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A police search is underway for a five-year-old boy with

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a brain tumour taken out of hospital by his parents.

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Ashya King needs constant medical care.

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Ashya is in a wheelchair and is fed through a tube.

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The feeding system is battery operated and that

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We'll have the latest on the police search.

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Tesco issues another profits warning and says its new Chief Executive

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will take up his job earlier than planned.

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Ukraine says it wants to join NATO, as fighting intensifies

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against pro-Russia forces in the east of the country.

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Hospitals in England are to be ranked according to how healthy

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UKIP says more MPs, Labour and Conservative, are preparing to

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Breaking all records, the giant waves battering the west

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Westminster Council call for tougher legislation to tackle the increasing

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Westminster Council call for tougher legislation to tackle the number of

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rough sleepers in the West End. Deep or areas have worse transport

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links? -- do poorer areas?. A major police search is continuing

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for a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour who was taken

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from hospital by his parents, There are serious concerns

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for the life of Ashya King, His parents removed him

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from Southampton General Hospital Hampshire Police believe

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he's been taken to France. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy

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is outside the hospital. Police said they are extremely

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concerned for the health and safety of Ashya King. He was taken from

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this hospital by his parents yesterday afternoon. They are

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liaising with French police, looking at CCTV to track down him and his

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family who are believed to have travelled to France yesterday

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evening. The police say unless the five-year-old boy is found his life

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could be in danger. This is the moment Ashya King was led from the

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hospital by his father. He can be seen in the body he needs to move

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around. The police say he has a brain tumour -- buggy. This was

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Ashya with his mother. It is not clear why his parents removed them

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from the hospital. It is believed one member of the family may be a

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Jehovah's Witness, although it is not clear if this is connected to

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the removal. Police only found out he was missing last night.

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If he does not receive urgent medical care or the wrong

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treatment is given his condition will become life-threatening. It

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seems he was taken around 2pm yesterday. They travel to Portsmouth

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to catch the ferry. They arrived in France that HB and last night,

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believed to be driving their people carrier. His brother recently spoke

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on YouTube about the family's distress caused by his medical

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condition. I have not slept anything. I have been awake all

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night worrying. We love you so much. We are all here for you. The family

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also posted this video showing a beast and tripped his aim where it

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is believed they now people are smacked a recent trip to Spain.

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French police said this morning they are carrying out a widespread

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birch, looking at CC TV -- CCTV. We have had a statement from the

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Jehovah's Witnesses then that they have confirmed that his parents were

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Jehovah's Witnesses but there is no reason to suggest that it is for

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religious reasons he was removed. The search for the five-year-old boy

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goes on. Shares have fallen sharply in Tesco after announcing a further

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profit warning. In a statement to the stock

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exchange, the supermarket cut its The firm says

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its new chief executive, Dave Lewis, will now begin work next week,

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a month earlier than planned. Here's our Business Correspondent,

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Emma Simpson. These are tough times for Britain's

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biggest retailer. Household spending is still under

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pressure and it is being squeezed Three years ago Tesco's trading

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profit was nearly ?4 billion. Today it warned annual profits

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for this year would be less than The numbers are going

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in the wrong direction. This is the second profit warning

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from Tesco in just two months. Despite a ?1 billion plan to

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revitalise its business, A sign of just how urgent things

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are, the new boss Dave Lewis is starting on Monday,

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a month earlier than planned. What is on his shopping

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list to turn things round? The first thing is to focus

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on reinvigorating the brand. The last ten years

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the Tesco brand has been They need to focus

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on giving it a distinct identity. In terms

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of pricing we may see further price reductions but we do not

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expect any drastic price cuts. This is Lidl's new

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multi-million pound TV campaign. The discounters are upping

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their game to attract new shoppers. They are stealing all

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of the big supermarket's lunch. What we are seeing is the end

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of an era where supermarkets were virtually guaranteed growth

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year-on-year. We have seen structural changes

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in terms of growth, online, increased competition from

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the big four and the discounters It is becoming increasingly

