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300 staff to rebuild the track at Dawlish in Devon, where a section of

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sea wall had collapsed. The prime minister has just told rail workers

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here that they have completed a Herculean task, but what is the

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long-term future of this route? Also this lunchtime: A new phase in

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the search for the missing Malaysian airliner - underwater locators are

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used to try to track signals from the plane's black box.

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More violence in Afghanistan ahead of this weekend's election, as two

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veteran journalists are shot - one is killed, the other injured.

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Sweeping changes to the way bailiffs collect debt are due to come into

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force. And 18 months after the end of the

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London 2012 games, the Olympic Park is set to reopen to the public.

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Later on BBC London: As the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park opens, what

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difference will it make to Stratford?

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And government inspectors ARE appointed to examine fraud claims at

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Tower Hamlets council. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News at One. This was the scene back in February, when winter storms

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destroyed the main railway line to the south-west of England at Dawlish

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in Devon. But eight weeks and ?35 million later, the line has

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reopened, thanks to a team of 300 workers who've been working

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round-the-clock to get the work done. And this time, engineers say

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it should last for around 200 years. Well, our correspondent, Jon Kay,

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was on the first train to pass through Dawlish, and we can join him

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now. It is not often that you film at a

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railway station and all you see are smiling faces and all you hear are

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positive comments from passengers, but that is what it has been like

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here today, such is the level of relief and gratitude that this line

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has reopened. As you say, it has only taken eight weeks to do a

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massive construction job, but for people affected by this line being

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closed, it has been a long eight weeks.

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The 5.34 from Exeter to Dawlish this morning, the first train to travel

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this route in two months. Not many passengers, but for bleary eyed

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commuters, it is still a big day. It is great for tourism. It is a scenic

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stretch of line, and it is important the business, both for Exeter, the

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south-west, Devon and Cornwall. I know you have the roads and other

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forms of transport, but the railway is the main link. You will not see

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much this morning. Not at the moment. We slow down and go past the

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section that collapsed, now rebuilt and reopen. Hard to believe this was

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how it looked eight weeks ago. The main line in and out of the West

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Country was hanging in midair. Since then, hundreds of engineers have

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worked around the clock, often in terrible conditions, filling the gap

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with thousands of tonnes of concrete and reinforcing the embankment. It

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is only when you look at the Victorian sea wall that you realise

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exactly what has happened here. There is a section which is modern,

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made of new materials. This is the bit that gave way and fell apart.

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But it has been bolstered, and they say it is now stronger than when

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Brunel built it in the 1800 's. From the other side, you can see the

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shipping containers filled with rocks that have been used to protect

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the site from the tide. How much of a challenge has it been to get to

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this stage? It has been commended challenge. We have had landslips and

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650 metres of track to replace. But we are proud of the achievements of

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the whole industry. For a region that relies on visitors, the

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reopened railway sends out an important message, especially coming

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just before the crucial Easter holiday season. We are back on the

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map. We are back in business. That is what is really important to us.

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Fantastic! Very happy. Among the first passengers to arrive, the

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prime minister. He came to say thank you to the engineers known here as

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the Orange army. It has been a Herculean effort. 56 days and 56

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nights, 10,000 tonnes of concrete, 150 tonnes of deal, a huge task

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carried out not only on time, but before time, so thank you for that.

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There are still questions about the long-term viability of this line,

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but today, they are only thinking about the job done. One idea is

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whether it is time to move this line inland, to a space where it might be

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safer for the future if coastal erosion continues to be a problem.

