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Sentenced to life in prison - a homeless man is found guilty of the

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brutal murders of a vicar and retired teacher. Stephen Farrow,

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who has a hatred for Christians, stabbed Betty Yates and Reverend

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John Suddards in their homes earlier this year.

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The exams watchdog criticises teachers for overgenerous marking

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of coursework, which led to this summer's controversy over GCSE

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English results. Plainly intended to deceive. Denis

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MacShane faces suspension from the Commons for fiddling expenses.

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Recovering from sandy - long queues for food and fuel as millions

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remain without power. Britain's ash trees under threat. The

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Government's emergency committee meet to discuss the killer

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infection. And back on earth - Felix

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Baumgartner says he never feared for his life even though he only

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On BBC London: A former counter- terrorism officer appears in court

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to deny misconduct in public office. And what future for London's

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airports, as expansion plans are Good afternoon and welcome to the

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A homeless drifter with a hatred for Christians has been jailed for

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life for murdering a vicar and a retired teacher. Stephen Farrow

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stabbed his victims to death earlier this year in woirst and

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Gloucestershire, but denied murder on the grounds of diminished

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responsibility. He claimed he was abused by a priest at boarding

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school. This morning a jury found the 48-year-old guilty of murder on

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both counts. He has been sentenced to life in prison.

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Stephen Farrow, a homeless drifter with a hatred of the church. He

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claimed as a child he had been abused by a priest. His victims

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could hardly have been more respected members of their

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communities. Betty Yates, a retired teacher and regular church gory and

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Reverend John Suddards were killed six weeks and 75 miles apart.

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Farrow turned up at Betty Yates' cottage. He battered her with her

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walking stick before stabbing her four times in the head. Pharaoh,

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seen here on CCTV, then went on the run, before arriving in Thornbury

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near Bristol in early February. There, he burgled a cottage leaving

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a note pibed to the table with two knives referring to Christian scuk.

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"I hate God ," it said. Farrow found John Suddards alone at his

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vicarage. He told a psychiatrist that he stabbed the reverend and

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kicked him to keep him down and ordered him to die and hurry after.

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After, he spent the night here drinking beer and watching DVDs.

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When the police arrived they found a Bible and a picture of Jesus

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placed alongside the body. I could well have been another victim.

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Michaela met him while volunteering at a church vigil. He texted her.

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"I won't stop until I'm caught. You don't know how disturbed I am. The

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church will be the first to suffer." She said the police

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ignored her warnings. Maybe the two deaths of Betty and the Reverend

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would not have happened. I just find it so sad that those two

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people had to die in those circumstances. But Farrow, who was

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finally brought to justice by DNA evidence, will no longer be a

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threat to the public. Let's speak to our correspondent,

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Jon Brain, who's at Bristol Crown Court. In the last few minutes, the

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judge has sentenced him to life in prison. Yes, in fact, a whole life

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sentence. The judge said that he'd acted sadistically and that a whole

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life sentence was needed. Theoretically he could spend the

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rest of his days in prison. He actually refused to attend his

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trial here at Bristol and was in his prison cell while the graphic

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details of the killings of Betty Yates and John Suddards were given

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to the court. But it was here in the dock -- he was here as the jury

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delivered their verdicts on murder on both counts.

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The exams watchdog has criticised teachers for overgenerous marking

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of coursework which led to this summer's controversy over GCSE

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English results. Ofqual claims that examiners were forced to raise the

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grade boundaries as a result. Teaching unions have accused the

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regulator of shifting blame. Our education correspondent, Reeta

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Chakrabarti, reports. The row over GCSE English has been a bitter one.

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Until now, it's focused on exam boards raising the bar to get a

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good grade halfway through the year so that those pupils, who sat the

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paper in January needed fewer marks than those would sat it in June.

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Ofqual has looked closely at coursework for the exam or

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controlled assessment as it's called, done under strict classroom

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supervision. It said teachers in some secondary schools were guilty

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of significantly overmarking the work to boost grades. I have been

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shocked, I think students have been let down and it won't do. They need

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to learn the skills of English. It's so important to them. What I

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suspect here is that too many of them have been taught how to get

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through hoops rather than really get the life skill that's they need.

