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Half a million people flee Iraq's second city after it's effectively

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taken over by Islamist Militants. Iraqi troops shed their uniforms

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and throw away their weapons in Mosul as fears mount that

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the violence will spread. There are tens of thousands of them

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and they controlled territory and border crossings and oil resources,

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mineral resources. the violence will spread.

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We'll be talking to our security correspondent about

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the latest developments in Iraq. Also this lunchtime:

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UK unemployment falls to its lowest level in five years,

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but wages are still failing to keep pace with inflation.

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Angry passport applicants say delays are putting holidays at risk.

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The Government calls in more staff and denies being unable to cope.

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Senior doctors say plans to expand the use of statins should

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be scrapped as the side-effects are being under-estimated.

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Bringing London to a standstill - angry black cabbies plan to disrupt

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the capital over a new smartphone app.

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At the heart of the dispute is this, the Uber app. Black cabbies say it

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is effectively a meter and the law says only they can have one of those

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installed. a new smartphone app.

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Later on BBC London: Two teenagers have fallen to

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their deaths from the sixth-floor balcony of a flat in Deptford.

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And the Home Secretary says she'll consider the difficult safety issues

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before water cannon can be used in the capital.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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As many as half a million people have been

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forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants

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effectively took control of it. Troops were among those abandoning

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Iraq's second-largest city as hundreds of jihadists

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from the ISIS group overran government and police buildings.

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The Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has asked parliament to declare

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a state of emergency, as the United States warned of the growing threat

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to the entire Middle East region. This report from our world

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affairs corresponent Paul Adams. The exodus from Mosul goes on.

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Dramatic pictures from the River Tigris shows civilians fleeing

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fighting on the other side. Perhaps as many as half a million people

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have now left the rock's second-largest city -- left Iraq's

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second-largest city. In Mosul itself, the aftermath of a battle

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that did not take long. The militants attacked just five days

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ago. On Monday, the provincial governor urged residents to hold

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firm. Hours later, the was gone. The security forces were not far behind.

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Militants now control government offices and banks. In January,

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another major city Falluja fell to the same hardline group. The

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government has tried and failed to take it back. Tens of thousands of

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people have fled. ISIS now controls lots of territory across the Middle

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East. In Anbar province, ten one is still in rebel hands. In Syria, the

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group is involved in fighting in Aleppo -- Falluja. They now have

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Mosul too. There are tens of thousands of them and they now have

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a territory, they controlled territory and border crossings and

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oil and mineral resources, trade, Inc. They have a base in the middle

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of the Middle East. -- trade. A wider effort to create an Islamic

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state. Extensive use has been made of foreign fighters including some

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of the hundreds of young British Muslims who have gone out to fight.

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In Iraq, the government is struggling to respond. There were

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clashes overnight were the major all the supplies much of the country.

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These unverified pictures appear to show fighting before the militants

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reportedly withdrew. With hundreds of thousands of Iraqis once more on

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the move, the country is now in the grip of a crisis as bad as anything

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since American forces left three years ago. Our security

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correspondent Frank Gardner is here. The Americans say it is extremely

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serious. Is it? It is very serious for Iraq. The question is, how

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serious is it for the rest of the world? That depends what ISIS do

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with it. This can go two ways. They could make this a haven for jihadist

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extremists from all over the world. They could provide a platform for

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the way Al-Qaeda did in Afghanistan. Then it would be very dangerous. You

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would see people trying to do 9/11 style plots and the international

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community led by the US would be forced to do something. Or they

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could play it light. They could tone down extremism and clean-up the

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streets and established with justice and say, we are not going to take

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over any more land, let us be. They know the West has no appetite for

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military action in that part of the world. What can be done to stop it?

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Ultimately, this is the problem of the Iraqi government. They failed to

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protect the place. They had to be warnings according to local

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politicians and they allegedly ignored them. They will have to come

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to some sort of arrangement with local tribes. Ultimately, this comes

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down to how much support the Iraqis will get from the local tribes. Then

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there is the Kurdish factor. If ISIS is smart, they will not clash with

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the Kurds. They will not win. If they are also smart, they will

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consolidate the area they have got and the Iraqi army will find it very

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difficult to dislodge them. They have the weapons from the Americans.

