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The International Monetary Fund backs the Government over cutting

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the deficit but washes it may need to do more to support the British

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economy. IMF boss Christine Lagarde warns the Chancellor to prepare a

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plan B in case growth fails to take off. Growth is too slow and

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unemployment, including youth unemployment, too high. Policies to

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bolster demand before low growth becomes entrenched are needed.

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There's better news for consumers. Inflation has fallen to 3%, its

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lowest rate for for two years. The jury in the Shafilea Ahmed case

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is told her sister says she witnessed her murder but kept it

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secret for seven years. The MP whose campaign helped to

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expose hacking at News International gives evidence to the

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Leveson Inquiry. Lighting up the Queen's Jubilee,

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how the army's been called in for a spot of heavy lifting.

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Hundreds of suspected cancer patients may have missed treatment

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because of mistakes. And the GM wheat trial bracing it self for the

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pocket of -- possibility of more Good afternoon.

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The International Monetary Fund has warned the Government it may need

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to cut taxes such as VAT to boost growth, if the economy recovery

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fails to take off. The IMF backed the Government on cutting the the

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deficit but suggested new spending on infrastructure as well as

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further monetary stimulus by the Bank of England, including the

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possibility of cutting interest rates even further, but there was

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some good news for consumers. Inflation has fallen back to 3%,

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its lowest rate in more than two years. Our correspondent Emma

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Simpson reports. Thousand get our economy back on

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its feet? Today came a warning from the IMF, the global financial

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watchdog that if if things deteriorate the Government will

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need to take action. The IMF boss was in town delivering the latest

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verdict on the UK economy. Unfortunately, the economic

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recovery in the UK has not yet taken hold and uncertainties abound.

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The stresses in the euro area affect the UK through many channels.

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Growth is too slow and unemployment, including youth unemployment, too

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high. Policies to bolster demand before low growth becomes

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entrenched are needed. Policies like a temporary cut in VAT, and

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spending more money on infrastructure projects, even a

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further cut in interest rates to boost growth. But the Chancellor

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insisted the Government was still on the right track. The IMF could

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not be clearer today. Britain needs to deal with its debts and the

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Government's fiscal policy is the appropriate one, and an essential

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part of our road to recovery. there was also some good news today,

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a big drop in inflation down from 3.5% in March, to 3% last month. It

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was helped by a big drop in the cost of furniture, down by just

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over 1%. That's a relief to this toy

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retailer in Buckinghamshire. Prices have been rising for the goods that

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they buy, increases they haven't been able to pass on to shoppers.

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We are seeing increasing costs. We are seeing increasing costs from

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some of the items we import from the Far East, shipping costs and

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some factory gate prices are increasing. But at the moment the

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confidence in the UK is low at retail level and for this reason we

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don't feel it possible we can pass on increase in cost to consumers.

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Today's fall in inflation is welcome news, but household

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finances are still under pressure, for instance, wages aren't growing

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near enough to keep up with the cost of living.

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Inflation may befalling, but at this football club parents told us

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they had yet to reap the benefits. I can still notice that food has

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gone up. Everything's gone up, even school clubs like this one. You cut

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down on everything and if you see the bargains in supermarkets,

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things that are cheaper, you buy them. The Government's hoping this

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fall in inflation will continue, but the fate of our economy is very

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much linked to how the eurozone crisis develops and it's far from

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clear how that game is going to play out.

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Our economics editor Stephanie Flanders is in Westminster. The IMF

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has been going through the books. What struck you about what

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Christine Lagarde had to say? was a case of nice policies, shame

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about the economy. There was a lot of support for what the Government

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had been doing so far, and a lot of blunt words about what had been

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happening to the economy. They did seem to think the Bank of England

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should do more now to help the recovery, maybe even cut interest

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rates from the very low level they're currently at, 0.5%, and

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pump more money into the economy. There was a long list of things

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that Christine Lagarde thought the Chancellor should be doing. What

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was important for the Chancellor was that most of those things were

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things that he or the Prime Minister have actually talked about.

