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Britain's membership of the EU. Ed Miliband says a future Labour

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government would only hold an in/out referendum if more powers were

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transferred to Brussels. From climate change to crime and

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terrorism to promoting democracy around the world, I believe Britain

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is stronger as part of the European Union. Also this lunchtime... It

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made a physical match with the door. Drama at the Oscar Pistorius trial

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as a forensic expert re-enacts how the athlete broke down the toilet

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door using a cricket bat. The hunt for Flight 370, the plane's last

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communication is revealed as the search area is expanded to cover

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27,000 nautical miles. The court of appeal rules that the publication of

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frank letters from Prince Charles to government ministers should not have

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been blocked. A man who spent 30 years on death row in America walks

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free after new evidence finally proves he wasn't even at the scene

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of the crime. And transformed. The Olympic champion Jessica Ennis helps

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unveil the new athletics track for the Commonwealth Games at Hampden

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Park Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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Later on BBC London: Talks over cheap ticket office closures are put

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on hold after the death of Bob Crow. The Olympic velodrome reopens as a

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new cycling centre. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News at One. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has effectively ruled

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out an automatic in/out vote on membership of the EU, if Labour wins

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the next election. In a speech this morning, he said the case for

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Britain's membership was overwhelming. But he said he would

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put EU membership to the vote if Brussels planned to transfer more

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power from the UK. The Prime Minister said the plan gave the

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British people no choice and only the Conservatives would guarantee a

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referendum. Here's Vicki Young. European elections are on the

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horizon. It has focus the minds of the three party leaders, trying to

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deal with the growing clamour for Britain to loosen its ties with the

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rest of the EU. Today the Labour leader argued the case for EU

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membership was overwhelming. Politicians had to address the

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gender in causes of public scepticism. A Labour government

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would introduce this safeguard. There will be no transfer of powers

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without an in/ out referendum, without a clear choice about whether

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Britain will stay in the EU. Housing does Mr Miller fans think this will

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happen? I believe it will be in the next Parliament. -- how soon does Mr

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Miliband think? He has been very reluctant to promise a referendum.

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He believes Britain should stay in the EU and thinks business is

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damaged by the uncertainty. He also knows a referendum is a very popular

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idea with voters. He is going to try and have it both ways. Where did the

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other parties now stand on holding and in/out EU referendum? The

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pro-European Liberal Democrats think of referendum should happen if more

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powers are transferred to Brussels. The Conservatives are committed to a

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vote in 2017. It is only the Conservative Party that has the

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courage to say we want reform in Europe and, at the end of the reform

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by the end of 2017, there will be out in /out referendum. It has been

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missed 40 years since voters last had a say on Britain 's relationship

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with Europe. Someone is firm commitment. Shoddy compromise is how

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one described his announcement. Business leaders are more sceptical.

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The more uncertainty we have, the greater opportunities for investment

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and business growth and driving the economy forward. The main parties

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are feeling the pressure from UKIP. Promises of random years down the

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track -- promises of a referendum years down the track may not be

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enough. Let's get more from our chief political correspondent,

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Norman Smith. This opens up a clear divide. We have seen Ed Miliband

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closing the door and the option of a future Labour government offering

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voters and EU referendum. He has left it tiny sliver of a crack open.

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He has been under huge pressure. He has come up with this carefully

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crafted formulation that there might be an EU referendum if more powers

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are transferred to Brussels. By the way, it is not very likely. He is

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not ruling one out or ruling one in. He is not saying yes or no. You

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could say, that is a very clever compromise. The real danger is it is

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seen as a fudge. Although it is clever as it keeps the party

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together, it means that voters at the next election when they ask

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Labour candidates, when I get the referendum under a Labour

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government, the answer has to be, well, it all depends. There have

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been dramatic scenes at the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. A forensics

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expert has been re-enacting how the Olympian broke down the toilet door

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with a cricket bat after he'd shot his girlfriend. The athlete denies

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murdering Reeva Steenkamp and says he fired through the door thinking

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she was an intruder. Andrew Harding is outside the court in Pretoria.

