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The dementia time bomb - politicians from around the world meet in London

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amid warnings that the number of cases is set to soar. An ageing

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population - 44 million people around the globe already have

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dementia, but by the middle of this century, it is predicted that that

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number will have trebled. Let us focus on three areas of

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action for this summit - first, to redouble our efforts to find a drug

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that can halt or cure the brain decay caused by dementia. We will be

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at the conference, asking how much of a difference it could make. Also

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this lunchtime: A record ?28 million fine for Lloyds banking group for

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putting too much pressure on staff to sell financial products.

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England's schools are like two nations, says Ofsted, as its head

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calls for a "battle against mediocrity" to improve standards

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everywhere. Lying in state - hundreds of people

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queue up to file past Nelson Mandela's body to pay their last

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respects. Found in a skip - two rarely seen

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films starring Peter Sellers are about to be screened publicly for

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the first time in more than 50 years.

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Later on BBC London News: Barclays is to drop its sponsorship of the

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Mayor's cycle hire scheme in 2015, three years earlier than expected.

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And the Supreme Court rules that churches of Scientology are places

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of worship. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News at One. It's the first time a conference of its kind has been

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held. Health ministers from the G8, the world's wealthiest countries,

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are meeting in London to decide how to tackle what is being called a

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"dementia time bomb". It already affects 44 million people across the

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globe, but there are warnings that that figure could treble over the

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next 40 years as life expectancy continues to rise. The government

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has pledged to double the money spent on research by 2025. Our

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medical correspondent is at the conference.

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This is a big day for dementia, and we have come a long way from just a

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generation ago, when dementia was something that was rarely talked

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about and got little funding. The government is going to announce a

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doubling of its intended funding by 2025. To put that in perspective,

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that will still be half what it currently spends on cancer. There is

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also a lot that the public can do, because public giving to charities

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on dementia is a tiny fraction of what they give to cancer charities.

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Our reporter has been talking to one dementia sufferer called Tom. I

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started having panic attacks, and it frightened me. Tom Coppins was a

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truck driver for 30 years until he was diagnosed with dementia. He was

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just 57. It felt like my whole world had changed. It makes you very

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angry, but you don't know who you are angry at. It is an incurable

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disease, so there is no one to blame for it. A busy Sunday lunch at home.

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Tom is one of 800 thousand people in the UK with some form of dementia.

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There has been a change in my personality. I shouted at a woman in

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the supermarket. I felt really annoyed that she was whizzing this

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stuff out faster than I could act it. I know why I am getting

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frustrated, it is the dementia that is doing it, but you can't switch it

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off. The government says it will double research funding on

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dementia, but critics say it is still a drop in the ocean. With no

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cure, Tom knows his condition will only get worse. I have seen people

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further down the line than me, and it is scary, but I block it out. I

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have adopted the attitude of living for today. A support group run by

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the Alzheimer's Society. Tom has found great comfort in talking to

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other people with the same condition. We need help with what we

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have got. The easiest way to come to terms with it is to be with someone

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who has already got it. Today's summit will focus world attention on

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the inadequacies -- inadequacies of diagnosis and the challenges of

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continuing care. For Tom, the need is urgent. His concern is that world

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leaders are simply paying lip service to growing crisis. If I have

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dementia for the last 20 years of my life, I will need a lot of care, and

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it is not just me. There are thousands of us. Not wishing to

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frighten anybody, but somebody has got to wake up soon and do

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something. Tom's old life has gone for ever. He is at the dementia

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summit in London today, and like thousands of others, he is looking

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for answers. The author Terry Pratchett has

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Alzheimer's disease. Our reporter asked him what he thought about

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current levels of funding for research. It has been left behind.

