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Not out of the woods yet, as latest housing and inflation

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figures suggest there's still pressure on the UK economy.

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Inflation rose for the first time in 10 months.

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Houses prices were up too in the year to March, in London by 17%.

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We'll be assessing what those figures tell us about the state

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More than 150,000 people sign an online petition calling on US

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coastguards to resume its search for four missing British sailors.

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They say they've done everything they can.

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Profits at Marks and Spencer fall for the third year

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in a row, but the company says it's made solid progress.

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The military in Thailand imposes martial law amid a political crisis.

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They say it's to preserve law and order and is not a coup.

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Success for the e-cig, new research shows smokers who use

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A woman dying of cervical cancer sues the hospital that

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And Camden's stallholders wait to see if their businesses have

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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The economy may be recovering, but two bits of news today showed that

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Figures for house prices showed they were still going up rapidly,

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particularly in London and the South East, confirming fears

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expressed only a few days ago by the governor of the Bank of England.

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And today's small increase in inflation, the first

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in ten months, showed the squeeze on incomes is far from over.

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Here's our economics correspondent, Simon Jack.

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The price of goods and services rose at an annual rate of 1.8% in April,

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a slight rise on last month and ahead of annual wage increases which

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are running at 1.7%. The timing of Easter helped push the price of some

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things, like air fares and holidays, up that little bit more.

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But the picture remains the same, wages are still struggling to keep

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pace with prices, especially if you take out the value of bonuses, which

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few people get, what most of us take home in our wallets is still buying

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a little bit less. That certainly rings true for this family having a

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birthday lunch in Surrey. I am aware that the pension doesn't quite spend

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as much, because the basics, heating and this sort of thing, they are

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going up. The main things I notice our day-to-day items, shopping,

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petrol. Although pay rises are small, there are signs we feel more

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confident spending what we do in, according to Natasha, who has worked

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in this pub for several years. Compare to the last few years,

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customers have maybe been a little bit better. But I think it's a long

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way to go to catch up from what happened a few years ago. I think we

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have a bit of a climb to get back up to feeling well off again. But

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customers have been tipping slightly better. Nowhere is the confidence

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more evident than in the housing market, particularly in Sunderland

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and -- London and south-east. There are calls for action to prevent

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overheating. A number of things can be done. The Government could modify

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the help to buy scheme. That is allowing people relatively low

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incomes to borrow more. The other thing that the Bank of England could

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do is put pressure on the High Street banks to lend less to people

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that are a bit more financially vulnerable. Although up over the

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year, prices actually fell in March for the first time in 12 months,

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signs perhaps that new stricter rules on mortgage lending are

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beginning to have an effect. It may be too early to tell if it is

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slowing down or just pausing for breath.

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Norman Smith is in Westminster. There are concerns about the housing

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market, I suppose the question is what the Government will do about

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it? That is the big question, house prices are politically critical. How

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many times have we been here before, one a recovering economy has been

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derailed when the housing bubble bursts? This time, a slightly

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different situation, insofar as responsibility of what to do is

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being passed off to the Governor of the Bank of England. It's an extent

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it seems something of a hospital pass. He cannot magic up new homes,

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is constrained on interest rates because of the impact on the

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economy. He can tinker with help to buy, but it is only a small part of

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the market. When you talk to ministers, they seem to be of the

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view that it is not a UK problem, it is a London problem. They point out

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that outside of London, house prices only went up by 4%. They are still

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15% below their pre-crash peak. If the governor agrees, it may be that

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when he comes forward with recommendations next month, these

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may be measures not to dampen down the housing market in the UK, but to

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dampen down the housing market in London.

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And if you want to know where you can afford to live you can use the

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BBC's house calculator on the website at bbc.co.uk/news.

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More than 150,000 people have now signed an online petition urging

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the US Coastguard to resume the search for four British yachtsmen

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Efforts to find them were called off after a two day

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The Foreign Office says the US Coastguard had assured them they

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did everything they could and would have done exactly

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The experienced sailors were last in contact on Friday

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after their boat, the Cheeky Rafiki, began taking on water.

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Duncan Kennedy joins us now from Southampton.

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Well, Simon, the numbers of people signing the petition you spoke of

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our going up and up. A short time ago it was, as you said, more than

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150,000. It is not just people in the yachting world, it is a wider

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world that has been caught up in the story. What we are told by everyone

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we speak to us that they are not questioning the professionalism of

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the US Coast Guard, they are saying this is a basic human plea, please,

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please, stop this search again. -- start.

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These are the dramatic new pictures from the Atlantic on the same day

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the Cheeki Rafiki went missing. But this is not the British yacht, it is

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a French one in trouble, in roughly the same area, south of Cape Cod.

