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Winners and losers. The row continues over who'll pay the most

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following the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.

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George Osborne insisted all sections of society will have to

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contribute, but Labour says it's the poorest working families who'll

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be hardest hit. Feeling much better. The Duchess of

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Cambridge leaves hospital after four days of treatment for severe

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pregnancy sickness. Two more years for Virgin to run

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the East Coast Main Line as the Government is criticised over the

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handling of the original deal. Waiting times are up in England

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according to a survey of patients in A&E.

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23 hundreds now. No England player has more. Alastair Cook scores more

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test centurying than any other England player in history.

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Later on BBC London: More than a third of the capital's councils are

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unlawfully housing homeless families in B&Bs. A new report is

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released following this man's death about the way people are removed

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Very good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. So just who were

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the winners and losers in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement?

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That's the question politicians have been arguing about all morning.

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Labour have claimed that poorer working families will be worse hit,

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whereas the Government says a squeeze on working age benefits is

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fair on people who go out to work and pay tax. Well, this morning,

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one of the main credit rating agencies said the UK's triple-A

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status is under threat after the Chancellor acknowledged the

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Government would miss its debt- reduction target. More from our

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Political Correspondent, Carole Walker.

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The Chancellor wanted to highlight the positive news. No rise in fuel

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duty, extra help for business, but the cap on benefits is part of a

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programme of austerity measures that will last much longer than

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he'd hoped. And he's facing a warning that our international

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credit rating is under threat. Mr Osborne admitted if health service

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downgraded, it would damage the country's economic credibility and

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hit interest rates, but he said the risk was now less than when the

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coalition took power. Things have changed a lot under this Government.

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We've got interest rates down and a lot of credit rating agencies when

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they give advice about what Britain should do, the one thing they say

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Britain shouldn't do is set out deliberately to spend and borrow

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even more. You have got to remember, my critics are saying, Britain's

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got a debt problem, let's add to the debt.

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In Commons yesterday, the Shadow Chancellor struggled to get his

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message across. Today, he attacked measures which he said would hit

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many ordinary working families and accused George Osborne of trying to

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sneer benefit claimants. referred to the people with the

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course tains drawn when others go to work -- course tains drawn. He

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wants to pretent this is about the feckless workshy. Personally I

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think that's quite offensive to lots of people looking for work in

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this economy when there's not enough jobs. What he didn't tell

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you, the complete conof the statement is that 60% of people

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who're hit are working people. didn't say how Labour would vote

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when the plan to increase most working age benefits by just 1% for

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three years comes to the Commons. The Tories believe it's a move that

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will have popular support at a time when public sector workers are

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facing a pay freeze, but it's a difficult issue for the Liberal

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Democrats. The Deputy Prime Minister said the

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Lib Dems had prevented their Tory coalition partners from going even

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further. They wanted �10 billion worth of welfare cuts. We have

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agreed on �3.5 billion. They wanted to freeze all benefits, we haven't

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frozen them. They are going to increase by less than inflation,

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but they'll increase by 1%. There were proposals to take benefits

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away from larger families that I didn't want. The coalition plan to

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mend the economy has done little to ease the worries of workers at this

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Derbyshire clothing factory. Life's quite difficult at the moment. We

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have a newborn baby to look after, we have milk, nappies and medicines

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that she might need. With a pension and a little wage and what have you,

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I've got to say, I'm dreading the future. The festive season will be

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tough for many and the Prime Minister's admitted there are chill

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winds across the economy. He said the Government is taking difficult

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decisions to give the economy a chance for the future.

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We will get the latest political reaction from Westminster with

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Norman Smith in just a moment. First, there's been an awful lot of

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number crunching this morning. In the past few minutes, the Institute

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for Fixical studies has released its spwerpre takes of the figures -

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- interpretation of the figures. What are we hearing, Hugh? We have

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had a string of people going in, as well as analysts and media, to the

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Institute for Fiscal Studies number crunch presentation at this

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conference centre. The headlines are this, and of course they've put

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some interpretation out already, but they confirm that the capping

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of benefit increases at 1% will create real losses for poor

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households with the least ability to cope with real falls in their

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income, althe They point out that benefits rising in line with

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inflation in previous years, the last couple of year that, was above

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earnings. So in a sense, benefits recipients were doing slightly

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better than average earnings in the run-up to this announcement. They

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also point out the richest in society will be hit as well because

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of the pension changes. In terms of public spending and further

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austerity, they point out that what's been inked in by George

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Osborne now going right through to 2017 - 18 is a dilemma if you like,

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that if you continue whoever's in Government then continues to

