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Pope Francis appeals for compassion and humanity over the migrant crisis

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Thank you God, thank you. He tells people facing deportation not to

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lose hope. And in a surprise move,

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the Pope brings three Syrian families back to Rome

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in what he calls a "small A blunt message from Boris Johnson

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to President Obama: He'll be guilty of hypocrisy,

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if he backs the campaign Rescue workers in Japan face a race

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against time to free dozens of people buried

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by two powerful earthquakes. And more than two decades

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after Diana, Princess of Wales, sat alone at the Taj Mahal,

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her son and his wife evoke her memory, as they make

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the same journey. Pope Francis has told thousands

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of refugees stranded on the Greek island of Lesbos that they are not

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alone in their plight. Speaking on a visit there,

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the Pope called on the world to respond to the migrant crisis,

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in a way, he said, that is "worthy And, in a personal gesture,

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Pope Francis took three Syrian families back with him to Rome

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to start new lives there. As they were welcomed to Italy

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tonight, many of the migrants in Lesbos are facing deportation

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under an EU deal to From Lesbos, Caroline Hawley

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reports. He came to what's been called

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the frontline of the migrant crisis to meet the people who've

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risked their lives to get here, to plead for a more humane

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international response to them. The Pope is used to provoking

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emotions. They're usually drawn from religious

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fervour, not desperation. All the migrants in this camp

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are now effectively detained, awaiting either

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asylum or deportation. A deal between the EU and Turkey

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to try to stem the flow of migrants has provoked questions

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about its morality and legality. The Pope's now added his weight

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to a growing chorus of concern. TRANSLATION: We hope

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that the world will heed these scenes of tragic and,

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indeed, desperate need and respond in a way worthy

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of our common humanity. Outside another camp,

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Syrians gathered for a glimpse of the Pope, hoping somehow he'd

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be their saviour. This man, a Kurd, said

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he would rather die here All the migrants we've met

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here have huge hopes and expectations of the outcome

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of the Pope's short visit. He'll hope at least to have managed

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to stir Europe's conscience. But what difference will the Pope's

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visit actually make? We want them to rethink

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the EU-Turkey deal and how At the moment, it's being rushed

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through and people aren't having a chance to have their claims

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for asylum fairly heard. Today, luck was on the side

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of three Syrian families. The Pope's plane returned

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with 12 extra passengers - six adults, six children,

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Muslims who'll be The chosen few plucked from migrant

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misery got a tour of the historic centre of Rome, looking

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slightly bewildered. The Pope's dramatic and pointed

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gesture has transformed their lives. But back on Lesbos, more than 3,000

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people remain incarcerated in the camp Pope Francis visited,

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stuck here in legal limbo. Boris Johnson has delivered a blunt

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message to President Obama, saying it would be nakedly

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hypocritical if he backed the campaign for Britain to remain

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in the European Union. The president, who will visit the UK

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next week, is widely expected to offer support

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to David Cameron's pro-EU campaign. Here's our political

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correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. Up and down the country,

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it's Boris Johnson who's At referendum rallies

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like here in Newcastle today, he's urging voters to back

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the Leave campaign. But on a visit to the UK next week,

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the US president is expected to say A likely intervention that

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Mr Johnson condemned I just find it absolutely bizarre

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that we're being lectured by the Americans about giving

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up our sovereignty You see, they wouldn't dream

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of sharing sovereignty. So is he in danger of making America

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look like a hypocrite? Not in danger of it,

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I'm afraid he is. There is an intrinsic

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hypocrisy, if that is - I don't know what he's going to say

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- but if that is the American argument then of course it's

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nakedly hypocritical. Coming just a few days before

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President Obama arrives on another state visit to Britain,

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Boris Johnson's plain speaking It's not the usual red carpet

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rhetoric rolled out before a presidential visit,

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especially from someone who aspires to live here one day,

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but Boris Johnson likes to grab the spotlight and knows his comments

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will get people's attention. Senior Conservatives

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from the Remain campaign, including this former Foreign

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Secretary, are not impressed. I don't think he's thought this one