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The American Coast Guard says by the time the Cheeki Rafiki sent out the

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distress call, the wind was stronger and the seas were higher. Four

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British men, Andrew Bridge, James Male, Paul Goslin and Steve Warren,

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used electronic beacons to raise the alarm. That did lead to a Coast

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Guard search for the vessel lasting 50 hours. It was called off on

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Sunday. The Foreign Office today said the US Coast Guard had assured

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us that they did everything they could and they would have done

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exactly the same for US citizens. 150,000 people, the support has got

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quite big. Vast numbers of people in the yachting world disagree. Clubs

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like this one in Southampton have been leading a massive online

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campaign to push for a new search. We are such a sailing nation that

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everybody knows somebody who is a sailor.

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everybody knows somebody who is a agree with what the sailors think

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and they want more people out there searching. Extraordinary rescues at

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sea are possible. 27 years ago, Tony Bullimore survived five days

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clinging to his upturned yacht in the treacherous Southern Ocean. He

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says the Americans should rethink their decision. The crew are all

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pretty fit, experienced guys. They have the right equipment, a good

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life raft, life jackets and the other equipment that goes with them.

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They could well and truly be out there waiting for somebody to rescue

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them. It is a view shared by Susan, who took part in the same race that

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the missing men had been in. Since Sunday, nobody has been looking for

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them. That is the frustration. Every hour that passes, we are wasting

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time. The US Coast Guard has rescued people for more than 200 years. It

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knows its business. With these men unaccounted for, it is facing police

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to search again. The reality is that it has been five

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days since these men were last heard of. Unless there is an organised

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search, the chances of another passing ship coming along and

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finding anything are getting more and more remove, which is why we are

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here this lunchtime that some members of the families of the men

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wanted the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to get involved. The truth

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is, the window of hope and the of opportunity is narrowing with every

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hour. The trial of Rolf Harris has been

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hearing from the fourth and final alleged victim, who has

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waived her right to anonymity. Tonya Lee told

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the court how he allegedly assaulted The former entertainer is charged

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with 12 counts of indecent assault, Sangita Myska is

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at Southwark crown court. What has the court been hearing this

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morning? That's right, as you say, we have been hearing from Tonya Lee,

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Rolf Harris's for alleged victim. She is now 43. We can name her

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because she has waived her right to anonymity, because she has given a

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series of paid interviews about her story in Australia. She told the

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court that in 1986 she was 15 years old. She flew to London from Sydney

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with an Australian theatre group. Altogether there were 14 or 15

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people, including three adults. She says when they arrived at Heathrow

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Airport, she was met, along with the others, by Rolf Harris because he

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was a friend of the director. She said that they went to dinner at a

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London pub, busy with other people. She said it was a happy atmosphere

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and they had been singing and making jokes. She said, one point, Rolf

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Harris beckoned her over to sit on his knee and she didn't think

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anything of it because he was such a well-known face on television, both

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here and in Australia. She went on to say it was then that he carried

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out his first alleged indecent assault by putting his hand up her

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skirt. She said she was frightened and went to the toilet to get away,

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but when she came out Rolf Harris was standing outside. She said he

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then gave her a bear hug. During that time, he indecently assaulted

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her one more time by putting his hand down her blouse. She said she

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was very frightened and confused but did not tell anyone because she felt

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she would not be believed. The case continues. Rolf Harris denies all of

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the charges against him. Marks and Spencer's annual profits

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have fallen The retailer's underlying profits

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were down 3.9%, to ?623 million. Its Chief Executive, Mark Bolland,

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said the food part of the business had grown,

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but sales of general merchandise Our business correspondent

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Emma Simpson reports. The clothes look nice and sunny. But

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the same cannot be said for Marks Spencer's profits. Although food is

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doing well, it has been another year of disappointing sales in women's

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fashion. I think that they have not moved as far as it needs to move. It

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hasn't met its key targets in profits or sales. It is actually, if

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anything, falling backwards in terms of market share. The main thrust of

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the problem as it has not got to grips with its womenswear business.

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Getting this bit right is crucial for M It has been revamping

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clothes and stores to try and get women's fashion back on track. After

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several years of declining sales, it is taking time. M have injected

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more fashion content into their ranges. You can see that in their

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stores. It is definitely an improvement, but there is still a

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long way to go in order to really meet customer needs. M has spent

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?1 billion in the last three years trying to revitalise the business.

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For instance, it is heavily promoting its new look website right

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now. The question is, when will all of this investment start to pay off?

