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Just under two days to go before the Independence referendum -

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the 'Yes' campaign pours scorn on a Westminster pledge

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls on Scots to protect

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key services by voting No on Thursday.

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Do you think we would ever stand by and allow the NHS to be privatised

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or cut in Scotland, do you think we would ever allow the NHS not to have

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the powers in Scotland to protect itself? No!

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Scotland's Deputy First Minister accuses the 'No' campaign of

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The only guarantee of the powers we need to protect the health service,

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create jobs, make sure we do not get Tory governments we did not vote

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for, is to vote macro one. -- is to vote yes.

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The US has carried out its first air strikes against

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Islamic State militants, just outside

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South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright

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resigns over the Rotherham child abuse scandal.

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Nearly two weeks after devastating floods,

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200 people are dead and many are still missing.

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Everywhere we go, buildings flattened, roads washed away. At

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what is most striking is the amount of anger and that is becoming a

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backlash against the authorities -- at what is.

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How the ?5 million raised by cancer victim Stephen Sutton

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will help others fighting the disease.

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A new way to pay on public transport - many debit and

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And the trial opens of a teenage boy accused of shooting dead

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Good afternoon, welcome to Edinburgh.

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Yes campaigners in the Scottish referendum have poured scorn on

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a pledge signed by the leaders of the three main Westminster parties

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to grant Scotland new devolved powers,

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David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg have promised

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"extensive new powers" for the Scottish Parliament,

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and to preserve the Barnett formula,

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which determines the distribution of public spending around the UK.

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The Yes campaign say the only way to guarantee Scotland

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gets the powers it needs is to vote for independence.

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In a moment, we'll have a report from the Yes campaign.

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But first, our political correspondent, Iain Watson,

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reports on the Better Together campaign.

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Two days until the Scottish referendum and it is too close to

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call, two former chancellors were trying to convince Labour voters not

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to be tempted it independence. Gordon Brown said that spending on

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the NHS in Scotland could be protect it even if a future Conservative

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government in Westminster wanted to cut it.

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Do you think we, the Labour Party who created the health service, who

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funded the National Health Service, who raised taxes in the United

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Kingdom to pay for the National Health Service, do you think we

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would ever stand by and allow the NHS to be privatised or cut in

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Scotland? Do you think we would ever allow the NHS not to have the powers

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in Scotland to protect itself? No! The No campaign came to Clydebank, a

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traditional Labour town which backed the SNP at the last elections, to

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prevent the drift towards independence in areas like this.

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David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg came closed to setting out a

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pledge almost in blood for this pledge.

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The party leaders say the Scottish Parliament is permanent and with

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extensive new powers at the UK will share resources across all four

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nations and the Barnett formula will continue.

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This complex formula began in the 1970s and results in Scotland

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spending more per head on public services than England. But at

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Westminster, there are fears that the price of keeping Scotland in the

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UK might be too high. If Scotland is to have its own

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tax-raising powers and if they can choose their own level of income

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tax, of course we in England would want to choose our level. Not

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necessarily the same as Scotland, we do not need Scottish MPs helping us

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make that decision. In Scotland, the former Liberal

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Democrat leader took to the trail, he feels No should have been more

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positive sooner. It was essential that the critical

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searching questions were asked on currency for example. And NATO, and

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defence. These are the big questions. And here we are 48 hours

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before polling day and nobody is saying that we have got definitive

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answers. Many of the shipyards have gone from

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the Clydeside but the No campaign thinks voters in areas like this

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could decide the result of Thursday's election.

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Well, the "Yes" campaign have described the pledge as

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an "insult" to voters. Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond,

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dismissed the pledge as a last-minute desperate offer

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With the latest from the campaign, our Scotland correspondent,

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No missing the message at this engineering firm on the Clyde, they

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are writing it on fire. Around 60 people work at this yard in Renfrew

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for the energy industry and these politicians want their boats.

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We have to make sure we use the economic levers of Independence --

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votes. To incentivise companies to invest. To invest in manufacturing

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processes and to improve employment. Obligingly, the man making sparks

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agreed. I will be voting Yes because I want

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Scotland to be decided by the Scottish people and my job will not

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change a Watt, it might even get better.

