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it up in an hour and a half, as great and leave the USA in a Davis

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cup tie, after he wins the first singles rubber in San Diego. Hello

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and welcome to our look at the papers tomorrow. Tomorrow's front

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pages. The Mail's front page is dominated by Amanda Knox's TV

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interview after her conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher.The

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Mirror leads with the same story, with Knox insisting she'll fight to

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the end. "Cameron's EU strategy is dealt a double blow", according to

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the FT. That's after the Prime Minister's

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talks with President Hollande and a Lords defeat.

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The Independent has news that the chair of Ofsted is to leave her post

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at the end of the month. The Telegraph claims English is no

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longer the first language for the majority of pupils in more than one

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in nine schools. Education also features in the

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Times, with news that the government wants children to take school tests

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at the age of four. The i reports an attack by Prince

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Charles on climate change sceptics. He describes them as the "headless

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chicken brigade". Finally, the Guardian says a third

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of the mansions on London's billionaires row are standing empty.

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Let's begin with that reinstatement of those guilty verdict is in

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Florence last night. 24 hours ago we were talking about this, Amanda Knox

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and Raffaele Sollecito having those convictions for the murder of

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Meredith Kercher upheld. Amanda Knox appeared on American TV following

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her reinstated guilty verdict for Meredith's death. It makes several

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of the front pages. I don't suppose we should be surprised because they

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have always been fascinated by Amanda Knox. The Daily Mirror calls

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her the ice maiden and the Daily Mirror -- the Daily Mail describes

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it as a brazen charm offensive. The Independent also has a picture of

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Amanda Knox alongside the caption, loneliness of the long-distance

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fugitive. There is no doubt in their minds about whether she was rightly

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or not -- wrongly convicted. I know. The way they talk about her is that

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she is guilty. Which an Italian court has said she is. It has been

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such a long process. You can be left confused about what the situation

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is. They talk about her appearing on television in full make-up. The

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minute you walk into a TV station, they slap make up onto you. That is

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what happens. I just get a really bad feeling from it. Obviously, the

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people I am really concerned about are the family of the victim. And

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yet so often we do not see the pic of the woman who was killed,

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Meredith Kercher. It is Amanda Knox who is constantly on the front page.

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It is almost like she has become a character in the whole scheme of

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things. It is that whole thing of calling her Foxy Knoxy and all of

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that sort of stuff, I think it is very strange. Seven-year is since

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Meredith Kercher died, and her family, it seems, still cannot be

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sure this is the verdict that is going to stand. Absolutely. Seven

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years down the line, three court cases now. And the Daily Mail is

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right, this is a TV charm offensive designed to try to prevent

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extradition. Meredith Kercher's family are left, still, not really

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knowing what happened to their sister and daughter on that night,

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and probably without any end in sight, at least for a very long

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time. Because of the Italian court system, they can go back with an

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appeal. Even an extradition, if it were to go ahead, would be a year

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away, so there is uncertainty for everyone. The Americans have already

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been poking at the Italian system, saying it is not a system they

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trust. When it comes to the extradition, Americans are going to

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be American and say, why are we going to send her back there. You

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look at it through the prism of your own judicial system. If you have a

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system of double jeopardy, as in the United States, they cannot

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understand why in Italy you can be tried, in effect, for a second time

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for the same crime. We will see a lot more high-profile TV interviews.

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She was on good morning America, which has millions of viewers. It is

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a real appeal to public opinion to get public outrage behind her to put

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pressure on politicians. As we know, extraditions are a legal issue but

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they are political as much as anything else. She wants American

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politicians to be batting for her. A test of extradition treaties,

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particularly when we know that the United States always wants

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extradition treaties to be honoured when people are going the other way.

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We have issues with them ourselves, don't we? Some people are extradited

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to America. Not necessarily seen the other way. Let's move on and talk

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about one of a number of education stories on the front pages. This is

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the Independent, beneath the picture of Amanda Knox, Michael Gove Sax

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Ofsted chief. This is Baroness Morgan, who was a very close aide to

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Tony Blair, but also appointed by the coalition three-year is ago to

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be the chair of the schools Inspectorate, Ofsted. We understand,

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Kate, you will probably know more about this, the tensions there have

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been within the various bodies looking after education. There has

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been an extraordinary spat about Ofsted, the future of Ofsted and

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what Michael Gove was going to do with it. He had to make a statement

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only a few days ago saying he would sack anybody who would be briefing

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against Ofsted, and now we discover that Baroness Morgan is going to not

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get a second term. She is not being kept on. It is a strange situation

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because her tenure should come to an end at the end of this month, which

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is today, but she is likely to be kept on until they can find a

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successor, until the autumn. It is a peculiar mixed message. Her tenure

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has come to an end but she is staying on until they can find

