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The Chancellor will set out a fresh spending squeeze in tomorrow's

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Autumn Statement, to fund new schools, science and transport

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schemes. Most Government departments will be asked to save

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an extra 1% next year and a further 2% the following year.

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Newspaper editors attend a summit in Downing Street to discuss press

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regulation - David Cameron tells them the clock is ticking and they

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must act soon. The Duke of Cambridge visits his

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wife in hospital, where she's being treated for acute nausea in the

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early stages of her pregnancy. NATO foreign ministers look set to

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approve Turkey's request for the deployment of patriot missiles on

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its border with Syria. Calls for more compassion from

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nurses, the Chief Nursing Officer for England wants a response to to

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to worries about neglect at some hospitals. On BBC London: We look

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at plans to improve the capital's public transport network over the

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next decade. And the family of a missing 14-year-old girl from south

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London plea for help to find their daughter.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC news at 1.00pm. Some Whitehall

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departments are to be asked to make billions of pounds of further cuts,

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with the savings diverted to capital projects in transport,

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education and science. Government sources say part of the money will

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go towards building 100 new free schools and academies. More details

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will be announced in the Chancellor's Autumn statement

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tomorrow. With me is our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym.

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Take us through what we have learned today. Well, essentially we

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are getting a chunk of the Autumn Statement a day early, today,

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that's quite unusual in its own right. The details are put out this

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morning by Number 10 Downing Street and the Treasury. What do they

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involve? First of all, �5 billion of extra capital project spending,

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that's investment, over three years. Where is the money going to go?

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It's going to be focused, we are told, on three key areas, that's

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transport, science and schools. �1 billion will go to schools in

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England. That's not new money, it's got to be paid for somehow. That

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will be by spending cuts elsewhere. What the Treasury is saying is

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they're asking departments to cut back 1% on their current day-to-day

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spending next year and the following year 2%. Health and

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education will be protected from that, but those cuts will be

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applied in other departments like transport, for example, local

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Government and defence. Cuts in administration, we are told, not

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frontline services. But another big ask for Whitehall. Indeed. Why does

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he feel the need to do it? Chancellor has been stung by

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criticisms that in his austerity programme he concentrated too much

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on investment, capital spending, shovel-ready projects and so on out

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there in the real economy and he is maybe trying to readdress that and

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say, let's put more into investment to help the economy get going and

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cut more on day-to-day spending elsewhere. The problem is that may

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not work straightaway and �5 billion over three years doesn't

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amount to a massive amount. Thank you. Let's get more from our

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political correspondent Norman Smith outside Number 11 Downing

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Street. How is all of this likely to be perceived politically? Well,

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the truth is this was always going to be an extraordinarily difficult

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Autumn Statement with the expectation tomorrow the Chancellor

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may have to may -- and he may actually have to concede that he is

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not going to be able to meet crucial debt target of having

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borrowing coming down by the end of this parliament. And in a way,

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today's announcement is an attempt it seems to try and change the

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backdrop, the narrative behind this Autumn Statement from an Autumn

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Statement exclusively about austerity, to one about growth. The

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argument being that by releasing this additional �5 billion in

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capital spending, that is evidence of the Government trying to kick-

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start the economy and what the Treasury are saying is that capital

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spending now on average is higher every year than it was under the

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last three governments when the economy was actually doing an awful

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lot better. But it seems today's announcement also tells us a truth

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about just how limited the room for manoeuvre the Chancellor has,

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because to find this extra �5 billion he cannot go to the markets

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and borrow money. He cannot raise it through taxes. The only way he

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can find it is by pairing back even further in in some Government

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departments. I think that just underlines how politically

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difficult tomorrow's Autumn Statement is set to be. Indeed,

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thank you. David Cameron has told newspaper

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editors the clock is ticking and that they need to set up an

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independent regulator urgently. A new watchdog was one of the main

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recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry into press standards. After

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meeting the editors at Number 10, the Prime Minister said he'd

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stressed the need for a speedy response. Our political

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correspondent Robin Brant reports. One by one they arrived, from the

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Sun, the Financial Times, a dozen or so of the people who decide what

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goes in the nation's newspapers were summoned to Downing Street.

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have to try and fix it, obviously. And there's urgency to do so.

