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Scotland Yard widens the Jimmy Savile child sex abuse

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investigation to include living people.

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They've launched a formal criminal investigation and say some of

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around 200 possible victims are alleging abuse by other individuals.

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Energy companies will be forced to offer customers their best deals,

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confirms the regulator Ofgem. Consumers need to face an effective

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choice, that doesn't mean a choice of a bam boozeling array of

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different tariffs. It means they can have a choice they can

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understand. A taxi driver pleads guilty to

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murdering Sian O'Callaghan who disappeared after leaving a

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nightclub in Swindon last year. British police begin searching land

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on the Greek island of Kos more than 20 years after toddler Ben

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Needham went missing. The families of some soldiers

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killed in Iraq have been told by the Court of Appeal that they can

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sue the government for negligence. And an MOT test for doctors to

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check up on their skills to make sure they're safe to practise Boris

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Of the classroom - the Mayor wants more powers over education. And

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sports clubs say the Government isn't doing enough to capitalise on

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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Police have announced they are widening their inquiry into alleged

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child abuse by the BBC presenter Sir Jimmy Savile. Detectives say

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they have established lines of inquiry involving living people

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that now require formal investigation. More than 200

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potential victims have been identified and over 400 lines of

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inquiry are now being investigated. The children's charity, the NSPCC

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now say they think Sir Jimmy Savile could have been one of the most

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prolific sex offenders they have ever identified. Nick Higham is

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here. The police have announced this a short time ago, but what

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more do you know about the police investigation? Yes, it was

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impossible for the police to treat an inquiry into Jimmy Savile as a

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criminal investigation because he is dead. You can't charge a dead

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person, but what has has emerged is among the 200 victims of abuse who

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have come forward as a result of this investigation, there are some,

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the majority are connected with Jimmy Savile, but there are some

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connected with other people including clearly some living

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people which is why this has become a criminal investigation. And the

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police are now saying that Jimmy Savile was guilty of alleged abuse

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on an unprecedented scale and this investigation, the profile of it,

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has empowered what the police call a staggering number of victims to

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come forward to report sexual exploitation and the NSPCC too is

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reiterating that, they have had 136 calls which they have passed on to

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the police. And they say that many people are coming forward and

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reporting abuse in their childhood as a result of the investigation.

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So the police investigation widens and BBC investigations and there is

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talk of a Panorama on the subject? That's right. One of the things

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that happen now, the police have given the go-ahead for an internal

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inquiry into the custom and practises at the BBC at the time

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Jimmy Savile was employed, there is the possibility on Monday of a

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Panorama investigation. The Panorama programme is one that you

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are presenting on gambling ux but the -- but the Panorama team are

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working on an hour long into Jimmy Savile. It is not clear if that

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will be ready, if it is, the plan is to transmit that on Monday.

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Has there been any response from the BBC? The BBC said that Janet

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Smith will start start her inquiry and the police and the BBC are

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going to draw up a protocol so she can do her work without

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jeopardising any criminal investigation.

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It has been confirmed that energy companies will be forced to tell

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their customers about their cheapest deals. The energy

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regulator, Ofgem, has unveiled its plans to make suppliers list their

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best prices for gas and electricity on bills to make the market simpler,

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clearer and fairer. The announcement comes two days after

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the Prime Minister took energy companies by surprise announcing

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new legislation next month which will force firms to put all

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customers on the lowest tariffs. With energy bills heading ever

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higher, it is more important than ever to be on the best deal. But

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with hundreds of complex offers out there, today the industry regulator

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sought to make things easier. For competition to work, consumers

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need to face an effective choice. That doesn't mean a choice of a

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bamboozling array of different tariffs. It means they can have a

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choice they can understand. Ofgem says tariffs and bills need

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to get simpler and clearer. So there will be fewer tariffs. Some

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will be banned altogether. Customers will be alerted to

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cheaper deals when they get their bills. There will be new standards

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of conduct for the firms backed up by the threat of fintion. -- fines.

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It can't come too soon for Ian Savile from Warrington. He switched

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from his energy company when he realised it hadn't been straight

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with him. I signed up to everything that

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would get my tariff down, dual fuel, direct debit and online billing. It

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was only when I started to look into the price comparison sites

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that I realised there was a lower tariff.

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The proposals have been wk today and -- welcomed today and they

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should be in place next year. On the face of it, they seem seem to

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fall short of what the Government has been promising this week.

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On Wednesday, the Prime Minister said the Government would legislate

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so the companies have to give customers their lowest tariff.