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The man who runs the Eden Project told the BBC today that he think

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some of the money being put aside for HS2 for other parts of Britain

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should be spent on updating the infrastructure in the south-west. So

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job done for now, but the future is yet to be sorted. Search teams have

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begun using underwater locators to hunt for the black box of Malaysia

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Airlines flight MH370. It's a race against time, as the batteries which

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send out a signal are due to run out any day. The plane, which

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disappeared on March eighth, is believed to have crashed in the

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southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board. In a moment, we'll

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get the latest from Perth in Western Australia, from where the search is

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being co-ordinated. But first, here's our transport correspondent,

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Richard Westcott. After a fruitless month looking for

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the missing plane, searchers have begun listening for it, too. Beneath

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the waves, two ships are using special kit to try to hear distress

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signals from the plane's black boxes, but they have got their work

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cut out. The sea bed in that part of the world is like an underwater

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alps, 4.5km deep and with 2.5 kilometre-high mountains. That is

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the kind of terrain that hides its secrets. And this is what

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investigators are after, the black boxes that solve this puzzle. They

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will tell us what the aircraft was doing and what the crew were saying

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on board. But how to find them? Well, this piece of American kit,

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shaped like a stingray, will lead the search. It is called a TOAD

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pinger locator, but think of it as an underwater microphone, tuned to

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hear signals from the black box locator beacons. A Royal Navy

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nuclear submarine is also combing the area, listening for the same

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tell-tale pings. They might get lucky, but it is a long shot. The

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pinger batteries run out in a few days, and they will be listening

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across an area the size of Britain. There is other high-tech kit on

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stand-by as well. This underwater vehicle swims up and down, mapping

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the sea bed, but they will not start using it until they find a piece of

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the actual plane. So they have got the best tools available to find

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this airliner, but that does not mean it will work. They had the same

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state-of-the-art technology five years ago to find the black boxes

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from a French airliner that had crashed into the Atlantic. For a

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month, they trawled the area, listening for signals, without

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realising they even went over the wreckage. Yet they heard nothing.

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The company that eventually helped find that plane told me why. In

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hindsight after the wreckage was discovered, it was revealed that

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both pingers had failed. So it was similar to the situation we face now

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with flight MH370. We have no information on where the wreckage

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could be on the ocean bottom. And in this case, it is an area 20 times

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the size of the area we were dealing with with the Air France flight. So

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the search enters a new phase, but the reality is, if they don't find a

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clue soon, they may never find the aircraft. Richard Westcott, BBC

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News. Our World Affairs Correspondent Jon Donnison is in

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Perth now. Jon, what hope of this latest search providing results in

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what is now a race against time? Well, they are not giving up, but I

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don't think there is much hope. We spent the day on a US search plane,

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the P8 Poseidon. It is as sophisticated as it gets in terms of

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search technology. We were in the air for about eight hours, two hours

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over the search zone. We covered around 10,000 square miles, and in

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the words of the pilot, we saw absolutely nothing but ocean. We

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were skimming over the ocean at about 1000 feet, peering out of the

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windows. Much of the search was being done with the naked eye, and

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it requires a lot of concentration. It is tedious and exhausting work.

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There have now been more than 100 search flights, and there has been

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no breakthrough whatsoever. There is obviously a huge human cost to the

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families and also a financial one. One expert told us the eventual

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search operation, if the plane is recovered, could cost as much as

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$500 million. There's been more violence in the

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run-up to this weekend's presidential election in

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Afghanistan. A photographer has been killed and a reporter injured after

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a police officer opened fire on their car. Let's speak to our

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correspondent in Kabul, David Loyn. David, this is the latest in a

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number of killings ahead of the elections. What happened? It was an

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apparently unprovoked attack on the two journalists by a police officer.

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They were in a convoy going towards polling stations to watch

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preparations for tomorrow's election. A police officer came up

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to their vehicle and shot the two, Cathy Gannon, a highly experienced

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journalist, who lived and worked in this region of 30 years and has

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written books about Pakistan and Afghanistan. She was shot and

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injured. We understand she is in a stable is issued and is now in a US

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hospital. But her colic, Anja Niedringhaus, a well-known

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photojournalist, was shot in the head and died instantly. She was one

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of the nicest people on the road and a very good photographer. She

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covered conflict all the way back to Bosnia through Iraq and Libya and so

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on. She was also a good sports photographer. There was no war that