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And the reason for that is because... It is witchcraft. People

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don't want to go near it. Or at least, many don't want to think

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about it. I do think about it. That is why it does not have me in its

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thrall. Often, you see the men in the white coats saying we are doing

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well, but we need more. I would like them to see how well they are doing

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before they get given any more. Not just push the money in just in

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case. Finding out what is wrong might be a good thing. We can't do

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this, we can't try that. I would just like to hope that the money

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that is spent is spent properly. The author Terry Pratchett. The real

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scale of the challenge over dementia can be told if you compare it with

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two other major killers, cancer and heart disease. There are hundreds of

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treatments which can extend the life of those patients by years, even

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decades. With dementia, there are just one or two treatments that can

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ease symptoms, but there is nothing that can reverse this disease or

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cure it. That will be the focus of research in the decades ahead.

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Tomorrow on BBC Breakfast, one of the country's leading dementia

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experts will be revealing the latest treatments for the illness.

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Lloyds banking group has been fined ?28 million after serious failings

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were found in its incentive schemes for sales staff. The financial

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conduct authority says workers were under pressure to sell products such

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as ISAs and insurance protection even if customers didn't need them.

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Lloyd says it has now made major changes to the schemes. Our personal

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finance correspondent is here. What were they doing? At the heart of

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this is a decision by Lloyds, which takes in Halifax and Royal Bank of

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Scotland, two double its insurance sales. That means things like

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critical illness, life insurance and income protection. It meant that

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people could cripple their wages -- triple their wages by reaching sales

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targets, but could also have their pay halved if they failed to do

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that. That put people under a lot of pressure. They cite the example of

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one employee who ended up selling himself and his wife insurance

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simply to meet targets. But of course, customers are put under

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pressure as well and there is a redress scheme to look at 690,000

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customers and if they lost out. What are they now doing? We are all

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familiar with sales incentives on the high street, but the financial

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sales authority has decided they are not appropriate for banks. They say

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they should reward places where customer service is good. That will

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be the major thing that Lloyds and other banks will have to reward

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people for. The story of England's education

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system is "a tale of two nations". That's the new warning from the

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schools watchdog, Ofsted. It says children from similar backgrounds

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and of similar abilities can end up with different prospects, just

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because of the quality of the school they attend. To improve the

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situation, the chief of schools is recommending the reintroduction of

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formal tests for seven and 14-year-olds.

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This school in Norwich has in the last five years turned itself

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around. Its pupils are largely white and from working-class backgrounds,

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and it was in special measures but is now rated a good school. But the

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picture in the east of England overall is poor, according to

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Ofsted, with younger pupils in primary school already having one of

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the lowest chance is in the country of attending a good or outstanding

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school. Why? In most cases, their parents and even grandparents have

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not succeeded themselves in education, so they may have

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difficulties with literacy or just knowing how to help their children.

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So you get this cycle that we have to break. Today's annual report from

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Ofsted says English education is a tale of two nations. Nearly eight

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out of ten schools are now good or outstanding, but nearly a quarter of

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a million children are languishing in inadequate schools. In 13 local

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authorities, more than half of secondary pupils are in schools that

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need to improve. Last week, East Asian countries like South Korea

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were seen to be top performers in international league tables, with

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the UK somewhere in the middle. The chief inspector of schools says

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raising standards in England should include reintroducing formal testing

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at seven and 14. Our international competitors are showing that greater

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accountability, more assessment is delivering better outcomes. If we

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have any ambition to join the top performing nations, we must do the

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same . Contrast the picture in Norfolk with that in the London

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borough of Tower Hamlets. 16 years ago, it schools were rated the worst

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in the country. Now they are all good or outstanding. They say they

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have focused on getting high quality teachers and monitoring pupils'

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progress. There may be lessons for other areas of the country which are

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not doing so well. The number of ten and 11-year-olds

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who are obese or overweight has fallen very slightly for the first

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time in six years. A third of year six pupils were obese or overweight

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in the past year, compared to 33.9% the year before. The report also

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showed that obesity among children in the most deprived parts of

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England was almost double that of the least deprived.

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Housing costs, which include rent, heating and electricity but not

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mortgages, have overtaken transport as the most expensive part of the

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family budget, according to new figures from the Office for National

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Statistics. The ONS says the change is partly down to increased energy

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prices. Police killer Dale Cregan's mother

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and a police call handler have gone on trial, accused of conspiracy to

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commit misconduct in a police office. Anita Cregan and Kathryn

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Smith, a Greater Manchester police employee, are charged alongside

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Smith's boyfriend, Sean Booth. Our correspondent is at Manchester Crown

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Court. What happened in court? As you see,

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there are three people in the dock of courtroom number seven here.

