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The future of social care in England. Ministers set out plans

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this lunchtime. Loans will be on offer to those in

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residential homes, but there's no conclusion on reforming the funding

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of the system. The white paper I'm publishing today represents the

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greatest transformation of the system since 1948.

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Former England captain John Terry tells a court he's done nothing

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wrong, as he continues his defence against allegations of racist abuse.

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Thousands turn out in support of Spanish miners who've walked

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hundreds of miles to Madrid to protest about swingeing austerity

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cuts. The death of Shafilea Ahmed - her

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father breaks down in court as he denies murdering her.

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Dairy farmers claim they're being milked, as companies cut the price

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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The future of social care in England is being set out by the

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Health Secretary this lunchtime. The Government's plans include

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offering elderly people Government- backed loans, so that the sale of

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their homes can be delayed until after their death. But it's not yet

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clear how this proposal will be funded or how the social care

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system as a whole will be paid for in the long term. Here's our social

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affairs correspondent, Alison Holt. For 61 years Geoffrey and Barbara

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Bostock have been married, bringing up a family, building a home

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together. But Alzheimer's has now robbed Barbara of those memories.

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One of the hardest tasks I have to do is getting her undressed at

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night and into her nightie and into bed. She sees me as a dirty old man,

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and not her husband of 61 years. Today's white paper promises to

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make it easier for people like the Bostocks to get information about

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what help might be available. As things are, they feel completely

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let down. They are giving us the absolute minimum. When we die, they

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are going to take 40% in inheritance tax. It is just not

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fair. The Social Care Bill includes plans for deferred loans with

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interest that will allow people to pay care home bills without selling

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their house until later. It expands an existing scheme. If a person

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moves areas, their care plan will move with them. And the postcode

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lottery which means you get different support in different

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places will be tackled. The white paper I'm publishing today

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represents the greatest transformation of the system since

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1948. The practical effect will be to give service users their carers

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and their families more peace of mind. Services will be organised

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around each individual's care and support needs, their goals and

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aspirations. With no answers on the money, this white paper fails the

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credibility test. It is half a plan. The proposals he has set out today

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are in danger of appearing meaningless and may in fact raise

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false hopes amongst older people, their carers and families. Missing

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from the plans here at the Department of Health is any clear

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decision on how this under-pressure overstretched system will be funded

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in future. That's been pushed out until the Treasury sets out the

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next Comprehensive Spending Review. The Government says it agrees in

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principle with the cap on how much someone should have to pay for care,

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but there is dismay among many that the tough decisions on funding

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haven't been made. We face serious challenges today with local

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authorities being cash strapped, restricting access to social care.

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Many older and disabled people are not get the support they need now.

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The update to the care system in England will be carefully watched

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elsewhere in the UK, but the pressure to sort out how it is paid

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for will only increase. With me is Ros Altmann. She's an

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economist and the director-general of Saga. What difference do you

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think the plans that have been announced this lunchtime are going

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to make to pensioners in England? To be honest, there isn't going to

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be an awful lot of difference at the moment. We've got some plans.

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We've got some proposals, but we don't actually know how these are

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going to be implemented, when they are going to be implemented and how

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they are going to be funded. The Government has also released what

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it call as progress report on finding the funding for these

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reforms. It is actually a lack of progress report I'm afraid. We

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don't still know what's going to happen and how we are going to make

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people's lives better. You heard the Government's argument, that

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commitment is there to reform social care, but at the moment they

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don't know how much money they've got until they see what's happening

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in other departments. Well, this is one of the big issues here. We have

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a society where we've got lots more older people who need looking after.

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Now, it is great news that we've got more older people but we can't

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as a civilised society say, "I'm sorry, we don't have any money, so

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we are not going to look after you." The reality is that if we

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don't spend a little more money on social care now - birden will fall

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on the NHS. That will fall over. Everybody else will lose, so the

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Government doesn't have a choice between whether or not to spend

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more money. It has to spend some more money. It is not like we have

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no money at all. We can spend money on all sorts of things. This is a

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question of Government priorities. You are an economist. How would you

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fund social care? Who should pay for it in the long run? We have to

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have a fair partnership between the individuals and their families and

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the state. At the moment, the system means that anybody who has

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done some saving or who has a little bit of money put aside ends

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up getting no help at all from the state, unless they qualify for NHS

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care. Those who did no saving get everything paid. What we need is a

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system where the individual and their families pay something.

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Perhaps pay quite a lot towards their care, but up to a maximum.

