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Tonight at Ten - the tax haven scandal has claimed its first

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He's the Icelandic prime minister, who's resigned after being accused

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of hiding millions of dollars in an offshore company.

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shedding light on the tax affairs of many rich and powerful

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I'm severely offended by how our politicians

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It is not enough that the prime minister has resigned.

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David Cameron, whose late father is named in some

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of the leaked papers, denied benefitting from

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I have no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds,

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And tonight, the new boss of world football, the president of Fifa,

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is the latest big name to emerge from the leaked papers.

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The First Minister of Wales visits Number Ten to try to find a solution

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to the steel crisis threatening thousands of jobs.

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This woman was tortured and killed at her home in Hartlepool -

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two teenage girls have been found guilty of murder.

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Following the theft of millions of pounds' worth of Chinese

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treasures from British museums, a criminal gang is jailed

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And Glasgow Rangers celebrate a win and a return

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Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England's Joe Marler banned for two

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matches and giving a ?20,000 fine following the racially-charged

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The first major political casualty of the leaked Panama Papers

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is the prime minister of Iceland, who resigned today after being

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accused of hiding millions of dollars of assets

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The claims were based on papers leaked from a law

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Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson is one of dozens of high-profile figures

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around the world who are mentioned in the papers.

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Mr Gunnlaugsson says he sold his shares to his wife

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For the latest, let's join our chief correspondent,

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Even after the prime minister had resigned,

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protesters were beating the fence outside the parliament,

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They didn't want a prime minister or a government with

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links to hidden wealth and interests undeclared.

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I don't want criminals to run the country.

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I want something drastically different.

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Prime Minister Gunnlaugsson had denied any wrongdoing in the face

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of revelations that he had an undeclared interest in his wife's

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secretive offshore company registered in Panama.

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But he was under pressure from his colleagues.

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He described the meeting as exciting, but shortly

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Outside, on the streets, the mood had turned against him.

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This is a country that had almost been brought down by failed banks.

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I'm severely offended by how our politicians are behaving

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It is not enough that the prime minister has resigned.

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The protesters are demanding new elections, rather than another

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member of the government taking over as prime minister.

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Anger and frustration with the continued corruption.

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The corruption has become so systematic that it doesn't

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There are two different sets of people.

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Those that can do whatever they want and then the public that has

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The context to all of this is the financial crash in 2008.

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Some of the failed banks here were using shell companies

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in offshore havens and what happened nearly brought down this economy

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and that is why the mood here is for a clean-out of the government.

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There are indications here, as elsewhere in Europe,

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that the financial crash and its aftermath has changed politics.

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Offshore havens are being squeezed, some of the walls of banks'

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Politically, revelations about hidden accounts

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of the elite have become toxic in mainstream politics.

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The Prime Minister hasn't been accused of breaking any Icelandic

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law. It was the mere appearance of a conflict of interest and a lack of

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transparency that proved sufficient to bring him down and to make it

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impossible for him to remain as Prime Minister.

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STUDIO: Gavin, thank you very much. Gavin Hewitt, our chief

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correspondent. There should be an independent

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inquiry into tax havens in British overseas territories such

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as the British Virgin Islands and into the tax affairs of every

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British person linked to the Panama Papers,

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according to the Labour He said that should include

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the Cameron family following news that the Prime Minister's late

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father had set up an Downing Street said that

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David Cameron, his wife and children did not benefit

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from any offshore funds. Our economics editor,

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Kamal Ahmed, has more details. Please would you welcome

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the Prime Minister? Bounding on to stage,

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attempting to bound away David Cameron was asked today

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about an investment fund set up by his late father in the tax

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haven of the Bahamas. Did the Prime Minister,

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or his family, gain anything In terms of my own financial

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affairs, I own no shares. And I have some savings,

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which I get some interest from. And I have a house which we used

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to live in, which we now let out while we are

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living in Downing Street. I have no shares, no offshore

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trusts, no offshore funds, Ian Cameron set up the Blairmore

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Fund in the 1980s and there is no Downing Street said the Fund's

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operation was a private matter and that no Government had done more

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to clamp down on abuses We have now got country

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after country sharing tax information, committing

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to beneficial ownership registers, That was not enough to satisfy

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the Leader of the Opposition, who called for an inquiry

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into the Prime Minister and any British person named

