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the southern Indian Ocean. It's thought they may come from the black

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box flight recorder. 13 search vessels are now in the area. We are

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hopeful, but by no means certain, this is the most difficult search in

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human history. The Culture Secretary Maria Miller is under more pressure

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as a senior Conservative calls for her to resign. The race today is

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cancelled. Sheffield half marathon is cancelled moments before the

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start as organisers ran out of water. And Gerrard's spot on, as

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Liverpool return to the top of the Premier League.

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Good evening. A Royal Navy ship HMS Echo, has joined the search in the

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southern Indian Ocean where electronic signals have been

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detected in the hunt for the missing Malaysian ailriner. Investigators

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believe the sounds could be coming from the aircraft's black box flight

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recorder. Jon Donnison is in Perth where the search is being

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co-ordinated. After a month-long mystery, the search for MH 370 is

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now focused on this Chinese ship. The technology looks somewhat crude.

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Essentially, a large microphone dipped into the water. But it was

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this device that picked up a possible signals from the missing

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black box flight recorder. First, just briefly on Friday, and then

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again from around 90 seconds on Saturday. Now an Australian Navy

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ship has also registered underwater sounds at a separate location. We

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had three separate acoustic events. Two with 01. And another one with

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ocean shield. We are treating each of them very seriously. This is

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where the Chinese ship detected two sets of signals close together.

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Around 1000 miles north-west of Perth. The Australians picked up

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signals around 350 miles away. They were heard by this ship, the ocean

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shield, which uses a more advanced device. The black box sends out a

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signal at 37.5 kilohertz. The same frequency as the ones recorded by

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the Chinese search teams. But the flight recorder's battery only lasts

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30 days. And it could be miles underwater. The ocean here is up to

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4500 metres deep. A Royal Navy ship, HMS Echo, carrying advanced search

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technology, has now arrived in the area to try to verify the Chinese

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findings. A British nuclear submarine is also close by.

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Investigators will be hoping this is a breakthrough and not another false

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lead. But, as the surge from the air also continues, what will worry them

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is that, after over 150 flights, still no actual wreckage has been

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found. And we can speak to Jon Donnison now. Is there a real sense

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that this is the breakthrough the authorities had been looking for? I

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think the investigators are encouraged but cautious and it

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interesting we have not heard from the Chinese today. I think some

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might think was a bad sign and, of course, there were a dozen flights

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which went up on Sunday, search flights, and they gain came back,

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having spotted no debris whatsoever. So it would be unusual if the first

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piece of debris they found was the black box itself. But you do feel

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that this search is intensifying, rather than easing up, and there is

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a time pressure, of course. We have black box's batteries which expire

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after 30 days, exactly where we are now and it's going to be very

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interesting to see what HMS Echo discovers now it's arrived on the

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scene with perhaps more state-of-the-art technology on

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board. Many thanks, John. Lord Tebbit, the former Conservative

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Party Chairman, has called on the Culture Secretary Maria Miller to

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resign. He's accused her of arrogance, in the controversy over

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her expenses claims. The head of the parliamentary expenses watchdog Sir

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Ian Kennedy, says MPs should no longer have powers to overrule

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investigators, as they did in Mrs Miller's case. Here's our Political

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Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue. Four days on and Maria Miller is still

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under pressure over the expenses she came in the way she handled

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investigation into her affairs by the Parliamentary authorities and

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her fellow MPs. Now Lord Tebbit has become the first Conservative to

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call for her resignation describing Mrs Miller as arrogant. That comes

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on top of a call from the chairman of the independent Parliamentary

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standards authority which oversees MPs expenses to reform the system

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further. Sir Ian Kennedy told a Sunday newspaper:

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I, of course, unreservedly apologise. Despite that brief

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apology, Maria Miller's case has highlighted what some see as a

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continuing weakness in the system. In Mrs Miller's case, a

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Parliamentary standards Commissioner who investigated her recommended you

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should give back more than ?45,000 in mortgage payments. But the ten

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MPs and three lay members on the common standards committee reduced

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that to less than ?6000. Today the Work and Pensions Secretary gave his

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backing to Maria Miller but became the most senior government member to

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acknowledge the system might have to change. I'm very happy for that to

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be debated. I'm amongst a number of those who feel this goes on and on

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and on eating away at the credibility of Parliament. Whatever

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it takes to restore the credibility. He may have a point? I'm very open

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to independent people looking at this. The sooner we can get rid of

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this nonsense about. The better. Expenses can have also hit Labour

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had in the past. These are among the five Labour MPs who went to prison.

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Now the party says reform has to come. It's not just about what goes

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on inside Westminster but about what the public regard that as

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acceptable. And I think it's clear from what's gone on in the last few

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days of the moment we don't have a system that commands public support.

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Labour want reform but they're not saying what it should be. No one is

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saying if the Prime Minister wants change. As for Maria Miller herself,

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well, the Tory party chairman Grant Shapps repeatedly declined to give

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her his full backing today. So this one isn't over yet. There have been

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several large pro-Russia demonstrations in cities across

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eastern Ukraine today. Some of which turned violent. In Donetsk, a large

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group of people broke into the provincial government building,

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demanding a referendum on a separate republic for the region. The

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country's interim President has cancelled a trip abroad to deal with

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the protests. President Obama has congratulated Afghanistan on what he

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called a landmark election. He said the poll to choose a successor to

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President Hamid Karzai was critical in securing the country's democratic

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future. Election officials have begun counting the estimated seven

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million ballots. Our correspondent David Loyn reports from Kabul. In a

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huge logistical operation after a larger than expected turnout, ballot

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boxes have been moving across Afghanistan all day as the counts

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get underway. Seven million people, third of them women, braved Taliban

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intimidation and bad weather to vote. Women trying to get into vote

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broke down the door of a polling station in the North. Afghanistan in

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general, and Afghan women, went through a moment, a historic moment

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yesterday, coming to the polling centres and casting their ballots.