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We live in a Scotland that is socially staffed with unemployment,

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with damp housing... The Yes campaign is not just about

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the SNP, the left wing firebrand Tommy Sheridan has put a perjury

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conviction behind him to campaign for an independent Scotland.

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Scotland will not be a socialist independent country, it will be a

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fairer and more equal country, but the future in relation to what we

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can do in that independent country will become the type of socialist

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country we want. Campaigners are warning about health

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already controlled from Edinburgh. Confidential papers that have been

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passed to the BBC suggest it is facing a huge funding gap.

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We have policy control over it but if we leave ourselves at the mercy

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of Westminster cuts and we know further cuts coming from

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Westminster, it will get harder and harder for any Scottish governments

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to protect the things that matter. For some campaigners on both sides,

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the arguments are clear and the cheese -- and the choice is obvious.

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In these final hours, both campaigns are concentrating on the undecided,

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those who have still to make up their minds.

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So what are the voters, especially the undecided, making of

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Our correspondent Christian Fraser is in Fraserburgh,

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on the North East coast of Scotland, to guage opinion.

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We are in Fraserburgh today, a fishing industry -- the fishing

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industry fighter we important, but there are a lot of questions. What

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would their share of the UK quoted beat in an independent Scotland and

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where would these trawlers go in the North Sea in the fishing grounds are

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divided? 20 to ponder for the traders early this morning at the

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fish market. -- plenty. Around 40,000 tonnes of fish landed

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here every year, ?40,000 worth of business done in two hours, it is

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fast and furious. What do the people who come here think about the

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possibility of independence? Some things are good and some things

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are not good. I am not voting. I am not going to vote. It is my

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right not to vote. You do not believe in the

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politicians? One is as bad as another, to be honest.

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So if the SNP did secure an independent Scotland, what would you

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want to see? More fish quotas in Scotland because

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the sea is full of fish. It depends what happens with fish. A lot of

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this is going to England. So the exports, whether you are a

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member of the European union? Yes, it will go South, the fish and

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the prawns will go abroad. We can handle that being Scotland but I am

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not sure about the fish because the English will import them more and

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more, not from Scotland. What would you hope for in

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independence? I am saying nothing. Yes, not so much a No vote as no

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confidence in either side of the debate, so tough have conditions

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been for fishermen here. Alex Salmond says he will restore the

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fishing industry to be key alongside oil and whiskey, they will be able

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to negotiate like Denmark and Ireland, he says. But Westminster

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says when it comes to hard fought negotiations over quotas, we are

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better negotiating together. Thank you very much. Let's assess

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everything so far this morning. In the last hour, striking comments

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from the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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This referendum may hinge on what happens to the seemingly crumbling

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Labour vote and what we have seen from Gordon Brown in the last 30

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minutes is a desperate attempt to claw back that Labour vote from the

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brink, to stop those droves of Labour supporters is appearing into

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the arms of the Yes campaign. By citing what is Labour's most emotive

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and iconic policy, the NHS, Gordon Brown is playing the NHS card to

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trump the independence card by saying, only if Scots remain part of

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the UK will be NHS be safe in Scotland and the SNP are the enemies

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of that. They could have increased funding for the NHS but they chose

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not to do that. And it was his language, this was like Gordon Brown

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of 15, 20 years ago. A speech in the fiery rhetoric of traditional Labour

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values to resonate in Labour's Scottish heartlands. The SNP say

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this is part of a panic project, a last minute and desperate effort by

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the No campaign and the only way to save at the NHS and services is for

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Scotland to have full control of their finances. But the one thing

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you can say is true is that Alistair Darling is no longer leader of the

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No campaign, it is not Ed Miliband and David Cameron, it is Gordon

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round, he has been charged with rescuing the Labour vote and trying

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to save the union. Thank you very much, very

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interesting. And also, interesting to point this out.

