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ferocious storms and tens of thousands without still without

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power. As Britain counts the cost of the latest onslaught of extreme

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weather, the Prime Minister warns flood levels are likely to rise

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again. What we do in the next 24-hours is vital because trajly the

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river levels will rise again. Every sandbag delivered, every house

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helped, every flood barrier put in place can make a big difference. In

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Hertfordshire, houses are evacuated after a huge sinkhole opens up.

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Peace talks on Syria break down in are moany after less than half an

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hour. And, Great Britain's Lizzie Yarnold collects her Gold medal in

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Sochi. Hello, very good evening to you, the

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Prime Minister says the flooding crisis is set to get worse with

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groundwater levels likely to rise in many places over the next few days.

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There are still 16 severe flood warnings, meaning a potential threat

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to life, and tens of thousands of homes are still without power. Two

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people died in last night's ferocious storms and more than 30

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people had to be rescued by the army from a seafront restaurant in

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Hampshire. Our correspondent, Chris Buckler, reports. At the edge of the

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ocean lies evidence of its power. This seafront littered with the

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debris and destruction of a fierce storm. Cars were no match for

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crashing waves, and this sea view put diners in the path of danger.

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Today, rocks and shingle had to be cleared from the front of the marine

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restaurant. They were thrown up by the sea, shattering windows, during

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what was supposed to be a romantic meal on Valentine's night. The pebls

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hitting the windows were just like bullets. Smashing the windows,

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smashing double glazing. Big boulders being hurled. That is when

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the fear factor came into people. The army helped the emergency

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services, rescue more than 30 people who found themselves trapped in the

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restaurant as it started to flood. We wouldn't have opened if we

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thought it was going to be anywhere as near as bad as it was. This is

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totally Steps exceptional. No-one was seriously injured here, the

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harsh extremes of this winter's weather have again claimed lives.

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Out at sea an 85-year-old man was killed when a freak-wave hit a

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cruise ship. In London, a taxi driver died when masonry fell from a

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building, crushing her car. Julie Sillito was 49 and had three

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grown-up sons. Weather warnings are still in place and homes remain

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flooded along the Thames. A calm has followed this latest storm, but the

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Prime Minister knows that there are many families asking, when will all

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of this finally go away? Tragically, these weather events have been

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hitting community after community and doing that week after week. It

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has been very, very tough for people. My heart goes out to anyone

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who has been flooded. It's not just those flooded. Teams work to

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reconnect power to tens of thousands of family's homes today. The

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conditions were dangerous at times. Along the south coast, police were

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trying to keep people away from the waves and danger. Surrounded by all

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of this debris you don't need too much imagination to realise the

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force of the waves last night. You can see just the big lumps here.

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Milford-on-Sea concrete beach huts, used so often in summer, haven't

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survived the winter. I've got a bit of a beach hut. I went to a lot of

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trouble to put a new lock on the door. I smeared it with marine

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grease, I'm sure it still works, if I can ever find the door and wall

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it's attached to! The possessions people once kept in those huts lie

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scattered by the sea this evening. More lives affected by this wave

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after wave of fierce weather. Chris Buckler, BBC News, Milford-on-Sea.

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As we've heard, despite the improving weather, flood levels

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could peak again tomorrow. Our correspondent, Katy Watson is in

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Staines-upon-Thames, where there is currently a severe flood warning in

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place. Katy, are residents there prepared for more flooding? I spent

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most of the days here in Staines at a school where there has been a

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production line of people building sandbags, putting them on to lorries

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and taking them to areas that need the sandbags still. Some people are

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disgruntled about what has been happening and whether the

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authorities have done or haven't done enough. There has been a sense

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that actually the authorities have got their hands full. The

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Environment Agency have their hands full. The way to get back to normal

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really is for the community to get going. There have been charities

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helping with the sand. The army on hand as well, trying to deliver

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those sandbags, but the problem is that that pragmatism has to stay.

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That postivity has to remain. People here are fed up and tired. People

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here want to get back to normal. That is the concern the weather,

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hopefully there will be light relief there won't be any more rain. . .

