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Police are given more time to question the suspect in the

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killings of two policewomen in Manchester. As more tributes are

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paid to PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes, an online book of

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condolence has received more than 33,000 signatures. These were brave

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and talented officers who were doing what police officers do day

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in, day out - protecting the public and fighting crime - and they were

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incredibly brave. A Tory-run council gets ready to challenge the

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Government on relaxing planning rules.

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More than 500,000 worker also be paying into private pensions by

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Christmas, but how many know about the Government's new scheme?

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Babe in arms - the frontline British soldier who complained of

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stomach pains only to discover she was about to give birth.

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How healthy are the finances of your local NHS? An audit suggests

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some budgets are in turmoil. A Royal visit for the victims of

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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. Police have been given

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until tomorrow morning to continue questioning 29-year-old Dale Cregan

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about the murders of police officers Nicola Hughes and Fiona

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Bone in Mottram. A second man, aged 28, is also in custody. Tributes

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are still being paid to the officers who were killed in a gun

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and grenade attack. An online book of condolence has received more

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than 33,000 signatures. Danny Savage is in Mottram.

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The impression I'm getting is that police are taking this inquiry and

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investigation very slowly. They want to do this right, to make sure

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that justice prevails at the end of this inquiry. So here at the scene

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of the murders, you still have dozens of police vehicles and

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officers carrying out forensic tests. At a police station

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somewhere in Manchester, Dale Cregan is still being questioned

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about what happened here. For a third day, the place where

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two unarmed police officers were murdered remains isolated. There is

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still work to be done here. Many still feel moved enough to bring

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floral tributes. The old bringing the young to pay their respects.

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Among those visiting today, members of the neighbourhood team who

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worked with the two officers who died. These weren't just colleagues,

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these were friends. Dale Cregan is still being held over the gun and

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grenade attack. Detectives have been granted more time to question

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him. More tributes have also been paid to Nicola Hughes and Fiona

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Bone, the policewoman he is suspected of killing. Fiona Bone's

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family have issued a statement We know a hand grenade was used in

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Tuesday's murders here, but police believe there are still more

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grenades to be recovered and people are in danger. They have issued

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what's called Osman Warnings to those most at risk. It is used in

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very rare instances where police have very credible intelligence

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that someone's life is in danger. Not only in danger, but someone has

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the ability to carry out that threat and their life is in

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imminent danger. So although the focus of this murder inquiry is

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here, there is also a much bigger picture.

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That bigger picture is in the virtual world as well. What you

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have today is an arrest that's been made because of a Facebook site

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which was set up in tribute to Dale Cregan. It described him as "some

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sort of legend" and in the last few minutes, a senior officer from

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Greater Manchester Police has been talking about those sort of

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websites that have been set up and about today's arrest. Anybody who

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perhaps wishes to take the opportunity following such a

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tragedy to tastelessly add derogatory comments to think they

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are poking fun at such a tragic situation will always cause a great

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deal of emotion. I think police officers, but not just police

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officers, ordinary members of the public - and I looked at some of

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these websites and saw ordinary members of the public distressed at

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some of the comments put on there. They would have wanted us to be

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able to take positive action. That is what we have done. That's

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obviously some sort of warning to people that are setting up what

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many people would think are very tasteless websites in the wake of

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these sorts of events. The country's top prosecutor has been

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speaking about this sort of issue today. He said, "The time has come

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for an informed debate about the boundaries of free speech in an age

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of social media." I am sure we will be hearing a lot more about this

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issue over the coming few days. Here at the scene of that double

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murder, the operation continues and still no sign of this cordon being

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lifted, with still dozens of people living around here inside that

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cordon, and this police operation is going on around them.

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A Conservative-run council is preparing to defy the Government

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over its recent proposal to relax planning regulations in England.

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Richmond Council is looking at ways of getting around David Cameron's

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plan to allow people to build larger home extensions without

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planning permission. David Cameron said changes to

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planning rules that could send up the scaffolding, but also help

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kick-start the economy. Not in this borough, not if the local

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Conservative council gets its way. In the Council Chamber they voted

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to defy the Prime Minister's will. We think they are totally misguided.

