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floods. The Environment Secretary visits the South West and promises

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action. Eye had a good meeting this morning with two local MPs working

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on a plan which I hope will sort out this problem over the next 20

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years. With more bad weather predicted, local people say they've

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waited too long and are yet to be convinced. It has been like this for

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three weeks, going on and on. And that is why he is here today. That

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is why we got extra pumps today and that is why it is so tidy. This time

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last night, it did not look like this. We'll explore some of the

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proposed solutions as we report live from one of the UK's worst hit

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areas. Also this lunchtime, the actor Jude Law tells the

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phone-hacking trial the media had "an unhealthy amount of information"

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about his life. Cutting red-tape, thousands of rules

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for small businesses are to be scrapped or amended. David Cameron

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says it'll save more than ?850 million a year And another honour

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for Dame Helen Mirren. She's to be awarded with the British Academy of

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Film and Television Arts' highest award, the BAFTA fellowship.

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And coming up in the sport, Leighton Baines signs a four-year contract at

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Everton. The England defender was twice a transfer target for David

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Moyes at Manchester United. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News at One. The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, has faced

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angry criticism from flood victims on a visit to Somerset where large

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areas remain under water and a "major incident" has been declared.

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Mr Paterson was visiting a pumping facility when some residents took

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the opportunity to voice their anger at the lack of regular dredging on

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the Somerset Levels. More flooding is expected in parts of England and

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Scotland. The Environment Agency still has 14 flood warnings in

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place. Our correspondent Jon Kay is in Northmoor Green.

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Things are definitely moving here on the Somerset Levels. 1 million

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tonnes of floodwater is being pumped off the fields and into the rivers.

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The Environment Secretary has told us in the last few minutes that this

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is just the start. He says he now wants a long-term plan, a programme

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in place to make sure that this kind of flooding that we have seen this

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winter does not happen again. People around here have told us that they

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are glad to hear that and they welcome the visit but they say it is

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too little and too late. Why was this not done ages ago?! This was

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never going to be an easy visit for Owen Paterson. There is a real anger

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in this part of Somerset, not just that the flooding has happened but

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that sense that this community has been ignored. Why was this not done

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last year when it happened? Why have we only just had pumps Putin now?

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Why?! It has been like this for three weeks and that is why he is

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here today. That is why we got extra pumps yesterday. That is why it

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looks so tidy. The Secretary of State saw the pumping equipment that

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has been brought in to get rid of 10,000 tonnes of floodwater every

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second. But many people believe it should have happened much earlier.

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The main concern is the state of the river. Clogged up with silt from a

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lack of dredging. Today, Mr Patterson announced the dredging

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would almost certainly resume as part of a wider rescue strategy. It

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appears that we need to dredge these rivers but also we need to do more

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with suds, and holding what are back. We need to do more with soap

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and planting. And there could be significant investment in a sluice

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further down to hold Bridgewater. All that is a package and it is a

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partnership. The agencies and authorities have

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been given six weeks to come up with a plan which Mr Patterson says he

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will sign off if it is viable. For years, people here have been told

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the dredging is not affordable or affected some relief today that it

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may happen but regret that it has not happened sooner. The pain,

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sometimes it is too much. We have lived here a long time and we have

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for me experience this last year and this year. I do not want to be there

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again. Owen Paterson did not criticise the Environment Agency,

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saying that the body had protected 1 million homes from flooding across

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the UK this winter. But he said he did understand that this strength of

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anger here on the Somerset Levels and he promised there would be

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action. The Environment Agency said in a

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statement this lunchtime that they had been working hard,

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round-the-clock four weeks to try to prevent these problems and deal with

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problems that have occurred. They point out that as far as dredging is

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concerned, it is not a magic will it, not something that automatically

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solves every problem. They say it has to be done continually and it is

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very expensive. It might happen here but it is unclear whether it will

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happen once or it will go on and on as people would like. The actor Jude

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Law has told a jury that the media had "an unhealthy amount of

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information" about his life and that packs of photographers would follow

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him around even when he made secret arrangements for family events.

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He was giving evidence at the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey. Our

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Political Correspondent Robin Brant is at court.