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This week we have heard about the terrible injuries of Reeva Steenkamp

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and the reckless character of Oscar Pistorius. Today we moved to the

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crime scene itself, the focus shifting to the bathroom and toilet

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where Reeva Steenkamp died. A forensic expert has been called to

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give evidence. In the courtroom itself, some rather theatrical

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re-enactments of what have happened. In court today, aid to war. The same

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one that Oscar this story shot through, killing Reeva Steenkamp. --

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a door. A forensics expert, who produced Oscar Pistorius 's cricket

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bat. It was used to smash down the door that night. At issue today, the

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marks left by the bat. It made a physical match with the door in this

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position. This man said it showed that Oscar this man said it showed

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that Oscar the stories must have been low-down, on his stumps and not

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the Olympic athletes insists he was wearing his blades. He had gone to

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put them on when he realised he had shot his girlfriend and not an

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intruder. Pistorius seemed relaxed, smiling earlier at one point when a

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witness seem to stumble. Then his lawyer sought to challenge the

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forensic expert. He got him to try and balance on his knees and hit the

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door at the same time. Are you losing your balance? I am. Not so

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easy. The forensic lawyer -- the lawyer said that the forensic expert

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was taken. He also got the expert to concede the parts of the damaged

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door were missing. Uses are gone and missing. -- pieces are gone and

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missing. The information I have, with the understanding I have, it is

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that the pieces are not available. For now, the toilet door remains the

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focus of this trial. It has just adjourned for the day. The defence

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has continued to hammer at the credibility of the police and the

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friends it teams. -- the forensic teams. You can watch updates of the

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Oscar Pistorius trial throughout the day on the BBC News channel There

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will also be a special programme with the key moments from today,

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that's this evening at 7:30pm. The last communication with the crew of

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the missing Malaysia airlines plane has been made public. Just minutes

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before it vanished, the crew responded to air-traffic control and

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there seemed to be no problems. Five days after the plane went missing,

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the search area now stretches across 27,000 nautical miles. From Kuala

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Lumpar, Jonathan Head sent this report. Nearly 40 planes and an even

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greater number of ships are into their big day of a massive search.

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They found no trace of the missing airliner. That is down to one thing.

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They have no idea where to look. The Malaysian authorities are under

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increasing pressure to be clearer about what they know. Today they

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came clean. They have almost no information. The flight disappeared

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from civilian radar early on Saturday morning. Military radar

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records showed an unidentified object hundreds of miles west of its

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flight path. That is it. There is a possibility -- we are not sure

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whether what we have found is the same aircraft. It is the total lack

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of information which is so painful. There is no news whatsoever. It has

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disappeared off the face of the earth. If we could just find some

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wreckage or something, it would be a help probably. What we have learned

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almost five days after the flight vanish must be of concern to the

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millions of passengers passing through this and other airports in

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the region. The authorities know almost nothing about what happened

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to the airliner and, in the search for it, they are just guessing. The

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Court of Appeal has ruled that letters written by Prince Charles to

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government ministers should be released. It said the Attorney

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General, Dominic Grieve, had acted unlawfully when he stopped them from

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being published. The Guardian newspaper has tried for nine years

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to have the letters released, using Freedom of Information legislation.

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Nicholas Witchell is with me. Do we know how many letters there are and

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how sensitive the information in them is? 27 letters written years

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ago in the Government of Tony Blair. They are potentially sensitive. The

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views of the prints were particularly frank. The letters

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contained his deeply held and private views. The Guardian has been

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fighting for years to have these brought into the public domain on

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the basis of public has the right to know whether the Prince does attempt

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to influence government policy. Dominic Grieve said it was part of

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his preparation to be monitored to be in touch with ministers. It is

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argued he has a duty and responsibility to reflect the views

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of people the prince meets and causes he encounters as he goes

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around the country, for example in flood hit areas. He wrote this with

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the expectation of privacy. It will now be for the Supreme Court to

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decide whether the letter should be published. It has been referred to

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the Supreme Court and they will have to decide. The jury at the trial of

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the publicist Max Clifford has been hearing how he invited a 15-year-old

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to his office and persuaded her to take off her bra after telling her

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she could be a star. The woman, who is now in her 50s, says she met him

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on a family holiday in Spain. Max Clifford is accused of 11 counts of

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indecent assault against seven women and girls. He denies all the

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charges. Richard Lister has been in court and joins me now. The women

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who has been on the stand for several hours this morning cannot be

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named for legal reasons. She has made four of the 11 indecent assault

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allegations against Max Clifford and she is an essential part of the case

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against him. Max Clifford arrived at court to hear some of the most

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serious accusations of the trial. From the dock he had the account of

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the women, concealed behind a screen, who had said he had sexually

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abused her multiple times since she was 15. She said she met him by

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chance in Tara Milli Naas. He told her parents she was very pretty and

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he could get her into promotional work. When she went to his offices,

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he said she made her strip from the waist up and suggested she could be

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the next Jodie Foster. She was unhappy and too ashamed to tell her