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The Americans will probably accelerate the Apaches and

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intelligence but not boots on the ground. If the Iraqis could not

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retake towns in the south, I am not sure they can take Mosul that

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easily. affairs corresponent Paul Adams.

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Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level

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for more than five years. The number of people out of work

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fell by 161,000 to 2.16 million in the three months to April.

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The number of people in work rose to just over 30 million.

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But the rate of wage increases slowed sharply and is still failing

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to keep pace with inflation. Our business correspondent

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Emma Simpson reports. It is a fresh start for this man.

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When he could not find a job, he decided to set up his own commercial

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laundry business in Leicester. He was forced into self-employment as

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the recession took hold. But business is now thriving. Quite a

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turnaround. Had I been employed, I would not have looked at this

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option. It is a blessing in disguise. Would you go back to being

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an employee? I cannot see myself working for anybody else. The rise

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of self-employment is one of the big stories of the recovery. Look at the

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latest figures. There are 780,000 more people in employment than a

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year ago. The number of people self employed has risen by 337,000. More

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than 40% of the increase in work these last 12 months has been people

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working for themselves. Self-employment is at a record high

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boosting the overall jobs numbers which are continuing to improve. It

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is a record rise. 345,000 in the last three months. You are seeing a

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rise in employment across all parts of the country, across all ages and

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across all sectors. But the cost of living is still going up more

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quickly than pay packets with news today that wage growth has slowed.

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There has been a sharp fall in average annual earnings. Many people

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are working hard, doing the right thing and yet they are finding their

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money is not going as far as it used to. The cost of living crisis is

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still a very real concern for many families and people up and down the

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country. The picture on jobs is more sunny. Unemployment fell everywhere

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in the UK apart from the north-east. The labour market may be gathering

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speed, but with wages still lagging behind inflation, it is clear there

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is no feel-good factor just yet. Emma Simpson reports.

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The Home Secretary Theresa May says more staff have been put

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in place to deal with passport applications after claims that

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the Passport Office was struggling to cope with its workload.

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There have been complaints of delays, but officials say 99%

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of passport renewals are being dealt with in four weeks and new

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applications are taking six weeks. Duncan Kennedy reports.

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Hundreds of files, thousands of applications. This was the scene at

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one Passport Office in Liverpool yesterday. In photos leaked to the

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media, they are a sign of how massive the strain has been. Hannah

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needs a poor spot for her baby so they can go on holiday to France. --

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a passport. After three months of applying, it has not arrived. I have

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asked for the service to be upgraded. So that we receive the

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passport quicker. All I am doing is being told every time that I will be

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called back by Durham within 48 hours and I have not been.

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Businesses are also suffering. If Peter from Welch does not get his

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passport back by Friday, he will lose a major contract in Kazakhstan

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-- from Welcher. The government has a responsible kid to help small

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businesses. I am not getting the support. How frustrating is it? It

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is extremely frustrating and not good enough. The Home Office says

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nearly half a million passports are currently being processed. The size

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of the pre-summer surge has not been seen in 12 years. A million have

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been issued since the start of April alone, but it is still not enough.

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Why the sudden rush? In large part, it is because the economy is picking

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up and people are booking foreign holidays again. The Home Secretary

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agreed today there is a problem and that the Passport Office is trying

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to get on top of it. I recognise it is about people and their holiday

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plans. We will be looking to ensure the Passport Office is putting

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resources in to deal with this very, very high level of applications.

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Unions blame Passport Office closures for what they call this

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major backlog. But staff are now said to be working seven days a week

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to clear it with the holiday and business plans of millions of people

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depending on them. Our chief political correspondent Norman Smith

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is in Westminster. They can ban TV figures around, but one missing

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passport brings misery for one person. This may not look like a

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political headache for the Prime Minister but it is. Let me remind

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you of the tale of the former Labour prime and is the Jim Callaghan who

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are returning to Britain in the winter of discontent said, crisis

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but not what crisis? That is precisely the trap David Cameron is

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trying to avoid. Labour are trying to make it larger bike saying it has

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come about because Theresa May has been focused on spats with Michael

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Gove and David Cameron has failed to get a grip on the situation. The

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Prime Minister's task today is to try to reassure voters he was not

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oblivious to the nightmare some families are facing. His message

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that more staff are being taken on, 250 more staff, 650 staff at the

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telephone helpline, a new office in Liverpool. Only around 30,000

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people, he suggested, whereat richly facing a delay of more than four

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weeks. -- were actually facing a delay. The difficulty is if you are

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one of the 30,000 who does not have one of these, you will be a very

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angry voter. Hell probably have no fury like a family who cannot go on

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holiday because they have not got one of these. Thank you very much.

