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Labour claim they've "hung on" and there's triumph for the SNP

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elections across the UK. on politicians in

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The SNP have won a third term in Scotland though are just short

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The Conservatives celebrate unexpected success in Scotland ,

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Labour failed to make any headway in England,

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though it held onto most of its seats.

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We were getting predictions that Labour would lose councils, we

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didn't, we hung on and grew support in a lot of places.

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But in London, Labour's candidate looks certain

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to beat his conservative rival to become the capital's

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We'll be looking at the latest results across the UK ,

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and where they've left the political parties.

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The Government climbs down from its controversial plans

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to force all schools in England to become academies.

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Escaping the wildfires burning out of control in Canada -

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some flee in their cars, others have to be airlifted out.

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And voyage to the bottom of the sea - the new discoveries lighting up

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the deepest and darkest place on earth.

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And in Sportsday on BBC News, Andy Murray beets Tomas Berdych in the

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quarters of the Madrid Masters, to set up a semi-final with Rafael

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Nadal. It's been the biggest test

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of political opinion since the general election -

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and the national and local polls have delivered

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some surprising results. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

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said his party had "hung on" - but its share of the vote collapsed

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in its former heartland of Scotland - where the SNP won

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a third term in government though A resurgent Scottish Conservative

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party unexpectedly beat There's been better news

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for Labour in London - where the party's candidate

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Sadiq Khan defeated his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith -

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to become the capital's first muslim In the big test across England's

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councils there was little change. And while Labour has

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the most councillors, it wasn't enough to silence some

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MP's criticism of their leader. In Wales Labour remain in government

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- but the most notable change was for UKIP -

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which gained its first seats Our Political Editor,

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Laura Kuenssberg reports on a day that's raised big questions

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for all the parties. This report contains

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flash photography. The more things change,

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the more they stay the same. Nicola Sturgeon reigns

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still in Scotland. Tory divisions don't seem

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to trouble their vote too much and Labour clings on,

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maybe inching forwards. All across England last night

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we were getting predictions that We didn't, we hung on and we grew

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support in a lot of places. Because our party is standing up,

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standing up for the steel industry, standing up against the cuts

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in disability payments made by this government,

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standing up against the grotesque But it is almost impossible for him

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to win the country with this. Heartbreak as they were pushed

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to third in what was home. You will not have seen a Tory grin

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like this here for decades. I promise that I will serve

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to the very best of my ability, And the SNP with a touch fewer seats

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but very much in charge. We are the very first party

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in the era of devolution to poll more than 1 million

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votes in constituencies The result of the

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election was emphatic. The people of Scotland once again

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placed their trust in the SNP We won a clear and

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unequivocal mandate. For the

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Westminster government's moments but despite the Tories'

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splits and spats over Europe, Enough for the Prime Minister to be

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able to keep his bounce. Six years into government, of course

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we don't get everything right, of course we can make mistakes

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and sometimes things go wrong but I think people look at the big

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picture and they want us to go on delivering what we

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promised in our manifesto. But Labour dug in to keep

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all but one of its councils, In areas in the south and around

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England where they had feared But the challenge, as many party

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members and MPs know all too well, is that they have to show they can

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take back territory, But in London, Labour's Sadiq Khan

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is on his way to do just that, on track to snatch City Hall

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from the Conservatives' A big win for Labour but a powerful

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perch for a man who has avoided The Lib Dem leader rushed

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to his party's pockets of success. Even these baby steps

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are worth popping corks for. Last year we had a terrible result

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and the result of that outcome was that we had to roll

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up our sleeves and fight back and we have done that

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with that traditional Why not if you are Ukip

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with new seats in Wales They squeezed Labour and the Tories

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almost everywhere but their success Where Labour held on to power

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but suffered pain and surprise as the Welsh valleys fell

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to the Plaid Cymru leader. A new dawn is about

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to break in Wales. Here in the Rhondda a new dawn has

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already broken over the Valleys. There are layer upon layer

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upon layer of results but underneath all that at the core

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there was most pressure on Jeremy Labour has avoided a disaster

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and on one measure they are even ahead of the Conservatives but this

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is not a good set of If they are to have a real shot

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at returning to power, they need to be piling on hundreds

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and hundreds of seats It is not just Jeremy Corbyn's

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enemies who are warning the party Tonight one of his powerful