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protect health and schools and not wut welfare any more and not raise

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taxes, then other departments like police, Local Government defence

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and so on will face cuts of 16% on top of existing cuts meaning cuts

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of a third since 2010. The IFS says that's inconceivable that actually

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whoever's going to implement this will have to raise taxs or start

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looking at health and schools. Let's put all of this to our

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Political Correspondent, Norman Smith at Westminster. Who the is

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going to have to pay then? The Government has to pal lance the

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books. Who is going to have to pay? Kate, that is the question. --

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balance. One to have Government's central mantras has been that it's

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those with the broadest sholdwhors should have the heaviest burden. --

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shoulders should have the heaviest burden. When you look at the

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figures, the bottom 50% lose out, primarily because of this 1% cap on

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future rises in the working age benefits. That is not just those

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people characterised as lying in bed asleep with the curtains drawn

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while families go out to work in the early hours. There are

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themselves in many instances working families in receipt of Tax

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Credits. Why this matters is because these are, if you like, the

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working poor, the strivers who the Prime Minister's pledged to protect.

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Paradoxically, however, this is also a problem for Labour, because

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they have been unable to say whether they would vote against the

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cap on benefits. Now, they say that's because they've not seen the

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legislation, but one suspects also they know privately most polling

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soots kerbs to benefits is electorally popular.

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Thank you. Much more analysis on our website

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at www.bbc.co.uk/news, including how the Autumn Statement is most

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likely to effect you. Now, related in the past hour, the

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Bank of England has confirmed it's keeping interest rates at their

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record low of 0.5%. It's also decided not to extend its

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quantitative easing stimulus programme which has injected nearly

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�400 billion into the financial system. The cost of borrowing has

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been unchanged since March. The Duchess of Cambridge has left

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hospital after four days of treatment for acute pregnancy

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sickness. She told media she was feeling better. We can speak to our

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Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, who is there. How did she

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appear then, Nick, when you saw her?

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I think she looked pretty relaxed, though entirely understandably

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after three nights here being treated for this acute sickness

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condition, she looked perhaps rather subdued, certainly more sub

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died than we are accustomed to seeing her, but much better was her

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answer when reporters shouted a question as to how she was feeling

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and she took it carefully down the few steps from the hospital with a

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guiding hand from Prince William and then into the car and back to

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their home at Kensington Palace here in London where we are told

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there will be a period of rest. That, I'm sure, is going to be the

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priority now, her engagements oaf the next few days have been

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cancelled. I think rest will be what she needs and I wouldn't be at

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all surprised if we don't see very much of her in public now for these

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next few weeks. Indeed. Plenty for them to consider

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over the next few weeks? Yes. William in particular's got to

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take an important decision. He's got to decide by Christmas whether

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he's going to continue in the air- sea rescue squadron up at Anglesey.

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The remoteness of Anglesey was something that the couple greatly

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enjoyed in the early part of their married life together. But whether

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the Royal doctors will feel entirely relaxed about her being up

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there, I'm sure that there are excellent medical facilities up

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there, but after this episode, I'm sure they'll be having to consider

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a rather bigger package than was the case before and he must decide

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whether to remain in the air-sea rescue squadron beyond next summer

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or perhaps rejoin the Household Cavalry or perhaps take up full-

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time Royal duties and concentrate on that and, of course, on his

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prospective fatherhood. Thank you very much.

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Should sentences for sex offenders be tougher if their victims have

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suffered long-term psychological damage? The Sentencing Council

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thinks so. It's recommending new guideline force judges which would

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take into account the tactics used by offenders, particularly in cases

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of sexual exploitation and child grooming. With more, our legal

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affairs correspondent, Clive Coleman.

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Over a four-year period from the age of 11, Nick was sexually

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assaulted by a Scout master. Some years later, he went to the police

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and his abuser was jailed for six months, but Nick was so badly

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affected, he started to self-harm. Over the last 15, 20 years, to the

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point whereby I've had operations, I've had stitches, sutures,

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possibly in the region of over 600. Burning underneath here. I used to

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put my arm over the top of the cooker to get rid of the guilt.