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through very hard. It's a pretty unwise and just

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naive comment to make. The United States has pledged

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to come to the defence of Europe if ever we're ever attacked,

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to expose their own The idea that the president

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of the United States cannot express concern at the wider implications

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for the West as a whole - Any intervention has

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to be carefully managed. President Obama won't want to be

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seen to be telling British voters what to do, but Mr Cameron will hope

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this special relationship can give his campaign

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the boost it needs. Eleanor Garnier, BBC

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News, Westminster. Police have been given more time

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to question three men and a woman from Birmingham on suspicion

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of terrorism offences, linked to the investigation

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into attacks in Paris and Brussels. Three of them were arrested

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in Birmingham on Thursday night, while the fourth was detained

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at Gatwick Airport yesterday. Another man, who had been arrested,

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has been released on bail. MPs have said many people

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are getting far slower broadband speeds than advertised

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by their suppliers. They say in some cases only one

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in ten customers receives The MPs have called for advertising

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rules to be changed and for customers with slow

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connections to be given refunds. The Japanese prime minister,

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Shinzo Abe, has said that rescue workers are in a race against time

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to help the victims of two earthquakes, which struck

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the south of the country. More than 40 people are known

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to have died, and dozens more Our correspondent,

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Rupert Wingfield Hayes, This is the Aso Shrine,

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considered one of Japan's most Now, much of it lies in ruins,

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brought down by Friday Nine students were pulled

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alive from this collapsed apartment building today,

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but two others died here. There have been some

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amazing rescues. This old man was brought out safely

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after being trapped in the ruins This is the scene we found

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as we drove into Mashiki, Every single house is either

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very badly damaged, or like this one behind me here,

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completely destroyed, and these over We found the town's residents

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huddling at this evacuation centre. These people are spending a third

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night sleeping outside, Everyone is badly shaken,

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still far too scared to go home. "This is the first time I've

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experienced anything like this "I knew I had to get

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the kids and run. I noticed the plates

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were smashed on the floor, but I have no recollection of how

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they got there." These CCTV pictures give an idea

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of the violence of the shaking Landslides have severed

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roads and bridges. Whoever was in this car had

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an extremely lucky escape. And with heavy rains

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now pounding this area, the fear is there could be

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fresh landslides to come. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes,

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BBC News, in Kumamoto. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

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have visited the Taj Mahal, the final engagement of their tour

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of India and Bhutan. They sat briefly on the bench

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where Diana, Princess of Wales, was famously photographed

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on her own, in the year Officials said the couple

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were following a tradition set by many tourists before them

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and creating memories of their own. Our royal correspondent,

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Nicholas Witchell, It was one of those moments

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which mattered much more to picture desks and photographers than it did

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to the principals. William was only nine when his

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mother visited the Taj Mahal. His officials say that visit,

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24 years ago, has no But the images of his late mother,

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sitting alone at this monument to love, Prince Charles having

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decided not to accompany her, was one of the clearest signs,

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at the time, that their marriage Hardly the happiest

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of associations for William, then. But at the end of their first visit

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to India, it was an opportunity for him and Catherine to create

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memories of their own, albeit under the intense

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scrutiny of photographers. They were waiting for just one thing

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- images of Diana's elder son and his wife posing together

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at the place where Diana had been It was a moment not as significant

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to William as the watching world may try to make it,

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yet a fitting place to end Sir, what has the visit

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here meant to you? Beautiful place. Stunning design.

