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intensifies, with more violence on the streets of Istanbul. Riot police

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have stormed a central square, where anti-government protests have been

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taking place for nearly two weeks. The clamp-down came as the Turkish

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Prime Minister warned that he was running out of patience with

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protesters. We will have the latest from Istanbul. Also tonight: Lloyds

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Banking Group admits mistakes in the way it handled complaints about

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payment protection insurance. Major reform of GCSEs in England, with

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less coursework and more exams. Young people in this country deserve

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an education system that can con Peter with the rest of the world, a

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system that sets and achieves higher expectations. -- computing. Dozens

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of arrests in central London ahead of the G8 summit of world leaders

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next week. And Sir Henry Cecil, one of the most successful racehorse

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trainers of all time, has died. In Sportsday on BBC News, a miserable

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end to England's under 21 Championship. Already out of the

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tournament, they were beaten 1-0 by violence in the centre of Istanbul

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as riot police have clashed with thousands of anti-government

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protesters. The Turkish Prime Minister says he is running out of

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patience after 12 days of unrest is and accused the demonstrators of

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damaging the country's reputation and economy. Jeremy Bowen has the

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latest. I have just walked through Gezi Park

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and along the edge of Taksim Square, where the protests are taking place.

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There are thousands of demonstrators, massed ranks of riot

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police. As I speak to you now, we are on the eighth floor and I can

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hear people bringing up more barricades. There are riot squads on

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the other side of the square, with water cannons standing ready. All of

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this has been going on all day, since early this morning. Ever since

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these protests started happening, around two weeks ago, it has become

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the most serious challenge that Prime Minister Erdogan has faced in

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his ten years in power. This morning, it became much more acute.

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Before we have your report, one more question. Just to underline the

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tensions that are happening, during the day the Prime Minister could not

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have been clearer, talking about running out of patience. What have

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you think that means in terms of policy and his approach to this

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crisis now? Well, as one person here, sympathetic to the

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demonstrators, said to me earlier on, he has made enemies out of all

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of these people. In the past, Mr Erdogan has been a very canny

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politician. He has won three elections, the last one with getting

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on for 50% of the vote. He has done that by being pragmatic and being

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able to deal with people. But he has been very hostile to these

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demonstrators from the outset. This morning, he sent in his riot police.

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Turkey's Prime Minister said he had run out of patience with the

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demonstrators and would tolerate no more. So he sent in the police. For

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Nelly two weeks, anti-government protesters have occupied Taksim

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Square and the adjoining Gezi Park, where the anti-government

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demonstrations began. The Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has

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been the target of many of the slogans of the demonstrators,

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lampooned and insulted on the posters they put up in the square.

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His followers expected a tough response, and he delivered. In

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Parliament, Mr Erdogan said that the protests were part of an

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international campaign to distort turkey's image and ruinous

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reputation. Translation I urge the people that are there to put an end

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to this protest. This is over. We will not put up with this any

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Istanbul tweeted that the people would not be touched. Some try to

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start a human chain. It did not work. We saw police coming and we

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were terrified. All we can say is that we are terrified. When lawyers

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protested about what was happening, their rally was attacked by the riot

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squads as well. By mid-afternoon, the police were using tear gas in

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Gezi Park. We saw policemen come to the streets, they said we did not

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have to be afraid, but then they shoot at us. So nobody believes

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them. The clashes went on all day and into the evening. Protesters

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fell back to the park to be treated for the effects of tear gas. The

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occupation began to try to save Gezi Park, one of central Istanbul's last

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parks, from developers. Another violent police crackdown ten days

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ago made it the focus for a sustained protest, uniting different

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groups who opposed the Prime Minister's brand of conservatism

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with an Islamist flavour. So far, the Prime Minister has not offered a

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whisper of compromise, just force. The original nonviolent

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demonstrators vanished in a cloud of tear gas. They deny the Government

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accusation that the protest have been hijacked by vandals and

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terrorist 's. Turkey is badly split. Mr Erdogan's supporters applaud what

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he has done, they have given him three election victories and they

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believe that he is making Turkey into a great power. But he has

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reached the limit of what is possible without a more consensual

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style of Government. Without listening to the 50% of the

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electorate that did not vote for him. Now, Mr Erdogan's supporters