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Current guidance on for instance sexual assault focus on physical

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factors to determine seriousness. The new guidelines allow far more

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weight to be given to psychological harm. Just as modern societies are

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coming to terms with the full psychological effects that sex

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offenders can have on their victims, so too is the criminal justice

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system that.'s one of the principal reasons why the Sentencing Council

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have come up with new guidelines that cover 54 different sexual

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offences. We recognise that the psychological effects are every bit

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as important as the physical injury and the initial violation which any

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sexual offence involves. People's lives are affected, some times in

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the long-term, and if there is evidence of that available to the

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judge at the time of sentence, it's only right he should take it into

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account. The guideline also takes greater account of the grooming and

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exploitation of children and of the use of modern technology to film

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rape. The proposals have already been

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welcomed by victims like Nick. First Virgin Trains lost the

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licence to run trains on the West Coast Mainline, then that teal

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collapsed because of mistakes made by civil servants in the bidding

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process. Now Virgin has signed a new deal with the Government to

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keep the trains running for another two years, but it comes, that's

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until a new long-term contract can be awarded. Richard Westcott is at

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London's Euston station. What's in the report? Irbgs it's pretty

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damning reading for the Department for Transport. It talks about bad

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planning and bad management. It says they used the wrong figures

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and didn't take inflation into account. There's one very

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interesting element actually which looks especially bad for them. What

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it effectively says is that the rail minister at the time, threez

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za Villiers, was given inaccurate information when she was making the

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decision by officials -- Theresa Villiers. It doesn't say whether it

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was on purpose or a mistake. But she was making a decision using the

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wrong information. Now, there are other interesting elements. 24 had

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been rumours of an anti-Branson bias within the department. This

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report looked at e-mails, couldn't find evidence of that at all so

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that doesn't seem to have happened, but crucially what it doesn't say,

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is that the whole system is broken. It says they need to make big

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changes but they can continue with franchising roughly as it is now.

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Virgin continue to keep the trains running at least for the time

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being? Yes, we found out today they are

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going to run them for the next 23 months, that's going to give the

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Government enough time to sort out what they are going to do with

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franchising, how they are going to change things to make sure this

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doesn't happen again and run another bidding process which can

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take a year or so. If you are a passenger on this service, 30

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million use these trains every year, passengers, then you won't notice

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any difference, actually slight improvements in the service over

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the next two years or so. If you think by Sunday that train was

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meant to have a different colour scheme, it was nont say First on it,

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but it will be two years before we find out who'll be running this

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line long-term. Our top story: The Chancellor, George Osborne, has

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denied his autumn state will hit the working poor harder than the

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rich. I'm standing here tonne banks of

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the Thame where is in just a few hours, this icebreaker is going to

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set sail for Antarctic ka, an expedition led by Sir Ranulph

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Fiennes. Later on BBC London, we look around the home of London's

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most famous author before it opens to the public next week. Why a sex

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one win for Chelsea wasn't enough to keep them in the Champions

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There has been another night of violence in Northern Ireland,

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directed against members of the non-sectarian Alliance Party. The

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Union flag is said by them to be -- the problem being that the Union

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flag should fly over City Hall only on certain designated days.

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Yes, this street in the middle of Carrickfergus is just about

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returning to normal. The office which was attacked last night, it

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is remarkable that it is still standing. Nearly 100 people tried

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to burn it down last night. It was one of a number of attacks in

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different parts of Northern Ireland. The latest victims of violence in

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Northern Ireland, a young family attacked in their own home as a

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result of a row over a flag. A paint bomb was thrown at the house

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last night. Fortunately, the little baby was not playing with her toys

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at the time her mum and dad belong to the Cross Community, Alliance

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Party. Its support for the removal of of the Union flag from Belfast

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City Council sparked a series of attacks by loyalists.

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I had gone to bed with Grace. The bed is below the window, whenever I

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realised what happened, the Buckingham Palace fell off the

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window there, when I realise what had had happened, it, I was

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extremely upset. I could not stop shaking and was beside myself. You

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can see how jumpy we are. 20 miles away, an Alliance Party party

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office was destroyed, after a protest by more than 1,000

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loyalists in Carrickfergus. The outbreak coming a day before the

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American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is due to visit

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Northern Ireland. I would like Hillary Clinton to

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come to Carrickfergus, to see what a full front l attack on democracy

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is like. The police say that the violence

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has to stop now. The world is watching.

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It will make its judgment on the events of the next few days.

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That judgment will affect people's jobs, tourism, economic development

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and the hope of our young people. Although the Union flag has gone

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from Belfast City haul it will be flown on special occasions, but

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loyalist protests continue, with more and more flags today being put

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up around this city. Well, across Northern Ireland this

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morning, the churches, the politicians, the people have

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appealed for peace. What is not clear, is whether those loyalist

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protestors are listening. Mark, thank you very much.

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In the past few minutes, the coffee chain, Starbucks has been giving

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details of how much money it will give HM Revenue & Customs after

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criticisms it paid nothing in Corporation Tax last year. Let's

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speak to our Business Correspondent, Emma Simpson with a brief reminder

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of the back ground to this controversy.

