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The ferry disaster - desperate attempts to find survivors off the

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coast of South Korea - nearly 300 people, most of them teenagers, are

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missing. More footage emerges of the scramble

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for safety as the ferry turned on its side - most of the missing are

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teenagers from the same school. Hundreds of divers are now searching

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the submerged ferry hoping to find survivors - as the captain is held

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by police. ??TRANSLATION: I am really sorry. I

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am deeply ashamed. I cannot put it into words.

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Also this lunchtime: Tough times at the Co-op as the group announces

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losses of ?2.5 billion - the worst in its 150-year history.

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Three pro-Russian activists are killed in a clash with Ukrainian

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forces as President Putin says he hopes he won't have to send in

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Russian troops. The lamb takeaway - more tests will

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be carried out after researchers find 40% of dishes tasted weren't

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lamb at all. Later on BBC London: Some GP

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surgeries say they face closure over funding cuts.

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And 30 years after the unsolved murder of police officer, Yvonne

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Fletcher, we speak to her colleague battling to find her killer.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC's News at One.

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Hundreds of divers are working around the clock trying to get

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inside the capsized South Korean ferry to look for survivors. But

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their efforts have been hampered by strong currents and bad visibility.

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Nine people have been confirmed dead but nearly 300 - most of them

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teenagers from the same school, are still missing. The captain, who's

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been questioned by police, has said he's "sorry and deeply ashamed" for

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what has happened. Our correspondent, Martin Patience, is

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on the nearby South Korean island of Jindo.

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Darkness fell here a couple of hours ago. Throughout the day, coastguards

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have been leaving the port. Some of them have been taking families of

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the missing to visit the site where this ferry sank, 20 kilometres away

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from here for the first time. The second day of this message

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search operation and the South Korean president visits the rescue

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scene. Teams of divers are still searching for survivors. Families

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are up out to visit the stricken ferry for the first time. Knowing

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their sons and daughters were on board, is too much for some. With no

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answers, frustration is mounting. Some of them lashing out at

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government officials. TRANSLATION: I was in the school

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from 7pm, but they repeated the same things. Nothing was new. The man at

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the helm is now under the spotlight. The captain apologised saying he was

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deeply ashamed. TRANSLATION: I am really sorry, I am

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deeply ashamed. I cannot put it into words.

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The rescuers are battling terrible weather conditions. One coastguard

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ship is just setting off to where the ferry has sunk. It will take

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them about an hour and a half to get there and it is carrying specialist

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diving equipment which will help in the rescue operation. Harrowing

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accounts at what happened just before it sank are beginning to

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emerge. Her distraught father wrote back

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urging her to try and get out. Now in hospital, this six-year-old

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was rescued from the ferry. But her parents and brother are still

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missing. She does not know. The search continues, but hope is

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fading. The families know hundreds of teenagers went down with the

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boat. Despite it being dark, the rescue

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operation will continue through the night. It is now more than 36 hours

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after this ferry sank and as time drags on, so that does hope of

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finding any survivors alive. The boss of the Co-op Group says

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they've had their most disastrous year in the group's 150-year history

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after announcing annual losses of ?2.5 billion. Most of the losses are

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a result of the crisis that engulfed the Co-op's banking arm. The huge

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losses could mean job losses but the Co-op says that is a last resort.

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Here's our personal finance correspondent, Simon Gompertz.

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All the Co-op's embroiled in what it calls its disaster, food, banking,

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's, pharmacies. Not just money, credibility, trust and strength have

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been stripped away. Blame is heaped on a cumbersome structure of

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members, regions and a board which did not know what it was doing.

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Right now, the business is in a fragile state where the government

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-- governance has let us down. That has to change. For anybody who

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doubts that, what I would say is, look at our results today. The

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bank, tainted by drugs charges yesterday against its former

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chairman, has turned into a financial millstone. The overall

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loss of 2.5 billion pounds reduced is -- reflects reduced food styles,

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it is mainly from the 2.1 billion so far from the crisis at the bank,

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plus a hit from Somerfield supermarkets taken over a while ago.