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someone to take over. That is politics. I think there is a lot of

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politics going on. Despite the fact that she was closely linked to Tony

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Blair, she also supported the free schools policy. That is why she

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might have been useful to Michael Gove until now. There has been a

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statement from Michael Gove regarding the dismissal of Baroness

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Morgan. He says he would like to thank her for a tremendous

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contribution to the work of Ofsted, bringing great knowledge and

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insight. You would think she was stepping down of her own volition,

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the way this is worded, but it is never that straightforward. What is

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going on behind this is that Michael Gove is very much trying to appeal

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not to the education establishment, who he has shown he is not afraid of

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antagonising, but the judgement he is making is that something needs to

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be done to help standards in schools and that that will appeal to parents

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who will vote. But it will not be easy to find an appointment that

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satisfies everybody, particularly so close to an election, and I think

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there has been a complaint to the Cabinet Secretary to stop Tory

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ministers making party political appointments that are not

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necessarily approved of by the Lib Dems. The thing that I remember most

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is about when Tim Lawton was sacked as the children's minister. That man

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was loved by people in the field, and there was total shock when he

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was sacked by people working in that field. Again, we will have to wait

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and see what comes out. They know who they are going to a point, but

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it is a case of waiting to see what happens. We will come back to

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education in a moment. Here is the financial Times main story -

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Cameron's EU strategy dealt a double blow. This is after he met the

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French president at Brize Norton today and resident Holland said now

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is not the time to think about treaty changes. -- resident Holland.

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It is a problem for David Cameron. Just to see them on stage together,

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it shows the international diplomacy. Body language was

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interesting. I heard they were in a pub as well. Maybe he did not like

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the beer. There was also a problem today for the Prime Minister in that

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the Lords have done in the bill that would have underpinned this

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referendum on our continued relationship with the EU. You wonder

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where the Prime Minister goes with this. He is still talking about the

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referendum in 2017. Yes, he is, but the noises from number ten are very

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much a blame game, saying, look at the Labour Party and the Liberal

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Democrats. It is their fault the bill is not happening. They are

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trying to put Bush on the parties without putting too much pressure,

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because they want to go into the next election saying, only the

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Conservatives will give you this referendum. I must ask you what you

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made of Christopher Hope from the Telegraph was Mac temerity, in

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asking the president if he has made France a laughing stock with his

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private life, if he is still in a relationship with Julie Gayet, and

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if he is sorry that she is not here. French journalists do not understand

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the fixation with that question. Absolutely, the French media and

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French MPs are considering that British journalists have insulted

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the French president, and it is because they have a tradition of

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being deferential to their political leaders. And in Britain we have a

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tradition of asking very tough questions to people in power, and I

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think that is what we get from a free press, and we should be proud

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of it. You would feel you are not doing your job properly if you had

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not asked it. Let's move on to the Telegraph, another education story

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with England a second language at one in nine schools. What is the

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point of the story? It's in the Telegraph, so that might be a

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pointer. It's not news. It's something that I hear all the time.

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I am not sure what their motivation is. There have not been any figures

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or anything else like that released. They say it has gone up 10% since

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2009. It says the majority of children in 755 primary and

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secondary schools spoke another language at home following a sharp

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increase in the pupils with foreign-born parents. They saying it

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is a good or a bad thing? -- are they saying? One thing they are

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saying is that these schools were all mainly rated good or outstanding

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by Ofsted. So it's not a disadvantage to speak more than one

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language. They do talk about the things that the schools are doing as

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well to help pupils and to help the society within the school. They are

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pointing out that we are expecting a kind of explosion in the number of

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kids going to school in the coming years, because we are seeing a

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rising birth rate. It's nothing we haven't seen before. We saw this in

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the early 1980s, so it is about whether we allocate resources and

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how do we deal with it? More teachers having to cope with

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children who do not speak English as fluently as they might want. I

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always think having a second language is a real skill. It's

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something lacking in my life. I wish I had spoken to languages. Prince

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Charles attacking the climate headless chickens. He often gets

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criticised the commenting on anything. But he might be criticised

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if he did not make a comment at all. I often agree with a lot of things

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he says. I remember when he talked about buildings being carbuncles,

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and a lot of people think he should not say things like this. Should he

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be? As the heir to the throne? I am torn. One of the interesting things

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about him saying this is it shows the rise and influence of

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anti-climate change groups. That is it for this hour, but David and Kate

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will be with us at 11:30pm. Stay with us on BBC News because at 11

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o'clock we have more on the heavy weather which is starting to batter

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the UK. Coming up next, Sports day. -- Sportsday.

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15 minutes left of the transfer window now and the deadline day

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drama could come from Anfield. Andy Flower calls for a clean slate after

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he steps down as England team director

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