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Under scrutiny - hospitals in England are ordered to publish

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details of staffing levels on wards. The number of nurses on duty will be

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counted from next April - it's in response to the hospital scandal in

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Mid Staffordshire. Also on the programme this

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lunchtime: Co-op in crisis - the chairman of the Co-operative Group

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has quit over the scandal involving its former banking chairman. Now the

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new boss says an investigation is under way. The whole back story is

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very shocking to everybody, it is not something I can comment on. It

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is out of our hands, being dealt with thoroughly, we need to wait for

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that to be exposed. Swept away - a powerful cyclone

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kills at least 17 people on the Italian island of Sardinia Calls for

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people to donate their relatives' pacemakers after they die to help

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save thousands of lives in the developing world.

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And why the selfie has been named as word of the year.

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Later on BBC London: After six cyclists die in a fortnight, the

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mayor says he is now considering a ban on HGVs during rush hour.

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And the police say the body of a man found in a well in Surrey could have

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been there for two years. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News at One. Hospitals in England will soon have to publish

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figures showing how many nurses should be working on each ward

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compared to how many are actually on duty. It's part of a drive to

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improve patient safety following the mistreatment of hundreds of people

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at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, some of whom died. The Government

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said it was determined that the NHS should become a world leader in

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patient safety. Labour called the changes long overdue. Here's our

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health correspondent, Dominic Hughes.

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Let's speak to our chief political correspondent, Norman

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been undertaking work experience in

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the health service to get a better understanding of life on the NHS

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front line, part of his own response to the Francis Report, which exposed

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an appalling collapse of care at Stafford Hospital. He is providing

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the Government 's broader response today, which aims to transform the

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culture across the entire health service in England. The Francis

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Inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire Trust was one of the biggest ever in

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the NHS, running for one year and loss... Costing ?30 million. It took

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evidence from 160 witnesses and made 290 recommendations, including a

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Code of Conduct for managers and a duty of conduct for staff when

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things go wrong. For the family of this 20 year-old who died in 2006

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after Stafford Stafford failed to diagnose a ruptured spleen, they say

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this is the Government's big chance. When things go wrong, the majority

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of families wants to be told, wants the truth. Not for everything to be

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brushed under the carpet. That causes more grief, heartache and

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pain. Let's have an open and honest NHS culture. The Government proposes

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that every hospital in England will publish data on safe staffing

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levels, including the number of nurses on every shift. Sometimes

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nurses go home in tears because they cannot fulfil the role they want to

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do. It will make a huge difference in their lives if they have enough

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people to do the job that they want to do. The impact of the terrible

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events at Stafford Hospital is being felt across the health service in

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England. But achieving the kind of transformation of culture called for

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by the Francis Report will be my very easy nor break. -- will be

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neither easy nor quick. How do you change NHS leadership, the cultures

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of care, to make sure this never happens again? You can't stick tape

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that from Whitehall and Westminster. -- you can't dictate that. Ministers

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have accepted the vast majority of measures made by Robert from 's and

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the culture is already changing. They want the response to the

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Stafford scandal to be seen as a significant moment in the health

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service. Let's speak to our chief political correspondent, Norman

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Smith. Health Secretary is making a

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statement to the Commons, but will this be enough to reassure the

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public? He has just told MPs he wants to create a new culture of

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honesty in the NHS, part of that is honesty about staffing levels. When

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you look at reports into hospital failings, again and again, one of

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the key reasons is a lack of staff. In the future, if our relative goes

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into hospital, under these proposals, we can look down the

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figures and see whether on a particular night on a particular

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ward there were sufficient staff on duty. That of itself will not magic

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up more nurses on Matt Ward, nor does it create a ratio of nurses to

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patients, some are suggesting it should be one to eight, nor does it

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enable us to enforcement staffing levels. But the hope is that if we

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find out that on a particular night on a particular ward, our mum or dad

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did not have adequate nurses on duty, we can get on the blower to

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the hospital and ask what is going on. The hope is that will force

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hospitals to take on more staff. Mr Hunt is not creating a nurse to

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patient ratio in the law, but the hope is that he may go some way to

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creating it in practice because of patient pressure. Thank you.

