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Britain braces itself as more severe weather is forecast and

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floods and power cuts continue to cause disruption. Warnings of 70

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mile an hour winds and torrential rain look set to bring more misery

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to thousands. We are live in Somerset, where

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council staff working to that night to prepare for what is to come.

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Confidence not high at the EU budget talks - one Euro MP said it

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would take a miracle for a deal to be reached.

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Keeping the lights on and carbon emissions down - but it's customers

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who'll foot the bill for the government's new energy plans.

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Feeling the pressure - why some hospitals and residential homes

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aren't looking after their patients properly.

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And the perils of a postman - 3,000 were attacked by dogs last year.

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Now there are calls for more protection.

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No wins this season, so QPR sacked their manager Mark Hughes. Harry

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC news at 1pm. Flooding has

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caused chaos to many parts of the UK - there are severe delays on

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roads and railways and weather forecasters are predicting more

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torrential rain and gale force winds to come at the weekend. A man

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died after his car became stuck under a bridge in a village south

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of Bristol And a pensioner had to be rescued after his car became

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trapped by rising water. There are currently more than 77 flood

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warnings for England and Wales and five in Scotland. Our correspondent

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Robert Hall is in Taunton. Very busy day here. They have failed

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8000 sandbags are so far at this depot in Taunton. Up in north

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Somerset, for a while, they actually ran out and have had to

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replenish stocks. Every available person filling sandbags. The

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priority is to be ready to help those most in need. With the storm

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came tragedy. Travellers familiar with the Ford in the village of

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Chew Stoke could not have expected to a threat to life. But the volume

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of flood water trapped his four by four against a wooden footbridge.

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Emergency crews managed to release the driver from the car, but he

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died before he reached hospital. The water would be just up to my

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waist, standing in the road, so access was terrible. The water

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going down there was a raging torrent. The gales and torrential

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rain lashed England and Wales for much of the night. A resident

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belong to these scenes in a North Wales. Water from the slopes of

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Snowdonia combining to create a flash floods, blocking the path of

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rescuers trying to reach those most in need. Helicopters were called in

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to aid the rescue of a woman whose car had been swept 100 metres down

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a swollen river. Back in Somerset, the loss of a retaining wall in

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Bath allowed a massive boulder and tons of earth to slide across the

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road below, leaving one property perched precariously above the

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landslip. Water levels have been falling this morning, but

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communities at risk of flooding were warned not to drop their guard.

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You have got to sign up for a Free Environment Agency flood warning.

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They are essential if you're at risk of flooding. In time a flood,

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do tune into your local BBC radio station. At a motorway services

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station, we saw preparations for the next band of bad weather. Heavy

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Poms and specialist rescued units from by the grades across the

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south-west will be moved to where they are most needed. Today's race

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but was given emergency services and local councils time to read

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group -- today's a respite. They know that all too soon they will

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watch the blood Waters rising once more. It is not just here that

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things are busy. The council teams across this county, across all the

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affected councils -- counties are out there, clearing drains, getting

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roads reopened. The Cheddar gorge, there is so much rock on the road

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being carried away by the water that drivers are getting punchers,

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so they have had to close it and clear it. That is the picture that

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has been repeated across this area. The skies may be blue, but there is

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no respite. Let's look at what is to come with our weather presenter.

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People are very fearful about what happens if this continues in the

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same vein or get worse. This is the calm before the next storm, if you

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like. We see the flood warnings decrease over the next 24 hours,

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but we are going to see more wet and windy weather coming in across

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southern parts of England and Wales. We will see the rain arriving

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through the course at Saturday, the Met Office have a weather warning

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enforce the areas like Devon, Somerset, round about the Bristol

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area, south and west Wales as well. The accumulation of rain will be

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around 20 to 40 mm. We have seen a lot of flooding in this area, we

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have flood warnings in force right now, so any extra rain will

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exasperate the problems. But it is a two-pronged attack, because the

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winds would become the main story, across parts of south-east England.

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Areas like Sussex, Kent, Essex and Suffolk, we will see winds of

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around 60 miles an hour inland, 70 miles per hour around the coast. I

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will have before round-up later on. European leaders gathered in

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Brussels are pessimistic about the prospect of an agreement over the

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future budget of the EU without another meeting. The leaders of

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France and Germany have already said they doubt that an agreement

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can be reached, and David Cameron has admitted not enough progress is

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being made. Deep divisions remain between countries who want

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reductions in spending and those who would like to see increases.