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difficult shareholders. The board wants to

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give the new boss is much room for manoeuvre as possible to do what he

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thinks is needed to when shoppers Ukraine's prime minister has

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signalled his country's intention Arseniy Yatsenyuk has already asked

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the alliance for what he called "practical help"

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in its battle against pro-Russia Today, the United Nations says more

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than 2,500 people have died Here's our world affairs

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correspondent, Nick Childs. Pro-Russian rebels continue a

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fightback against Ukrainian government troops after weeks of

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being forced onto the defensive. This is unverified footage but Kiev

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and the west say this fightback has been fortified by escalating Russian

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military involvement, prompting an emergency meeting of NATO

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ambassadors. We expressed strong solidarity with the Ukraine. We will

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meet next week with the Ukrainian president to make clear NATO's

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unwavering support for Ukraine. I've fell -- how far will that support

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call? The Prime Minister has said they will seek membership. The word

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from Washington, the response is not military but diplomatic. Russia is

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already more isolated than at any time since the end of the Cold War.

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Investors are staying out, the economy is in decline. This ongoing

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Russian incursion into Ukraine will only bring more consequences for

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Russia. EU leaders meeting in Russia this weekend -- meeting in Brussels

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this weekend will look at further sanctions. How effective can they be

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given the stakes for the Kremlin? The new satellite imagery that NATO

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says Shaws Russian combat forces in and around eastern Ukraine, Moscow

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still denies any such involvement. A defiant rally by Ukrainian loyalists

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in a southeastern town under threat from the recent rebel successes.

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Their opinion of the Russian president clear. In his latest

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remarks, the Russian leader has responded with a Nazi analogy of his

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own, accusing Kiev of an assault in Ukraine. The consequences of this

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conflict are plain to see. A way out seems as elusive as ever.

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With me now is our diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall.

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Is joining NATO a shift in the dynamic? It is clear that Kiev is

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frustrated. You can feel the anxiety. Yesterday they asked for a

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stepped-up partnership and today the Prime Minister signalling he wants

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to ask parliament to apply for membership. That is not the same as

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getting out. NATO would have to agree. Although Western leaders are

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expressing alarm at what looks like more blatant Russian intervention

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than before, it is not the same as suggesting that they are appeared to

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tackle Russia militarily. That is the ultimate nightmare. What can

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they do instead? Warning about more sanctions, more support for the

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Ukrainian government economically and politically and Mellitah Relay

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-- militarily, where are they getting their supplies? President

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Putin wants to have a solution on his terms. He will keep the conflict

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going, sending a message they cannot expect to take on Russia and win.

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A former employee of Rotherham Borough Council has told the BBC how

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girls as young as 11 living in care homes in the town were groomed and

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The former care worker, who doesn't want to be identified,

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said girls would tie bed sheets together to escape the homes,

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Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan has more.

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Taxis were often key to the sexual abuse of children in Rotherham,

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Transporting girls around the town or further afield to be exploited.

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Gangs actively targeted children's homes in the town,

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ensnaring vulnerable girls into their web of misery.

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This former care worker, who we are not identifying, spent four years

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working in children's homes in Rotherham

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There were phone calls right through the night, from 12 o'clock.

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They would come sometimes returned by the police, sometimes came back

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Within half an hour or three quarters of an hour they would be

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Drivers were paid by the council to take the girls,

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some of whom were just 11-years-old, from the homes to schools.

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Quickly it started grooming them, giving them drugs and alcohol.

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If they could leave by the fire escape they would leave by the

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fire escape but sometimes to hide where they were going

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they would put bedsheets together and climb out by the window.

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From a second storey building that is dangerous as well.

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What is it that makes a 13-year-old gets dolled up

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at two or three o'clock in the morning, tie bed sheets together

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These young people have already been sexually abused in many cases.

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There are some horrific cases of abuse within the family,

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If they are providing that, plus drugs and alcohol and freedoms,

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or perceived freedoms, then we are never going to be able

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Attempts to stop the exploitation or punish the perpetrators failed

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and rarely was there a night, says the former care worker, when a girl

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Malaysia Airlines is to cut almost a third of its staff as part

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of a recovery plan after being hit by two disasters this year.