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could stop her going to Wimbledon. This terrible news has shocked the

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press community. Both of them were very well-known. I knew them both

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myself. It reminds us of the potential violence around this

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election over the weekend. There are some 400,000 Afghan and

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international troops protecting the election process, the largest

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military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban. Going

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out this morning in Kabul, we were stopped frequently at police

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checkpoints, and all gates to the city are closed down as this huge

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security presence tries to protect this very important aquatic moment

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for Afghanistan. New rules come into force this weekend which will

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radically change the way bailiffs can collect debts. It means they'll

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no longer be able to enter homes at night or use physical force against

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debtors, or take away essential household items. Here's our legal

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affairs correspondent, Clive Coleman.

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It is painful looking at the money I have paid. After she sold her camper

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van, the new owner got a congestion charge fine and two parking tickets.

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Despite being able to show but the charges occurred after she had sold

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the van, the bailiffs pursued her. That was when I knew I was in

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trouble here. All the evidence they had first requested, they then

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dismissed, and three times, they said they had not received it

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through the post, so I started recording delivery, again expense I

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don't have. It is that kind of had practised that the government wants

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to stamp out. The new law will ban the use of force against debtors,

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stop bailiffs from visiting homes at night and from entering properties

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where only children are at home. Bailiffs will not be allowed to take

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essential household items such as washing machines and fridges, and

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they will have to give courts information on their means of entry

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and the amount of force required for a warrant is granted. Lawrence works

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for a reputable enforcement company which welcomes the new law. There

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will be a bit more admin involved and quite a bit more regulation,

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mode but the upside is that there will be more carrot for debtors and

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enforcement companies alike. It will be good all round. Citizens Advice

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Bureau said they deal with around 1000 bailiffs problems a week. They

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say it is time the bailiffs to put their houses in order, and if the

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new law makes them do that, there should be a sharp fall in

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complaints. If it was my fine, fair enough. Fewer people experiencing

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the kind of heavy-handed behaviour that Spike Watson has had to put up

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with. There's been better news for the UK's high streets today after a

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survey found that most of the big name shops that closed over the past

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five years have now been re-let. The survey by the accountancy firm

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Deloitte also found that the high street was outperforming retail

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parks and shopping centres when it came to filling empty shops. Our

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business correspondent, Emma Simpson, reports from

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Weston-super-Mare. It's got all the trappings of a

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traditional seaside town. In recent years, Weston-super-Mare has been

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battling against the tide. But it's not all gloom. Take Woolie's, the

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first big collapse. It is now home to Poundland. Then there is

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Blockbuster, now a supermarket. TJ Hughes was a department store chain.

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Things are finally changing here, too. In days gone by, this was a

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prime destination for shoppers, its rapid demise another blow for the

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town. The store has been sitting empty for two years, but it's now

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got a new owner. The top floors could eventually be transformed into

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new flats. Perhaps there will be a bit of retail down here once more.

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This is one big, empty property that is about to get a new lease of life,

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like many others. New research shows that out of nearly 6000 shops

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affected by the biggest administrations of the last five

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years, just 20% of them on the high street remain vacant. That vacancy

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rate goes up to 29% shopping centres, and it goes higher still

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for shops on retail parks. The high street has recovered far greater

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than we thought it would partly due to the fact that there are

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convenience shops for the consumer, be that pound shops, discounters or

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of course, the supermarkets. That is what has been happening here in

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Weston-super-Mare, a high street that is reacting to our changing

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shopping habits. There are loads of food shops, and there are lots of

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banks and clothes, but there is not much variety for young girls. You go

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into town to get the odd gift, cards, go to the bank and some

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toiletries. Like many others, this town has still got a long way to go.