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This time in the witness box lasted just one hour and 15 minutes,

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Bierley the length of your average movie these days. Jude Law came to

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court to see Andy Coulson in the dark. The man that the prosecution

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says was in charge of the News of the World at the time when Jude Law

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and his ex-wife, even a nanny, was targeted. And all for the benefits

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of numerous stories in the tabloids. Just a warning, this report contains

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flash photography. It was a rare moment when the Oscar-nominated

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actor did not want to play to the cameras. Jude Law arrived at the Old

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Bailey, the latest in the long line of hacking victims called to give

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evidence. The prosecution says it was this man, former News of the

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World editor Andy Coulson, who was in charge when the actor was

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targeted. For well over a decade, he has been a tabloid favourite. His

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field marriage to Sadie Frost, his relationship with Sienna Miller. The

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jury has previously heard that all three were targeted by News of the

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World investigator, Glenn Mulcaire. All sides in this trial agreed that

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it happened but they disagree on who at the newspaper knew that it was

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happening. No costume, or cameras. Jude Law sat in the witness box as

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he asked -- and questions. For the first time in weeks, the courtroom

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was full. For the five years between 2001 and 2006, he described how he

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commuted from the US to the UK but under questioning, he said that he

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did not read the stories about him in the paper. The only awareness

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that eye had was that there seems to be an unhealthy amount of

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information, that people had access to my life and whereabouts and where

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I was going and to lie was worth. It fell to Andy Coulson's barrister to

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introduce a hint of drama. As Timothy Langdale QC questioned the

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actor, he passed him a piece of paper with a name on it. Were you

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aware that this person, a member of your family, was selling information

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to the News of the World? Only recently, Jude Law said, and not for

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money. As the evidence came to close, the prosecutor asked him, as

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far as you are concerned, did anything going to the News of the

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World as a result of you putting it there, causing it to appear?

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Andy Coulson's legal team tried to show that there were other ways that

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information about Jude Law was getting out, not just acting. The

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jury will have to decide. Andy Coulson denies all the charges

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he faces as do the other six defendants in this trial. We are

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into week 12 of the Old Bailey, probably only halfway through these

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proceedings but the prosecution is approaching the end of its case.

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Sometime in February, we are expecting the defence to start and

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that will begin with Rebekah Brooks, formerly editor of the sun

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and editor of the News of the World, formerly in charge of all of the

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Rupert Murdoch's papers in this country before she quit.

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The Prime Minister says he will save small businesses ?850 million a year

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by cutting red tape. The Prime Minister says he'll save small

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businesses hundreds of millions of pounds a year by cutting red tape.

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David Cameron says he's already amended or scrapped 800 rules

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affecting them. Among those being dropped are hundreds of pages of

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guidance on the movement of cattle and rules on hedgerows. Separately,

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Labour says it would create a new quango to support small companies in

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their dealings with the government. Our business correspondent Emma

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Simpson reports. Small firms are the lifeblood of our

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economy. This one got a visit by the Prime Minister this morning. With

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business shaping up as a big political battle ground, today David

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Cameron wanted to show that the Conservatives were on their side.

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This is going to be the first government in modern history that at

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the end of its parliamentary term has less regulation and placed under

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was at the beginning. We have now identified those 3000 regulations

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that we are going to scrap and we have already got rid of them. What

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are some of the unnecessary regulations that have been cut or

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simple fight? Well, there is the 640 pages of guidance on the movement of

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cattle. 286 pages of rules on hedgerows, and 380 pages of

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regulations on waste management for golf courses. Plenty of politicians

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have pledged to tackle red tape over the years, so what did small

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businesses make of the Prime Minister's promise? In common with a

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lot of politicians who try to deal with this issue, they have found it

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is more difficult when they try to do it in practice. We have no

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problem with red tape. We have found the government very supportive. If

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you employ a company of less than five people and you have a deal with

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all the employment legislation that goes with it and all of the

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potential problems that you have got if you do not follow it, you are in

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trouble. Labour were also keen to assert business credentials today

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despite criticism of the 50p tax plan. If they win power, they will

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set up a small business Administration inside government. We

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need governments to be a better servant and customer of our small

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businesses and to make sure that entrepreneurs' voices are heard at

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the top table. With small businesses vital to the recovery, both parties

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are pushing to pitch themselves as their champion.

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Let's find out how well they are doing it with our chief Political

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Correspondent, Norman Smith, in Westminster. The parties are really

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asserting their business credentials.