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The airline will become completely state owned, and a new chief

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Investigators continue to hunt for MH370, the Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

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flight which went missing in March, while the MH17 air crash in eastern

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The aviation industry was put on red alert by Iceland this morning,

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following an eruption near the site of the Bardarbunga volcano.

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The fissure eruption began in the early hours, though

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so far it's produced no explosions similar to the one that caused chaos

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Iceland's Meteorological Office said the activity has now subsided.

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For the first time, there are to be mandatory food

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Hospitals will have to serve fish twice a week, have tap water

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available at all times, and their menus must reflect seasonal produce.

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The plan brings England into line with arrangements in Scotland

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and Wales but campaigners say it is still "woefully inadequate".

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Serving up salad in a hospital kitchen for the

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cameras, but the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt keen to get the message

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Hospital meals do not always look this freshly prepared.

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Many rely on heating up food they buy in.

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Some spend much less than others, even though eating well is crucial

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Now they are being told to offer healthy food and plenty of choice.

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When a person is in hospital they are in a very vulnerable state

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at the best of times and one of the things they should not have to worry

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about, really, is whether they are going to get food and drink that

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they recognise, that is familiar, that they can swallow, that somebody

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It is not the first time ministers have tried to improve hospital food.

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Now they say it will be written into hospital contracts.

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I think all of this is about looking after patients in the way

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that you would want your own friend or family to be looked after.

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This is part of a real change in the NHS where trusts are making

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a big effort to put patients first, and for patients the quality

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of food they get is one of the most important things of all.

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He has got Crohn's disease and needs to eat carefully.

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He has campaigned about hospital food, posting pictures on his blog.

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Throughout my 30 year journey I have either been coping on bringing

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in my own food or, as has happened in to past, doing rotas with staff,

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The Campaign for Better Hospital Food says the plan isn't ambitious

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With ratings due to be published online,

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any dishing up less appealing meals could face greater pressure.

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A search is under way for a five-year-old boy with

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a brain tumour taken out of hospital by his parents.

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Police say it's vital he receives medical treatment today.

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And still to come, almost half of Syria's population have fled

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More than three million are now refugees.

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I will have the sport and BBC News. We will tell you which teams Celtic,

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Everton and Tottenham will face in the Europa League. The draw has

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taken place this lunch time. The United Nations Refugee Agency

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says Syria is the biggest humanitarian emergency

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of our era, and that the world's response so far has

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fallen far short of what's needed. In a new report, it says almost

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half of the 22 million population has been forced to abandon their

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homes and flee for their lives. More than half

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of those uprooted are children. The three-and-a-half year conflict

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has created more than three million refugees, and within Syria itself

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a further six and half million Our Middle East correspondent

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Jim Muir reports. Dawn breaks over one of the refugee

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settlements in Lebanon. But every new day he brings yet more desperate

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Syrians seeking refuge. Syria's neighbours have been swamped by a

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tide of refugees. Three years into the war, it keeps on coming. All

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over Syria's neighbours, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and here in northern

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Iraq, camps like this have sprung up to cope with some of the 3 million

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refugees who have poured out of Syria. For everyone who has left,

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two others have stayed behind, having lost their homes. Any seeking

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refuge now have already been seeking refuge a long time, some of them

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displaced several times along the way. They are being displaced more

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than once for sure inside Syria before reaching safety in

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neighbouring countries. Right now in Syria, there are over 6 million

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Syrian refugees in turn lead displaced. At least one in ten

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Syrian refugees have been forced out of their homes over three times.

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TRANSLATION: I really hope we can go back. This man says he is worried

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that if they do, something bad will happen. Violence between the rebels

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and the regime continues to tear the country apart. Now there is the

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fresh complication of the self-styled Islam at a militants

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taking over large parts of the north and east, murdering large prisoners

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as part of a deliberate reign of terror. -- Islamic. Given that, the

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prospects for the tide being reversed soon look very slim.

