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Rupert Murdoch says he is "totally committed" to his ownership of The

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Sun newspaper after more of its staff are arrested.

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Detectives detained five senior journalists along with a civil

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servant, a police officer and a member of the armed forces.

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Protests in Greece as the Prime Minister warns of "catastrophe" if

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an austerity plan is rejected by parliament this weekend.

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On the campaign trail with Aung San Suu Kyi, a test of Burma's

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democratic reforms. And no handshake, no reconciliation

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for Luis Suarez and Patrice Evra in Good evening.

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Rupert Murdoch has spoken of his "total commitment" to continue

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publishing The Sun newspaper following the arrest of another

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five of its journalists by detectives investigating

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allegations of corrupt payments to the police. Among those detained

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were the paper's deputy editor and its chief reporter. And for the

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first time in the investigation, a member of the armed forces and a

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civil servant have been arrested. In one fell swoop the police

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arrested five of the most senior journalists at The Sun newspaper.

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Among them with John Kay, a Fleet Street legend who worked at the sun

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for nearly 40 years. And deputy editor, Geoff Webster, chief

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foreign correspondent, Nick Parker and another reporter, John Sturgis.

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The fifth was John Edwards, seen here giving evidence at the Leveson

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Inquiry into press standards last month. They were arrested by

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detectives investigating allegations of illegal payments to

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the police. As last year, when the former Sun

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and News of the World editor, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson,

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and former Downing Street head of communications. A fortnight ago,

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four other Sun journalists were detained as part of the same

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Operation Elveden. The Sun's editor, Dominic Mohan,

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had no comment for the cameras, but released a statement saying, "I am

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as shocked as anyone by today's arrests, but I am determined to

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lead The Sun through through these difficult times. Our focus is

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putting out Monday's newspaper." Last month, he told the Leveson

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Inquiry how practises at his newspaper changed in the 16 years

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he worked there. There has been great strides in

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privacy law and other considerations like the Bribery Act.

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I always felt the newspaper is a living, breathing organism that

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evolves and actually I think that I've seen mistakes made over the

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years and I have learned from those mistakes.

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For months, detectives have been trawling through 300 million News

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Corporation e-mails. They were They were acting today today on

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information from the company's management udepartment.

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There has been a widening of the police investigation.

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This is the biggest crisis The Sun faced since Rupert Murdoch took it

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over and re-launched it in 1969. You have never seen a situation

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like this before, a daily newspaper, ten journalists now arrested and

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senior journalists aarrested. -- arrested.

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The police are looking at other public bodies. Journalists at The

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Sun are furious and feel betrayed. Rupert Murdoch has assured its

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staff it will not close and like its sister paper, the -- unlike its

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sister newspaper, the News of the World.

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Matt Prodger is at News International's headquarters in

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Wapping. What sense are you getting that the journalists are feeling?

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feeling of anger. That anger is not only directed at the police

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investigation, but the management Standards Committee which has been

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helping the police with their investigations. One member of staff

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that I spoke to this evening said that there was a feeling among Sun

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journalists that they were being hung out to dry and some of the

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practises being investigated by the police were industry wide. Now, of

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the eight people who were arrested, all of them have been bailed to

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return at a later date this evening and we heard there about Rupert

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Murdoch signalling his commitment to the newspaper. It will not close,

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The Sun will not close. A memo was sent to staff within hours of the

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announcement of the arrests this morning saying there was this

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continuing commitment to the newspaper, unlike the situation

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with the News of the World. The Greek Prime Minister has said

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his country faces "uncontrolled economic chaos" and a "social

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explosion" if it fails to accept the EU's latest austerity plan.

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Lucas Papademos was appealing to MPs to support the cuts in a key

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vote tomorrow, following the resignation of six members of his

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governing coalition. Mark Lowen Once again they converged on the

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centre of Athens, several thousand strong, voicing their fury at a

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fresh barrage of austerity. A package of cuts that the Cabinet

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has now approved to secure the bail out money Greece needs to avoid a

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disastrous default next month. Tomorrow, Parliament will vote on

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the measures. Greece's hour of reckoning is drawing near, but the

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public mood is darkening as tempers flair.

