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Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend and giant of 20th

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I will beat any man in the world and I want everyone out there to know

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it, I am the greatest! The most iconic heavyweight

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of all time had been in hospital I'm the champion, the real champion!

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There will never be one like me! BBC viewers voted him

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Sports Personality of Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease

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30 years ago, Mohammed Ali We'll be looking back

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at his extraordinary life. Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend

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and for many the greatest sporting icon of the 20th

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century, has died. The former champion defeated almost

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every top heavyweight in his era. George Foreman, who lost

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to Ali in the famous Rumble In The Jungle,

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said, "Part of me has gone". Joe Wilson looks back

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at the life of Muhammad Ali. I'll whoop any man in the world

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and I want everybody out Muhammad Ali simply

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voiced his own punchlines. He could tell you he would float

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like a butterfly and sting Born Cassius Clay in Louisville,

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Kentucky, in 1942, he first achieved fame when he won gold

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at the Rome Olympics in 1960. Three years later, he was famously

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floored by a left hook Cooper stole the moment,

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lost the fight. Clay was left with a shot

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at the world title, held by Sonny Liston,

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a fearsome fighter Ali called him The Bear,

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mocked him before, Put him in the hospital,

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he's never been stopped! The next day he announced his

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conversion to Islam, swearing allegiance to Elijah

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Muhammad. Why do you insist on being

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called Muhammad Ali now? Because that's the name

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given to me by my leading My original name, that's a black man

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name, Cassius Clay was my slave On religious grounds,

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Ali refused to obey his call-up The territory he now occupied

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was way beyond boxing. A champion in the ring,

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a hero beyond the ring, sacrificing his career

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for principals and anti-war profit. He was stripped of his title

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and sentenced to five years in jail. This was quashed on appeal, but Ali

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was refused a licence to box. He spent over three years out

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of the ring. In the 1970s, Ali made some

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memorable appearances To me, as someone interested

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in sport, he's without doubt the most beautiful and compete

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athlete I've ever seen. To others, he's a political leader,

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a figurehead in the battle between black and white,

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and to more people who care little about sport and even less

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about politics, he's one of the world great

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entertainers, a character, He revealed his showmanship

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and taste for publicity were inspired by an American

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wrestler called gorgeous George. When I saw all of those people

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coming to see George get beat, and they all paid to get in,

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that's the thing, they paid! And right away I start talking,

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"I am the greatest! When you look back over a career

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such as I have had an look at the thousands of people you have

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interviewed, a few standout, and he was the one who stands out most of

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all. And extraordinary man, and you are lucky to have met him, that is

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the thing, his image and memory will live on for the rest of time, I

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suppose. His career had one remarkable twist

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of bravery and achievement to come. In Zaire, in 1974, against

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the mountainous George Foreman, If you think I whooped Sonny Liston,

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you wait till I get George Foreman! He talks too much, he's

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ugly, he's pretending! I'm the true champion

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and they make me the underdog?! I'll show them all they're wrong

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because I'm the champion, the real champion, there will never

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be one like me and all you people in Britain who rate me

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as the greatest, I'm going to prove I'm the greatest,

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prove to you and prove to the world This is my last fight,

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I want none of you to miss it! I'm going to eat some raw meat,

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I'm going to train, I'm Ali won after deliberately absorbing

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punches and exhausting his opponent. He just beat himself out,

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he was so tired, he was just I said, "Man, this is the wrong

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place to get tired!" Ali predicted Zaire

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would be his last fight. It wasn't - he fought

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on for seven more years. The onset of Parkinson's disease

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was only too obvious when, with great dignity and bravery,

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he lit the Olympic flame in 1996. When it came to a vote for

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Sports Personality of the Century, Ali polled more than the rest

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of the contenders put together. Even while his body was failing him,

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the famous wit still sparkled. I had a good time boxing,

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I enjoyed it, and I may come back! Go to any country, any city,

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any village in the world, To put it simply, to use his words,

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he was the greatest. Though he was born and raised

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in Louisville, Kentucky, New York became the place where Ali

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trained and where he fought some Nick Bryant has been talking to some

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of the New Yorkers who knew New York's most famous boxing gym

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also doubles as a shrine to Muhammad Ali. He trained at geese and in the

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1960s, where his super-sized charisma made him an electrifying

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presence. But it is not just as a megastar that they remember him yet,

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it is also as a friend. He would do anything, he helped as much as he

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can. He would give me the shirt off his back, a is just that nice of a

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guy, just a nice person, period. He will stop, he will not only stop and

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talk to the guy standing on the corner with a suit and tie on, he

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will talk to the bomb laying on the ground, half drunk. You start

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talking to him, he will start talking to you. One thing about

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Muhammad Ali, he loved to talk. Two things that are hard to it and see,

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a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali! People would queue up even to watch

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Muhammad Ali train and at a time when boxing was in danger of being

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relegated to a backstreet sport he ushered in its golden age. His star

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power could fill arenas the size of Madison Square Garden 100 times

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over, but it was the intimacy that photographer Michael Gaffney

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recalls. He spent a year on the road with Ali in the late 1970s and has

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special memories of a trip to South America where Ali toured hospitals

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filled with polio victims, and lent a helping hand to the poor. Every

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day that we were there, there were beggars lined up in the wall way.