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The company says it is now in much better shape to produce stronger

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returns. But it warns that sales could be hit over the next few

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months as customers get used to the new website. But in retail it all

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comes down to the product and whether shoppers want to buy.

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Opinion is still mixed. I like Marks Opinion is still mixed. I like Marks

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Spencer 's and I go there a lot. But it's not as good as it used to

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be. I think they have far too much stuff in there. The price and

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quality, it does actually make sense, you know? You get quality for

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your money. I usually have a lot to see if there is anything, but I can

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never find anything. M says that progress is being made, but with all

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of this investment in place it knows it really needs to deliver.

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Thailand's army has declared martial law, it says to restore order

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after six months of street protests that have left the country without

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The military have denied that this was a de-facto coup

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and have called for talks between the rival political factions.

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Jonah Fisher, our correspondent in Bangkok, has just sent this report.

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After seven months of demonstrations on the streets of the capital, the

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Army decided it had seen enough. In the early hours of this morning,

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troops moved in, blocking Bangkok streets, surrounding protest sites

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and occupying television stations. The army commander, General Prayuth,

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declared that martial law had been introduced, to prevents Billy Bragg

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reprint bloodshed and restore stability. He stopped short of

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announcing a coup. But the military is now firmly in charge and the

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status of the elected government is a vague. It is not clear what forced

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the Army's hand. But as the protests have dragged on, they have become

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ever more violent and unpredictable. This week, the leader

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of the anti-government movement called for a final battle in what

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has become an increasingly desperate attempt to seize power. Many of his

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supporters are wealthy Bangkok residents and they see politics as

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having been hopelessly corrupted by the former feminist, Thaksin

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Shinawatra. Two weeks ago, the court forced his sister to step down. But

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the protests have continued. Much will now depend on how the

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government's supporters, for now camped outside Bangkok, respond to

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the Army's move. For now, there is an almost eerie calm here. Many

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soldiers have returned to barracks. On the surface at least, this is a

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very discreet form of martial law. Having decided to step in, the onus

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is now on the military to broker some kind of way out of Thailand's

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political crisis. the first time in ten months. House

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prices were up to in the year to March in London by 17%.

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And still to come: Unwrapping the secrets of the Egyptian mummies. New

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scans reveal details never seen before.

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Later on BBC London, 70 years on from the Normandy landings, D-Day

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veterans mark the anniversary on HMS Belfast.

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And, why the Science Museum's Denman Horn is making waves again.

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No-one who fought in the First World War is alive today and children of

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today are unlikely to have ever met someone who lived during the Great

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War. So, making a personal connection to the past can be hard,

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but from today, the Government will pay for two children from every

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secondary school in England to visit battlefield sites in Belgium and

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France. It's hoped it will give them a

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deeper understanding of the conflict and they'll share their knowledge

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when they come home. Robert Hall accompanied students on

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one of the first tours. Under the great arch of the Menin

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Gate. The British children who're standard

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bearers for their schools and their communities.

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I'm going to be around over the next couple of days helping you get the

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most from this battlefield tour. Over the next four years, 8,000

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children will share an experience which offers remembrance but above

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all, a deeper understanding. The aim is to convince every student that

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the story of a is to convince every student that

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connect with. is to convince every student that

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I think seeing like actual pictures and finding out through this

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everything about them kind of gives more than a 3D effect of who they

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were. It's going to bring it alive to them so much more and make them

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more in tune with their community and locality and hopefully give them

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even more of a passion for history. The following morning, they were

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travelling across the Belgian battlefields. I want to talk briefly

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about the third Battle of Ypres. It's easy to be overwhelmed by the

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11,000 white gravestones which line the slopes of the cemetery. But

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these visitors have a focus. Sam and Regan have tracked down one

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man who's also commemorated on their local war memorial.

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This was 100 years ago. A couple of years, we could be going off to war

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as well. It's almost scary in a way that this could have been us.

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14-year-old Charlotte has that this could have been us.

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that her great great uncle lies in that this could have been us.

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another cemetery close by. A century on, she

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another cemetery close by. A century behalf of his family.

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It was a bit emotional, but yes, I just wanted to just say a little

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prayer in my head and yes. I think it's really important

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prayer in my head and yes. I think it's really because again, you feel

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a connection to the people that are here and I guess it's another

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opportunity because these people when their family passes, they won't

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get to have people visit their graves.