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they were face-to-face the Prime Minister's message was short and

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sweet. I have told them they have to produce a tough, independent

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regulatory system, rapidly and they've got to do it in a way

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that's absolutely meets the requirement of Lord Justice

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Leveson's report, that means million-pound fines, proper

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investigation of complaints, a prominent apology, a tough,

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independent regulatory system and they know, because I told them, the

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clock is ticking for this to be sorted out. The pressure is on the

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papers to make the leap, to beef up their standards. Otherwise, the

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Culture Secretary has made it clear she would act and that... Would

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include legislation. The judge made dozens of recommendations to clean

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up the newspaper industry. Lord Justice Leveson called for a

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new regulatory body, chaired by someone with no press or political

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background. It could demand apologies be

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printed in prominent places. And it could enforce fines for

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serious wrongdoing. And the crucial element, all of this would be

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backed up by new legislation. As the newspaper editors and the Prime

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Minister met, campaigners gathered at the gates. In the name of Milly

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Dowler's family and many more victims of hacking, they say the

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time for last chances has London past. They want to see real

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legislation which can ensure that we have independent self-regulation

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guaranteed in law. So that other people don't find they are the

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victims of abuse by the press in the way that the people I have met

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have suffered. Leaving the meeting, the editors

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know their role as guardians of their own free press is up for

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grabs. Was it friendly? Friendly, but firm. Labour is lined up

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against them, the coalition is split on what to do next. A new law

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forced upon them by the politicians is still the main sticking point.

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Let's pick up with Robin now. What indeed does happen next? Well, we

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know the editor of The Guardian who you saw in that report said the

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editors are going to meet to hatch their own plan and the Culture

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Secretary wants to keep things moving very quickly. She wants to

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capitalise on the momentum and wants another meeting with the

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editors in two days' time. What they seem to all be aiming for is

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some kind of agreement by Christmas so that is weeks away. The

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calculation for the Prime Minister, David Cameron, is that did those

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editors in that meeting across the table from him really get the

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message when he said I told them they need a tough new regulatory

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system? Because it has to be acceptable to the editors, their

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readers, politicians here at parliament. Ultimately, it could

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come down to parliament whether they accept or reject the new

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framework. The Prime Minister knows that his coalition partners, the

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Liberal Democrats, are up against him here. Ed Miliband and most of

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the Labour Party are up against him. It's ultimately a numbers game

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often and were there to and vote on a new law, something he doesn't

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want at the moment, David Cameron is likely to lose that.

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Thank you. Later this afternoon MSPs will be

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debating the findings of the Leveson Inquiry. Alex Salmond has

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indicated he's in favour of Scotland exercising its right to

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legislate on press regulation independently of Westminster. Our

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correspondent Lorna Gordon is at Holyrood. The First Minister

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looking to get some consensus in Scotland on the issue? Yes, that's

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what he would like, what any politician would like really.

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Whether he gets consensus another matter entirely. What is clear,

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though, is that sitting back and doing nothing at this point is not

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an option. The reason for that is that press regulation is devolved

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to Scotland. So MSPs here in the Scottish parliament will have to

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have a view on this issue. They will get to debate this matter this

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afternoon in the debating chamber up the steps behind me. Alex

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Salmond has said a body with a statutory underpinning is a very

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attractive option. He believes it's possible to have that and still

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have a free and vigorous press. I think what he is thinking of is

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along the lines of an Irish model where you have a Scottish press

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council and an ombudsman who would take cases forward on behalf of

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people who feel they've been wronged by the press. They'll

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debate that this afternoon. Some of the parties would like to see a

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cross-border solution. Others have an issue with Alex Salmond leading

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any discussions because party leaders will meet on Thursday to

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discuss this, if a voluntary code is agreed that may supersede all of

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this entirely. Thank you.

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The Duchess of Cambridge has spent the night in hospital, after

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yesterday's announcement that she's expecting a baby but is suffering

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from acute nausea. A short time ago, the Duke of Cambridge arrived at

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the King Edward VII Hospital in Central London to visit his wife.

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Our Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is there. The Duke is

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still there, Nick? Yes, he is. But otherwise no change or certainly no

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change that we are aware of. It's now nearly 22 hours since Kate was

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admitted. She is still at the hospital, still one assumes being

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unwell, still being treated. This hospital never says a single word

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about any of its patients, particularly Royal ones, St James

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Palace hasn't said anything at all this morning about Kate's condition.