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And they are allowed to protect some of their savings. And then the

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state comes in after that. That would be a fairer system. People

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could then put some money aside, they could prepare for it. They

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would know what the limit is of how much they would need to spend, and

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the family could club together and do that. But we don't have that

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kind of system at the moment. We just have this stark unfairness

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where if you have saved you pay everything and lose all your life-

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savings, and if you haven't saved you get everything picked up. That

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is not a sustainable way forward with so many older people.

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Altmann, thank you investment The Liberal Democrats are warning

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there will be "consequences" if David Cameron can't push through

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plans to reform the House of Lords. The Prime Minister suffered his

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biggest Commons rebellion last night, forcing him to abandon a

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timetable for legislation. The issue was raised at Prime

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Minister's Questions. Mr Cameron finds himself in an invidious

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position, caught between his coalition partners and many of his

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own backbenchers, with Nick Clegg this morning insisting a deal is a

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deal and he expects Mr Cameron to deliver on reform. And Mr Clegg's

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deputy, Simon Hughes, warning of consequences if Mr Cameron does not

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deliver. At the same time Mr Cameron's backbenchers, many of

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them replain implacably opposed to Are greater than last Clearly

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passions are running high, with the Prime Minister apparently involved

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in a spat last night with one of the leading rebels, Jesse Norman,

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which Downing Street insist it's not involve angry exchanges, but at

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which witnesses say there was a lot of finger pointing. It was seized

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on this morning. Last night he lost control of his party and not for

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the first time he lost his temper as well. Because we understand it

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was fisticuffs in the lobby with the Member for Hereford and South

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Hertfordshire. I notice the posh boys have ordered him off the

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estate today. He doesn't seem to be here. Mr Cameron dismissed the

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argy-bargy as tittle-tattle and half-baked got ip. Downing Street

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says it has been blown out of all proportion. The Prime Minister

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urged Ed Miliband to support reform,. If we want to see House of

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Lords reform, all of those who support House of Lords reform need

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to not only vote for House of Lords reform but support the means to

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bring that reform about. He came to the House of Commons yesterday

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determined to vote yes and then vote no. How utterly pathetic!

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What's interesting, and I think what we've gained from that comment

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by the Prime Minister and what we are hearing from Downing Street is

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that the focus of Number Ten's efforts seem to be in trying to win

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over the Labour Party rather than trying to convince the concept ibs

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in their own party. The trouble is that the moment the Labour Party

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are notted in mood to play ball. Thank you.

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So Spain now. Thousands of people have lined the streets to support

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coal miners who've been marching for three weeks to a mass protest

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in Madrid about the austerity cuts. The Spanish Government is putting

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VAT up by 3% to 21%. And there'll be further cuts to public spending

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too. The miners fear cutting subsidies will cost them their jobs.

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Let's join our correspondent Tom Burridge.

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On a day when the Spanish Prime Minister announced yet more cuts to

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the public sector here in Spain and controversially an increase in the

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level of VAT paid by everyone, miners turned out in the capital

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and took over one of the main Avenues to protest against

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Government cuts. Hundreds of miners with thousands

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capital. They are angry about to Spain's mining sector. This is a

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reaction to Government cuts not only in the mining sector, as the

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Government here taxes more and spends less to try and bring this

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country out of its crisis. These people believe that's not the

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answer to Spain's problems., and some of the miners have travelled a

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long way to bring their message to the capital. Many of them walked

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along Spain's motorways. It was a three-week journey from their

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mining towns in the far north of Spain. In those towns in recent

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weeks, mine verse fought running battles with the police. The

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miners' weapons are fire crackers. At times they have resembled a

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rebel Army in a war in which neither the miners nor the

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Government looks like stepping down. The head of Spain's Government

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today was announcing yet more cuts to public spending, as well as a

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rise in Spain's rate of VAT. TRANSLATION: One has to be

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realistic. The way to build Europe has never been easy. We have agreed

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on a strategy. We have agreed that it is the time. But we are seeing

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and we will see in the future tensions, difficult unanimous votes,

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declaration which is are out of place, and many troubles. But at

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least we have already decided where we want to go, and that we want to

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do it as soon as possible. As the Government reduces its

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spending, the discontent here rises, but Spain will soon receive

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billions of eurozone money for its troubled banks. Madrid is also

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under pressure from abroad. Spain's banks will receive about 30 billion

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euros worth of eurozone money by the end of this month, Sian. That's

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why Madrid is under so much pressure to rein in its spending

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and gets its budget deficit in order. We've had reports of clashes

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between the police and demonstrators at that demonstration.