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The group was built on cooperating and saving money than found itself

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with bosses who could not work together and lost a fortune. But

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there is suspicion ethical principles and control by members

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could be sidelined. I am not convinced there is democracy at the

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top and the accountability at the top. I think in two or three years'

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time it will settle down to a board that appoints itself, North Korean

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almost. I don't want that. That is a worry in the Co-op's Manchester

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heartland. I think they have lost their way and I think they tried to

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grow when the it was not the right time. They should get back to their

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core values. It is an immoral way to run a bank and run services. But

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there was a warning that jobs could be lost, so a union supports union

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to save jobs. We think this is the right time for the regional boards,

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the independent societies to focus on what is needed to secure the

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future of the Co-op. That is reform at the highest level. This is one of

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hundreds of convenience cause the Co-op is in the process of opening

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this year. But behind-the-scenes there is a battle going on for the

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soul of the Co-op, the new management saying they remain true

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to the old ideals, but some members worrying those ideals could he

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jumped. In the meantime, up for sale to raise cash, the Co-op's Farms and

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its pharmacies. Let's get more on the Co-op losses

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from our Business Editor Kamal Ahmed.

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A disastrous year, possible job cuts? What now for the Co-op? Much

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predict did these losses, but very grim news. Richard Penny Cook, who I

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spoke to earlier, who is the chief executive, is trying to give an

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inspirational message. The Co-op is not open fundamentally, it will not

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become extinct. He is trying to say there is a role for a Co-op style

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business in the future in Britain. But it has got to reform the way it

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is run and it needs to cut costs. The issue around costs is going to

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affect the 90,000 people who work for the Co-op. Richard Penny Cook

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said to me they could understand inside he, but without cost cuts,

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they want to put it up to 300 million. Jobs would be the last

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resort, but they are on the table. Three pro-Russian activists have

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been killed by Ukrainian forces as they tried to storm a base in

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Eastern Ukraine. The Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he

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hopes he won't have to use what he called his "right" to send Russian

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troops into Ukraine. During a phone-in this morning President

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Putin denied Russia was involved in the recent protests. But he admitted

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for the first time that Russian forces had been active in Crimea.

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Duncan Crawford reports from eastern Ukraine.

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Night-time clashes. Pro-Russian separatists throwing petrol bombs

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into a Ukrainian National Guard base. Troops inside fire shots.

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Around a dozen people are injured, at least one received treatment for

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a stomach wound. The interior ministry says three people died.

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They are the first deaths to be acknowledged by the authorities in

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Kiev since this so-called anti-terrorist operation began.

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TRANSLATION: the commander of this base is responsible. He did not

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agree with our attempts to negotiate. He accused us of being

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terrorists and after, the shooting started.

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In Kiev, a different version. TRANSLATION: terrorists attempted to

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storm the base and their aim is to seize weapons and military

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vehicles. 63 have been arrested. Angry crowds surrounded armoured

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vehicles yesterday. Here, a woman blocks one. The Ukrainian

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government's attempts to reassert some control in eastern Ukraine

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looks to be in tatters. In Moscow today, Russians had the

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chance to phone resident Putin live on television. He told viewers Kiev

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was responsible for the chaos in Ukraine.

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TRANSLATION: they moved tanks against the civilian population. It

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is another, very serious crime of the current rulers of Ukraine. The

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diplomatic focus has shifted to Geneva and negotiations between the

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US, EU, Ukraine and Russia. The US is threatening more sanctions

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against Russia, which it blames for the rest. Which is something it

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denies. Hopes of a breakthrough are slim. In done yet is, government

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buildings remain under control of the protests and they say they are

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not going anywhere. The leaders in Kiev seem to be in an impossible

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position, to fight a battle they probably cannot win or to give into

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Russian demands. Our diplomatic correspondent,

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Bridget Kendall, is here. President Putin saying this morning

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he has a right to send Russian troops into Ukraine, how worrying is

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this? We knew that, he went to the Russian parliament weeks ago to ask

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for the right to go in to another country across the border. The fact

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he repeated it today is interesting. All along he has said there needs to

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be a diplomatic solution to this crisis. But there he is saying, as a

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last resort if there is no diplomatic crisis, we have troops

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across the border and I consider that I have the right to send them

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in. He was using tough language. Again, he thinks the government is

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illegitimate, and they are staring into the abyss. If this carries on

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Russia won't recognise the presidential elections which will

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happen in Ukraine next month. Although he was trying to be

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statesman-like and reassuring, underneath it all, there was a line

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of hostility and suspicion towards the West. He said, not only was the

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Russian troops in Crimea last month, but also one of the reasons

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Russia felt it had to take over Crimea, not just because it was what

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the local people wanted, but he thinks NATO would have squeezed them

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out of the Black Sea. He is trying to sound reasonable but underneath

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it, steel. They are playing down talks in Geneva of any breakthrough?