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Credit easing, for example, doing more to make things easier for

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businesses to borrow and to improve and have more infrastructure

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projects financesed by the private sector, they've talked about those

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things although they haven't delivered all of them. Was it

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tantamount to criticism of Government policy? Obviously, the

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Shadow Chancellor has jumped on the second part of the IMF report,

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which talks about if things get worse what the Government might

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need to do, the plan B, if you like, and there they did suggest there

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might be a case for temporary tax cuts, like the temporary VAT cut

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that Ed Balls has been suggesting. The crucial thing for the

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Chancellor, for George Osborne, was that they're not saying it's time

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for that yet. They've said that in the past and they still don't think,

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although forecasts have got worse, the IMF doesn't think it's bad

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enough to go there just yet. Thank you very much.

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The jury in the Shafilea Ahmed murder trial has been told that her

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younger sister says she saw her being suffocated by her parents but

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kept it secret for seven years. Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed are

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accused of killing Shafilea, both parents deny the charges. Our

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correspondent Jude it Moritz -- Judith more sits at the Crown Court.

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What happened? The prosecution finished setting out its case

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against Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed by outlining evidence which the

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jury are going to hear later this afternoon. The court heard that

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back two years ago in 2010 Alesha Ahmed had been involved in

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organising a robbery at the Ahmed family home, it's a crime she

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pleaded guilty to and is expecting to be sentenced for. Then the jury

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were told that at that time two years ago sthaoe -- she spoke to

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police and revealed in 2003 she had witnessed their parents, I have and

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Farzana Ahmed, suffocating Shafilea by putting a plastic bag in the

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teenager's mouth and placing their hands across her face and the jury

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were told she will hear later from Alesha Ahmed she saw her mother in

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the kitchen with sheeting and with rolls of tape and her father

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outside with a heavy object wrapped in bin liners which she assumes was

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Shafilea's body. The jury were told that when she hear this evidence

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later they'll need to bear in mind the question of whether Alesha

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Ahmed is lying, somehow to help her when she comes to be sentenced for

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her part in that robbery, or whether she is telling the truth

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and this is a a secret she's lived with for years before relations

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with her parents became tomorrowics. -- toxic.

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Tom Watson, the Labour MP whose campaign helped to expose phone

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hacking at News International has told the Leveson Inquiry that the

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Ministers in the last Labour Government were constantly mindful

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of how their actions would be portrayed by Rupert Murdoch's

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newspapers. He is the MP who spear-headed the

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assault on News International. you mislead this committee in your

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original testimony? No, I did not. Today, Tom Watson told the Leveson

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Inquiry how News International had retaliated against the members of

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the committee. He recalled a warning he had received from a

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senior journalist on the News of the World, Neville Thurlbeck.

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Neville Thurlbeck on a number of occasions alleged there was an

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attempt to gather information on committee members in order to, he

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uses the word smear, effectively, he is alleges a conspiracy to

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blackmail members of the committee. Counsel for News International said

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Mr Watson had been the only member of the committee the paper had

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taken an interest in. Mr Watson described how in a debate in the

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Commons in 2010, he had spoken about his fear of News

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International. At that debate I - it was the first time that I had

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sort of said in the chamber that I was frightened and scared and a

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number of MPs afterwards said I am so pleased you said that, I felt

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the same. I got the distinct sense that there was - this was a

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solitary fear that they had felt they could then share with

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colleagues and they weren't the only ones. Mr Watson also said that

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at one point Gordon Brown had telephoned him to warn him that

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Tony Blair had been asked by Rupert Murdoch to get him to ease off on

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his inquiries. I can tell you the exact position I was standing when

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I took the phone call, because the idea that Rupert Murdoch would call

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Tony Blair or Gordon Brown to phone me is not the sort of thing a back

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bench MP would forget too easy. Watson said that within the last

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Labour Government there was a mystique about News International

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and constant attention to how policies would be portrayed in the

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Sun. A radical overhaul of the way

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antisocial behaviour is tackled in England and Wales means the end for

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the ASBO. The antisocial behaviour order will be replaced with new

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orders and something called the community trigger. That's where

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police will have to step in if five people across the same

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neighbourhood complain or if one person makes three complaints.