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At the moment, people can build small extensions without planning

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consent and even that causes great upset to neighbours. The proposal

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to double the size of what you can build is totally unacceptable.

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David Cameron and Nick Clegg return from their summer holidays, they

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took a trip together to suburbia, to announce that they temporarily

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would rewrite planning rules so people could extend homes like

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these by up to eight metres without planning permission. In one council,

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they are dead-set on stopping that from happening. Some areas will

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still be protected. But some Conservatives worry that a rash of

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new extensions in places like this could prove unpopular with the

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neighbours and those neighbours might happen to be Tory voters. Of

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course, the Government's not relying on a conservatory boom

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alone to rescue the economy - they want to guarantee billions of

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pounds for new homes and big- building projects as well.

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Ministers want to give homeowners more options. We are trying to make

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it easier for familys that are growing, kids are growing up and

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don't want to share rooms, maybe their elderly mum has moved in with

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them. We want to make it easier for them to expand their house so they

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can stay in the home that they already have. But on the issue of

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planning rules, it seems councils could have a bit of flexibility.

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The local government department How many more councillors will take

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a look at the plans to get the builders in and say, "Not in our

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backyards"? The country's biggest employers will be forced to provide

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a pension scheme to all their employees.

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The new rules will be extended to all firms over the next few years.

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The Government says even though some will opt out, there should be

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more than 500,000 new pension savers by the end of the year.

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I'm in. I'm in. So what are they in? These employers and workers in

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a Government TV ad are part of a big change to workplace pensions

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starting next month. Bosses will have to offer their workers a

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workplace pension. Staff will find themselves opted in to pension

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schemes. In the first few months, it will be big employers like the

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Co-op. Ministers visited one of the stores today to hear how it is

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being implemented. 40,000 staff, not already in the scheme, will be

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signed up. This is extra pay in many ways, it is not pay that you

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get today, but it is put aside for you for the future. I think people

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are quite positive. The number of times people have said, "It is the

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push that I need to start saving." The figures underline the decline

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in workplace pensions. There are eight million people in employer

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schemes. Fewer than three million are in private schemes, the lowest

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since the 1950s. The rest - more than five million - are in the

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public sector. The new policy will boost the numbers. In terms of

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Government policies that will affect people, this will be one of

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the biggest. We know there are millions of people not saving for a

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pension. Most of them know they should, but find it baffling and

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this will overcome all the barriers to pension saving. A number of

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worker also be affected by the changes from next month. If they

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haven't joined their employer's pension scheme, they will be

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enrolled automatically. Money will be deducted from their pay packets.

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If they don't want to stay in, it is up to them to take the

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initiative and opt out. Experts welcome the change but point out it

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won't guarantee people have enough to live on in retirement. First, we

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need to make sure people save enough. Secondly, they need to save

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in good quality pension systems. Millions of worker also be brought

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in as the scheme is extended to smaller companies over the next few

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years. ALL: We are all in! The media regulator Ofcom has ruled

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BSkyB is a fit and proper company to hold broadcasting licences. It

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strongly criticised James Murdoch. It says there is no evidence that

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he knew of the phone-hacking scandal, it says his failure to

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investigate the allegations is difficult to comprehend and ill-

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judged. A man who made homophobic comments

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about Tom Daley and Pete Waterman on Twitter won't face charges.

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Police in Manchester have released these CCTV pictures of a raid in

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which thieves stole watches worth �500,000. Three men wearing high-

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visibility outfits and armed with an axe and crowbars walked into

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Selfridges and stole 100 watches. A British soldier serving in

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Afghanistan has given birth without realising she had been pregnant.

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The Ministry of Defence says she had the baby at the Camp Bastion

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field hospital on Tuesday. It's believed to be the first case ever

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of a soldier from the UK having a baby on the frontline.

