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The surgeons who think they could be close to finding

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This man was paralysed from the chest down.

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A cell transplant repaired his spinal cord, a technique surgeons

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This will be history, this will change history.

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If we succeed, we will find a cure for paralysis.

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We'll be looking at the long-term implications it could have

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for three million people who are paralysed.

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Also tonight: Facebook is set to pay millions more in tax in the UK

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from next year after criticism and public pressure.

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A bomb disposal robot is sent in after a device explodes under

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Police in Los Angeles carry out tests on a knife apparently found

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How the 15th century Italian painter has influenced artists and designers

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Andy Murray got

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Great Britain's Davis Cup title defence off to a winning start

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against Japan's Daniel but Dan Evans lost against

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Surgeons in Poland say they could be close to finding

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Two years ago the team announced that this man -

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a former fireman who was completely paralysed from the chest down -

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could walk again after a cell transplant repaired his spinal cord.

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Now they're launching a worldwide search for two people whose spinal

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cords have been completely severed to see if they can reverse paralysis

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Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has this exclusive story.

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He is the paralysed man who walked again.

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This is Darek Fidyka in 2014, after his regenerative cell

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transplant, documented by the BBC's Panorama.

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Now, a bigger test, to ride this tricycle.

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Remember, this is a man who had been completely

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paralysed below his chest after being stabbed.

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Now, he is relearning how to control his legs,

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sending commands from his brain down to his muscles,

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and receiving sensations back, all flowing through his

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The effort is as much mental as physical.

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TRANSLATION: If I really think, I can feel each muscle,

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The brain is very important and I appreciate it

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plays a crucial role in cycling, or any other exercise I do.

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The big question now is whether Darek's extraordinary

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achievements can be repeated in other patients.

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Only a clinical trial can show whether or not the cell transplant

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does indeed represent a revolution in the treatment of paralysis,

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which would make it one of the greatest

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That's why his surgeon is launching a worldwide search,

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via a website, for two patients with highly unusual injuries.

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Their spinal-cord must be completely severed,

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Help them, and it will silence any doubters.

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We can prove once and forever that we can repair

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There would be no speculation if we succeed to reconstruct.

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This would be history, this will change history.

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If we succeed, we'll find a cure for paralysis.

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The patients will have one of their olfactory bulbs,

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at the base of the brain, shown in green, removed.

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It processes the sense of smell, and is the only part of the nervous

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In a second operation, cells from the

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bulb will be transplanted into the spinal-cord to provide

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a pathway for nerve fibres to grow back.

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The patients selected for the trial will

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undergo intensive physiotherapy, both before and especially

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In all, they will have to commit to spending three years

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living at this rehabilitation centre in Poland.

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The research will be independently assessed by this team

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They will use equipment like this magnetic stimulator

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to monitor the patients' neurological pathways

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As a proof of principle, I'm very excited, because

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this is a novel treatment that holds a great deal of promise.

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This would open up hope that an alternative

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But it is going to take some years to refine it.

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The treatment will cost ?250,000 per patient,

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and is being funded by a small British charity set up by a chef,

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David Nichols, whose son was paralysed in a swimming accident.

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If the trial is successful, it might mean patients

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For Darek, the return of muscle control and sensation has brought

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other improvements, like bladder control and sexual function,

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which he says are just as crucial to his growing sense of independence.

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Extraordinary, but how long before we know whether it works? It will

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take a year to search and select those two patients and may be a

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further two years before we know whether this treatment can reverse

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paralysis. If surgeons can do this in patients with a severed

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spinal-cord they will move on to patients with the more common form

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of compression injury and there are 3 million people in the world who

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are paralysed and this will only help a small proportion of them. It

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is expensive and complex, the surgery, and it requires a huge

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commitment from the patients. That man is nearly four years post

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transplant and he still undergoes hours of intensive physiotherapy

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every day, and they are no easy games will stop but even a partial

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recovery like his will give people hope, that is why this is so

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important and promising. Thanks for joining us.

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Facebook is set to pay millions of pounds more in tax in the UK

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The company - which has global profits of more than ?1 billion

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every three months - faced heavy criticism

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after it was revealed that in 2014 - it only paid around ?4,000

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The move is likely to put more pressure on the way other

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multinationals like Google, Amazon and Starbucks pay their tax

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Here's our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed who broke the story.