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parents what had happened. The woman told the court that Max Clifford had

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come to her family 's home several times in a yellow Jaguar. He took

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her out on the pretext of furthering her career. Instead, he drove around

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London, stopping after dark, to sexually assault her. She described

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sitting in the passenger seat of the car and said that Max Clifford was

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very aggressive, very rough. I did not say anything, I was at a loss. I

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did not know how to make it stop. I was frightened, very frightened. One

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thing the prosecution says, we can expect to hear more about later, is

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a letter allegedly written by the witness to Max Clifford, which the

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prosecution says was found in a bedside table at the house of Max

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Clifford. Our top story... Labour effectively rule out a referendum on

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Britain's membership of the EU, if it wins the next election. And still

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to come: Hamden Park is transformed. How to turn a football stadium into

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a Commonwealth Games athletics venue. Later on BBC London, the

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award-winning film inspired by the scriptwriters work inside Wandsworth

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prison. Plenty of spring sunshine. Will we have temperatures to match?

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It's 25 years now since three letters - www - changed the world we

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live in. Now the Briton who invented the world wide web - Sir Tim

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Berners-Lee - has told the BBC that more needs to be done to protect

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online privacy. His comments follow criticism that governments are

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increasingly using the internet to gather intelligence. He says the

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time may have come for an online bill of rights to protect users.

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Here's our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh.

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25 years ago, Sir Tim Berners-Lee thought up the world wide web.

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Initially created for a few scientists at the Centre for nuclear

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research, billions now use it to communicate, shop and socialise. The

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Web's creator is worried that is now his baby has grown up, it is taking

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a wrong turn. The web itself should be something you and I can use to

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communicate and just feel that you and I can indicating, without the

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feeling that we know somebody is looking our shoulder. People of the

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world have to be constantly aware, constantly looking out for it.

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Constantly making sure through action, protest, that it doesn't

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happen. The technology worked with is now a piece of history at the

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science Museum. This is the very computer that Tim Berners-Lee used

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to create the world's first website all those years ago. Back then, his

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intention was for the web to be a force for good, spreading

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information, knowledge and power to all. In recent years, he says the

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web has become subverted by what he describes as dark forces. There is

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particular concern about revelations by Edward Snowden. Of government

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spying on an unprecedented scale. Here, speaking to a packed audience

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in Texas just a few days ago. Certain once unnecessary online

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spying stopped. -- Sir Tim wants. Are we going to set up a bunch of

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values, something like a Magna Carta for the world wide web, to say,

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actually, it is so much part of our lives that it becomes on a level

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with human rights. Sir Tim has launched a campaign to stop

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governments and corporations hijacking a technology that he

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created to serve the public rather than spy on it.

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David Cameron has arrived in Israel for his first official visit as

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Prime Minister. He's just begun an address to the Israeli parliament -

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and later will also hold talks with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud

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Abbas. Let's speak to our deputy political editor, James Landale,

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who's in Tel Aviv. What is David Cameron hoping to achieve? On one

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level, to turn up and be here. He has been Prime Minister for four

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years and it is the first time he has come to Israel in office. I

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think it was becoming a slightly embarrassing fixture that Downing

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Street wanted to make happen. On a broader level, they want to inject a

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bit more diplomatic encouragement to a US led diplomatic process called

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the framework agreement. It is essentially an agreement where they

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are trying to get Israelis and Palestinians to sign up to, to have

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talks about talks, sometime in the future. David Cameron is the latest

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in a series of leaders to encouragement meant to that

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process. He is also here to try to boost trade links coming he doesn't

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go anywhere these days without a trade delegation and he will be

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trying to increase investment in high-technology companies in Israel

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and back in the UK, as well as trying to do more to encourage the

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economy in Palestinian territories. The Formula 1 champion, Michael

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Schumacher is showing some "small, encouraging signs" according to his

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family. They've issued an update about his condition, but say they

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have to remain patient. Doctors in France have been working to bring

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the seven-time champion out of a medically induced coma, after he

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suffered a severe head injury in a skiing accident last December.

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??NEWLIE The minimum wage is going up by 19 pence an hour - to ?6.50 -

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in October. The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, said the Government had

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accepted the recommendation of the Low Wage Commission for a 3% rise.

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Scotland's public finances went deeper into the red last year,

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according to the latest official estimate. The public spending

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deficit rose to more than ?12 billion pounds, partly as a result

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of a sharp fall in North Sea oil and gas revenues. Let's speak to our

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Scotland Correspondent, James Cook, who's in Edinburgh. This will fuel

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the arguments of anti-independence campaigners?

