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The verdict of an independent review.

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It says thousands of people have died unneccessarily.

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The Government admits it needs to do much more.

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We have not done enough to end the stigma of mental health.

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We have focused a lot on physical health and we haven't,

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as a country, as a nation, focused enough on

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The father who lost a son to mental illness.

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He wants to save other families from the same anguish.

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As a father, there are no words to describe...

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..how one feels when your son's coffin enters the church.

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We'll be looking at what today's comprehensive reports

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is recommending and whether the Government will actually do it.

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Up to 50 people are killed in Syria in airstrikes on hospitals.

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The UN calls it a blatant violation of international law.

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Calls for a crackdown after a laser shone into a cockpit forces

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a passenger jet to abandon a flight to New York.

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The personal letters that reveal Pope Jean Paul II's long and intense

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The student nurse, who died after waiting five hours

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A coroner says the delay was critical.

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And exclusive footage of The Met's water canons -

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bought for hundreds of thousands of pounds and hidden

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Goood evening and welcome to the BBC News at Ten.

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Thousands of unnecessary deaths and chronic underinvestment.

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That's how an independent review sums up the state of mental health

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The report says three quarters of mentally ill people

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receive no support at all - and those that do often

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The Government has accepted the report's recommendations,

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though has stopped short of saying it will implement them.

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But first our Health Editor Hugh Pym on how one family's tragedy

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highlights the many failures of mental health care.

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When this recording was made of Edward Mullen at the piano,

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no-one could imagine it would be played at

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Aged 18, he was due to go to Cambridge University

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Feeling suicidal he had sought help and was sent away with pills

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His father, Steve, wrote to the Prime Minister shortly

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after Edward's death a year ago, saying he

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believed his son had been let down by the care system.

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As a father, there are no words to describe...

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..how one feels when your son's coffin enters the church

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while you are listening to his accomplished notes

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It is very clear here we have a completely

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This is not about a system that needs a slight reform or some slight

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change, this is about a fundamental process that we, as a society,

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have not got appropriately right.

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Thousands of stories like this helped inform the task force

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report, which includes strong criticism.

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It says there are thousands of tragic and unnecessary deaths.

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One of the reasons is chronic underinvestment in mental

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health care and three quarters of people with mental health

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The head of NHS England told me the system

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The NHS wants to - and needs to - up our game

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when it comes to mental health.

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It is not something that can be done overnight

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but we clearly want to expand the range of treatments

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for children, for pregnant mums, for people at

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Heading off potential problems facing young

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Early intervention is seen by the task force as a priority.

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That is getting teenagers like these to talk

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openly about their emotional well-being and to identify

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and discuss mental health challenges, which they and their

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Let's think about physical health and emotional and mental health.

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This school in West Sussex is using a programme devised

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by the Samaritans, as part of the regular curriculum.

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Now I specifically know what people go through and how hard it can

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It talked us through how everyone reacts differently to mental

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They can quite often become undetected.

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The report action plan, now adopted by NHS England,

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includes a million more people being treated

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by 2020, 24/7 crisis support at A units in hospitals

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and increased access to talking therapies, including counselling.

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To pay for it there will be ?1 billion

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This will come from money already allocated to the NHS.

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In Wales, more is spent on mental health than any

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other part of the NHS, according to a spokesman.

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The Northern Ireland executive said there had been higher

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For Steve Mallon, the new plan for England is welcome but it can

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only be judged if it is delivered in full.

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What we have to be sure is this does not

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turn into some sort of Orwellian rhetoric, when a government

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is always announcing ever bigger numbers and ever more initiatives

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and yet the experience of real people in real schools and in real

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families and real communities is not changing on a day-to-day basis.

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The report's ambitions have been widely

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praised but no-one is denying that putting mental health on the same

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level as physical health care could take some time yet.

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This morning I went to talk to the Prime Minister

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about the findings in today's report, which he acknowledged showed

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the Government has failed to adequately tackle mental

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So let's talk about today's task force report, Prime Minister.

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Inadequate provision, worsening outcomes and an increase

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in the number of people committing suicide.

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That is the verdict of the task force on mental health since 2011.

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Why have you allowed this to happen since you have been Prime Minister?