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He went up the steps quickly looking preoccupied and this is the

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very last thing that he will have wanted to happen for his wife to be

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in hospital, for this very private moment in their lives to be being

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played out in this very public fashion. There are literally dozens

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of broadcasters here outside the hospital, such is their profile,

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such is the level of interest in them. What they had wanted was to

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keep this news private. I should imagine they were hoping to tell

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the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at Christmas at

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Sandringham and then for the news to be announced in the new year

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after she had passed this critical 12-week point in the pregnancy.

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Well, that hasn't - isn't the way it's turned out. She's here at the

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hospital receiving medical attention and one imagines in the

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best place for her at the moment. Thank you. The Secretary-General of

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NATO reiterated President Obama's warning to the Syrian government

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not to use chemical weapons against rebel forces. Mr Rasmussen said it

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would provoke an immediate reaction from the international community.

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This afternoon, NATO foreign ministers are expected to approve a

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request from Turkey to deploy missiles on its border with Syria

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as a defensive measure. Our world affairs correspondent Richard

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Galpin reports. Panic yesterday in the Turkish town

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which lies on the border with Syria. Syrian airforce jets had just

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bombed rebel positions a few hundred metres away in Syrian

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territory. Some of the wounded brought over

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for treatment in Turkey. So, today in Brussels, NATO leaders gathered

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to agree on ways to defend Turkey, as fears mount it could be sucked

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into the Syrian conflict. I would expect NATO allies to make a

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decision later today. I am confident we will demonstrate our

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determination to deter against any threats and defend our ally. It's

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expected the decision will be to deploy this, the patriot missile

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defence system along Turkey's border with Syria. This system also

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capable of shooting down aircraft. NATO officials have already been in

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Turkey, deciding where to place the missiles, visiting around ten

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different sites. It's thought around six batteries

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will be sent to guard the border area and could be in place in weeks.

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To operate them, at least 300 foreign troops will be needed on

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the ground. They could come from the United States, Holland and

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Germany. Those involved insist it's purely

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defensive, it's not about creating a no-fly zone for the rebels inside

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Syria. The weapons system is basically the

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only thing it will do over there, it's defend population against

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ballistic missiles coming from a certain area to the direction of

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NATO territory. Shells have already been fired from Syria into Turkey

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recently. But Turkey's biggest fear is a chemical weapons attack which

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the patriot system should help prevent.

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Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale is in Brussels. Two issues at

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stake here. One is the missile for defensive reasons, the other is

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this talk of potential use of chemical weapons. Yes, first of all,

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on the patriots, very clear message from the Secretary General of NATO

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that this is a defensive measure, that this is not about creating a

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no-fly zone, hz that's as much to give reassurance to Russia which

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has voiced opposition to the siting of missiles in Turkey itself and

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the Russian foreign Minister will be here at Brussels at that meeting

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and no doubt will be a fly in the ointment. That said, because this

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request comes from Turkey we are expecting approval to be given. It

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will be sometime before those patriot missiles are actually on

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the ground to transport them, but also some of the countries involved,

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namely Germany and the Netherlands, would need approval of their

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parliaments. On that separate issue of the chemical weapons, a very,

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very strong message from President Obama, backed up now by the NATO

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Secretary General, warning of consequences, nobody is spelling

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out what those consequences would be. Clearly they're thinking of

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military action but the options of military action are not that

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attractive, either striking volatile chemical weapons or

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putting boots on the ground ground so the hope is these strong

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warnings will force Syria to make sure that they don't use that

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chemical weaponry they have and indeed the message from Syria at

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the moment is they no intention if The NHS should put more emphasis on

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the compassionate care of patients - that's the call from leaders of

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the nursing profession in response to worries about neglect and abuse

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at some hospitals. The chief nursing officer for England, Jane

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Cummings, is starting a campaign to reassure the public and says action

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must be taken to ensure that the values nurses stand for are not

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betrayed. Our health correspondent, Compassionate care in the NHS has

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been in the spotlight in recent weeks. A series of critical reports

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have highlighted there are still too many places where the quality

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of care is pork or even unsafe. Maria and her family feel they have