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It seems the situation there is escalating. Tom, thank you.

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At least 20 people are reported to have been killed in a suicide

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bombing in Yemen. Dozens more are said to have been wounded in the

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attack. It happened on a police academy in the capital, Sana'a.

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Police there say it bore all the hallmarks of an Al-Qaeda attack.

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A father accused of killing his 17- year-old daughter because he

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believed she had brought shame on his family cryed in court today and

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denied her murder. Iftikhar Ahmed sobbed in the witness box as he

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gave evidence. He said he would never hurt his daughter Shafilea

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and described her as very talented, bubbly and talkative.

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Judith more sits at Chester Crown Court.

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Shangs you will remember that's the prosecution's case here that

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Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed suffocated their daughter, Shafilea,

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with their bear hands with a plastic bag in 2003 while their

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other children watched. Both parents denied murder and this

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morning Iftikhar gave his account of events. He began to cry as he

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was asked whether he had been responsible for the death of his

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daughter, Shafilea. No, he said. And he was asked, do you know who

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was responsible for Shafilea's death? No, he said again. And then

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they talked that he and his defence barrister Tom Bayliss QC about the

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effect the allegations had had on the family, that was Shafilea's

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parents, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed had been responsible for murder. He

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said there had been constant finger pointing and it had been difficult

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for the family. Then he talked about the trial itself. He was

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asked how have things been for you. He said, it has made us come closer

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together, because we've been fighting together as a family.

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Because we've been fighting to achieve justice for Shafilea, he

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said, we want to know what happened to her. That has always been the

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case from day one. The QC asked: Do you think you will ever find out

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what happened to Shafilea? Iftikhar paused and said, we were hoping to

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but I don't think we ever will. We are expecting Iftikhar this

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afternoon to continue giving evidence here at Chester Crown

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Court. Both he and his wife Farzana Ahmed deny murdering Shafilea in

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The England footballer, John Terry is continuing his evidence against

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the accusation he racially abused another player, Anton Ferdinand

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during a match last year. John Terry said he was keen to speak to

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police about the alleged abuse because he said there was nothing

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out there that would prove he did anything wrong. Our sports

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Correspondent joins us from Westminster magistrates court.

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have heard John Terry admits he did use the word black, along with

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other expletives to Anton Ferdinand. But he argues he was repeating what

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Ferdinand accused him of saying. The prosecution maintains John

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Terry would have reacted very differently the way he did if that

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was the case. We have also heard from Ashley Cole. A man used to

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dealing with crosses, but now facing cross-examination, John

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Terry arrived for a second day of questioning about whether he had

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racially abused an opponent. It was during this match at Loftus Road in

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October, the Chelsea captain the admitted using the word, a black

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together with obscenities in a heated exchange with Anton

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Ferdinand. John Terry believes he had been accused of racist abuse by

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Ferdinand and responded by sarcastically repeating the words.

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It was argued John Terry was reacting angrily to taunts about an

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alleged affair with the palm of former team-mate -- team-mate,

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Wayne Bridge. For the prosecution, John Terry, remaining calm denied

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it was the case, saying: Why would this incident tip me over the edge

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when I have had it a million times before. He was accused of elaborate

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flannel to cover up what he had done once he became aware that

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footage of the alleged incident had been broadcast and dividing --

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devising a statement he issued denying any wrongdoing following

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the match. Terry denied that was His Chelsea colleague, Ashley Cole

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will has been on the pitch that day and close to the incident, was

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called as a defence witness telling the court he had heard Ferdinand

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using the word black. I can tell you, Ashley Cole also

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said while giving evidence, he believe this trial shouldn't have

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been brought to court. He said "I think we shouldn't be sitting here.

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If I repeated something I thought you said it would be different than

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if someone had just said something". He was backing John Perry -- John

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Terry's version of events. John Terry denies the charge and the

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case continues at 2pm. Our top story this lunchtime:

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Paying the cost of social care - ministers say cheap loans will be

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on offer to those in residential homes, but questions remain about

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how they'll be funded. I am at Stonehenge when you plans are being

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unveiled to bring some serenity to the stones.

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Later on BBC London: The pools, parks and sports halls closed this

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summer because they're being used as training venues for the Olympics.

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And shimmying and shaking for London 2012.

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Dairy farmers are warning that hundreds of them could go out of

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business because of cuts in the price they're paid for their milk.