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union backers put him We are at the stage where we should

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be winning hundreds of seats but I don't think that's

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just about Corbyn. People will not vote for a divided

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Labour Party and those on the right or place them

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where you like who are pushing against Corbyn, they are not doing

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themselves a service and certainly not doing the party a service and,

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most importantly from the GMB union's perspective,

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they are not doing working It is about time they rallied behind

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Corbyn and let's give it We do nearly know that these boxes

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contain a Labour victory in London, an important victory for the party,

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but politics is not just about piling up votes

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where you know you can win, but persuading others

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where you don't yet dare. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News,

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Westminster. As we've seen it was a good night

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for the SNP in Scotland, with a third term as the largest

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party. They won 63 of 129 seats

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in the Hollyrood parliament just two short of an overall

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majority. The Conservatives are celebrating

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coming second with 31 a gain of 16 seats, far more

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than many had expected. Labour, for so long

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the dominant force in Scotland, were left in third place

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after they lost 13 seats. Our Scotland Editor, Sarah Smith,

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is at Holyrood for us now. Sarah, what's your assessment

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of the result? We learned something very important

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about Scottish politics last night, Fiona. That nearly two years after

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the referendum, it is still all about independence. The parties

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argued about tax, health, education but still, mostly, yes, voters voted

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for the SNP, returning them to government, and in very large

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numbers, no voters voted for the Tories, who campaigned to say that

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they were the true defenders of the union. It was the Tories that

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delivered a real shock to the political system.

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Good morning it is 6.00am it is Friday morning,

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welcome to a special election edition of Good Morning

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And Ruth Davidson Conservatives look to be the new

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official opposition in the Scottish Parliament.

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Scots awoke this morning to news many thought they would never hear -

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Labour, once so dominant, beaten into third place by the Tories.

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Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, barely mentioned in her

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campaign, that she is a Conservative, promising simply to

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stand up to the SNP and against a second

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I know that there are thousands who voted for me last night,

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who are not natural Conservative, and probably

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surprised that they considered voting Conservative, but they did as

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They wanted somebody to stand up to the SNP to say

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you cannot ignore our voice, you cannot ignore the

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decision we made as a country and try to drag us back to a second

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A working class kick-boxing, openly gay woman, always game for a

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She can talk to voters, other Conservatives,

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Scotland Street now has a Tory MSP for the first time.

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One of their remarkable gains across Scotland.

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A couple of days ago, Ruth Davidson, who won this constituency, told me

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she didn't think she had a chance of taking it.

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But the voters in

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Edinburgh Central, responded to a very effective campaign.

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I think Ruth Davidson went out in the last few months, campaigning,

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going for the fact that they could do a good opposition.

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Whoever set up that strategy hit the nail on the

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What could they say, do you think, to recover in Scotland?

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Oh, I don't know what happens with Labour.

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Traditionally, it used to be Labour everybody in Scotland.

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Traditionally, it used to be Labour everywhere in Scotland.

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It is just funny now that they just don't seem

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What can the Scottish Labour leader say about being bludgeoned into

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How do you explain Labour's losses last night?

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What we saw in Scotland last night was the

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referendum arguments of the past being re-run again.

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So strong support from the SNP from those that

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voted "yes" and the cities that voted "yes" and strong support for

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the Tories in the area that they dominantly know.

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I thought Scotland would be interested in moving on from the

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arguments of the past, that has not happened overnight.

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If Scottish voters don't move on, Labour will struggle to find a

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Whilst Nicola Sturgeon, SNP, increased the

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vote, denied an overall majority but ready to roll and still dreaming

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Labour have claimed victory in the London Mayoral election

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with Sadiq Khan looking certain to end eight years of Conservative

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He will be the capital's first Muslim mayor.

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Let's talk to our Deputy Political Editor, John Pienaar who's at City

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The official result isn't yet in but Sadiq Khan is set

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There has been a technical hold-up but no doubt, Sadiq Khan will be

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declared the Labour new Lord Mayor. Celebrating a personal victory,

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after a very personal and ugly campaign. Why? Well, Zac Goldsmith,

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backed up by David Cameron, has worked hard to accuse Sadiq Khan of

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sharing platform with Islamic extremists and the like. Even though

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there is no suggestion that Sadiq is an extremist himself. There has been

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a backlash. Condemned by Zac Goldsmith own

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sister, Jemima Khan and others. A significant win for Sadiq Khan and

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for Labour. Now to leave a rather bitter aftertaste.