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The head of the Co-Operative Group, Len Wardle, has resigned after the

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bank's former chairman, Reverend Paul Flowers, was secretly filmed

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allegedly buying drugs. Mr Wardle said he was stepping down with

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immediate effect because the scandal had raised serious questions about

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his appointment. Simon Gompertz reports.

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Scandal on top of a financial crisis. This is the judge of the

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Co-op bank, Paul Flowers, apparently buying hard drugs, propelled the

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Co-op peers problems back to the front page. There were more Lou Reed

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allegations about the Methodist minister 's antics in today's

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tabloids. The chairman of the Co-op group resigned this morning, saying

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the recent revelations have raised a number of serious questions for both

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the bank and the group. I led the board that appointed Paul Flowers.

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His replacement was asked about the scandal. The whole story is very

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shocking, it is not something I can comment on. It is out of our hands

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and being dealt with thoroughly, we need to wait for that to be exposed.

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I don't want to comment. Clearly, things have gone disastrously wrong.

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MPs were tackling the former chief executive of the Co-op 's banking

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arm over the ?1.5 billion hole in the bank 's accounts. It tends to be

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a series of things coming together to create the outcome, rather than

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one. How much damage has Paul Flowers done to the reputation of

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the bank? What was the reaction to the mess in Manchester?

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I was shocked. It is a shame that one which has been associated with

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ethical banking and one for the people has done that. You put all

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your faith in banks, which is not always bright. These allegations

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mean there will be more to look at in the Co-op ours internal enquiry

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into what it calls inappropriate behaviour and to how well it's

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structure of running itself democratically is working. The Co-op

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and its practices were once held up as an antidote to poisonous

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behaviour in the City of London, but no longer.

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Well, with me is our business editor, Robert Peston. What a mess.

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You have been talking to the new boss, can the Co-op recover? What

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you have to run that here is that the Co-op trades on somehow being

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better, more ethical, than mainstream companies. And,

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therefore, the revelations of what many people would regard as bad or

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unethical behaviour by the until recently chairman of the Co-op bank

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is damaging to the brand. -- chairman of the Co-op Bank. This

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comes on top of the conspicuous mismanagement of the bank, a bank

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disclosed to have a ?1.5 billion deficit which had to be rescued. The

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rescuers still going on. It is this twin problem of incompetence and not

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behaving terribly well, which would be a challenge for any

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organisation. Now, the new, temporary chairman, Ursula

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Lidbetter, who replaced the chairman of the group, he fell on his door

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today and broadly admitted he had made a mistake in appointing Paul

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Flowers to be chairman, and therefore felt he had to resign, she

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is brimming with confidence. She runs a very successful part of the

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wider Co-op group, its operations in Lincolnshire. The message she sent

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out to the members was that the group is learning the lesson. This

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is an organisation with an enormously long history, it would be

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astonishing if it didn't recover. But the recovery will not be quick

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and it will be painful. At least 17 people have been killed

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after a powerful cyclone hit the Mediterranean island of Sardinia

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overnight. Among the dead was a family of four and a police officer

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who drowned when his car was swept away. Nearly 18 inches of rain fell

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in just an hour and a half. The Italian government has declared a

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state of emergency. Our world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan

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reports. This was a deluge no one here had

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ever seen before. Overnight, months of rainfall in just one and a half

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hours. The streets of Olbia became muddy rivers. Houses and cars were

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completely submerged. Most fled but, tragically, some people became

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trapped. One family four drowned in their ground floor flat. -- family

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of four. Rivers and roads were still treacherous by morning, bridges have

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been swept away, making access even more precarious. The government

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declared a state of emergency and an immediate fund of 20 million euros

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to help the rescue effort. This man said he was eating when his feet

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were suddenly covered in water. This woman said she was trapped on a bus

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for three hours and has still not been able to reach her house. Many

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have been rescued, but residents here say the toll of dead and

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injured could have been lower if there had been better warnings.

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Although even the meteorologists have been surprised at the strength

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of the cyclone. They have had a biblical amount of rainfall in

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Sardinia, something like over 400 millimetres in less than a day. The

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weather in the Mediterranean has been very bad for the last week or

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so. We are watching the Adriatic in Venice, where they have gale force

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winds and potentially a storm surge developing.