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It cannot be Russia, the US and EU who can reach a deal. It is only the

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Ukrainians. The government in Kiev has to talk to the people who

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represent them in the East. Rush wants to see federalisation so they

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have more control and have closer relations with Russia. It wants

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guarantees. The best that could be hope for out of these talks in

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Geneva, is they won't walk away and said there is no point.

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Our top story this lunchtime: Nearly 300 people, most of them teenagers

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from the same school are missing after a ferry capsized on the South

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Korean coast. Still to come on the second day of

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their Australian tour, William and Kate here survivors from -- stories

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from survivors in last year's bushfires.

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On BBC London. Scientists in the capital turn two babies to

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understand more about ADHD. And from Paris, the craze for

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Lovelock 's is spreading to London streets.

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Now what's really in your lamb takeaway? You may well wonder after

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researchers decided to take a closer look and found that a third of the

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lamb takeaways they checked contained a different meat. The

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Foods Standards Agency found that 43 out of 145 samples contained meat

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like chicken or beef - with some containing no lamb whatsoever. Some

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of the meat was even listed as "unidentifiable". More tests are now

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going to be carried out as Sian Lloyd reports. it is fast,

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convenient food, but they are under scrutiny. Which? Focused on

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restaurants in Birmingham and London. It found cases where cheaper

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meats were sometimes substituted. The Food Standards Agency says its

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own testing has revealed similar findings. This is about individual

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businesses doing things that they shouldn't be and this problem is not

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new. It has been around for some time. We have been continuing to

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tackle the issue with local authorities and we will do more of

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that. The Which? Survey tested 60 lamb takeaway meals. 24 also

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contained beef and chicken. In seven cases, no lamb was found. The

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consumer watchdog says that people should be able to have trust in the

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food that they buy, but a year after the horse meat scandal in some cases

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public confidence in meat is being tested again. With what has recently

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happened, with the meat scandal is, I am not surprised. If you buy

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something, you should get what you pay for. People will try to get away

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with something if they can, if they can sell something else that will go

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undetected they perhaps will. Regular testing is carried out by

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councils across the country. In this lab in Birmingham, environmental

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health officers are checking that food has been labelled correctly.

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Businesses found to be smooth -- businesses found to be misleading

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customers can be fined up to ?5,000. If you are substituting an expensive

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products for a lower-priced product in a reasonable percentage amount,

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that is fraud. The trading standards Institute says that budgets to

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detect food fraud have been cut, but in the wake of the recent findings

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the Food Standards Agency says another round of testing will be

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carried out. 45-year-old lorry driver has been

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arrested in connection with a crash which killed a 16-year-old girl and

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22-year-old woman, both from France, on the M26 in Kent yesterday.

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Hundreds of motorists were stranded in traffic for several hours. Police

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fully reopened the road to traffic at 4am this morning.

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A memorial service has been held to mark the 30th anniversary of the

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murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot dead during a protest at

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the Libyan Embassy. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard

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Hogan-Howe was joined by WPC Fletcher's family, colleagues and

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friends, laying tributes at the Memorial. No one has ever been

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brought to justice for killing WPC Fletcher.

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Voting is under way in the biggest day so far of India's marathon

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general election. Today, around 200 million voters are going to the

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polls in 12 states. The main challenger to English -- India's

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ruling party is the Hindu nationalist BJP. Some joy mid-June

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and reports from Rajasthan. -- Sanjoy Majumder reports.

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A helping hand to enable her to enter the polling station. She's one

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of the many who streamed in steadily to cast their vote. This is the most

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significant day of polling and every vote counts in what is turning out

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to be a bitterly-fought election. The voters are in an unforgiving

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mood. TRANSLATION: India should progress. We should get rid of

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corruption, so that the poor and middle classes get a chance to move

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forward. ?? CYAN TRANSLATION: Make things cheaper. Everything is

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becoming so expensive. We are finding it harder to manage. This

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building is more than 100 years old. It is one of the city's oldest

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schools and has now been converted into a polling station. You can see

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the number of women who have turned out to vote today. It's something

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we've seen in earlier periods of these elections as well - large

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turnouts, many women voters as well. It usually means that they are

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trying to send a strong message. Wherever we go they say the same

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thing. They are fed up with the politicians. 100 km from Jaipur,

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they are focused on the elections too. This is a village. The pace of

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life here hasn't changed here much over the years and it has seen

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hardly any development. In the village square the elders tell me

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they only see the politicians during election time. TRANSLATION: There

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are no jobs here. Delhi is 250-300 km away and Mumbai is even further.

