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A royal day here at Broadcasting House as the Queen officially opens

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the BBC's new headquarters. Her Majesty had been due to be

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accompanied by her husband, but the Duke was admitted to hospital to

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undergo an exploratory operation. Broadcasting has enriched our lives

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in so many ways. I hope this new building will serve you well for

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the future, and I'm delighted to declare it open today. We'll be

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having more on the Queen's vizit and the condition of the Duke later

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in the programme. Coronation Street actor Bill Roache

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appears in court charged with indecently assaulting four girls in

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the 1960s. A new blood test for Down's

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Syndrome is developed. Researchers say it will dramatically reduce the

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need for invasive procedures. The United Nations launches the

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biggest appeal in its history to help those affected by Syria's

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bloody civil war. "Do svadaniya" - Vladimir Putin

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says goodbye to his wife on Russian TV as they announce they're getting

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divorced. On BBC London, a security Minister sees first hand the

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destruction caused by a fire at the Islamic Centre in Muswell Hill. A

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smash and grab at we feel ridge's right in front of shoppers. Police

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at 1.00pm.

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The Queen has spent the morning here at New Broadcasting House in

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Central London to open officially the BBC's new headquarters. She had

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been due to do this accompanied by her husband the Duke of Edinburgh,

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but he is in hospital less than half a mile away at the London

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Clinic where he is undergoing exploratory surgery on his abdomen.

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The Queen visited Radio One and toured the BBC newsroom. But it was

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from the studio of Radio Four's Today programme that she declared

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the building open. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell

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It was a morning when you might imagine she would have preferred to

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remain away from the news media. Instead of which, as her husband

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faced surgery, the Queen carried on without him with a visit to the

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biggest media organisation in the country, the BBC, to open its new

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headquarters at New Broadcasting House. The chairman of the BBC

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Trust, Lord Patten, and the BBC's recently appointed director general,

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Tony Hall, greeted her. Whatever the green's private concerns about

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her husband, they were precisely that, private. This was an

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engagement which had been in her diary for more than six months, and

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it was being fulfilled. Little more than half a mile away

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from the BBC building at the private London Clinic, doctors were

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assessing the Duke with a view to surgery.

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At the BBC, the Queen's broadcasting adventure had begun in

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the studios of Radio One with a song.

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# I - I would be Queen # Not necessarily quite her thing,

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but after 60 years of doing this sort of thing, she's used to just

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about anything. And then into the news area, home to all the BBC's

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domestic and worldwide programmes on television and radio. John

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Humphries asked her how the Duke was. The Queen said she had no

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information. She was taken into a studio which

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was broadcasting live on BBC Radio Four and around the world on the

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BBC World Service, where she was invited to open the building by the

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BBC's director general. Your majesty, as you've seen so far

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walking around this building, it gives us all enormous pleasure to

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welcome you to New Broadcasting House, and particularly so in the

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week in which we are celebrating the 60th anniversary of your

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coronation. We are all only sorry that His Royal Highness, the Duke

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of Edinburgh, has been unable to come with you today, and all of us

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wish him a speedy recovery. Thank you, Director-General. It is a

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great pleasure to visit the BBC today and to see it in its new home.

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I remember first coming to New Broadcasting House with my father,

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the King, and my mother and sister shortly before the war. I came

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again with the Duke of Edinburgh just before the coronation in 1953.

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I was struck then, as I am now, by the sheer pace of change which has

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transformed your industry over the past 60 years, years during which

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broadcasting has enriched our lives in so many ways. I hope this new

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building will serve you well for the future, and I'm delighted to

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declare it open today. APPLAUSE

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The main BBC newsroom is said to be the biggest in Europe, a hub of

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supposedly hard-nosed newsmen and women. It has to be said that that

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wasn't how it was when the Queen came to visit. For a few minutes,

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the hub was abandoned, as hundreds of BBC staff jostled for the best

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position from which to see her. She gazed in at one of the new studios

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broadcasting on the BBC News Channel, and the news channel gazed

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back at her. Her Majesty, the Queen, to the heart of BBC New

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Broadcasting House and our live newsroom. It's a view we share with

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our live audience every day, but today a unique moment with a very

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special Royal guest. But the Queen's thoughts on what

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she was seeing and who she was meeting, there were any number of

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familiar faces to have a word with. At the London Clinic, we know the

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Duke of Edinburgh will be there for up to two weeks. He's already

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receiving good wishes, including those of the Prime Minister.