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will be pleased with what they are saying. They believe that the police

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needed to go in and get these people out. The question now is how this

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will go down with the country, right across Turkey. As I speak to you at

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the moment, more demonstrators are moving into the square. I think we

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can expect a surge from the police to drive them back. This thing looks

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like it is going to go on all night, The Financial Conduct Authority has

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expressed serious concerns about the way banks are handling complaints

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about the mis-selling of payment protection insurance. Lloyds Banking

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Group has admitted to shortcomings at one of its centres dealing with

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compensation claims, an undercover investigation by The Times newspaper

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found evidence that workers were told to ignore possible fraud by the

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bank's sales staff. Lloyds. The biggest retail bank in

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Britain and, almost inevitably, the bank that mis-sold more PPI policies

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than any others. Now, they are accused of not being fair to

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customers who want compensation. David Ricks, veils near Port, has

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trying and failing to get restitution for insurance policies

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he took out. They have been delaying, the guy and the lady that

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came on the phone, they have both been asking questions that really

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there is no answer to. Can you remember what you were doing 13

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years ago? Maybe some people can. I think they are trying to frighten

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people. One of Lloyds's eight customer handling centres is said to

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not have shown due care when dealing with customer compensation,

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according to a reporter who went undercover at the bank. We were

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given access to something called the Lighthouse Guide. It was their

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complaints handling manual. It openly stated that Lloyds had lost

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documents, but in spite of that, we should go on and handle the

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complaint anyway without this evidence that might have allowed us

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to a a customer complaint. Which suggests that most banks still

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haven't ditched entrenched attitudes that the customer is usually wrong.

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It reminds us that the big clearing banks, largely, have some of the

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worst customer complaint handling records in the market. I think they

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have a long way to go yet. Lloyds insisted that other complaint

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centres operated to higher complaint handlers are that they are

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too focused on defending the interests of the employers, rather

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than understanding what happened from the customer's point of view.

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That anti-customer culture alleged to have started right at the point

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of training, in Lloyds's case, here, in one of the city's most iconic

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buildings. In spite of these concerns, Lloyds has dished out �4.3

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billion of compensation to 1.3 million customers. Nor is it just

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Lloyds that is not treating complaining customers properly. The

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regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, tells me it is concerned

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that there are widespread defects that other big banks as well.

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The GCSE system in England is to be changed, starting with pupils

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sitting their exams in 2017. The Education Secretary Michael Gove

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says he wants to make the new curriculum more ambitious and new

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exams more challenging. The use of assessed coursework will come to an

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end and results will depend on final exams. Teaching unions and Labour

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say that the changes are being introduced to quickly.

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The exams pupils set at 16 have become fought over territory.

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Ministers have called the existing system discredited, saying the

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present GCSEs are badly designed and not demanding enough. Today, the

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Education Secretary said that he was once again going to try to change

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all of that. Young people in this country deserve an education system

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that can compete with the rest of the world, a system that sets and

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achieves higher stations. Today's reforms are essential to achieving

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this goal. Key to the changes is a new grading system. The present A*

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to G, it suggested, should be scrapped, and replaced with eight

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for the highest mark and one for the lowest. There will be less

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coursework and no modules. The new courses will have more traditional

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content, with old-style end of course exams. The new look GCSE will

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look and feel very different from now. These first-year pupils will be

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the first to set them. It should be good, but I would prefer if it

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happened to a different year, at least the year above. Everybody

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knows the lettering system, I don't think it will make much difference

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if it changes to numbers. I don't nine core subjects. In this

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literature, pupils will study a Shakespeare play and a 19th-century

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novel. In maths they will do more algebra, statistics and probability.

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The headteacher here thinks there is a case for reform of GCSEs, but he

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is not sure if this is the right way of doing it. Overall I am very

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cautious about these proposals. I think they need to be debated in

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full and we need to look at the concerns around them, the good parts

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we can take out before they are implemented. I would worry that a

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rush of fermentation would result in a poorer assessment system. Michael

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Gove originally wanted a system of O-levels for academic children, with

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a CSE for the less able. That was squashed by the liberal than crops.

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He then proposed a new qualification, but he had to abandon

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that as well. Your this is his third attempt to get this right.