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TRANSLATION: We have come here because all this must stop. I think

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we can stop the politicians. We can overthrow them so the Bill won't

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pass. We don't want their loans or their money or their debt, they

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can't afford it. Those MPs who are in Parliament,

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all 300 of them, should resign. They are traiters. The survival of

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the euro could be determined by what happens in this building

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tomorrow evening. If the austerity package is thrown out, Greece would

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go bankrupt and might be forced to leave the euro and the whole

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European project could unravel. The stakes could not be higher. The

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Prime Minister made a televised address to win over a hostile

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nation, warning of the of the consequences of failure.

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TRANSLATION: This agreement will decide the country's future. We are

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just a breath away from Ground Zero. Living standards would collapse and

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it would lead sooner or later to an exit from the euro.

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It is a hard argument to sell to those worried that that they are in

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the firing line of the new cuts. This man has been a teacher for 30

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years, but believes he might be one of the 15,000 civil servants set to

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be laid off. We can't plan anything because we

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don't know if tomorrow we will have work. If they throw us away, it is

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impossible to find a new job. We will not have a pension. We can't

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live after this. So this is a big fear for us.

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That fear of the future is something new here. The Greece that

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people once cherished is changing fast and time is short to pull this

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country back from the financial Syria's official news agency says

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gunmen have killed a senior army officer in the capital, Damascus.

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It said three men opened fire on the brigadier general as he left

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his home and blamed the attack on what it called "armed terrorists".

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Government tanks and artillery have continued their bombardment of

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parts of the city of Homs where hundreds of rebel fighters are

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believed to be entrenched. A man has been arrested in Poland

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in connection with the death of a man in Edinburgh last month. The

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body of Maciej Ciania was found at his flat in the city. A 25-year-old

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man, who hasn't been named, was detained under a European Arrest

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Warrant and will be brought before Crowds of people have turned out to

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greet Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, as she took to

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the campaign trail for the first time in the suburb of Rangoon where

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she's standing for parliament. It's the latest test of the reforms

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brought in by Burma's new government which took power last

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year after decades of military rule. Rachel Harvey travelled with Aung

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San Suu Kyi and has sent this Early morning on the road from

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Rangoon. Already the crowds are gathering.

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Packed like sardines into any available vehicle, ready to join

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the chaotic campaign convoy. All to catch a glimpse of Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Icon of Burma's long struggle for democracy and now for the the first

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time a candidate for Parliament. hope and believe she can create our

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democratic country and future. Aung San Suu Kyi has never run in

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an election before. She was under house arrest when her party won a

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landslide victory in 1990. The military ignored the result,

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embarringing on -- embarking on two decades of oppression and

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mismanagement. The new semi civilian Government has taken over.

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There is fresh hope on these faces and much of it rests on the

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shoulders of this one woman. There is so many people here who have

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been queuing for hours just for this moment. There have been times

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when Aung San Suu Kyi looked a little bit concerned about people

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getting in front of the car. Everyone is so keen to get close to

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her. We drove deeper into the

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countryside, development here is still a distant dream.

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But in a dusty field, on a hot Saturday afternoon, these people

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were offered a promise afbrighter future. Aung San Suu Kyi talked of

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creating jobs and improving lives. How much will she really be able to

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deliver? A handful of by-elections will not alter the balance of power

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in Burma, but had is seen as a key test of the Government's reformist

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Now with all the day's sport news, Celina Hinchcliffe.

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We're going to start with the day's football so if you don't want to

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know any of the details before Match Of The Day which follows us

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on BBC One now is the time to press mute and look away! And quite a day

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it was, Manchester United's manager, Sir Alex Ferguson described the

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Liverpool striker, Luis Suarez, as a "disgrace" after the striker

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refused to shake hands with United's Patrice Evra. Suarez was

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playing his first game against United since serving an eight-match

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ban for racially abusing Evra. Andy Swiss was at Old Trafford. We

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thought it was all over, it isn't now. For Patrice Evra and Luis

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Suarez, this was meant to be a chance to shake hands and move on.