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seen that first hand. Her father was admitted to hospital with a

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broken hip. He had been a fit 82- year-old but Maria says a lack of

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care left him ill and dying. needed a bit of help and they

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didn't give it to him at all. He was not ready to die. He was fit as

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a fiddle. He used to walk about, he used to go on holiday, he used to

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do gardening, visit his sons and daughters. He wasn't ready. They

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let us all down. Can there are many more cases. Tameside Hospital where

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he was treated has apologised to the family and says it has taken

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steps to address the shortcomings in his care, but reports into poor

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care have prompted a more official response from government. A three-

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year campaign to develop a culture of compassionate care. It includes

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concentrating on the values held by staff as well as technical skills,

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regular reviews of staffing levels and ensuring that every contact

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with patients counts towards improving health. Some places,

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nurses are working under huge pressure and in other places there

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are extra demands. It is about stepping back and looking at what

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works well in some organisations and spreading that good practice

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and having a really strong leadership from the people that run

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those organisations to the nurses on the front line foot of her the

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new plans will affect nurses, midwives and care staff across

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England, but the Royal College of Nursing says the key is having the

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right number of properly trained staff. You need the infantry, you

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need people on the ground in order to do the job. If you don't, it

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will undoubtedly fail. You need a world trade, well-motivated

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workforce. In an era where so many jobs have been cut, this is very

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worrying. An ageing population with more complicated health problems

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plus pressure on finances mean nurses and other health workers are

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under increasing strain, but there's also pressure for good-

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quality compassionate care to be provided across all parts of the

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health service. Our top story this lunchtime:

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Billions of pounds worth of cuts to Government departments will be

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announced by the Chancellor, George Osborne, in his Autumn Statement

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tomorrow. Coming up:

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Desperate measures to save Desperate Dan - Britain's longest

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running comic enters the digital Later on BBC London:

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How cash from foreign investors is being ploughed into London's

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property market. And some respite for residents

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living under Heathrow's flight path as planes are told to steer clear

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15 police officers have been hurt in Belfast after violence flared

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following a vote to stop flying the Union flag over City Hall. Hundreds

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of loyalists gathered as councillors voted by 29 to 21 to

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hoist the flag only on special occasions. Our Ireland

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correspondent, Mark Simpson, is in Belfast.

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History has been made. For the first time in 106 years, the Union

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flag is not flying at Belfast City Hall. The decision was taken inside

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the building last night. Outside, it right in the heart of Belfast,

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things turned very, very ugly. He Christmas time in the centre of

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In one part of the city, people were late night shopping. Here,

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they were rioting. Not for the first time in Northern Ireland's

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history, it was a dispute about a flag. The council decided to stop

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flying the Union flag from Belfast City Hall every day of the year.

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These loyalists came to protest. At one stage, they came close to the

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council chamber. But police managed to hold them back. But the

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demonstration didn't change anything. The council decided that

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the Union flag should only fly 15 days a year. A we will not be

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deterred by a bunch of thugs threatening us. This is about

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equality, making it a City Hall for everyone. Unionist councillors

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condemned the violence, but they refused to support the removal of

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the flag. Her absolutely not. We live in the United Kingdom, for

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flag of the kingdom is the Union flag. 18 people were hurt during

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the violence, including 15 police officers. We will be very robust in

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identifying those that were responsible for breaking their way

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into the grounds of City Hall and attacking police officers. It is

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unacceptable. Outside Belfast City Hall, the flag is now no longer

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flying. But peace has been restored, the rioting has stopped and

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shopping has resumed. You have to say, looking around the

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centre of Belfast today, riot, or what riot? Everything has returned

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to normal. People Christmas shopping, business as usual.

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Felicity required -- recovers very, very quickly. Sadly, it has had

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plenty of practice over the years. A Dutch linesman has died after he

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was chased and beaten by teenage footballers taking part in a youth

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match. Richard Nieuwenhuizen was officiating at the game in which

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his own son was playing. After he was attacked, he collapsed and was

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taken to hospital where he died Killed while helping at his own

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son's football match. 41-year-old Richard Nieuwenhuizen was a

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volunteer linesman for Buitenboys club in the Dutch town of Almere,

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but as a youth game on Sunday he was attacked by several members of

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the opposing team, Nieuw Sloten. It was claimed he was punched and

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kicked. Later that evening he collapsed and he died the following

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day. While his friends in his club are still struggling to come to

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terms with what happened, police have now charged three of the Nieuw

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Sloten players with manslaughter. Throughout the Netherlands,

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football is in mourning. TRANSLATION: This is not just a

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tragedy for Almere and our club, but the Dutch football in general.