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It certainly shapes the battle ground. This document is the last

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snapshot of Scotland's economy that we will see before the referendum in

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September. It shows that Scotland went further into the red. Its

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deficit, the difference between the money it raises in taxes and the

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money it spends and invests, rose by ?3.5 billion in the last financial

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year. To compare it to the rest of the UK, it is a .3% of Scotland's

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GDP, as opposed to 7.3 percent of the UK deficit. This is partly

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because they fall in revenue from oil gas. The -- because of a fall.

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The big question is, what difference will it make to the debate on

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independence? Opponents say it is a nail in the coffin for independence

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and they say it proves an independent Scotland would have to

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raise taxes or cut spending. Alex Salmond says, no, it underlines the

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strength of Scotland's economy, because even with a big fall in oil

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and gas revenue, he says, Scotland is raising more tax per person than

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the UK average. This battle ground will be fiercely fought over.

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He was sentenced to death in 1984 for a murder he didn't commit. For

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the last 30 years, Glenn Ford has been on death row as one of the

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longest-serving death row inmates in US history. But now, at the age of

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64, he's finally free after new evidence implicated another man in

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the killing. Ben Moore has the story.

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Finally free from the shadow of death row. 64-year-old Glenn Ford

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walked free from Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison. His first

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thoughts of a life wasted behind bars. 30 years. 30 years of my

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life, that's not all of it. I can't go back and do anything that I

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should have been doing when I was 35, 38, 40, stuff like that. Glenn

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Ford was 33 when he was convicted of the shooting of a jeweller, Isadore

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Rozeman, in 1983. An all-white jury found him guilty and he was

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sentenced to die in the electric chair. Now the Louisiana Supreme

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Court has overturned the conviction on several grounds. Firstly, Mr Ford

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had an inexperienced defence team during the original trial. There was

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no eyewitness or murder weapon, and the main witness has admitted lying

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in her testament. Certainly, I feel bad for him and I am sorry it

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happened. Also, when you look at the case, everybody had good intentions.

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And it was a mistake. It is a wonderful day, we have been working

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on this for decades, literally. We hope it will be the first day for

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Glenn to start a new life. Mr Ford could now receive a quarter of $1

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million in compensation. Little redress, he says, for what he has

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missed. My son, when I left, was a baby, he's now a grown with a baby.

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For now, he has another fight. Starting his life again, 30 years

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too late. The British skier Jade Etherington

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has won her third medal of the Winter Paralympics with silver in

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the visually impaired slalom. The 23-year-old and her guide, Caroline

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Powell, led by half a second after the first run, but were beaten by

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the Russian team in the second round. Etherington has already won a

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silver in the downhill and a bronze in the super-G. It is best known as

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the home of Scottish football, but now Hampden Park has been

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transformed into one of the main venues for this summer's

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Commonwealth Games. Our Commonwealth Games reporter, Chris McClaughlin,

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now explains. There is flash photography.

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Just over three months ago, the diggers moved in, the pitch was

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ripped up and an ambitious project got underway, to turn a football

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stadium into an athletics track by raising the surface almost two

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metres. Today, the organisers turned to a very special guest for her seal

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of approval. Expecting her first child, she will be watching from

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home. It is great to come here and experience a bit of the Commonwealth

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Games before they start. Not being part of it this year. Feeling really

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good and looking forward to my personal year this year. What those

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watching at home will not be able to see is this, the magic ingredient

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behind the vamp of Hamdan. -- the revamp of Hampden Park. Thousands of

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stilts that support this new service. A massive change year, but

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not just at Hampden Park. In the East End of the city, in the shadow

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of the athletes village, the Commonwealth affect is being felt in

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local business. This printing firm, something of a regeneration success

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story in an area synonymous with social deprivation. We had tough

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times a year and a half ago and we managed to get through those. There

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was a great focus on redeveloped in the area which you kind of feel part

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of, for your own business to keep going, things are getting better.

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The Games have kick-started a plan with ambitious targets. Over 20

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years, organisers want 20,000 new jobs, 10,000 new homes and inward

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investment of ?1.5 billion. Some of the new homes are ready up in the

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form of the athletes village. Mo Farah and Usain Bolt could be

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bedding down here in July. After that, they go to the highest bidder.

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And the Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill joins me now from

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the athletes' village - what do you make of it all? Are you impressed?