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In isolated villages across Sardinia, the scenes are certainly

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dramatic. Animals and people are having to fend for themselves.

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Hundreds of residents have been evacuated, but no one knows how many

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others are still trapped in their flooded homes.

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The private security firm G4S has agreed to pay back more than 24

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million pounds of taxpayers' money after admitting the way it billed

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the Government for tagging offenders was not appropriate. An audit

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revealed the Government was billed for monitoring offenders who were in

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prison, who'd left the country, or who were even dead. The Serious

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Fraud Office has begun an investigation. Let's speak to our

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home affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw.

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This seems to have dated back some years? This is a huge tagging

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contract awarded to G4S and another firm, Serco, stretching back seven

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or eight years. What the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, revealed

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earlier this year was that a review found that these two companies had

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been overcharging the Government by tens of millions of pounds for

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monitoring offenders who, essentially, weren't tagged. We have

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heard from G4S that, for the first time, they have admitted what they

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did was wrong, that it was wrong for them to build the government, to

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monitor people not on a tag. They said it was not consistent with the

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contract or the company 's values. They have offered 24 point million

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pounds -- ?24.1 million in credit notes by way of a refund. There is

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no warranty the Government will accept this. I understand the

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Ministry of Justice has not accept this. It is working with G4S and

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Serco to try to establish how much the government is owed. And we still

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have the serious fraud office investigation looking at whether

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there is any criminal conduct. G4S there is no evidence that there was.

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Two bombs have exploded in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killing

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more than 20 people and wounding nearly 150. The devices went off

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near the Iranian embassy - the country's cultural attache is among

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the dead. The attacks happened in an area dominated by the Hezbollah

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group, which has been fighting in Syria in support of President

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Assad's government. From Beirut, our correspondent Paul Wood has just

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sent this report. Lebanese officials say they have put together what

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happened from security camera footage. They say a man rushed

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towards the outer wall and detonated a suicide bomb. Lebanese officials

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say a second blast was caused by a car bomb. The damage was extensive.

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It extended from the gates of the embassy all the way up the street.

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The casualties are substantial. This is the worst attack in southern

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Beirut since the conflict began. The attack could be linked to this,

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Syrian refugees flee over the border into Lebanon. The Syrian army of

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carrying out a major offensive, trying to cut off the rebel's last

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supply route into Lebanon. The Syrian rebels -- for Syrian rebels,

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these are desperate times. The number of Syrian rebel groups have

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threatened to target Shi'ite groups in Lebanon in retaliation for

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Iran's support for President Assad. There is no doubt the Iranians

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government is the major foreign backer of the Syria regime. This is

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not the first time the Civil War in Syria appears to have reached over

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the border to cause mayhem in the Lebanon. Everybody in Lebanon knows,

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an attack on an Iranian target is something different. Everyone will

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be waiting and watching anxiously to see what the consequences might be.

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Our top story this lunchtime: Hospitals in England will have to

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make public how many nurses are on duty each year.

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Kevin Pietersen prepares to play his 100th test match of his career.

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Later on BBC London. Open to the public, Tate Britain

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re-opens after its ?45 million revamp, with ten refurbished

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galleries of British art. And going that extra mile.

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Non-League Borehamwood prepare for their 600-mile round trip to League

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One Carlisle in the FA Cup. Tens of thousands of pacemakers are

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thrown away every year after people die in Europe, even though they

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still function perfectly well. A British charity says thousands of

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lives in developing countries could be saved if relative allowed

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pacemakers to be donated after people died. Pace4Life says 2

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million people die every year because they cannot afford the

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life-saving device. Thousands of these life-saving

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devices asked that in boxes in funeral directors like this one in

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Leicester, right across the country, gathering dust. Pacemakers are

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manufactured a single use devices, and EU rules mean they cannot be

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used again within Europe. But the charity, Pace4Life with the support

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of the charity of Allied and independent funeral directors, is

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now collecting them for reuse for poor patients in developing

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countries. We are taking consent forms, we are getting patients and

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family members to donate these devices. If they are fit for human

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use, we are getting them sterilised and looking to get them implanted.