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And there's plenty more about this online, including an explainer about

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the forces fighting the conflict, maps showing the key battle areas,

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and an interactive guide to how the Syria war created one of the biggest

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The UKIP leader Nigel Farage says if his party wins the Clacton

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by-election, he expects more defections from both

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He was speaking as he joined the town's MP Douglas

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Carswell on a constituency walkabout a day after Mr Carswell's defection

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Our political correspondent Sean Curran reports.

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You support me, I will support you, all the way. Take on Europe! A day

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out with a difference. Barely 24 hours after Douglas Carswell's

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defection, he was out on the campaign trail with his new leader.

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There will be a by-election in Clacton in a few weeks, but what

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about other MPs? Will they be tempted to follow his example? Lets

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see what happens in this by-election. If Douglas wins, which

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I believe he will, there will be others. Not just from the

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Conservatives but the Labour backbenches too, they might think,

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do you know what, UKIP might be for me. For now, the attention was on

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this man. The former Conservative explain why he had switched sides.

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Advisers told me that his plan was to persuade voters to stay in. Once

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I realised that, my position became untenable. Before I knew that, I

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thought the in-out strategy was right, but when I realised it was

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all about winning the next election, not about real change, I

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thought enough is enough. Senior Conservatives think he has made a

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mistake. If he wants a referendum, it would be delivered by a

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Conservative government with Conservative MPs. That is the choice

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people will face, whether at a by-election in Clacton or the

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general election next year. A simple choice. Any other vote does not

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deliver the referendum that the people in this country want. So far

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Douglas Carswell's fellow Eurosceptics have insisted they will

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stay put. That has not ended the speculation about more defections,

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and that is only likely to increase when MPs return here next week. What

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happens next is down to voters in Clacton. They could return the first

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UKIP candidate to Parliament and put more pressure on David Cameron.

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The water industry regulator says household bills should fall

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Ofwat says average water and sewerage bills should drop

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by around 5% in real terms between 2015 and 2020.

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The figure, which excludes inflation,

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is based on Ofwat's initial consideration of price proposals put

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Its final ruling will be made in December.

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The World Health Organization has warned that as many as 20,000

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people could ultimately be infected with the ebola virus and it says it

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needs almost half a billion dollars to contain the current outbreak.

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It was reported in West Africa in March and has since become

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the deadliest spread of the disease since its discovery in 1976.

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The most recent figures suggest more than 3,000 cases have been reported,

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including more than 1,500 deaths in four countries.

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In Liberia alone, more than 600 people have lost

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Our correspondent Tamasin Ford has been to the Liberia-Ivory Coast

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border, where preparations are being made to prevent ebola

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And unnerving silence replaces the normally vibrant border. All

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official crossing points into Liberia and Guinea were closed at

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the weekend. The latest government efforts to avoid ebola. Trucks are

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already beginning to pile up on this side of the border. Authorities say

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health is more important than trade, but people here have no idea when

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the borders are going to reopen. People are suffering financially,

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but many are relieved the borders are closed. This lady's family are

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on the other side and she can't come back. She says it is difficult but

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the fear of ebola is worse. TRANSLATION: I am afraid of death

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because it is not a trip that you can return from. We have been told

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not to eat bush meat, not to shake hands and not to have sex. Beyond

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these mountains lies Liberia, where ebola is now out of control. To the

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east is Guinea, thick and porous rainforest is all that separates

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Ivory Coast from the two worst hit ebola nations. This is one of five

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treatment centres in the region. Doctors are practising what to do if

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a suspected case lives. Every detail is considered.

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TRANSLATION: We have done the maximum possible to be ready and

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vigilant to control the situation. As soon as any suspected case

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arrives. You can never be ready enough, but I think we are strong

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enough to fight this epidemic. The heat inside the suit is the biggest

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difficulty, he says. Two or three hours are the most anyone can last.

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Countries have been accused of abandoning the ebola hit nations.