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Mathew Price sent this report. On the horizon at dawn, just a

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glimmer of sunlight. Just a glimmer of hope, too, that this summit

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could end well. They call this the family photo. But it is a family

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tearing itself apart over comparatively small amounts of

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money. After a full day of one-on- one negotiations, the summit

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meeting began just before midnight, with a reworked budget plan. The

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French president of the hardest negotiation has yet to begin. The

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latest proposal is better for France and others who want to see

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agricultural subsidies protected. Better, too, for poorer countries

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that want development spending maintained. But infrastructure

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projects in transport, energy and broadband will get less funding, so

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to you development aid and the EU's diplomatic Service. Back to work

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this morning, Britain still playing hardball. There really is a problem

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in terms of there hasn't been the progress in cutting back proposals

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for additional spending. It isn't a time of the tinkering, a time for

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moving money from one part of the Budget to another. We need an

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affordable spending cut. This is a tough balancing act for David

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Cameron. Back home he is under political pressure not to give an

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inch, yet if he doesn't, he risks a frustrating many of the other EU

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countries. The UK is already seen as a bit of a problem in Europe,

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and Britain's influence and its standing could be about to worsen.

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So where is all this heading? Countries like Spain, whose high-

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speed trains were partially funded by the EU, are clear. They cannot

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allow any Budget changes to hit their already struggling economies.

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But David Cameron and his allies, who met in the last few hours, are

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equally determined they will freeze spending.

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Let's speak to our political correspondent Norman Smith. A

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family tearing itself a part, are they saying that report. Where are

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the main sticking points now? main sticking points would not seem

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to be the money. Because the difference between the big spenders

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and the budget cutters is not insurmountable. This Putin point is

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the politics, and here we are not just talking about Britain's tough

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stance -- the sticking point. David Cameron's language has irritated

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other leaders, but many countries have red lines. France will not

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accept cuts in farm spending, the European Parliament were not accept

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cuts to infrastructure project, and it is a bit like a particularly

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dastardly Rubik's Cube. At the moment, EU negotiations have not

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managed to align all the different red lines and all the different

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domestic political considerations to enable a deal to be done, and

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visit -- German Chancellor is warning through her aides that all

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27 leaders may have to come back here next year and try again.

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you. The steel company, Tata, is to cut

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900 jobs and close 12 of its sites in the UK. Most of the job losses

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will be at Port Talbot in South Wales. Others will go in Yorkshire,

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the West Midlands and on Teesside. Tata said the move was designed to

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increase its competitiveness. Our Wales Correspondent Hywel Griffith

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is in Port Talbot. Very unwelcome news, particularly for those most

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affected in South Wales. Yes, although most people here seem to

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be accepting today is terrible news with a grim sense of inevitability.

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Back in the summer, Tata had to reduce the number of hours and

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change shift support workers here, so many will have seen it coming,

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particularly if they looked at the company's order book. There has

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been a huge demand in steel -- drop in demand for steel across Europe,

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the company said the order book is 25% down up. Unions have been

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speaking to management, they are keen that redundancies will be made

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on a voluntary basis. However 500 jobs at this plant a loan, it is

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difficult to see that can be achieved. Is there any silver

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lining in the company saying it is investing it for the longer term?

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Yes, they are in the process of rebuilding a blast furnace here at

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Paul toppled -- report will but, which suggests they are investing,

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however it is the medium and short Christmas up for workers that they

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will be worried about. Most workers are added restrictive, managerial,

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the white-collar workforce. They will be the ones, sadly, looking

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for new jobs in the new year. Gas and electricity bills are

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likely to rise in the coming years, after the Conservatives and Liberal

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Democrats reached a deal on energy policy. The Government's long-

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awaited energy bill will allow energy companies to charge

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customers more to create a new, greener, energy infrastructure but

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ministers say it will mean lower bills in the longer term. Our

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business correspondent John Moylan reports.

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How can we keep the lights on, meet our environmental commitments and

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ensure affordable energy fall? That is what Lib Dem and Tory ministers

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have been arguing over four weeks, but now they have reached a deal to

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stop and -- at its heart is an increase in the funding of green

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energy, to �7.6 billion a year by 2020, three times the current level.

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But it will be paid for by a levy on how bills, from around �20 today

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to as much as and �95 by the end of the decade -- on our bills. We are

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putting investment in to clean energy, that will cost some money.

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It is about 2% of people's bills, by 2020 it will be about 7%. I'm

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not going to hide that from you. But we are going to save energy and

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save money. The reforms I announced will also help people, and the net

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effect will be built that are lower than they would otherwise have been.