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With just two days to go before Scotland votes,

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tonight, David Dimbleby holds one-on-one interviews

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with the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown

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and Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond,

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Scotland Decides - The Dimbleby Interviews

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The US has carried out its first air strike against the so-called

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American warplanes hit targets in the north of the country

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and close to Baghdad, in direct support of Iraqi troops.

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It comes five days after the US President Barack Obama

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outlined his plan to "degrade and ultimately destroy" IS.

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Our Middle East correspondent, Jim Muir, reports.

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Cutting through the skies of northern Iraq at dawn, American jets

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providing a cover for the latest offensive against ISPs -ish and is.

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-- air cover. Kurdish forces are preparing for action down below. --

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against IS forces. They and the Jets were just keeping watch this time.

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On the ground, the firepower was coming from the Kurds.

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This is the objective, a village reading to Mosul beyond the horizon.

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The area seized by IS militants last month. Kurdish ground forces had

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advanced B and their old lines to move in on the village after the

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bombardment. -- had advanced from their old lines. You can see clearly

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how it works, Americans in this guide providing reconnaissance and

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possibly air strikes, Kurdish forces bombarding with tanks and rockets.

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Despite that, the ground forces repairing to move on, we gaining the

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ground they lost to Islamic State last month is proving hard.

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-- regaining. On the other side Mosul, Kurdish forces had been

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pressing forward on another front at Zumar, they captured Mosul Dam a

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month ago but pushing further has been slow.

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The militants have a good technique, he says, they disappear and launch

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surprise attacks and leave many arms behind so we have to be very

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careful. It takes information and planning to drive them out.

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The Kurds keep up the attack, but the progress they have made

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illustrates how hard it will be. With me now is our security

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correspondent Gordon Corera. What is the significance of these air

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strikes? I think the strike near Baghdad is insignificant. It is the

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first of the new air strikes conducted by the US, which are not

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just about protecting Americans or doing immediate humanitarian

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assistance, but actually trying to destroy and degrade the so-called

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Islamic State, and actually trying to take them on directly,

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militarily. It is the first under these new orders from President

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Obama, but it may not be the last, and it is the first to happen near

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Baghdad, rather than in the north of the country. What is the latest we

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have on the British hostage still held? This is the taxi driver from

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Salford. He was taken when he went into Syria as part of an aid convoy.

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There are reports he was picked up almost immediately after he went

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over the border into Syria, suggesting perhaps some kind of

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tip-off. It would appear there has been an argument between and within

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jihadist groups about whether to hold him, precisely because he had

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gone in as part of an aid convoy, to try to help people. But he was held,

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obviously, and the Foreign Secretary yesterday said that they have no

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information about where he is at the moment, which leaves them with very

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few options. South Yorkshire's police and crime

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commissioner has bowed to pressure over the Rotherham sexual

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exploitation scandal and announced his resignation. 1400 children were

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abused in the town over many years. In a statement, Shaun Wright, who

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was the councillor in charge, said the calls for him to quit was

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distracting attention from the victims. He is the police and crime

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commissioner nobody wanted. For years, he was the councillor

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responsible for children's services in Rotherham, wild child sexual

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abuse was rife in the town. You did not do anything, children were

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abused, you were in post, will you resign? I am not resigning as South

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Yorkshire Police commissioner. When the scale of the scandal was exposed

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last month, there were calls for him to resign. I think he has real

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questions to answer, and I think you should heed those calls. But the

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Police Commissioner refused to budge and got a humiliating public

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dressing down in Parliament. What you have revealed yourself to be

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today it is a charlatan, whose love of office and salary makes you a

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disgrace. But the final straw came last week, when the people of

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Rotherham confronted him at a public meeting. You are a disgrace, mate.

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If I had a gun, I would shoot you. I have got to live with this, and what

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have you done? You have still got your job, you should stand down!

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Today, he finally went, saying in a statement... So, Mr Wright will not

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be returning to his office here in Barnsley. But what this episode

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highlights is the fact that elected police and crime commissioners

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cannot be sacked. The law on that will now be looked at again.

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The rate of inflation dropped last month, partly because of falling

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petrol prices and competition between supermarkets. It fell from

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1.6% in July to 1.5% in August. Other figures showed that house

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prices in the UK rose by more than 11% in the year to July.

