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Rolf Harris is being sentenced now for a series of sexual swords

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against young girls. He arrived in court knowing that he is facing a

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custodial sentence for what is called a breach of trust. We will be

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outside of the court in Southwark for the reaction.

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The former Editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson,

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More than a hundred imams in the UK are appealing to British Muslims

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two people in Brazil not far from one of the venues for next

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I name this ship Queen Elizabeth, may God bless her, and all who sail

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in her. of whisky, the Queen gives her name

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to the Royal Navy's largest ever And in Yorkshire, it is hello to the

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Tour de France. . Men's semifinal day at Wimbledon, Roger Federer and

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Novak Djokovic will both attempt to reach the final with two emerging

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stars of the game in their way. Good afternoon

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and welcome to the BBC News at One. The entertainer Rolf Harris is being

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sentenced now for a string of indecent assault charges against

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four young girls. sentenced now for a string of

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indecent assault charges against The 84-year-old was found guilty earlier

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this week of four offences, -- 12 offences and it was said that his

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public breach of trust would be taken into account. One victim has

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said in a statement that the disgraced entertainer had taken her

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childhood. Correspondence at the scene now. Mr Justice Sweeney has

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presided over this case, he began his sentencing remarks in the last

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ten minutes, he's going through all of the 12 counts, one by one, with

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decisions on each. Count three, indecently assaulted her, you

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committed the offence in breach of trust. Mr Justice Sweeney has said

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that Rolf Harris's reputation lies in ruins and he has no one to blame

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but himself. With the story of today's victim impact statements

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heard in court this morning, here is my colleague.

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The walk to court, he has done it many times over the last seven weeks

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but this time, for the first time, it is as a convicted paedophile, a

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disgraced sex abuser. Any word for your victim? Without his wife but

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holding the hand of his daughter, who has accompanied her father every

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day, of the 12 charges of indecent assault, seven were against her

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childhood friend. For Rolf Harris, the journey from

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frame to infamy began 60 years ago, when you arrived in England. SUNY

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was a household name but his fame became a licence to sexually assault

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women and girls. -- soon he was a household name. As he has throughout

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the trial, he was wearing a hearing loop as he listened, as impact

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statements were read out. The friend of his daughter said:

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His youngest victim, groped by him at a community centre near

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Portsmouth when she was seven or eight, wrote:

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In the middle of the 1970s he was a contestant on the celebrity game

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show filmed in Cambridge, there, he assaulted a teenage waitress. She

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was not the only victim that day. Then 16, Karen Gardner says that he

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also had his eyes and his hands on her. He began making a fuss of me

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and in front of everyone else, he put his arms around me and he

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touched my breast! I knew that he was not the man he pretended to be.

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He was a fraud, and he hurt women. A lot of older middle-aged men would

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have a go at young girls in those days, it was not unusual. I could

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name a lot of them. He was the worst, because he was Rolf Harris.

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In mitigation it was said that Rolf Harris had supported numerous

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charities over many years, and that he is the sole carer for his wife,

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who is in poor health. Detectives say that insists on conviction on

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Monday others have come forward and new allegations are now being

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investigated. Rolf Harris had a dark side. For more than two decades,

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Newby used and assaulted with little or no thought of the cost. Now, he

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will begin to repay that debt. -- he abused and assaulted.

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Mr Justice Sweeney continues to go through each of the 12 counts in

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graphic detail. He has said that in every case, the age gap was

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considerable "and you clearly got a thrill from committing some of the

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offences". Once he has gone through the counts, we expect a sentence,

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and we know that the custodial sentence is uppermost in his mind.

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When we get the sentences through we will bring them to you here on the

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BBC News at one. David Cameron's former

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Director of Communications Andy Coulson has been jailed

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for 18 months for phone hacking. Coulson was found guilty last week

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of conspiring to intercept voicemails while Editor of the News

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of the World, He was joined in the dock by three

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former colleagues and the private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who all

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admitted their part in the crime this trial has divided opinion, some

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people wanted longer sentences than the law allowed, two years is the

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maximum, but others feel that these journalists should not have been

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prosecuted at all for infringing the privacy of famous and often

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celebrities, but the judge said that regardless of that, his decision

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reflected the fact that he felt much of the blame should rest on the

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shoulders of the man in charge of the News of the World at the height

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of the phone hacking scandal, he will take the greatest blame.