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The detailed will come in at the station next week. It is designed

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to kick-start investment in low carbon regeneration Costa the

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French energy giant EDF will shortly decide on building the

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first nuclear plant in decades in the UK. There is still work to do.

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There are still detail to be finalised, but the broad direction

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is clear. It is very clear that we need affordable, secures a low

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carbon energy, and we need investment that will generate jobs

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and to give the UK economy a real boost at a time when we needed.

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we are not going green at any cost. In America the discovery of the

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trail that has seen prices plummet. Could the same happen here? The

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Chancellor has left the door open for the future, but other states

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the plan to clean up electricity by 2030 is a big mistake. There is a

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huge amount of uncertainty left, because the big decision over

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whether or not there is a goal in 2030 to remove carbon from power

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stations has been kicked into the long grass until after the general

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election, so that its huge amount of uncertainty for investors about

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whether or not the government is really serious about green energy.

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But for many households, the news of higher prices will be a concern.

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Consumer groups today called for the government to step up measures

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to tackle rising bills, especially those on low incomes.

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Let's speak to our political correspondent Vicki Young. Mixed

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reception on this. Politically it has been a difficult one. It really

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has been a difficult, a total nightmare for the coalition. There

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have been difficult discussions and conversations. On the one side you

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have the Lib Dems are pushing their green agenda, wanting that more

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specific target of reducing carbon emissions, wanting a big boost for

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clean energy supplies, and on the other hand, the Treasury and George

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Osborne, instinctively against subsidies, not wanting to be tied

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to those targets. It resulted in open water in the energy department,

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with a Tory minister coming out against windfarms and having to be

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slapped down in public by his Lib Dem boss. Today the Treasury have

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held this as a decent compromise, they say it all centres around

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growth. The industry now has stability, they can now invest,

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they say it is good for jobs. As ever, all about bills are likely to

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More than a quarter of hospitals and care homes inspected in England

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last year failed on at least one essential standard of care,

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according to an independent health watchdog. The Care Quality

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Commission found that 10% of hospitals failed to treat older

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patients with dignity and 15% didn't manage to give people the

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food and drink they needed. Our health correspondent, Adam Brimelow,

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Sandra has so many fond memories of her father Eddie, a loving family

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man, strong, brave and bright. But she feels this man who gave so much

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was denied dignity and respect by his local hospital in his final

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hours. He had been admitted with stomach problems, but she says he

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was neglected and humiliated by staff as his condition deteriorated.

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It was a bad dream, a nightmare. I don't understand how the elderly,

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who have paid their dues all their lives, in their hour of need a let

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down by the system. If this was happening across the country to

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children, there would be a national outcry. The trust says Eddie was

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given active treatment throughout and the family was kept informed,

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but some of the concerns in this case are reflected in the biggest-

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ever assessment of health and social care in England. During

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thousands of inspections, the Care thousands of inspections, the Care

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Quality Commission found a lot of excellent care, but more than a

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quarter of services came up short hop on at least one of the 16 basic

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standards. One in 10 NHS hospitals failed on dignity and respect for

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older people. Even more missed the older people. Even more missed the

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mark on support with food and drink. The commission says poor staffing

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levels were often done early warning sign for wider problems.

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That can lead to a focus on task and not focusing on the care of

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each individual and treating people as individuals. The danger is that

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that leads to a culture where the unacceptable becomes the norm.

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commission says demand on hospitals and nursing homes are growing. They

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are serving an older population with ever more complex needs, but

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the government says there can be no hiding place for poor care.

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Our top story this lunchtime: Flooding has caused chaos to many

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parts of the UK - there are severe delays on roads and railways and

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weather forecasters are predicting more torrential rain and gale force

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winds to come at the weekend. Coming up:

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A slice of Monty magic - England's spin bowler returns to the Test

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Later on BBC London: The England women's rugby union

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team are gearing up to take on world champions New Zealand in

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Surrey tonight. And we'll hear from this year's

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Unsung Hero, who has been recognised for his work to promote

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Every year, thousands of postmen and women are attacked by dogs

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while on their rounds and now the Royal Mail says it wants tougher

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legal action to be taken against owners and the right to stop

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delivering their post. One postman, who had been doing the job for 17

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years, was seriously injured by a dog attack and as our correspondent

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Judith Moritz has been finding out, Louise Webster has been delivering

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the post in Sheffield for five years. Meeting dogs is part of the

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job. It is mostly no problem, although she has been bitten twice.