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It's half term at this London school, but these pueprilz

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preparing for resits this month. They were predicted C grades but

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got Ds. They're now at college but have been coming back to school to

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revise. I feel let down. Because I was supposed to trust the

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Government and teachers and schools that I can achieve this grade when

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they help me. But because now that I was supposed to a -- achieve the

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grade but they lowered it for not a good enough reason. The head

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teacher is furious that teachers are being blamed. Outraged,

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absolutely outraged. The report that came out today failed, and I'm

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disappointed with Ofqual, because they failed to recognise and take

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responsibility for their own mistakes and have pointed the

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finger at others. Thousands have been unhappy with their English

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marks. 45,000 pupils are resitting the exam this month. Unions

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estimate tens of thousands were predicted C grades who then got a D.

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Playgrounds may be empty this week, but the fallout from the marking

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row goes on with questions being asked not just about last summer's

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grades but about the system of school league tables too. Ofqual

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maintains that teachers being overgenerous forced examers to

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raise the number of marks needed to get a good grade. The but the

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watchdog faces legal action from groups who want papers to be

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regraded, as in Wales. We all become better... The Education

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Secretary Michael Gove is strongly opposed to MoD lar exams sat at

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different times of the year and they're be phased out by 2014. The

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pressure that league tables put on schools to get good grades has yet

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to be addressed. The former Labour minister, Denis

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MacShane, faces suspension from Parliament for 12 months for

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fiddling his expenses. The committee for Standards and

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Privileges has found he committed a series of -- submitted a series of

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invoices plainly intended to deceive. Calling it the gravest

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case on which it has passed judgment. Our correspondent Chris

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Mason is at Westminster. When do these claims date back to? These

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claims relate to 2005 to 2008. The Standards and Privileges Committee

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unflinching in its criticism of Denis MacShane. The criticism

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pertains to two aspects of expenses. Firstly, computers. MPs are allowed

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to claim for IT equipment. But they believe that Mr MacShane's claims

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were excessive. He had access to three laptops and three PCs in

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addition he claimed for a further eight computers. Criticism too for

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claims relating to Denis MacShane's interest in European politics. He

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submitted a good number of invoices from the European policy institute.

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The MPs conclude the bank account of the institute was controlled by

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Mr MacShane. What happened now? has been, as far as the committee

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are concerned, recommended for suspension from the Commons for a

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period of 12 months. It is at this stage a recommendation. But it

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would appear likely that Parliament is likely to follow through and

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carry out that suspension. Mr MacShane has said he's shocked and

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saddened at the news. He has apologised and repaid the money

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that he had claimed. The Labour Party this lunch time have said

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that they have suspended him. Mr MacShane says his career has been

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all be destroy -- but destroyed. COBRA the Government crisis

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committee, which normally meets to discuss national emergencies, has

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been meeting to discuss the threat to the UK's native ash trees. The

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fungal disease, which has wiped out up to 90% of ash trees in Denmark,

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was first identified in mature trees here last month. Our rural

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affairs correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, reports. It is a killer disease, a

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fungal infection which first weakens, then wipes out ash trees

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in their thousands. The symptoms are obvious, dead, blackened leaves,

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linear scars along the bark. Britain's 80 million ash trees are

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under threat with potentially disastrous consequences for the

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landscape, environment and the economy. So today the Government's

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response, a meeting of the COBRA committee, normally associated with

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cor alerts and national crises. This amid claims that ministers

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ignored warning that's may have stopped the disease before it got

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here. We know this is a very serious disease which has caused

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real damage in other countries, such as Denmark. That is why we, as

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a Government, are taking it so extremely seriously. I've called

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together the COBRA meeting today so that every Government agency and

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devolves administrations can work together to control it. These

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Government labs outside York are in the front line of this battle.

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Their first task is to establish how fart disease has spread. The

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work here starts with this -- how far the disease has spread. The

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work here starts with this, this piece of ash. There is a dark

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lesion there. That's a classic symptom. We need scientific

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evidence. That means extracting the DNA. They need to identify the

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fungus. Good news is that cases in the wild are limited to East Anglia.

