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soldier who was killed in an attack in Woolwich yesterday. According to

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BBC sources, one of the suspects is Michael Adebolajo, seen here on the

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right. He was brought up in a devout Christian family before converting

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to Islam. Tributes are left at the army barracks in Woolwich as David

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Cameron says the UK will not have in to terrorism. We will defeat violent

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extremism by standing together, by backing our police and security

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services and above all by challenging the poisonous narrative

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of extremism on which this violence feeds. Properties in London and

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Lincolnshire are searched as police tried to determine a motive for the

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killing. I will be reporting live from Woolwich with the very latest

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on the police investigation here and on the Prime Minister's visit to

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Woolwich this lunchtime. The other news this lunchtime. The man accused

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of murdering April Jones tells the court he can't remember where he put

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her body. The decline in the number of

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district nurses is causing unnecessary suffering, says nursing

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leaders. The growing number of children being abused by other

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children. Charities warn of the risks of online pornography. Later

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on BBC London we will be live in Southeast London as the Prime

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Minister and the Mayor visit the scene of yesterday's terror attack.

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We will have reaction from the local the BBC News at One. It has been

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confirmed that the man killed in the ferocious attack in Woolwich in

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Southeast London yesterday was a serving soldier. He has not been

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named because members of his family are still being informed. The

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soldier was hit by a car and then hacked to death by two men carrying

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knives and meat cleaver is. Senior Whitehall firm -- sources have

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confirmed that both suspects were known to the security services. They

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remain under armed guard in hospital. The BBC understands that

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one of them is Michael Adebolajo. This morning officers raided an

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address in Greenwich and a property in Lincolnshire has also been

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searched. In the last hour, the Prime Minister said the attack had

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sickened us all at that the nation would remain resolute. Muslim groups

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have strongly condemned the murder. Ben Brown is in Woolwich for us.

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It is almost 24 hours in that road just down there behind me beyond the

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police cordoned a young British soldier was hacked to death by two

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suspected Islamic extremists. The police investigation continues.

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There have been raids this morning. There is a very meticulous forensic

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investigation down there at the scene. The Prime Minister is here in

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Woolwich this lunchtime. He has been meeting community leaders, religious

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leaders, the local MP at the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. This

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report from our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds.

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The shock has turned to sorrow. A procession of well-wishers bearing

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flowers have started arriving at the scene of the murders. Flowers at the

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huge Woolwich Barracks near here. A massive police operation is centred

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on the town. This morning officers were searching the ground, inch by

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inch, trying to reconstruct the minutes of madness that left a

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British soldier dead on a British street. Trying to work out why these

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men acted as they did. Earlier the government's COBRA emergency

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committee met and the government confirmed the suspects were known to

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the security services. The Prime Minister said yesterday's events

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were not just an attack on us, but a betrayal of Islam. The people who

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did this were trying to divide us. They should know something like this

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will only bring us together and make us stronger. Today, our thoughts are

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with the victim and with his family. They are grieving for their loved

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one and we have lost a brave soldier. The London Mayor, Boris

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Johnson, arrived in the Woolwich midmorning. He spent time discussing

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the incident with senior police officers. He has described what

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happened here is sickening and unforgivable. The police operation

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is fast-moving. It appears to be focusing on family members of the

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attackers. This flat in Greenwich was raided early this morning.

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Neighbours said three unidentified women and a teenager were taken

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away. In this area there is real anger at the murders. Last night,

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Woolwich was tense. Members of the English Defence League briefly

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tussled with police. The town centre was flooded with officers. That

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continues. Across London we have an extra 1200 officers on duty on --

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and they are being highly visible to reassure people that leave -- life

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carries on as usual. My appeal is for calm. The identity of the dead

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soldier is expected to be revealed shortly. The MOD is still contacting

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members of his family. Well-wishers have described him as a fallen hero.

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The Prime Minister David Cameron has been here Woolwich this lunchtime.