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Police in Thailand investigating the deaths of two British tourists on

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the island of Koh Tao say they are focusing their investigation on the

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local Burmese migrant community. David Miller from Jersey and Hannah

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Witheridge from Norfolk were beaten to death. Detectives have ruled out

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other British tourists as suspects but want to speak to a friend of Mr

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Miller's, who left the island yesterday. Our correspondent

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Jonathan Head sent this report from Koh Tao.

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The presence of the police, more than 70 officers at one point, has

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been visible. They have been questioning Burnley is migrants, who

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worked in many of the resorts, and taking DNA samples, convinced they

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will find the culprit here. They also have some closed-circuit CCTV

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pictures, showing the couple after they left a beach-side bar just

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before they were killed, and another man police believe may have been

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following them. There is now strong pressure to solve this case quickly.

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Thailand's crew leader and now Prime Minister announced that he ordered

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more police to the island to hunt down the perpetrators. People just

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cannot accept this, he said. David Millar and Hannah Witheridge had

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been part of the great globetrotting movement of young people travelling

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the world. They had met for the first time on Koh Tao. This has to

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be the most unlikely place you would expect to see a crime like this, and

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that of course is what the locals are hoping, that it is just a

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ghastly one-off, and that once it is solved, they will be able to recover

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the laid-back vibe which has brought so many thousands to visit over the

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years. Jonathan Head, BBC News, Koh Tao, Thailand.

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The three main Westminster parties have pledged to transfer extensive

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powers to Scotland if there is a no vote this week.

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An exclusive interview with the mother of Stephen Sutton - the

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teenage cancer sufferer who raised nearly ?5 million for charity.

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Later on BBC London News we look at revenge evictions. And we look to

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one author inspired by the art of taxidermy. That is all coming up in

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15 minutes. At least 200 people have died

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and many are still missing in Indian-administered Kashmir

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nearly two weeks Thousands

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of people are still thought to be stranded and there are fears

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of disease spreading as criticism Andrew North has been to

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the worst-hit area of Srinagar, The centre of Srinagar after

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its worst flood in living memory. Some are calling it

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Kashmir's Katrina. The government was

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totally overwhelmed. We find a way in on foot

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as the waters begin to recede. It is just incredible

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the devastation around here, this whole road has been completely

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washed away. And up ahead,

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I'm hearing things are even worse. This was once

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a better-off neighbourhood. Many have lost everything

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and Mohammed Dar says he feels We made a makeshift bridge ours

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elves and we have been trying to Nobody came to help us -

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you are the first person from The centre of Srinagar has been

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utterly destroyed by this flood. Everywhere we go we find buildings

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flattened, roads washed away. But what is most striking

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about this disaster is the amount of anger there is and increasingly,

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that is becoming a backlash After decades of strife between

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Kashmir's Muslim majority and the government, the flood has brought

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old resentments back to the surface. We have not, until this date,

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until this time, we have not seen They dropped water bottles

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and biscuits - they were expired. More aid is starting to come in,

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like this mobile drinking water And the authorities insist

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they are doing all they can. Yet in the heart of this historic

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city it's not the government running the relief and recovery effort,

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but the people themselves. Andrew North, BBC News,

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in central Srinagar. Health experts are calling

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for a drastic reduction in the amount of sugar in our diets

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to help tackle tooth decay. Tooth decay among adults and

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children is described as one of the Researchers say the cause is

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a rise in sugar consumption, and want sugar to make up no more

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than 3% of our daily energy intake. For many people,

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getting away on holiday this summer was made difficult by delays

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at the Passport Agency. Now, a group

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of MPs says those who were left out The Home Affairs Select Committee

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says there was a "complete management failure" at the

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Passport Agency. The Government says it is reviewing

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the future of the service. Our home affairs correspondent

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Tom Symonds reports. As the requests filed up during what

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MPs described as a summer of chaos, thousands stumped up to speed up the

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process. Today's report says they should now be compensated. The delay

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in getting this passport nearly ruined a holiday Chris and his wife

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had put off for years while starting a business. A villa was waiting on a

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Spanish island, and he was forced to call his MP to break the deadlock.