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It is a very powerful report and it shows how much more we need to do.

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It tells us what we need to do and yes, we should be frank,

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we've not done enough to end the stigma of mental health.

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We have focused a lot on physical health and we haven't,

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as a country, as a nation, focused enough on mental health.

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Let's talk about a specific case which I know you are aware

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of which is the case of Ed Mannen, the son of Steve Mannen,

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His 18-year-old son, presented as a clear suicide risk,

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was given a strip of pills and a couple of website addresses.

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And very shortly afterwards he took his own life.

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Can you pledge that by the end of your tenure as prime minister,

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there will no longer be a lack of care for young

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Of course, I can't pledge that there won't be tragic events

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Absolutely, and what I can pledge is that we are going to expand,

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for instance, the Talking Therapies that I think have been so valuable

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for so many people and the money is there for that.

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As I've said, three quarters of a million more people already

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For the first time ever, waiting lists, waiting times,

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rather, so, if, for instance you have psychosis, you should get

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When you say two weeks, the average waiting time for a child

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to get access to therapy is 32 weeks.

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It's far too long and that's why we're putting in the money.

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As I said, not just money, it is also saying, let's have...

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We're very familiar with the waiting time targets for physical health.

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You shouldn't have to wait longer than 18 weeks for your treatment.

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We are now doing that for mental health as well.

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The task force report recommends that no one should have to wait

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longer than two weeks for access to therapy by 2021.

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Can you pledge that that will happen?

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We can only pledge what we can afford.

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I don't know that I can make that specific pledge and I don't

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want to say something on your programme that

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Let's talk about another recommendation in the task force

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report, which is to end the situation where children

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and adults are sent out of the local area, sometimes hundreds of miles,

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to get to an acute psychiatric bed, when they are in crisis.

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The task force report recommends that system be ended by 2021.

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Again, we accept the report, that's what we want to see happen.

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At the moment people are having to travel too far.

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If you look, for instance, at children and mental

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health bed provision, there is actually more bed provision

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than there has been in the past but we are also seeing, frankly,

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more children presenting with mental health problems.

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If you look, for instance, at eating disorders,

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we have seen a big increase in those so extra money and extra

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But yes, we accept what is in the report and now we have to work

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out, have we got the resources necessary to deliver

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I'm slightly puzzled because I have put two of the recommendations

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in the report to you, Prime Minister, and you say

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you accept the recommendations, but what are you

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Which of these pledges are you actually going to fulfil?

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We are going to spend ?1 billion extra per year over the coming

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period in order to deliver a million more treatments

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and we are going to go through this report and as we respond

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to the report, we will be able to say exactly

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which of the recommendations we can meet and how quickly we can meet it.

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We want to end the stigma of mental health in our country.

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We want to ensure that parity of esteem that we have all talked

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about but previous governments haven't been able to

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The Prime Minister talking to me earlier.

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And we'll be taking a closer look at mental health right through this

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week, in a season of programmes on BBC One called In the Mind.

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All the details are on our special website at bbc.co.uk/in the mind,

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including information about where you can find help

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And you can follow us on social media at hashtag In the Mind.

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The United Nations has said as many as 50 people,

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including children, have been killed in a series of air strikes

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on hospitals and schools in Northern Syria.

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Turkey has blamed Russia for one of the attacks.

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Syria's ambassador to Russia has blamed the US.

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It's raised fresh doubts about whether a pause

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in the fighting, due later this week, will actually happen.

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Here's our Diplomatic Correspondent, James Robbins.

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In north-east Syria, rescue workers scramble over

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the rubble of hospital hit by missiles to rescue any survivors

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It has been bombing intensively in this rebel-held area

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to try to win it back for President Assad.

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The hospital is completely destroyed.

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We report at least seven deaths among the personnel and patients

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and at least eight personnel of Medecins Sans Frontieres

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Further north, in Azaz, missiles hit a children's hospital

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and the school apparently sheltering refugees fleeing from the joint

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This is meant to be the week when attacks wind down ahead

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of a cessation of hostilities agreed by Russia and the United States.

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But tonight President Assad has been on Syrian state television pouring

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buckets of very cold water on talk of a ceasefire.