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He has just been at the town hall meeting community leaders. We have

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seen his motorcade and we gather he has gone to work -- Woolwich

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Barracks in the last few minutes as well. He will also be talking to the

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police in command here. Let's talk to our political correspondent in

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Downing Street. Those remarks from the Prime Minister very much at

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pains to try to ease any community tensions that may have arisen as a

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result of this murder? Very much so. The Prime Minister here was

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essentially trying to deliver a keep calm and carry on message. In his

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statement here he said that the people who carried out this attack

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wanted to try to divide the country, but he believed it would only unite

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people. He is in Woolwich this afternoon and community cohesion is

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very important. He's essentially trying to ensure, along with many

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other leaders, that what the people behind this attack partly wanted to

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make happen which was to turn communities against each other, the

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Prime Minister is there to try to ensure it does not happen. The BBC

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now understands the suspects in this attack were known to MI5, the

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Security service. Their names did feature over recent years in various

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investigations. One was intercepted by the police trying to leave the

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country last year. The Prime Minister nodded at that. He said

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there would be proper scrutiny and proper questions but clearly the

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investigation needs to take place. The criminal investigation. There

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are significant questions about MI5, the Security service and the

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inevitable could this have been prevented? Thank you very much

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indeed. Woolwich very much a community in shock after what

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happened here on that road down there beyond the police cordoned

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yesterday. This is an area that is very much intertwined with the

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military. The barracks here, Woolwich Barracks, has been here for

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hundreds of years. Let's go to our correspondent Sangita Myska at the

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barracks. People have been coming all-day and laying flowers in

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tribute to the soldier who died here yesterday afternoon? Yes indeed. As

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you say, the barracks have a long 300 year history, a connection with

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this area. Plenty of local people coming here, deeply shocked by what

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happened yesterday. You can see some of the floral tributes that have

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been arriving. We still don't know the name of the soldier but plenty

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of the cards associated with these flowers are calling him a fallen

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hero. Let me read you a couple of the messages which sum up the

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atmosphere here today. One card reads, you were innocently taken,

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wrong, wrong, wrong. Another, much respect to a true hero savagely

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taken on our streets. Finally, an empty bed in the barracks tonight

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and son is gone. We love you, our unknown soldier. Earlier, I spoke to

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somebody who had been an army cadet here and had visited these barracks

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many times when she was a teenager. She broke down in tears telling me

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she was still in contact with soldiers who were on the inside and

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that people were feeling deeply moved, but from what she understood

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soldiers still kick -- keen to wear their uniforms outside. We are

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expecting the Prime Minister to arrive here shortly. Now back to

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you. Thank you very much indeed. Woolwich very much the scene of

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intense police activity still this afternoon. The friends investigation

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continuing at the scene of the murder -- forensic investigation. At

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least two separate police raids, one in Lincolnshire, one in Greenwich,

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where people were taken away in a police van. Now back to the studio.

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Ben Brown with the picture in Woolwich. Security at the military

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barracks across London has been tightened. The two attackers are

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under armed guard in hospital as the security services try to establish

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whether they were working alone or as part of a terrorist network. More

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details about that from our security correspondent, Frank Gardner.

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The slow, painstaking search for clues and evidence is under way at

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the scene of the attack in Woolwich. It has now emerged that the suspects

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were known to the Security service for their radical views but it is

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not thought they were under surveillance. This morning in

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Whitehall, key political security and intelligence figures arrived for

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a meeting with the Government's emergency committee called COBRA.

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The Prime Minister chaired it. Boris Johnson was among those attending.

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It is completely wrong to blame this killing on the religion of Islam but

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it is also equally wrong to try to draw any link between this murder

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and British foreign policy or the actions of British forces who are

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risking their lives abroad for the sake of -- for the sake of freedom.

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This is where one of the suspects has been taken, the Royal London

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Hospital in Whitechapel. He will likely be questioned when he

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recovers from being shot by the police yesterday. The lines of

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enquiry being followed up by investigators include worthy acting

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alone? Who did they meet and where did they travel to? As the people of

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Woolwich still come to terms with what has happened on their streets,

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one former British radical says the attackers understood the propaganda

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value of their message. Where we have failed us in popularising

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counter narratives to this ideology that completely disconnect somebody

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who quite clearly is speaking in a London accent and is willing to kill

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his own fellow citizens, probably for a country he has never visited,

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whether it is Iraq or Afghanistan and he has more affinity to citizens

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and a third countries on his own citizens. This is both a murder

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enquiry and counterterrorism investigation. It may take days,

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even weeks, to find all the ad -- answers.