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The bad news, there's no known way to control the spread. It is very

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difficult to control. Any organisation, particularly wind

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borne, it is very difficult to have control on it. We are looking into

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measures which we can manage this problem. At stake is some of our

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most Cherished countryside. Ash trees make up about 30% of British

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woodland, seldom have they been under such grave threat.

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Freddie Starr has been released on police bail after being questioned

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by detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile sex scandal. The

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immediation was arrested last night -- the comedian was arrested last

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night. He has denied claims that he groped a girl of 14 while in a room

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with Savile. The Foreign Office has raised the

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terrorist threat for Egypt to severe. There is now a high risk of

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attack. It warns travels not to go to Sinai where there have been

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hijackings and kidnaps. On the East Coast of America, food

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and fuel shortages have led to long queues in New York and New Jersey,

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as residents try to get their lifdz back to normal after superstorm

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sandy. About 4.5 million people are still without power. Some have been

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told they won't be reconnected for another ten days. More than 90

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people are known to have died during Monday's devastating storm.

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Here's Mike Wooldridge. As the week draws to a close, after one of the

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worst storms this part of America has seen, in some places the

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frustration is now boiling over. We're going to die. We're going to

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freeze. We've got 90-year-old people. I just spent $30,000 in my

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home. And it's all gone. We are working class neighbourhood and

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it's just like fend for yourselves kind of thing. Transport of all

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kinds is severely affected. Motorists are forced to wait for

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hours in some cases, to fill up. At one point power cuts affected eight

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million homes and businesses. The power is still out for nearly four

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million and that's also a source of growing impatience. We're looking

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for some type of support here. We have no power. I was hoping that I

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would come down here and maybe we would have generators or power

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supplies. Generators are not available. FEMA is one of the

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targets of those criticising the response of the authorities and of

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others involved in disaster relief. All these people making these big

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salrilz should be out there on the front line. -- salaries. I am

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disappointed. Some of the frustration is shared by local

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politicians. The city of New York is talking about getting water out

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of the battery tunnel and preparing for a marathon. We're pulling

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bodies out of waurtd. You see the disconnect here? There are recovery

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operations taking place across the affected areas of New York and the

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surrounding states. There are various kinds of relief supplies

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being distributed. But if the accusation and the perception gains

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ground that the response is much slower in working class districts

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than in wealthier areas, the question is whether there could yet

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be political fall out as election day approaches. Today's October

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employment figures show the jobless rate slightly up after falling in

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September. Employers are adding more jobs and highering more

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strongly. All this with the campaign now back in full swing and

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the presidential raise judged too close to call. President Obama

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acknowledging that there's a long way to go in dealing with the

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superstorm, but insisting that in the last few days, America has been

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With four days until the presidential election the campaign

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is back if full swing. Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in

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Cleveland in the crucial swing state of Ohio.

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Is there any sense of this growing disquiet having any sort of impact

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on the campaign trail? Well, undoubtedly it will do and both

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candidates are here campaigning in Ohio today. Both want the crucial

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18 votes that it has in the electoral college and when

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President Obama is here he is going to have to respond to this growing

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sense of frustration that people without power, that people without

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homes are feeling. Equally for Mitt Romney, he may want to criticise

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aspects of the storm response, he will have to be careful not to be

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too critical. For both men it's very difficult. They are

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campaigning. The election is on Tuesday. But they don't want to

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make a political issue out of what is a natural disaster, while at the

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same time they may wish to but they can't do it overtly. With a few

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days to go there's been good news for President Obama on the jobs

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front. Some good news. 171,000 jobs were created in the last month. But

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the unemployment rate has ticked up from 7.8% to 7.9% because more

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people are joining the workforce. There's something interesting going

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on here, which is that consumers are feeling quite confident.

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They're starting to spend again. Here where I am actually the

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economy is doing relatively well and unemployment is actually below

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the national average, at about 7%. Businesses are very concerned about

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something called the fiscal cliff. This will hit early next year where

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there will be big automatic spending cuts in Government and tax

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increases unless congressional leaders can agree their way out of

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this impasse. Thank you. Our top story:

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A homeless man has been jailed for life for the brutal murders of a

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vicar and a retired teacher. Stephen Farro warbgs stabbed

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Reverend John Suddards and Betty Yates in their homes.