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In the going down of the sun and in the morn

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them. These young people will share them. These young people will share

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their experiences and knowledge back home, bringing history alive for

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their class mates and families. Their journey does not end when the

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bugles fade. The Prime Minister has welcomed the

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conviction in the United States of the radical preacher, Abu Hamza, but

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David Cameron's promised to review the lengthy extradition system if he

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wins the next general election. The radical Muslim cleric faces a

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possible life sentence after being found guilty of supporting terrorism

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by a court in New York. Our Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner joins

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me now. It's been a very lengthy process,

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and much of the evidence on which he was convicted came from this country

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in the first place, so why wasn't he convicted here? I put exactly that

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question today to the Crown Prosecution Service because the main

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thing he was convicted for in the States in this court was his role in

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the kidnapping of 16 western tourists by a very ruthless armed

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gang back in 1998. As you rightly say, he wasn't convicted of that in

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the UK, he was convicted of that in the US of incitement to murder. On

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two separate occasions they say they tried to bring the case against him.

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They worked with senior prosecutors and officers to bring the case

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against him and they decided they simply didn't have enough evidence.

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They say there were things used in the US court against him that would

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not have been admissible in the UK. They won't say what they were, but

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one of the things that was instrumental in this was the

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satellite phone that he supplied to the kidnappers and he spoke to the

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kidnappers during the ordeal of the 16 western hostages. That's one of

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the things that appears post appears to have gone for him in this case.

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New research suggests using electronic cigarettes does help

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people give up smoking. A study of around 6,000 e-cigarette smokers in

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England found the success race was around 60% higher than those who

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used will power alone, nicotine patches or even gum. Here is Branwen

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jetries. Suddenly you see them everywhere. E-cigarettes are easy to

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buy over-the-counter, but how good are they at helping you give up?

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Some health experts say they are helping make cigarettes seem normal.

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They worry it could encourage smoking to linger as a habit. But

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this research suggests that right now, they may be making a

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difference. Smoking rates are coming down, the

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rates at which people are trying to stop smoking are going up, the rates

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at which people are succeeding at stopping smoking is going up, the

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proportion of people using e-cigarettes who've never smoked is

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extremely low. This research on quitting smoking

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looked at different methods. More than 5,800 smokers were asked about

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their experience. It found e-cigarettes were 61% better than

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will power alone or than buying nicotine patches over-the-counter.

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NHS Stop Smoking Services which also offers support worked best. What it

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doesn't tell us is whether e-cids help people stay a non-smoker. We

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are reasonably confident that in what we know about the rate of

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relapse when people have stopped for a given length of time that any

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benefits that we have observed now will probably continue.

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The amount of nicotine in e-cids varies greatly. As a commercial

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product, there's no set standard. Critics want to see them more

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tightly regulated. The Police Federation meets today

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with the Annual Conference dominated by the row over allegations of

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bullying. The BBC has been told about new claims that a senior

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official was bullied at a federation meeting. Let's go to Bournemouth and

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speak to our Home Affairs correspondent, Matt Prodger.

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Mat. That's just the latest allegation of

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bullying within the Police Federation. It's actually been

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dismissed by the federation itself and indeed the alleged victim of

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that particular bullying claim, the vice chairman of the organisation,

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Steve White, has said he's not a bully. But it contributes to the

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perception of an organisation that's been out of control and

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unaccountable. Indeed, it was described today as crude and

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disrespectful, not by an MP, not by a Government, but by one of the men

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who's hoping to lead this federation at the end of this conference, a man

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called Will Richards, saying they had been crude and disrespectful,

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they made enemies in Government when they should have been looking for

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friends and that they had targeted individuals, a reference there to

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plebgate back in 2012 when Andrew Mitchell, the Government minister,

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was forced out of the Government and there was Police Federation

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involvement there. Now, there's been a couple of reviews since then, both

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stinging in their criticism of the federation, not just bullying, but

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scrutiny of its finances and a need for greater accountability. So

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that's what the delegates here will be voting on over coming days, a

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wide-ranging reform, most of which will go through, some may not. What

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we can say is that, after this conference, the Police Federation

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which represents 125,000 officers in England and Wales, is unlikely to be

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the same again. Be Thank you. The Premier League's

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Chief Executive, Richard skewed me, remains under pressure today as the

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FA's PROBLEM WITH SOUND

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He was told yesterday by the Premier League that he won't face

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disciplinary action over the messages which were leaked to a

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newspaper. It said that although the e-mails included inappropriate

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remarks, there was no evidence of wider discriminatory attitudes. Our

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sports correspondent, Nat Liz Perks reports.

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-- Natalie Perks. The backing of his 17 clubs. The process that kept

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Richard Scudamore in his job has left the Premier League open to

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criticism with the PA who exposed derogatory e-mails describing it as

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a whitewash. The Premier League hired external legal advisers to

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help clubs reach a decision, but campaign group Kick It Out believes

:25:51.:25:53.

a more independent inquiry was needed.