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Starbucks is one of three companies slated by MEPs on the Public

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Accounts Committee for not paying enough Corporation Tax. They were

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accused of immorale tax avoidance in a highly critical report.

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Starbucks is a company with more than 750 shops it is everywhere on

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the High Street, more than a third of the market. MPs heard it had

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sales of about �398 million. Now what puzzled the MPs is the fact

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that Starbucks say it is has not made a profit in the last 14 out of

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15 years of trading here in the UK. Of course, if there are no profits,

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there is no Corporation Tax. Now, Starbucks and other big

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companies are not doing anything illegal. What Starbucks told the

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MPs was heavy trading losses were incured due to mistaings in the

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property strategy, but it has sparked a huge controversy. It has

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clearly been stung by the criticism. This lunch time it announced some

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changes. Now, what are they? Well, in the

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last few minute, Starbucks said it will pay in the region of �10

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million in Corporation Tax per year for the next two years. That is in

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addition to other taxes that it pays. Also they would say that they

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would pay more regardless of weather the company was profitable

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or not. The UK boss describing it as an unprecedented commitment.

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Saying that the decisions were the right things to do. That they have

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heard that loud and clear from the customers. So clearly, Starbucks is

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trying to draw a line under this, putting the pressure on other big

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companies like Amazon and Google. Again in the past few minutes we

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have heard that the PR consultant, Max Clifford has been arrested on

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suspicion of sexual offences. Hes with detained by officers from

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Opraegs You tree -- Operation You tree, set up after the

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investigation of Jimmy Savile. What, do we know? Well, we heard from the

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police that they arrested a man, the BBC understands that the man is

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Max Clifford, the celebrity publicist. A source close to him

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confirmed that he is helping the police with their inquiries. He was

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arrested to help the police with Operation Yewtree. That

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investigation is concerned not solely with child sex abuse, but

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concerned with sex offences. Max Clifford was arrested on suspicion

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of sexual offences this morning, he is being questioned as a Central

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London police station. Thank you very much.

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Egypt's Republican Guard has told protestors to disperse from outside

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of the Presidential Palace. The unrest in which five people have

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been killed and 350 have been wounded has been caused by anger

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over a controversial draft constitution, that give the

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President sweeping and irversible new powers.

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Waiting times are getting longer at A&E Department in England,

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according to a survey of patient business the health regulator. The

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Care Quality Commission study revealed that 33% of people that

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they spoke to spent more than four hours at A&E. The Government's

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target is for no more than 5%. The Health Correspondent has more.

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A&E Departments are often the front line of the health service. Like

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all parts of the NHS in England, they are under pressure from an

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ageing population and tighter finances. Now, the pressures seem

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to be impacting. This survey looked at A&E Department waiting times in

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England. 46,000 patients responded. The figures show a third of them

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reported waiting more than four hours. That is an increase on 2008

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when the figure was 27%. In 2004, less than a quarter of patients had

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to wait that long. Official figures from the Department of Health show

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just 4% of patients wait four hours or more.

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The surveys are important indicators as to how people feel.

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Therefore we should take them seriously. We should look at the

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results, think about what they can do within their own individual

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hospital to get this better. The Department of Health says that

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most patients wait 40 minutes before they are first seen. The

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doctors and the nurses are giving the sickest patients the highest

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priority. A&E saw more than 21 million people last year. They are

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busier than ever, but the perception among the patients seems

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that they are waiting longer. Cricket and the England captain,

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Alastair Cook made history by scoring more Test match centuries

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than any other English player. England were 216-1 against India in

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Calcutta. A lovely day in Kolkata to watch

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the batting. India counting the run. Panathinaikos finished with four

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wickets. India were 316-all out.

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Stoney salvaged a 506789 stand by as India maid a serious error.

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Dropping Alastair Cook, his situation on sinful, Cheteshwar

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Pujara with guilty hants. Cook kk made 17, then he resumed normal

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service. Showing the ball the way to the boundary, the timing was

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great. Alastair Cook bats look clockwork, wake up and he is still

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going. Alastair Cook helping himself as he came the youngest

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player ever to score 7,000 runs in Test Matchs. A few Indian fielders

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starting to feel their age. A neat decollection and Alastair Cook was

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on his way. -- deflection. The 23ered Test

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Match of his career, an English record. He overtook boy by boy, and

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past Colin Cowdrey who played from the mid-50s toed mid-07s. Kevin

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Pietersen is behind him -- India would like to get rid of him this

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week. England are one down, 100 behind, Alastair Cook-not out.