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Coming up, after the wettest summer for 100 years many parts of the UK

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face the risk of flooding. On BBC London: Claims a mother from Surrey

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was given electric shock therapy without permission from her family.

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We are at the O2 getting ready to host the world's best tennis

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Members of China's ruling Communist Party are getting ready to appoint

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new leaders who'll rule the country for the next decade. But what sort

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of legacy will they inherit? The remarkable Three Gorges Dam may

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have become a symbol of China's development, but while it produces

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vast amounts of hydroelectric power, it's come at an environmental and

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human cost, as our correspondent Martin Patience reports.

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It's one of the biggest dams ever built. Stretching for over two

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kilometres and costing over $40 billion, the Three Gorges Dam was

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designed to tame the mighty YangtzeW a project on this scale

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nobody was allowed to get in the way.

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When the dam was completed these fishermen were told to leave. But

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they say it's the only job they know. TRANSLATION:

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We can't make a living if we can't fish. We have appealed to the

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Government but no one is listening. This huge dam stands as a symbol of

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China's development. Over the last decade, the scale and pace of

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change has been unprecedented. But the way that millions of people

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have been pushed aside by the Communist Party has generated

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enormous resentment. Fu Xiancai was one of millions forced to relocate

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because of the dam. He never received compensation he was due.

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When he he complained to local officials he says he was beaten,

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leaving him paralysed. TRANSLATION: If ordinary people can defend their

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own rights, and if Government officials follow the law, then this

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country will change for the better. Much of China's wealth is now

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flowing down the Yangtze. Like in other cities the people here are

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becoming used to being better off. Many are no longer prepared to be

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pushed around like in the past. And for China's new leaders that means

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ruling a population less likely to follow the party line.

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You can get more information on the issues and challenges facing

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China's new leaders on our website. Two men have been arrested in

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connection with the murder of a prison officer in Northern Ireland.

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David Black was shot yesterday as he drove to his job at a high-

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security jail in Country Antrim. It's believed dissident republicans

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were responsible for the attack. The men, aged 31 and 44, were

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detained in the Lurgan area. Our correspondent Chris Buckler reports.

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David Black was a prison officer during some of the worst periods of

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the Troubles but his family are grieving at a time of relative

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peace and today detectives arrested two men in connection with his

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killing. When police first found his car at

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the side of the M1 motorway they thought it was a simple road

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accident, rather than a murder. In fact, David Black was already dead

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when his car veered into this ditch, killed by gun shots fired from

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another vehicle. The Government will do whatever we can to help the

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PSNI bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice. One of the men

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that's been arrested is the well- known Republican Colin Duffy.

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Earlier this year he was acquitted of killing two soldiers outside a

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barracks in Antrim. He always denied any involvement in the

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attack. But he has described himself as a dissident Republican.

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If that means somebody who dissents from mainstream Sinn Fein thinking,

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then I am quite happy to class myself in that light. Awaiting

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trial Colin Duffy had been held on remand in Maghaberry prison. David

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Black had been travelling to work there when he was shot. It's

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understood that Mr Black's son drove past the scene of the murder

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yesterday morning without realising that his father had been the victim

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of an ambush. And this shooting does raise real security concerns.

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He is the first prison officer to be killed in Northern Ireland by

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paramilitaries in almost 20 years. Another leading bank has increased

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the amount it has set aside to compensate customers who were mis-

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sold Payment Protection Insurance. RBS, which is 80% owned by the

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taxpayer, is earmarking an extra �400 million for the payouts. The

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additional cost helped plunge the bank into a loss of �1.25 billion

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in the three months to September. Our personal finance correspondent

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Simon Gompertz is here. Another bank that seems to have got figures

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wrong over this. Lloyds and Barclays have had to set aside

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large extra sums. This PPI cover was supposed to help you out with

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your loan repayments if you fell sick or lost your job but in many

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cases it was inappropriate. Let me take you through the compensation

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figures. With Royal Bank of Scotland it's now 1.7 billion, the

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funds they've set aside with this extra sum. If you take all the

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banks and building societies together, the total has reached

:23:10.:23:13.