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It is too far for our children to go looking for work. TRANSLATION: The

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politicians just lie to us all the time. In ten years, no one has built

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a school or a hospital. People here have been left out of India's

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progress. But they are hungry for change. This is the one time they

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can push for it. Around 200 new drivers a week are

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losing their licence within two years of passing their test, because

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they have managed to clock up six penalty points. Figures given to BBC

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Radio One's Newsbeat showed the most common cause was driving without

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insurance. Declan Harvey reports. Should we go for a drive? Chris

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could not wait to get on the road once he had passed his test but he

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did not quite read the small print of his insurance policy. My car had

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broken down, so I borrowed my dad's car. We checked the policy. Assumed

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it said because the driver, the policyholder, was a drag -- allowed

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to drive another car, it it extended to me. On the way home I came up to

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a roundabout, the person in front hesitated and we bumped. I went to

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court, they were happy at was an accident and I didn't do it

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deliberately. The least they could give me was six points. Chris was

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not insured. He received six points and had to retake his test. A

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Freedom of information request by Newsbeat revealed that in 2012, the

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latest year for which figures are available, almost 11,000 new drivers

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have their licenses revoked whilst still in their probation period.

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Perhaps surprisingly only a timely proportion works as a result of

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driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. 8% were driving

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without due care and attention. 20% were speeding, but more than half

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were called -- caught driving without insurance. That is down to

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advances in technology. Basically, those people who are driving

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uninsured are being identified in a much better way, so they are not on

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the central database, it shows they are insured, they will face severe

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ramifications. Since 2010 the number of licences being revoked has

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dropped 13%. Depending on who you speak to, some say that is because

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there are fewer cars on the UK's roads. Others suggest that a drop in

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the number of dedicated traffic police means that enforcement has

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fallen. Then there is also the theory that perhaps safety messages

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are finally starting to get through to new drivers. Chris says the

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experience and inconvenience of having his licence revoked made him

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the safer driver. Cardiff City's lawyers have asked

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the Premier League to declare their 3-0 defeat to Crystal Palace earlier

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this month null and void. The club, facing a relegation battle, says

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Palace knew their starting line-up at least 24 hours before the game in

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breach of Premier League rules. I am joined by our sports editor, David

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Bond. This is the match on the 5th of April. Explain what has happened.

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That is right, the two teams met in a crucial relegation encounter on

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April the face. Crystal Palace won the Game 3-0. In the days afterwards

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allegations began to emerge that Cardiff, the team for that match,

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their starting 11, had been leaked to Crystal Palace 24 hours at least

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for the game was played. Now, that is a breach of Premier League

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rules, which states the two team sheets are exchanged just one hour

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before kick-off. The Premier League have now been asked to investigate

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those claims by Crystal Palace. They have lodged -- by Cardiff, excuse

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me, they have lodged a formal complaint which they are looking

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into. They are trying to look into whether there is a case to answer.

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Cardiff are taking it seriously. Is it likely that Cardiff will get

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their way? The big question is how much does knowing the team really

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influence the outcome of the match. There is a feeling in football this

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sort of thing goes on all the time, that officials are always trying to

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find out the opposing team beforehand and will it have a

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material impact? Cardiff say that it did affect and did give Crystal

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Palace in their competitive advantage and they want the match,

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the result of the match, to be struck out. That could have huge

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implications for the rest of the season, for the relegation battle.

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It is a difficult one for the Premier League to have to deal with.

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On the second day of their Australia to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

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have visited the Blue Mountains, and our's drive from Sydney. They met

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survivors of last October's bushfires, the worst decade.

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Nicholas Witchell reports from Australia.

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To be a successful Royal you must be a good listener. People want to tell

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you their stories. On their first full day in Australia, William and

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Catherine went to a town in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Last

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October it was severely damaged by some of the worst bushfires in

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recent years. Nearly 200 homes were destroyed. William and Catherine

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talked to some of the people who had lost their homes. Their presence was

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appreciated. For them to come out, you know, all this way to say hello,

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to my children and us and say we're sorry this happened to you - it

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means an awful lot. They were lovely and warm. I got a kiss from Kate.