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So many questions, there will be talk about the fact the suspects

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were known to some degree but that is also a key element, they have to

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establish whether they were working as part of a larger group? Yes. As I

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said, this is both a murder enquiry, very much fled by the

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police, and a full-scale counterterrorism investigation, also

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being led what is -- led by what is called SO15. They are very much

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assisted in this by MI5, the security service. It has taken 24

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hours for it to emerge partly from David Cameron's clips that it turns

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out that these were not exactly clean skins, these men were subject

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to a security service investigation. They probably at some stage may have

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been under surveillance in the past but I don't think they were under

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surveillance at the time. If they were, whoever was doing the job

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needs to be sacked because they did what they did. The indications I am

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getting from people in Whitehall as there is no indication that they

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were on the verge of doing something violent. That is always the problem.

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There might be hundreds of people that they are aware of who are

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individuals of concern, backpack -- perhaps because they have radical

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views, but you can't tell when somebody is going to flip over and

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those angry views are going to translate into violence. Many

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thanks, Frank Gardner. This morning, Scotland Yard issued a

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statement about the amount of time it took to -- took police to respond

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to yesterday's incident after concern was expressed by number of

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members of the public that it appeared to take a long time for

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officers to reach the scene. One MP has said he wants to raise the issue

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with the Home Office, saying it would be worrying if there had been

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an unwarranted delay. Let's get more from our home affairs correspondent,

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Matt Prodger. What has the Met said in response to these elements of

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criticism? The Met has fed within 14 minutes of the first 999 call being

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made to police they had firearms officers on the scene and that was

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ten minutes, within ten minutes, of them actually being told there was a

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gun at the scene, that one of the attackers had a gun. My sources tell

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me that is within the parameters with which the Metropolitan Police

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consider it to be acceptable. The unofficial aim is to have 80% of

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such cases dealt with within 12 minutes, in other words an 80% of

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cases firearms officers arrive on the scene within 12 minutes of being

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deployed. In this case it was ten minutes. There are at least three

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armed response vehicles on each side of any time but there is usually

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more. Most of the time there is more than a total of six covering the

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capital. Usually their location is intelligence led, for example by

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Trident, the gang crime command who would give them any kind of

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intelligence as to where they might be needed. A lot of the time that

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would not include a location such as Woolwich. Woolwich would not be high

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on their radar. With regards to the activities of uniformed officers on

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the scene, the information, the instructions they would have got

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would have been that as soon as it was clear that one of the attackers

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had a gun they would have been told not to approach the attackers.

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Prodger, there will be much more on this is story throughout the

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murdering April Jones has told Mold Crown Court he can't remember where

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he left her body. Mark Bridger insisted he hadn't killed April, but

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had caused her death by accidentally running over her in his Land Rover.

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He denies the charges against him. They have been several heated

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exchanges in the court this morning, as Mark Bridger's claimed that he

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simply couldn't remember what he did with April Jones's body was tested

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over and over again. The prosecution claimed he is a man prepared to lie

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and say anything in order to save himself, rather than to help find

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April. Scouring the countryside surrounding Machynlleth, the search

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for April Jones became the largest in UK police history. It lasted for

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nearly seven months. The man accused of April's murder says he has no

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recollection of what he did with her body, after he says he accidentally

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ran her over. In court, Mark Bridger became animated as he was quizzed

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about his memory of that night and how he could remember some studies

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that smacks specific details but not others. He answered, I have a dead

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child that I killed in my car. How does that affect anyone? I had pins

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and needles, I felt sick with fright and beer. This little girl had died.

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Was dead in my car. In the public gallery, April's parents listened

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intently as Mark Bridger was asked to explain the difference between

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lies and fabrication. He was asked about his memory of taking April to

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his cottage and what happened there. He accepted that he may have wiped

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away blood in the bathroom and the hallway. But he refuted that they

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had been a massive clean-up, any attempt to conceal traces of April.

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The morning after April went missing, Mark Bridger was picked out

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by the police helicopter. He told others he knew nothing about her

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disappearance. Today he accepted that had been a lie. Though he says

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because he wanted to find April. Mark Bridger was also challenged

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over the fragments of bone found in his fireplace. He told the court he

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used to use it to cook meals, he'd cooked a whole chicken and even a

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squirrel in there. He said there was no way to prove that the fragments

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were of a human person. He denies abduction, murder, concealing and

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trying to destroy traces of April's body. Our top story. According to

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BBC sources, one of the men alleged to have carried out the attack on a

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British soldier is Michael added blah Joe, seen here on the right, a

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Muslim convert. -- Michael Adebolajo. Good a new early warning

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system for volcanoes help save lives and billions in business? In sport,