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Many thanks. Residents of a street in Hemel Hempstead were forced to

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leave their homes after an enormous sinkhole opened up. They were

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evacuated by police early this morning as soon as the 35 foot wide

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hole was discovered. Jeremy Cooke reports. On the corner of a road, on

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a suburban estate early morning drama. The ground collapsed. A

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sinkhole, 35 feet wide, 20 feet deep, undermining the house and the

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road. The fear is that more will go, so the residents are evacuated in a

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hurry. I just heard police knocking on the door at 7.30 am to say, "you

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need to see rack wait, there is a sinkhole outside." I didn't get time

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to grab anything, not even my purse or clothes. We had to get out. Local

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residents tells us they are in no doubt that all of the torrential

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rain of recent weeks has a lot to do with this. A reminder that all this

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water causes problems on our coasts, with our rivers and underground as

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well. It's not the first sinkhole to appear in recent times. This is High

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well. It's not the first sinkhole to Wycombe, two weeks ago. The M2 in

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Kent, just a few days back. Sinkholes have not been caused by

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the weather, they've been triggered by the weather. The cause is the

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existence of a a cavity at depth, be it artificial or natural. The

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trigger is actually that water passing through the ground. At the

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moment, this increased number is largely a result of the increase in

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rainfall. The weather may be improving, but in London and beyond

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the issues remain. Croydon's underwater treatment plant is

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threatened with flooding, a major pumping operation continuing, 24/7

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to stop contamination. In many places, the impact of the floods is

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plain to see, water everywhere. It's becoming increasingly clear that

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underground boreholes are full to capacity. Groundwater, at record

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high levels. Bringing landslides and sinkholes. Jeremy Cooke, BBC News,

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Hemel Hempstead. The Foreign Secretary says the collapse of the

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latest round of Syrian peace talks is a "serious setback". William

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Hague blamed the break down on President Assad's regime. The UN

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envoy, who has been mediating between the two sides, apologised to

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the Syrian people for the lack of extraordinary press. Our

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correspondent, Lyse Doucet, has this report from the Syrian city of Homs.

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It's been a week where there was some rare good news. Food and

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medicine finally went in to the besieged old quarter of Homs. More

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than 1,000 people were brought out, during a temporary truce between

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rebel fighters and the government. Resolving Syria's deep humanitarian

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crisis needs a political solution. That helped push the warring parties

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to attend peace talks in Geneva. The second round ended today in complete

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failure. They couldn't agree on an agenda, nor even a date for the next

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meeting. The disheartened UN envoy ended the session with a direct

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message to the Syrian people. I'm very, very sorry and I apologise to

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the Syrian people that their hopes, which were very, very high that,

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that something will happen here, I think that, you know, what has...

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The little that has been achieved in Homs gave them even more hope that

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maybe this is the beginning of the coming out of this horrible crisis

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they are in. The Syrian government held the other side responsible for

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this failure. At the end, today, the international mediator came to the

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meeting with a draft agenda. We immediately accepted the draft

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agenda, while the other side did not. The Foreign Secretary, William

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Hague, put the blame elsewhere. The failure to agree an agenda for

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future talks is a serious setback, he said. Responsibility for that

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lies squarely with the Assad regime. For millions of Syrians, forced to

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flee their homes into neighbouring countries, the Geneva talks never

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held out much hope of ending their suffering. Many of these refugees in

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Jordan saw them as irrelevant. TRANSLATION: We can only rely on God

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and ourselves. Geneva II is a farce. None of them have a conscience.

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No-one cares about the Syrian people. No-one had high expectations

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of these peace talks, even as they went on, thousands of people were

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killed here in Syria. For western governments it was the only strategy

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they had to try to end a brutal conflict around the negotiating

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table. There is no military solution, as you can hear, inside

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either. The only certainty is that this war looks set to continue. Many

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fear it will only get worse. Lyse Doucet, BBC News, Homs. Now then

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time for all the sports news, here's Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes at the BBC

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Sport Centre. Hi, Lizzie. Thanks very much, Ben. Good evening. Well,

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it's been another action-packed, but mixed day for Great Britain at the

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Winter Olympics with more cheers for Golden girl Lizzy Yarnold as she

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collected her skeleton medal, but more heartache for Elise Christie in

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the speed skating. Andy Swiss reports from Sochi. Disqualified on

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Thursday, surely it couldn't happen again? Elise Christie's dreams of

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redemption turned to another nightmare. She seemed to be safely

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through her 1500m heat, the referee spotted she had skated just inside

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the black finish line, and not over it, technically, she hadn't

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completed the race and was therefore out. It was all also a day for

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British delight. After yesterday's victory in the skeleton, Lizzie

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Yarnold was getting used to life as an Olympic Champion, something she

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told me she owes to her friends and family. Seeing the tears and the

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pride in their eyes reminded me of how much we've all been through

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together. There's been a lot of hard times and a lot of good times. And,

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it's been a long five years competing in in the skeleton, being

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part of that time, but I couldn't have done it without them. This

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evening, Yarnold, watched by her mum and dad, received her Gold medal.

