed by the defence. A forensic speech expert

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says he has listened to the tape many thousands of times and he

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insists the words on that part of the recording are obscured by

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background noise. Both MIG and Mairead Philpott and their co-

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accused, Paul Mosley, denies six charges of manslaughter. -- Mick

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Philpott. The case continues. Eight South African policemen have

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been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a

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Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged down a street handcuffed to

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the back of a police van. The incident was recorded by a

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bystander and broadcast on television. The man later died in

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police custody. President Jacob Zuma has condemned the incident as

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"horrific" and "unacceptable". You may find some of the images in

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Andrew Harding's report disturbing. He was 27, a taxi driver. Tonight,

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new footage of him in the moments before he died, arrested here by

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South African police, reportedly because his car was blocking

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traffic. What happened next has provoked outrage. He resisted,

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eventually being handcuffed to the back of a police van. And then,

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exactly why is still under investigation, the van drove off,

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dragging him along the ground. He died soon afterwards of head

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injuries and internal bleeding. Today, relatives gathered at his

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home in a troubled neighbour heard outside Johannesburg, anxious for

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answers. -- neighbourhood. They must go to jail. We need justice in

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this. If ever there is no justice for them, let them feel that.

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Outside, a small protest. The man came from Mozambique, prompting

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some to accuse the police of deliberately targeting foreigners.

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It would not be the first time. the police must kill us? 100% wrong.

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I think the government must do something about this. Must act.

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South Africa's international reputation has taken quite a

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hammering in recent months, and this incident is not going to help.

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President Jacob Zuma has weighed in today, describing the police

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brutality as horrific and unacceptable, but the authorities

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are struggling to break the culture of violence here. Today, it was

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announced that eight police officers initially suspended have

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now been arrested in connection with the incident. A senior

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government official visited the relatives, or offering condolences

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and some context. This is quite an embarrassing act that has been done

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by our police. It is something that could have been avoided. It should

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not have happened, and it cannot actually be justified by in

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whatever manner. A memorial for the dead man, plenty of grief and

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outrage here, but in an enduringly violent country, no great sense of

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The pound has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar for more

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than two-and-a-half years. It follows speculation about what

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measures the Bank of England may take to boost the economy.

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Economists say the figures are a setback to hopes the economy can

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return to growth in the first quarter of this year.

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Lloyds Banking Group has reported better-than-expected figures for

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2012. The group, which is 39% owned by the British Government, did lose

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�570 million, but that's still a much better return than last year.

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Lloyds shares have more than doubled over the last year, and

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there's now speculation about when the Government could sell its

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shares and claw back billions of taxpayers' money. Huggh Pym's

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report contains flash photography. It's a story about a leading

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British bank, Lloyds, when the boss should get a bonus, and when we,

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the taxpayers, will get back the �20 billion pumped into the bank to

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bail it out. We asked Lloyds' customers how confident they felt

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about their bank repaying the taxpayer. The idea that our money

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would come back to us after bailing out the banks - to actually see

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something tangible, is beyond the realms of all possibility. Whether

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we'll get our money back, I do hope so. I don't see why the taxpayer

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should lose out. I'd like to see the money because because I'm a

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taxpayer. It's our money. Lloyds' overall losses last year were

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reduced, and there is renewed speculation about the sale of the

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Government's 40% holding in the bank. We need to get the banking

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system back into health. The only way it's going to be properly back

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to health is when it's in private hands, but equally, the taxpayer

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mustn't lose the hundreds of billions of pounds we would lose in

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a quick sale. It's revealed Lloyds' boss worth won't get this year's

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bonus until the bank is in a position for shares to be sold off.

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He has been awarded a �1.5 million bonus but it's deferred until 2014.