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Closing borders and suspending flights. But the Ivory Coast says it

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will do anything it can to fight ebola.

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This is Hurricane Marie barrelling across the Pacific towards

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And being pushed ahead of it, some of the biggest waves southern

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Sightseers and surfers have been drawn to

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But dozens of people have had to be rescued along the shoreline because

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of the size of the waves, and in Malibu, one surfer was killed,

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Some came just to watch the spectacle

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The surfers rode the best waves Southern California

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If you can read the conditions and you respect the ocean and you know

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your limits, it's OK out there. Some surfing legends tested their limits.

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Riding under a pier is not for the faint-hearted.

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Laird Hamilton is one of the world's best surfers.

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These are the days that I wait for all my life,

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Today was like a little price of heaven. I try to serve the best and

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this was the best I have ever had. Lifeguards warned people not to risk

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the riptides and strong currents, let alone the battering that comes

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with being dumped into the surf. Only enter this water,

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this is dangerous, dangerous water, If you have a lot of experience

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behind you. Even the most experienced surfers are becoming so

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tired battling the energy of the waves and the current, they become

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tired and I have seen some of them having to actually be rescued as

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well. One man died after collapsing on Malibu beach. Many were exhausted

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and needed to be pulled out of the water. For thousands of servers

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waiting to catch that perfect wave, all the way down the coast of

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Southern California, they have a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean to

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thank. It is sending in the swell from hundreds of miles away, causing

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waves to crash into the coastline. Some homes on south-facing

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coves have been flooded. The water goes straight through, so

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I am sure that if you own one of the houses it is an Irving. Sand is

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being piled up against the swell. -- it is unnerving. The waves of 2014

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will be remembered by the surfers and their tales of catching the big

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one will no doubt be told for years to come. Let's take a look at our

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own weather prospects. Nothing that while for us today or

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for the weekend. This afternoon, some hefty and blustery showers. We

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have our own area of low pressure towards the North West which has

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already brought hefty showers overnight into Northern Ireland and

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Scotland. We have some heavier showers targeting Wales and the

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south-west of England in the next couple of hours, drifting across

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into the Midlands. A rough rule of thumb today, the further east you

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are, the better the chance of staying dry. And seeing sunshine.

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Some of the showers across Scotland becoming quite slow moving in the

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lighter winds. Some rumbles of thunder with those showers through

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the afternoon. Northern Ireland looking a bit clearer, perhaps a

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view showers to the north and south but not bad. Sunny spells and

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showers for England. Wales and the south-west, more cloud and

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persistent rain from time to time. Quite a bit of cloud in eastern

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areas, but highs of 20-21. Worth taking the umbrella this evening.

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Showers across the British Isles for a time, but as we go into Saturday

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morning, things start to become quieter. The wind becomes lighter

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and hopefully the worst of the showers will be to the east.

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Saturday not looking bad, a promising start to the weekend.

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Still some showers to the north and west, we can't promise unbroken blue

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skies but there should be a lot of dry weather, some decent bright

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intervals, hopefully some sunshine and temperatures into the high teens

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or low 20s. Over the two days, Sunday is the most promising because

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high pressure will build in a little ridge from the south. That should

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mean a lot of dry weather on Sunday, plenty of sunshine and a warm feel.

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But notice something trying to contest that on Sunday afternoon. A

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weather front that could bring wet and windy weather into Scotland and

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Northern Ireland before the date is out. Central and eastern areas

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should see a good deal of sunshine. The weather system will swing south

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on Monday and Tuesday, which could lumber us with murkier conditions

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towards the south, but it is this you need to focus on from

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Wednesday... The high pressure is building, which will do a good job

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of settling down the weather, allowing us to see largely dry

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conditions, quite a bit of sunshine, but most excitingly it looks like

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the second half of next week could be rather warm.

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Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime:

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A search is under way for a five-year-old boy with

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a brain tumour taken out of hospital by his parents.

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Police say it's vital he receives medical treatment today.

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That's all from us, now on BBC One it's time

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