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At a field hospital, more used to dealing with death than new life,

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it was here that the baby was born. A few days ago, the soldier

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complained of severe stomach pains. Astonished medics said she was

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about to give birth. Her son was delivered safely. The MoD says

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mother and son are both in a stable condition. The female gunner had

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conceived her child before being sepblt to Afghanistan. The MoD --

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Doctors say it is not as unusual as many think for a woman not to

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realise she is pregnant until shortly before giving birth.

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remember back when I was first qualified and I looked after a

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young 16-year-old girl who had actually presented to hospital, she

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had been sent by her mother to do her GCSE exams in the morning and

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she came along and had her baby and didn't realise she was pregnant.

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This is the first time a British soldier is known to have given

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birth on the frontline. Military rules ban pregnant

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servicewomen from frontline duties. A specialist team of medics is

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travelling to Camp Bastion to help provide care for the soldier and

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her baby on the RAF flight home. This unusual case is likely to fuel

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debate over whether more medical checks are needed before the Armed

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Forces deploy women to the frontline.

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Now, we all know it is getting more expensive to fill the car with fuel.

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For drivers of diesel vehicles, the price is higher. The AA is pointing

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the finger at oil companies and speculators saying the price is

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unfairly high. Petrol and diesel cost pretty much the same in the

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wholesale markets so why the difference?

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The Olympics was only a few weeks ago, but in the short time since

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that amazing Opening Ceremony, the price of fuel has rocketed. When

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the caldron was lit, petrol cost �1.33 a litre, today it is �1.40 a

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litre. That adds �3.50 every time you fill an average family car. The

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high prices are changing lives. Weekly mileage is 350 miles a week

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and my husband's is 250 miles a week to 300. That costs us �600 a

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month. We can't afford it any more. We will sell our house, we will buy

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a house in Plymouth and we will move closer to work. You might be

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old enough to remember when diesel was cheaper than petrol, but that

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was many years ago. These days, diesel is always more expensive.

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And that has led the AA to question whether diesel drivers are getting

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a fair deal. We have seen the wholesale price of diesel at a

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lower level than the wholesale price of petrol. Yet on the

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forecourts, drivers are paying 4p a litre more. At the moment, they

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would feel they are being ripped off. The big question then - why

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exactly is diesel more expensive? Partly because our refining

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capacity is old and was set up to produce fuel oil and petrol. We

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have to import some of our diesel which pushes up prices. Diesel

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costs more to refine than petrol. Finally, we are one of the few

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European countries that didn't tax diesel at a lower rate than petrol.

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That produces a higher pump price. The Government's pressing ahead

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with a 3p fuel tax rise which is The top story:

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The police are given more time to question the suspect in the

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killings of two police women in Manchester. There is an online book

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of condolence that has receive more than 33,000 signatures.

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Fine dining behind bars. I'm at the Prison Restaurant, where the public

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can be fed and served by the inmates.

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On BBC London: changing lives. We meet the children in Kashmir,

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getting surgery thanks to a London charity. Fresh from qualifying from

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the Euro, England's women hope to inspire the next generation.

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Oil and gas drilling in the Arctic should be stopped until safety is

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improved, according to a Committee of MPs. The Environmental Audit

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Committee say it is fears that a spill could cause unprecedented

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damage, though the oil industry say it is has the technology to cope

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with an accident. We have this report.

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Can we trust the oil firms to protect the Arctic? Deepwater

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Horizon, the BP Gulf spill in 2010, was never supposed to happen. They

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are still cleaning up. The ExxonMobil tanker crash in 1989,

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left a mess that is still contaminating the shoreline of

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Alaska today. Imagine this sorted of accident in the Arctic? MPs were

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told that oil would stick to the bottom of ice flows and be carried

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for hundreds of miles. Bad weather could make a clean-up impossible.

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Oil firms wanting to exploit the Arctic's riches do have plans in

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case of a spill. This is a Shell clean-up exercise, but the MPs

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don't think that the laws are tough enough.

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Drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic is different from drilling

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for oil and gas in other offshore circumstances elsewhere. It is a

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wilderness pristine environment, the conditions are far different.

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We have to have a regulatory regime that is fit for purpose.