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This can't happen on a football field. FIFA President Sepp Blatter

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said he was deeply shocked by the events, the same ills that inflict

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-- afflict society, he said, are present in football. Nieuw Sloten

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have now withdrawn from the league, but investigations continue into

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how a teenage football game could end in such violence and tragedy.

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The high cost of fuel, food and housing has pushed household

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spending to its highest recorded level. Despite pressure on their

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budgets, families spent an average of �484 a week last year, �10 more

:24:13.:24:19.

than in 2010. Highest spending was in London, the lowest in the north-

:24:19.:24:21.

east of England. Our personal finance correspondent, Simon

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Gompertz, is with me. Perhaps no surprise that spending

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is highest in London given a higher living costs, but overall what is

:24:33.:24:37.

behind the higher spending? This snapshot from 2011 shows how

:24:37.:24:42.

families are struggling with higher prices for housing and fuel. They

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are having to spend extra money. Let's take driving first. That is

:24:48.:24:57.

the weekly spend, up 9%. Around �36. Because of the rising price of

:24:57.:25:05.

petrol. But housing and heating the home, as well, that is up 5%. Fuel

:25:05.:25:10.

costs and rent as well. In contrast, what they call household goods

:25:10.:25:15.

spending, that is down by a whopping 15%. Furniture down a lot,

:25:15.:25:20.

but also clothing, footwear. He people are shifting their spending

:25:20.:25:25.

from those things they can economise on to the essentials. It

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is not all bad news because we are having fun. We are managing to go

:25:29.:25:34.

to the movies, it costs more nowadays, to football matches and

:25:34.:25:37.

to the gym. We are spending a bit more on that so we are managing to

:25:37.:25:41.

have a bit of fun as well. wondering whether money is coming

:25:41.:25:45.

from. People's earnings are generally not going up so how are

:25:45.:25:49.

people managing? You are lucky if you had a pay rise. This higher

:25:50.:25:52.

spending meets it seemed like people have more money, but

:25:52.:25:57.

generally speaking they haven't. They might be borrowing money, that

:25:57.:26:02.

is a worry, or dipping into savings. We have this challenge. We have a

:26:02.:26:06.

pot to spend, but we face higher prices. This is a reflection of

:26:06.:26:09.

that and it shows how people are up against it.

:26:09.:26:12.

Desperate Dan appears in print for the final time today as Britain's

:26:12.:26:15.

longest running comic, The Dandy, disappears from the shelves to

:26:15.:26:18.

become a digital only publication. By making it available as a

:26:18.:26:21.

smartphone and tablet application, the publishers hope to attract a

:26:21.:26:23.

new generation of readers to the comic, which has suffered dwindling

:26:23.:26:33.
:26:33.:26:35.

sales. Our correspondent James Cook They were queuing for the Dandy in

:26:35.:26:41.

Glasgow today, but too late to save the comic as we know it. This is

:26:41.:26:45.

the 3610th edition had of a much- loved institution and its final

:26:45.:26:51.

issue in print. I grew up with it as a kid. I got it every week. My

:26:51.:26:55.

mother bought it. This is the last one, it is iconic. Quite a sad

:26:55.:27:01.

moment. Yes. It is quite sad because I read the Dandy when I was

:27:01.:27:06.

little. Then I brought the boys up on it as well. I will have to buy

:27:06.:27:14.

another one to send my sister in America. She will be quite sad and.

:27:14.:27:18.

It is a wistful moment also for the staff at the Dandy's publisher, DC

:27:18.:27:23.

Thomson. Skills like these are becoming history as the presses run

:27:23.:27:28.

for the last time. But it is not the end. The Dandy is going digital.

:27:28.:27:32.