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There are plenty of empty shops off the main high street, and these may

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not be so easy to fill. Emma Simpson, BBC News,

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Weston-super-Mare. David Cameron has again defended the Culture Secretary

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Maria Miller who has been criticised for her 32nd apology to the Commons

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yesterday over her failure to cooperate into an enquiry into her

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expenses. Mr Cameron said she had apologised for her mistakes and

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people should leave it there. The problem is, people are not leaving

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it there, are they? They are not, what started as a row about her

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expenses and her attitude to the enquiry has expanded into a row

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involving Downing Street and pressed regulation.

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Let me begin with the expenses claims, a committee of MPs cleared

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Maria Miller of funding a home for her family at the expense of the

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taxpayers but they called her to pay back ?60,000, ?40,000 less than a

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senior party official suggested she should be paying back, leading to a

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furious reaction by the press who said she had been let off lightly.

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But Maria Miller as Culture Secretary is in charge of a strict

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form of press regulation which was going to be introduced following the

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Leveson enquiry so a lot of the press do not like that and they do

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not like her. Former allegations were made by the former editor of

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the Daily Telegraph who repeated claims that Downing Street had asked

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him not to run the story about Maria Miller, which got a furious response

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from Craig Oliver, director of communications, who said, there is

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no threat in anyway over Leveson, best regulation. Tony Gallagher, the

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former editor of the Daily Telegraph, is talking rubbish about

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me. Where does this leave Maria Miller? She still retains a Prime

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Minister 's support and having a row with the press might threaten her

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job as Culture Secretary but David Cameron still wants women around the

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table of his Cabinet, so I believe her job is safe and the Prime

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Minister believes she has apologised for what she was initially

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criticised for by that committee of MPs.

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Our top story this lunchtime: The main railway line into the South

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West of England has re-opened, after being badly damaged in last winter's

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storms. And I am at Aintree, where we have

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60,000 fans for ladies day, and tomorrow, it is the Grand National.

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Later, tackling young offenders with mental health needs, a new scheme on

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shoes the capital. And Tom Daley 's new coach on her move from the

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States to the aquatic centre. The London 2012 Olympics might seem

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like a distant memory, but from this weekend, anyone can re-live those

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heady days of summer, with a visit to the newly re-opened and re-named

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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The regeneration of the area was one of

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the central planks of the Olympic bid and today, Prince Harry and

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London's Mayor, Boris Johnson, got a chance to see the attractions. Our

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correspondent, Sarah Campbell, was there too. Sarah.

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This view became so iconic in 2012 but after that, effectively, the

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gates to this part were padlocked and almost ?300 million have been

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spent getting it ready for the public hash this park. Prince Harry

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and Boris Johnson got a sneak review this morning and they seemed to

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enjoy it. Chance for royalty and the to seem -- to see the transformation

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of the Olympic Park, meet some of those behind it and try out the

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facilities. A slightly reluctant Prince was

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persuaded by local schoolchildren to test the new playground. Boris

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Johnson needed no persuading to give the rope bridge a go. Was it as good

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as you expected or better? Better, that is what she wanted to

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hear! It was fantastic anyway but the amount of money that has been

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spent on the creativity, it has brought to life and the public get

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chance to come here. The kids obviously adore it.

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Both men clearly had a lot of fun today but they also have personal

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interests here. Rinse Harry has chosen this is the venue for his pet

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project, the Invicta is games, and for Boris Johnson, the long-term

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success of the Olympics will be judged on legacy.

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The new park is bigger than Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens combined

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so bikes will come in handy. If Boris can do it, anybody can do

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it! This charity provides specially adapted mobility cycles, as

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demonstrated by His Royal Highness. Avoiding the interactive water

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fountains. It looks far better than even I dreamt and judging by the

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reaction of the kids, it is going to be a success.

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From tomorrow, the gates to London 's newest and largest park will be

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open to everybody. Not so long ago, this area was

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basically wasteland. The hope is now it will become a focus for local

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groups, national events and for people who simply wants to come back

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and relive those summer 2012 memories. -- wants to come back.