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With the campaign ever, candidates are making unofficial claims about

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their standing. The former finance minister Ashraf Ghani said he's

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ahead. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote, there has to

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be another round of voting between the top two. Unless one withdraws.

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Speaking to the BBC, Ashraf Ghani has, for the first time, said he's

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against a deal. There has to be a clear winner so we can say the

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public gave us a mandate. Negotiation behind the doors is

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going to deprive the public of the voice. The other leading candidate

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once the deal rather than having a second round. Now the real politics

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begins. After more than three decades of conflict left so much of

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Afghanistan in ruins, the election campaign ignited real interest. Now

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one of the leading candidates tells us he wants a second-round. So it's

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clear who the democratically elected leader of Afghanistan is going to

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be. Thousands of runners defied officials in Sheffield this morning

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and decided to run the city's half-marathon, despite it's

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cancellation because supplies of water didn't arrive. Chaos followed

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as many people ignore the announcement and ran the race

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anyway. Anne-Marie Tasker explains. More than 5000 runners struggle to

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keep warm up before hearing over the tannoy the racers. The race today is

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cancelled. The majority set off anyway. Unbelievably, for a half

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marathon, none of the water was essential for the race and it was

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not delivered. The race, first of all this morning, the water browsers

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we order did not arrive so then we went round the supermarket around

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Sheffield run the route to get what ought to be covered and they also

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contacted other branches and got what order they could. We delayed

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the start but then it became obvious we still haven't found enough water.

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Those taking part were determined to complete the race. Spectators

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brought their own water to make up for the lack of official supplies.

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It was a bit of a shambles really. We were on the starting line for

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about an hour before we actually went, which is not good when you're

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trying to keep yourself warm in the cold weather. I heard it had been

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cancelled. I didn't even know that, actually. We went going to let it

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stop as. To be honest, Sheffield people did fantastic. In a city

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known for its sporting excellence, this is an embarrassment, one they

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won't want to repeat and this year the people of Sheffield rallied

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round. They hope next year that won't be necessary. With all the

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sport, here's Katherine Downes at the BBC Sport Centre.

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Good evening. Liverpool are back on the top of the Premier League after

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beating West Ham 2-1. Their ninth win in a row. There were three

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points for Everton as well. They beat Arsenal 3-0 to strengthen their

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chances of a Champions League place next season. Tim Hague reports on a

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successful day for the Merseyside clubs.

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But neither calm exterior thoughts of the title must be bubbling away

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for Brendan Rodgers. Liverpool, top of the table. Luis Suarez Mac' nine

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girls have helped with that and he came so close to number 30. Wiley

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couldn't score, he played provider. West Ham handball in the box and

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Steven Gerrard made 1-0 yet Liverpool's past came back to bite

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them. It seemed at first. The referee, Anthony Taylor, overruled

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the assistant who said there was a foul. Liverpool, furious, because

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there was one and guess who from. Former Liverpool player, Andy

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Carroll. He almost put West Ham ahead after half-time thumping the

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bar with a header. Before more controversy. The referee giving

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Liverpool a second penalty when the goalkeeper clearly won the ball

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first but to win the league, you need luck. Steven Gerrard made the

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most of it. Three points for Liverpool and their eyes are firmly

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fixed on the title. On Merseyside, Liverpool 's local rivals Everton

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blew the race for Champions League football wide open. They outplayed

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Arsenal going 2-0 in the first half before making it three in the

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second. A victory which means Everton no trial The Gunners by one

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point with a game in hand. When Martinez took over last summer, he

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said he would provide Champions League football for Everton. There

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where laughs but no one is laughing now. Oxford have won the 160th boat

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race. They beat Cambridge by 11 lengths to claim their fifth win in

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seven years. Our Correspondent Jon Brain is at the finish line, and

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Jon, a fairly easy victory for Oxford in the end? It was, and

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Oxford's preparations this had been hampered by the flooding which

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caused disruption across the UK. But with three medallists on their crew,

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they still arrived here as firm favourites. It wasn't without

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incident. Just a few minutes in, there was an apparent clash of wars

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between the two crews and Cambridge Micah boss Luca Docket lost control

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of his. From then on, the contest was effectively over. Oxford built

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up a commanding lead which they never looked like winning pushing

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and across the line 11 lengths to spare. The 78th victory in the boat

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race, now just three wins away from their great rivals. OK, thank you

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very much. Great Britain have missed out on a first Davis Cup semi final

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in 33 years. They lost their quarter final to Italy, having started the

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day with a 2-1 lead. But Andy Murray was beaten in straight sets by

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clay-court specialist Fabio Fognini. And James Ward lost the deciding

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rubber to Andreas Seppi. England's women have been convincingly beaten

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in the final of the T20 World Cup. They lost to Australia by six

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wickets. England could only manage a hundred and five for eight off their

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20 overs. And Australia reached their target with four-and-a-half

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overs to spare. England captain Charlotte Edwards admitted her side

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were completely outplayed. Highlights of the Bahrain Grand Prix

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will be on BBC Two later tonight so look away now if you don't want to

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know what happened. The third race of the season was won by Mercedes'

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Lewis Hamilton. His team-mate Nico Rosberg started from pole position,

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but Hamilton took the lead on the first corner and the pair battled it

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out right up to the chequered flag. Hamilton held on to claim his second

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Grand Prix this season. Mercedes have won all three so far. That's

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all the sport. Many thanks. There's more throughout

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the evening on the BBC News Channel. And I'll be back with the late

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