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The end for the editor, Andy Coulson knew that he would be going to

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prison this morning, and after fighting his way through the Old

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Bailey cameras, he made his one-way journey up to court 12, where his

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role in the hacking scandal has been laid bare. If the charges to the

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end, facing a two-year sentence, Judge said that he knew about,

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encouraged and should have stopped went on, but his jail term was

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reduced to 18 months because of his previous good character and the

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punishing duration of the trial. Neville Thurlbeck and Greg were

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criticised and received six months in prison, reduced by the 53 days

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they have one offender tags. James Weatherup, former reporter and desk

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editor was less involved, he received a suspended sentence. When

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Malchow, phone hacking private investigator, was the lucky one, he

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was jailed for just six months in 2006, because of a flawed police

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investigation, not his fall, the judge said, suspending his sentence

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also. What would you say to how do they think that it was a good

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idea to get how do they think that it was a good

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idea headlines by invading somebody's life? If I'm honest, I

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feel sorry for him, he was a talented man and a good editor. In

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politics he was very good food David Cameron. It is a high price to pay.

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However, you have got the balance that by the fact that if you have

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these top jobs, and you do something wrong and you are convicted, then

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your fall will be much higher. Andy Coulson is still here at court,

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after lunch he will be taken by van to Belmarsh prison, not the high

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security part where terrorists are kept but the medium secure bit of

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that prison. From there it is likely and similar prisoners such as in

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will go to an open prison to and similar prisoners such as in

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will go to an open serve the majority of his sentence, he could

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be out in nine months. The Prime Minister said: "It is right that

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justice should be done and no one is above the law". There are two more

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police investigations into specifically phone hacking at the

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News of the World and at titles owned by Mirror group newspapers.

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The militant Palestinian group Hamas

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has reportedly agreed to a ceasefire with Israel

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Sources close to the group say Hamas is ready to stop rocket attacks

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on Israeli cities and towns, in return for an assurance that

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A possible truce comes just before the funeral

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in east Jerusalem, of a Palestinian youth murdered earlier this week.

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The Queen has formally named the Royal Navy's largest ever

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HMS Queen Elizabeth is the first of two new aircraft carriers being

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built at a cost of more than ?6 billion.

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The Queen smashed a bottle of single malt whisky on the hull of the

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65,000 tonne ship, instead of the usual bottle of champagne.

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Scotland Correspondent James Cook is at the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife.

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There is enough room on the flight deck to fit three football pitches,

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it is taller than Niagara Falls, it will project power all over the

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world, supporting British troops. The development of the ship has been

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controversial and difficult, today, for a short time, that was put aside

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here in the Scottish dockyard for a very British ceremony.

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In more ways than usual, this is Her Majesty ship. HMS Queen Elizabeth is

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the biggest vessel ever built for the Royal Navy, 65,000 tonnes of

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British sovereign territory, on the high seas. She was named by the

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monarchy in suitable style. I believe that Queen Elizabeth as

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flagship for the Royal Navy will be a source of inspiration and pride

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for all of us. I name this ship Queen Elizabeth. May God bless her,

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and all who sail in her. Not everything has gone so smoothly,

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together, this carrier and the sister ship is costing more than ?6

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billion, three times the original budget, at the head of the Navy

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insists it will be worth it. When you are a big nation you do big

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things, this is one of those journeys, I feel strongly that over

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the next 50 years we will look back at this early controversy on the

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early questions and wonder why we were so shy! 10,000 people help to

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build the carrier, not just here in five but in yards across the UK. For

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the British government, that is the point, the union working together.

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-- Fife. Proud day for Scotland and for the United Kingdom, this is the

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biggest chip Royal Navy has ever had delivered and it is a long-term

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investment in Britain Security, for 50 years, this will help to keep us

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safe and that is a really vital investment for the country.