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Police officers in London say they are living in a "culture of fear"

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because of the "draconian" use of performance targets. The Police

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Federation surveyed 250 officers and found officers felt under a

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"constant threat" because of what it called "meaningless" and

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"unrealistic" targets. Here is our home affairs correspondent, Tom

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Symonds. When it comes to setting targets for

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the police, the government says it has just one, to cut crime.

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The country's biggest force, the Met, has insisted it has no policy

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of setting targets for arrests. And search. But today, the Police

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Federation is claiming hitting the numbers is a real pressure on

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members. This is the sort of e-mail the

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federation says is circulating among managers. It mentions targets will

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stop and search and how each officer is doing. This arrest rate is below

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10% which needs to improve and not be so reliant on drug searches.

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Another has a fantastic arrest rate but this has made zero arrests. So

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the federation says despite the official policy, there are unwritten

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targets which officers are pushed to meet. It is a culture where they

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stressed, pressurised, always, taken to misconduct procedures when they

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do not hit specific targets. It is write performance is measured but

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there are different ways of measurement. This report draws on

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the accounts of 250 officers out of 32,000, Scotland Yard said a local

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managers are setting targets, they should not be.

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We do not condone it, we recognise that in some places we need to do

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more to coach people to get the best from their teams, but broadly my

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officers do a great job to protect the public and officers -- and

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issues like this can be dealt with quickly and simply. Cut stone police

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officers have contributed to a climate of unrest among some

:24:32.:24:32.

officers. But today's report from London goes

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further, describing it as a climate of fear. -- cuts in police officers.

:24:39.:24:44.

The former Formula 1 racing champion Michael Schumacher has shown what

:24:45.:24:47.

his manager called "moments of consciousness and awakening". It is

:24:48.:24:50.

more than three months since he sustained severe head injuries

:24:51.:24:52.

during a skiing accident in the French Alps. In a statement, his

:24:53.:24:56.

manager said the 45-year-old was "making progress".

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England have beaten South Africa to reach a second successive Women's

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World Twenty20 final. They restricted South Africa to 101, then

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reached their target within 17 overs. They'll meet Australia in the

:25:09.:25:21.

final on Sunday. The BBC understands seven

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footballers arrested in connection with allegations of match

:25:25.:25:26.

spot-fixing are all players at Preston. And Barnsley. They are

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being questioned over allegations of bribery and money laundering. All

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deny any wrongdoing. Let's speak to our chief sports correspondent, Dan

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Roan, who is in Preston. Dan, what more can you tell us?

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Today, the National Crime Agency revealed they had made seven new

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arrests in connection with an investigation into alleged spot

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fixing, on top of B6, they had originally made in December. -- on

:25:52.:25:57.

top of the six they had originally made. Six players aged between 18

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and 30 play for Preston North End, one of the most gamers clubs, home

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to the legendary Sir Tom Finney whose statue is behind me at

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Deepdale. Those six players captain John Welsh, Keith Keane, Bailey

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Wright, David Buchanan, Ben Davies on loan at York city, Graham Cummins

:26:20.:26:24.

on loan at Rochdale. They have all told the club they are innocent and

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they have been released on bail and Preston have issued a statement

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saying they are disappointed the names have got into the public

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domain. Tomorrow will see the running of the

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world's most famous steeplechase. 40 horses will start the Grand National

:26:38.:26:40.

including current favourites Teaforthree and Monbeg you. Today,

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though, is Ladies' Day, where the interest in fashion almost matches

:26:45.:26:47.

the interest in the racing. Our correspondent Andy Swiss is in

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Aintree. A busy day then, Andy? That is right. The sun is peeking

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through the clouds at Aintree, good news for the 60,000 fans here.

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Tomorrow is all about the Grand National but today is where sport

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meets style. It is the annual running of racing 's fashion stakes.

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Ladies day at Aintree, when Liverpool concert finery and heads

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for the horses -- when Liverpool dons its finery.