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Our correspondent Chris Buckler reports.

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From noise to nuisance, and vandalism to violence, antisocial

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behaviour takes many forms. Today, the Home Secretary took to the

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streets where people have had to deal with that trouble and after 15

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years during which they were one of the main tools to deal with bad

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behaviour, Theresa May signalled an end to the ASBO. What we see with

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ASBOs is despite them having been in place for many years now, we

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still see three million million incidents of antisocial behaviour

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reported each year and that's probably not the full number. It's

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probably more than that in terms of the number of incidents because

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some people don't report because they don't think anything's going

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to happen. The replacements will share some of the qualities of

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ASBOs. They will include criminal behaviour orders. Crime prevention

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injunctions, which require a lower standard of proof, and the

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community trigger, which would force the police and others to act

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if they received several complaints. Mary Armstrong is one of the

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campaigners who met Theresa May. She says to improve areas problems

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need to be dealt with more quickly. If you have somebody causing

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antisocial behaviour, and they think that nobody's going to do

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anything about that, they will fill a diary in but nobody will do

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anything, that's fuel for them. They'll do it all the more.

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Government insists the new proposals are speedier and simpler,

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but the Labour Party has described them as a weak rebrand of ASBOs.

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There is a deep divide over how successful antisocial behaviour

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orders really were. Some people will tell that you ASBOs made a

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real difference to theirs lives t stopped trouble-making in their

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neighbourhood. But there are others who say that youths weren't scared

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of the orders. In fact, they regarded ASBOs as a badge of honour.

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But some question if the new ideas, like community triggers, will make

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a difference. I couldn't get five people on my street to do

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statements or go to court. Why not? Because they're too scared of being

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targeted. Whether what some people are already calling crimbos will

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have more teeth than ASBOs will depend on part on that you they're

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used. The Government has published plans

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to try to wean the country off its reliance on fossil fuels. The draft

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energy bill includes plans to encourage investment in low low

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carbon technology and to offer companies long-term contracts with

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predictable rates of return. A judgment is to be made on whether

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prisoners will be given the right to vote. The Government will have

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six months on to decide how to implement decisions here.

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Infertility treatment on how the NHS in England and Wales could be

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extended to women up to the age of 42. This is part of the new

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proposals from Nice which sets the clinical guidelines for the health

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service. New guidelines mean more people

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should now be eligible for NHS funding. That help has come too

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late for Justine. She's already spent �34,000 on treatment after

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being told she didn't qualify for help. It's frustrating watching

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money that you have saved carefully be spent on treatment that you

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think you should have been eligible for and it's frustrating knowing

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that other people get treated for other problems but I can't be

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treated for mine. These new guidelines on fertility

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treatment should help a small group of women up to the age of 42 who

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are excluded under the previous guidelines and they will also hope

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up -- open up treatment to people with serious illness. Much despite

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huge advances in recent years it's still the case that as you get

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older your chances of a successful IVF treatment fall. For women under

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the age of 35 around a third will be successful.

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For women aged 38-49, the success rate is less than 20%.

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And for women aged 40-42 it's over 12%. There's no way around the fact

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that pregnancy rates do decrease as you get older and rapidly over the

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age of 40. But if the funding is not there, patients are not going

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to get patient access to that treatment.

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Patient groups have welcomed the new guidelines but they say they'll

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be meaningless as too many Primary Care Trusts have yet to fully

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implement the the 2004 guidelines but with budgets squeezed they're

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having to make hard decisions about Our top story this lunch time: The

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International Monetary Fund backs the Government over cutting the

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deficit, but warns it may need to do more to support the British

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economy. Coming up: For one night only, back to celebrate its 30th

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birthday, Manchester's legendary Hacienda club.