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"A week to prepare is not enough", he said.

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"It means stopping terrorists strengthening their positions and it

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does not mean each party stops using weapons."

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Russia is making very clear that in this conflict it has no intention

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of giving up its bombing campaign and to see the pattern

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of its strikes, let's look at a map showing most are aimed at areas held

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by opposition rebel forces backed by the US-led coalition.

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Not at the Islamist extremists here in red that Washington believes

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Russia sees no distinction and still hopes President Assad can win.

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Partly because Russia has it only Mediterranean naval base

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Partly because Vladimir Putin remembers Soviet President Brezhnev

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and President Assad's father as allies in Cold War days and wants

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Now it is also being suggested Mr Putin is even enjoying

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the migration crisis in Europe, dividing and weakening

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another of his foes, the European Union.

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The Russians can end this, if they want to, they can make this

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cessation of hostilities work by scaling back their bombing

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and redirecting it against the real terrorists rather than

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But if the Russians think that the moderate opposition

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are going to lay down their weapons while they carry on bombing moderate

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opposition positions, they are wrong, that's

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But Russia shows no sign of changing course and is now embroiled

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in a hotter and hotter war of words with Syria's neighbour,

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Washington is urging cooler heads but a cessation of hostilities

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promised by the end of this we can hardly be relied on.

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Pilots are calling for tougher laws on the sale and possession of lasers

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after a plane had to turn back when one of its pilots was injured

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The Virgin Atlantic flight had been heading for New York but returned

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Her report contains some flashing images.

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Stationary before heading down the runway for a second time.

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Last night this Virgin Atlantic Airbus took off without incident

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but shortly after, the crew contacted air traffic control

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and told them one of the pilots was experiencing difficulties.

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The pilots union, BALPA, says those targeting aircraft may

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not know just how serious the consequences can be.

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Initially it is bright flashing and you can get shadows.

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The distraction that these can cause at the critical stage of flight,

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take-off and landing, could potentially lead

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Virgin Atlantic said the flight was brought back to Heathrow

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BALPA say that 50% of the 810 pilots surveyed last year said they had

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One reason for the surge is the greater availability

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In a room, pointing at something with them, they are far

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There really isn't an application internally for these.

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Outside, again, other than to try to deliberately blind

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someone if you are targeting people, again, there is no real application.

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It is an offence to shine a light at an aircraft while it is in flight

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but BALPA are now calling for it to be made more serious.

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They say that carrying a laser strong enough to ground a plane

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like this one is the same as possessing an offensive

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weapon and they want that recognised legally.

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Police are trying to find the person responsible for delaying hundreds

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of people's travel plans and for the potential damage

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The President of the European Council has warned there's a "real"

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risk that the EU could break up, if the UK decides to leave.

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Donald Tusk said David Cameron's negotiations with EU leaders,

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ahead of a key summit on Thursday, had reached a "critical moment".

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In a moment, we'll speak to our political editor,

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Laura Kuenssberg, to hear how Mr Cameron has been dealing

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where he's meeting the French President tonight,

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and speak to our Europe Editor, Katya Adler.

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Katya, this meeting wasn't in the diary.

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It's been arranged at the last minute.

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David Cameron's mad dash to Paris is yet another indication that all

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might not be well with his deal at the summit later this week. France

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is extremely concerned about his push to protect non-euro countries

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from Eurozone regulations, fair countries use the euro so White

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should they be able to gang up to the

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should they be able to gang up to countries like Britain but France

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things Cameron is being sneaky countries like Britain but France

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he wants a special deal for London and a back door veto on wider

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Eurozone legislation. The French economy is sluggish to put it

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politely, the president is about to try to get re-elected and he can't

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afford to be seen to help written do better financially while his

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Eurozone hands are tied -- help Britain. Just before the publication

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of David Cameron's draft negotiations, I was told they were

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delayed by hours, worried by wording. Every EU leader has to cite

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that this for them to be passed, France could again quibble and

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dashed the Prime Minister's hopes of a deal if it so chooses.