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And let me hearty back to Napoleon part, who famously described us as a

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nation of shopkeepers. Although we may no longer be in the year of

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carcasses and cannonballs, we are still a nation of small traders. --

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era. 90% of businesses are small businesses and 60% of us are

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employed in small companies. What we learned today was that the battle

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for the business vote is well and truly underway. It was ignited in

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the weekend when Ed Balls suggested raising the top rate of tax to 50p,

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printing a backlash from some of Britain's's top tycoons. Today,

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Labour sought to present itself as on the side of ordinary businesses

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by suggesting they would set up a small business Administration to

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speak up for small businesses and reminding us that Ed Miliband would

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break open the big banks so banks would lend more to small businesses.

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The counteroffer from David Cameron is that he has cut 800 regulations

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and is on course to cut 20,000. He has got rid of 80,000 pages of

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environmental guidance. My sense, talking to businessmen, is that they

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are instantly cautious about the blandishments of politicians. They

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remember requires time talking about the bonfire of regulations and Tony

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Blair chomping his way through the prawn cocktails of the city. In

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spite such caution will not be in no doubt that the battle for the

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business vote is well and truly underway.

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The Syrian peace talks in Geneva are today focusing on the search for a

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political solution to end the bitter civil war. Representatives of the

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western-backed opponents of President Assad say they want to

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talk about a transition from dictatorship to democracy. But

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discussions are also expected to continue on aid convoys reaching the

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besieged area of Homs. Our diplomatic correspondent Bridget

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Kendall reports from Geneva. The heart of Syria's third biggest

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city, now in ruins. But the problem in the old city of Homs is not just

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physical devastation. Rebel held areas here have for months been cut

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off by Syrian government forces. And activists say that for the old and

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weak and vulnerable, the situation is critical. We have at least 3000

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or 4000 innocent civilians inside the city. It is so bad. After 600

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days in a row under siege, there is no food. In Geneva, it was back to

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the negotiating table for the two sides in the peace talks. On the

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agenda this morning, a future transitional government for Syria.

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And exchanges between rival delegations have, it seems, been

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quite calm possible. It also won everyone's lines, easing the Homs

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siege and whether Damascus will give a green light for UN convoys. Not

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yet, according to the Syrian opposition. The regime is saying

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that it is going to allow the convoys. There are 12 trucks at

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present waiting there for the regime to allow them in. But they are not

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allowed yet. We will judge the regime but what it does, not by what

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it says. From early on in this three-year conflict, Homs has been

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bombarded. According to activists, it is still being shelled daily.

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There have been efforts before to get blockades lifted to allow

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humanitarian aid in. A process of negotiation with the Syrian

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government has always been complex. And it is not clear whether the

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talks in Geneva are helping or hindering. Yesterday, the Syrian

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government announced women and children but not men were free to

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leave the city. But it's convoys, -- it is convoys the US wants to see go

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in, not an evacuation. Getting aid convoys into Homs was supposed to be

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an easy thing for President Assad to say yes two, a test of his

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co-operation. But if he does not agree and the political talks in

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Geneva this morning have run into deadlock, well, then hopes of early

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progress for the Syrian peace process may have been too ambitious.

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Richard Campbell, BBC News, Geneva. With less than two weeks to the

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winter Olympics, officials here are warning terrorist events are likely.

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The slopes of Sochi are ready for the games. Russia's show piece venue

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has been under preparation for years. But there is a problem. The

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militant group that carried out this attack last month has vowed to

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attack the games. A British assessment of the threat says

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attacks in Russia during the games are hily likely. But attacking the

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venue itself will not be easy. Sochi is at the western end of the

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caucuses, Russia's most volatile area. The main threat is from a

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group in Dagestan. But the Olympic venue has been under lock down for

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weeks and is flooded with security staff and there will be drones in

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the air and co-operation with America. The Olympic games

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themselves are probably going to be well protected. The security forces

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numbering in the 30,000s. So that is almost double what we saw in London

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at the UK Olympics. However, there is security around the games

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extending to a 65-mile perimeter. The groups intending to target it

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are more lightly to target other hubs around Russia. Airports,

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transport hubs. As we have seen before. Among those being sought by

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the Russians is this woman, one of several suspected suicide bombers.

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Dagestan, where the group is based has been racked by violence. But the

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group is at war with Russia, not the west. And there is no suggestion

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that British or other international teams will be targeted. With the

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winter Olympics only days away, Russian officials have played down

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talk of threats. They're promising the world a safe and secure games.

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It is now 18 minutes past 1. Our top story this lunchtime: Anger and

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criticism of the Government by those affected by the floods - the

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Environment Secretary visits the South West and promises action. And

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still to come: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr play together at the

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Grammy's - 50 years after they first performed in America.