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As it stands, if she is injured on public land action can be taken

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against the dog owner, but on private property, it is a different

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story. I like dogs, but I always think the owner is partly to blame

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and they do have the attitude of you on my property, my dog can do

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what it wants. I have to deliver to these properties. It went to the

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bone. Paul Coleman knows only too well about dog attacks. Five years

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ago he was on his rounds when two dogs called him. He was in their

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grip for 15 minutes and still has the scars. They've left me 27%

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disabled for life. I have nerve damage to my right leg. Really bad

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scarring. And mentally, it did cause a lot of upset. Obviously

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most postal deliveries passed off without any incident, but Royal

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Mail says there are around 3,000 dog attacks on postmen and women

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every year. The Communication Workers Union, which represents

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postal staff, says there are even more tax, around 5,000 a year. In

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Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the law has already changed

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or is being changed to cover a tax on private land, but in England

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there's still a dig -- distinction between public and and private

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property. I call it the garden fence well. If the attack takes

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place on the public side, the law is adequate. Step on to private

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property and the law has no sanction. Royal Mail has said it

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plans to take a more robust approach in future and will look at

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suspending deliveries to addresses where dog attacks have happened.

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Officials in Gaza says the Israeli military has shot and killed a

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Palestinian man close to the border. He's the first person to die since

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the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect on Wednesday.

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The Israeli army said that it had fired warning shots after seeing a

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group of men approaching the border. The man widely praised for his part

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in brokering that ceasefire, the Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi,

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is now being accused of staging what amounts to a coup in his own

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country. He's passed a decree giving himself sweeping new powers

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that can never be revoked. Critics say he's appointed himself Egypt's

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"new pharaoh." From Cairo, Jon Tahrir Square, where Egyptians

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gathered to at Bourrust Hosni Mubarak 18 months ago. Today the

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crowds have already started protesting against any edict they

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say could turn President Morsi into a new dictator. Every bit as

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powerful as the man he replaced. is the first dictator in Egypt. He

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has more power than more -- Mubarak. Nobody can really oppose his

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decisions any more. Under the decree, President Morsi has

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announced that none of his decisions can be challenged by the

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courts and there's no parliament at the moment either. He is sacking

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the prosecutor-general and calling for new prosecutions against former

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regime officials accused of being behind the killing of protesters.

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If this edict is accepted, it would give Egypt new President more

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powers than even Hosni Mubarak ever claimed. It is a remarkable turn of

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events. President Morsi is still basking in the kudos he won working

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with the Americans to negotiate the Gaza's ceasefire. Now he is trying

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to use that international prestige to stamp his authority on Egyptian

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domestic politics. But he is also in a lot of trouble at home. For

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the last week, protesters have been battling on the edge of Tahrir

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Square with riot police. On his side of the many thousands of

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Muslim Brotherhood supporters who have come out to demonstrate in his

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favour. The President will be hoping to overwhelm the opposition

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that is bound to be both from the Liberals and the judges, furious

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about this attack on their independence.

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Every year, hip replacements change the lives of thousands of people -

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giving them back their mobility and freedom. It's now one of the most

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commonly performed operations in the UK with success rates that are

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among the best in the world, but how did the treatment come about?

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The idea came from a pioneering British surgeon with a love of

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engineering. Our correspondent Dominic Hughes has been finding out

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how an annoying squeak helped Sir John Charnley develop an idea which

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has been improving patients' For the past five years or so,

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former teacher Harry Hagen has had a troublesome hip. Now he is having

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a total hip replacement, a procedure first carried out 50

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years ago to the day in Wrightington Hospital in Lancashire.

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Before the operation, I ask Parry what he hoped to get out of it.

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hope to be back to a 35-year-old! Seriously, I want to be able to run

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a little, take long walks in the countryside, play some tennis, get

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back to the gym. And take up what I would consider to be a normal

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lifestyle for someone who is fit and well other than my hip. It was

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at Wrightington that Sir John Charnley, a surgeon with a love of

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engineering, if developed a Redruth -- revolutionary artificial hip

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joint and surgical technique that has stood the test of time. It was

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a steal implant that sat in a tough plastic cup, replacing the ball and

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socket in the hip weakened by conditions like arthritis or wear

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and tear. Sir John died in 1982, but his wife remembers how his idea

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came after he saw a patient suffering from an unusual problem

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with an existing hip implant. patient came to John because her

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squeak upset his wife so much. When they were having breakfast together

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or a meal together and he leaned forward to get the salt, it's great

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and it made her feel sick. That started John thinking about what

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was going on in the joint. Then of course he had this engineering bent