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Scotland's First Minister agrees that it is a great day, and he

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insists shipbuilding will continue here if there is a vote for

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independence. We know that aircraft carriers, these magnificent ships,

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will be the last of their kind. We have got to build other things

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therefore. What keeps us safe in the future it is not the willpower of

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David Cameron, it is this magnificent deepwater facility and

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the skills of the workforce. There is a big problem: They have no

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aircraft to carry, the Jets have been beset by difficulties and will

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not fly in anger from the ship until at least 2020. For all of the pomp

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and ceremony, the Queen Elizabeth will set sail into a sea of

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uncertainty. The Queen also talked about an error

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of capability and cooperation, an exciting new era. There was some

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booing from the crowd, some for the politician, David Cameron, and some

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even louder booze for Alex Salmond. He brushed it off saying that we are

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living in interesting political times and everyone is entitled to

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their opinion, these opinions are likely to get louder as we approach

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the referendum on September 18. More than 100 imams

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in the UK have appealed to British Muslims,

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not to travel to Syria and Iraq. In an open letter they say they've

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come together as a unified voice, to urge people to not to fall prey

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to any form of sectarian divisions Our Home Affairs correspondent

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June Kelly has more. It is the conflict thousands of

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miles away which has drawn in hundreds of men, some of them only

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teenagers, from the UK. 500 British Muslims are estimated to have

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travelled to Syria, to take up arms against the regime of President

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Assad. Some like those in this video have joined the militant group,

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Isis, its name has become is anonymous with appalling acts of

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barbarity. Now, religious leaders in Muslim communities here are urging

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Britons not to travel. More than 100 imams have signed an open letter

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which is in essence an appeal. It says:

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everything in our capability to disseminate the message and the

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mosque is only one of those platforms. Using social media and

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other media outlets to make sure the message goes out everyone who might

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be inclined to take part and go on to travel to Syria. One Briton who

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says he's been out there for a year has spoken to BBC five live. His

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claim that he is fighting with the Al-Nusra Front, which is linked to

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Al-Qaeda, cannot be verified. I don't want to come back to what I

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left behind. There is nothing in Britain. It is pure evil. If and

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when I come back to Britain it will be when the Islamic state comes to

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conquer Britain and I come to raise the black flag of Islam over Downing

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Street, Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge and Big Ben. As Muslims

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gather for Friday prayers, their leaders are stressing that there are

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around 3 million Muslims in this country and only a tiny number have

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chosen to follow the jihadi path. The headlines on BBC News. Rolf

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Harris is being sentenced now for a string of serious sexual assaults

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against four young girls. Also coming up comic Yorkshire prepares

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to welcome the world's biggest free sporting event, as the Tour de

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France comes the furthest north it has ever been.

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Coffee, cake and a Van Gogh to go - the Reading cafe serving up

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a multi-million pound piece of artwork.

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And Britain's number one wheelchair tennis player is through to

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Three days of mourning have been declared in Belo Horizonte

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in Brazil, after a flyover collapsed killing two people.

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It happened two miles from the stadium which will host one of the

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The bridge, which was part of the city's promised infrastructure

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improvements for the tournament, was still under construction.

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Two people including the driver of the bus were killed,

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The concrete and steel bridge was still under construction, though no

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workers are thought to have been on it at the time of the collapse.

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But it's not yet clear what caused it.

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This man says the overpass started falling from the left to the right,

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but he had no time to see anything else as he ran away.

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The bridge is just two miles from the stadium in the World Cup

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It was part of the infrastructure planned for

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It stretched over one of the main routes connecting the stadium to

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The construction firm says it deeply regrets what happened

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and that technical staff have started investigations.

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The city's mayor said there were some errors but he didn't want to

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The collapse casts a further shadow over the construction projects

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Eight workers have died building stadiums that have hosted

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the games and there has been opposition to the cost

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of preparations for the tournament and delays to infrastructure.

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Forensic teams will now try to establish what caused this accident

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and the city's mayor has declared three days of mourning for the two

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It's men's semi-finals day at Wimbledon with

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the top seed Novak Djokovic first up on Centre Court against Andy

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Then it's the turn of the seven-times champion Roger

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Our sports correspondent Katherine Downes has more.

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A familiar sight on men's semifinals day at Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic

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warming up, but now with Boris Becker at his side and hundreds

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watching on. He and the eternally majestic Roger Federer are the only

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two of the big four left standing. Game, set and match. For now there

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are challenges knocking at the door of the most elite club in tennis.