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An Arctic wildlife sanctuary should be created too, the MPs say. They

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want the UN to intervene, but who will list snn the MPs say that

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governance in the Arctic is weak. Incentives for drilling are strong.

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We are all a tiny bit to blame for the pressure on the Arctic. Modern

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societies use vast amounts of oil. It is hardly surprising that

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governments are reluctant to turn off potential sources of supply. It

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is what makes governing the Arctic so very difficult. This year's

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massive melt of Arctic summer ice, captured by nasaway, may help to

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focus minds. The region is warming dramatically, but the political

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leaders have shown that in any clash between oil and the

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environment, it is oil that normally wins.

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Scotland's Finance Secretary, John Swinney, is to announce spending

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plans this afternoon, promising pursuit of growth. It is thought he

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will signal an end to the public sector pay freeze from next year

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with a modest pay increase, but the room for manoeuvre is limited.

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Critics are warning he must get priorities rite.

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James, what is expected in the Budget? Well, what is happening is

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that this is the Budget for 2013/14 to be set out by the Scottish

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Finance Secretary, John Swinney. He has �28 .4 billion to spend A

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figure set by the UK Treasury. He cannot borrow more, he must operate

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in the constraints. What, as you say, he is likely to do is to look

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at the public sector pay freeze and that you it slightly. Although not

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so warming, perhaps up to 1% for the public sector workers under his

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control. He is looking also at shifting money from a day-to-day

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spending into capital spending, into infrastructure projects and so

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on, to boost the economy, to drive jobs and growth, but this is year

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three of a four-year Budget that we are looking at. He has set the

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priorities over the -- over the four years so we are looking at

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tweaks rather than dramatic changes, but the Labour Party complained

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that last year's budget hit housing and colleges hard so, they and

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others will be scrutinising John Swinney's Budget line by line this

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year to see who is being affected this time around. The reason for

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that is that this is the toughest financial set that this Parliament

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has ever had to deal with since being set up in 1999. There is

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simply little money to go around. Thank you very much.

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Money intended for poorer pupils in England is not getting to them. It

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is used to fill gaps in school budgets. That is the concern raised

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by Ofsted. The pupil premium, seen as a cornerstone of the education

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policy in England cost �1.25 billion this year alone. Now there

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are calls to ring-fence the money to ensure it goes where it is most

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needed. Schools with large numbers of

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disadvantaged pupils have received sizeable sums from the pupil

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premium. This is one. Two thirds of the children here at

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this academy in London are eligible for the money, that is targeted at

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those from poorer families. The head used it to employ extra staff

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and to reduce the class sizes for ten-year-olds. She says it is

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paying off. This class is a small class. We

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have two small classes in two years year two and year five. Those are

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pivotal years. This is a pilot we are monitoring closely.

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Any child eligible for free school meals in the last six years, gets

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the pupil premium given to the school. It is worth �600 per pupil,

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costing the Government �1..25 billion. This school has seen

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academic results among the poorer children improve, but work carried

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out by Ofsted suggests in many schools it has not made a

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difference. It says that is not good enough.

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Schools are not using the pupil premium money effectively. 50% of

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schools surveyed said it made little or no difference to the way

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they operated. That is fine if they can demonstrate that the poor

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children are catching up with their more prosperous counterparts.

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Schools can use the pupil premium as they wish, meaning it can be

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absorbed into the overall budgets, but one teaching union says other

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cuts to funding meant it was not really extra money.

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Schools are doing their best to maintain provision that they had

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previously, but they have had cuts to their base budgets. So the pupil

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premium is not really new money it is money that is supporting

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existing school budgets. This is a flagship policy, the

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ministers need it to be a winner. If schools cannot show results,

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Ofsted says that the Government should ring-fence the money so it

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is more aimed at those who need it Now, a new restaurant in Cardiff is

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offering something of a captivating dining experience, that is because

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it opened in a prison. The food is made and served by low-risk

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prisoners nearing the end of their sentence.