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Roberto Martinez reveals whether he wants to bring to an end his reign

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as Wigan manager after four years. His future has been unclear after

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Wigan were relegated following their FA Cup win. How many of us remember

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this last remark three years ago this Volcano in Iceland erupted,

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throwing millions of tonnes of ash into the atmosphere and bringing air

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transport across Europe to a halt. Now scientists in Iceland are

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working on a way of predicting the next big eruption. Our correspondent

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has been down into the heart of a dormant volcano to find out how they

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are doing it. Plunging deep into a volcano. Just a few cables holding

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us. It's a tight squeeze at the top but then the underground vault opens

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to reveal a mass of colour forged by huge explosive forces. This is

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Iceland's volcanic laboratory. 5000 years ago, and eruption carved out

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this chamber. It is here in the heart of the volcano that scientists

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can better understand what is happening at the source. But in

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order to better predict eruptions, they need to head up to the surface.

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Up above, the future team is heading out on the road. It's a group of

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scientists with an arsenal of volcanic sensors at their disposal.

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Their aim dash to give us all more warning the next time a volcano

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stirs. Today they are putting the finishing touches to a new gas

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monitor, one of a host of new sensors which will look for

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tell-tale signs of magma intruding through the ground beneath. The

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nerve centre of the operation is the Icelandic meteorological office in

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Reykjavik. There they scour the data coming from the monitoring network

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24 hours a day. Volcanoes actually scream, I'm about to erupt, before

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they dropped. They show many measurable signs. It's the challenge

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for today's volcanologists to gather that information and make use of it

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in real-time. That is what FutureVolc is about. Of course, not

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of this would have happened without this, the 2010 eruption of

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Eyjafjallajokull, which closed down much of European air sprays and left

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travellers stranded around the world. Researchers say the new

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science being done above and below could prove vital next time around.

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We need to understand how magma is slowing inside the volcano prior to

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eruption. How this magma will come out. We want to better quantify it

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so we can have better advice on where to fly safely will stop What

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is certain is that threat from Iceland volcanic systems is not

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going anywhere. Here, it's never a question of if the top will blow,

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just when. A growing number of children are being sexually abused

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by other children. Figures obtained by the NSPCC say more than 5000

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children were reported to the police in England and Wales as an abuser in

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the last three years. Almost all of them were boys. Charities believe

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the problem is increasing, partly because access to online pornography

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is becoming easier. You may find some of this report distressing.

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This woman says her nine year-macro daughter was sexually abused by a

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boy of the same age. Her words are spoken by an actor to protect her

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child's identity. He aggressively rubbed himself up against her,

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getting very excited and telling her what he wanted to do to her in very

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graphic language. He had his hand around her neck. According to

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Freedom of information figures obtained by the NSPCC, more than

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5000 offences under 18 is committing child abuse were reported to police

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over the last three years. In some cases the perpetrator was as young

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as five, and almost all of them were boys. More than half of the offences

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were classified as serious, including rape. The NSPCC and the

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Lucy Faithfull Foundation, which works on preventing child abuse,

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believe indecent images online warping young people stuff edition

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of normal behaviour. Certainly for some particularly vulnerable and

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young people, they are developing really problematic behaviours and

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thinking that has informed their own sexually abusive behaviour towards

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other children, as a result of their viewing of online hard-core

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pornography. The four main Internet providers have told the government

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they plan to put safety filter is in place by the end of the year. But

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computer experts say children are easily able to get around them.

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There's also a wider issue of awareness. A recent government

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report on young sexual offenders concluded that police, teachers and

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social workers often missed warning signs in children who might sexually

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abuse. There are these warning signs out there that we do need to be

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better educated about. I have some sympathy to the idea that around a

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vulnerable children, we should be putting more resources into

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educating their carers and making sure they are aware of the risks out

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there. Campaigners say this growing problem can't be solved by just

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blocking Internet sites. They believe it's more about education,

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and schools and parents talking about the potential threats, that

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could lead children to committing sex crimes. Global stock markets

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have fallen sharply today. There was a 7% drop in Japanese shares and the

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London stock market opened lower this morning. One reason is the of a

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slow-down in China. But it comes after several weeks of strong gains

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in share prices. Hugh Pym can explain a little more about why this

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is happening. Stock markets have been roaring ahead in recent weeks.