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Duke of Edinburgh is held in the highest esteem by people right

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across our country. He's an extraordinary -- extraordinarily

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dedicated public servant and such an enormous support for our

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sovereign that I know the whole country will be thinking about him,

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thinking about the family and wishing him well. The Queen left

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the BBC without revealing anything about her husband's health. She,

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like many others, will be waiting for news from the hospital.

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As we've heard, the Duke of Edinburgh is due to undergo an

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exploratory operation on his abdomen after spending the night in

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hospital. Prince Philip, who is 92 on Monday, was admitted to the

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London Clinic yesterday and is expected to stay in hospital for

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about two weeks. Daniela Relph has the latest.

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No obvious sign of a problem - no hint that surgery and a stay in

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hospital were imminent - at a Buckingham Palace garden party

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yesterday afternoon, it was business as usual from the Duke of

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Edinburgh. But as soon as the garden party was over, the Duke was

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on his way here to hospital in central London where today's explor

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more reatory surgery on his abdomen will take place under general

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anaesthetic. The important factors in dealing with older surgical

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patients is to make sure that you have prompt decision making done by

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senior medical professionals and, in the case of older patients

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having general surgery, it's best that they are nursed on high

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dependency units. This is the Duke's third stay in hospital in a

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year after the rigours of the Jubilee celebrations last summer.

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Prince Philip was twice admitted with a bladder infection, and at

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Christmas 2011 there was a more serious heart problem. That

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required emergency surgery on a blocked artery. This current

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hospital stay will mean the Duke has to scale back some of his

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public engagements. He was at the Queen's side for this week's

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service at Westminster Abbey marking 60 years since the

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Coronation, but Trooping the Colour next weekend and then Royal Ascot

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may now be off the agenda. The Duke of Edinburgh could stay here in

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hospital for up to two weeks. It would give him a chance to recover

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from the surgery and force him to rest.

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And there will be more on this story at the end of the programme.

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The Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has appeared in court in

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Preston charged with five counts of indecent assault, alleged to have

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taken place in the 1960s. The charges involve four girls who were

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aged between 11 or 12 and 16 at the time. Judith Moritz is at Preston

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Magistrates Court. Bill Roache came to court to face new allegations of

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child sexual abuse. He was arrested yesterday when he went to a police

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station in Lancashire. His lawyer spoke on his behalf before today's

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hearing. During two lengthy police interviews, Mr Roache has fully

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cooperated with all the questions that the police have had for him in

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relation to these matters. We expect that later this year or

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possibly earlier next year a jury will be asked to consider whether

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Mr Roache is guilty or not guilty of those charges. Mr Roache looks

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forward to standing before that jury where he will vigorously

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protest his innocence against what he regards as deeply upsetting

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allegations made against him. Roache is charged with five counts

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of indecent assault against four girls in Manchester in 1965 and

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1968. Now 81, the actor was in his 30s at the time. The alleged

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victims were between 11 or 12 and 16. They can't be identified for

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legal reasons. I'm make an anniversary D... Bill Roache is

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known to millions as Ken Barlow, the longest serving cast member of

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Coronation Street. He's appeared in the soap since its

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first episode in 1960. The soap star was arrested at his home last

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month and charged with raping a 15- year-old girl on two occasions in

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1967. Today's allegations involving different girls were made national

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wake of those rape charges. Bill Roache left court on bail. He'll

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appear here at Preston Magistrates' Court on Monday.

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Judith Moritz reporting there. A leading cancer charity has

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forecast that by 2020 nearly half the population can expect to get

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cancer in their lifetime. Macmillan Cancer Support says the figure has

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gone up by more than a third in the past two decades. It says those who

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do develop the disease will be less likely to die. Our health

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correspondent explains. Frank is a cancer survivor. It's

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more than ten years since doctors discovered a cancer tumour in his

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brain. Extensive treatment, including chemotherapy and

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radiotherapy successfully shrank the tumour. He's grateful to be

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alive, but he's been left with serious health problems. You have

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to come to terms with, in my case, a left-sided weakness in my arm and

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my leg, balance problems, endless fatigue...

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I'm sorry. We seem to have a problem with that report. We'll try

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to sort out the technical problem there.

