25/02/2017 BBC Weekend News


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A top Labour figure says the party must change,

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With pressure once again on Jeremy Corbyn after Thursday's

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by-election defeat in Copeland, his deputy says the party

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This is not the time for a leadership election.

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We can not sustain this level of distance from our electorate.

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Inside Iraq, the casualties in the battle to take control

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of Mosul from so-called Islamic State.

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The search for traces of a deadly nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur airport

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used in the suspected North Korean assassination.

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And, Scotland beat Wales for the first time in a decade

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Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, has said the party must change tack

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and "do better" at winning over voters but he has said

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that now is not the time to change leadership.

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Speaking at the Scottish Labour conference in Perth,

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Mr Watson acknowledged the loss of a long-held Labour seat

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in Copeland on Thursday had been hugely disappointing.

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Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has said he will stay on.

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Here's our political correspondent Carole Walker.

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Jeremy Corbyn has made it clear he has no intention of stepping down.

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He was in Stoke yesterday where Labour saw off the challenge

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But he's facing questions about the party's defeat in Copeland.

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The Tories were jubilant after seizing the seat which had

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been in Labour's hands since it was created.

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Labour's deputy leader told his party's Scottish conference

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he was hugely disappointed at the result.

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Our job at the next general election is to gain over 100 seats,

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keeping what we have is supposed to be the easy bit.

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This is not the time for a leadership election.

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We can not sustain this level of distance from our electorate,

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from our natural supporters, so things do have to change.

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Even Mr Corbyn's most outspoken critics at Westminster are not

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contemplating a leadership challenge, they fear he would be

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re-elected and returned in a stronger position.

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But many of his MPs are deeply concerned that under his leadership

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there's little prospect of the party regaining support amongst

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David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary, who now runs

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a charity based in New York, said he feared Labour is losing

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He said, "I am obviously deeply concerned that Labour is further

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from power than at any stage in my lifetime".

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His supporters say Jeremy Corbyn is not the problem.

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It's about us reconnecting with our grass roots.

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It's about us getting the working class vote back and, of course,

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by defeating Ukip in Stoke we successfully have done that

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because we were told we couldn't do that.

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So, let's share our successes, let's work and build upon it

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and let's get back into Government where we should be.

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But in Scotland, where Labour is struggling to recover,

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party members are concerned at the scale of the problems.

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Can't help but think that the leadership at UK level

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I think Jeremy Corbyn is our leader, he has the absolute support

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of the entire Labour Party because we've got to get

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on with it, we can't keep talking amongst ourselves.

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Jeremy Corbyn has said he is proud to continue as leader and he's not

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given any indication that he will be changing his approach in order

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Iraqi forces have entered parts of western Mosul in what is expected

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to be an arduous and dangerous battle to remove so-called

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Islamic State from Iraq's second largest city.

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Wyre Davies has sent this report from an advanced Iraqi military base

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where American troops and advisers are proving a key part

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This woman is a victim of Islamic State's latest tactic

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in its desperate bid to avoid defeat in Mosul.

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The 55-year-old mother of seven from the eastern part of the city

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"I was lying on the ground and people were pointing to the sky

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from where the bomb came", she told me.

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One of dozens of drone attack victims they've

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This is pretty new for this conflict but also for conflicts

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These mortars can be very effective and the impact on the population

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This IS video eulogises the use of commercially available drones

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An organisation which governs according to brutal feudal codes,

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adapting modern technology to lethal effect.

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Drones are yet another threat for government troops now pursuing

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fighters from so-called Islamic State into the narrow

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After days of fierce clashes on the edge of the city.

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But from a field just to the south, big American guns are helping

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to sway the battle perhaps decisively in the

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This is an overwhelmingly Iraqi military operation but the role

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of American advisers and troops, so-called boots on the ground,

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US artillery pieces pounding targets in Mosul.

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American commanders are reluctant to divulge too many sensitive

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details, but say US military support will be decisive.

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The fight in Western Mosul would be a tough fight for really

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So the Iraqi army, the Iraqi federal police again

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It will be a lot of house-to-house fighting.

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They don't have any choice but to fight.

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A Kurdish reporter, Shifa Gardi was killed today covering

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A handful of refugees fled in the opposite direction

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but there are an estimated 750,000 civilians still trapped

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Wyre Davies, BBC News, northern Iraq.

