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At least 120 people have been killed by a powerful earthquake in central

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Italy but it's feared many more are missing.

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In some villages rescuers are having to dig out survivors with their bare

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hands after homes collapsed while people were sleeping.

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In just 20 seconds last night, when people were sleeping,

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the village was completely flattened by the earthquake.

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Looking at where the buildings have fallen down this hillside,

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it is hard to believe that anyone can still survive under there.

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We'll be talking to our correspondent in one of the worst

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hit towns as rescuers continue to search for survivors buried

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Turkish tanks roll over the border into Syria,

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pushing back Islamic State militants in their first major

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Three men die after getting into difficulties in the sea

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at Camber Sands in East Sussex on the hottest day of the year.

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Space scientists discover a planet just outside our solar system.

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It may host life and could be reached by future space missions.

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And the world's largest aircraft crash lands in Bedfordshire

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Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Joe Hart has started

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Manchester City's Champions League qualifying match against

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Steaua Bucharest tonight but could it be his last match

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At least 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck

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central Italy in the early hours of this morning.

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But many more people are still missing and the death toll

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Rescue teams have been searching for survivors

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Tonight a 10-year-old girl was one of the latest

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The earthquake's epicentre was near the town of Norcia in Umbria.

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The tremor was strong enough to be felt up and down Italy.

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Among the worst hit places is Amatrice - known as one

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Locals say it was full of visitors - many of them young -

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who'd come to the town for its annual festival this weekend.

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Our correspondent James Reynolds has sent this report from Amatrice.

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Deep in the Apennine mountains, a piece of Italy has been destroyed.

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The residents of Amatrice, a hilltop town about to

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celebrate a summer festival, were hit while they slept.

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Through piles of rubble, rescue workers trying

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We have made it to the centre of Amatrice.

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There is a rescue going on in the rubble there.

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You can see they are bringing out someone on a stretcher.

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It looks like she is, which will be a huge relief

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The woman is being escorted down to an ambulance.

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We also saw rescuers carry away a number of dead bodies,

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Many survivors were barely able to talk.

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It is hard to comprehend how your town can fall

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TRANSLATION: There is nothing left standing, I am so sorry for so many

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I am so sorry, I hope they are safe.

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The village of Accumoli was also hit.

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An official talks to a woman who is trapped.

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"Stay calm," he tells her, "we will come to get you."

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In Amatrice, Sister Marianna said she was pulled

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Some of her fellow sisters are still trapped inside.

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When I realised what happened, I tried to hide myself

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Then I went outside to ask for help, but no-one heard me.

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This region is vulnerable to earthquakes.

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From above, the devastation of Amatrice is clear.

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It is too dangerous to take them inside the damaged hospital.

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Tonight, rescuers continue to claw away at the broken buildings

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They promised to keep looking until they find all those

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Rescue workers have used helicopters to pluck survivors to safety

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from some of the more isolated villages in the area which have been

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In one village - Pescara del Tronto -

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all the houses have collapsed - the village no longer exists.

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Our correspondent Damian Grammaticas managed to get there

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Pescara del Tronto, razed to the ground

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Perched on a mountain ridge, it had been built up

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high hundreds of years ago, for safety.

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When the earthquake struck, the houses of ancient stone and wood

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As rescue teams poured into the area today,

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Under all that rubble, the sniffer dogs found

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But no earth-moving equipment could make it up here.

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He had come with his friends from a local rugby team.

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He lives down the valley and was woken by the tremors.

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I see my mother screaming and my father the same.

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After two minutes, me and my family went out of the house and went

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Like all the people in the city, we went in the big park in the city,

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As they searched the ruins of Pescara del Tronto,

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The building went down during our work.

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Confusing things further, Pescara del Tronto is

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People come in the summer, a refuge from the heat, so nobody

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This is the third body we have seen being brought out from this spot

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What the rescue teams hope is they will find people alive,

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but looking at where the buildings have fallen down this hillside,

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it is hard to believe that anyone can still survive under there.

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Back at the digging, as they got closer, they realised

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it was not a survivor, but somebody's pet trapped here.

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Eventually, they prised the dog free.

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The final toll in this one village, maybe 20 people dead, maybe more.