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The share prices more than doubled over the last year to 50p, but it

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will have to get back to 74p, roughly what was paid for the

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taxpayers' stake, or the Government sells a third of its shares if the

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boss is to get a bonus. The key question now is what's the earliest

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the Government can hope to start shelling off its share many in

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Lloyds? Investors will have to be satisfied the finances are in good

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order and there is a need to ensure taxpayers get a reasonable return

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on the money they put in. Some analysts think there is a lot more

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work to be done at Lloyds. For the Government to be able to sell its

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its shares at anything it regards as a fair value you need to have

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Lloyds to be close to a position where it can generate normal

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returns. In my view that doesn't happen before 2016 even with a

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following wind. Getting the timing right for Lloyds' share sale will

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be a big call, so too the decision on a taxpayers' stake in RBS, the

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other bailed out bank. It will be up to whoever is in Government at

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the time. Coming up on tonight's programme:

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To Giggs - 2-0. In a world where sporting stars are

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retiring as young as their early 20s, Ryan Giggs proves age is no

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The Food Standards Agency has said four more products have tested

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positive for traces of horsemeat in its latest round of tests. They

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include two Bird's Eye ready meals, minced beef used by the American

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food chain Taco Bell and a product sold by the catering supplier

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Brakes. All have been withdrawn from sale. Emma Simpson reports.

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The horsemeat scandal - today four contaminated products were added to

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the list, from the food giant Bird's Eye and two of its ready

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meals to contaminated ground beef at the Mexican food chain Taco Bell

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and then Brakes, the food supplier. Horse DNA was found in a spicy beef

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skewer. These last three weeks, a vast testing programme has been

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under way on behalf of the food industry. Samples from more than

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90% of beef products have been analysed. Today saw the last big

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batch of results. The Food Standards Agency asked for

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a whole range of beef products to go under the microscope. More than

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5,400 tests were done. The result: 17 products tested positive for

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horsemeat at levels of above 1%, but overall, 99% of test results

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proved negative, so will consumers start buying processed beef

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products again? Not right now, but my son, who

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still lives with me, will eat anything, and he says, well, it's

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not killed me so far. Not really. I just don't trust them. I'm sure

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that result reassuring for those people that do buy processed food.

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They lied about it. I'd have been fine if they would have said on the

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back in small print, "May contain horse." Trouble is they didn't. Now

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the FSA has to find out how all this mislabelling happened. Wells

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the investigation is key, and that's the main part of our work

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from here on in, so for each of those cases where we or the

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industry have identified gross contamination with horsemeat, we

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want to trace it all the way back through the supply chain. So after

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weeks of controversy, the vast majority of beef products have been

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given the all-clear. What's less clear is how long it will take to

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The Queen has cancelled a visit to Swansea tomorrow because of illness.

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Buckingham Palace says she's suffering from gastroenteritis. The

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Queen had been due to visit the 3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh to mark

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St David's Day. She'll now spend the weekend at Windsor.

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US political leaders have left last-minute talks at the White

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House without agreeing a deal to avoid deep budget cuts of over �56

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billion. President Barack Obama blamed the Republicans' refusal to

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allow any tax rises and called the sweeping cuts "unnecessary" and

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"inexcusable". Washington sure isn't making it

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easy. At a time when our businesses have finally begun to get some

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traction, hiring new workers, bringing new jobs back to America,

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we shouldn't be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that

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businesses depend on and workers depend on. Our North America editor

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Mark Mardell is in Washington. Strong worlds from President Obama.

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What does this mean for the US economy? Well, you would think it

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would be pretty bad. After all, these cuts were designed to be

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really horrible, so terrible that the politicians would be forced

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into doing a deal. You might remember me going on around the new

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year about the fiscal cliff. They sorted out one bit of it about

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taxes. They didn't sort out the other bit. This is the spending

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cuts that have now come in, so President Obama says that there

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won't be pain immediately, but it will be gradual and grinding, that

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thousands of people will lose their jobs that growth will be damaged,

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and he's telling the American people every time you hear a bit of

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good economic news, remember, it could be better. But the

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Republicans are saying, that's scare-mongering. Actually, the

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economy can stand cuts. The Government needs to make some cuts,

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even though they're not the best designed of ones. You look at Wall

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Street today, and shares are up. They seem to think that the

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recovery can withstand these sort of cuts, but it must damage

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consumer confidence. Mark Mardell in Washington, thank you.

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Kenyans go to the polls on Monday in a closely fought election that

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has divided the east African nation and raised fears of a repeat of the

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bloodshed five years ago. More than a thousand people died when

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militias supporting rival candidates went on the rampage.

