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Hello, this is BBC News with Ben Brown.

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We will be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment.

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First the headlines at 11:30pm: Britain's women set a new world

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record to triumph in the cycling team pursuit.

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Laura Trott becomes the first British woman ever to win three

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The feeling we were getting riding round, it just felt like this

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And, in an amazing day for British rowers, the men's team took gold

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and women grabbed silver in the rowing eights.

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And Britain is guaranteed at least a silver in the tennis,

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as Andy Murray powers through to his second Olympic final

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In other news: A British woman is the victim

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The father and first husband of Samia Shahid are held

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And in 15 minutes, Gavin Esler and Anna Smith discuss this week's

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new film releases, including the remake of the Disney classic

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

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With me are Caroline Wheeler, who is the political editor

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at the Sunday Express, and Ben Chu, who is Economics editor

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Tomorrow's front pages, starting with the Observer,

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which features an interview with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,

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in which he criticises his deputy Tom Watson.

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A poll for the Independent suggests Prime Minister Theresa May

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is Britain's most popular politician, and is even regarded

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positively by 20% of Labour supporters.

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The Sunday Telegraph has seen a leaked letter

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from the International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox,

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which suggests he and Boris Johnson are arguing about who controls key

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The Sunday Express announces that Princess Eugenie will be

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Her mother, the Duchess of York, says Eugenie and her partner have

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The Mail on Sunday shows cyclist Laura Trott and her team-mate

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Elinor Barker celebrating after Trott became the first British

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woman to win three Olympic gold medals.

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And the Sunday Times's lead story is about private briefings

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by Government ministers to City executives that Britain could remain

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a member of the EU until late 2019, a year

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later than previously anticipated.

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So let's kick off with that story in the Sunday Times. What do you make

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of that? Brexit will be delayed until the end of 2019. We never

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really knew when it was going to be. We knew that two years probably

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after the triggering of Article 50. Theresa May says Brexit means

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Brexit, not as you say she didn't say when. It takes two years to

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hammer out how you are going to leave and interestingly it is only

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after that process when you are allowed to have normal talks on

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trade negotiations with the rest of the EU after that. So they can do

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preparatory talks but nothing solid until after you have left the EU so

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the fact it has been delayed is very significant. This means an even

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longer period of uncertainty about what sort of relations the EU will

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have with us. Will that frustrate some of your readers who voted

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Brexit? Absolutely, this has always been the discussion point about when

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we are actually going to leave. One of the things about this is the talk

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about delaying it into 2019, which would only be one year away from the

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general election, which given the general support that Brexit was

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given, having won with 50% of the vote, that would be quite a

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dangerous strategy for Theresa May to take and there are already some

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quotes from Nigel Farage who is basically suggest in this would be a

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betrayal for those who backed Brexit and people would take to the streets

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in protest if this were actually the case. But it is not the first time

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this suggestion about the delay has been mooted, in fact it was

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suggested earlier in the week that they would delay triggering Article

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50 until after the elections in France and Germany, sort of saying

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that Paris and Berlin would give Britain a better deal, less of an

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indication they would have to look tough but they would be more

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sympathetic to our demands. Also on the Brexit story, the Sunday

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Telegraph has the row between the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson,

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and Liam Fox, the trade Secretary. You could argue it is two bald man

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arguing over a comb given they can't do anything until they have done

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Article 50 and left the EU. But what they are arguing about is who gets

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to call the economic shots in this Brexit game. Fox has written a

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letter to Johnson and copied in Theresa May, copying in the boss is

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quite a clever move. He was not impressed by this particular spat on

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here saying hand over the economic functions of the Foreign Office to

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me because that is what I should be doing, and you should be looking

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after the spies and the diplomacy, which is presumably playing to Boris

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Johnson's strengths. There have always been differences between

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Maurice Johnson and Liam Fox and I guess Theresa May must have known

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that when she appointed them. And also David Davis, the other

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Brexiteer in the government, they are the Three Brexiteers. It was all

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about how soon we would see the sparks fly. The suggestion is that

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Horace Johnson is good at going out on being the ambassador for Britain,

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rubbing shoulders with the Chinese, who love them, chatting away over

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the Ferrero Rocher. But you can imagine Liam is a bit frustrated

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because as you said we can only get to the nitty-gritty of the trade

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deals once we have actually left, and as we have seen in the Sunday

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Times the suggestion is that that has moved later and later on, so

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what is Liam's roll going to be? He can put his feet up until then and

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he has said he wants a role in this, I want something to do. Sparks

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flying in the government and also in the Labour Party, the interview with

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Jeremy Corbyn saying that Tom Watson, his Secretary, is talking

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nonsense about Trotskyite influences in the party. This is one of the

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differences between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, they both have a

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mandate and were elected to have completely collapsed in the last few

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days. Tom Watson gave an interview last week saying young arms are

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being twisted by older hands, implying that what is going on in

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the Labour Party is a manoeuvre by the hard left and there is not a

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surge of enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn so much as a hard left

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takeover. Jeremy Corbyn says that is absolute nonsense, and that Tom

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Watson knows it is nonsense. It seems that the relationship between