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Today, Djokovic faces Grigor Dimitrov, the Bulgarian who everyone

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is talking about. He has it all, he is with Maria Sharapova as well. It

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is a big romance. He appeals to everybody and that is what you need

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to create interest in your sport. Men's tennis with dementia of its

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going to go through the roof, he will be that big a star. For a man

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who usually enjoys the limelight, David Croft was uncharacteristically

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camera shy today, training out of reach of even the longest lenses. --

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Dimitrov. His focus is on himself. I have been playing great tennis. I

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believe in my skills at the moment and whoever I am phasing in the next

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match, it will be a battle, so I have to be really composed. It seems

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we have a new face of men's tennis and Grigor Dimitrov certainly has

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the talent and self belief to win grand slams. But he is not the only

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confident new kid in town. Milos Raonic has been one to watch for a

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while. Now he is one to worry about, if you are Roger Federer. A Canadian

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with a huge serve, who is blazing a trail in his home country. Milos

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Raonic grew up idolising Pete Sampras, an American. Can you

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imagine what it will be like for the next crop of Canadian young athletes

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to have a home-grown talent to look up to and emulate? Raonic will have

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to wait until later to paint himself against the experience of Federer

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because first on Centre Court it is Djokovic against Dimitrov, as the

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old guard takes on the young pretenders. More on the sentencing

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of Rolf Harris. Let's go back to our correspondent at Southwark Crown

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Court. In the last few seconds Mr Justice

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Sweeney has handed down a sentence to the veteran entertainer of five

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years and nine months in custody. Five years and nine months, for the

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indecent assaults of four women, 12 individual counts of indecent

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assault. He will not believing this court, as he has done every day for

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the last eight weeks by the front door. He will be leaving in a prison

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van. Just to reiterate that sentence that Mr Justice Sweeney has just

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handed down to the veteran entertainer Rolf Harris, five years

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and nine months in prison. We expect it to be in Wandsworth prison. We

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expect that is where he will go. The judge was very harsh in his quotes.

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He said, going through the individual counts, he said that some

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of the women had said Rolf Harris had a hold over me. That made me a

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quivering wreck. The judge said that he had his reputation lying in ruins

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but he has no one but himself to blame. He said he took advantage of

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the trust placed in him because of his celebrity status and has shown

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no remorse at all, at all. We have not had any reaction from Mr

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Harrison Court. He has sat impassively throughout the eight

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week trial. Now he has learned that he will be sentenced, he has been

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sentenced, to five years and nine months in jail.

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Will there will be more on the sentencing of Rolf Harris throughout

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the afternoon on the BBC News Channel.

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With just a day to go before the Tour de France gets underway

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here in the UK, the excitement is building in Yorkshire.

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Huge crowds are expected to turn out to watch the world's most

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famous bike race thunder through villages in the hills and dales.

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Nearly 200 riders from 22 teams are competing,

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including last year's British yellow jersey winner Chris Froome.

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The banner says it all, welcomed the Tour de France. It is so clear this

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region really has embraced the Tour. Yorkshire has been asked to go

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yellow for the Tour de France This is the furthest north the Tour

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has ever been. From the first moment we met

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the French it was our destiny to It was brought here by Gary Verity,

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who saw an opportunity to show off One of the defining moments was

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when we put Christian Prudhomme and his team up in a helicopter and

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showed them Yorkshire from the sky. He said, I knew Yorkshire -

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but not that it was that gorgeous. It is not hard to see why they were

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impressed by their aerial trip. Back on the ground it is the winding

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roads of the Dales on day one. Undulating lanes lead to narrow

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bridges and sharp corners. Amateurs have been out in their

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thousands, having a go, and bringing We've just been

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so much busier than usual. Even on wet days,

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when it can be quiet, we have seen some of the cyclists, maybe too many

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men in Lycra but there you go! But more men in Lycra are

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on their way. The professionals have

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been out practising. This is Chris Froome and his team,

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planning for what they hope will be But those hard Yorkshire stone

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walls haven't gone unnoticed. It is a genuine concern, the fact

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that if you do go off the road at any of these points you don't

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just go off into a field, you've got It is going to be tricky racing

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and nervous racing, as the first few days

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of the Tour de France always are. But how much

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of a challenge will it be? Will the climbs

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of the Pennines be just speed bumps It has nothing like the Alpine

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climbs of the Pyrenees, but it's got Holme Moss, it's got Cragg Vale,