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On BBC London: On strike, teachers take industrial action over plans

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to force a failing school to turn into an academy.

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And how you can play every A Coroner has ruled that I British

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soldier, killed whilst on active service in Afghanistan, was

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accidentally shot by a British sniper. Lance Corporal Michael

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Pritchard was 22 and served with the Royal Military Police. He was

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fatally shot in Sangin in 2009. The inquest heard that the Army sniper

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who shot him had not been trained to fire his weapon at night. Royal

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Military Policeman Michael Pritchard was described by his

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family as a lover of life who brought joy to all who knew him. He

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was just 22 when he was killed on his first tour of Afghanistan. It

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was at the end of 2009, the deadliest year for British troops

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in Helmand. Michael was sent to Sangin, the most dangerous part.

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His unit targeted by Taliban bombs and bullets on a daily basis. That

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December night was dark. There was no moonment British troops at their

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post used heat-seeking sites. They observed what they thought were

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Taliban laying a bomb. In fact what they were seeing was another

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British post, marked here as N30, it was manned by Michael Pritchard

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and his comrades. Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham was the sniper who

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fired the fatal shot. He told the inquest it he -- if he had known

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where British troops were in the area, that he would not have shot

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one round. Soldiers weren't aware of the exact position of friendly

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forces, nor was permission given to fire the fatal shots. Though at the

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time radio communications weren't working properly. The Coroner said

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fundamentally this th was an accidentally, albeit an avoidable

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one. He said the basic reason for the tragedy was the failure of

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organisation systems needed to avoid friendly fire.

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After the verdict of accidental death, Michael Pritchard's mother

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gave her reaction. Evidence heard during the inquest indicated that

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regular, essential and basic briefings to ensure the safety of

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friendly forces were not carried out. Radio communication problems,

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other robust procedures and poor leadership culminated of Michael

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being observed approximately for one hour by several people who came

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to the same wrong conclusion, leading to Michael being shot by a

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British sniper firing a lethal shot over restricted fire line towards

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an observation post. In a statement the Army said its thoughts and

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prayers were with Michael's family. A military investigation found

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failings on that tragic night, but no-one's been charged.

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The quality of maths teaching in England is inconsistent and exams

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on the subject have become easier, says the schools watchdog Ofsted.

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It says the way the subject is taught lets down able pupils and

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those who have a poor start. Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

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good grasp of maths can change people's lives and here, at Perry

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Beeches School in Birmingham, three quarters of pupils get a good maths

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GCSE. It's a much improved school in a deprived area of the city. All

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pupils here, including the low achievers are put in for maths a

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year early. The head teacher says that helps the less confident

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pupils. Seeing them initially in for a lower tier paper and when

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they're past that stage, putting them into the higher tier paper has

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proved successful here. Ofsted says taking GCSEs early is a bad idea as

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it can prevent more able pupils from reaching their full potential.

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It says changes to GCSE and A-level maths exams have made them less

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challenging. Ofsted says the picture's not all bad. There are

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examples of excellent teaching. There are more pupils sitting maths

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A-level and exam results are going up. Because maths is essential for

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everyday life, the points of weakness in the system are worrying.

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Both strong and weak mathematicians are being let down. Those pupils

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who fall behind early on, struggle to ever catch up, the brightest

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aren't being stretched. youngsters who are achieving above

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national norms, at the end of primary school, achieving level

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five, should be getting As and A stars and Bs five years late wher

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they come to do GCSEs. But too many are not. Changes to the curriculum

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are due to be announced soon. Without more rigour, Ofsted warns

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the future supply of mathematicians, scientists and engineers is under

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threat. One of Scotland's largest companies

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says more than 80% of apprenticeship applicants aren't

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suitable for any job. Arnold Clark say most have a poor attitude and

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are shocked at hours they're expected to work.

