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Tonight at 10pm: UKIP and Labour make the biggest

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gains in the local elections in England.

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UKIP's Nigel Farage says his party will now have to be taken seriously

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in next year's general election. There are areas across the country

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where now we have an imprint in local government and where, under

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the first past the post system, we are serious players.

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There were losses for the Conservatives, many in areas where

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UKIP's campaign had struck a chord. Mainly immigration. I want similar

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to what I grew up with for England. At times, you feel a stranger in

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your own country. And Labour performed strongly in

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London but missed some targets elsewhere.

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We'll be asking what the results tell us, with a year to go before

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the general election. Also tonight:

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One of Scotland's most significant buildings, Glasgow School of Art,

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has been extensively damaged by fire.

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The hull of the missing British yacht is found in the Atlantic, but

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there's no sign of the four sailors. And England's Rugby World Cup hero,

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Jonny Wilkinson, talks to us on the eve of his last game on British

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soil. In Sportsday, Chelsea's David Luiz

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is in talks with Paris Saint-Germain about a ?40 million move which would

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make him football's most expensive defender.

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Good evening. UKIP and Labour made the biggest

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gains in yesterday's local council elections in England. The UKIP

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leader, Nigel Farage, said the results showed his party would be "a

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serious player" in next year's general election. With just a few

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results still to come, this is how things look tonight. Labour gained

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292 seats. Their strongest performance was in London. The

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Conservatives lost 201 seats, many in areas where UKIP did well. The

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Lib Dems had a difficult night, losing 284 seats. And while UKIP

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gained 155 seats, the party still doesn't control any local councils.

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If the election had been held across all of the UK, the projected share

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of the vote would be Down the dog and duck, they might not get round

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to analysing the results, but they might raise a glass to the man has

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given the political establishment a mighty big kick. I haven't done a

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lot, really. Tell that to the UKIP members who danced as they took

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seats in what was once Labour Great Yarmouth, or those in Rotherham,

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where another ten foul, and they even broke into song. Another one

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bites the dust. Tories bit the dust in Basildon, Brentwood, Southend and

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Thurrock, as Mrs Thatcher's Essex man became UKIP man instead, causing

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just a little excitement, even from candidates who lost. All that you

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can hear is UKIP, UKIP, UKIP. This party and its leader have changed

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the face of British politics. Hang on a second. What Nigel Farage calls

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his people's army did not win the most votes, nor the most seats, they

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still don't control a single council, but they did cement their

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status as the fourth force in English politics. For years, the

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media have said UKIP voters are elderly, retired colonels living on

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the edge of Salisbury plain. Now we are ill educated working-class

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supporters. Take your pick. 11 Tory councils are more than 200

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councillors lost, which is leading to a bout of soul-searching. UKIP

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have tapped into what the public are feeling, particularly with

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immigration, and the point that they are pretty frustrated with Europe.

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Some Conservatives say the next time ballot boxes are opened and votes

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are counted, their party should have a pact with UKIP. No way, said David

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Cameron today, promising instead answers to people's anger. We have

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to work harder and really deliver on issues that are frustrating people,

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and frustrating me, like welfare reform, immigration and making sure

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people really benefit from this recovery. We will be working flat

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out to demonstrate that we do have the answers to help hard-working

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people. For Labour, it was a day of nervous weights. There was good

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news, winning in Cambridge and Crawley, and another four councils

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taken in London. But there was bad news, too. One year from a general

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election, the party failed to win in places it will soon need to. An

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inquest has begun. The strategists called it wrong. We should have

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taken the fight to UKIP from the beginning. You don't get it, clearly

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enough for us. I lost count of the number of people, canvassing over

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the last three days, that have said, you all need a big kicking. So, is

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Ed Miliband doing well enough to march into Downing Street? His aides

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say he is winning where it matters, but neither he nor his party are

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sounding that confident. I want to say to those people today, I

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understand you're feeling, I understand your discontent, I am