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Laura, pressure abroad for Mr Cameron and more evidence

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Indeed. You might think that managing his own party would be a

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breeze impaired to dealing with 27 European leaders, fractious as they

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are, but not necessarily so full that after weeks of considerable

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pressure from Eurosceptic ministers, number ten has had to concede that

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when David Cameron debts back here, probably with a deal, he will have

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to have his cabinet in for a crucial meeting to take the government

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positions and immediately afterwards something extraordinary will happen.

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Cabinet ministers who want to argue to leave the EU against his position

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will be allowed to do so publicly. That matters because number ten had

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wanted to hold the line for 48 hours before David Cameron to make his

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case more or less uninterrupted over the weekend before Cabinet ministers

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would be un-gagged to say what they thought. The fact that number ten

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has had to give way, although they say they had never completely made

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their mind up, tells us something very important. This is not just a

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question for political nerds, it tells us that at this vital moment,

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David Cameron, powerful as he is, can't get everything his own way and

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it will be difficult for him to control his Eurosceptic ministers

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and the many other Eurosceptics in his party. As the summit approaches,

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it is a reminder PS3 difficult audiences, not just EU leaders but

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also those in his own party and the most important one at all, the

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public who will vote at the end of June -- he has three difficult

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audiences. And for all involved it is very nearly showtime. Thank you.

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As we've heard, controlling migration is one of the greatest

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challenges in David Cameron's EU negotiations.

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But when he first set out how he wanted to change Britain's

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relationship with the European Union, in a key speech

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in 2013, the issue wasn't even mentioned.

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But since then, migration has gradually developed into one

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of the dominant themes of the debate about EU membership -

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even more so following the exodus of people from Syria -

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as our Special Correspondent, Gavin Hewitt explains.

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For David Cameron, this is the week when Europe's leaders

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will deliver their verdict on Britain's demands and no issue

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Three years ago the Prime Minister went to the Bloomberg headquarters

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in London and began laying out his European demands.

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It is time for the British people to have their say.

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Before David Cameron made his big speech about Europe here he had

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spoken about bringing the levels of net migration down to the 1990s

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but what he didn't mention at this podium was soon rising up

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Poll after poll showed that the number one concern amongst

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the population is immigration and also, Ukip were remarkably

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successful in linking the issues of immigration and EU membership

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They believed that in the European elections, the issue of migration

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had won them more votes than the issue of Europe itself.

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About a third of the population are migrants.

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Many people say migration is the issue that will influence

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whether they vote in or out in the referendum.

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I think it's the pressure that it puts on resources,

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the National Health Service, things like transport systems, housing.

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58% of the class did not speak English.

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So during the second half of 2014 and with a general election

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on the horizon, migration is not just becoming a major little issue.

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But it was placed right at the heart of the EU renegotiation.

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Numbers that have increased faster than we in this country wanted.

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All of this has to change and it will be at the very heart

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of my renegotiation strategy for Europe.

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By November 2014 he had settled on restricting benefits as the key

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Two weeks ago, David Cameron asked for an emergency break.

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When social services were under pressure,

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EU migrants could be restricted from receiving in work benefits

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How quickly would benefits for migrants be phased in.

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But details matter for this will be one of the key battle grounds

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The choice will ultimately be staying in the European Union

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where we will have high levels of net migration,

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not least because Britain's economy is doing better,

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or being outside the European Union and being able to control our

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I would say there are legitimate concerns that you've got

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about fairness and about people making a contribution before

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they take money out, that we are seeking to address.

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And child benefit as well, I think they are important issues.

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To people who are concerned about the unfairness of that,

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they are not xenophobic, not anti-European, not racist,

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Casting a shadow over all of this is the wider migrant crisis,

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a burden mainly shouldered by Germany.

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Both sides in the UK debate know that the numbers moving

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through Europe might influence voters, even though Britain

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A very senior European official has warned that Britain could vote

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to leave the EU simply because of this wider migrant crisis

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and the impression given that the European Union

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In Brussels this week, the Prime Minister will need to pin

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down key details and then persuade the voters that any deal is binding.

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The families of members of the indie band, Viola Beach,

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killed in a car accident in Sweden on Saturday,

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The four friends and their manager died when their hire car plunged

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from a bridge just outside Stockholm.

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They'd just played their first gig abroad.

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This report from Claire Savage contains flashing images.

