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raped twice by the Coronation Street star William Roache at his home when

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she was 15. The jury heard he was cold and calculated during the

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attacks, in 1967. The woman says she told no one because she blamed

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herself. She will have the latest from our correspondent in court. A

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major police search is under way in Edinburgh for a three-year-old boy,

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who has gone missing from his home. The Chief Constable of Greater

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Manchester Police is to be prosecuted for safety breaches after

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an unarmed man was shot dead in Cheshire. The pioneering surgery

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that it has improved the sight of six patients, who would have

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otherwise gone blind. I sat outside and looked at the night sky and saw

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the stars for the first time in about ten or 15 years. Which was

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quite something for me because I always liked looking at the night

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sky. Another scorcher at the Australian Open as temperatures of

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more than 43 degrees halt play. She will have to get used to calling you

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Rodney. Are you going to get this meeting started? Me and Dave haven't

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got all night. And Farewell to Trigger, Roger Lloyd-Pack, star of

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Only Fools And Horses, has died of cancer at the age of 69.

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Later on BBC London, David Cameron defence delaying a decision about

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Heathrow expansion until after the general election. And the East

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London primary, which has banned fruit juice. We find out why.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. A jury has been

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hearing from a woman who says she was raped twice by the Coronation

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Street star William Roache when she was 15. In video taped evidence

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played to the court the woman, who is now 62, said there had been no

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warning of what was about to happen and he had been cold and

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calculating. Mr Roache, 81, denies five counts of indecent assault and

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two counts of rape against five girls aged 16 and under. Our

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correspondent Judith Moritz is outside the court for as now.

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Yes, that is right and this morning the jury here in court room number

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one has been listening to evidence about two rapes, which are said to

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have happened nearly 50 years ago. The woman who says that William

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Roache raped her back then didn't tell anyone at the time she says

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because she blamed herself. She came forward to the police last year in

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the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

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William Roache arrived at court for the third day of his trial knowing

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that the jury would be hearing from the woman who says he raped her

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twice. He walked into court with his daughter and two of his sons, who

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sat in the public gallery watching the evidence. The actor began

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playing Coronation Street's Ken Barlow in the soap's first episode

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in 1960. Seven years later he is accused of raping the woman, who was

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then a teenage girl. At the time William Roache owned properties in

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the Lancashire town of Haslingden. The first rape is alleged to have

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happened at his bungalow, the second is said to have been a few months

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later at a cottage he owned nearby. Now aged 62, the woman whose

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identity is protected appeared by video link. The court was shown tape

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of an interview she did with police last year. Of the first rape, she

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said, I can just remember thinking, God, I just want to get out of here.

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I didn't know what to make of it. I was just so scared. The woman says

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she didn't tell anyone, adding, I thought it must be my fault. I

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didn't know why it had happened, I had gone round there in all

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innocence. William Roache is also accused of indecently assaulting

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four other women under the age of 16. He denies all the charges

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against him. The woman also told the court that

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her memory has been affected by a series of strokes and she described

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William Roache as making her skin crawl, telling the court that she

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had been particularly upset by an interview the actor did with Piers

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Morgan in recent years about his love life. Her evidence is expected

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to continue this afternoon before the defence go on to cross-examine

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her. Judice, thank you very much. Police

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have launched a major search for a three-year-old boy, who has gone

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missing from his home in Edinburgh. Mikaeel Kular hasn't been seen since

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he went to bed last night, when his family woke this morning they

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couldn't find him. That speaks our correspondent Lorna Gordon in

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Edinburgh. What are the police saying?

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Mikaeel lives in this estate in the north of Edinburgh with his mother

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and four siblings. All morning police have been conducting

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door-to-door enquiries in this area. They want to find the little boy and

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get him back to his family. Mikaeel Kular, three years old,

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missing and now the focus of a big police search. The toddler was last

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seen by his mother when she put him to bed around 9pm yesterday evening.