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Later on BBC London: Part demonstration and part experiment -

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the new Royal Academy exhibition that insists on audience

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participation. And the gym that helps you get fit by doing good - we

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find out how it could be about to go nationwide.

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Police say more than 140 men have come forward to claim they were

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physically or sexually abused while being held at a young offenders

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institution in County Durham in the 1970s and 80s. Medomsley closed more

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than 20 years ago, but the scale of the abuse is only now becoming

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apparent. A BBC investigation has tracked down some of the men who

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were victims there. Our correspondent Danny Savage reports.

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Medomsley detention centre in the 1980s. At the time, the Conservative

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Government talked about a short, sharp shock for young law breakers.

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These will be no holiday camps. And I sincerely hope that those who

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attend them will not ever want to go back there. That translated into

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lots of military-style physical activity. But in the village in the

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hills of County Durham, there was also terrible physical and sexual

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abuse of inmates. Much of it at the hands of a prison officer called

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Neville Husband. He got ahold of me throat and pushed his body against

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me and he was telling me that, you know, you will do it, because you

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can just disappear. Nobody would care. You're just scum, you know? I

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could feel myself losing consciousness and the next thing I

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remember was him raping me. Ray was sent here for stealing biscuits.

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Many of the other inmates were also in for relatively minor crimes. At

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any time one around 70 young men were held here. But the detention

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centre closed in the late 1980s, but by that time many lives had been

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blighted by the brutality here. All efforts were made by the police to

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make sure that I did not make a complaint, I was threatened with

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re-arrest and to be sent back to Medomsley. I feel betrayed. I feel

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let down. And I'm angry. Ten years ago prison officer Neville Husband

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was jailed for abusing inmates. He would single out individuals and

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keep them back at the end of their duties. He has since died. But that

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wasn't the end of the police inquiry. It re-opened last year when

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more allegations were made by former prisoners. 143 men have now come

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forward to say they were physically or sexually abused at Medomsley

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detention centre. We have seen a huge amount of people that have come

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forward that have been physically assaulted. When they went to this

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place they were faced with what was effectively a brutal regime. New

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charges may now follow. 30 years on, the horror of what happened here is

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yet to fully emerge. David Cameron says the numbers of Romanians and

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Bulgarians since restrictions were lifted are at a reasonable level.

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But he said he shared the frustration of Tory MPs who want

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controls on migration extended. But he said there was nothing the

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government could do. Our correspondent is in Westminster for

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us. Before the restrictions working in the UK were lifted, there was

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much speculation about how many would come. We didn't have a figure

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then, we don't have a figure now. But David Cameron has given an

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indication, based on anecdotal evidence. He said he thinks the

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levels are reasonable. This is ahead of Thursday when the MPs will

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discuss immigration. A number of Conservatives have said they want to

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see the controls reinstated. David Cameron said that under EU laws he

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has done what he can, but he said in his view that when new EU countries

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join down the line there should be tougher controls. That is still some

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way off. This is about David Cameron wanting with the European elections

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looming to make sure he doesn't look weak on immigration, particularly in

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front of his MPs, but more crucially in front of voters. Thank you. TV

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chef Nigella Lawson will face no criminal charges after she told a

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court that she had taken drugs. Scotland Yard said there were

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serious public interest concerns about the message any prosecution

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would send to potential witnesses. A specialist team concluded that no

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further action would be taken. The jury in the trial of DJ Dave Lee

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Travis has been hearing evidence from police interviews, in which he

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said the stress caused by the allegations had made him cry at

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night. The 68-year-old denies 13 charges dating back to 1976. Our

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correspondent is at Southwark Crown Court with more. The jury heard that

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in the interviews, Dave Lee Travis told police about the toll this

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investigation was taking on his life. He said he had no means of

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earning money. He said his wife had had breast cancer and he had to sell

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his house to cover his legal fees. He said that he was ruined. Although

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used a different word to that. The police heard from the last of the

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women who says that he assaulted her. This was a journalist who went

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to interview him in 2005 and she said he put his hand on her shoulder

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and ran it down her back and repsed his hand -- rested his hand on her

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bottom. She said I thought it was sleazy and inappropriate. She said

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she fell embarrassed for himself and for him. Now Dave Lee Travis will be

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going into the witness box this afternoon to begin the defence case.