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What does the win, to be confirmed, what does it mean for Labour? After

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the win is about to be confirmed in a couple of hours or so, well those

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Labour members, the ordinary card-carrying members, loyal to

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Jeremy Corbyn will stay that way. That means in Westminster among the

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MPs, the idea of a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership by the

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strong hardline dissidents is on hold. Two Labour MPs, senior one, I

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know were ready and willing to go for it, to declare themselves

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candidates in a leadership contest and a senior member of the shadow

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candidate, and Jeremy Corbyn has won extra time. There is a party planned

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for Sadiq Khan. Jeremy Corbyn has been invited. Maybe now with the

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victory, he is not so sensitive about who he is seen with. But the

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victory party is taking place in a secret location.

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Well in Wales, Labour is likely to continue governing

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on its own even though it fell just short of an overall majority

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Labour are on 29, Plaid Cymru on 12, the Conservatives 11.

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And for the first time Ukip won seven seats.

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Our Wales Correspondent Hywel Griffith is in Treorchy

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Hywel some comfort for Labour but Ukip are celebrating.

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Yes, Ukip have been called many things during the election campaign.

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Outsiders, insurgent, new kids on the block but now elected officials

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and all of the trappings that brings to give them a proper power base in

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Wales ahead of the EU referendum. Adding to the opposition against the

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biggest party here, Labour, who have come through, after a difficult

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night but face new challenges in the five years ahead.

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For a fifth term in a row, Labour is the National

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of the vote is down, rows in the party are

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I do wish sometimes that the politicians in London

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would remember there is an election in Wales and an election in Scotland

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and I have made my views clear as to what I thought of it.

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I don't think it affected the result, if I am honest with you,

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but certainly, on occasion, people were raising it with us,

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The results did bring a change in the landscape.

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In the Rhondda, a Labour heartland, Plaid Cymru

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Ukip, the party promising to break the cosy consensus

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of Welsh politics, now have Assembly members too.

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So why are voters changing their allegiance?

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The first time ever I voted Plaid Cymru.

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I've always been Labour, I just don't think they are doing

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As for Ukip, it is on everybody's lips, isn't it.

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One person out of a job is the Welsh Lib Dem leader,

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Kirstie Williams, who resigned after she became the party's only

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The shape of the opposition parties in Wales helps Labour.

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We have the opposition to Labour, the non-Labour parties spread,

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so whilst they make some challenges to Labour,

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they cannot capture those constituency seats.

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Labour must now decide how to negotiate the next five years

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In Northern Ireland the first results are beginning to come

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in though the final outcome isn't expected until tomorrow.

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Let's talk to our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler who's

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at a count in Belfast - what sense can you get of the way

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With over half the seat now filled at Stormont it is clear that today

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marks a good day for the DUP. Its leader, Arlene Foster, arrived a

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short while ago and she said she was elated by the scale of a victory for

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them and she will now be returned to Stormont as First Minister. It has

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also been pretty good for Sinn Fein although they have faced some

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challenges, not least in their traditional heartland of West

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Belfast where they lost a seat to the People Before Profit Alliance

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which actually topped the poll. But looking at the new Stormont, it is

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clear it will be dominated once again by the DUP and Sinn Fein at

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the expense of the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP. Thank you.

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Let's go back to our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg,

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What message do you think the voters are sending the political

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parties with these results, and where does it leave

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When the rosettes have been packed away and the balloons from the

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celebrations have shrivelled down, what are we left with? In a set of

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elections where not much power actually changed hands, there are

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still two dramatic lessons from Scotland in particular. For Labour,

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a very serious setback, worrying for the party around the UK not just

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because they need Labour vote if they have a hope of winning a

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general election but also because even though the campaign was not run

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by Jeremy Corbyn, it adopted the kind of ideas that are more

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comfortable to his kind of politics. The party tacked left and voters in

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Scotland roundly rejected it and that has got to be a concern for

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Labour across the UK. But also a lesson for the Conservatives, if

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they are willing to listen. Their freshfaced, modern, daredevil

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candidate Ruth Davidson pulled off something unachievable a few months

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ago in Scotland whereas in contrast, an old-fashioned, nasty campaign in