�12.7 billion. A staggering sum. More than they expected. Partly

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because there's been so much publicity encouraging people to

:23:16.:23:20.

claim and partly because they're having to go directly to some

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customers and tell them they may have lost out. A lot of people

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making claims. What kind of compensation are they getting?

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Typically it's just under �3,000 or more than that in some cases. By my

:23:31.:23:37.

calculation it's around 10,000 cheques or payments per day going

:23:37.:23:42.

out from the banks, around �30 million a day. This could go on for

:23:42.:23:47.

another year or so. That's barring further claims coming in. So it's a

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massive exercise. A lot of money going into people's pockets. Thank

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you. We've had the wettest summer in a

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century and many heavy downpours since and now the Environment

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Agency has warned of a heightened risk of flooding across parts of

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the UK. It says the south-west and northern and western parts of

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England and Wales are at risk and that even relatively small amounts

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of rain could trigger floods, because rivers are full and ground

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saturated. Our Wales Correspondent Hywel Griffith reports.

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After a summer that left Britain soaked through, get ready for even

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more of this. The wettest April to June on record was followed by even

:24:22.:24:27.

more heavy rainfall, leaving rivers full and the ground saturated. That

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means it won't take much to trigger a flood. We are especially

:24:31.:24:36.

concerned about south-west England, Wales and north-west England. We

:24:36.:24:39.

have seen a lot of floods over the course of the summer and autumn

:24:39.:24:43.

period already, over the summer we issued in excess of 100,000 flood

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warnings to people. Back in June the residents here

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were given a warning but it came too late for many to save their

:24:51.:24:56.

homes from the flood. The river actually came in and rose to about

:24:56.:25:01.

6ft high throughout the whole of the house. In the aftermath, Mick

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showed me around his sodden home and what was left of the gardens.

:25:04.:25:08.

For months they've been trying to put life back together here and now

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they've been told it could all happen over again. It's not good

:25:13.:25:18.

news, as you might expect. We did hope to be back in by Christmas but

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that's out of the window now and looks like it's going to be January

:25:21.:25:24.

or February before we can get back into the house. We are really

:25:24.:25:28.

anxious to get back in, we are tired of it all now. I have lost my

:25:28.:25:32.

sense of humour about it all, I have to say. It's only three weeks

:25:32.:25:36.

since the people here in Devon witnessed two inches of rainfall in

:25:36.:25:40.

an hour. It's one of the areas that will be vulnerable again during the

:25:40.:25:50.
:25:50.:25:52.

autumn. Over five million people in England and Wales live and work in

:25:52.:25:54.

places at risk of flooding. The Environment Agency says they should

:25:54.:25:57.

start thinking now about moving valuables to a safe and dry place,

:25:57.:25:58.

rather than wait for the rivers to rise.

:25:58.:26:01.

More than a million people have already signed up to receive free

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flood warnings by e-mail, text or phone message. Those lines are set

:26:05.:26:14.

to be busier than ever before this autumn.

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Just a few weeks ago, not many people knew the name Felix

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Baumgartner. But that all changed when he leapt from a balloon 24

:26:20.:26:23.

miles above the Earth. Now back safely on the ground, he's been

:26:23.:26:25.

speaking to our correspondent Tim Muffett about his record-breaking

:26:25.:26:33.

skydive. He began by describing his feelings as he got ready to jump.

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When you are up there on top of the world and you stand there, you

:26:38.:26:41.

finally realise this is a very quiet moment, you know. You are the

:26:41.:26:51.
:26:51.:26:52.

only person at that point. So you go into that spin. That

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could have killed you theoretically. Did you think you might die at that

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moment? When I went into that spin it was very violent. It was way

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more violent than we anticipated. I constantly thought about at that

:27:10.:27:14.

moment it slows you down so much you cannot break the speed of sound

:27:14.:27:17.

any more. That was the worry at that moment. Even at that moment

:27:17.:27:21.

your big he is concern was the record as opposed to survival?

