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Still no respite for storm-battered Britain as heavy rain and gales

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For 12 passengers on this stranded bus in Ayrshire -

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a dramatic airlift by helicopter to safety.

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The water came in the bus, it came up, it just came up and up,

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got to the windows and it was like big waves.

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You could see the current - it was very, very scary.

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In the Scottish borders attempts to reinforce defences -

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with a "danger to life" flood warning issued for the River Tweed.

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Back from his break, the Environment Agency chairman

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returns from Barbados to meet victims of the floods.

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The American actor Bill Cosby arrives in court in the US charged

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And England's cricketers beat South Africa by 241 runs to win

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A huge storm - the third to hit the UK in a month -

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has been battering parts of Northern Ireland,

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Scotland and northern England - bringing yet more flooding.

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causing high winds and persistent rain.

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Dumfries and Galloway, and Aberdeenshire bore the brunt.

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In South Ayrshire, twelve people had to be winched to safety

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by helicopter, after their bus was stranded in floodwater.

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one from Croston in Lancashire, where earlier today three severe

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But first the situation in Dumfries where the River Nith has

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Nobody can say they were not warned. But some people still needed a last

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minute left to dry land anyway. The river Nith rose rapidly. It floods

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in this part of town a lot but rarely like this without to 120

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millimetres of rain forecast over 24 hours. At the marina, the quayside

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vanished from sight, boarding became a risky business. This river has now

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doubled in width and in terms of intensity it's much bigger. It's an

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impressive sight that people have come down to see but if you run one

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of the businesses on the opposite side of the river you will not be

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impressed one bit by what's happening. Earlier property owners

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did what they could, but with a strong sense that it was all in

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vain. We just have to try to get everything off the ground. The boys

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have been quite good, giving us at hand. By mid-afternoon the flood was

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lapping at dozens of businesses, a saving grace is that few residential

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properties were affected. It's not over yet. Some of the businesses

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will suffer badly, some will struggle to get going again. A huge

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clean-up exercise will be put together to clean up the place.

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Further afield, Newton Stewart in Scotland was the first place to see

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a evacuations, people trying to salvage what they could. In Ayrshire

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police said ten people where lifted from this bus, three among them. The

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rescue filmed from afar. Who would have foreseen this end to a routine

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shopping trip? The driver thought it was OK to get through but we got

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stuck and the water came in the bus and was coming up and up and it got

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to the window. It was like big waves and you could see the current and it

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was very scary. The raging River Dee left a trail of destruction here.

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Forcing hundreds to leave their homes and seek a huge. And in

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Peebles in the Borders, the speed with which the water rose was a

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surprise, even to those who thought they had seen it all. It came up

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very quick. I am Peebles born and bred but I've never seen it so high.

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Only tomorrow's daylight will truly reveal what damage has been caused.

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Well, the River Nith here is now receding and people are already

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returning to properties to check on them, but most attention is now

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focused further north in Aberdeenshire where hundreds are

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spending the night out of their homes. Some being put up in local

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rest centres but some people are being put up in the army barracks

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which is normally there to provide protection to the Queen when she is

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at Balmoral. Many thanks. After many questions in the last few

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days about the adequacy of the UK's flood defences, the chairman

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of the Environment Agency Sir Philip Dilley said he'd be

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visiting flood victims. He's come in for criticism

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for being on holiday in the Caribbean during some

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of the worst storms in years. The people of Croston in Lancashire

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have had to endure two of them, and were braced today

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for the second flood in a week. There were - as we heard -

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three severe warnings in place Two miles outside Croston, under

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darkening skies, the giant pumps rumble back into action, shifting

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floodwater from farmland to make room for more. Although storm Frank

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did not deliver significant heavy rain to this part of Lancashire, it

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has grounded the helicopter which was due to continue plugging the

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breach in the River defences half a mile behind me. The damage is

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virtually inaccessible by land but this afternoon volunteers from a

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local rescue team used their specialist tracked vehicles to reach

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the breached defences and assess the remaining threat. The storm has not

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helped us, high winds have meant it has been too strong to get the

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helicopter out and that's the only way to move the large sandbags. We

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will get it done in the coming days. The calls for help were still being

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answered. One urgent call came from this nursing home, the kitchen was

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flooded and the power disrupted and donations of fresh water and food

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were there within hours. Everybody of all ages, and from all walks of

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life have come to help and that is a spirit I have never known. Sir

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Philip Dilley is the chairman of the Environment Agency, back today from

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a holiday in the Caribbean. Should he have returned earlier? Was the

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Caribbean the best place to manage the crisis from? I have been in

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close contact with people running the organisation. By this evening be

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a moment agency had published images of Sir Philip visiting troops in

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York but the press were not invited. A few miles away the Environment

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Secretary in Tadcaster agreed that the Environment Agency's chief

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executive had visited areas over Christmas. A plan to reunite the two

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halves of the town is under discussion. People want their lives