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He was accused of throwing the industry into chaos.

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Ministers have stopped short of repeating that initial pledge. As

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for the big suppliers, they are trying to work out what the

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Government means. But they know there are big changes ahead.

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We believe the proposals of Ofgem are challenging, yes there is no

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two-ways about that, but we are on the way to a more simpler market

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than was the case a while ago. The announcements this week should

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mean more of us are on the right deals, but that won't stop energy

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prices from moving ever higher. Our political correspondent, Chris

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Mason, is in Westminster. The Prime Minister took energy companies by

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surprise on Wednesday, but the assumption must be that he had some

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idea of what the energy regulator was going to come up with? We put

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that question to Downing Street to the Prime Minister's official

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spokeswoman, we didn't get a specific answer, but we were told

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that the Government has been in communication with Ofgem and

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ministers insist that what we have heard about this morning is

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complimentary to what the Government is suggesting because

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they want to help bring bills down and they want to make bills more

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clear, but critics will say it is con dicttry rather than

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complimentary because the regulator can enforce the energy companies to

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change their practises without new legislation and the Government

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insists there will be new legislation. They hope that that

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will ensure that people can get lower prices. The other challenge

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for Downing Street is keeping all of the coalition on board. The

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Energy Secretary, Ed Davey was asked this morning to endorse what

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the Prime Minister has had to say over the last 48 hours. He refused

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to do so. He didn't contradict what the Prime Minister said, but there

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appears to be some difference in what those two gentlemen believe.

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The Energy Bill is coming within the next couple of weeks. Finding

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the simple is complex and communicating it very difficult.

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For more information on plans to simplify simplify energy tariffs,

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A taxi driver has admitted murdering 22-year-old Sian

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O'Callaghan 18 months after she disappeared from a night club in

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Swindon. Father of three, Christopher Halliwell, pleaded

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guilty to the charge at Bristol Crown Court. Our correspondent, Jon

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Kay, is there. Jon. Yes, Sian O'Callaghan's boyfriend

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and family have been sitting in Bristol Crown Court behind me

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listening to this moment in the case. Christopher Halliwell a 48-

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year-old mini-cab driver from Swindon has pleaded guilty to

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Sian's murder in March last year. He, 48 years old and a father of

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three. Sian was 22 years old. She had been out to a nightclub with a

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group of friends in March last year in Swindon's Old Town. She decided

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to walk home on her own after having a few drinks. Her boyfriend

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told her to get a cab back because he thought she would be safer.

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Christopher Halliwell, we have heard today, had been driving round

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that night, circling in Swindon, he picked Sian up, he drove her to the

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Savernake Forest about ten miles south of Swindon. There he sexually

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assaulted her and stabbed her twice in the back of the head. Blood was

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found in his cab later by the police. You might remember that

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thousands of local people turned out to search the forest looking

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for Sian's body at the time. What is happening at the moment, the

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prosecution are outlining the case as they have it against Christopher

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Halliwell. That information is being given to the judge so she can

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consider it for her sentencing. Victim impact statements have been

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read out by members of Sian's family, describing their loss. Her

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boyfriend said that her murder meant his heart had been ripped out.

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He felt his life has been destroyed. The defence will give any

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mitigating circumstances in court later this afternoon and then the

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judge will decide on statements and sentence and we expect we will get

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that and more information as the day goes by. Sophie.

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Jon Kay, thank you very much. European Union leaders have taken

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another step towards forming a banking union in the countries that

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use the euro. At talks in Brussels which lasted into the early hours

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of the morning, they agreed a timetable for bringing the

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eurozone's 6,000 banks under the supervision of the European Central

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Bank. It could be up and running by next year. Our Europe correspondent,

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Matthew Price, reports. Good afternoon, Sophie. What we know now

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as you have just said that is by the 1st January, within two-and-a-

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half months, if they stick to this agreement, they hope to have to

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have put in place the rules and the regulations that would allow that

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banking supervisor to be set-up. The idea is having the ECB have

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oversight over the banks in the eurozone would stop them getting

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into the mess they are in at the moment. The mess that has helped to

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create the eurozone debt crisis, but what they agreed in the early

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hours of this morning in and of itself won't be enough to solve the

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There was agreement here, enough to put a spring in the step of the

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leaders this morning, but it is an agreement that requires more

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difficult negotiations, no one is over playing it.

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TRANSLATION: There is an agreement. A good one. We have got a time

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frame. They worked through the early hours

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as did the Brussels Press Pack trying to fix the single currency.