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But the truth is today Pescara del Tronto, population 100,

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Today's earthquake isn't the first to hit the region.

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Italy has, for decades, been prone to similar

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It's vulnerable because of the collision between the African

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and Eurasian tectonic plates which are pushing into each other.

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That process is ongoing, the plates continue to move

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The sea, which lies to the west of the country, is opening

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up and that's pulling apart the Apennines -

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the belt of mountains that runs down through central Italy.

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300 people died in an earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009.

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In 1908, it is thought as many as 70,000 were killed when a 7.2

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magnitude tremor flattened Messina in Sicily.

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And today it was Amatrice, this is what the main street looked

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This is what it looks like now, much of it flattened in just seconds

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Damian Gramatticas is in Amatrice now.

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Are they still hopeful they could find survivors beneath all this

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rubble? They are and they're still trying all the way through the night

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here. Now in James' report you heard the story of a nun who was rescued.

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This was the convent where she was and where she was pulled out from.

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There were other people in here, and all this evening they're working

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here because the sniffer dogs went in earlier. They thought they

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detected someone inside. So the rescue teams are trying to make the

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building safe so they can work through it to go in and find

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someone. Of course, spirits were raised by the news earlier in the

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village down the valley where we were, Pescara, when that

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ten-year-old girl was pulled out alive. That was a couple of hours

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ago. That I think gives hope. But what makes it all so difficult is

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that it's a string of these historic hill-top towns, these beautiful

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villages with old stone buildings along the crests of the ridges that

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have been affected and it's really hard for them to get the teams up

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here and the earth-moving equipment to get in to dig people out. That

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will continue, but it's very, very difficult work. Thank you.

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Turkish tanks and special forces have rolled across

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the border into Syria - their first major incursion -

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supported by airstrikes from Turkish and American jets.

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They went in to drive so-called Islamic state out

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of the border town of Jarabulus and surrounding villages.

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By this afternoon the Turkish authorities were reporting

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Our correspondent Mark Lowen has this report from Gaziantep.

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Turkish and coalition jets hit Jarablus, held by so-called Islamic

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State, before tanks move in for the ground offensive.

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Hundreds of Syrian rebel fighters went with them.

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Within hours they had entered the key town, liberating it from

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A journalist who was quick to Jarablus before

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the offensive began said that

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the militants were completely overpowered.

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There was intense shelling that forced IS back, he said.

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The Turkish offensive had two aims, to push IS back from the border

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and stop Syrian Kurdish fighters advancing to Jarablus and

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Turkey sees them as a threat, encouraging Turkish

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The diplomatic timing was handy, coinciding to a visit to

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Ankara by the American vice president.

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Turkey has gone from a reluctant partner to coordinating

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In return Joe Biden ordered the Kurds, a US partner on

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They must move back across the river, they

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cannot, will not, and under no circumstances get American support,

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This appears to have been a swift operation meeting

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limited resistance and Turkey has achieved its two goals of ousting IS

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militants from Jarablus and getting coalition support to push the

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Turkey's biggest intervention in Syria since

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the war began will be seen here as a significant success.

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Nearby we met Abdul, he and his family fled here

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It is like we have been pulled out of a well, he says,

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houses have been destroyed and innocent people slaughtered, thank

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God we got rid of them, I'm so happy.

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Would you think of going home to Jarablus now?

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God willing, he tells me, beating IS will be long

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But this will give renewed hope of progress.

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Jeremy bow been is here. How much more is this being to complicate the

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situation? Over the years it's become very complicated. Things are

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changing a little at the moment which I suppose increases that. Now

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one way of looking at Syria is to regard it as, in effect, a mini

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world war. You can see we have a list of some of the countries

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involved there. Those on the pro-Assad side and the anti. Some of

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the world's biggest powers, that's why I use the phrased a vicedly,

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mini world war, but there's been some softening of late with Turkey

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making up after a big row with the Russians and that's something -

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they're not going to leave the Western camp, but it does give them

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quite a bit of leverage. People are now wondering could President

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Erdogan of Turkey perhaps do deals with even with President Assad? This

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isn't the kind of war where my enemy's enemy is automatically my

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friend. That would mean him perhaps dumping Sunni groups he has been