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He now will be answering his accusers and he is pleading not

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guilty to all the charges. Thank you. Conservationists at Chester Zoo

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have developed an unusual way to keep track of critically endangered

:25:14.:25:17.

frogs - by making them glow. The researchers inject the tiny

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creatures with harmless strips of fluorescent silicon and plan to use

:25:20.:25:23.

the method to try to work out how to conserve them. Our science reporter

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Victoria Gill has been to the zoo to watch the very delicate procedure

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carried out. Stars of the music industry have been in Los Angeles,

:25:52.:25:54.

for the biggest night in the music calendar - the Grammy Awards. The

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two surviving members of The Beatles - Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr -

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received a lifetime achievement award and played together, 50 years

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after they first performed in America. But the night also turned

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into the big day for 33 couples as Madonna led a mass wedding ceremony

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in a celebration of gay marriage. Alastair Leithead was at the awards

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ceremony in Los Angeles and his report contains flash photography.

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Music royalty always make a big show of it at the Grammys. Pink in red.

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Katie Perry in white. Dance music and country sharing the same red

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carpet. It's the music industry's Oscars, their biggest night of year.

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Yes, it is about awards, but it is also about putting on a great live

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show with some of music's biggest names. And it was a great show.

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Music's power couple - Beyonce and Jay-Z - singing together to open the

:26:33.:26:39.

night. Then a show-stopper from Katie Perry - being burnt at the

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stake! And Pink singing while performing a trapeze act with a bit

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of audience participation. As for the prizes, it was the night of the

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robots. Stevie Wonder sang with Daft Punk. The French duo won best pop

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group, record of the year and album of the year. The robot would like to

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thank. Speaking for them Pharrell Williams, who won four Grammies,

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including best music producer. France is really proud. And it was

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also an amazing night for Lord. The 17-year-old New Zealander won song

:27:23.:27:25.

of the year for Royal and best performance. Then there was the

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much-talked about reunion of Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. A

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lifetime achievement award for the Beatles, 50 years after they first

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played America. And best rock song for Sir Paul's Cut Me Some Slack.

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The best newcomer was Macklemore and Lewis with the anthem of a huge

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shift in American society over same sex marriage. We are gathered here

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to celebrate... And a mass wedding to show Grammy support. Gay and

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straight, old and young and who else would be the wedding singer, but

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Madonna? Well another British star to be honoured for their lifetime's

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work is Dame Helen Mirren - who's to be given the British Academy of Film

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and Television Arts' highest award - the Bafta fellowship. Dame Helen's

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career, which has included critically-acclaimed roles in Prime

:28:32.:28:33.

Suspect and The Madness Of King George, has seen her win four

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BAFTAs. BAFTA described her as one of the most outstanding actresses of

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her generation. Time for a look at the weather, here's Susan Powell. We

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have seen a lot of showers today, plenty more to come tonight and on

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into tomorrow. And they're rattling in on a fair old wind. A deep area

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of low pressure has been feeding the showers into us. This is the radar

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image. If you look, you can make out the showers coming in in bands, so

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some areas are not seeing much wet weather and other areas are picking

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up a real soaking. The yellow triangle in eastern Scotland is

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because we are concerned with showers this afternoon and into

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tomorrow and Wednesday. There could be some issues with localised

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flooding. There will be some decent sunny spells between the showers

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today, particularly the further east you are. A lot of showers in the

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south coast, getting driven inland on the wind and into western Wales.

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The wind stays keen tonight and so more showers packing in. A soggy

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story in many areas. But it will be a milder night. Still cold enough to

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the north for the risk of icy stretches on roads in Scotland.

:29:59.:30:05.

First thing tomorrow, more yellow triangles, still in eastern Scotland

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concern and further south as the showers band across southern England

:30:10.:30:13.

we could see some localised flooding. We have seen how

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vulnerable the situation is in the Somerset levels. You can almost make

:30:17.:30:21.

out the lines of showers. But they should be interspersed with

:30:22.:30:27.

sunshine. If we leave the winds you can see how western Scotland is more

:30:28.:30:34.

sheltered from the showers as they rattled across the British Isles. It

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will take something to shift them and that is the low pressure sinking

:30:40.:30:43.

south on Wednesday. Then the weather becomes quieter, but we start to

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open the flood gates for air from the east and that is a cold

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direction and Wednesday is chilly and with some rain on Thursday. More

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cloud and maybe some snow in the east. But you will struggle to hide

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from the easterly wind. This week, average temperatures blustery with

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showers and from the middle of week turning colder. Now a reminder of

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our top story this lunchtime: Criticism of the Government by those

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affected by the floods. The Environment Secretary visits the

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South West and promises action. That's all from us - now on BBC

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