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Part of that fix is to set-up a a system to oversee banks in the euro

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area, a so-called banking union. The first step is to have a single

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supervisor for banks to oversee their activitys, by the end of the

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year, they know promise to have put in place the right laws for this to

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happen. The Germans suggest that might slip. TRANSLATION: It is

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really ambitious to try and establish the legal framework

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quickly. We shouldn't disappoint markets, by changing short-term

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announcements again and again. For those not in the euro, these

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are uncertain times. Britain supports the banking union, but

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wants safeguards to protect its own financial sector in the City of

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London. And what of Britain's relationship with the EU? As euro

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countries get more integrated, where does Britain fit in?

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Ministers say publicly there is no problem, but as one Finnish

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minister put it here, as if the UK is on the sidelines waving bye-bye

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as the EU boat sets sail. I don't accept that for a minute.

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Am I happy with the status quo in Europe? No, I am not. There are

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changes we need. As the eurozone develops and integrates which is

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bound to happen, there are opportunities opening up for what I

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have said should be a new settlement between Britain and

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Europe, but I don't accept this idea that somehow Britain doesn't

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pull its weight. Indeed, one key point he has been pushing today is

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how to get Europe's economies growing again.

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For the big picture here, is of a Continent deep in debt. Its

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economies stagnating as its populations age, resolving that

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And just one quick foot note. At the moment, vifers seem to have --

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investors seem to have more confidence that the euro currency

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area is not going to split up. It has taken the pressure pressure off

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the politicians who have to take the difficult decisions as one

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official in Brussels put it this week, they only make the difficult

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decisions when the pressure is Greek and British police

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investigating the disappearance of the toddler Ben Needham more than

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20 years ago have started searching a mound of earth close to where he

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went missing. Ben was just 21- months-old when he vanished on the

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Greek island of Kos in July 1991. On a hillside on a Greek island,

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blue and white British police tape is being used to mark the area

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where a British toddler's body may lie. Ben Needham vanished here in

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1991. Was he the victim of an abduction or an accident? There are

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concerns he may have fallen under earth and rubble being moved in

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building work at the time. And so more than a dozen UK police

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officers are here to investigate. We have got more technology. We

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have got access to better equipment. We have got better trained staff.

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And we are in a position where we can do a far more indepth search

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today than we were able to do back in 1991.

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This is the spot where Ben Needham was last seen alive 21 years ago.

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For the first time in over two decades, police have come here to

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search the area in great detail. Can they solve the mystery of Ben

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His mother has always believed Ben is still alive, but she has now

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admitted this operation has planted doubts in her mind, but if the

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search finds nothing, a combination of agony and hope for her. For the

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next two days, British police and Greek search teams will be working

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hard to try to prove his or disproved the theory that Ben is

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buried on this hillside. The Court of Appeal has ruled that

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some families of British soldiers killed in Iraq can sue the Ministry

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of Defence for negligence. The cases concern a soldier who died in

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a "friendly fire" incident and threekilled when his lightly

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armoured Snatch Land Rover were attacked. The government had argued

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that decisions about battlefield equipment were for politicians and

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commanders, not the law courts. This is probably a partial victory

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for the families and a partial setback for the Ministry of Defence.

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It dates back to when British forces were fighting in Iraq. The

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first case was in 2003, where a British tank fired mistakenly on

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another British tanks. One died and two were injured. The survivors and

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families argued if they had had the right equipment, this would not

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have happened, and therefore, negligence. Three soldiers were

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then killed in three separate incidents when they are lightly

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armoured Land Rovers went over IEDs, and they were killed. Their

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relatives are arguing both in terms of negligence against the MoD and

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human rights. Today's ruling by the Court of Appeal has upheld the

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right to campaign for negligence but not human rights.

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What implications could these cases have?

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This could throw it back to the High Court. Some would say it would

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take it back to where it was in 2011. It opens the way for the

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families to argue this. If they are successful, and they are a long way

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off, but if they win their case, namely that the Ministry of Defence

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has a case to answer in terms of duty of care, it could

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theoretically affect the we military operations are conducted

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on the ground. The commanders will be reluctant to send people into

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the path of danger if they would end up being sued in court.

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Our top story this lunchtime: Police widen their inquiry into the

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Jimmy Savile child abuse allegations. There will now be a

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criminal investigation into living people.

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Coming up: The girl shot in the head by the Taliban is now standing

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and writing notes, say doctors treating her in Birmingham.