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supporting. That's unlikely. People are talking about it. But his main

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concern is the Kurds, not Islamic State and not the jihadists of

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Islamic State. He sees the Kurds as the biggest threat to Turkey. I

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don't think it's impossible he might want to make local deals that

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benefit Ankara and Istanbul and keep the Kurds bottled up a bit. Now for

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the Turks this operation, apart from IS, is about securing territory that

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the Kurds might have taken over and Erdogan says they need to go back

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east and the Americans perhaps worried about that new leverage as a

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result of the relationship with Russia, are backing them with all of

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that. Now would this war survive the defeat of Islamic State? Would it

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the war keep on going? I think it might because you can see there

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these are some of the conflicts going on. There is that Islamic

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State conflict. There is a wider sectarian conflict going on with

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Shia and Sunni which affects a lot of what's happening. Kurdish

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nationalists are in play. And various armed militias, regularly

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fall out with each other and trade bullets, as well. So, it's a

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difficult dangerous complicated situation. And one more tiny thing

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that's come up potentially very important, a joint investigation by

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the UN and the global chemical watchdog has found the Syrian

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Government troops have been using chemical weapons again, two toxic

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gas aattacks and that's something which clearly we will hear more

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about. Thank you. Five people have died

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after being pulled from the sea Emergency services and people

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on the beach tried to save them after they got into difficulties

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on one of the hottest The lifeguard has confirmed two more

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parties have been recovered and another person is missing.

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12 people have now died in the seas around the UK in less than a week.

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Helicopters, lifeboats and beach-rescue teams all took

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It was just after 2pm, they were called amid reports

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of a number of people in need of medical attention.

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A short time later, the three men were pulled from the water.

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It is not the nicest thing to see, somebody die in front of you,

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Sussex Police say it is not yet known if the men knew each other

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or whether this was one, two or three incidents.

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We are working with a number of agencies, the Council,

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the RNLI, Coast Guard, with the beach patrol.

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We have dedicated officers on the beach through the summer.

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After the incidents, police travelled up and down

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the beach with loud-hailers to clear the water.

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It has been the hottest day of the year so far.

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Last month, Gustavo Silva Da Cruz, a 19-year-old Brazilian

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man, died after getting into trouble in the sea here.

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The local council says incidents like this are extremely rare,

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that there are beach patrols to warn people of the dangers.

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Confirmation tonight that two more bodies have been recovered from the

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water tonight, making a total of five. It is not clear if they are

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male or female. A lot of emergency services activity tonight, including

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a search of the beach and a helicopter in the sky, amid reports

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of one more person missing. It has been one of the most tragic

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coastlines here for the past year or so, nothing seemed like this in many

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years, this by far the most serious incident of a summer of incidents

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and tragedies that the emergency services will be investigating.

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A British woman has been stabbed to death at a backpackers'

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21-year-old Mia Ayliffe-Chung was from Derbyshire.

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A British man was severely injured in the attack and is in

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Police say the suspect, who's from France, shouted

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in Arabic, but that they're not treating it as a terror attack.

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An elderly man has been sentenced to six years in a psychiatric

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hospital for shooting dead his wife, who suffered from dementia.

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Ronald King, who is 87, had been staying at a care home

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in Essex with his wife Rita last Christmas when he opened fire.

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The court heard that he also has dementia.

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A serving member of the British armed forces has been arrested

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on suspicion of terrorism linked to Northern Ireland.

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Ciaran Maxwell of the Royal Marines was held in Somerset today,

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and police said a house in South Devon and a wooded area

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In Northern Ireland, police have also been searching

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This investigation is taking place on both sides of the Irish Sea,

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connected to the discovery of weapons he earlier this year, which

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detectives have linked to does Republican paramilitaries, and they

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say those fines was a difficult. Among the weapons they discovered

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were and armour piercing improvised rocket and two antipersonnel mines.

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The man being questioned is Ciaran Maxwell, from the town, but he is

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serving with the Royal Marines in the West Country. Since his arrest

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today in Somerset, there have been a series of searches taking place

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appear at is to' homes as homes as well as in South Devon, where they

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have searched a house and wooded area. The MoD say they are aware

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that a serving member has been arrested, he is being questioned on

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suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism.