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Instead this. Evra had to be restained after Luis Suarez's

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apparent snub. Instead of reckon sill jation, mow -- reconciliation,

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more rankor. His manager urging for calm. It didn't work. The players

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clashed at half-time and it continued down the tunnel where

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police had to intervene. A football match did break out,

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Manchester United winning it 2-1, but Evra's gleeful celebrations

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prompted another fracas. Luis Suarez tweeted he was disappointed

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because in his words "everything is not that it seems." By then he

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incensed Manchester United. They should get it on. The history

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that club has got and he does that and in an atmosphere like today and

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all the build-up to the game, all the profile on the match and he

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does that. It is a disgrace to that football club.

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There were issues outside the ground too. Police seized magazines

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containing potentially offensive masks and arrested one fan over an

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offensive T-shirt. Headlines will be dominated by Luis

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Suarez. One of sport's sagas What a week for Harry Redknapp.

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Cleared of tax evasion, made favourite for the England manager's

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job. Tonight his Tottenham side beat Newcastle 5-0 at White Hart

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Lane. New signing Louis Saha scored twice in his first start.

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Elsewhere an important three points for Blackburn as they won 3-2

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against QPR. Similarly for bottom side Wigan who won 2-1 at second

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from bottom Bolton. Everton's 2-0 win against Chelsea heaps the

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pressure on Andre Villas Boas. Fulham beat Stoke. Thierry Henry

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bid another farewell to the Premier League scoring Arsenal's winner

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against Sunderland, and Norwich got the better of five goals away at

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Swansea. In Scotland, Rangers temporarily

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narrowed the gap on the leaders Celtic. They won 4-1 away at

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Dunfermline in the day's early kick-off. Sone Aluko got the pick

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of the goals. David Healy, Lee McCulloch and Salim Kerkar got the

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other goals as Rangers moved to within a point of their old firm

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rivals. But that didn't last long. Celtic's 1-0 win over Inverness

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courtesy of Joe Ledley's goal restored the four point gap at the

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top. Dundee United perhaps got the result of the day with their 5-1

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away win at St Johnstone. For the first time in 25 years, a

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Six Nations match was postponed this evening, France against

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Ireland, because of a frozen pitch. Earlier England were given a scare

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by Italy in Rome but eventually triumphed by 19-15. The snow that

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blanketed the home of the Italian rugby quickly melted under foot,

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but the game took quite a lot longer to heat up. The first 25

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minutes was scrappy with stray kicks. Owen Farrell opened the

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scoring with two penalty kicks to give England a flimsy lead.

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That scrappiness lead to this try. Two minutes later, Italy hit again.

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Italy went into the dressing room with a six point lead.

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English indiscipline handed the host a further three points. A

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charge down from Charlie Hodgson pulled England back into the match.

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More boots from the boot of Farrell, allowing England to breathe earlier

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with a four point cushion. It wasn't a free flowing win, but it

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is another victory in tricky conditions. And that's all the

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sport, Jane. Thank you very much.

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And that's it from us for this evening. You can see more on

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today's stories on the BBC News Good evening.

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We got down to minus 11 Celsius across the heart of the country.

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Tonight is the last of the hard Frosts. Temp Temperatures will be

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rising tonight across Lincolnshire. Minus 16 Celsius last night, but

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with increasing amounts of cloud, we won't go that low.

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In the south before the cloud arrives, we are dipping down to

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minus 3 Celsius in Cardiff, possibly minus 6 Celsius in Norwich.

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We are going to start to see rain, sleet and snow drift into into East

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Anglia. Elsewhere, light rain across Northern England and maybe

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North Wales, but most places dry. Some breaks in the cloud across the

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south-west and we are looking at a sunny day across Northern Scotland

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with highs of 7 or 8 Celsius. Maybe up to 9 Celsius in Belfast, but it

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will be cloudy here as across much of Northern England. Down this

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eastern side it will be a dull and dismal day, temperatures reaching 4

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or 5 Celsius. Further west, 7, 8 or 9 Celsius and

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some breaks in the cloud. There could be milky sunshine in Cardiff.

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