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determined that Labour shows you, over the next 12 months, how we can

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change your lives for the better. As for the Lib Dems, coalition is not

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being kind to them. They lost two out of every three councillors they

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began last night with. They lost councils in Kingston and Portsmouth,

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but Nick Clegg insists they can and will hold on in their strongest

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areas. It is never easy to see dedicated, hard-working Liberal

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Democrat councillors lose ground. But actually, in the areas where we

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have MPs, good organisation on the ground, where we can get our message

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across, we are actually doing well. Nigel Farage says this is the day

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UKIP's Fox was sent into the Westminster henhouse. Stand to see

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some feathers flying. Nick Robinson, BBC News, Westminster.

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As Nick mentioned, one of UKIP's most fertile areas last night was

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Essex, the county often considered a useful guide to Conservative

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prospects at a general election. Councils in Basildon, Castle Point

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and Southend-on-Sea moved from Conservative to no overall control,

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as UKIP picked up support. Our political correspondent Vicki Young

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has spent the day in the county. It is less than 30 miles from

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Westminster but for many in this part of Essex, the main political

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parties might as well be in a different country. The voters say

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they are out of touch and ignoring the concerns of ordinary people.

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There is a list of grievances, from a lack of housing to poor job

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prospects. But in Tony's cafe, it is UKIP's message on cutting

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immigration that is really appealing to voters. I want similar to what I

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grew up with for England. It is getting totally overtaken by people

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that I can't link with. I feel disconnected, there is a

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disconnection from society. Others say that UKIP is the only party

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prepared to speak out and to act. What about politicians of the other

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main parties who say they will deal with immigration? They have said

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that for years and haven't done anything. It is not about being

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racist. I don't care what colour people are, but like Australia, we

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need some sort of entry system so that we have a benefit of them

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coming here, not so much just come here and it is a free for all. Nigel

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Farage speaks normally, like normal people. He is not frightened of

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upsetting people and he says what he thinks. As for the man of the

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moment, Nigel Farage is enjoying every minute of this success. On a

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whistle-stop tour of Essex, taking in a couple of pubs, of course, he

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met some newly elected councillors, many of whom have no experience in

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local government. I am not then to tell them what they can and cannot

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do. But that can lead to trouble. Yes, but we are a party of

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individuals. Sometimes, UKIP people say things and there is a huge hue

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and cry over it, but we are real people with real opinions. I would

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rather that, than some sort of monochrome, politically correct

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nothingness. But those real opinions have led to accusations that UKIP is

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a racist party. Those attacks were out of order, he says. I think that

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scrutiny is fine but it needs to be balanced and fair. There were points

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in this campaign when it looks like a witchhunt. Nigel Farage has had a

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taste of success before, and he thinks the best is yet to come.

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So the political landscape has certainly changed in the past 24

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hours, but what do the results tell us about the individual parties?

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Jeremy Vine is in the BBC election studio.

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161 councils, 36% turnout, and here is the map before the voting. I will

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colour it in for you. The change now shows the outcome. We started with

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Labour winning back Sunderland. Red, Labour strong in the north. The

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Liberal Democrats holding onto South Lakeland, but the Conservatives

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proving resilient in some councils. Trafford, staying blue. And Tamworth

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in the West Midlands, staying blue. Swindon, staying blue. For Labour,

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it was good news in London. They took places like Merton and Croydon

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and Hammersmith Fulham. If you are looking for UKIP purple, there is

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none because they do not control a single council, but the grey in

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Essex tells the story of places like Castle Point and Southend, where the

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Conservatives could not hang on in the

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Castle Point and Southend, where the Conservatives could not hang on face

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of a UKIP challenge. So, projected national share, the share the

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parties would have got had this been a national election. 31% puts Labour

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in the lead, but only just. The Conservatives on 29%. The Liberal

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Democrats doing very badly on 13%. UKIP doing well on 17% but 6% down