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The smiles mingled with tears. So composed in competition, finally the

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emotions overflowed. For the British fans then a first golden moment here

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in Sochi. At the half way point of these Games, there will be

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confidence of more medals to come. Andy Swiss, BBC News, Sochi. A

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French athlete has broken the 21-year-old world record for the

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pole vault. Renaud Lavillenie leared the bar at 6.16 metres in a

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competition in Ukraine today. That's a centimetre higher than the

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previous record set by Sergey Bubka in 1993. There were three matches in

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the FA Cup fifth round today. Wigan are through to the quarter-finals

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after beating Cardiff 2-1. Elsewhere, Sunderland were 1-0

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winners over Southampton and Manchester City won the battle of

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the big guns, beating Chelsea 2-0. Patrick Geary reports. Jose Mourinho

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has a way of commanding attention. This week he used one of his

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significant moves, impress conferences he has been playing mind

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games with his rivals, only Manchester City weren't playing

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ball. Rather they were, right around the defence. Mourinho tactically out

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manoeuvred City's manager in the League, here they were allowed to

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play to their strengths. No-one can match them in attack. Nasri made it

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two, Manchester City are through. Joining them in the quarter-finals

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are Wigan, the team that beat them in last year's final. The man who

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scored the goal then got an even better one this time to see off

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Premier League Cardiff. Watson was again the hero for the now

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Championship club. There was a sleepy feeling at the early tie in

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Sunderland, Craig Gardiner gave the Stadium of Light a spectacular alarm

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call. Southampton woke up and did enough to create an equaliser. It's

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just somehow Rickie Lambert didn't score it. With that went

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Southampton's lost hope of escape and Sunderland's Cup form continues.

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There were victories in the Scottish Premiership for Dundee United,

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Hibernian and Motherwell, while Inverness drew with Hearts. In

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Paisley, Adam Rooney's penalty was the only goal in second-placed

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Aberdeen's 1-0 win at St Mirren. Some of the biggest names in

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football have being paying tribute today to Sir Tom Finney, who died

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last night aged 91. Famous, not only for his goals, but also for his

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loyalty to his club, Preston North End. From Deepdale, Stuart Flinders

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looks back on the career of one of the greatest England players of all

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time. In death, as he had been in life, Sir Tom Finney was applauded

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enthusiastically here today. Preston North End supporters celebrated his

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life before his team's match against Leyton Orient this afternoon. Those

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who played on the same pitch as him recall it as a privilege. I always

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looked at him being a national sporting icon. You know, I would

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rank him as probably one of the greatest sports men which we

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produced really in these islands. Sir Tom made more than 400

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appearances for Preston between 1946 and 1960, he is one of England's

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all-time highest goal scorers. He remained at Deepdale throughout his

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career. The club refusing a move to Italy at a time when his wages were

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?14 a week. I think the greatest personal satisfaction I got was

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being fortunate enough to be born I think with the skill which enabled

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me to play a game I love play and would willingly have play for

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nothing. He could become a professional football his father

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insisted he finish his apprenticeship as a plumber, a trade

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he returned to. Many of these supporters are too young to have

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seen him place. His remained the most famous face in Preston long

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after he retired. His modesty is as legendary as his talent. Sir Tom

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Finney who died last night. That's the sport. Back to you Ben. Very

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much. That is it from us tonight. Can you see more of all of today's

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stories on the BBC News Channel. Good night.

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Good evening, whilst I can't promise you a turn around in the weather in

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the week ahead, I can bring some light at the end of the tunnel

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perhaps in terms of things becoming just a little quieter. Overnight

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tonight certainly a big change from last night, the wind, which

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