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There was maybe a sense this morning, is the party over? Party on

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the back of suggestions in the US last night that the Federal reserve,

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the central bank, might ease back of its support for the economy.

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Earlier, weaker growth figures from the Chinese economy, which has been

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the world's engine in recent times. Let's look at how those markets

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might have been doing. So far today, the latest data we have from the

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markets, I can tell you that the London stock market was down about

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2% earlier today. The McKay, the main index in Tokyo, was down 7%.

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Other markets following in continental Europe as well,

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including Germany. Despite those falls, even after that, London is

:25:20.:25:26.

still up 14% over the year to date. The Tokyo market is still 40% higher

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than it was at the beginning of this year. That's the context of it.

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decade ago there were nearly 13,000 district nurses in England. Last

:25:45.:25:50.

year there were fewer than 7500. The Royal College of Nursing says the

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lack of NHS nurses who look after people in their homes is causing

:25:55.:25:58.

unnecessary suffering to patients and putting undue pressure on other

:25:58.:26:02.

parts of the health service. NHS England says the decline in numbers

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has been counted by an increase in other community staff. Meet one of

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the women who are friends in need of... For more than a century and a

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half, district nurses have been supporting people in their own

:26:22.:26:27.

homes, keeping them out of hospital. These highly qualified staff play a

:26:27.:26:32.

leading role in NHS community teams. At a time of great pressure on

:26:32.:26:36.

hospital accident and emergency units, the Royal College of Nursing

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says district nurses are needed now more than ever. But their numbers

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are falling. Official figures indicate a decade ago there were

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nearly 13,000 NHS district nurses in England. Last year, 7500, that's a

:26:53.:26:58.

fall of more than 40%. With this huge reduction in the numbers of

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district nurses, whilst at the same time the massive growth in the

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population and more and more people with convex conditions, I have to

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say, unfortunately, we really are failing people who deserve so much

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more. NHS England insists when you count other type of community staff

:27:16.:27:19.

such as school nurses and health visitors, the overall figure has

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increased. In the past when the NHS has faced spending squeeze as now,

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hospitals needs have always come first. But the Royal College of

:27:29.:27:32.

Nursing say future, the needs of community services should be given

:27:32.:27:42.
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British summer. You might be thinking of barbecues, but think

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again. We have a cold northerly wind today. That has brings does not been

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bringing showers nationwide. Some snow in Scotland. There is a

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developing area of low pressure. Tonight and tomorrow, that will

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bring both wet and windy conditions to much of the country, particularly

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focusing on eastern England. For the rest of the day the showers will

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come thick and fast on that cold northerly wind. Temperatures are

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down. It feels chilly outside. Not a great deal of sunshine. Still a bit

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of snow in the showers across the high ground of Scotland this

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afternoon. Conditions here will be atrocious. Hill walkers might want

:28:38.:28:48.
:28:48.:28:57.

to think again. For Northern Ireland and south-west England, here, there

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will be relatively few showers. Overnight, the area of low pressure

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is going to deepen. That will bring outbreaks of rain overnight across

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eastern counties of England. The wins will really begin to howl. Gale

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force gusts, potentially reaching 50 to 60 mph towards the east coast of

:29:16.:29:24.

Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. There will be a lot of cloud and outbreaks

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of rain continuing into the afternoon, making it feel really

:29:27.:29:34.

cold. A bit drier and brighter and warmer to the north and west of the

:29:34.:29:38.

country. Conditions will be very challenging for the golfers at the

:29:38.:29:42.

PGA golf, with cloud, rain and strong winds for Friday. An

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improvement as we go on into this weekend, as indeed there will be for

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most parts of the country. Saturday looks like being a decent day. High

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pressure starts building. Sunday, we will keep the Sunni theme going.

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Temperatures beginning to rise. Further west, Sunday is probably the

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better of the two days, with sunny spells forecast. On Monday, Bank

:30:15.:30:25.
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Holiday, it turns cloudy with lunchtime. It has been confirmed

:30:29.:30:34.

that it was a serving British soldier who was killed yesterday in

:30:34.:30:39.

south-east London. According to BBC sources, one of the suspects is

:30:39.:30:43.

Michael added a larger, seen here on the right. Tributes have been left

:30:43.:30:47.

at the Army barracks in Woolwich, as David Cameron says the UK won't give

:30:47.:30:54.

in to terrorism. We will defeat violent extremism by standing

:30:54.:30:59.

together, by backing our police and its security services and, above

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