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A new method of screening for Down's Syndrome has been developed,

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which trials suggest is more than 99% accurate. Researchers say it

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could dramatically reduce the need for pregnant women to have invasive

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procedures that can lead to miscarriage. The test analyses the

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mother's blood, which carries fragments of the baby's DNA.

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Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh is here.

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This sounds very promising. How significant is this? I really think

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this is a major advance in screening. A trial of a thousand

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women at King's College Hospital in London - it was, as you said, more

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than 99% accurate, and it gives parents a pretty definitive answer.

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We saw today our film today with our lady called Lucy Brazier, 12

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weeks pregnant. She went there for her first scan, and she was told

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from the scan she had a one in 270 chance of having a baby affected by

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Down's, but two weeks before at ten weeks, she'd had a blood test, and

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that reduced that risk to less than one in 10,000, so what it will do -

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it will cut out lots of unnecessary invasive follow-up tests -

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amniosentesis or others which carry a small risk of miscarriage. Every

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year 300 healthy babies miscarry as a result of unnecessary checks.

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am sure a lot of mothers-to-be listening will think, when might

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this be available on the NHS? is another big trial starting next

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month. 20,000 women - that'll take two years. The test costs will need

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to fall. It's �400, but I've got very little doubt that in a few

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years' time, this will be standard across the MHS. Presumably, great

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excitement in the medical community that this development has come?

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Absolutely, and it's come from this figure of a man who more than 20

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years ago at King's College Hospital pioneered and invented the

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scan which is more than 90% accurate, very good. I really think

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it's a very positive day for screening. OK, Fergus, very

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interesting stuff. Thank you very much indeed for that.

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The time now - it's 1.14pm. Our top story this lunch time:

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The Queen has officially opened the BBC's new headquarters. She was due

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to be accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh but he is in hospital due

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to undergo an operation. And still to come, from the

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battlefield to the classroom - the former soldiers offered a fast

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track into teaching. Later on BBC London: homelessness

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in London has risen by 16% in the past year, the highest increase in

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the country, and experts warn that the capital's trees are under

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threat from the spread of disease. That's all to come in 15 minutes'

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biggest appeal in its history in response to the ongoing crisis in

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Syria. Aiming to raise more than �3 billion to help refugees. 1.6

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million people have now fits the rear and are staying in camps around

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the country. 6.8 million people are thought to be in need. That is

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almost one third of the total The physical destruction of the

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country and the progressive collapse of a state. This is why so

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many flee - fierce fighting in this town this week has left it in ruins.

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A recent UN report said children are witnessing acts of brutality as

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Syria tears itself apart. This week fighting in the Golan Heights

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nudged up against Israeli territory, a sign the three-year conflict is

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barely contained within Syria's borders. Already some 80,000 have

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died. Life is increasingly and children are disproportionately

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affected. The organisation admits it can barely keep up with demand.

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Every month we are having 50,000 people crossing the border over to

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Lebanon, coming from Syria, and every month we are increasing our

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capacity to meet the needs of these people. For us, food is the highest

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priority for these people at the moment. We are able to cope but it

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is getting more and more difficult. Part of the problem has been

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countries pledging money in the past and not paying up, but the bigger

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problem is the continued fighting that drives people to flee. With no

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political solution in sight, camps like this are unlikely to shrink

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soon. In fact, the UN wants this latest appeal will only cover its

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works until the end of this year. If you would like to find out more

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about the appeal and the latest on what is happening in Syria, there

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are more details on our website, bbc.co.uk/news.

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Former Armed Forces personnel without degrees will be fast tracked

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into teaching in England under a new government programme. The Troops To

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Teachers scheme will help ex-servicemen and women retrain over

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at two year period. Ministers say the recruits will inspire young

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people but teaching unions have warmed to teachers scheme will help

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ex-servicemen and women retrain over at two year period. Ministers say

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the recruits will inspire young people but teaching unions have

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walked the proposals could threaten standards. Our education

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correspondent Luke Walton has more. From frontline to the front of

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class. Irfan Khan was a rifleman in the Royal Green Jackets including

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spells in Northern Ireland and Sierra Leone before switching to

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teaching. He says his time in the military helped build the skills and

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confidence he needed for his new profession. In the Armed Forces I

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picked up the willingness to do more and transferring that over the kids

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now makes them enthusiastic about education. Kids do see me as a role

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model generally because I am a teacher but being in the Army, they

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like to ask questions, asking what was it like in the army? Under the

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--. Under the scheme, ex-service men and women without degrees can

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qualify as teachers in two years, half the current time, and there

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will be salaries for both graduate and non-graduate trainees was a

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military background. This teacher has made a successful transition

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from the Armed Forces, but there are some who question the wisdom of

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giving ex-military personnel are fast track into the classroom.