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Mumbai, the economic powerhouse of India. But tens of millions of

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people across the country cannot afford basic health care. One third

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of India's population live below the poverty line in slums just like this

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one, earning around 80p a day. A pacemaker costs 2.5 thousand --

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?2500. This 68-year-old man has a dangerously slow natural heartbeat.

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Left untreated he could have died. But he has just had his second

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pacemaker donated from the US implanted. He earned just ?6 a month

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and could never have afforded new ones. He tells me, I do not care who

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use this pacemaker before me, it has saved my life and I am thankful for

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that. We do not even know the meaning of the word pacemaker, we

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just knew a machine existed that was fitted in the heart. If I met the

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person who donated this pacemaker, I would fall at his feet and pray for

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him and his family. This cardiologist reimplanted the

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pacemaker, he is now calling on the world health organisation to

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officially endorse the practice. I feel sad. It can make such a

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difference to people 's lives, and on the other hand you are just

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putting it into the waste paper basket. The WHO is discussing the

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wider feasibility of the idea at a conference this month at -- this

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month. The device, however imperfect, has given this man extra

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time with his family. Hundreds of police in Paris are

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hunting a gunmen who attacked the head offices of a newspaper and a

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bank leaving one man critically wounded. The man disappeared after

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forcing a motorist help them escape. He is thought to have also

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threatened journalists at a television station last Friday.

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A new photograph, and a clearer picture of the man police are

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hunting. Here is another, the gunman sitting at a Metro station. Police

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have had 400 calls from the public. 120, said the prosecutor, they are

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taking seriously. This is Friday's film. The suspect pumped his gun,

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threatening staff, but without firing. Yesterday at the offices of

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the National newspaper liberation, he shot a 23-year-old photographer

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twice in the back. -- Liberation. He is very comfortable using a

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powerful shot gun. He is someone very at ease with weapons. The way

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he threatens people with violence is very worrying. In the business

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district, the gunmen fired wildly at the offices of the French National

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bank. Then he hijacked a car. The 65-year-old driver said his

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assailant told he had just been released from jail and he claimed to

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have a hand grenade. The gunman was last seen here yesterday, police

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have been circulating throughout the morning. Those who came into contact

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with the gunman described the intensity and anger on his face. It

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is fair to assume, they say, that he meant to kill. Had his rifle not

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jammed, we could have been talking about multiple fatalities. Which

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explains the discernible sense of urgency on the part of the

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authorities. Memories are fresh in front of a similar manhunt last

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year. On that occasion the gunman killed seven people in ten days.

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An independent Scotland would boost economic growth according to

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Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond. He has been outlining the

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economic benefits of a break with the UK.

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Does Scotland do as well as it could, no says supporters of

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independence, arguing that staying in the UK is holding the country

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back. Today, Scotland's First Minister toured a new life sciences

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Centre in Dundee. They were here to publish a new document setting out

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their case for transforming the Scottish economy. It is a menu of

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how we can harness the great national resources of Scotland,

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resources that other countries would give their eye teeth for. This is a

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blueprint for a better Scotland. This document does not plan for any

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specific policies, but it does layout possibilities. It includes a

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suggestion that a 3% cut in corporation tax could lead to a 1.4%

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increase in economic output. This, it argues, with see 27,000

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additional jobs created. Opponents are unimpressed. Yesterday the

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Institute for Fiscal Studies, one of the most respected bodies, said an

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independent Scotland would face a situation where either our taxes

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would have to go up, or are public spending would have to go down. That

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raises serious questions. This week has seen the fight of the forecasts.

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Yesterday IFS suggested Scotland could struggle in the long term if

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it were independent. The voters have ten months to decide which, if any

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of these forecasts, is the right one. England's cricketers start

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their campaign to retain the Ashes against Australia in Brisbane

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tomorrow night. It will be Kevin Pietersen's 100th test match.

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Some sportsmen glide through careers, from stomp their own path.