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This report from Gabriel Gatehouse. In Kenya, elections are as fiercely

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fought as they are colourful. But in these final days of the campaign

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beneath the veneer of exuberance, many people are afraid. This is

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Kibera, Nairobi's biggest slum. Supporters of rival presidential

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candidates live here side by side. Five years ago, tensions between

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these communities over resources, jobs and land turned violent. Now,

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as polling day approaches, businesses are closing down in

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anticipation of more trouble to come. Charles runs a scrap metal

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dealership. He lost everything in the violence that followed the last

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election when his business was torched. Like many of his

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neighbours, he is clearing out before the vote. He didn't want to

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show his face on camera. I am wondering, why are they moving? Why

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are they scared. They are scared. Why am I not be scared... You can

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see they're scared, so you're scared too. Yeah. It was these kind

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of machetes, pagers, as they're known here, that did a lot of the

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damage five years ago. They're ordinary household implements in

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Kenya. People use them for chopping firewood and the like, but when the

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violence started they became instruments of war. The purchase of

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these has dramatically increased in the run-up to the election. More

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than a thousand people were killed when rival ethnic communities

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turned on one another following the last disputed election. Over half a

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million fled their homes. Prosecutions at the International

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Criminal Court say the violence was deliberately orchestrated.

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One of the front-runners in the race this time around, Uhuru

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Kenyatta, is due to go on trial at The Hague later this year. Mr

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Kenyatta denies any involvement, and he has strong support.

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majority of the Kenyans want him to leave our country. We like Uhuru

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Kenyatta, and we believe in him. Ken ia is the region's most

:23:38.:23:43.

important economy. It's also at the centre of joint British and EU

:23:43.:23:46.

efforts to combat terrorism and piracy in the Horn of Africa. A

:23:46.:23:49.

president in the dock of an international court could put those

:23:49.:23:55.

efforts in jeopardy. And so the world is watching. What

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happens on polling day will have consequences for the region and

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beyond. For now, though, most Kenyans are simply praying for

:24:02.:24:09.

Now, he's fit, almost 40 and could be about to play his thousandth

:24:09.:24:15.

professional game - Ryan Giggs has had his Manchester United contract

:24:15.:24:19.

extended by a year, proving that age is no barrier in top-flight

:24:19.:24:23.

sport. His manager, Alex Ferguson, described Giggs as a "a marvellous

:24:23.:24:29.

player and an exceptional human being". Dan Roan has more. He's

:24:29.:24:33.

football's fan for all seasons. For more than two decades now, Ryan

:24:33.:24:38.

Giggs has been scoring goals and breaking records, and after

:24:38.:24:41.

extending his long stint at Manchester United for yet another

:24:41.:24:46.

year, the veteran midfielder has ensured he'll still be playing when

:24:46.:24:56.
:24:56.:24:57.

he turns 40. His game is unique, of course, but I think it's more than

:24:57.:25:01.

that. It's something that won't ever be achieved again, one

:25:01.:25:04.

incredible career, absolutely fantastic. These are special times

:25:04.:25:09.

in a very special career. If Giggs plays here at Old Trafford tomorrow

:25:10.:25:15.

afternoon against Norwich City, it will be the 1,000th appearance of

:25:15.:25:18.

his senior club for both club and country. Football's marathon man

:25:18.:25:23.

has played in each of the last 22 seasons and scored 16 goals for

:25:23.:25:33.
:25:33.:25:37.

United along the way. He's also won The moment Giggs made his senior

:25:37.:25:43.

debut for a club he's never left - March 1991, when some of his

:25:43.:25:46.

current team-mates weren't even born. He has been compared to the

:25:46.:25:50.

young George Best. One of the men who played alongside him that day

:25:50.:25:54.

says his talent was clear from the very beginning. Straight away

:25:54.:25:57.

didn't really want to mark him because he was so fast and agile,

:25:57.:26:01.

he was one of those players you didn't want to play against. I

:26:01.:26:04.

think that's what stood him in great stead for so many years. The

:26:04.:26:08.

problem you have with other players is you lose your pace, but one

:26:08.:26:12.

thing Ryan hasn't done is lost his pace or ajilt. It's unbelievable

:26:12.:26:17.

what he's achieved. He remains as popular as ever at Old Trafford

:26:17.:26:20.

despite two years ago when he was the subject of newspaper headlines

:26:20.:26:25.

over his private life, but on the pitch his career remains

:26:25.:26:29.

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