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Duncan Kennedy reports. Leading doctors are calling

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for plans to extend the use of statins by millions more people

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to be scrapped because they believe they could do more harm than good.

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They're concerned about the side effects of the cholesterol-reducing

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drugs and are urging the advisory body NICE to re-think its proposals.

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Our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, has more details.

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7 million people in the UK take statins and they save thousands of

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lives a year by preventing heart attacks and strokes. But some

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doctors are frankly appalled that millions more may be prescribed the

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drug. Confused about statins, you have every right to be as one of the

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most heated rows in medicine in recent years has gone on. Both sides

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agree that if you already have heart disease, the benefits of the tablets

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are overwhelming. The new NICE guidance that pretty much everyone

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from mid 50s onwards would be on these tablets for life. For many

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doctors, it is a step too far. At present, those with a 20% risk of

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cardiovascular disease, having a heart attack or stroke in the next

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decade are offered statins. Draft guidance from NICE would lower the

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threshold to those with a 10% risk, but could add another 5 million

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statin users in England and Wales. We are asking millions of people at

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the cost of billions of pounds to be taking these medicines. These are

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people who are low risk for heart disease. We are asking them to take

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the medicine possibly for the next 30 years with not very good evidence

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that they are actually going to save lives. In an open letter, critics

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say the NICE guidance is overreliant on industry sponsored trials which

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they claim grossly underestimate side-effects such as muscle pain and

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diabetes. But NICE says the drugs will save lives. Statins are so

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amazingly effective that they reduced the risk of heart attacks

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and strokes by greater than the consequences of their small increase

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in diabetes caused by taking statins. NICE points out its

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guidance on statins will not be compulsory. It will simply give GPs

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and patients and other option along with lifestyle changes such as diet

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and exercise. Half a million people flee Iraq's

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second city after it's effectively And still to come, is Brazil

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ready for kick-off, with one day The number of people unemployed

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in the capital falls by 27,000, but critics say wages aren't keeping

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up with the cost of living. Six months on, just how successful

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has the new giant container port The World Cup begins tomorrow,

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and Brazil's president says her country is ready, on and

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off the pitch, for the tournament. Against a backdrop of protests,

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she rejected criticism of overspending, saying that

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the tournament would leave England play their first match

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on Saturday and already, there are Yes, I am in a glorious day here in

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Rio. England fans have been on the beach,

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playing football in the sand. England's players have a final

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training session here in a couple of hours' time before they had up to

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Manaus in the Amazonian rainforest for that first game against Italy on

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Saturday. Real concerns about the oppressive heat and unity there.

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Let's talk to our sports correspondent, Natalie Pirks. Also

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concerns about the pitch? Yes, pictures have emerged this morning

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of the arena where they will play, the 46,000 seater stadium. It cost

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173 million to build and the pitch does not look good. There, yellow,

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in some cases patches all over the place. It is not good news for Roy

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Hodgson. A more pressing concern will be the fitness of striker Danny

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Welbeck. He was limping out of training earlier yesterday. We were

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told that those training sessions would be the most intense, and so it

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has proved. He was treated by England's head physio. There was

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already strapping on his right thigh. Too early to say what the

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injury might be, that it will concern Hodgson because he was

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expected to pick him to start against Italy on Saturday. But Alex

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Oxlade-Chamberlain is winning his battle against the knee injury he

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picked up against Ecuador. He has been training and he might be fit

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for England's second game against Uruguay. We are hearing that the

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England players will be taking malaria tablets ahead of that trip

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to man house. The tournament kicks off in Sao Paulo tomorrow, Brazil

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against Croatia. Also in Sao Paulo, the FIFA Congress is underway, with

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pressure on President Sepp Blatter to step down after all those

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corruption allegations concerning Qatar's 2022 World Cup. Let's go to

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my colleague in Sao Paulo with the latest.