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They like to portray themselves as the cuddly social media site,

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but of course Facebook is a very serious and very profitable

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business, it makes money out of the millions of us who use it

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everyday because we are valuable customers of the major businesses

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that spend millions of pounds advertising on Facebook.

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Facebook, apparently, have chosen, of their own volition,

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to change their tax arrangements, and that shows it's possible for any

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And so to have companies bleating it's not their fault,

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it's just the international tax laws, that really is not the case.

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They have the choice about how they set up their tax arrangements.

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Facebook is one of a number of controversial, often

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Google and Apple have also faced criticism for their tax affairs.

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At present it routes most of its UK sales through Ireland where business

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taxes are lower and corporation tax there is 12.5% compared

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And for a global company that makes a significant difference.

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The company pays a very low amount of tax in the UK,

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That is less than many people pay in income tax.

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For a company that globally makes over ?1 billion of profit every

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three months that has caused controversy.

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From April Facebook will abandon that structure and start accounting

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for sales activity in the UK, that is set to increase its tax bill

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With the first payment made to the Treasury in 2017.

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That could cheer up this man George Osborne, who has said

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he would like global multinationals to pay more tax.

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Whilst we offer some of the lowest business taxes in the world,

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we expect those taxes to be paid and not avoided.

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Political pressure was growing on Facebook and the tax

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There is also the small matter of its often young audience.

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They may have received criticism and they may have just internally

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reviewed it and decided, given their position,

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and their position with millennials and centennials,

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Given their purpose as a company, they may have thought this

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is something they should do and they should be congratulated

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for having made that course of correction.

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The tax authority HMRC is investigating its tax affairs.

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Put November 2017 in your diary, the date when Facebook

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will announce its first payment under the new structure.

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Will it be large enough to put this tax controversy to bed?

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A prison officer has been seriously injured in Belfast after a bomb

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Police fear the attack could be the start of a campaign of violence,

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by dissident Republicans, to mark the forthcoming centenary

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of the Easter Rising - the rebellion against British rule.

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Chris Buckler is in Belfast for us tonight.

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There has been widespread condemnation of today's attack but

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there is also deep concern about further attacks. The police are

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convinced the dissident Republicans will try to overshadow

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commemorations for the centenary of the Easter Rising in the most

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sinister way possible, by attempting to murder soldiers, prison officers

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and police officers. Members of the security forces are on high alert

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tonight, and I should warn you my report contains flash photography.

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If 1916 was a year of rebellion, dissident republicans want to make

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This morning they planted a bomb that exploded under this van,

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seriously injuring the prison officer who was driving it.

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The police say it was an attempt to murder and they are fearful

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that this is just the start of a campaign to kill,

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to coincide with the centenary of Ireland's Easter Rising.

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When I say I'm deeply concerned, I mean I'm deeply concerned.

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I believe that there are people within dissident Republican

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groupings who want to mark the centenary by killing police

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officers, prison officers or soldiers.

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The Easter Rising was an attempt in Ireland to break away

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from British rule and is being marked by official events

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And Irish Republicans are amongst those concerned that dissidents

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will try to steal attention away from the commemorations

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There can be no justification for anybody going out with a gun

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or a bomb against the backdrop of the massive transformation that

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has taken place in our society over the last 20 years.

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It is just over three years since another prison officer,

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David Black, was shot dead as he drove to work,

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by a group calling itself the New IRA.

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And there is an ongoing dispute between the prison authorities

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and dissident republican prisoners at Maghaberry,

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Northern Ireland's high security prison.

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We've lost 30 officers in the past through these attacks.

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It did not change anything within the prisons and this is not

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going to change anything, attacking prison officers.

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The police say they have already started to increase security ahead

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of Easter, a necessary precaution against this rising threat.

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A heavily pregnant woman has been stabbed in the West Midlands.

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The victim, who's 40, was airlifted to hospital this

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afternoon from Sutton Coldfield town centre.

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Tonight, police say her baby has been delivered safely but the woman

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A number of passers-by who tried to intervene,

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Our Correspondent, Kathryn Stanchesin reports.