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and he redesigned nature. That work means surgeons from around the

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world now come to Wrightington Hospital to study the techniques

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used here. This is one of around 50,000 total hip replacement

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operations carried out in the UK each year. There have been some

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modifications, but essentially it is the same procedure developed by

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Sir John Charnley 50 years ago in this hospital. The procedure has

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become the gold standard for this kind of operation and it has spread

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around the world. How significant is the development of the

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technique? As an orthopaedic surgeon, I am biased and I will

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tell you hip replacement of the number one innovation, but I don't

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think I am wrong. It ranks alongside the delivery of

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penicillin, coronary neat scenting, but above all it has had a huge

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impact on its patients' lives around the world, delivering pain

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rely -- pain relief. For some surgeons, this hospital is almost a

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place of pilgrimage. Most patients walking around today thanks to a

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replacement hip have no idea of the debt they owe to Sir John Charnley.

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Reports from Italy say two men in their 20s have been charged with

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attempted murder in connection with an attack on Tottenham fans in Rome

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yesterday. A group of Spurs supporters who'd travelled to see

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their team play Lazio were attacked in a city centre bar. One remains

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in hospital with stab wounds. Mark Hughes has become the second

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Premiership football manager to be sacked in as many days. Queens Park

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Rangers are currently bottom of the Premier League without a win in 12

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matches. QPR face a tough game away at Manchester United on Saturday.

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Monty Panesar marked his return to the England cricket team with a

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four-wicket haul on the first day of the second Test in Mumbai. But

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after England's early success, India fought back and at the close

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were 266-6. Our sports reporter, Defeat can change minds, it has

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certainly changed the team. England added a spinner in them by, but

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initially success came from bowling straight and true. Anderson trapped

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Gambia second ball and after that India settled so England cent for

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spin. Panesar into the side and into the wickets. Sehwag first and

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then 10 talker. To do this to the Little Master in his home town is

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almost disrespectful. The surface was paying no attention to

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reputation. Panesar tented Virat Kohli after lunch and Graeme Swann

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did for you Frosch. India 119-5. Even the seemingly under his

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missable Pujara almost succumbed. An unwise reprieve for a man

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England hadn't got out all tour. And he wasn't just staying there.

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As well as occupying the crease, he was adding runs. For a time he was

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supported by MS Dhoni, India's captain, and even when he became

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Panesar's fourth victim, Pujara was unfazed. He had grown used to

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seeing others come and go. His century added to a double century

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in the last Test. A new Indian sensation. Ashwin was pulled along

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in his wake, gaining more confident with every trip to the boundary. He

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passed 50 and India past 250. In this match up on this pitch,

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batting is unlikely to look so easy again.

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again. It is time to get a full weather

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forecast. A lot to go through. Indeed. Today is the calm between

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two storm systems. Yesterday's rain is now whetting the French. A few

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showers in the north-west today, but I draw your attention to this

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cloud north-west of Portugal. Chris is the next area of low pressure.

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For most of us today it will be a quiet day. Those areas that have

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been badly affected by flooding will stay largely dry with a fair

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amount of sunshine. The cloud melting away across South East

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England so hazy sunshine forecast for Sussex and Kent. A few showers

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for the north and west of Wales, generally clear. A few showers for

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north-west England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Co little bit

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of snow over the tops of the high ground. It will also be pretty

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windy, but for most of us it is quite a quiet day, or relatively.

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Overnight, for winds will fall light and we will have clear skies.

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In rural areas, there will be a widespread frost. Some patches of

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mist and fog as well. Some icy stretches especially where we have

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seen showers today and also where we have any water seeping off those

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saturated fields. For weekend, we have got more stormy conditions on

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the way. Another area of low pressure heads away. It should be a

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quiet start with most of us having a frosty but sunny start of the day.

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But this lump of cloud enveloping southern counties of England,

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pushing on towards central and southern Wales, the Midlands and

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East Anglia Evans -- in the afternoon. As we go through

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Saturday night, the rain will not be as intense as yesterday, but it

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will fall for a longer period of time. A Met Office amber warning is

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already in force for western and southern Wales. 20 to 40 mm likely

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to cause some further flooding issues. As that band of rain clears,

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the winds will pick up around the south coast. Enough to topple some

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trees, perhaps, and caused transport disruption. By Sunday,

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the wet and windy weather will have pushed into Scotland with eastern

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areas of Scotland bearing the brunt. It will turn drier and brighter

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elsewhere for a while, but more rain in the south-west on Monday.

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