I think it will be more fun and there will be a lot more of the

:27:32.:27:36.

children can do. It is more interactive. You can control the

:27:36.:27:39.

pace through which they read the stories. I think they will be

:27:39.:27:45.

delighted. The strips will be animated. This is what the 21st

:27:45.:27:49.

century Dandy will look like, on tablet and on the where, the

:27:49.:27:51.

designers are Folkington -- focusing on interactive games and

:27:51.:27:56.

videos. We recognise that the decline in print sales of comics

:27:56.:28:00.

and magazines across the board and to make the content relevant to

:28:00.:28:04.

children, we have to have it digitised. We are competing with

:28:04.:28:08.

the likes of Angry Birds and Club Penguin. When they Dandy first

:28:08.:28:12.

appeared in 1937, Britain were still trying to appease Adolf

:28:12.:28:17.

Hitler. By the 1950s it was selling 2 million copies a week. That has

:28:17.:28:20.

plummeted to just 8,000 of these pupils in Stevenage think they know

:28:20.:28:25.

why. I haven't even heard of it. Her Bishi in is not good, it is

:28:25.:28:30.

cheesy. We've got more electrical things to play like the Xbox.

:28:30.:28:33.

clear at that the Dandy and its characters still inspired great

:28:34.:28:37.

loyalty and affection, but the age of the printed comic is going by

:28:37.:28:46.

the book, forcing the characters like desperate Dan to adapt or die.

:28:46.:28:48.

like desperate Dan to adapt or die. Poor Desperate Dan! Let's get the

:28:48.:28:55.

weather. Memories, memories. This is the way

:28:55.:28:58.

things are shaping up this afternoon. Cold across the British

:28:58.:29:03.

Isles, some sharp showers as well. The satellite picture shows them

:29:03.:29:09.

nicely, especially across the south-west. Plenty in Wales. And

:29:09.:29:13.

they will feature over parts of Northern Ireland as well. Another

:29:13.:29:17.

feature in the north-eastern corner of Scotland. To the north, some

:29:17.:29:21.

very cold air and it is not going to stay there. Some snow showers

:29:21.:29:26.

down to about two to 300 metres, plenty coming in through Liverpool

:29:26.:29:29.

Bay and into the north of Wales through the Greater Manchester area

:29:29.:29:34.

and down into the North Midlands. The best of the sunshine in the

:29:34.:29:37.

south Midlands and to the eastern side of the Pennines and then

:29:37.:29:42.

coming down into central and southern England. We are not quite

:29:42.:29:46.

done with the showers because there might be a bit of law in

:29:46.:29:50.

proceedings with those showers in the afternoon, but that feature I

:29:50.:29:54.

was talking about to the west of Ireland will perk up those showers

:29:54.:29:58.

in the south-east -- south-west. The more northerly feature across

:29:58.:30:02.

north-east Scotland comes down into the Midlands. Maybe some sleet as

:30:02.:30:07.

it comes out. It keeps temperatures up underneath a cloud, but it

:30:07.:30:11.

introduces colder air. A widespread frost and they could be a problem

:30:11.:30:15.

with ice first thing in the northern half of the British Isles.

:30:16.:30:19.

That weather front continues its journey across the British Isles.

:30:19.:30:24.

On Wednesday, a really crisp, sunny affair across many parts. You will

:30:24.:30:28.

notice one or two showers to the west of Wales. Further showers on

:30:28.:30:37.

the eastern coasts and they will be snowy. Top temperatures of two to

:30:37.:30:41.

three degrees only in the northern half of the British Isles. Through

:30:41.:30:46.

the course of the night, before we bring in that cloud, wind and rain,

:30:46.:30:49.

the temperatures will really see the way across the British Isles.

:30:49.:30:53.

This is the wee small hours of Thursday morning. Those are the 10

:30:53.:30:58.

judges you can expect in towns and cities, but if I take you into the

:30:58.:31:03.

countryside, it will be a bitterly cold night. Once we've got that

:31:03.:31:06.

sort of temperature profile across the British Isles, one site

:31:06.:31:11.

introduced or cloud and wind and rain from the north-west, there

:31:11.:31:15.

will be some snow for a time before will be some snow for a time before

:31:15.:31:18.

it turns back into rain. Loads going on, more online.

:31:18.:31:21.

Now a reminder of our top story. Billions of pounds worth of cuts to

:31:21.:31:24.

Government departments will be announced by the Chancellor, George

:31:24.:31:26.

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