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London looks like it has actually lost city hall and that has been won

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by Labour instead and that is a lesson cover the contrast between

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the modern face of the Tory party and old-fashioned campaigning that

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some people in the party are already pointing to. Generally, the

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Conservatives slipped rather than fell away, they don't have much they

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think they need to panic about. But for the Labour Party, even though

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Jeremy Corbyn's team are pleased with the results, they feel the

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immediate threats to his leadership has abated. The fundamental anxiety

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in many parts of the party about him is still there and it is the same

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anxiety that was there from the date in which he won the election. Can he

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showed that he can reach out to voters in the middle, beyond the

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party's base, the members and those who would always vote for the party?

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He has not so far been able to answer that question and that is a

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significant concern that will not disappear in the weeks and months to

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come. A big health warning, these elections are intriguing and

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important but they don't translate directly into the next general

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election but nonetheless, they are important clues and signals about

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what might lie ahead for all of the political parties. Thank you.

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And there's lots more detail and analysis on our website,

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and details of the elections for Police and Crime Commissioners.

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The government has made a U-turn on its controversial plans to force

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all schools in England to become academies.

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After strong opposition from teaching unions,

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councils and Conservative MPs, the Education Secretary,

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Nicky Morgan, now says the proposal is only an "aspiration".

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It's the latest in a series of government policy climbdowns.

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Our Education Editor, Branwen Jeffreys, has the story.

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In the middle of the North Yorkshire moors, a village school

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Now just nine pupils, it feared being forced

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It was schools like this that galvanised a Tory revolt.

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Today, the Education Secretary gave way.

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Where schools are good and outstanding, they can make

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We are convinced that becoming academies does lift standards

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but they can do the right thing for them.

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So what does this academies climbdown mean?

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Good schools will not be forced to become academies,

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But schools will become academies in areas where councils

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And councils will have an equal say over the future of small,

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rural schools, so they can't close without local agreement.

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So I asked Nicky Morgan, how badly did they miscalculate?

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There is a huge appetite amongst parliamentary colleagues

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on the Conservative benches for schools to become academies...

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But not to be forced to become academies?

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We don't think it's necessary for there to be a blanket provision

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for schools to convert to become academies.

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You put forward the plans you defended them.

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Doesn't this undermine your own authority as Education Secretary?

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All government has to be about listening to Members

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of Parliament, as Secretary of State for Education, listening

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to the profession, listening to those working in education.

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George Osborne put these plans at the centre of his Budget.

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We are going to complete the task of setting schools free from local

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education bureaucracy and we are going to do it in this

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A flagship policy and a massive climbdown on a busy day

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This is a bad policy that nobody wanted and nobody needed.

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But there's no question, it is a major U-turn

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and a humiliating one for the government.

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But I'm pleased that schools can now concentrate

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The lesson for the government, don't take your own MPs for granted.

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They are behind the drastic rewriting of these draft plans.

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It allows for proper discussion, proper debate, it allows some

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of the problems to be found before you end up with legislation

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So I really welcome the process we have gone through,

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it helps to us get to the right place and the best

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Scratch the surface and the end result may still be many

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more academies but good schools will be coaxed,

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In Canada, some of the 90,000 people forced by raging wildfires to

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abandon an entire city in the province of Alberta are having to be

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evacuated again as they find themselves once more endangered by

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the flames burning out of control. Some have

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the flames burning out of control. journey in convoys of cars, others

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are having to be airlifted to safety. Our correspondent James Cook

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reports from Alberta. It is mid afternoon

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on a bright, sunny Tuesday. But darkness has descended

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on Fort McMurray and 80,000 people Those are burning embers flying

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through the air, and people further on are being chased

:24:32.:24:40.

by the monster fire. The view from inside the ruined

:24:41.:24:58.

city. Police say a handful of people may have stayed here and survived.

:24:59.:25:09.

Three days on, the fires are still raging out of control. Police say

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flames of the 200 feet high on both sides of the road have forced them

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to the -- suspend the convoy and they are also worried about the risk

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of an explosion at a nearby oil facility. With the amount of

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material there you are looking at about 814: to blast radius so it is

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a pretty substantial area. For some families, sheltering five hours to

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the south of unsure if their homes have survived, the wait is grim.

:25:36.:25:41.