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Where do your start -- where do you start? Your tan, your make-up, it

:27:28.:27:32.

takes a long time. You start with the town on Tuesday, the nails, the

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works in. -- the tanning. Could tomorrow also be a ladies day

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Chris DiMarco this is the favourite for the Grand National,

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Teaforthree, trained on the Pembrokeshire coast by Rebecca

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Curtis, hoping to become the third female trainer to win the National

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in six years. Everybody wants to win it because it is so hard, even with

:27:58.:28:01.

Teaforthree as favourite, you need a lot of luck, it is not just a trot

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round, it is a hard race. Others are going for the Royal

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connection. This is what it is like to ride Monbeg you, bought at an

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auction by accident by former England rugby star Mike Tindall.

:28:19.:28:23.

After sessions with his wife Zara Phillips, Monbeg you has become an

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unlikely contender. -- he has become. It was bought by accident

:28:32.:28:35.

trying to be involved in an auction that backfired. He has as good a

:28:36.:28:41.

chance as anybody else. He has beaten a lot of the others in the

:28:42.:28:45.

round, but it is the Grand National, the toughest race in the

:28:46.:28:49.

world. And the most unpredictable, 12

:28:50.:28:54.

months ago, it was outside Auroras Encore that stole the headlines and

:28:55.:28:58.

now once again the search is on for that winning combination. But the

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biggest hope here is for a safe Grand National.

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Last year, they introduced soft offences and the race was free of

:29:08.:29:14.

injuries and organisers will hope for a similar story. -- soft

:29:15.:29:18.

offences. Time for a look at the weather.

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For the next couple of days, cleaner Atlantic air is coming in, meaning

:29:25.:29:30.

less pollution. And some rain for many of us. A bit of rain heading

:29:31.:29:35.

across the northern part of Scotland, but it is clearing up

:29:36.:29:42.

further South. Another weather front is heading in from the Atlantic, but

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a lot of dry weather today. Sunny spells developing, especially in the

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West, but showers in Northern Ireland, Wales and the south-west.

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Not as warm as it has been recently but a pleasant day, 17, 18 degrees.

:29:57.:30:01.

This evening, right patchy rain from the West, it will not reach eastern

:30:02.:30:09.

areas but it could be a chilly night down the East coast of England.

:30:10.:30:16.

Further West, it is a mild night. Tomorrow, a lot of cloud around.

:30:17.:30:19.

That weak weather front will bring outbreaks of light rain to parts of

:30:20.:30:24.

Scotland, patchy and light further East. Across northern England,

:30:25.:30:29.

outbreaks of light rain but many places of avoiding them. Cloudy

:30:30.:30:34.

across the Midlands, a bit of sunshine to parts of East Anglia

:30:35.:30:39.

towards Kent. Generally cloudy skies through Southern counties of

:30:40.:30:43.

England. Outbreaks of patchy rain for Devon and Cornwall, a lot of low

:30:44.:30:49.

cloud and hill fog here as well, and fairly drizzly bursting across much

:30:50.:30:53.

of Wales. Across the Isle of Man, outbreaks of rain in the morning,

:30:54.:30:58.

and after a wet start in Northern Ireland, it will write an up and

:30:59.:31:03.

improve. This rain wellhead eastwards. -- it will brighten up. A

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breeze will come in from the South and the south-west and temperatures

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around 60 degrees, but they do better for the Northwest -- for the

:31:16.:31:20.

North East of England. If you are heading to Aintree, a chance of

:31:21.:31:24.

catching light showers but predominantly it will be dry and

:31:25.:31:28.

outbreaks of rain will be fairly light. Into Sunday, the next area of

:31:29.:31:33.

low pressure will in from the Atlantic, gathering pace. Quite a

:31:34.:31:41.

breezy day, outbreaks of rain and a bit cooler. I am not going on but at

:31:42.:31:45.

least the air quality is getting better.

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That is better. Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: The

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main railway line in and out of the south-west of England has reopened

:31:56.:32:00.

after being at Leeds damaged in last winter 's storms. That is all from

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