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When she woke he had disappeared from his room and from the family

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home. A police helicopter, sniffer dogs and a significant number of

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officers are now looking for the young child. Temperatures were low

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overnight and they are appealing for help in trying to find him. He's a

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three-year-old boy who if he is wondering will be cold and hungry

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and looking for shelter, no doubt. You might have crawled in somewhere

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and fall asleep if he has been out wandering early this morning, so

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have a look in your own areas, have a look in your garage is, your

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outhouses, your common stair, any cupboards in the common stair,

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anywhere a three-year-old could climb into to seek some shelter to

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try and get warm. Mikaeel is said to be a friendly and playful young boy

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and neighbours are shocked at his disappearance. The first thing my

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wife said this morning, she said where do you start looking? It is

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quite a scary thing, actually, you know. The three-year-old is of Asian

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appearance. He could be wearing a beige jacket, blue jogging trousers

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and brown shoes. Police are keeping an open mind as to what has happened

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to him. They just want to get him home safe to his mother, who is said

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to be distraught. Of course, police are also going to

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be trying to work out how exactly he left his home. These are modern

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flats with apparently good security. In the last few moments we've seen

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police forensic officers enter this street and go round to the back of a

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block of flats here. They'll be assisting with this investigation.

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Lorna, thank you very much. The Chief Constable of Greater

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Manchester Police has been prosecuted over the shooting dead of

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an unarmed man. Sir Peter Fahy is being charged under the health and

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saved the laws because of what prosecutors called serious

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deficiencies in preparations for the operation in which Anthony Grainger

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died in 2012. Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger is with

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me now. Explain the background to this and just how serious this is

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also Peter. Anthony Grainger was travelling in a car which was

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stopped by officers from Greater Manchester Police who were

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investigating a suspected armed robbery. He was shot in the chest

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and as a result of that he died. Now the decision today by the

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pro-prosecution service to prosecute Greater Manchester Police and in

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particular Sir Peter Fahy is not on charges of murder or manslaughter

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but in fact for alleged breaches of health and save the they say in

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their statement it is alleged that an unnecessary exposure to risk was

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caused by serious deficiency in the preparation of the police operation.

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And in accordance with the health and safety law its senior officers

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and in this case no more senior than the Chief Constable and self, who

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face criminal liability. Now no charges will however be brought

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against the firearms officers who shot dead Mr Granger. The CPS

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decided that if that was to be a successful prosecution the jury

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would have to believe his actions were unreasonable and unnecessary

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and that that officer believed them to be so they didn't believe a jury

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would find that to be the case. Now this is not without precedent. There

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have been cases before where forces have been prosecuted, notably back

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in 2007 the Metropolitan Police had to pay fines and costs in relation

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to the shooting of John Charles to ministers at Jock -- at Stockwell

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Tube station. The former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has told the

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BBC that cuts to Britain's armed forces could prevent it from being a

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full partner with the US in future military operations. He said that

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reductions in spending threatened to limit the UK's position in the world

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but is this morning David Cameron insisted that Britain is still a

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first-class player in defence. I don't agree with him. I think he's

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got it wrong. We have the fourth largest defence budget anywhere in

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the world. We are actually investing in future capabilities, so we're

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building two new aircraft carriers, replacement for our Trident

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submarines, type 45 destroyers, the new type of frigate will stop we've

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got a massive investment programme of ?160 billion in our defence

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industries, in our equipment. We are first-class player in terms of

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defence and as long as I'm prime minister that is the way it will

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stay. David Cameron speaking this morning. Let's speak to our defence

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correspondent who is outside the Ministry of Defence. Explain what

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the US Defence Secretary William Gates says we are lacking? He used

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the example of no aircraft carrier. No aircraft carrier of the 10-year

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is even though the Prime Minister pointed out two are being built and

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one will be operational by the end of the decade but we don't have

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maritime patrol aircraft after they scrapped the Nimrod. I think here at

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the MoD there will be a mixture of first of all hurt, wounded pride,

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because professional soldiers, sailors and airmen like to look

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their American colleagues in the eye and say we are as good as you. I

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think also though there will be a sense this is helpful to them

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because remember they are arguing both the defence secretary and the

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chief of the defence staff against further cuts. They will be able to

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go to the Treasury to George Osborne and say look, this is what our

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closest ally as saying. Whether it will work is another matter of

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course. Jonathan Beale, thank you very

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much. An 84-year-old man from Canada who was being held at an immigration

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centre in the UK died in handcuffs after he was taken to hospital. He

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was suffering from dementia. Prison inspectors say his was one of a

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series of shocking cases at the privately run Harmondsworth

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immigration removal Centre near Heathrow. Their report said that

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management has created an environment in which a sense of

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humanity had been lost. Here is our home affairs correspondent, Tom

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Symonds. Harmondsworth immigration centre is

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the place where people do UK Border Agency intends to remove from

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Britain are detained. And that makes it a difficult place to manage. As

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its troubled history demonstrates. In 2006 the centre was badly damaged

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in disturbances. It had been improving but today's report says

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it's in a state of drift. There are particular concerns about the times

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when staff have to move vulnerable detailing these, using handcuffs in

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what the report describes as, an excessive and an acceptable manner.