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Now, six months of crossing hostile terrain in temperatures of minus 90

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Celsius, it is not for the faint of heart, but that is what Ranulph

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Fiennes is setting out to do. Dubbed Coldest Journey, it involves

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leading a team on foot across the Antartica in near-permanent

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darkness and in the superlow temperatures of winter.

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Matthew Price is on board. Well, it has been very cold on the

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Thames this morning, but nothing compared to the temperatures that

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this ship will experience in just over a month's time when it gets to

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Antartica. Prince Charles is expected here any minute now to

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give them an official send-off, but there have been parties and events

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on board this ice-breaker all morning. It is a South African ice-

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breaker. There are South African schoolchildren, waiting to bid

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farewell to Ranulph Fiennes as he sets off on his latest polar

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adventure. They clustered here on the Thames,

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the greatest living explorer with a national treasure, Joanna Lumley,

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there so see them off. She is not mad enough to go, but he is.

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He showed me the route... Up to the cev as zone, then a dog-leg, over

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this huge icecap where Captain Robert Falcon Scott died 100 years

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ago, so, 2,000 miles, ie rave -- arriving before the end winter.

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We filmed training for this in February. Two men ski up front

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checking for cev asses. Behind them, in the near-permanent darkness, two

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bulldozers drag their supplies. Here they are being loaded on board.

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To get the permit to attempt this, the team must be self-sufficient.

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Dragging supplies is the only way to guarantee that.

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The vehicles that I would think, personally, are a bigger problem

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than the people. Minus 808 Celsius could be damage to lung tissue when

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you are breathing in, skiing, but in the seeks -- vehicles you have

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steel and rubber, they don't like minus 70 Celsius.

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In over a month's time, the bow of this ship will be pushing its way

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through the sea ice around Antartica. When it has found a

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place to wedge itself into the ice chef, the crane there will unload

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the gear and the vehicles, the equipment that they need to get

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across one of the most dangerous terrains in the world at the most

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inhospitable time of the year. For a pensioner who has seen it all,

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there is more to practise, here how to get out of a crevasse, he hopes.

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Soon it could be for real, Antartica, next stop.

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Well, a few minutes ago, Ranulph Fiennes said, "This is the most

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greatest and challenging expedition of all time." I asked him if he

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thought it would work, he thought he does not know. He does not know

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if humans can tolerate the long touches for that length of time.

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They don't know if the machinery will make it through, either. They

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will begin to find out soon as they set off from here in the Thames,

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bound for Antartica. Well, we thought it was bad here

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Well, we thought it was bad here with minus 12 Celsius? Yes, winter

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beginning to bite now and through the next 24 hours some problems for

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some. For some place as spell of heavy rain, but also some snow and

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ice could be an issue just about anywhere. All of that compounded by

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the cold winds. It was a frosty start this morning. The

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temperatures below freezing. The temperatures are struggling to

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recover over the east of the country. What we have got is our

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wet weather pushing in from the west. It is bumping into the cold

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air. It caused ice problems as far south as Wales and the south-west.

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It also brought some snowfall. That is over the high grounds of

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Scotland. Still more snow to come for the west of Highlands, but by

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3.00pm, the significant snowfall will be for the Cumbrian fells and

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the Pennines, where across the trans-Pennine routes there could be

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disruption. Even at lower levels, don't be surprised if you see snow

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mixed in with the rain. In the south it is cold and the

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cloud and breeze is adding to the raw, cold feel to the day. Over the

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south-west, rain is pushing into the north coast of Devon. Here the

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rain is falling on saturated ground, that is not good news. A wet

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afternoon for Wales. A soggy story also for Northern Ireland and the

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wind picking up too. Through this evening, the wet weather is coming

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to the south and to the east. In the south this will be falling

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mainly as rain, but a few showers chasing on behind. The bigger

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problem will be the ice. The temperatures are to plunge. Towns

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and cities close to freezing in the country, below so ice could be a

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risk just about anywhere tomorrow morning. There is an added

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complication as well. We are watching this clump of rain in the

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south-east. It is to edge to the south and to the east. There could

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be sleet mixed with this, maybe a spell of wet snow. Perhaps a

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covering. That is one we are keeping a close eye on. Through the

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day, the showers continuing over the east coast. The brightness

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there in the west. Temperatures looking better, but in the wind it

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will feel raw and cold. The weekend is looking quieter. A fair amount

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of brightness in the south. Cloud that could bring rain to the north.

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Milder for a time, but into next week it looks like the temperatures

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