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Scientists say they've discovered a new planet just outside our solar

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system which is slightly larger than Earth and could harbour life.

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They've named it Proxima b, and at just four light years away,

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it's relatively close to us, which means it could be reached

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The research is published in the journal Nature.

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In the dazzling beauty of the skies above Chile,

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telescopes have focused on the pinprick of light coming

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They have found an alien world orbiting around it.

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Nobody has seen it directly, but researchers know

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it is there because of tiny movements in the star.

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It is a huge moment in the exploration of space.

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It is the nearest planet that potentially can have life

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and can be in a sense similar to our own planet.

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There are hundreds of planets being discovered every month,

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but this is a special one, the nearest one.

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It happens once, it will not happen again.

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It is hard to grasp distance in space and where this planet is,

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so let's begin with the moon, 239,000 miles from us.

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We go beyond the solar system to the next-nearest star,

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That is where a planet has been discovered orbiting around it.

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The reason scientists are excited, this alien world is the closest

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there is outside our own solar system.

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It is slightly larger than Earth, and although its star is cooler

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than the Sun, the planet is in just the right zone for liquid water

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That means in theory it could support life.

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Telescopes around the world will now be deployed to find out more.

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This changes, I think, our perception of how many habitable

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It means the prospects for alien life elsewhere in the galaxy look

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a lot more rosy than they did last week.

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Reaching the planet with the spacecraft we have

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now would take tens of thousands of years.

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There is a plan backed by Stephen Hawking for far-more-rapid

:22:45.:22:47.

forms of space travel, and that project now has

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In the meantime, it will be astronomers who hunt

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for clues about our nearest neighbour in deep space.

:22:56.:23:02.

Pictures have emerged of French police appearing to force a Muslim

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woman to remove her clothes on a beach in Nice.

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The images are fuelling an ongoing debate about a controversial ban

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in parts of France on full-body swimsuits, called burkinis.

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Critics have said it's a means of stigmatising Muslims.

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The highest court in France is due to begin considering

:23:20.:23:22.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been defending himself

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after Virgin Trains challenged his claim that he had to sit

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on the floor because he couldn't find a seat on a service

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Yesterday, Virgin released CCTV footage which appeared

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Today Mr Corbyn said he'd been looking for two seats

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He claimed it was a ram-packed train, after walking

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through a carriage of apparently-empty seats.

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Why did Jeremy Corbyn not sit down after first boarding the 11am

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Today, at the launch of his NHS policy, unwanted questions

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I am aware we live in a free country, I am proud to.

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To his obvious irritation, he was quizzed about his

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Yes, I walked through the train, I looked for two empty seats

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together, so I could sit with my wife.

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Jeremy Corbyn was filmed sitting on the train floor because his team

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said there were no unreserved seats free.

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Now he says the problem was he could not find two together,

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After 45 minutes, his party were seated by train staff.

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Today, his campaign manager insisted they had played it straight.

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He is a man of principle and integrity.

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As he conceded, he could have had a seat on that train if he had

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If there had been seats available, he would have sat in those seats.

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He did not think there were any available.

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The crew apologised for the fact there were no seats.

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On today's departure from King's Cross to Newcastle,

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there were plenty of unreserved seats free, and some support

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I am on the service all the time, there are many times

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I have been on the return journey, but never in the day.

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It is ridiculous how it has become such a massive thing,

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there are so many bigger things going on.

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But his leadership rival was keen to stir the row.

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What is clear from the footage I have seen is that he had

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a seat on the train, and there were seats,

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and he chose to sit on the floor for the purposes of the video.

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This may have caused Jeremy Corbyn some discomfort, but a bust up

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with a private train company may well fire up his supporters.

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New figures show that Scotland's deficit was almost ?15 billion

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That's half a billion higher than the previous year.

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These figures show the very dramatic effect the fall in the oil price has

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In the year 2014-15, the tax raised from offshore oil

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and gas industries was worth ?1.8 billion to the Exchequer.

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Last year, it contributed just ?60 million.

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That's a fall of 97% in the revenue received from the North Sea.

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That loss was offset by a rise in other earnings,

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but it still leaves Scotland spending more public money

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The Scottish economy has a notional deficit of ?14.8 billion.