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Later on BBC London: Alien invasion. The non-native species taking over

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the Thames. And we look ahead to Doctors across the UK are to face

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annual checks on their skills to ensure they are safe to practise in

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what has been dubbed a medical MOT. The scheme will start in December,

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with a decision taken every five years on whether they are fit to

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continue working. The General Medical Council says it is the

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biggest change in medical regulation for 150 years. Sophie

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Hutchinson reports. Every year, doctors in the UK treat

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tens of millions of patients but there has been no mandatory checks

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on their skills and safety. From December, regular checks will begin

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for the first time on all 220,000 doctors. They will have annual

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appraisals and every five years, a review will decide whether they can

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keep practising. Concerns such as poor attitude and rudeness to

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patients could mean the renewal of their licence is deferred. But is

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serious issues about safety are picked up, it could mean they are

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struck off the medical register. It is the biggest shake-up in medical

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regulation for 150 years. patients' trust their doctors and

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the vast majority of good doctors, but I think patients need that

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assurance that doctors are being regularly checked. It is not enough

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to say they pass some exams 30 years ago. You would not accept

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that from a pilot. The lessons learned from the scandals of baby

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deaths at Bristol Royal Infirmary and the serial killer GP Harold

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Shipman have helped create these new checks. They are designed as a

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preventative measure up to pick up on the early warning signs of

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problem doctors before tragedy occurs. It cannot be a ticking

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boxes process. We need guarantees that information from complaints

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and litigation, for example, are used to excess -- as has become the

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deceit of doctors -- are used to assess the competency of doctors.

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The process of assessments will begin in six weeks but it cannot be

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until 2016 that all UK doctors are regularly checked to ensure patient

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safety. Government borrowing fell last

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month to �12.8 billion compared with 13.5 billion in the same month

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last year. The improvement was largely driven by a rise in tax

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receipts and a drop in spending on government assets. Our economics

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editor is here. Good news. Yes. We have had quite a lot of

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economic good news this week but the Chancellor will be particularly

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pleased to see these figures. We have had six months of the taxi and

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now, and the borrower when figures were very disappointing for the

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Chancellor for the first five -- six months of this tax year. The

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Chancellor was thinking he may have to borrow more than last year,

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which gave a stick to the opposition will stop this month's

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figures do not completely changed the picture but it does make things

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look much better. The deficit, the gap between what the government

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spends and what it takes him in tax revenues, was low were this

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September than in any other September since 2008. They also

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decided that spending was a lot lower in the previous five months

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than they thought, which has taken nearly 7 billion Office borrowing

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in the last year it. Borodin for the first six months is still a bit

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higher than last year -- but a win. And it stills looks as though it be

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adjustable be missing his targets a bit, but it is still good news, and

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he may not have to revise his number's quite so much if this

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continues, although people still face tough decisions in December.

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Jeremy Bamber has lost the first stage of his latest legal move over

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his convictions for murdering five relatives more than 25 years ago. A

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judge has refused him permission to challenge the decision not to send

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his case to the Court of Appeal. Bamber is serving a whole life

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sentence for shooting five members of his family in Essex in 1985.

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Trenton Oldfield, the man who disrupted this year's Oxford and

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Cambridge Boat Race by swimming into the path of the crews on the

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Thames, was today sentenced to six months in jail at Isleworth Crown

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Court. He was convicted of causing a public nuisance. Oldfield said he

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was protesting against elitism. Police searching for a 37-year-old

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woman, who has been missing for five days, have found a burned out

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car near her home in North Wales. Catherine Gowing, who is a vet,

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failed to arrive at work on Monday. A 46-year-old man remains in police

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custody after being arrested on suspicion of her murder on Tuesday

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night. Yes, a police helicopter is

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circling above us. Meanwhile on the ground, forensic teams are closely

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examining the wreckage of this burnt out car. The search for

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Catherine Gowing's vehicle has been a key part of this investigation,

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ever since friends and colleagues realised on Monday that she was

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missing. Police were called to this country lane after a member of the

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public reported a burnt-out car matching the description of

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Catherine Gowing's vehicles. The purple Renault Cleo has been

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missing since Friday and has a distinctive Irish numberplate.

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Catherine was last spotted at a supermarket on Friday night. CCTV

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shows her shopping for food. She has practice abbeys at an pre-

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surgery for 18 months but when she failed to show up for work, her

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colleagues caught in the police -- she has practice at this vet

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surgery. We hope for the best but fear the worst. We only realised on

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Monday because she did not turn up for work. Some of the other staff

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tried to contact her over the weekend and failed. Forensics

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searches have also taken place at Catherine Gowing's house. Police

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are continuing to question a 46- year-old man and a suspicion of

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murder. He has not been named but police officers say he is known to

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Catherine Gowing. Her sister has travelled to North Wales to help

:24:47.:24:57.
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police service has pieced together information about her private life.