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Three of the UK's biggest processing companies are cutting

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the price they pay to farmers by up to two pence a litre. Today

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thousands of milk producers are protesting in London calling for

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the cuts to be reversed. Our Correspondent Ed Thomas is at a

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farm in Congleton in Cheshire. We have around 180 cows here who

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produce around 4,000 litres of milk every day. The milk produced here

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it is sent to milk processors who sell it on to the supermarkets. But

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speak to the farmers here and elsewhere and they will tell you it

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is them being squeezed and it is a squeeze that is putting the

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industry at risk. It is a simple rule of business.

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Sell at a higher price than what it costs to make. But for dairy

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farmers, those numbers are not adding up. This family have been

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farming for over 70 years. The falling price of milk could put an

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end to his business. We have had to soak them up for too long and it

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cannot continue. Farmers are frustrated and angry. Farmers are

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heartbroken. Absolutely heartbroken and they don't know where to turn.

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The problem is the price of milk along the supply chain. We pay

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around 52p for a litre of milk at the supermarket. It cost farmers

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around 30p to produce it. But some dairies will soon only pay those

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farmers around 25p a litre. Today, farmers will protest outside

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Westminster. They want the Government to end the stand-off

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over prices between the farmers and the dairies. I have been pressing

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both sides of the industry very hard to develop a voluntary code of

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practice about what should be in the contract between the milk

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producer and a process that. They have not got to that stage and I am

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disappointed. But I am pushing both sides hard. There is also the

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question of the big supermarkets. A price cut on the shells means price

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cuts for the dairy processors, the people who pay the farmers. But one

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of the big chains, Morrison's today said it is ready to talk. We are

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talking to farmers and processors to come up with long-term solutions,

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to help even out the volatility in the price of milk. That is the way

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forward for the long-term viable dairy industry in Britain. Farmers

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want to talk and quickly, because many say they have reached crisis

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point. The big worry here and elsewhere is

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this two pence per litre Court, which is being planned for August.

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Farmers are in Westminster to say they want it to be stopped. And

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then they want to talk about some sort of stabilisation of prices to

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protect their industry. A jury has convicted a 26-year-old

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woman of murdering a teenage girl. Hannah Bonser stabbed to death 13-

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year-old, Casey Kearney in a Doncaster park, allegedly to get

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admitted to hospital. Let's speak to our correspondent Danny Savage

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who's at Sheffield Crown Court. What happened in court?

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The jury took just over two hours to convict hammer on such of murder.

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It was a shocking crime. It happened in February half-term when

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Casey Kearney, a 13-year-old from Doncaster was walking through a

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park at Doncaster town centre on Valentine's Day on her way to a

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friends for a sleep over. Walking in the opposite direction was 26-

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year-old Hannah. They were strangers and had never met. And

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without any exchange of wire -- words, Anna turned round and stab

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Casey in the abdomen. She collapsed immediately, managed to dial 999

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but died later that day. Throughout this trial, much was made of her

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mental health states. She has a long history of being treated for

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mental health problems. She has had a period in a psychiatric hospital.

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She described herself in the weeks before as a psychopath. But the

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jury decided she could not hide behind those mental health problems

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and convicted her of murder at Sheffield Crown Court today. We are

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expecting to hear from Casey's family, and had no answer will be

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sentenced at 2pm this afternoon. The UK is to double the amount of

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money it gives to fund family planning services in the developing

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world. Aid will go up from �90 to �180 million over the next eight

:24:27.:24:35.

years. Let's speak to our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh. How big

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is the problem at the moment? is a huge issue for women and

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adolescent girls in developing countries. One in 10 adolescent

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girls is married by the age of 15. Figures are startling. 220 million

:24:51.:24:57.

or William girls without access to contraception and there is a summit

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in London which is trying to raise awareness and raise this issue. The

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UK is taking the lead on this and is doubling the amount it spends.

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It reckons it will provide another 24 million William -- women with

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contraception access by 2020 and prevent 40,000 or more deaths from

:25:19.:25:24.

botched abortions and Medical complications and prevent 20

:25:24.:25:27.

million unintended pregnancies in the next eight years. Be it is not

:25:27.:25:34.

just about money is it, it is about education? Absolutely. It is

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education. The longer women spend in school, the later they are

:25:39.:25:43.

likely to have children and get married and have children's. And

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the more likely they will be lifted out of poverty. It is about women's

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empowerment. We have a global population above 7 billion. It is

:25:54.:25:58.

about enabling women and families to have the children they want

:25:58.:26:01.

rather than a succession of unplanned and unintended

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:26:11.:26:14.

pregnancies. Chris Moyles is to leave the Radio

:26:14.:26:17.