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Kevin Pietersen has never gone quietly. He will play his 100th test

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for England this weekend. He left South Africa believing the racial

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quotas were blocking his career. When you get to Nottingham and one

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of the first songs you hear in the dressing room is, I have never met a

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nice South African. You hear it day in and day out. Then a young kid

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from South Africa comes in and steal the headlines, doing well. I had to

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have the self drive, the self ambition and self-confidence to

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achieve what I wanted. That drive has brought big runs and big

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wrists. He lasted just six months as England's captain. I would like to

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take this opportunity to apologise to my team-mates. When I bump my

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head, I learn. I would not be sitting here on the eve of my 100th

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test match if I had not learned. Since he arrived in Brisbane this

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week, Kevin Pietersen has been an irresistible target for the regional

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media. Today, the local media counters his suggestion that this is

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a dull part of Australia by dressing him in the region's rugby league

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shirt. He is celebrating the Queensland pineapple industry.

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Amongst Australia's players there is more admiration than mockery for

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Kevin Pietersen. He always comes out and plays how he wants to. That has

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probably helped him. If he goes into his shell a little bit, it probably

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does not help his cricket. Kevin Pietersen says he has been another

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couple of years left in him. You never quite know what he will do,

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but you always sends it is worth watching. They have all done it, but

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have you ever taken a selfie? It is a self-portrait taken using a

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smartphone or a webcam then uploaded onto a social media websites. It is

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the latest craze to sweep the internet and the word has now been

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made the official word of 2013 by the Oxford English dictionary.

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It is the portrait of choice for the internet age. Everyone has done it

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from presidents, Prime Minister is, to the Pope. Celebrities use them to

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stay famous and fans use them to show they have been close to them.

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Few can resist the lure of the selfie. It is defined by Oxford

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dictionaries as a photograph that one has taken of oneself. Typically

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one taken with a smartphone or a webcam and uploaded to a social

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media website. It was chosen as their word of the year after its use

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grew by 17,000% in 12 months. When we choose the word of the year, we

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all get together and discuss the merits of the words on our short

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list. Then we choose one which we feel has summed up the year or has

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particularly gained traction in the last 12 months. It used to be if you

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wanted an instant self-portrait you had to go to one of these. But these

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only take four or five pictures at a time and they cost. The first use of

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the word online was thought to have been on this Australian website back

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in 2002. Someone posted a picture of injuries they got in a drunken

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accident. Laurie about the focus, he said, it is a selfie. Vanessa from

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New York has taken 10,000 pictures of herself posing with some of the

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world's biggest stars. I just got a photo with a member of Ellie

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Golding's band. I like taking selfie's. -- I like taking selfies.

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Let's have a look at the latest weather.

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The wintry chill has arrived and it is going to remain cold for the rest

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of the week. Especially as the wind picks up again. Pretty cold out

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there this afternoon. Most places will remain dry and funny. There is

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some cloudy, wet weather in the Northwest. Temperatures will drop

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sharply during this evening. A few days ago it was chilly at Wembley,

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temperatures not far away from freezing today. Temperatures are

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tumbling Jude to light winds. Wet and windy weather overnight from the

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Northwest. The temperatures will lift in most places, but still cold

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later in the night. Temperatures may get a double dip in eastern Scotland

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and north-east England in time for the rush hour. After the rain there

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may well be some icy roads. Across Scotland and Northern Ireland a

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stronger wind will keep the temperatures. For England and Wales

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we still have some rain to come. As the rain clears, there will be some

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short, sharp bursts to come. To the south, the rain at this stage still

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quite light and patchy. Temperatures listing eventually in the south-east

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of England. Tomorrow, that band of wet and windy weather sweeping down

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across the country. And Sharon will follow from the north. Clumps of

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showers driven on by those winds. -- showers will follow. The wet and

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windy weather around this area of low pressure, that reinforces all

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the wet weather from the Mediterranean. We are finding high

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pressure building in across the UK. Initially on Thursday it will be

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windy. Maybe a few light showers. Fewer showers and less windy during

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Friday. Further west, the wind will not be quite as strong and a better

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chance of staying dry. Wherever you are, by the end of the week, it will

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be cold and there will be more frost.

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Patients and relatives can monitor staffing levels in hospitals in

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England next

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