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-- to help police to get information. We are expecting to

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hear in the next few hours whether this to be got is the one police

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had been searching for, and with it contains any vital evidence in the

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third or Catherine Gowing. Meanwhile they have a few hours to

:25:15.:25:19.

question the 46-year-old arrested on suspicion of murder and that the

:25:19.:25:29.
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end of that, they can apply for a further 24 hours questioning.

:25:29.:25:34.

The captain of an aircraft at Glasgow Airport preparing to depart

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for Alicante declared an emergency shortly before take-off this

:25:41.:25:46.

morning. It is believed smoke was detected in the cabin. The runway

:25:46.:25:49.

has now been reopened. At least nine soldiers have been

:25:49.:25:53.

killed in an attack on a military base in southern Yemen. A car

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packed with explosives blew up at the site in the town of Shuqra.

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Moments later the base was attacked by a number of militants. It is

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reported at least 11 of the suspected Al-Qaeda attackers were

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killed. Ten days after she was shot in the

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head on a school bus in Pakistan, doctors in Birmingham say Malala

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Yousafzai has been able to stand for the first time and is able to

:26:16.:26:19.

communicate by writing notes. The 14-year-old was attacked as a

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punishment for promoting the education of girls and criticising

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Taliban militants. She was flown to the UK this week for treatment.

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Jeremy Cooke reports. A teenage girl at school. A

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remarkable round the world. But in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, this

:26:36.:26:40.

is an act of defiance, and one that almost cost Malala Yousafzai her

:26:40.:26:44.

life. Shot in the head by the Taliban for attending class and

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encouraging friends to do the same. Her story has generated worldwide

:26:51.:26:54.

media focused and today, DRS in Birmingham have been giving details

:26:54.:27:00.

of their 14-year-old patient's injured wrist. She was shot in the

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head. The bullet entered above her left eye. It grazed her brain as it

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went past the temple and went down, damaging her jaw joint on the way,

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and ended up in the muscles above the shoulder blades on the left, so

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quite an extensive injury. Remarkable that she survived then?

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It is quite remarkable. Malala's journey to Britain began soon after

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she was attacked 10 days ago near her home. Initial surgery had

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removed the bullet but then the decision to move her across

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continents to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where staff have

:27:42.:27:45.

extensive experience treating injured British soldiers. She is

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doing remarkably well. She is beginning to stand with help from

:27:50.:27:54.

the physiotherapist and the nurses this morning. She is able to write

:27:54.:27:58.

and understand what we say. government of Pakistan has

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recognised Malala's bravery with one of its highest awards. Her

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medical team here hope that that same coverage will help her fight

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off infection and make a full recovery.

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Reasonably optimistic we will get some dry weather this weekend. You

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might have to wait for the sunny weather because there may be some

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overnight fog. The main problem is a weather front that is too close

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for comfort at the south east of the UK. Much heavier rain causing

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problems of further south in France and Spain. Much quieter where they

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hear. The next pulse of rain is already beginning to move in, or to

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south-east England and East Anglia. Rain in north-east Scotland as well.

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Through the central part of England, the Midlands and northern England,

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it should be a bright afternoon. Not very pleasant across the

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northern part of Scotland, except in the far north-west. Brighter for

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much of Northern Ireland, the odd shower in the east. It should be

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fine for much of Wales and south- west England. Sunshine, very light

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winds. It will feel really quite pleasant, about as high as an

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average temperature in the West for this type of year. That

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temperatures will struggle for the East there. Not too pleasant in the

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south-east England for the evening rush and it will link up for parts

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of tonight, eventually clearing away. In between, the fog will

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become more widespread tonight, so watch out for that early tomorrow

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Tomorrow, it will be a dull start of most of us but the fog will

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gradually clear. It might take a while. Showers may be across Wales

:30:13.:30:15.

and the south-west of England through the afternoon, but

:30:16.:30:25.

otherwise, largely dried. -- dry. The rain has another go at coming

:30:25.:30:29.

back into the south-east on Saturday night! It should clear

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away again on Sunday, so the same sort of picture. Overnight fog,

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sunny spells gradually breaking through. Pleasant enough. It looks

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like we will keep the mild weather into the early part of next week.

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