1 breakfast show at the end of September. He's been presenting the

:26:17.:26:20.

show since 2004 and is the longest- serving breakfast presenter in the

:26:20.:26:23.

station's history. He's being replaced by Nick Grimshaw, who

:26:23.:26:25.

currently hosts the weekday show from ten until midnight.

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Work begins today on a new visitor centre at Stonehenge - one of the

:26:28.:26:31.

UK's most popular tourist attractions. At the moment visitors

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can park nearby and walk to the site. But the new plan would see a

:26:34.:26:38.

nearby road closed completely and a new centre built a mile and a half

:26:38.:26:42.

away, which will tell the story of the stone circle. Louise Hubball is

:26:42.:26:52.
:26:52.:26:52.

there. More than a million visitors come here every year. It is a World

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Heritage Site. But the criticism is, the facilities are far from world

:26:56.:27:00.

class. It is one of the world's most

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instantly recognisable landmarks. For over 5,000 years, the mystery

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of this circle has drawn visitors in. But for tourists today, their

:27:14.:27:18.

experience begins here. Straight off a busy road and into basic

:27:18.:27:28.
:27:28.:27:29.

facilities. And once you are at the site... The busy road slices

:27:29.:27:33.

straight through what was the ancient ceremonial route up to the

:27:33.:27:40.

stones. I was very surprised to cross the road. People do need

:27:40.:27:46.

access to the site. But I think the road noise is detrimental to the

:27:46.:27:51.

experience of it. It has been here for a long time. Why does it take

:27:51.:27:57.

as long as 30 or 40 years to do something about it? English

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Heritage is unveiling plans to turn back time. To close the road to

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traffic and returned the monument to a more serene landscape. But the

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question is, why has it taken so long? Change was promised in the 19

:28:15.:28:19.

80s when Stonehenge became a World Heritage site. The commitment was

:28:19.:28:26.

made by the Government's to improve the presentation and the setting of

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Stonehenge. Yes, it has taken a long time, but we have finally got

:28:31.:28:37.

there. With these fans -- plans, visitors for generations to come

:28:37.:28:43.

can enjoy a mystical atmosphere without so many passing cars.

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Work will begin here shortly and it is expected to be completed by the

:28:48.:28:52.

summer of 2014. English Heritage are hoping any disruption will be

:28:52.:29:02.
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outweighed by the future benefits. Showers are not too far away. This

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picture was taken on the Isle of Wight. There is a shower in the

:29:14.:29:18.

distance looking back towards Portsmouth. The Met Office had just

:29:18.:29:21.

issued an Amber warning with torrential downpours along the

:29:21.:29:25.

south coast in the next couple of hours. There is the risk of

:29:25.:29:29.

localised flooding. On the radar picture, the cluster of

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thunderstorms developing and it will be with us for the next few

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hours. We have a thicker cloud and rain across north-east England. In

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between the showers this afternoon or with a bit of brightness we can

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manage 17, 18. Showers to come across parts of the Midlands and

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south-east England but it is turning drier through the night.

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Cloud to the north-east of Scotland but first thing tomorrow morning, a

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window of dry weather for many parts of the country. At 8:00am

:30:02.:30:05.

tomorrow, Sunshine across parts of the south-east corner. Although it

:30:06.:30:11.

will be on the chilly side. Well broken cloud across parts of the

:30:11.:30:16.

Midlands and northern England. But as we move to the north-east coast

:30:16.:30:20.

it is looking more Ngorongoro Crater with patchy and light rain.

:30:20.:30:26.

In Scotland, better chance of seeing breaks in the cloud and

:30:26.:30:29.

giving dryness in the morning. A cloudy start across Northern

:30:30.:30:36.

Ireland. In Wales we have the Sunshine at 8 am, but it is a

:30:36.:30:39.

cloudy start across Devon and rain for Cornwall. This band of rain

:30:39.:30:44.

will push north and east as we go through the day arriving across

:30:44.:30:48.

parts of South Wales and Trust -- stretching through the south coast

:30:48.:30:54.

in the afternoons. Thicker cloud to the north-east of Scotland. But in

:30:54.:30:58.

between these two areas, it should be dry with Sunshine. By the time

:30:58.:31:03.

we get to Friday, the weather system pushing north and with the

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ground saturated, we are keeping an eye on this because there is

:31:08.:31:12.

potential for localised flooding. To the north it is looking dry and

:31:12.:31:17.

bright in Scotland. It stays on the cool side for the weekend.

:31:18.:31:21.

Widespread showers across England and Wales which could be heavy on

:31:21.:31:26.

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