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Kathryn Smith, 25 and a call handler for Greater Manchester police, we

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heard is responsible for dealing with 999 calls from the public and

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nonurgent calls. Alongside her, her boyfriend, Sean Booth. We heard that

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he is a close friend of the creek and family. The third person in the

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dock is a close friend of the creek and family. The third person in the

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dock is Anita Cregan, who you may remember murdered four people last

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year, two of them police officers from Greater Manchester. Kathryn

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Smith, the call handler, is accused of misconduct in a public office. In

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other words, it is said that she misused the computer systems at

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Greater Manchester police to pass on restricted information about the

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manhunt for Dale Cregan. There was a ?50,000 reward on Dale Cregan's head

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last year. The police were trying to find him. It is said that she was

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passing on restricted information to her boyfriend, Sean Booth, and in

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turn onwards to Anita Cregan. Sean Booth and Anita Cregan are charged

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with aiding and abetting Kathryn Smith. The prosecution opened the

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case by detailing how those computer systems were used. We have just

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heard about one occasion last September when there was a possible

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sighting of Dale Cregan which the police were dealing with. Kathryn

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Smith, the jury were told, had seen the details on the computer about

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the possible sighting. After having looked at the information around it,

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she made a phone call to her boyfriend, Sean Booth, to pass on

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that information. The prosecution will continue this afternoon. The

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three defendants deny the charges against them.

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Our top story: A warning that more than 130 million people around the

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globe could have dementia by the middle of the century as politicians

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and experts gather in London to try to tackle the disease. Coming up:

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recently discovered sitcoms starring Peter Sellers before he hit the

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Hollywood big time will be seen for the first time in more than 50

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years. Later on BBC London, the memorial

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service in central London remembering Nelson Mandela. His

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lawyer and friend of 50 years pays tribute to Madiba. And A* for Tower

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Hamlets - how the borough's secondary schools went from some of

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the worst to some of the best. With four days to go until his

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funeral, hundreds of people have been queuing to pay their last

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respects to Nelson Mandela. His body was brought through the streets of

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Pretoria this morning to the Union Buildings - South Africa's seat of

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government. The former president will lie in state there for three

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days. Clive Myrie is in Pretoria now. Here at the Union Buildings, in

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that structure behind me, lies the body of this country's first

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democratically elected president. South African naval officers are

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providing the honour guard inside. A succession of family members, VIPs,

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dignitaries, and finally, ordinary members of the public, have filed

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past the open glass casket to pay their final respects. Earlier, I was

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on part of the route which the funeral cortege took, and I was

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surrounded by scores of people, hoping to get a final glimpse of the

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man they call the father of the nation. Will Ross reports. A chance

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to say a personal farewell to Nelson Mandela. People were lining the

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route, forming a guard of honour. Some were in an excitable mood. It

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made me feel unity amongst South Africans, as everyone is here to

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support him. I just wanted to see him passing for the last time. For

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the next three days, Nelson Mandela's body will be driven from

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the military hospital to the seat of government, where the anti-apartheid

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hero will lie in state. The coffin passes significant landmarks, like

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the austere Palace of Justice, where he stood trial in the 1960s, and was

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then sentenced to life imprisonment. The cortege came to a stop at the

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Union Buildings. Nelson Mandela's grandson was there to receive the

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coffin, which was draped in the South African flag. A military band

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played the national anthem. This is a far more sombre occasion than the

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previous days of mourning, which have at times featured lively

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celebrations of his life. It was at this exact spot where Nelson Mandela

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was sworn in as president after the first multiracial elections in 1994.

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Close relatives, including his former wife Winnie

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Madikizela-Mandela, were the first to view the embalmed body.

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Mandela's grieving widow Graca Machel left clearly distressed.