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in the Panama Papers. Jeremy Corbyn said he would publish

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his own tax returns and said it was time to get tough

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on tax havens. Britain has a huge responsibility

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because many of those tax havens are in British Overseas Territories

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or Crown dependencies. The leaked documents show tax havens

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have become honeypots of international corruption,

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tax avoidance and tax evasion. ADVERT: What is it that makes

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a secret worth keeping? In the spotlight today,

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one of those territories, the British Virgin Islands,

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which has been accused of helping Mr Corbyn even raised

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the possibility of direct rule from the UK if Britain's tax havens

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did not follow Britain's tax rules. ADVERT: These are the kinds

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of secrets worth having. This is the headquarters

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of the British Virgin Islands It's actually remarkably easy to set

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up a business in the country. There are websites offering

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off-the-shelf company names which say that you can set up

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a business overnight for as little as $1,500, that's about ?1,000 -

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small change for any wealthy That small change has made

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the British Virgin Islands Some 452,000 international

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businesses are registered on the island, making the BVI

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the second largest home to international

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businesses behind Hong Kong. The tax regime for those businesses

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is certainly light touch. There is no income tax,

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no capital gains tax, The BVI said it had robust controls

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and was strengthening them, an opinion backed by a senior figure

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from another British Overseas The Cayman Islands and the other

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Overseas Territories display the highest

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standards of transparency. Clearly the British Government,

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whether Mr Corbyn is a part of it or not, cannot go around imposing

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colonial rule without substantial Tonight, President Barack Obama

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called on Congress to act, to prevent the wealthy basing

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themselves offshore for tax reasons. A lot of it's legal,

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but that's exactly the problem. It is not that they are breaking

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the laws, the laws are so poorly designed that they allow people

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if they have got enough lawyers and enough accountants to wriggle

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out of responsibilities that ordinary citizens are having

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to abide by. David Cameron would like to drive

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towards the same solution, Next month's corruption summit

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in London will be his opportunity to prove to the public

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that he takes the issue Quite a few demands directed at Mr

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Cameron today. Our political correspondent, Eleanor

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Garnier, is in Downing Street. What is the pressure on Mr Cameron

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now? No doubt, Downing Street was thrown on the defensive today and

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pretty furious too. The Labour Leader heaped pressure on the Prime

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Minister, not just on the issue of tackling tax abuse, but on the

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personal tax affairs of the Prime Minister and his family. Now, a

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Labour source I spoke to said they didn't set out today to turn this

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into a personal attack. Nevertheless, it is no surprise they

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are pretty pleased with the way things have turned out. The

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Government is attacking Labour saying that during its 13 years in

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power it didn't tackle tax abuse. And I think in a sign of how much

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pressure they felt under, Number Ten released a statement quite late on

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today, stressing that neither Mr Cameron nor his wife, or their

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children, benefit from any offshore funds. And a Downing Street source I

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spoke to told me those making these accusations about the Prime Minister

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and his family need to come forward with evidence. They said they need

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to put up or shut up. Eleanor Garnier for us with the latest in

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Downing Street. The new president of Fifa,

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Gianni Infantino, is the latest prominent name to emerge

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from the Panama Papers. He's said to have approved

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a contract for television rights a decade ago,

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while at Uefa, with two businessmen, who've since been indicted

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on corruption charges. Uefa - European football's

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governing body - says From Zurich, our sports editor,

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Dan Roan, has the story. It was meant to be Fifa's fresh

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start, a new president hailing a new era. We will restore the image of

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Fifa and the respect of Fifa and everyone in the world will applaud

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us and will applaud all of you for what we will do in Fifa in the

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future. But five weeks since Gianni Infantino's election, it is the past

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that threatens to cast an early shadow over his new reign. The

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Panama Papers have implicated world leaders, now the most powerful man

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in football has been dragged into the scandal. Among the millions of

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leaked documents is this 2006 contract, a deal signed off by

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Gianni Infantino when he was a director at European football's

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governing body, Uefa, with an offshore company called Cross

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Trading. It paid ?60,000 for three years of broadcast rights for the

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Champions League in Ecuador and then sold it on to a TV company from the

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country for almost three times the price. Cross-trading was owned by

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Hugo and Mariano Jinkis Mariano Jinkis. The pair were indicted by US

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prosecutors last year as part of an FBI-led corruption investigation.