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Lorna Gordon reports. These are some of the successful

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ones, working at around orld Clark's training centre in Glasgow.

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The motor dealership claims the vast majority of those applying for

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their specialised apprenticeships are falling short. In many cases it

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will be simple qualifications they lack. In other cases, it will be

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perhaps they would lack an aptitude for this particular industry.

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they claim too many youngsters applying for job was them have a

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poor attitude, poor communication skills and are not able to adjust

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to the length of the working week the figures are quite shocking. The

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firm had more than 2,000 applications for apprenticeships

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last year. They concluded that around 80% of those people were not

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fit to be employed. But this youth worker says the people he helps are

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not being given a fair chance. adults are just as unemployable as

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young people. It's just that people aren't taking the time to help them

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get into the job, get them suited to the job and help them progress.

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Apprenticeships are a traditional way of entering the workforce, one

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the Scottish Government is keen to encourage. They are likely to

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listen closely to what big employers uction who provide those

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opportunities, have to say. They're the beacons that will shine

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around the UK to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and work is well

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under way on building them. Soldiers from the Army Air Corps in

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North Yorkshire are using a training exercise to create one of

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them. It weighs more than ten tons. They've been using an

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unconventional method to get it done. Our Defence Correspondent

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Jonathan Beale reports. This is all about the Jubilee beacons that will

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lit. This meadow in the Yorkshire Dales has been turned into an

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airfield today. What they've been using the helicopter to do is move

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wood up onto the hills. They're here for good operational reasons

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as well. Over the high hills of the Yorkshire Dales today, the Army

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were at work. A lynx helicopter, which took part in a fly-past for

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the Queen at the weekend, could be seen ferrying wood to the top of

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the fell. This, another kind of royal duty. Its cargo - timber for

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a Jubilee beacon. This isn't just about helping a local community

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build their Jubilee beacon. These troops will soon be deploying to

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Afghanistan, so they're treating today as an important exercise.

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What's the relevance between this and Afghanistan, we're a world

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away? We dot same sort of thing, netted loads, bringing them to

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resupply everyone. It's the same sort of thing, apart from using

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wood apart from water and ammo. Wensleydale, a traditional scene

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was complimented -- complemented by troops preparing the wood for take-

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off. It is dangerous. It's making sure the loads are checked before

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they fly to make sure they're safe to fly. It's very important. The

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last thing you want is when the aircraft is flying for that load to

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drop, something goes wrong, or drop below, damage equipment or even

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people. Back on Penhill beacon the merry-go-round of loads continue to

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be dropped off, ready to be built into a big bonfire. The last time

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we had a biggish one like this, there could be 200 people turn up,

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if it's a nice night. The usual procedure, they follow the track up

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here and stand up here and all have a good time while we light the fire.

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This and thousands of other Jubilee beacons will be lit Monday, June

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4th. If the weather stays like this, they could be -- there could be

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quite a crowd. Some 4,000 of those beacons will be lit on Monday 4th

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June. Because it's close to mid- summer, they won't be lit until

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about 10pm, so the full effect can be lit. Her Majesty the Queen is

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lighting the very last one in London, after all the others have

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been lit across the UK. It's sure to be a big occasion. Thank you

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very much. For the first time, a commercial

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rocket has blasted off to take supplies to the International Space

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Station. The Falcon rocket took off from Cape Canaveral. It's expected

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to take two days to reach the station. The cargo also includes

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the ashes of 300 sci-fi fan atics, including James Doohan who played

:26:33.:26:38.

Scotty in Star Trek. Their remains will be jettisoned into space.

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Once dubbed the most famous nightclub in the world, the

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Hacienda in Manchester became notorious for drug dealing and gang

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violence. It closed in 1997. Last night it was revived for a one-off

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party to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The atmosphere of the

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80s and 90s had to be recreated in the undergroufpbd car park of a

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block of flats on the site. This report contains flashing images.