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Amazing. Yet William understands

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the resonance today's 24 years ago, the images from this

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place were rather forlorn ones. Those images have now been

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supplanted, at least in part, And on that note, this royal visit

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to India and Bhutan concluded. According to officials,

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the couple achieved what they wanted Nicholas Witchell, BBC News,

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at the Taj Mahal. Now with all the day's sport,

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here's Karthi Gnanasegaram. We'll start with football

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on what has been an eventful day If you're waiting for Match

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of the Day which follows soon on BBC One, it's time to pop out

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of the room for a moment. It didn't come as a surprise

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to the club or its fans that Aston Villa are the first side to be

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relegated from the Premier League. Villa drop out of the top flight

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for the first time since 1987. A famous old club officially

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relegated with weeks to spare. The day the inevitable became the

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inavoidable. Defeat to Manchester United meant Aston Villa, seven

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times champions of England, slipped slowly, sadly out of the elite. The

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theatre of the dreams, the culmination a nightmare for Aston

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Villa, one of Britain's biggest clubs will play in the second tier

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next season. It's been coming for some time. The football's poor. The

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players aren't trying. I mean, we even gave up as fans, a few months

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ago. Rubbish, we don't deserve to be in the Premier League after this

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season. We don't mind paying the money as long as the players are

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going to give us something back. They don't. Fly back 34 years, and

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Villa were returning to Birmingham with the European Cup. The previous

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year they were league champions. They fell from grace as the 80s went

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on but returned revitalised as one of the top teams of the early

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Premier League era. Ten years ago the American businessman Rady Lerner

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bought the club. But they've fallen into regular wrestles with

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relegation. Last season the struggle was sweetened by an appearance in

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the FA Cup Final. By the 4-0 defeat to Arsenal told of what was to come.

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They've been bottom since November and have won just three times this

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season. I would like to take some of that responsibility and say we have

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four games left. I know it's not going to help us stay in the league.

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But we owe them a lot. We will strive forward. For a section of the

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fans, the next struggle will be against the club's owner, who they

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say has lost interest. Meanwhile, an old giant fades into the shadows.

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In the day's other Premier League games:

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and Newcastle narrowed the gap to Norwich in the battle

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A hatrick from Sergio Aguero helped Manchester City beat

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Watford were the day's other winners.

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Hibernian have booked their place in the Scottish Cup Final,

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after beating Dundee United 4-2 on penalties.

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The Championship side's goalkeeper, Conrad Logan, was the hero for Hibs,

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They will face either Celtic or Rangers in next month's final.

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Formula One and Lewis Hamilton will start tomorrow's

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Chinese Grand Prix from the back of the grid.

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Hamilton failed to set a qualifying time in Shanghai, after his Mercedes

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His team-mate Nico Rosberg will be on pole.

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Commonwealth and European gold medallist, Jazz Carlin,

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was one of three swimmers at the British Championships

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in Glasgow to qualify for this year's Olympic Games.

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Carlin won the 400 metres freestyle in an Olympic qualification time.

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Siobhan-Marie O'Connor and Ben Proud also claimed places

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Three British boxers, including the aptly named

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Muhammed Ali, won gold medals at the European Olympic qualifying

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They had already qualified for the Rio Olympics by reaching

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But middleweight, Anthony Fowler, did secure his place

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at the Games this afternoon, when he won his third place fight

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against Germany's Xhek Paskali, with a unanimous points decision.

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Reigning world snooker champion, Stuart Bingham, is two frames away

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being knocked out of the tournament in the first round.

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-- one frame away from winning his first round match at the tournament

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in Sheffield. Bingham was 5-1 down to Ali Carter,

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a two-time runner up at the Crucible, but Bingham has

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come back in to the match World number two, Andy Murray,

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has been knocked out of the Monte Carlo Masters

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in the semi-finals by Rafael Nadal. Murray took the first set 6-2,

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but Nadal claimed the next two sets Nadal will face Gael Monfils of

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France in tomorrow's Masters final. Also today, Andy's older brother,

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Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares reached the Doubles Final

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of the Monte Carlo Masters, which means Jamie Murray will remain

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ranked as the world's number You can see more on all of today's

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stories on the BBC News Channel. That's all from me and

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the team here, goodnight. Hi there. Spring will try to fight

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back over the next few days. But it doesn't feel like it at the moment.

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Quite a rude awakening for some of us this morning, with a blanket of

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snow, for example, here in the Cotswolds. Some other places saw the

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white stuff earlier on. Then most of us enjoyed plenty of sunshine. But

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the cloud built up. By the afternoon, heavy down pours and

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interesting clouds

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