Around 150 helicopters are still fighting this fire, the challenge

:25:42.:25:46.

for the pilots and more than 1000 firefighters on the ground is clear

:25:47.:25:50.

from the air. The extent of the fire is breathtaking. And the power of it

:25:51.:26:02.

is truly awesome. Just look at it. This is what the firefighters are

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having to deal with, this has just erupted in the last 20 minutes and

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has taken hold quickly and the flames are being fanned by Gary

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Strong winds. As if that wasn't bad enough, temperatures tomorrow are

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forecast to soar -- very strong winds.

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The BBC has learned that eight police forces -

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including Greater Manchester Police - are investigating election

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expenses for some Conservative MPs during last year's General Election.

:26:31.:26:33.

The allegations centre on hotel costs for party

:26:34.:26:36.

activists bussed in to help in marginal constituencies.

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Filing incorrect election expenses is a criminal offence.

:26:40.:26:44.

North Korea, one of the world's most secretive and authoritarian states,

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is holding a rare Workers Party Congress.

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The event - the country's most powerful political gathering

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involving more than 3000 delegates - hasn't been convened since 1980.

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Our correspondent John Sudworth is one of a group of

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foreign journalists - operating under heavy surveillance

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and control in Pyongyang - invited in to witness the occasion.

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It's the kind of welcome you would expect for the leader of the world's

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But Kim Jong-un is young and just four years into the job and he may

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not yet be totally secure in his position.

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TRANSLATION: In this year of the seventh Party Congress,

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the military and the people have accomplished great success

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in the first hydrogen bomb test and the launch

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But, away from the conference, our government minders have been

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keen to show off a different side of Pyongyang.

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Commerce, once a rare sight in this rigid socialist system,

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And here is something else they are keen to show off

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and something you don't normally associate with North Korea,

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a football training academy, the brainchild, we are told, of

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Our guides hope it shows a modern, dynamic, outward

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And yet it also highlights a massive problem.

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The development of the academy, like the rest of the economy,

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Some people would say that if North Korea stopped its nuclear

:28:33.:28:40.

programme and its nuclear ambitions, the sanctions would be lifted.

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A wolf is just looking at you, in front of you.

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He wants to eat you, with nuclear weapons.

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Do I have to put down the gun and wait with nothing in my hand

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There may be hints of economic reform but in North Korea everything

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The real purpose of this Workers Party Congress

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is consolidating this man's hold on power.

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John Sudworth, BBC News, Pyongyang.

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It's the deepest place on Earth, around seven miles beneath

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Now scientists from America's oceans research agency are getting a rare

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glimpse of just what inhabits the depths of the Mariana Trench.

:29:25.:29:30.

And the video taken by remote submersibles is being broadcast live

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Our Science Editor, David Shukman, has been taking a look.

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An alien world being explored right now by a robot submarine.

:29:39.:29:45.

One of the strangest and most spectacular sights,

:29:46.:29:49.

a luminous jellyfish, pulsing its way through

:29:50.:29:52.

the Mariana Trench, the darkest, deepest waters anywhere

:29:53.:29:53.

Scientists up on the surface are amazed.

:29:54.:30:00.

A sea cucumber, luridly coloured, twisting in light it

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An image that wasn't only filmed but was also relayed live.

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The revelations can be watched by anyone with access

:30:16.:30:17.

It's part of a new age of exploration with marine

:30:18.:30:22.

researchers onboard the expedition ship sharing their discoveries

:30:23.:30:24.

The deep sea, it really is a place of wonder and beauty.

:30:25.:30:34.

And quite often, yes, we will have the chance to go

:30:35.:30:37.

through and make sense of it as scientists later.

:30:38.:30:39.

But the colours, the delicate life forms down there,

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it's just astounding, the intricate wonders

:30:43.:30:43.

But some of the discoveries are depressing.

:30:44.:30:54.

There is litter even in the abyss, rubbish that has drifted down

:30:55.:30:57.

through several miles to the ocean floor.

:30:58.:31:00.

It's a new threat to the creatures here.

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They have already had to adapt to the extremes of pressure.

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This is what is known as a ghost shark.

:31:07.:31:11.

It's always said that we know more about the moon

:31:12.:31:13.

This expedition and others that will follow are changing that.

:31:14.:31:22.

That's all from us,now on BBC1, its time for the news where you are.

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