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Media organisations have reacted angrily after several,

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including the BBC, were barred from a press briefing

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The New York Times said the move was an insult to democratic

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In the last few minutes, there's been another development.

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Straight now to Washington and our correspondent

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A tweet from the President. President Trump has stepped up

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attacks in the media in recent weeks. He has called certain

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elements fake news and has described those elements as an enemy of the

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American people. Within the last few minutes the President has tweeted

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that he will not be attending the White House correspondents' annual

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dinner. Now this tweet is highly unusual because certainly this is a

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dinner, it's an annual glitter event with stars and press, and the

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President sit down together and put that animosity aside. The President

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has decided that's not for him. When it comes to the White House press

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association, they were already asking the White House about a press

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briefing yesterday where certain selected members of the media were

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allowed into a briefing by Sean Spicer, the press Secretary and

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others were not and they included CNN, the New York Times and the BBC.

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We have yet to hear from the White House why they were not allowed into

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that briefing and whether or not this will continue. But this latest

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tweet saying he will not attend the dinner shows that at that animosity

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that he feels for the press is not going away.

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Thank you. Malaysian security services have

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swept Kuala Lumpur airport for toxic chemicals after the half-brother

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of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-nam was killed

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using one of the world's Authorities have confirmed

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that the airport terminal is free from any traces of contamination,

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as our diplomatic correspondent A departures hall usually bustling

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with travellers. At the scene of the crime, the security services came

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kited out against chemical weapons. They were looking for traces of

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deadly toxins, including the nefb agent VX, an internationally banned

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weapon. The Malaysian authorities announced yesterday that it was VX

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that killed Kim Jong-nam and they've been under pressure to reassure the

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public that Kuala Lumpur's second international airport was safe. We

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confirm, number one, there is no hazardous material found. Number

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two, it is free from any form of contamination of hazardous material.

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Thirdly, it is declared a safe zone. The victim, Kim Jong-nam was the

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exiled elder half-brother of the New Yorken dictator Kim Jong-un. His --

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Indonesian diplomats said she had

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been paid just over ?70 to take part in what she thought was a reality

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show prank. She apparently told them she had no idea what she was

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handling. TRANSLATION: She only said she was

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given a kind of oil like baby oil. This is the other suspected killer.

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And here she is competing in in a talent contest. The Vietnamese

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Government said she too thought she was taking part in a prank. In the

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real world the Malaysian authorities are still investigating Kim

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Jong-nam's extraordinary murder. A North Korean diplomat wanted for

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questioning has yet to come forward. Caroline hauy, BBC News.

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Leicester City's former manager, Claudio Ranieri, has paid his last

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He was sacked on Thursday - just nine months after

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the team unexpectedly won the Premier League title.

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Leicester has been struggling this season and risks relegation.

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Ranieri told reporters he wanted to say goodbye

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I don't speak with anybody, just to say thank you to the fans,

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Because what we achieved in Leicester I hope could happen again,

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Was it emotional with the players in there?

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Do you feel stabbed in the back, Claudio, do you feel badly treated?

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In the Six Nations rugby, Scotland have beaten Wales

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A spirited second half saw them run out 29-13

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winners at Murrayfield to keep their championship

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And, Ireland beat France to maintain their challenge,

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You can lose yourself in Edinburgh, in the city of alleys it takes

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Blown off course last time, Scotland in Paris.

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One further false move for either and their

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For 20 minutes, so little ground given.

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Until Wales set off on the open road.

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Too quick to be stopped by any of Scotland's barriers.

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So they tried to catch them another way.

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But Leigh Halfpenny can kick to the horizon.

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In a city of train-spotting, try-spotting.

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They moved six points clear, then Wales responded.

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This time Rhys Webb asked the question but before he reached

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Under the pump Scotland have cracked in the past.

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A first Scottish victory over Wales in ten years.

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So 29-13 and all of this shows Scotland's rugby resurgence

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and proves they are very real contenders for this year's title.

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Which of Ireland and France could join them?

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That was always predicted to be tight.

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A game for spotting the tiniest of spaces.

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Back in the team to do this, a lovely drop.

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Now to gather that energy, for Ireland, as for Scotland,

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You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.

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. Good evening. Hot on the heels of storm Doris comes yet another named

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storm. It's a storm Ewan, it's heading our way, not as powerful as

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Doris was, but still a spell of wind and rain across

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