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The authorities allege that as the owners they paid millions of dollars

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in bribes over several years to South American football officials to

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secure TV rights for regional football tournaments. In a

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statement, Uefa said, the TV rights were sold pursuant to an open

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competitive tender process and were awarded to Cross Trading. There is

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no suggestion whatsoever of any Uefa official or marketing partner taking

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any form of bribe. This evening, Infantino has said, "I never

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personally dealt with Cross Trading nor their owners as the tender

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process was conducted by Team Markets on behalf of Uefa. Neither

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Uefa or I have ever been contacted by any authorities in relation to

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these particular contracts." Today, Infantino was busy with his

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presidential duties, watching youngsters play a match on the

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grounds of Fifa's headquarters. This is a matter for Uefa. But the

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problem facing Gianni Infantino, as he settles into life here in Zurich,

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is that it turns out initially Uefa denied doing business with any of

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those individuals indicted last year when asked by a German newspaper.

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The Panama Papers now reveal that denial to be false.

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It is more damaging I think revelations for Fifa and Uefa and

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again it begs the question, how many more transactions are there like

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this that we don't know about? What sort of checks do people in football

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do about the companies with which they have transactions and who

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audits what happens to those deals after they are completed? Uefa says

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it will co-operate with the FBI over the contracts if asked to do so and

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there is no suggestion Infantino or the television company is guilty of

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any wrongdoing. Just as football's new leader looks to build trust in

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the organisation he now rules, this threatens to be an early set-back.

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Tonight, Infantino expressed his display that his integrity may have

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been called into question. But the Fifa President is all too aware that

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the organisation he now leads, its existence depends on being able not

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to be shown to be whiter than white after the Sepp Blatter era. Tonight,

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one unnamed source told us that they expected this may warrant an ethics

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committee inquiry and if that is the case, it is easy to see why some

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critics will say this new Fifa feels like the old one already.

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If you want to find out more about the Panama Papers -

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and the reaction - have a look at our website.

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That's at bbc.co.uk/panamapapers for the very latest

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The Business Secretary Sajid Javid is on his way to Mumbai tonight

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to meet the chairman of the Tata Group, which is planning

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to sell its steel business in the UK, putting thousands of jobs

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Mr Javid has met one potential buyer today,

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and he's also held talks with union leaders about the future

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of Britain's biggest steel plant at Port Talbot in South Wales.

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Our Wales correspondent, Hywel Griffith, has the latest.

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Dominating this landscape for decades, Port Talbot's blast

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furnaces form what is known as the heavy end of

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So the idea that they could be taken down is unsettling.

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Mark and Kate both know their jobs are on the line, as Tata puts this

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place up for sale, but they aren't convinced different

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If they were to disappear from the skyline, then

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the heartbeat, the dragon's breath of Port Talbot, will be taken away.

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We will be looking for somebody to take on the business as it is.

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We can't reject any offers of interest.

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Liberty says it would want to replace these with electric arc

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furnaces that melt scrap steel instead of using raw ingredients.

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It says it is a greener, more flexible way of working.

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The company's clear this is where Port Talbot's problems are.

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Upstream is where the challenge lies.

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There is a solution, even though it's a challenging solution,

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and the solution is to change from making new steel

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Liberty does already have a small stake in steel making here.

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In 2013 it took over this plant in Newport,

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keeping workers on half pay for 18 months until

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Ricky says workers in Port Talbot have nothing to fear.

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You've got to take the lesser of the two evils.

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Hopefully, Port Talbot will come through.

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At the end of the day, it is all the steel industry.

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This place may be big, but it is nowhere near as vast

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And, vitally, Liberty would want to change the way

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So will any other buyer come forward?

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The Business Secretary says another company may be interested.

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I want to make sure that when this documentation for that is issued,

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that it is clear that the UK Government understands it's got

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a role to every potential buyer and that we are well

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For now, negotiations are producing more heat than light.

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Any buyer may need the Government to help on power costs

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and pensions liability, whilst staying within EU rules.

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Any deal is still a long way down the line.

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Two teenage girls have been convicted of murdering a vulnerable

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Leeds Crown Court heard that the girls, who were 13 and 14

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at the time of the attack, battered and tortured

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Angela Wrightson to death over a three-hour period.

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Our correspondent, Danny Savage, reports.

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Angela Wrightson was well liked in her local community.