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These men were so ill that one died shortly after his handcuffs were

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removed. In one case last February, where a man who had arrived here

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from Canada who was known to the institution to have Alzheimer's, who

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was taken to hospital and died while still in handcuffs, in our view that

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was inhumane and completely lacking in any proportionality. Doctors had

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declared this so unwell he shouldn't have been detained at all. The

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report, resulting from a surprise inspection, and blames a lack of

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intelligent assessments of the risks hosed by detainees. There is no need

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to dehumanise them in this way and even if you are taken into detention

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remember, these are not criminals. You are entitled to a good quality

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degree of health care and you are entitled to be treated like a human

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being and that is not is what is happening. The private GEO group

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which runs Harmondsworth says it only uses handcuffs when there's a

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risk that a detainee might abscond but says managers have to use their

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discretion to take difficult decisions and we've eschewed them

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with additional guidance. The government says that this incident

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is completely unjustified and must not be repeated. Labour wants the

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government to review the contract it has for Harmondsworth. Ministers say

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they are monitoring the performance of this place closely.

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Britain's National Crime Agency says it has broken up and organised crime

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group that was abusing children to order over the Internet. The NCA

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says five people have gone to prison in the UK after using webcams to

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direct the abuse of children in the Philippines. The agency says it has

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identified more than 120 other British men suspected of being

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involved by paying for the live streaming of sexual abuse. Angus

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Crawford reports. A small house in a quiet road in

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Northamptonshire. The heart of an international online paedophile

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network. From here Timothy Ford directed the sexual abuse of

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children thousands of miles away. What the National Crime Agency found

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on his computer led police to this house in the Philippines were 12

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children were rescued. One was just six years old. The NCA discovered

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Ford offered other paedophiles the chance to watch the abuse to. Men

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like Thomas Owen from Merseyside. Their conversations online show Ford

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offering a win what he calls live shows. And that some of the children

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in his words are really cute. We traced the house that was rated as

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part of what the National Crime Agency called Operation Endeavour.

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This was the first successful joint operation by police from the

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Philippines, from Australia and from Britain. Policing the UK say there

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will be more raids like this in the future. There are over 700 suspects

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around the world, over 100 of which of that figure are here in the UK.

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That shocking, isn't it? Very shocking and people need to

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realise, let's call this what it is. This is not an Internet crime,

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this is a crime which is facilitated by the Internet. This is child

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sexual you is. Philippine police raid another house where girls were

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forced to perform in front of computers. Despite these operations

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there is criticism authorities are round -- around the world still not

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doing enough. do we like all men? No, we don't. Last year researchers

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from a Dutch charity posed online is a ten-year-old Filipino goal. They

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used an avatar and called her sweetie. 20,000 men offered her

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money to perform sex acts in front of a webcam. The man behind the

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operation believes police should follow the charity's tactics. These

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children are, will be scarred for life once the crime takes place so

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obviously we are in favour of a more proactive approach which allows the

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law enforcement intervene before the crime takes place. The children

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abused by Ford are now safe but charities say tens of thousands of

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others remain at risk. The top stories: The William Roache

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trial has heard from the woman who alleges she was raped twice by the

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Coronation Street star - at his home when she 15. Still to come: For

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decades we've been causing ourselves problems by draining the uplands and

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making it flood downstream. Now there's a new idea, working with

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nature instead of against it. Later on BBC London. The NBA has landed -

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players call for the capital to launch its own team as they prepare

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for tonight's game at the O2. And an independent film about life in

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Tooting has won international acclaim - we talk to its director.

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For more than a decade Wayne Thompson had looked up into the

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night sky but his sight was so bad he was unable to see the stars above

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him. Now though, after pioneering work by surgeons in Oxford, he's one

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of six patients whose sight has been improved by using gene therapy.