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Teaching unions fear the training will cut corners. We believe there

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will be some people who have spent some time in the army who will be

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excellent, and in the nature of things there will be some people who

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will not. The question is what the routers and whether they are

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actually being appropriately trained and prepared for teaching and this

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scheme does not look as if it will do that. The Government insists

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selection for the courses will be rigorous and that successful

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candidates are likely to have high levels of technical skills as well

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as experience of men touring or teaching within the Armed Forces.

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Even so, the idea of giving them an unique accelerated path into schools

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will remain contentious. A study has found that speed cameras

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cut the number of serious road accidents by an average of more than

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one quarter in areas they are placed. The research by the RAC

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Foundation looked at more than 500 cameras in nine different locations

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across England. At 21 cites the number of accidents actually

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increased. Lifesaver or moneyspinner? Speed

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cameras have been controversial since they were first rolled out 20

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years ago. Now this latest study suggests that most of them make the

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roads safer. This research looked at 551 different fixed camera cites

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across England and it found once that camera had gone in the number

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of fatal and serious accidents fell by more than one quarter and the

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number of injuries overall fell by 15%. But there were some exceptions.

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This is one of the exceptions here. The camera just outside the village

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of Woodhurst in Cambridge. Since it has been there, serious accidents

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have gone down but minor accidents have gone up. In fact, there are 21

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cameras where the numbers but the trend and no one knows why. It may

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be the road surface needs improving. It may be that there has been a new

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housing estate in the neighbourhood and that has caused more traffic, or

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more children, to be around. Those sorts of reasons we don't know but

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the point is there is responsible held account by the public to make

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sure the cameras are doing the job they should be doing. A few years

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ago the town Swindon ditched its fixed speed cameras. What do people

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there think? I think they cause more problems. People slow down for them

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when there is no need to. If they kept to a continuous speed, traffic

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would flow better. In the country where there is a speed camera, they

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have been dangerous accidents so even if they do not snap Hewitt is a

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reminder it is a dangerous piece of road. Green bobbin if you know there

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is a speed camera, you are more aware of your speed. Around 2000

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people die on Britain's roads each year. The government recently cut

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funding for speed cameras, saying they were overused and there are

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better ways of saving lives. She may have only just 13 -- turned

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13 but she has an IQ rivalling the greatest minds that ever lived. Neha

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Ramu from Surrey has joined Mensa, the society for people with high I

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queues, having achieved a score of 162, the highest possible for

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someone under 18. Like many girls her age, Neha Ramu

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likes nothing better than sitting down with one of her favourite books

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but when it comes to her intelligence she is not your typical

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13-year-old. I was really excited but when I found out that I got such

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a high score, I was disbelieving because it was so amazing and

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unexpected actually. An IQ of 140 is considered to be the score for a

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genius. A result of 162 has led to her being compared to some of the

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world's greatest minds. Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, they have

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achieved so much that I could not dream of achieving. So it is like

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not right to compare me to them. If I do not put in effort and make use

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of my IQ, then there is no point in having it. She does it without

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putting in much effort. There is no extra effort she puts in. She makes

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sure she has enough time for TV, swimming, fun time with friends.

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the future, Neha Ramu says she was to be an urologist but for the time

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being she is trying to play down expectations.

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The Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lydumila divorcing

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after 30 years together. The couple told state television it was a

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civilised divorce, saying they hardly saw each other any more. The

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announcement ends years of speculation about their relationship

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but it has come as a shock to Russians as Steven Rosenberg

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reports. This was the moment the private

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problems of Russia's president became very public. There are

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rumours that you are no longer living together, says the nervous

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interviewer, off camera. Is that true? It is true, replies President

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Putin. My work involves being in the public eye all the time. Some people

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like this, some people don't. It was our joint decision, she says, our

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marriage is over because we hardly see each other. Vladimir

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Vladimirovich is fully emerged and his work. I don't like being in the

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public eye. That is why Russians have seen less and less of their

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First Lady, sparking more and more speculation about the marriage. Read

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joint appearances like this one did not help. Vladimir looked more at at

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ease here with his pet Labrador, Koni. For several years there have

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been rumours of marital strife here in the Kremlin but this official

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announcement has come as a shock to Russians. After all, the last time a

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Russian leader divorced his wife was more than 300 years ago. It was

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Peter the Great, who then dispatched his spouse to a nunnery. Putin is

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only human, Lydia says. He has the right to make his own decisions. Our

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leaders should not get divorced, says this man. If they are having

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problems, what hope for us? But the Putins have pledged to stay on good

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terms. They are calling it a civilised divorce.