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We could have had a proper process that was fair, independent and

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objective, probably arrived at the same conclusion, but most people

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would have felt there was justice in the way in which it was conducted.

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We now need to see that addressed in future, that there is a proper

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process, one that most people believe applied to everyone. Greg

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Dyke maintained taking action against Scudamore was outstied FA's

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remit. The BBC understands legal advice sent to the likes of Heather

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Rabbatts, chair of the inclusion and viery board which meets later this

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afternoon, argues there is no law stopping the governing boaty from

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taking the matter further. It's a move that would be welcomed. Women

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in football have never called for him to resign or lose his job, it's

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about demonstrating that all the messages that come out of football

:26:44.:26:46.

about equality that women are important are going to be put into

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action. The Premier League insists Scudamore has the full support of

:26:50.:26:53.

the women who work for him and remains committed to sub porting

:26:54.:26:56.

women in the game. -- supporting women in the game.

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Four thousands of years, their identities have remain add mystery,

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now researchers at the museum can reveal body scans in unprecedented

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detail, meaning for the first time scientists can tell their age, what

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they ate and even how they died. Pallab gauche reports.

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An ancient burial casket that's never been opened since it was

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sealed thousands of years ago. Very soon, researchers will be able to

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see the woman inside. This is how we used to see mummies,

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entombed in their burial caskets. The CT scans enable us to see right

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through the casket and even through the bandages.

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Here is the body of a 40-year-old woman, buried with her precious

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amlets, it's the first time that has been seen for 4,000 years.

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And this mummy is of a young girl, seven or eight years old. Even her

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hair has been preserved. On an emotional level, you become

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closer to these people, you start to recognise them as individuals who

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once lived just like ourselves. The enbalmers often got it wrong.

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This man's head fell off when he was being mummified. It had to be stuck

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back on with poles, shown in green. The aim of the study is to learn

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more about the people underneath the bandages, and, in a sense, bring the

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mummies back to life. Let's have a look at the weather

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with Phil Avery. Pretty cheery and fair for some

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parts of the British Isles. There's got to be a but. There is a notion

:28:45.:28:50.

about thunder storms in the afternoon. We have been here, as was

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coo the case yesterday, the south-west seen much of the action,

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it's on its way across the Bristol channel now. As you see, as the

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afternoon progresses, it isn't just going to be there. I suspect we are

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seeing the first signs of the showers beginning to develop

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elsewhere. Remember the headline, some could be thundery in nature if

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circumstances come together. The south-west of England for the most

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part, you have had your turn, but in this belt away from central and

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southern parts of Wales, this belt away from central and

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the Midlands and north of England, parts of East Anglia, here the rain

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could develop during the course of the afternoon. A lull in proceedings

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for Northern Ireland after a wet morning, northern England too at

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this stage fine and dry. Don't discount the possibility where the

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heat's broken through across the north of Scotland, 22 in one or two

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spots here, that we may find one or two thunder storms popping off.

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Before this arc of potential, and I do stress potential, thunder storm

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activity and heavy downpours works its way across the northern half to

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reside across the north-west on a night that will be a tad fresher

:29:55.:29:57.

than was the case during the course of last night. Mist and fog around,

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perhaps across the south-east, maybe Wales and the south-west. Murky

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across the north-east and the Northern Isles tomorrow. A sandwich,

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if you like. Rain across the far north-west, a lot of dry weather and

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rain coming out through East Anglia and the south-east and France. As

:30:13.:30:15.

the heat gets going again, we may pop off some showers across southern

:30:16.:30:20.

England, through the Midlands, one or two spray ones further north. The

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prospects for Chelsea. I was pessimistic about Tuesday and

:30:25.:30:26.

Wednesday. Wednesday looks half decent. A different beast on

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Thursday though, and near again, we are looking away towards the south.

:30:31.:30:36.

Warmth and moisture again. The Met Office already have concerns about

:30:37.:30:39.

the intensity of the rainfall.ivity could be, and again it is a bit of a

:30:40.:30:42.

could, across Wales and the south-west, we could see 40mm of

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rain and then that rain drives towards the central goal finish off

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the day, something cooler again across the northern parts of

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Scotland. Come Friday, much of that rain will be confined to the borders

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area of Scotland, maybe the odd drib and drab in the south-west. A lot of

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dry weather elsewhere and the temperatures very pleasant indeed,

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maxing at about 20 or so. Lots going on. Back again tomorrow to bring you

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the very latest. Thank you very much.

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Now a reminder of the top story: Inflation has risen for the first

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time in ten months. House prices were up too in the year to March in

:31:17.:31:22.

London by 17%. That is all from us. Now

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