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certainly prefer rigorous exams, but we do not agree with moving entirely

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to exams in most subjects. changes herald the prospect of

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different exams in different UK nations, as Wales is sticking with

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existing GCSEs. Northern Ireland is it milling a lack of appetite for

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change, while Scotland has always had its own system. Meanwhile, in

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England, these teenagers were today sitting there old-style GCSEs, in

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the knowledge that their qualification looks on the way out.

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You can find out a little more about those GCSE changes in England. Look

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at our website. There is also a question and answer section giving

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you more details. The former Chief Executive of HBOS,

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James Crosby, has had his knighthood withdrawn, following a highly

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critical Parliamentary report into the bank's collapse. He had asked

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for the honour to be removed, after a report claimed he was the

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architect of the strategy that set the course for disaster.

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In South Africa, the President has appeared on television to tell the

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nation that Nelson Mandela is receiving the best of care. The

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former President's condition has not improved. The President said

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everyone was praying for the man he called the real father of democracy

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in South Africa. Our report reporter sent this report.

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School assembly this morning in Johannesburg. And some more get well

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messages for Nelson Mandela. You are the first black President and we

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wish you a good luck. The children are born free. They never knew the

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brutal racial segregation that Mandela helped defeat. But here in

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South Africa, the 94-year-old has become a sort of living saint.

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like our father. I wish him a speedy recovery. Because I can't imagine,

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you know, our country without him. At the hospital, tighter security

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today. Officially his condition remains serious, but stable. It's

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very serious, but he's stabilised. And we are all praying for him

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really to recuperate quickly. We need him to be with us. But men Dell

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la's family are at his bedside and the atmosphere remains sombre. In

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recent days the mood has begun to change here. Even some of his close

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friends is become to talk about the need to accept the inevitable and

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let him go, but for millions of South Africans, that remains

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something almost too painful to contemplate. It's like us as a

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nation we are not ready yet for him to die. We are not ready. 27 years

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in jail fighting for freedom in South Africa. We don't want him to

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die, but we can't forget him in history. People don't relate to

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Mandela purely as a great political leader or liberation hero, but

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relate to him on a personal level and that's what makes this moment so

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difficult and complicated for South Africa. It's like a relative?It's

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very much so and the entire country really is gathered rather like a

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group of relatives waiting for news. And that includes a generation that

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knows only the legend. People who live in England are more

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likely to die early in the north-west, than in any other part

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of the country, according to new research. The information has been

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mapped to show where the risk of dying before the age of 75 is

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highest. Red is high risk and green is lower risk. Every year in England

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around 153,000 people die prematurely, defined as before the

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age of 75 and most of those deaths are caused by cancer, liver disease

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and heart problems. The figures show that Blackpool is one of the highest

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rates of early deaths, as we now report.

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How long you live can depend on where you live. Getting a good

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education, decent housing, a job, all these have a direct bearing on

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your health. Blackpool has one of England's least healthy populations.

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The worst death rates for lung and liver disease linked to smoking and

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drinking. At this library they offer on-the-spot blood pressure checks,

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with sometimes alarming results. have had an odd incident where we

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have had to call an ambulance, because we have been so worried

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about somebody's blood pressure and it has been really high. Blackpool's

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problems are well known. For years, the council and local health experts

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have been battling to help people improve health, but the underlying

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issues contributing to the issues, mainly poverty and joblessness, are

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almost overwhelming and the council now responsible for improving public

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health, says it can't do it alone. When you look at the wide wider

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determinants of ill-health and the poverty and deprevation, a lot of

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those things are down to the cuts that councils have had to make. It's

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much harder for councils to tackle the issues. But the Health Secretary

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says local authorities can use the new website to learn from each

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other. What we want to do is to spur those areas that are underperforming

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to look at other similar areas and see what they can learn and save

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more lives as a result. It does seem broadly accepted that the ill-health

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here is connected to levels of poverty in the town and yet there

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are other parts of England that are equally poor and yet by focussing on

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a single issue, like obesity, they've they've made a difference --

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they'veed made a difference. In Rotherham, a concerted campaign is

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paying off, even though there are relatively high levels of poverty,

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it has low early death rates. they want to change their lifestyle,

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we offered them support to stop smoking with cutting down on

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drinking or stopping and with losing weight, so it's a comprehensive

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programme for the people of Rotherham. There are some who argue

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that today's figures just ill trait what we already knew - that poverty

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and health are closely linked and addressing one will help the other,

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but the scale of the health problems facing towns like black proole are

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considerable and finding a -- Blackpool are considerable and

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finding a solution won't be easy. The Prince of Wales said his father

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is feeling better following surgery last week. He's better. Thank you so

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much. Prince Charles was speaking on a visit to Dundee. Prince Phillip

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was 92 yesterday and he's expected to stay in hospital until next week.