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on a stunning forms last year, and the others on 10%. Let's go back a

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few years and look at the journey the parties have been on, the three

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main parties. If we go back to 2005, these were the percentages, with

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Labour in the lead. Gradually you can see the faith wearing away in

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the Tony Blair government, and under Gordon Brown, the Labour ratings

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dropping below the Liberal Democrats. Then the 2010 election

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happens, and it is the coalition parties who start to get punished,

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the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats coming down. But watch

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this, in the last couple of years, UKIP arrived on the scene. You can

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see actually the two main parties here, their vote is almost being

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suppressed by the changed political landscape. As for the Liberal

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Democrats, they start all the way over here and they come down and

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down and down. It really is very bad news for them all round.

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Nick Robinson is with me. Let's talk more about UKIP and put the result

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in context. Nigel Farage predicted a political earthquake. It does not

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feel the earth has moved but there were certainly tremors today. Up

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until now we knew that UKIP were capable of putting on a show when it

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came to a European election. We knew they had done pretty well at one set

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of local elections, but they are now established as a force around the

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country, damaging Labour in the north, the Tories in Essex, damaging

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them both in the Midlands. It means, in a sense, that they are genuinely

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a force. That talk of gaining seats in Westminster, which seemed

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implausible in the past, now looks practical. They are not a party of

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power yet, with no power at local or national level, but they have proved

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they are a party with the power to disrupt. Let's talk more about the

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disruption in the context of the other parties. We are seeing it

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already. The Tories have lost the most, the clear losers of today, but

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they are behaving as if they have not. The anticipated calls for

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changes in leadership, changes of European policy, changes of

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immigration policy, have not happened. The calls for a packed

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with UKIP have been waved away. Labour, on the other hand, who did

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come out on top, with impressive gains, doing better as the day went

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on, doing better and better in London, rather than the rest of the

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country, have almost behaved as if they have lost, with an inquest

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taking place. Ed Balls saying people had to listen loud and clear to what

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the voters were saying. Yvette Cooper saying they ought to talk

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more about immigration. The Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham,

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saying there were real worries about what voters had said that Labour

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needed to listen. Often it is not just what happens in an election

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that happens, but how parties react to them. Labour is reacting to Chile

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and unnervingly. You can find out more about the results in your area

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and look ahead to the European results on Sunday on our website,

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bbc.co.uk/vote 2014. One of Scotland's most significant

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buildings, the Glasgow School of Art, has been badly damaged in a

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fire. It's considered the masterpiece of Charles Rennie

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Mackintosh, Scotland's most influential architect and designer.

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Reports say the blaze started when a projector exploded in a basement

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room. This fire started now almost 10-hours ago. Tonight, you can still

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see the smoke coming out of the windows on the upper floor. This

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in the Glasgow School of Art, is

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both cherished and admired. As you say, it's widely considered to be

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his masterpiece. Every tiny detail in that building was carefully

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thought out when Mackintosh designed it, more than 100 years ago. Today,

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it was packed full of students, some of them working on their final

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degree show. They have been worried that much of their work might have

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been destroyed. Of course, there has been concerns about what effect that

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fire has had on the building itself. An iconic Scottish building, up in

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flames. Smoke billowing through the blackened windows, as fire spread

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from the basement to the attic. This a school famous for its architecture

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and the artist it has produced. It was full of students when the blaze

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broke out. It's thought all were led to safety. Many staying close,

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watching as the fire quickly spread. The alarm went off. We got

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evacuated. It was thick, black smoke everywhere. What were you feeling?

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Terrified. For more than 100 years, this has been a Glasgow landmark, a

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece, full of windows, light,

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wooden panelling and wooden furniture. So many artists have

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passed through its doors. It's unique, and many fear irreplace.