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Yes, the Congress is about to get underway. You would imagine that

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this would be a source of celebration, that the World Cup is

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about to start. Instead, it is likely to be marked by acrimony and

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a certain amount of blood when letting -- blood-letting overstep

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butter should be allowed to continue as FIFA president. He is pitted

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against the second most powerful Federation in football, UEFA, who

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clearly believe that Sepp Blatter's time is up over those allegations

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about the bid for the 2022 World Cup and the role played by Mohamed bin

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hammam over the Qatari bid. But it should also be added that Sepp

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Blatter, when he spoke to the Asian Federation, the American

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Federation, the African federations, he was given a standing ovation. So

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yes, there is pressure, but those who would like to see Sepp Blatter

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stand-down, do they have the vote? One other moving part in this is

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those sponsors. Money may speak louder than the individual

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federations. The sponsors of the World Cup are unhappy about the

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allegations over the Qatari bid. They want to see a horror

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investigation of that. So far from it being joy, Brazil is ready, the

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football kicks off tomorrow, there is politics.

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In fact, there has been a year of unrest in Brazil in the run-up to

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this World Cup. There have been strikes and violent protests about

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the sheer cost of it. The president of Brazil has been on television

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saying that she believes the pessimist will be proved wrong.

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Ben Brown, thank you. An official inquiry has found that

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payday loan customers could be paying too much to borrow money

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because of a lack of competition The regulator,

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the Competition and Markets Authority, is now looking at ways

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of helping consumers shop around. Our personal finance correspondent

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Simon Gompertz is here. How much more are they paying than

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they need? Well, if you look at our high streets, it looks like

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competition, because a lot of these are high cost lenders there, but

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more than 80% of the blundering it online and not shopping around. To

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add to your question, the result is that each loan is costing ?10 more

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than it should. That is on a typical loan of around ?260, which would

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cost you 75 pounds on average. They say you are paying ?10 too much. If

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you take that across the whole of the UK for a year, that is ?45

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million, the total cost of that. That is because there are 1.8

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million people a year using payday lenders. So that is the problem.

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What do they say is the solution? More transparency, to be more

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upfront at open, particularly about the charges people pay if they are

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like in giving the money back, so that the customer knows. And

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particularly as well, independent price comparison sites so that you

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can go online and do your shopping around on that. Separately, there

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will also be a price cap on payday loans, which is something that the

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financial regulator has been told why the government to come up with

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for the beginning of next year. Thank you. The minister for disabled

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people has admitted that several thousand people are waiting for

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assessments for employment and support allowance. 100,000 of them

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should have been moved onto the new benefit by April. He said the delays

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were the fault of the private contractor Atos, whose contract to

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carry out the test is being ended early.

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Plans to cut jobs in the Army and increase the number of reservists

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That's according to the National Audit Office, who,

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in a new report, says the decision was taken without "appropriate

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The Ministry of Defence hopes to raise

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the numbers of trained reservists from 19,000 to 30,000 by 2018.

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Our defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt reports.

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Army reservists in training in Cyprus, as they stormed the beaches.

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They are key part of the army's future plans, but in a report

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today, the National Audit Office has been less impressed by the MoD's

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performance. They are recruiting more reserves, which it needs to do

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if its figures are to add up. The numbering of Army reserves has not

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increased in the last two years. To get to 30000 x 2019, a significant

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improvement will be required. The army's aim is to shake its numbers

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from 102,000 regular soldiers in 2010, down to 82,000 by the end of

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the decade. With the reserves due to go from 19,000 up to 30,000 by

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2018-19. Today, the defence secretary Philip Hammond said the

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MoD's plans were feasible. The report quotes a source as they knit

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will take until 2025 to reach the target for reserves that we set for

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2018-19. That is not the case. The head of the Army has led that it

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created a novel and imaginative structure which best met the

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challenges the army were likely to face within the resources available.

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But internally, there has been some disquiet over the plans, not least

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because it is proving far easier to get rid of regulars than it is to

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recruit the right reserves. There has been fighting behind the scenes

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as well as the MoD has blamed its outsourcing partner capital and

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software problems for some of the delay in recruitment. The watchdog

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says the army and the MoD must get a better understanding of the

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significant risks to the plans for Army 2020 and ultimately, what

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impact that could have on the nation's troops. Caroline Wyatt, BBC

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News. London cabbies are aiming to bring

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traffic chaos to the capital this afternoon in

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a protest against the introduction of a new smartphone app which helps

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passengers find a rival minicab. The action is part of a worldwide