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A brutal attack in broad daylight. In a side street in Sutton Coldfield

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town centre, heavily pregnant woman was repeatedly stabbed just yards

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from a busy shopping centre. As these eyewitness pictures show

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emergency services were quickly on the scene. Speaking exclusively to

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the BBC this man gave first aid to the victim. I saw the guy on the

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floor, being restrained by the police. Try to get involved and then

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moved towards the woman and tried to trick the woman as best I could. --

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treat. I saw lots of blood it was a difficult thing to see. West

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Midlands Police say members of the public intervened, a brave act in a

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dangerous situation which left two men with minor injuries. I would

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like to thanked the individuals of the public who got involved and who

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have dived into a situation with complete disregard to their safety

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and their actions should be commended. A 41-year-old man has

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been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The area remains

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cordoned off while investigations continue and officers are keen to

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reassure the public they are not looking for anyone else in

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connection with the stabbing. The woman remains in a critical

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condition after giving birth but the baby is reported to be doing well.

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-- and the baby is reported to be doing well.

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Some of the day's other news stories.

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Two men from Syria have been jailed for four years in Turkey

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in connection with the death of the three-year-old Syrian boy

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who drowned while trying to reach Greece with his family.

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Aylan Kurdi, seen here on the left, drowned last September and his body

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It focused the world's attention on the risks facing migrants trying

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Hundreds of Syrians in rebel-held areas have taken advantage

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of the current truce to hold small anti-government protests.

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Demonstrators in parts of Homs, Aleppo, and Damascus called

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The partial ceasefire came into effect across Syria a week ago.

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The leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood, has criticised

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the Government for deciding to hold the EU referendum so close

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to the Welsh Assembly elections in May.

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She was speaking at the party's annual spring conference and said

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she supported Britain's membership of the EU.

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Police in Los Angeles are carrying out DNA testing on a knife

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said to have been found at the former home of OJ Simpson.

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They're trying to establish if it has any connection with the murders

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in 1994 of Simpson's ex-wife and a male friend.

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OJ Simpson was cleared of their murders in 1995.

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Our correspondent James Cook is in Los Angeles.

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The OJ Simpson trial split the United States, not least along

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racial lines, Simpson was a famous American football star when he was

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accused of the murders in Los Angeles, and more than 20 years on,

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this heartbreaking case is back in the headlines.

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OJ Simpson, accused of murdering his ex-wife,

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A bloody glove which did not appear to fit was at the heart of the case.

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Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder.

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As the sport superstar learned his fate in 1995,

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it felt like the whole world was watching.

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At first, Simpson had run, fleeing in this white vehicle,

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with police and paparazzi in hot pursuit.

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When Simpson's house was demolished in 1998,

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a knife was reportedly discovered and handed to a police officer,

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I do not know whether he was retired at the time

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that he allegedly received this item from the person who claimed

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they found it on the property, or whether

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he was still in fact an LAPD officer and retired some time after that.

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It is being treated as we would all evidence.

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They are going to study it and examine it for all forensics,

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including serology and DNA, and hair samples.

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The law of double jeopardy means OJ Simpson cannot be tried again,

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He lost the civil case brought by the victims' families,

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and is now serving 33 years for armed robbery.

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This extraordinary story, it seems, never ends.

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Researchers in the United States say they may have found the first

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evidence that the Zika virus does cause birth defects in babies.

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which is spreading rapidly in Central and South America,

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normally only causes mild symptoms in adults.

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But there's growing concern that if pregnant women are infected,

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their babies can be born with damaged brains.

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With an unusually small brain, Caroline will never develop

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She is one of hundreds of babies born in Brazil with the condition

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It is a terrible outbreak made more worrying because so little is known

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Last month a doctor at the centre of the crisis showed me

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The white dots marked damage in the babies' brains.

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She was convinced that the cause was the Zika virus, but establishing

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So, teams of scientists have been investigating,

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that key question of whether Zika is to blame.

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Today the World Health Organisation said it was looking

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The evidence that there may be a causal relationship has continued

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to accumulate and as importantly we have not seen the counterfactual.

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The fact that there is evidence it is due to something else.

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Other than the fact that the Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes.

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Because the threat only emerged a few months ago there has not been

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One study found traces of the virus in the fluid of pregnant women.

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Another spotted Zika in a handful of babies born with damaged brains

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So, in a new project, scientists took samples of the virus

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and applied them to humans stem cells, the kind

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Within three days, up to 90% of them were infected and damage.