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More than 30 people have been arrested in the centre of London

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during protests against the G8 summit which is take is place in

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Northern Ireland. The stop G8 Group, said it was planning a carnival

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against capitalism ahead of the summit. A number of people were

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removed by police in a building in the West End which they had

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occupied. The G8 forum starts in six days. But the protests have begun

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and so has the police operation. With abseil teams watching from

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above, officers in riot gear raided this building, occupied by

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anti-capitalist demonstrators, preparing to take to the streets.

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But this man, shouting, "No more", made it on to the roof. He seemed to

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be trying to jump. Even as officers hauled him off the roof, he

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struggled. In the streets below, the protests began. 200 to 300 targeting

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what they called London's hiding places of capitalist power. It

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wasn't long before they clashed with the police. And the arrests began.

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As it often the case in these situations, this has been a running

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race around Mayfair. The police trying to break up the protesters

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into smaller groups and they do seem to be being successful. The

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protesters represented no single group and when we asked, some

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refused to discuss why they were protesting. None of you do any

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proper journalism. For that reason you won't tell us why you are here?

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No. Others were prepared to explain their views, that the G8 forum of

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the richest countries represents capitalist power and that's the

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cause of global problems. They don't represent us. And the problems they

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are trying to solve, they are never going to solve it, because they are

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complicit in those crimes. There appeared to be no attempts today to

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damage shops and businesses. There was full security at places like the

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Ritz, targeted in the past. The Met said it had asked the demonstrators

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to discuss plans for a peaceful protest, but they had refused.

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The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, will travel to Washington

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tomorrow to meet the US Secretary of State, John Kerry. They'll discuss

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the conflict and the continuing loss of life in Syria. We'll talk to

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James Landale, at Westminster. James, what is is he hoping to

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achieve? There is a lot of talk in London, Paris and Washington about

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the idea of averpleing the rebels in Syria -- arming the rebels in Syria.

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We know President Obama will hold meetings on this tomorrow. William

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Hague is going to Washington to find out where the Americans are at on

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this. I don't think a decision is imminent, but it's an option that is

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being considered with growing urgency, first, because Assad's

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forces are gaining the upper hand and the US and Britain want to put

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some pressure on Russia and the rest. They think there will be

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consequences. What will be crucial are the conversations that the Prime

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Minister has with President Obama and President Putin at the G8 in

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Northern Ireland next week, when we will find out how far the Americans

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are prepared to go and the Russians too. For the Prime Minister, they is

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one big hurdle and that's Parliament. Many are opposed to

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arming the rebels, but this idea is a very live one.

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One of the most successiful race horse trainers of all time, Sir

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Henry Cecil has died at 70. He had been suffering from cancer. He won

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25 classic races in Britain. He was champion trainer ten times. One race

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horse owner once put it this way, buy a horse and send it to Sir Henry

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cyst ill, if you want it to win. He was staggering successful. And he

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made life seem like a breeze, great dresser and shoe collector. He dealt

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with severe adversity. The winners dried up and he was gripped by

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cancer, but he kept going and that won him even more admiration.

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one of the most loved people in the sport over a long time. You go back

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nearly four decades to his first classic winner and right through to

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a fortunate ending of being able to train the greatest horse that any of

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us will ever see. That horse was frank el. Trained by Sir Henry cyst

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elto a perfect unbeaten record. As frank elsored to new heights Cecil

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was at his most fragile. Strong enough to watch him win for the last

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time last year. Best I've ever had and seen. Eye will be very surprised

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if there is better. He helped make the reputation of frank el's jockey,

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Tom Queally. He was absolutely a different gear. Like every other

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trainer aspires to be like him and nobody will ever come close.

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