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coordinated demonstration Black Cabbies claim the service is

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illegal because it calculates a fare similar to a meter, which they

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say only licensed taxis can carry. Our Technology Correspondent Rory

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Cellan Jones has this report. Tap to request a driver and within

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minutes, a car draws up. But Uber,

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which started in San Francisco, has caused anger amongst established

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tax drivers around the world, and In Paris, taxi drivers are staging a

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protest over the app, which they say is defined regulations and taking

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over their business. In London, cabbies are preparing a go slow

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which they say could bring the capital to a halt. They said

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passport for London are letting people get away with breaking the

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law. As the heart of the dispute is this,

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the Uber app. The taxi drivers say that

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because it tracks the distance covered and then calculates the

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fare, it is essentially a meter, and the law says only they are allowed

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to have one of those installed. Richard, who has been driving

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a cab for eight years, insists that he is not against new

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technology, but says the rules are You have the trust in us that you

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can stick your hand up and the first person, hopefully, that stops for

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you will know where they're going. You will know they have been

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background checked properly, and Uber says it isn't breaking

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the law and is making life better The company is now valued at ?10

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billion. The company, which is registered in Holland, work or

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abrasion tax is low, says it is making life better.

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We are fully compliant with all the private hire legislation.

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Uber also offers another choice to customers and drivers.

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It increases competition, which is good for all of us.

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Taxi drivers claim their protest will bring the capital

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to a halt today, but Uber is confident that its technology will

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And Rory is in Trafalgar Square for us now.

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Yes, the demonstration is due to get under way in about half an hour. The

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idea is that thousands of London taxi drivers will converge on the

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square. There are already quite a few queueing up, and they will

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gradually bring traffic to a halt. They are stressing that their

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demonstration is not against Gruber, but against Transport for London.

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They have a long list of grievances against the regulator. They say that

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allowing private hire companies to compete unfairly with them, and they

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are angry about this. Police are trying to divert traffic into

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Whitehall. So it will be interesting to see how things develop over the

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next hour. In the longer run, the feeling is that this kind of

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technology is going to change the way we travel, and it will be

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difficult for taxi drivers to stop that happening. Rory, thank you very

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much. Let's look at the weather. It is to be sneezed at?

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Yes, lots of sunshine at the moment. It has been good growing weather

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over the last few weeks. The cloud is broken in most places, which

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means high or very high Holland levels across much of the UK --

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pollen levels. We are at the peak of the grass pollen season. But really

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nice weather out there if you are heading out and about. You may catch

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the odd stray shower, but they will be very few and far between. Those

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places will stay dry and continue to get further spells of sunshine. When

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you have got an onshore breeze, it is a bit cooler. But inland, you are

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looking at up to 22 degrees. A similar story across Northern

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Ireland. The chance of the old light shower here and there. Maybe the odd

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shop shower across eastern parts of Scotland. But the majority of races

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will miss those and end up dry through the afternoon. Any showers

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will die away fairly steadily. So I mostly dry night come with clear

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spells developing. Temperatures will hold up. Tomorrow, it is perfect

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tennis weather, both at Queen's Club and in Birmingham. Bright blue

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skies, comfortable temperatures and just a light breeze. That is because

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high pressure is in charge of our weather at the moment almost

:29:26.:29:29.

everywhere. Across the northern part, you can see a weather front

:29:30.:29:33.

just bashing by, which will introduce more cloud across northern

:29:34.:29:36.

parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Perhaps some light and

:29:37.:29:40.

patchy rain here, but that is the exception to the dry rule. If

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anything, probably more sunshine across England and Wales tomorrow.

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And temperatures are up a notch. That North-South contrast is

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accentuated by Friday. Patchy rain at times in Scotland and Northern

:29:58.:30:02.

Ireland, so cooler here. Still warm sunshine across the bulk of England

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and Wales. Will it last into the weekend? Sort of. High pressure is

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out to the west of the UK by then. The clockwise flow around that means

:30:11.:30:14.

we start to pull in some cooler north to north-easterly winds, so

:30:15.:30:16.

there is a different feel to things. There will be dry weather and

:30:17.:30:21.

sunshine from time to time, but across eastern areas, it will feel

:30:22.:30:23.

cooler, even in the sunshine. There is always a but. Peter, thank

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you. Now a reminder of our top story: Half a million people flee

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