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So it is not just time that they are serving, then? No, the Clink

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Cymru started life in Surrey first of all. The diners go through

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security and eat with knives and plastic forks.

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It offers the diners the opportunity to taste a small bit of

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prison life. Meet the chefs serving a long stretch. The Clink Cymru

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offers fresh crab ravioli and goat's cheese hearts.

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They hope that work here helps to prepare them to release -- be

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released back into the community. It is a good experience, my first

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ever proper job. How different is it to the life you

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had before entering prison? Before coming to prison I led the easy

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life. Here you have to work for it. The food at the restaurant is a

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world away from the -- what the inmates eat themselves.

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The Clink denies that they are exploited, they are paid �12.

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Most of the workers here are within months of finishing their sentences

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on that programme. The ministers say it is not an

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unfair advantage when it comes to competing for work when they leave.

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We are not in the business of running a luex rouse regime in

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British prisons, but prison is not just about punishment, prison is

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also about public protection, it is also about rehabilitation.

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If it is to survive the fickle restaurant business, the Clink

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Cymru will have to be more than just a novelty. The first diners

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seemed impressed with the quality of the food.

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I have had the rabbit it is absolutely delicious.

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The atmosphere here is lovely. It is much more relaxed than I thought

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it would be. The decor is fantastic. I work for the Prison Service. So

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coming here today was a tester, I thought it was excellent. I chose

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the beef cheeks, which I was expecting to be tender. They are in

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a red wine sauce which is very rirb, but very nice.

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The Ministry of Justice has plans to open two Clings a year across

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the UK. Meaning that fine dining behind bars could be on the way it

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a prison near you. -- Clinks.

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This is the first day open to the public. There are popular dishes

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already, but no porridge in the menu! However, they are taking

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bookings for Christmas parties. Thank you very much.

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The world-famous Grand National run of Aintree is to undergo changes

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following the deaths of two horses this year. There will be fence

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design, landing areas and further areas of irrigation to be

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implemented before the end of the race in 2013.

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The changes have been welcomed, but there was disappointment that there

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was not a trial of the number of running horses.

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running horses. Now the weather.

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Well, a day of mixed fortunes today. For many places a lot of cloud this

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afternoon and rain as well. We are not all going to see that rain. It

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is mainly down to a slow-moving weather front, draped over parts of

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Northern Ireland and Scotland. Either side of that, there is drier

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and brighter weather in prospect. Some of that rain will be filtering

:27:13.:27:23.
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over parts of num -- north um better land and Cumberland too. A

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chance of one or two coastal showers. Most places to the south-

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west of England dry and fine. 16 Celsius at best. Some sunshine into

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the eastern parts of Wales. In the west a few sharp showers. A chance

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of showers over the Isle of Man. For Northern Ireland the rain sets

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in this after noon, becoming heavy and persistent, especially in the

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north. The rain heavy in Argyll and Bute, where there could be as much

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as two inches of rainfall. The far north getting away with a

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fine end to the day with one or two showers only. The rain band sinking

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to the south, the heaviest of the rain petering out, but a

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damp.cloudy night to come for many parts of England and Wales. In the

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north fresher air spilling in, but it means a better day in store for

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Northern Ireland and Scotland. Tomorrow it is sunshine and within

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or two showers for Scotland and Northern Ireland. The showers

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filtering to the north of Wales. To the south, where we keep the

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cloud, there are spots of rain. Temperatures up to 12 in the north,

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16 Celsius in the south. At the weekend high pressure is

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taking charge for Saturday. Cast your eyes to the south-west, this

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weather system is waiting in the wings. That could be a trouble

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maker by Sunday. For Saturday, at least, one day of glorious sunshine

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for many of us it is looking dry and fine, feeling pleasant with the

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light winds and temperatures of up to 16 Celsius. Sunday, there is

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uncertainty, but it looks like this low pressure system contains

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tropical air so, warm, wet and windy spreading in over the south

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of the UK. The weekend weather: Saturday is

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looking dry and bright. By Sunday, more of a chance that things are

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turning wet and windy. More details on the weekend weather.

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