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They knew she was an alcoholic and looked out for her.

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But her weakness was exploited by local children, who would get her

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And it was two vulnerable children who murdered this vulnerable woman.

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A horrific, prolonged attack, using household implements,

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A murder carried out by two girls aged 13 and 14.

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Throughout almost 25 years of service, I've never come

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across such a brutal murder committed by such young girls.

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Angela was subjected to a prolonged, sustained attack and the pathologist

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identified a significant number of injuries to her body,

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caused by at least 25 blows with weapons.

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The young killers even took selfies in the hours

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Their victim was still conscious at this point.

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The girls' identities have been obscured because of their age.

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The violence started here at nine o'clock in the evening.

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By ten o'clock, the house was trashed.

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At 11, the two killers left. But they returned a few hours later.

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Then, at 4.20 the next morning, they called police

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They were both in care and were used to officers

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In the back of the police van, they took more selfies

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"On the bizzie van again" - they wrote as a caption.

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Their crime has left people here disgusted.

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You can't imagine two young girls doing that to another human being.

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I went round her house a few times and just sat with her.

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Especially in the street where she lived, everybody

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knew her and everybody looked out for her because they knew

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The two killers of this woman wept as they were found guilty today,

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Groups campaigning for abortion to be made legal in Northern Ireland

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have criticised the prosecution of a woman who took drugs

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A judge at Belfast Crown Court handed down a three-month suspended

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From tomorrow, every bookmaker, casino, amusement arcade

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and bingo hall in England, Wales and Scotland will have

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to carry out a risk assessment to try to reduce the extent

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of gambling addiction, especially among children.

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The new regulations are meant to allow staff to identify problem

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gamblers, but some campaigners say it's unlikely to work,

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as our correspondent Dan Johnson reports.

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Despite the surge in online gambling, going down to the bookies,

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So it was ?4,100 in the space of, his job and his marriage.

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And I just sat down and I thought to myself, you know,

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And actually, I did contemplate, you know, doing myself in.

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This addiction just completely takes over your life.

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My son isn't having the upbringing that I would want for him.

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I think my wife has reached the limit of what she can take

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That hurts more than anything - that I can't provide for my child.

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So these assessments offer an extra layer of protection.

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It's another form to fill in, will it make a real difference?

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It will make a difference because it will get businesses to really focus

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It will also help local authorities, who are there to license those

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premises, understand what actions the operators are taking.

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Some areas have already gone further.

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In Manchester, this map combines all the risks, to show

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This is Cheetham Hill, where there are plenty of

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Bookmakers here, another one on the corner,

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And if you need access to quick cash, there's one, two, three,

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Just along here, another betting shop and the amusement arcade too.

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The map also shows schools, homeless hostels, and drug

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and alcohol treatment centres, all adding to the risk.

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So I've now taken the steps of getting myself banned from every

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But not before Tony had piled up debts across three countries.

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The risk assessments, would they have made any difference?

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Would they have stopped you losing that much money?

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I personally don't believe that they will make

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Bookmakers say they need support from the local council and police

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to make this work, but they welcome a further step

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In America, voters in the state of Wisconsin are choosing

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the candidates they'd like to see contesting the presidency

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Much of the attention has focused on the Republican contest,

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as Donald Trump now faces a strong challenge from Senator Ted Cruz.

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Our North America editor Jon Sopel is in Milwaukee.

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Some people are saying the Trump campaign is hitting the buffers. How

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do you see it? Well, it was all looking so good for Donald Trump,

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and this is exactly the fertile soil he has done so well on. A lot of

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blue collar workers, a lot of independents able to vote in the

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primary. A couple of weeks ago, he was well in front. Not any more. So

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yes, the wheels coming off? Not quite, but the wagon is skewing all

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over the road as he tries to put it back together. He has had a whole

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series of disasters in the past couple of weeks that have all come

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together, with people questioning Donald Trump's personality. He

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insulted Ted Cruz's wife, breeding a photo. His campaign manager has been

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indicted for manhandling a female reporter. And his controversial

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views on abortion managed to unite the pro-life and pro-choice people

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alike. All that has left Donald Trump looking very vulnerable. If he

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does lose, it is worth saying he will still be well out in front, but

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it's hard to see how he gets to the magic number 1237, a majority that

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automatically means he becomes the Republican nominee. If he doesn't do

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that, all bets are off, and it could be a bloody and the module is

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convention in July. -- a bloody convention in July. Thank you.