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That is pretty high, as it is 9.5% of Scottish GDP.

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By comparison, the deficit for the UK as whole

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This doesn't mean that the Scottish Government has to start slashing

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Their budget is not determined by how much tax

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But it does allow their political opponents to point to these figures

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and say they show how Scotland benefits economically

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from being part of the UK, and that if Scotland were to become

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independent, it would be struggling with a large,

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That matters because First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is currently

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considering whether to call a second referendum on Scottish independence.

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Today she says the biggest risk to the Scottish economy is not

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She has produced some additional statistics that she says show that

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Brexit could cost the Scottish economy up to ?11 billion a year.

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Almost 20 years after new grammar schools in England were banned,

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the Government is said to be considering allowing more

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At the moment there are just over 160 state-funded grammar schools,

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in which pupils get a place after passing an academic test.

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For the second in our series of big decisions facing Theresa May, our

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Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys reports from Lincolnshire,

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one of three counties that's kept a grammar system.

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Sunshine and sand in Skegness, but I've come to Lincolnshire

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These are the families Theresa May wants to reach,

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working to give their children the best they can manage.

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Skegness Grammar School is 600 years old.

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For Jo, who does accounts, and Andy, who runs a welding business, grammar

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There are some schools where children are there

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And they're sat at the back of the classroom looking around

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and for those that want to get on, that's off-putting.

:28:56.:28:57.

So, I think some sort of segregation, and if it's

:28:58.:29:02.

There is more discipline, it is stricter, but I don't see that

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as a bad thing and it does give the opportunity for other

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England isn't going back to the system where every

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11-year-old sat a test to decide if they got into a school like this.

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But more selection is back on the cards.

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Grammar schools can provide a great education for those that

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get a place, but poor, bright children are less likely

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Grammar schools only take the minority that pass their test.

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Most end up in a school like the one run by Ian Widdows 15 miles

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We offer the Duke of Edinburgh Awards for all our students,

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He is proud to call it a secondary modern, the old name for schools

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that take pupils rejected by grammars.

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Without some of the middle-class kids, some of the brightest kids,

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They're likely to have more students from a deprived background.

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They'll have students arriving already feeling like failures

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because they failed the 11-Plus and they may find it more difficult

:30:07.:30:10.

to recruit some of the better teachers and the more

:30:11.:30:13.

Grass-roots politics matter too after the Brexit vote.

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Here, Tory councillors fought plans to force good schools

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Lincolnshire gets less money than inner cities for its schools.

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So how do the priorities look from here?

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The first priority has to be funding.

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We have to get our schools funded the same as everybody

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And last, bottom of the list, would be academies.

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My journey's end, up the coast in Grimsby.

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No grammars here, but some struggling schools.

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Money is going into areas like this across the north to help drive up

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But many of the people involved in that work aren't convinced that

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grammar schools are the answer, and privately some have even told me

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Grimsby wants to better itself, and that's what grammar schools

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It's that belief in opportunity the Government wants to reach.

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The world's largest aircraft has crash-landed during its second test

:31:24.:31:26.

Airlander 10 is part-plane, part-helicopter and part-airship.

:31:27.:31:32.

It was damaged at its base at Cardington Airfield this morning.

:31:33.:31:34.

The world's largest aircraft takes a long time to crash.

:31:35.:31:44.

The pilot cannot stop it nosediving into the ground.

:31:45.:31:51.

The cockpit, with the crew upfront, is clearly smashed up.

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If there is somebody shaking less than me...

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For Angela, who shot this footage, it was frightening to watch.

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It was awful, you don't know if the people have come out alive,

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I shook when I held the camera, trying to get the pictures.

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I said, "If anybody can hold it steady, they are welcome to."

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Eyewitnesses told me they saw sparks coming from the mooring rope

:32:17.:32:26.

after it hit something, but I understand that is not

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There was no chance of a fireball because the Airliner is full

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of inert helium gas, not the explosive hydrogen gas

:32:35.:32:39.

of the famous old airships like the Hindenburg.

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This accident is an embarrassing setback on just its

:32:43.:32:45.

But the company says it should fly again soon.

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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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