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these two key figures has completely broken down. There is also the story

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in the Sunday Times about Labour like Listing 1000 members --

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blacklisting 1000 members a day, as they try and stop members of rival

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parties and hard left factions influencing the party leadership

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contest. This is part of the same story, Corbyn is saying this is

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nonsense, there are an zero these entrists, and the response is that

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it is happening and there is what is described as a Trot hunt, they are

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weeding out these people trying to infiltrate the party when they are

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not pure Labour Party members. All of this is a fight for the heart and

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soul of the party, we have seen this to all the way to the High Court. We

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have seen it go to the High Court, the appeal Court, maybe the Supreme

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Court as well and Jeremy Corbyn is saying that is on the cards, about

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whether they can stop this 130,000 people who will get a vote on the

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leadership contest, and whether or not he can win that battle and get

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them to support him. Let's go on to the Mail on Sunday, because they

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have an interesting story about a new police unit to crack down

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controls on social media, a Twitter squad they have been nicknamed -- on

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trolls. What do you think of that? A lot of people will look at that

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Twitter squad and think it is about time as well. There is so much abuse

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that goes on on Twitter, so much while stuff lying around targeting

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women and public figures that it seems like the whole thing is out of

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control. There has been a lot of pressure on the Met and other police

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forces to do something about it, not to let this go under the radar or

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unchallenged. The Mail on Sunday takes a very different view, calling

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it the thought police, saying that tweets will be policed and police

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will be clamping down on petty jokes and nonserious insults, whatever.

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That is their view. A lot of people will take a different view. What is

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your view, do you think it is worthwhile? I totally do, having

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spoken to so many MPs who have been at the end of this kind of

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absolutely desperate trolling. It is really nasty stuff and it is not

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only not very nice, it is really like, is someone going to hurt a

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member of my family or do something very unpleasant to me? I think the

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fact that Scotland Yard are going to take this man is generally to be

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welcomed, although if you read the pages of the Mail on Sunday they

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have built this up as a story and then poured cold water all over it,

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which is an interesting tactic. It is an interesting tactic. Let's look

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at the express, your paper. You have a story about cuts to chemist shops.

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This story has been bubbling away for a while. Basically Budget cuts

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were announced for independent pharmacist earlier in the year at

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the former pharmacy minister suggested that this could result in

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the closure of 3000 chemist. The whole policy has been up in the air

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for some time, a decision was due to be made in July but hopes are now

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rising that Theresa May is going to drop the proposals. It comes as she

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speaks to her pharmacist just days after becoming Prime Minister, and

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he believed she wouldn't just wave through these cuts. It is very much

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a kind of wait and see. Obviously she has a lot of policy to look at

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and consider. It may not be until Parliament resumes before we see a

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conclusive answer to this one. The Express also have on their front

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page, Eugenie is to marry, a world exclusive. And she is eighth in line

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to the throne, so she is obviously a very significant member of the Royal

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Family for the top I have also discovered she does a lot of

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holidays. She is an Olympian level of holidaymaker, this royal. She has

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been a way I think it is 17 times in the last 15 months, something crazy

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like that. So is she going to marry, is she not going to marry? It may

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not happen, according to the statement from her mother. The

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statement from our royal correspondent, who spoke to a

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spokesman for Sarah the Duchess of York, they are a couple, but there

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are no plans for them to get married next year. What I can tell you about

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this story, not having been party to it during the course of it, it is

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written by probably one of the best royal correspondent in the business.

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Her sources are absolutely impeccable, and again, we wouldn't

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put that kind of story on our front page with a big banner saying world

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exclusive if there wasn't some truth to it. From what we understand the

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parents had been informed of their plans to marry and they are

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renovating an apartment in which they will go on to live. I think it

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is one of those situations where when is a plan to marry a plan to

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marry? Is it when you say you are thinking of getting married, when

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you put the ring on the finger, or when you actually walked down the

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aisle? I think watch this space on this one. It is definitely the mood

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music coming from the palace that there is something in the offing. It

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is definitely a maybe. Let's finally talk about the Olympics which are

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going rather well. Third in the medal table. Third in the medal

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table, almost as good as in London, which when you think about it is

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incredible. Considering that was a big one, all that money, all that

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pressure, all that enthusiasm, and all that support on home soil as

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well. It seems to have extended another four years, which is great.

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And the cyclist, those who did well got extra funding, so it makes sense

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that that success might continue. The point has been made that cycling

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is just a medals machine for GB, and I don't think there is much call to

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stop funding it now continuing -- considering it continues to deliver

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and deliver. Given the size of Great Britain, if you consider the

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powerhouses we are competing against, to be third in the medals

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table is absolutely astonishing and more medals in the offing. We still

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haven't seen our track and field events which we traditionally do

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quite well at so this could be an absolutely number year for us. It is

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difficult times, you have to stay up through the night. I haven't caught

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much at work this week, but may son is a fan of the diving. Tom Daley

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has a lot to answer for, as he throws himself into the pool from

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ever increasing heights. Maybe he will get a gold medal in a few

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years' time. Thank you for being with us to review the papers. Coming

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up next on BBC News is the film

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