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This is an important finding but because it involves stem cells

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in lab conditions, it still is not cast-iron proof.

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Amid all the anxiety for pregnant women like Jessica in Colombia,

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Even a very basic question like how the virus could damage

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It's very important that we do understand why the Zika is causing

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brain damage or whether it might be due to something else,

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because we need to try and find a way to address the problem.

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And try to prevent this rise in microcephaly that is occurring

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A pregnant woman in Brazil, comforted after hearing

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Zika has sread to more than 50 countries, and scientists are racing

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to understand what that could mean.

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Meanwhile, Brazil is having to deal with the biggest corruption scandal

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It centres on the state-owned oil company and involves

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Today, police detained the country's former president,

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He was later released and denies allegations of corruption,

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as Julia Carneiro reports from Sao Paulo.

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outside Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's house, chaos. News of his arrest had

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spread. It was taken to a police station for three hours of

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questioning, the claims he and his family had benefited from illegal

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payments. -- over claims. We are looking at evidence that the former

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president and his family received advantages payments. We are still at

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the investigation stage but we have found no plausible motivation for

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these payments. After being released, he was given to the

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headquarters of the governing workers party and he denied any

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wrongdoing. TRANSLATION: I've been hurt, I feel offended, I did not

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need this, I feel outraged as if I was a prisoner, but if they have

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tried to get me they had not succeeded. These corruption

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investigations have dominated Brazil for months, but the brief detention

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of the former president signals a new phase and increases the danger

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for his prodigy president Dilma Rousseff, and for the future of the

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workers party. At the heart of the detention lies a scandal involving

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the state run petrol company. It involves overpriced contracts.

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Prosecutors say they have significant evidence that the former

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president benefited from the scheme and his not-for-profit organisation

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is under the spotlight. During his 80 is as president he was the face

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of the Brazilian boom. -- his eight years. His detention today is a

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significant moment. When such a moment is involved in a criminal

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investigation it sends a message to the whole country, that nobody is

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above the law in Brazil. Today's development increases the pressure

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on the president Dilma Rousseff, already presiding over a failing

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economy, the fact that her predecessor, the symbol of her party

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was brought in by police today makes this a very dangerous moment for

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her. There's been a wintry start

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to spring to large parts of northern England - with heavy snowfall

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causing travel disruption Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire

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were worst affected - with more than a hundred

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schools closed. Forecasters are warning of more

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cold weather to come. Leeds-Bradford Airport was forced

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to suspend all flights earlier this He's recognised as one

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of the greatest Renaissance artists. Tomorrow the paintings and drawings

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of Sandro Botticelli go on display in the largest show

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of its kind in the UK. But the exhibition

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comes with a twist. His masterpieces will

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appear alongside works of modern art, design, fashion

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and film, all inspired by him. Will Gompertz has

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been to take a look. The Birth of Venus, one of the most

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iconic images in art, instantly recognisable and much

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copied, by the likes of Andy Warhol, David LaChapelle, Dolce and Gabbana,

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and anyone fancying a go The only snag is that the original

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masterpiece by Botticelli It hasn't left Italy

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since the 1930s, when Mussolini sent it out on tour as part

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of a charm offensive. But the good news is that

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Venus has made the trip. It is thought that

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Botticelli painted these two near identical Venuses

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after his famous original It's also thought he had a little

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help from from friends. One of the problems with Botticelli

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is that he had a large workshop full of young artists who would paint

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paintings to his designs. Which begs the question, how can

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you tell which are by a master To answer that question I have

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tracked down the show's curator, This is one of the masterpieces

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of the exhibition. It's an absolutely beautiful

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painting by Botticelli The execution of the drapery,

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the landscape, of this still life here, everything is

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absolutely exquisite And this quality speaks

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for a Botticelli authenticity. These portraits are

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a highlight of the show. Seeing them makes the fact that

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Botticelli was largely forgotten for hundreds of years

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all the more baffling. He was, in part, rediscovered

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by the Victorians, most notably the Pre-Raphaelite

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brotherhood, artists such as Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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and their friend William Morris. They admired the simplicity

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of Botticelli's line Rossetti even went as far as buying

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one of his paintings to which, it is said, he added

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a touch or two of his own. There are many works in this show

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echoing and emulating Botticelli but none really stand comparison

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with the paintings produced by this

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