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And he would... Sorry. He gave each one of them $100 bill. And I said,

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Champ... Why are you doing that? And he said, because $100 here is worth

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$10,000 at home. That was him. Ali was a sportsman who almost defies

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description, superstar, icon, the superlatives seem inadequate but his

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own famous post also served as an epitaph. He was, quite simply, the

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greatest. Let's go live now to

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Louisville in Kentucky and to our correspondent,

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Aleem Maqbool. A sad day?

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Indeed, this is where Muhammad Ali was born and when he complained, at

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12 years old, to a police officer saying that his bike had been stolen

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and said he wanted to beat up whoever stole the bike, and the

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police officer persuaded him to go to a boxing gym. He returned here at

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Olympic gold-medal winner and he returned here after winning both

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world titles, where he spent some tough times out of the ring in the

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late 60s, and also where this building has been built in tribute

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to Muhammad Ali, the Muhammad Ali centre which deals not

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just with his life and sporting achievements but the other

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dimensions of the man, the charity giving, the spirituality as well.

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While tributes have been coming in from around the world, from world

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leaders, from across America from people like Bill Clinton, Mike

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Tyson, it is here that it would appear his loss is being felt the

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most. The mayor, in a few hours' time, will lead a tribute to

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Muhammad Ali and flags will be delivered across this city. As I

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say, as people here reflect, there are those around the world who are

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now looking again at the impact that Muhammad Ali had not just on sport

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but far wider than that as one of the most recognisable figures

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through the 70s and 80s, and a man who transcended his sporting

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achievements. Thanks very much.

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As we've been hearing, Ali was a prominent figure both

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In the 1960s he became a leading civil rights activist in America,

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but his influence on racial equality was felt far beyond the shores

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of the United States, as Elaine Dunkley now reports

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Britain in the 1960s was deeply divided, a colour bar meant new

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arrivals from the Commonwealth were denied housing and work. It was to

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America that black Britons would look for cultural icons, and they

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didn't come much bigger than Muhammad Ali. The white man has been

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brainwashed and it is time for him to learn something about himself!

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Someone like Muhammad Ali came on the scene, you know, he made to feel

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so good as young people. He was of great significance for someone like

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myself who was involved in radical politics. I was a member of the

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Black Panther movement, and people like Angela Davis, Malcolm X, were

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like our heroes when we were teenagers. Muhammad Ali fit nicely

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within that group of people. In 1963, activist Paul Stephenson

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successfully led a campaign to boycott a bus company in Bristol

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which was refusing to employ black and Asian drivers. The fight for

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regular quality was the making of a friendship with Muhammad Ali. He

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wanted to see England follow America in the civil rights. We spoke about

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how we can deal with racism and how he could be used to get England

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talking about racism. In 1974 Muhammad Ali's visit to Brixton

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bought the streets to a standstill. Photographer Neal Ken Lough, caught

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on camera pivotal moment in black British history. It was just

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fantastic that he decided to leave America to come to Brixton to

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support our community, and that is what really touched me. And of

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course he would play with people, talk to anybody, he was an

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incredible person. He didn't behave like other successful and rich

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superstars. Muhammad Ali will be remembered as one of the greatest

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boxers of all time. But, to many, his greatest legacy was his fight

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for civil rights. Memories of the Muhammad Ali.

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Now briefly to some of the day's other news.

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Police searching for a missing couple have launched a murder

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inquiry after a body was found in woodland near where they live.

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Peter and Sylvia Stuart, from Weybread in Suffolk,

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were reported missing after not being seen since last Saturday.

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Six former Labour leaders have published a joint open letter urging

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supporters of the party to vote Remain in the EU referendum.

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In a speech this morning, Lord Kinnock said, "Decisions

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Later today, the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown

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is expected to say that if Labour stays at home, Britain leaves.

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Our next news on BBC One is on at 6.30pm, but before we go

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we'll leave you with a few words from Muhammad Ali.

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Float like a butterfly and stings like a bee! He has got ten! I love

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my people and I'm not going to sell them out and mislead them. I'm the

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champion, the real champion, there will never be one like the! We're

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going to prove to the world I'm the greatest!

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Good afternoon, it was a slow start to the day for many others with

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extensive cloud cover, a view of Liverpool not so long ago. There was

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some mist and fog, very little to speak of but the cloud has broken

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