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Later on, members of the general public were allowed to pay their

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respects. Relatives were moved by the show of affection. Today, going

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through from the military hospital to the Union Buildings, seeing the

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amount of people there are, it touched my heart, to be honest with

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you. I had a moment of silence. That for me was very emotional. A long

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goodbye, for the man who was instrumental in helping so many

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South Africans make the Long Walk To Freedom.

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With me is the BBC's Milton Nkosi. You were here in 1994 on this very

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spot where Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president, just down

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there, where he now lives. As a South African, how important is it

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for ordinary people to be able to get a last lives of his body? This

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is very, very important. It is the full cycle of South African history,

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insofar as Mr Mandela's life is concerned, because we were here on

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10th May 1994, celebrating him become the first democratically

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elected president of this country, after the end of apartheid. As you

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can see here, millions and millions of South Africans are coming here in

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very dignified, very quiet cues, coming to see him lying in state. I

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got a chance to go through myself, and I filed past the coffin, and I

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saw Mr Mandela lying there, wearing one of his famous, colourful, Madiba

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colourful shirts, looking dignified as he has always done. Many thanks

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for that. The body will lie in state here for another two days. We have

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got another hour and a half or so where the public can go past, and

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then it will fly on to Qunu in the Eastern Cape for a private burial

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ceremony on Sunday. David Cameron and Ed Miliband have

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again opposed the idea of MPs receiving an 11% pay rise, at a time

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of public sector pay restraint. The body which sets their salaries has

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recommended introducing the increase after the next election, but cutting

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pensions and allowances. Our political correspondent Ben Wright

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reports. Once again, MPs are agonising over their own pay and

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perks. Tomorrow, the independent watchdog tasked with setting

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salaries is expected to say MPs will get a pay rise of ?7,500 in 2015.

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But in the Commons, party I think it would be wrong for MPs to get a big

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pay rise at a time of public sector pay restraint. All three party

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leaders agree on this point. The body will review pay again after the

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election, but the Labour leader said action was needed now. Can I urge

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him to work with me to find a way of making IPSA think again, and to stop

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this package happening at events I am always happy to discuss this or

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any other issue. I would stress that this is not a final recommendation,

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and I think if the three party leaders can unite behind a position

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of saying it would not be right, then I think that is the strongest

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message we can give. Currently, an MP earns just the pay watchdog says

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that should rise to ?74,000 after the election, a jump of 11%. To

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balance the cost, MPs' pensions will be squeezed. It is not clear what

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cross-party talks can be achieved, because setting pay is now the job

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of the independent watchdog, and not Parliament. Party leaders are

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mindful of their own MPs, most of whom feel they are underpaid, even

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though only a handful will say so publicly. Unless IPSA changes its

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mind, the pay rise will go ahead. Hundreds of anti-government

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protesters inside City Hall in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, have pushed

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back riot police trying to dislodge them. Clashes erupted hours after

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police moved in to clear protesters from nearby Independence Square. The

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protests were sparked by the government's refusal to sign a deal

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on closer ties with the European Union. Steve Rosenberg reports from

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Kiev. They had been given orders to clear

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the main square in Kiev, and Ukrainian police were out in force.

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With riot shields, they pushed their way past protesters. Pro-Europe

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demonstrators had barricaded themselves in the square, furious

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that their government had rejected those ties with the European Union.

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The barricades were swept aside. The police have broken down the

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barricades here, at what is the very heart of the anti-government

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protests. I are now pouring onto Independence Square, and the

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protesters are powerless to stop them. -- they are now... The

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protesters sent for urgent reinforcements. The swelling crowd

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was able to slow the police advance, but other police units moved in from

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another side. Several police officers and demonstrators were

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injured, and parts of the protest camp were pulled down. Only hours

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before, the EU's foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, had visited

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the protest camp. Today, she condemned the crackdown. The most

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effective way to increase the numbers on the square is this kind

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of action. That is what I said to the Foreign Minister this morning.