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Members of a criminal gang who stole Chinese antiques and other

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treasures from museums and galleries across Britain have been jailed

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The judge said the men had been engaged in a sophisticated,

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skilled conspiracy, which had involved significant cultural loss

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Our correspondent Robert Hall has more details.

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They were dubbed the Rathkeale Rovers, after the Irish town where

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Six of the key players were members of the same family.

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The gang's targets were collections of rhino horn and high-value

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Some of these people are experts at antiques in their own right,

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and they knew the value, and they knew that they could get

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hold of them and sell them with the network of people

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The men at the top, the planners, didn't take part in the actual

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break-ins, so mobile-phone tracking was crucial in establishing links

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with other gang members and putting callers in the right place,

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Two gang members who snatched a Ming dynasty vase at Durham's

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Oriental Museum were tackled before they could escape.

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In Norwich, another raid verging on incompetent.

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When four of the gang tried to steal a rhino head during opening hours,

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One of my staff kicked the man who was holding the head,

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The other member of staff immediately grabbed it

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A month later, gang members spotted a ?60,000 rhino horn cup

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But when their latest recruit strolled through the front door,

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they made for the wrong cup and they were grabbed by staff.

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Foiled again, the gang returned to Durham Oriental Museum,

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checking out the galleries, then smashing their way in.

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They hid ?2 million worth of Chinese artefacts in a hedge,

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but one of the burglars forgot where he put them,

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The gang were now desperate for success, and a new plan took

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them to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

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On a spring day in 2012, three gang members came into the museum.

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They took a particular interest in the Oriental galleries.

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Just before 7.30 the following evening, the alarms went off.

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In just a few minutes, the burglars grabbed 18 objects

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with a market value of ?40 million, which haven't been seen since.

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It's a sort of betrayal of trust, because these objects actually

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Their theft by a series of selfish individuals has changed that.

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One by one, the gang were arrested and charged.

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A criminal network that's thought to have operated across Europe

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has been closed down, but the treasures which belong to

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Football, and Glasgow Rangers have made sure tonight that

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they'll be returning to the Scottish Premiership

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next season, after they beat Dumbarton 1-0.

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It's four years since the club collapsed

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Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow.

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Yes, many years the footballing life of this city was dominated by the

:29:18.:29:24.

old firm rivalry between Rangers and Celtic. But of late, it's been

:29:25.:29:30.

pretty tough for the Ibrox side who were used to playing at the very

:29:31.:29:34.

highest level of football in Scotland. Now, after tonight, they

:29:35.:29:37.

are returning there once again. For four years, they've been

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out of the top flight It's been a very, very long journey,

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but we are here now. Fantastic to get back

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up where we belong. This is a club with

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an illustrious history. They clinched the Cup Winners' Cup

:29:53.:29:56.

in 1972, and have won more domestic titles than any other team

:29:57.:29:59.

anywhere in the world. Some of the biggest names

:30:00.:30:03.

in European football played for Rangers -

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amongst them, Paul Gascoigne. But after years of financial

:30:06.:30:09.

mismanagement, in 2012 the company that ran the club went

:30:10.:30:12.

into administration There were protests from the fans,

:30:13.:30:15.

as Rangers had to apply In the end, they were readmitted

:30:16.:30:20.

into the bottom division. They've been working their way

:30:21.:30:25.

back up ever since. It was a triumph against adversity

:30:26.:30:29.

for Rangers and their supporters. They were very loyal

:30:30.:30:32.

and they stayed with them. After the terrible acrimony that

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existed for four years in Scottish football,

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that's all behind us now. What we now will have is a more

:30:40.:30:41.

competitive league, because Rangers' presence alone

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will reenergise the top division. Off the field, there

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are ongoing court cases. But on the pitch tonight,

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a chance for celebrations, with the team and the fans

:30:54.:30:55.

relishing Rangers' return to the Scottish Premiership,

:30:56.:30:58.

where their Old Firm Tonight, increasingly loud calls

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to impose direct rule We'll ask Bermuda's deputy premier

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what he thinks of that. And the last UK minister to take

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powers away from an overseas territory tells us how

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he'd do it this time. Join me now on BBC Two,

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11.00pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's time

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for the news where you are.

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