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Let's return to our top story, that the Queen has fulfilled an

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engagement to open the BBC headquarters alone after the Duke of

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Edinburgh's admission to hospital. Let's speak to our royal

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correspondent, Niklas Witchell. What have we learned or heard today about

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what is happening with the Duke? can assume the doctors have been or

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perhaps RSS link went to carry out this exploratory operation. --

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assessing. That exploratory operation may have taken pace, maybe

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taking place now. I don't think we will hear anything further from

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Buckingham Palace until that operation has taken place, until

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they are in a position to report on how he is. It is worth perhaps just

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recapping what we do know. Routine tests, abdominal investigations, as

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a result of what the doctors found during those investigations. They

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fare felt this operation was necessary. The Queen coming to the

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BBC, what can we read into this? The fact that she came, as far as one

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could tell she looked very relaxed, she looked quite happy, that could

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be taken to mean that within the family at this point there is no

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undue concern, but it is dangerous to read too much into that. She will

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be waiting, as everybody is waiting, for the bulletins from the hospital.

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At one point she was asked about the Duke's health. She clearly did not

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want to talk about it. She was clearly uncomfortable being asked

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about it, but that she confirmed she had no information. Some have taken

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the phrase exploratory operation to assume it is routine but there is

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nothing routine. It is not routine, if you are having to go in for an

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exploratory operation after an investigation of the abdomen. The

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purpose of this is to find out whatever it is that has given rise

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to clearly the concern that the Royal doctors are feeling. The other

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concern of course is the fact that he is on Monday 92 years old.

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you. Time to look at the weekend whether head and Helen Witts has it

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Celsius in Porthmadog and Wales. There are some notable exceptions

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today. You have woken up to cloudy skies across many southern areas and

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here comes some showery rain, even the odd rumble of thunder. It is

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slowly meandering northwards and westwards as you can see but for

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most it is lovely afternoon. But the temperatures are rising, so lots of

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heat in the atmosphere which could generate some intense thundery

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downpours across potentially Dawn Warr -- Cornwall and Devon, even

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flooding rains. To watch for the south-western quadrant of the UK

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considering it has been so glorious of late. Elsewhere it continues

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lovely. Plenty of sunshine. Always a little cooler but plenty of

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sunshine. Rogue showers across the Cumbrian fells and Scottish

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mountains. Fewer than yesterday. Very pleasant well -- whether to be

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found across the vast majority of the UK, including Northern Ireland

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where there will be fewer showers than yesterday. The sunshine came

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out for the Welsh Marches. The risk of heavy showers does extend into

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the south of Wales into this evening, as you have seen from the

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satellite picture. When we do see the showers they will tend to linger

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through this evening and into the night. Elsewhere, fairly quiet.

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Missed and low cloud will roll backing of the North Sea tonight,

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holding the temperatures up and giving a great start to tomorrow

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morning even as far westwards as Edgbaston. I am hoping there will be

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no interruptions to play. Catch the coverage on BBC Radio 15 live sports

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extra. Tomorrow, perhaps a little fresh breeze in southern areas and

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not quite as warm as it has been but still plenty of warm sunshine to be

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found getting to work on the low cloud, burning it back to the North

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Sea coast. Dry for southern and western areas. 22 or 23 Celsius

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potentially but even around the coast the UV levels of sun are just

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as strong. It is not temperature dependent. A similar story on

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Sunday. The threat of a shower in the Channel Islands later on. A

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great start for North Sea coastal counties hanging onto cloud for

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longer and cool here but inland, glorious sunshine. Great news, --

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not great news, high levels of pollen at the moment. Lovely weather

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to be found, just potential for Queen has officially opened the

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BBC's new headquarters. She was due to be accompanied by the Duke of

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Edinburgh but he is in hospital due to undergo an operation. Today, a

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unique moment with a very special royal guest. And her Majesty became

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