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Their findings have now been published in the medical journal,

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the Lancet. As our Science Correspondent Palab Ghosh reports,

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doctors are hopeful the procedure could be used to treat age-related

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blindness which affects 300,000 people in the UK and millions across

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the world. Wayne Thompson has a rare genetic condition. He was told he

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would lose his sight in ten years. He was among those who had a

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pioneering gene therapy operation which BBC News reported two years

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ago. It has improved his vision. I sat outside and looked up at the

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night sky and saw stars for the first time in ten years. It was

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quite something. Because of a faulty gene, it sells at the back of

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Wayne's I have been dying. Doctors stopped these from dying by

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injecting new working copies of the gene. They also believe that some of

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the cells they thought were dead have been revitalised and have

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improved his vision. The doctors have been amazed by how much the

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vision has improved. They have shown that the gene therapy is safe and

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effective, and believe it could be used to treat more common forms of

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blindness. More common forms, such as age related blindness, which

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affects millions of people worldwide, involves many genes so

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will be more complex to cure. Patient groups leave it will be

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possible. It is at an early stage but it does offer hope for

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conditions with a genetic basis. It offers help for Blau coma. As the

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process advances, there is hope it could be transferred across and

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provide cures for those common illnesses. When he was first

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diagnosed, doctors told Wayne he would not see his daughter grow up.

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Following his gene therapy, he now hopes to see his grandchildren.

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Three of the high street's big names say they've had an excellent

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Christmas. Argos, Currys PC World and Primark all reported strong

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sales with one boss saying their business took off "like a rocket"

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once the sales had begun. Here's our business correspondent, Emma

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Simpson. It has been a challenging few years for Currys PC World.

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Christmas has been good with sales 5% higher than last year. The boss

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told me that he found it more nerve wracking than usual. We kicked off

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with this new American holiday, Thanksgiving, a huge promotional

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period, and then we went into two or three weeks which were a bit

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quieter, wondering when Christmas would start. It then took off like a

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rocket. We had a massive Boxing Day with ?100,000 a minute going through

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the tills. It was not that long ago that Dixons was believed to be

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ending. Many customers are now browsing in the shops before

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browsing online. Argos is also reinventing itself. Strong demand

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for gaming consoles and tablets have helped deliver its strongest

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Christmas period in a decade. Half of its sales were online with many

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collecting in-store. Here is another retailer that has had a good

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Christmas. How is Primark able to get the sales without being online?

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Primark is an exception that proves the rule. Shoppers flock to Primark

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and they like the style of Primark. The other issue is that they sell at

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such low prices and it is not economic for them to sell online.

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Online has been a central for the rest of the High Street. These last

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few weeks have proved that customers want to shock in store and have the

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convenience of browsing and buying on the Internet as well. More rain

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is forecast across the UK over the next few days and The next few days

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look like turning rainy again and there are still 19 flood warnings in

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force across the UK. The recent spate of bad weather is estimated to

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have cost insurers ?400 million. Now there are calls to invest more money

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in schemes which protect properties close to a river by deliberately

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flooding hilly areas upstream. Our Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin

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has been to see how they work. Fallen trees block a scream in

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Northumberland. -- a stream. They were pushed into the water to block

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flooding. In heavy rain, the water spills over into surrounding

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woodland, creating floods up here. For decades we have been causing

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ourselves problems by draining the upper limbs and making it floods

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downstream. Now there is a new idea, working with nature instead of

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against it. Branches strewn across the wooden floor help to stop the

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flow of water. On the open ground is another experiment. This leaky dam

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catches water flowing off the fields and allows it to soak into the

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ground, instead of swelling the river. We need to change our

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thinking on how we deal with rivers. We have dealt with problems where it

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has occurred but we should look upstream and how the water runs off

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the land. In this pub they are drinking to the apparent success of

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the flood prevention scheme. Life was fairly miserable. We had five

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floods over two years and every time it's happened, people were knee deep

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in water, carpets were soaked, it was dreadful. We needed an answer.

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The flooding has stopped altogether and transform everything for

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everybody here. Work has begun on another prevention scheme in

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Yorkshire. Here they plan to force the river into a concrete pipe and

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then capture the overflow with a steel wall covered in soil.

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Engineers are frustrated that low-cost projects have struggled to

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get funding. We know schemes like this work. Slowing down the flow

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really does work. What we need is more of these schemes and we need to

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be able to do it more quickly and in order to do that we need the

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political commitment to make things happen. The government says it is

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providing leadership on flooding but that land management is complicated

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and needs to be done right. The extreme heat in Australia has been

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taking its toll on players again today. Andy Murray's brother Jamie

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had to be treated for heatstroke after winning his doubles match at

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the Australian Open in Melbourne. Play had to be halted as

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temperatures exceeded 43 degrees. Meanwhile Andy Murray has been on

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court in the second round as Jon Donnison reports. Even the violent

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thunderstorms over Melbourne failed to clear the air on court today.