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Mackintosh designed an art school that 100 years later it is still a

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fantastic art school. You have to see the level of students that go

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through the art school. Mackintosh is a big attraction. Look at the

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recent Turner Prize nominations, three of the students are from the

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School ofSchool of Art. Crews from across the country have spent the

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afternoon tries to douse the flames. They can't confirm what caused the

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fire, but it's feared the Mackintosh building, famed for its Art Deco

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beauty, and full of artistic treasures, may be damaged beyond

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repair. That was the worry of many people who saw the extent of the

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fire. Within the last few minutes Scotland's Fire Service announced

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good news. It said that against many people's expectations this treasured

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building, and many of the artwork it contains, have been saved. That goes

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for the students' final year work as well. Good news tonight. Lorna

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Gordon for us there in Glasgow. Some of the day's other news stories.

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Serious failings in Birmingham City Council's Children's Services are

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still leaving young people at risk, according to a report by Ofsted. It

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found over a period of three months, the cases of 145 children were

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closed due to a lack of social workers. A finding disputed by the

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council. It did state the most serious cases involving children at

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extreme risk were dealt with quickly. The Coalition Government is

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proposing new rules on rights to access land to try to speed up the

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introduction of fracking for oil and gas. It comes as a new report by ish

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British Geological Survey estimates that there are more than four

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billion barrels of oil in shale rock in parts of southern England. The

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hull of the missing British yacht, Cheeky Rafiki, has been found in the

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North Atlantic, according to a statement by the US Coastguard,

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which was released within the past couple of hours. They said there was

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no sign of the four sailors, who have been missing now for a week.

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Our correspondent, Nick Bryant, is in Boston with the latest. The

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overturned hull was sdis covered by the crew of a US naval warship they

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sent out a small boat with a swimmer on board to investigate. They

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identified it was the Cheeky Rafiki from the name on the stern. Its

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windows were smashed. Its cabin was completely filled with water. The

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swimmer knocked repeatedly on the hull of the vessel. There was no

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response. He reached an arm's length into the water, again with no

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results. What the swimmer couldn't do was to dive down to conduct a

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more thorough investigation. What he couldn't discover, or couldn't

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determine, is whether the life raft had been deployed or not. What the

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coastguard has said is that they weren't particularly surprised to

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find the hull of the Cheeky Rafiki. They said it was spotted of course

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by that commercial vessel going through the area on Saturday. What

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it doesn't do, crucially, is affect the decision they made last night,

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which is to call off the multinational operation in less than

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five hours' time. An RAF Hercules will be flying over the search area

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tomorrow. Nick, again, thank you very much. Nick Bryant, our

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correspondent there in Boston. The jury at the inquest into the deaths

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of 96 Liverpool fans at Hillsborough have been visiting the stadium in

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Sheffield where the disaster happened in 1989. A panel of three

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High Court judges quashed the original verdicts of accidental

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death. Our correspondent has this report. Today football ground became

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court room as the Hillsborough stadium was prepared, down to the

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last millimetre, and made ready for the jury to visit. Walking down

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Leppings Lane, the court party retraced the same steps Liverpool

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fans made over 25 years ago on the day of the disaster. The coroner,

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Lord Goldring showed the jury around pointing out significant landmarks

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around the ground. The jury was told this part of the Hillsborough

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stadium has changed substantially since 1989. To help them envisage it

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as it was then the turnstiles and exit gates have been marked out

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using traffic cones. Today the jury stopped to see the area where the

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fatal crush happened. To prepare they were shown these compute

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graphics which illustrated how the fenced terraces used to look and how

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they changed and look today. The jury was driven past a memorial to

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the Liverpool fans who died in the disaster. They were taken to local

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hospitals which treated casualties. The inquests will continue in

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Warrington next week. President Putin of Russia has promised to

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recognise the results of Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine.

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During an economic forum in St Petersburg he demanded that Kiev end

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its military operation against pro-Russian activists in the east.