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sorted out as soon as possible and it is our priority to do that. Back

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in Croston there is still a reassuring presence on the Main

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Street. Tomorrow the clean-up camera shoot. There will be more storms to

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weather in the week ahead. The relentless storms,

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which have swept across the UK this month, meant it was

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a record-breaking December for rainfall in many parts

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of northern England, of climate change is

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again under scrutiny. Our Science Editor David Shukman

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looks now at what's causing The coast of Cornwall was among the

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first to be hit by Storm Frank just before high tide this morning. Soon

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after dawn, County Waterford in Ireland was struck by waves whipped

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up by the dangerous winds. By lunchtime, it was the turn of

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Anglesey in Wales, this extreme weather system reaches far beyond

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the British Isles as well. This elevation shows that west of the UK

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the storm is so powerful it is driving a flow of warm air up to the

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Arctic and making the North Pole far warmer than normal. It's a time of

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turbulent weather. Here in Britain the past month has seen a host of

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rainfall records. If you look at the averages

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for December rainfall from 1980 to 2010, Capel Curig in North Wales

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normally gets 308 millimetres. But it has been hit

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with 1012 millimetres - The average for Shap in Cumbria

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is 215 millimetres but it And the average for Bainbridge

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in North Yorkshire is 156, We're on course for the warmest

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December in more than 100 And the wettest December

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for many parts of the UK, including Scotland, Wales

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and north-west England in more But we don't expect those

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conditions to continue right And all this may be linked

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to what is called El Nino. Here, this Nasa image shows warm

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water rising in the eastern Pacific and this is happening on a large

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enough scale to disturb weather Exactly the kind of thing

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that El Nino can bring. And there are similar

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scenes in South America. Back here, the aftermath of yet more

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devastating rain and because warmer air can hold more moisture,

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it could well be that climate change And that will raise more questions

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about how well the country copes with more violent weather

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in the years ahead. Belgian authorities have cancelled

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the traditional fireworks display in Brussels on New Year's Eve,

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citing fears of a terrorist attack. The city's mayor said

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the decision was taken Earlier this week two people

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were arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack

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in the city on New Years Eve. In London, the Metropolitan Police

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said extra armed officers will be A couple from Reading who were found

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guilty of planning a bomb attack in London to mark the 10th

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anniversary of the July 7th attacks - have been given life

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sentences at the Old Bailey. Mohammed Rehman was told

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he would spend at least 27 Sana Ahmed Khan, who was given

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a minimum of 25 years, had written to the judge

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expressing her remorse. The American comedian Bill Cosby -

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who was once the world's highest paid entertainer - has been charged

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with sexual assault. The 78 year old is accused

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of drugging and indecently assaulting a woman at his home

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near Philadelphia in 2004. Mr Cosby has denied similar

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accusations by dozens of women, as our Washington Correspondent

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Laura Bicker reports. He was once the most-watched

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man on television. For decades the funny

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family entertainer hailed Mr Cosby, do you want

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to say anything? Now he must face the cameras

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once again to hear details of the criminal

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charges against him. They involve Andrea Constant who has

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waived her right to anonymity. She said that she went

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to his house for career Mr Cosby urged her to take pills

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that he provided to her. The effect of which rendered

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her unable to move or respond to his advances

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and he committed aggravated indecent There have been allegations

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and rumours for years but it was a stand up routine

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by a comedian which sent them viral. The charges today are

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based on their position from a civil case where Bill Cosby

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admits giving women drugs before But nearly 60 women have come

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forward, many high-profile His behaviour was like

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that of a predator. I woke up in the back

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of my car, alone, my clothes were a mess

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and my bra was undone. Legally many of his accusers have

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run out of time to bring For many of my 29 clients who allege

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that they are victims of Bill Cosby, seeing him criminally

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charged and having to face a trial is the best Christmas

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present they have ever received. He has always denied the allegations

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and he is free on a $1 million bail. If convicted, this once-global star

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could face the last years Cricket now - and England have

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beaten South Africa in the first The visitors comfortably

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won by 241 runs. Our Sports Correspondent

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Andy Swiss has more. A thumping victory for England here

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in Durban. A crushing win over

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the world's top Test team. For both England's players and fans,

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so much to applaud. South Africa had begun the day

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still with faint hope, Star batsman AB de Villiers

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bamboozled by Moeen Ali and it prompted the sort of collapse more

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traditionally associated Temba Bavuma's rush of blood

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offering the simplest of stumpings. For the South African balcony,

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it was almost too painful to watch. But it was not about

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to get any easier. Steve Finn ending Dale Steyn's brief

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resistance in about as emphatic And by the time Ali picked

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up his third of the day, not so much leg as legs before

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wicket, South Africa had lost four Indeed what could have been

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a long and tense day Stewart Broad trapping Morne Morkel

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whose last desperate Replays showed it hitting the middle

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of the middle stump, a suitably decisive end

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to an utterly decisive win. Rarely have England

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been quite so ruthless.

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