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# And she said together we could take on the world #.

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Living the dream, that's how Viola Beach had been

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describing their music career to friends and family before

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Life was just getting good for them and then this

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But they were all together and that's the only comfort

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The band were just so happy, they were living the dream,

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And they were very, very dedicated musicians.

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Nothing else mattered but playing in any gig,

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River Reeves, Tomas Lowe, Kris Leonard and Jack Dakin,

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aged between 19 and 27, along with their manager,

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Craig Tarry, seen here on the left, died when their hire car crashed

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through barriers and off a highway bridge into a canal more

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When Craig first asked me to listen to the band,

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he said, look, what do you think of these, Dad?

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I said, son, that's it, get them signed up, get the music

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out there because these lads are going to be really big.

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And it's just a tragic loss, I just hope they don't die in vain.

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They had started to play gigs in Europe and were just

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about to head off to the United States before playing

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festivals back in the UK this summer.

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We just want people to just enjoy that, it was their dream,

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I think we just feel the only thing we've got left is for them to make

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As detectives in Sweden continue to investigate the cause

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of the crash, the families are still searching for answers.

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Let's take a brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

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The discount supermarket chain, Aldi, is to create 5,000 jobs

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The German-owned company said the positions would include

:26:41.:26:45.

managers, stock assistants and shop floor staff at 80 new stores.

:26:46.:26:52.

Adam Johnson, seen here in the middle, has been played

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a video where a girl tells police about her meetings with him

:26:56.:26:59.

She said he signed football shirts for her and initially

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The player denies two counts of sexual activity with a child.

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Irish police have carried out a major security operation

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at the funeral of a man, who was shot dead at a boxing

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Police believe David Byrne's death was part of a gangland feud.

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Another murder, three days later, is thought to have been carried

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Hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story

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of Pope John Paul II's long and close friendship with a married

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The letters to Polish-born American philosopher Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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were hidden away in the National Library of Poland.

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They reveal a rarely seen and intimate side of the pontiff,

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who died in 2005, although there's no suggestion that he broke his

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Ed Stourton uncovered the story for the BBC's Panorama.

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John Paul II was the first non-Italian Pope for nearly

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He ruled the church for more than a quarter of a century

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and he is credited with helping to bring down communism.

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He died in 2005 and was made a saint in just nine

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For more than 30 years he was close to a married woman,

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a Polish born American philosopher called Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.

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She had a walk-on part in his biographies because she collaborated

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on an English language version of one of his books.

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But the full story of their relationship has now been

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revealed thanks to a huge cache of letters and photos

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which we are making public for the first time.

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Here is one of the handful of transcendentally great figures

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The head of the Catholic Church in an intense relationship

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They were more than friends but less than lovers.

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Today I heard your voice when you called from Warsaw.

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The telephone has the advantage that I can hear your voice but it doesn't

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last long enough so it doesn't replace a letter

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I haven't seen Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's letters and reading

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Karol Wojtyla's on their own is a bit like reading a novel

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But I do understand that in the summer of 1975,

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almost exactly two years after they first met,

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Anna-Teresa sat down on a park bench by the city walls of Krakow

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and wrote what one can really only describe as a love letter.

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She said that she desired to be in his arms and remain

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I do believe she completely fell in love with him during the first

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I think it is completely reflected in the correspondence.

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In John Paul's final years, when he suffered from Parkinson's

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and seemed increasingly isolated in the Vatican,

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she visited him often and sent him pressed flowers from her garden

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We are talking about Saint John Paul.

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This is an extraordinary relationship.

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It is out of the ordinary in the papal context.

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The National Library of Poland today dismissed our interpretation

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of what they said was neither secret nor extraordinary.

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Why, then, is one bit of this story still buried?

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We discovered that her letters to him were also bought

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by the library but they refused to say where they are.

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So a piece of this extraordinary jigsaw is still missing.

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Newsnight is about to get underway over on BBC Two.

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Tonight, the Columbine high school massacre left 15 dead and had a

:30:47.:30:58.

seismic impact in America. 17 years later, the mother of one of the

:30:59.:31:04.

killers breaks her silence and gives us an exclusive interview. Join us

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on BBC Two now and later at 11pm on BBC Scotland.

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