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That's extraordinary. Yeah, you know because this is my job. Here

:27:25.:27:30.

he is coming. And there you can see by the approaching - just about

:27:30.:27:36.

there! Then finally you land and you know everything is over now. I

:27:36.:27:39.

did not know if I broke the speed of sound at that moment because

:27:39.:27:44.

there is no sign for it. It's hard to tell. People on the ground told

:27:44.:27:47.

me that they heard the supersonic boom. Did you already plan to do

:27:48.:27:51.

that kneel down and arm in the air, had you thought about that?

:27:51.:27:54.

that's a natural reaction. This is victory, you know, after so many

:27:54.:28:00.

years of preparation. When I was a little kid I got this

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coin when I was born and it had the three astronauts on it, Collins,

:28:04.:28:08.

Armstrong and Aldrin and when I was five years old I always had that

:28:08.:28:12.

coin and I looked up to the moon and thought how did they do it? It

:28:12.:28:17.

was inspiring for me and maybe the reason I did it. You hope now I am

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sure that maybe kids watched your jump will now be inspired? Yeah,

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that's a great honour, you know. Felix Baumgartner speaking there,

:28:31.:28:36.

extraordinary images. Let's look at There is a chilly breeze outside

:28:36.:28:39.

today but at least we are compensating with it with sunshine.

:28:39.:28:43.

For many areas decent spells of sunshine but also heavy and

:28:43.:28:48.

thundery showers around. Especially for southern and western areas, the

:28:48.:28:52.

radar picture shows where we have seen the showers, the green colours

:28:52.:28:55.

indicating torrential downpours particularly across parts of

:28:55.:29:00.

Northern Ireland to the north-west of England and also filtering in to

:29:00.:29:04.

the Bristol Channel. These areas are prone to showers throughout the

:29:04.:29:07.

afternoon. Inland many areas are dry. Overnight the winds ease away

:29:07.:29:10.

and that's going to allow temperatures to take a tumble and

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then later in the night further showers working in from the west.

:29:13.:29:18.

That's the recipe for a khaeully and -- chilly and icy start

:29:18.:29:22.

particularly across the northern half of the UK. It is a little bit

:29:22.:29:26.

milder further south. I don't think we are going to have icy patches.

:29:26.:29:31.

But we have those showers filtering in on a brisk breeze.

:29:31.:29:34.

It's looking like a pleasant morning to come across Wales with

:29:34.:29:39.

spells of sunshine. We have still got that heavy rain in the north-

:29:39.:29:42.

west of England. Equally across Northern Ireland, after some

:29:43.:29:46.

overnight showers a chilly morning, could be slippery first thing on

:29:46.:29:50.

the roads. For Scotland temperatures around about freezing,

:29:50.:29:55.

below in some sheltered Glens. We could see frosty patches first

:29:55.:30:01.

thing. It's looking dry and bright across much of the Midlands and

:30:01.:30:05.

into East Anglia but we still have a risk of sharp showers pouring in

:30:05.:30:08.

around the southern coasts of England. That's the way it looks

:30:08.:30:15.

through the day. Another day of sunshine and showers. Some of the

:30:15.:30:19.

showers wintry. But for many eastern areas it's a pwroeut and

:30:19.:30:24.

sunny day but temperatures still on the cool side.

:30:24.:30:29.

It's going to feel chilly. Chilly into Saturday evening, as well. We

:30:29.:30:32.

keep the risk of showers in the far south and for western areas. If you

:30:32.:30:38.

are heading to any bonfire displays instance, we could catch a shower.

:30:38.:30:42.

For eastern areas, Edinburgh, Norwich, skies are looking clear

:30:42.:30:45.

although we have a brisk breeze. Through Saturday night into Sunday

:30:45.:30:49.

you can see this area of low pressure that continues to be be in

:30:49.:30:53.

command of our weather. It's pushing further south. Sunday looks

:30:53.:30:57.

like another day of sunshine and showers but we could have more

:30:57.:31:00.

persistent rain working in to the south-east of England and

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temperatures at best perhaps around about 7-11 Celsius. It's going to

:31:05.:31:08.

be feeling chilly into the weekend and we are going to see that

:31:08.:31:17.

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