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Definitely, it looks fantastic. We have had a walk around and a look at

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some of the bedrooms and where the dining will be. It looks really

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great. It is brand-new but feels really homely so it will be great

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once it is filled with athletes. It is a massive transformation for

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Hampden Park. It is. Just to see some of the footage of how it has

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transformed over the past few months, it is incredible. All of the

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work that has gone into it. It looks fantastic, the track is still to be

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late but it feels like an athletics arena. Once the crowd is in there,

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the atmosphere will be magical. We are not going to get to see you

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compete because you are pregnant, but I guess you will be able to sit

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back and enjoy it for once like the rest of us. Thank you for joining

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us. It's day two of the Cheltenham

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Festival and that means it's Ladies' Day. Tens of thousands of people are

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there to enjoy the racing - among them, the Duchess of Cornwall. But

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after an opening day which featured both sadness and excitement, the

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festival is looking for a new star horse today - as Joe Wilson reports

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from Cheltenham. By the stable doors, a Usain Bolt in

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horse terms. The sensational sprinter Sacre was supposed to start

:27:29.:27:31.

today, he is injured and without him it might seem a bit there. Not if

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you own a horse in the big race. It is an opportunity for a family-owned

:27:37.:27:43.

underdog in a millionaire sport. The breeder is not well-known, the

:27:44.:27:47.

trainer has only had one winner here, it is our first ever horse,

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the only one we have ever had. You combine those things and people say

:27:52.:27:55.

it can't happen. We hope that we can change the record books. Cheltenham

:27:56.:28:00.

also hopes for a safe race in the big race, following the death of Our

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Connor in yesterday's Champion hurdle. For many, that raise the

:28:07.:28:10.

ethical challenge of following and loving jump racing. In the view of

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leading jockey Ruby Walsh, welfare of the horse should be of secondary

:28:17.:28:20.

importance to that of the jockey. Others would not separate the two.

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It is a partnership between jockey and horse. We believe you must

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protect the horse as far as you can, you can't Jews risk to zero but you

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must House you can't reduce -- you can't reduce risk to zero.

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Cheltenham sex out to seek a broader audience. Part of the experience is

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that you arrive never knowing exactly what you will see. Through

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human or equine eyes. Time for a look at the weather.

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Here's Stav Danaos. High pressure is dominating the

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scenes so we are looking at scenes like this across the country. Gloria

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spells of near unbroken sunshine. Essentially it is dry for most areas

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-- glorious spells. It is not like this everywhere. Through central

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areas, particularly through the Midlands and in towards eastern

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Wales, we are plagued with fog and low cloud. It is thinning and

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burning to become patchy as we head into the middle part of the

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afternoon. A veil of cloud will bring outbreaks of rain to the

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Hebrides and at the far north-west of Scotland as we head into the

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latter part of the day # and perhaps the far north-west.

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Glorious sunshine for Northern Ireland. For much of England and

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Wales, too, albeit patchy cloud and fog in the -- lingering on. A nice,

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warm day to come across the South East. It is Ladies' Day at

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Cheltenham, it has been a chilly and grey start but where we get breaks,

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hopefully temperatures moving into double figures. It stays dry through

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the week for Gold cup day on Friday. A lovely end to the day, some

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glorious spells of sunshine. We will start to see thicker cloud, the

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breeze and rain pushing towards the north-west Scotland. The fog makes a

:30:14.:30:17.

comeback and it will be particularly dense by the end of the night

:30:18.:30:19.

through central, southern and eastern parts. Into tomorrow morning

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we will see thick fog around, it could be disruptive. Travelling into

:30:26.:30:31.

work, some of the roads could be treacherous and disruption to

:30:32.:30:34.

transport, particularly for the airports. Hopefully that fog should

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Badgley thin and burn through the course of the evening -- gradually

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thin and burn. There should be more sunshine. The North, north-west

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corner of Scotland seeing a week weather front so thick it cloud and

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outbreaks of rain. It will be light winds and temperature is creeping up

:30:55.:30:57.

into the mid-teens. On Friday, another pretty decent day, variable

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amounts of cloud, good spells of sunshine. The North being plagued by

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a weather front. Light winds for England and Wales. That is the

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weather front which has been producing the cloud and rain across

:31:13.:31:17.

the North of Scotland. It sinks south as we head into the weekend,

:31:18.:31:21.

introducing more cloud. The North of Scotland always sees a few outbreaks

:31:22.:31:25.

of rain but look how much sunshine there is through the weekend.

:31:26.:31:28.

Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: Ed Miliband has explained

:31:29.:31:37.

why he won't commit Labour to a referendum on Britain's

:31:38.:31:38.

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