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They are going to come back to my house and have a cup of tea when it

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is rebuilt. They met some of the firefighters who struggled for days

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to contain the fires and heard their stories. And then something else you

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encounter a lot. People singing songs in your honour. This time it

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was the Girl Guides, singing for someone they regarded as a princess.

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Sightseeing next at a place called Echo Point and one of those moments

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when a couple try to take in the scenery and enjoy a brief moment of

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tranquillity. Some hope. Over there, two people watching the view. Over

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there, countless hundreds of people watching them watching the view. And

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of course everyone wants their own photo. These days the jackpot is a

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selfie with one of them. There weren't so many of those today, but

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for some a patient wait was rewarded with a brief chat. A moment when

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it's best not to come over all bashful but to keep your head.

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Talking of which, here is the Prince peering over a cliff. Just as well

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he kept his. The Queen have carried out her

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traditional Easter duty of distributing Maundy money, head of

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the Easter weekend. Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh at Blackburn

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Cathedral, the Queen distributed coins during the annual service,

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which dates back more than 800 years. She gave the coins to 88 men

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and 88 women, one for each of her 88 years.

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Let's have a look at the weather now and Easter weekend is coming up. It

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has been gorgeous recently. Will it last?

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Snow is more likely at Easter than it is at Christmas full stop angrily

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that particular weather factor has got nothing to do with the forecast

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for this Easter, though we are going to be getting some rain later in the

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weekend for some of us, not all. We will look at that in a moment.

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First, what we have now. If you are making an early getaway for the long

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weekend there is more cloud streaming south across the UK,

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compared with recent days. Despite the cloud, a lot of dry weather

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around. Where you have got sunshine across southern areas it will cloud

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over this afternoon but where you had the clouds so far today across

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the north, you will be getting brighter. Lots of contrast. We will

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take a look at things at 4pm. Sunny skies pushing south across

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Scotland. The odd shower in the north, where it feels cold in the

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brisk wind. Northern Ireland and northern England eventually

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brightening up although there will be a few showers around. For the

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rest of England and Wales, much cloudier compared to yesterday.

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Where there is some sunshine hanging on across southern areas of the

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cloud will increase that at the moment we have reached 18 Celsius in

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Kent. The odd shower of East Anglia and south-east England for a time

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this evening. They will push away southwards. The story through the

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night is just how cold it is going to become under clear skies, with

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the wind easing. You can see a frosty blue, northern England

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northwards. Some will be at or below freezing to give a frost as Good

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Friday begins. Elsewhere, a ground frost developing. For the Easter

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weekend, lots of fine weather for Friday and Saturday but then change,

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especially for England and Wales with rain coming in Sunday onwards.

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This is tomorrow. Good Friday. I have mentioned the Colts start. Lots

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of sunshine to come. A dry day for most. Across northern areas feeling

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warmer despite the sunshine in the south it will feel cooler and quite

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a brisk breeze along the east coast, particularly across East

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Anglia and the south-east, pegging the temperature back. A chilly start

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on Saturday. Plenty more fine weather to come. An outside chance

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of a shower in eastern England. Some rain into the far north-west of

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Scotland. So far, so good. Until we get to Sunday. Easter Day and this

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beast comes in. I developing area of low pressure. South-east England

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looks like getting the rain first on Sunday. A strengthening wind. It

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will feel colder, a grotty day with heavy rain. Some uncertainty about

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how far it will get, we will keep you updated. Scotland and Northern

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Ireland on Sunday, and other dry day. Easter Monday in Northern

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Ireland and western Scotland, it could stay dry again. Elsewhere,

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unsettled. A stiff easterly breeze. A lot of cloud and showers on Easter

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Monday. And east of two halves. Becoming more unsettled as we get

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towards the end of it and we will keep you updated throughout at the

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BBC weather online. BBC weather

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A reminder of our main story. Nearly 300 people, most of them teenagers

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from the same school, are still missing after a ferry capsized off

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the South Korean coast, but bad weather is hampering the search for

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survivors. Nine people have been confirmed dead. The captain is being

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held by police. There will be plenty more on that throughout the

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afternoon on the BBC News

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