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it's got lots of steep inclines on the run-in to Sheffield, so it's

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going to be very, very tough. And one of the big draws for race

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watchers this weekend will be the More people are set to line

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the roads coming up this hill than pack into Old Trafford

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for a Premiership game. But with the roads closed for hours

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on either side, the advice if you Not far away they've even painted

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this cafe in the King The bunting is up,

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the route is ready. Although let's hope

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somebody's told the sheep! You will even find some of those

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sheep painted in Tour de France colours. The police and motorbike

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police for the UK were here as well for a photocall this morning. People

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stopping by, taking photos. The race will start in Leeds tomorrow

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morning. You heard about rolling out the red carpet is something we do is

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a tradition. Of course, it is the Tour de France so instead we have

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the yellow carpet rolled out for this very special event. There is

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that very English side of the deckchairs here as well. A very

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special weekend coming up. Millions of people expected. It is going to

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be pretty spectacular. The first hurricane

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of the season has hit the North Carolina coast with wind

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speeds of over 100 miles an hour. It's meant a wet

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and windy start to the July 4th holiday for thousands of Americans,

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as authorities ordered them to The hurricane is expected to pick up

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speed, And on the other side

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of America a giant sandstorm has knocked out power to thousands

:28:16.:28:20.

of homes and grounded many flights The wall of dust that enveloped

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parts of the city caused traffic chaos with trees being felled

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by 50 mile an hour gusts. The 4th of July fireworks looked

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good when the storm clears away. It is looking on the fresh side, with

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showers. A lot of us today across the south-east of England and East

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Anglia are experiencing quite a hot day. We have reached highs up to 28

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degrees. I would not be surprised if it nudges to almost 29 by the time

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we through the afternoon. The area of low pressure is starting to get

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the weather going across many western areas of the country. This

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is where the warm air is, towards the south-east. The cold air in the

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north-west of the country. For western areas it has been dull, with

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rain on and off from Scotland, around the Irish Sea, into the

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south-west of the country, turning progressive cloudier --

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progressively cloudier. It is overall looking at the majority of

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the country not such a great day, with all the cloud and rain. Having

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said that, in some parts of the country despite the cloud and rain

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it is still in the high teens, so not that bad. Quite humid air.

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Across Cornwall and Devon it is still raining. In central and

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southern England, cloudier skies, then when you get towards the

:29:51.:29:54.

south-east and East Anglia, this is where the hot weather is. One more

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day, then from tomorrow it is goodbye. Goodbye just for now, not

:29:57.:30:02.

the rest of the summer, hopefully! Tonight, the rain eventually reaches

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the south-east. It will be a muggy night across the south-east.

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Temperatures no lower than 15 or 17 Celsius. The north of the country a

:30:15.:30:18.

lot fresher. Tomorrow morning, rain in the south-east and east. The

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cloud and the bits and pieces of rain really could drag their heels

:30:22.:30:25.

through the course of the morning. It may take a while before the sun

:30:26.:30:30.

appears in London. It may stay fairly cloudy through most of the

:30:31.:30:34.

day, where as in western areas there will be some sunshine and showers

:30:35.:30:37.

and a lot fresher. For the start of the Tour de France, this is what it

:30:38.:30:41.

looks like. In Leeds, a rainy morning. The time we get to

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Harrogate, 3pm, the sun should be out and 17 Celsius on the way. This

:30:46.:30:51.

is Sunday, it starts off sunny in many areas, particularly in the

:30:52.:30:55.

east. Showers are driven in by breeze and will be the order of the

:30:56.:31:01.

day. Some could be heavy. Again, sunglasses in one hand and umbrella

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in the other. These are the temperatures for Sunday, 22 in

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London. Fresher for most of us. Typically 16-19 Celsius. All in all

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it is a mixed weekend but not that bad once we get the band of rain out

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of the way for tonight and tomorrow. breeze and will be the order of the

:31:16.:31:18.

day. Some could be heavy. The top story. Rolf Harris has been

:31:19.:31:26.

sentenced to five years and nine months in jail for a string of

:31:27.:31:29.

serious sexual assaults against four young girls. Much more on the

:31:30.:31:34.

sentencing of Rolf Harris throughout the afternoon on the BBC News

:31:35.:31:35.

Channel.

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