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21 candidates are standing in Ukraine's presidential ballot. The

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billionaire businessman, Petro Poroshenko, is the pollsters'

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favourite. His main challenge, former Prime Minister, Yulia

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Tymoshenko is trailing, they say, in second place. Our correspondent

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Daniel Sandford has been on the election trail to Donetsk in the

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east and Odessa in the south. That is where his report begins. He is

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Ukraine's seventh richest man and its wealthiest MP, a billionaire who

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earned his fortune making chocolate. Petro Poroshenko is has worked for

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two presidents of opposing parties. It looks highly likely this will be

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the man choosen to knit this country back together. A young country that

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lost Crimea ya and fighting to hold on to the eastern regions of Donetsk

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and Odessa. Petro Poroshenko he is not seen as a saviour, Ukraine needs

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a new President fast. People are voting for him in the hope he will

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win outright in the first round on Sunday. What can you do to try to

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bring Ukraine back together if you become president? We are well

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accepted in the East and West. We have to build the trust between the

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President and the people. We will do it from all of my heart. My first

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thing would be to Donetsk and Odessa also, build up the trust. The

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Donetsk, the east, is still a mess. At least five more people died

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in-fighting at a check point near Donetsk this morning. Shoot-outs

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like this one have become a daily occurrence here in eastern Ukraine.

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The worst kind of atmosphere for a presidential election. In Donetsk we

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found scared officials returning ballot boxes two-days ahead of the

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vote. Too frightened to open their polling station. With good reason.

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What was the last thing you heard about... This woman's husband is an

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election official who was detained by pro-Russian gunmen, opposed to

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the poll yesterday. He hasn't been seen since.

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TRANSLATION: He rushed into the office and told his staff, "guests

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are here, you all need to leave quickly." Later people saw him taken

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out in handcuffs and put onto a bus. There was some hope today when the

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Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said he would respect the choice of

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the Ukrainian people. It has been a week of deaths in the east, and the

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voting is still two-days away. Daniel Sandford, BBC News, Donetsk.

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The remains of King Richard III should be given a dignified reburial

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in Leicester, according to judges at the High Court. His bones were found

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under a council car park in the city in 2012. Some distant relatives had

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argued that the man known as Richard of York should in fact be buried in

:24:52.:24:57.

York Minster. Jonny Wilkinson, one of the greatest English rugby

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players of all-time, has been talking to the BBC about the

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prospect of his last game on British soil. He turns 35 this month. After

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a career that spanned 17 years he's hoping to lead Toulon to success in

:25:11.:25:16.

the Heineken Cup against Saracens at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff

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tomorrow. There are some flashing images in this report. The stare

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locked to the target, the hands clapsed in concentration. Jonny

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Wilkinson is the only European rugby player Fay you o mouse to be part of

:25:31.:25:39.

Madame Tussaud's in London. Jonny Wilkinson he defined professionalism

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in rugby union's professional era. He scored more points than anyone

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else in Europe, including the three that won the World Cup for England.

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Players in his position used to avoid tackles, Jonny Wilkinson

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changed everything. Now in Cardiff, perfectionist seeks perfect ending.

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Does this match, looking forward to this game, knowing it is your last

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on British soil, does it have a special feeling, even an emotional

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feeling for you? Next week doesn't really exist. The last however many

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years don't exist either. It simply comes down to the here and now. For

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the here and now to be a Heineken Cup Final is incredible. But the

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thought of leaving that final without a happy ending to this

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journey is a painful one. For five years Wilkinson has been based in

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France, an adopted son of Toulon. Do you think he is perhaps the most

:26:39.:26:43.

popular English man ever in France? Yes, EVER! Very simple man. Just

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amazing guy. Let us be clear, this is a European Final, not a

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retirement party for Jonny Wilkinson. Saracens of London have

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never won the Heineken Cup. They have got stars of their own. Owen

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Farrell is Jonny Wilkinson's heir, spot the similarities. Their battle

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with boot and ball may be settled by the smallest margins. That is all

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from us. Now on BBC One it's

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