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Temperatures were in the 40s, leaving many players struggling and

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unhappy. How was that? So hard! By early afternoon, for the first time

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this week, officials announced matches would be suspended because

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of the heat. On the two principal courts, the roots were closed and

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the air conditioning was turned on. -- roof. The tournament's manager

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defended the decision to allow players to play in the heat. Nobody

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is saying it is comfortable to play under these conditions, but from my

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perspective, we know that man is well adapted to exercising in the

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heat. It is not just the players who are suffering. Fans have been doing

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their best to keep cool. Someone just poured a bucket of water over

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us. I got out of the plane yesterday and I felt like I was walking into a

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sauna. Today it was several hours before the heat relented. Today has

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been a day where the weather got the better of the tennis. It has been

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frustrating for fans. Play was allowed to resume briefly after some

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respite from the heat. It is still around about 100 Fahrenheit. As you

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can see, the dark storm clouds have come, and play has been interrupted

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again. The delays meant it was almost 10pm before Andy Murray began

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his second round match. Andy Murray seemed to enjoy playing at a cooler

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time of day, winning in straight sets. His brother Jamie is suffering

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from heat stroke after his doubles match. The hot weather is set to

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continue until Friday. The Only Fools and Horses star, Roger

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Lloyd-Pack, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. In a career

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that began in the 1960s, he'd also appeared in dozens of films and TV

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shows including The Vicar Of Dibley. I think we are on a winner here.

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Play it is nice and cool. As the hapless Trigger, his character was

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one of the most essential characters on the show. Nobody has doubled with

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live puppies before! -- juggled. Equally well loved was his portrayal

:27:51.:27:55.

as a farmer in the long-running show The Vicar of Dibley. Christmas is

:27:56.:28:02.

all about the baby Jesus, isn't it? I would warn you to be very careful

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before you suggest juggling babies! An appearance in the fourth film of

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the Harry Potter series brought him to a new generation of viewers. Mr

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Potter has no choice. Although best known for his film and TV work, he

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was a classically trained actor and during his career, he performed at

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venues across the UK including London's Globe. He was politically

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active and a prominent campaigner for causes he felt passionately

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about. He was an entirely intelligent performer. Basil, are

:28:49.:28:53.

you going to get this meeting started? Me and Dave have not got

:28:54.:28:59.

all night. He loved making people laugh. Roger Lloyd-Pack, who has

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died at the age of 69. Now I look at the weather. Good afternoon. So far

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today it has been a lottery with the weather. A few breaks in the cloud

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but the further west it is, the more disappointing. You can see the

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shower clouds spiralling around in an anticlockwise direction towards

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the West. Some breaks, the further east you are. Very wet and windy in

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the north, perhaps severe gales across the northern isles. The

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showers will push inland, although sheltered eastern areas should

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escape any trouble. Seven degrees the overall high. A strong

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south-westerly winds driving the showers across England and Wales,

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some of them heavy. Further north, clearer skies and patchy frost and

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fog. Maybe icy patches. Overnight lows, a little cooler in the North

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West, but generally around five or seven degrees. The rain lingers in

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the northern isles. A disappointingly wet day tomorrow.

:30:15.:30:19.

Some patchy fog for Northern Ireland and Scotland. Some rumbles of

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thunder as well. Showers across England and Wales will be heavy. You

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can see, quite clearly, a rash of showers across Scotland's, England

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and Wales. -- Scotland. The difference with Friday is that the

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winds will become lighter in the afternoon and the showers will ease

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in the West. The strongest of the winds will be in the Shetland

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Isles. The showers may linger for much of the afternoon. If we look

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down to the south west, you can see the greens and yellows, an

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indication of what is to come. The low pressure is never too far away.

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The rain drives up from the south, and it looks like it will be a wet

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day in prospect on Saturday. The front eases off into the North Sea.

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The latter stages of the weekend, perhaps showers here. On Saturday,

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you will be very lucky if you escape the rain. All of us seeing some rain

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at some point on Saturday. Sunday will be a slightly quieter day. A

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case of sunny spells and scattered showers. Thank you. Now at half past

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