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The Hacienda was back. The club where Madonna made her first UK

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appearance, acid house boomed and the Manchester movement took hold

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shut in 1997. Where the Hacienda once stood, there's now an pa

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partment block. The residents have been persuaded to move their

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vehicles out of the car park so the club can be re-created. This is

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where the original dance floor was in the Hacienda. Now it's where

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young professionals park their cars. But for one night only, it's

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returned to its original purpose. Yeah, it's great. New order's Peter

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Hook co-owns the Hacienda and wanted its 30th birthday to be

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commemorated. The people were very gracious, very, very sort of happy

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to help because of the heritage, because they know what the Hacienda

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meant to so many people in Manchester. At the end of the 80s,

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the Hacienda was all about expanded trousers. Last night there were

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more expanded waistlines. Familiar faces from the club's history had

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returned. The best thing whatever happens to the place was it closing

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down. Why? Because it's got its legendary status now. I couldn't

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believe it, I came in before and it's the same bouncers who threw me

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out about in 1999. Others were thrilled to be re-living their

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youth. I've got all those old feelings back again, you know.

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Today, the impromptu Hacienda is being dismantled and the cars will

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return. The memories will be parked once more.

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once more. Summer might just be here, Nina?

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It was chilly this morning, but temperatures have been climbing,

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across the country we've seen heat build underneath sunny skies. We've

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got temperatures in the low 20s at the moment. Top temperature

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currency in Southampton at around 23 degrees. Can you see that range

:29:07.:29:12.

of temperatures. Just along the East Coast, it's cooler. We have

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the breeze coming in off the North Sea. Away from the coasts, it is

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going to be a fine afternoon, with that warmth and yet more sunshine

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around. The sunshine is a little bit hazy out towards the west.

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Northern Ireland, Cornwall as well, but elsewhere we have clear skies.

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We could end up in the mid-20s by the end of the afternoon. Tonight,

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we begin with clear skies. We are going to see misty lo cloud across

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south-west England, Wales and also the East Coast of Scotland and

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eastern England. Through the night, that creeps further inland. So, 8pm

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in the morning, -- 8am in the morning, it's grey across Devon and

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Cornwall. Temperatures not bad though, 12 degrees to begin the day.

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Coastal areas of Wales having some of the overcast skies. Inland,

:29:59.:30:03.

sunshine at 8am. For Northern Ireland, it's a dry start to the

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day. Somewhat cloudy, with the best of the brightness in counties

:30:08.:30:12.

Antrim and Down. For the North West of Scotland, fine, dry and bright.

:30:12.:30:15.

Along the Aberdeen coastline and through the central low lands it's

:30:15.:30:19.

a bit grey to begin the day. We have the misty low cloud for

:30:19.:30:23.

eastern England, also the small chance of perhaps a few showers,

:30:23.:30:26.

particularly across East Anglia. Already beginning the day with

:30:26.:30:30.

temperatures in London at 15 degrees. As the cloud breaks up,

:30:30.:30:34.

and we see sunny spells developing for the afternoon, yet again it

:30:34.:30:38.

will be a warm day. Always the risk of the cloud clinging to the

:30:38.:30:41.

coastline and a very small chance of prpz a heavy shower for the

:30:41.:30:46.

afternoon. Temperatures could reach highs of about 25 degrees in the

:30:46.:30:50.

south. We do it all again on Thursday. A bit misty with cloud to

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begin the day. It burns back to the coast come the afternoon. Most

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places are dry with a very small of a shower. Another very warm

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afternoon. We could be even warmer through the day on Thursday. As for

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the end of the week, we keep the sunshine with temperatures in the

:31:06.:31:09.

low 20s, but the breeze will tend to strengthen. It's coming in from

:31:09.:31:13.

the east. If you're worried about the weekend, I can offer you more

:31:13.:31:17.

sunshine and temperatures should anybody the low 20s. Always feeling

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cooler along the East Coast with the brisk wind. If you'd like more

:31:20.:31:24.

the brisk wind. If you'd like more details, take a look online.

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