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If you thought that by trying to remove the blockades in the middle

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of the night, fewer people would be out today, you were wrong. There

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have also been clashes at City Hall, which was seized by protesters more

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than today they sprayed water down on the police to try to prevent the

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building being stormed. For now, the police have retreated from

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Independence Square, and protesters have flooded back in. They are now

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rebuilding the barricades, making them even bigger than before,

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Two rare films starring Peter Sellers are to be screened next year

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for the first time in half a century. The sitcoms - which were

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discovered in a skip in London - showcase the late British actor

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before he hit the Hollywood big-time, with films like The Pink

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Panther and Being There. Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, has been

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looking through the archives. Peter Sellers, in 1957, as a hapless

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salesman, in Dearth Of A Salesman, a 25 minute short film which has not

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been seen for over half a century in public. I am known as the Peter

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Ouston off of East Acton... It was clearly made for him and to show off

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his talents. It was in 1957, this film was made. Up until the early

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50s, he had only been a radio star. In 1954, he made The Lady Killers,

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with Alec Guinness, his idol, but nothing happened after that. The

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ambitious Peter Sellers made Insomnia Is Good For You, also

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thought lost, at the same time. Both films were a showcase for his comic

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acting, the physical gags... A variety of accents and other

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features. They were found in a skip outside this property on London's

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Park lane back in 1996. Initially, I did not really want the films, I was

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only interested in the cans, to put all of the other films I had been. I

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was thinking about throwing the film away and just keeping the cans, but

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then I thought, hang on, I had better not do that, just in case it

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is something important. No one seemed that interested, until he

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offered them earlier this year to the Southend Film Festival. This is

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the small viewing room in Southend-on-Sea weather significance

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of these early Peter Sellers films was finally realised, 17 years after

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they were first discovered I'm Robert Farrow in that skip in

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London. The two films see Sellers at a crossroads, before he became an

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international movie star, when he perhaps had the intention of

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creating a TV sitcom to rival that of Tony Hancock . and finally, as

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world leaders lined up to address Nelson Mandela's memorial service

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yesterday, there was one man, the sign language interpreter, who was

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standing next to them in full view throughout. But now questions are

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being raised about who he really was, after South Africa's def

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Federation complained that the signs made no sense at all. Richard Lister

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reports. But first glance, the man signing a translation for deaf

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people at yesterday's ceremony did not seem out of place, but South

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Africans who can read sign language new immediate that something was

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wrong. The signs he was using are obviously ones which are not being

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used in the deaf community in South Africa or in the world. They do not

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make sense at all. Around the world, deaf viewers went on the social

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networking sites to question the authenticity of the signer. He would

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not be the first person at a high-profile ceremony to cause

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controversy, like this man who rocked up at Prince William's

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birthday party, dressed as Osama bin la. And also, the woman in red who

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made headlines after she joined the Indian team in last year's Olympic

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opening ceremony. Neither had been invited, but yesterday's signer

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appeared to have an official pass, as he stood alongside some of the

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world's most powerful leaders. The South African government has

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promised an donation. -- promised an explanation. Time for a look at the

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weather, with Chris Fawkes. We had really poor visible to due to the

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fog earlier today. This was Canary Wharf earlier on. An amazing picture

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which was sent to us earlier on to day. For the rest of the afternoon,

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the fog will continue to go away. But the fog has had a massive impact

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on temperatures locally. Right now in Surrey, temperatures are very

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low, just a couple of degrees above freezing, whereas in the north-west

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Highlands of Scotland, temperatures are up to 15 Celsius, so, a massive

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contrast there. For the rest of this afternoon, across England and Wales,

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the majority will keep sunny spells. The fog will continue to disappear.

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But some will remain around The Wash. Overnight tonight, it gets

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windy across Scotland, with the winds really becoming quite gusty.

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Gusts could reach 60mph, possibly even more. For East Anglia and the

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south-east of England, we will start tonight with clear skies, but once

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again we are likely to see more dense fog developing again

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overnight. Moving into Thursday, the breeze picks up, which should move

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the fog away pretty quickly. We will be left with a lot of cloud for most

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areas. Moving into Thursday night, most of us will see a band of rain

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overnight. For most of us, temperatures still in double figures

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on Friday. For more information, you can go to the BBC weather website.

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At half past one a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. A warning

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that more than

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