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As far as compensation is concerned, it would be very nice to have it,

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but I would much rather they spend the money sorting out the system so

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that other people do not have to go through what we went through. The

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Passport Office is an executive agency, split off from the

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Government deliberately to make sure that it does it's one job of making

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sure you have got a passport when you need one. But this report says

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there was complete management failure over the summer. It

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recommends the Government takes back control. One reason for the queues,

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according to MPs, was the decision to move the processors processing of

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overseas applications back to the UK, putting more pressure on the

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service. They are angry that applicants are charged more for a

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passport than it costs to supply one. The office has made a surplus

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of ?124 million, which means they are making a profit out of their own

:26:40.:26:45.

citizens. I think that it should be budget no,, and if they make the

:26:46.:26:50.

money, they should invest it back in the service. After the Government

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stepped in to avert the political risk of ruined summer holidays, the

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backlog of passport applications fell from half a million to 90,000.

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Ministers are now considering the long-term future of the service.

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Stephen Sutton, the 19-year-old whose battle against cancer touched

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hearts with his bucket list of things to do before he died,

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has left a legacy worth nearly ?5 million to the Teenage Cancer Trust.

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Nearly ?3 million will be invested in specialist cancer units

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Just over ?1 million will be spent on training professionals,

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Half a million pounds will go towards improving

:27:25.:27:29.

Stephen's mother, Jane, talking exclusively to the BBC,

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told our correspondent Sian Lloyd that she was "immensely proud"

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I do not think we actually realised until there had been so many

:27:38.:27:52.

pictures published, that he was actually doing a thumbs up in all of

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them. But then, in some ways, I am not surprised about that, because

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even as a child, Stephen was always doing something jokey in a

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photograph. Four months after her son's death, Jayne Nisbet king for

:28:09.:28:11.

the first time about his remarkable story. Stephen Sutton's thumbs up

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campaign went global after posting this photo. It inspired people to

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donate ?5 million to the Teenage Cancer Trust. It is extremely

:28:23.:28:26.

difficult to see your child going through cancer. But the fact that

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Stephen was genuinely happy with what he was doing... He always used

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to say, it was always about the fun in fundraising, and that is why he

:28:37.:28:41.

was happy, he was having great fun. At the same time, he was just

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raising all this money to help young people. When Stephen was diagnosed

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with bowel cancer aged 15, he wrote a bucket list of 46 things he wanted

:28:51.:28:56.

to do. His goal soon switched to fundraising, and through social

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media, he reached out to people from all walks of life. Stephen was

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treated at three Teenage Cancer Trust units in Birmingham. His

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legacy will fund two new centres like this one. For every young

:29:10.:29:14.

person that we help at the moment, there is another one we can't. That

:29:15.:29:18.

needs to change. Because of Stephen and all of his supporters, we will

:29:19.:29:22.

be much more confident about making sure we can help everyone sooner.

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Six existing units will be improved, including this ward in Liverpool,

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where facilities need to be updated. It makes me so proud, yes,

:29:32.:29:36.

yes, to know that Stephen will continue to help so many young

:29:37.:29:39.

people who are diagnosed with cancer in the future, and give so many

:29:40.:29:44.

young people the chance to have the same opportunities as Stephen did.

:29:45.:29:47.

Stephen Sutton lived life to the full. His legacy should help other

:29:48.:29:51.

young cancer patient reach their potential.

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Time for a look at the weather - here's Nina Ridge.

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It was another foggy start to the day to day, and the next couple of

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days will continue to have these misty, murky mornings. There will be

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some decent temperatures in the sunshine. The satellite picture

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shows the sunshine breaking through four southern counties of England

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and across Wales. But there is more cloud for eastern Scotland and

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north-east England. At four o'clock this afternoon, mainly fine and dry

:30:28.:30:33.

to the south-west. The small risk of an afternoon show here. Most places

:30:34.:30:40.

will miss them. Again, some cloud in the Midlands, and the small chance

:30:41.:30:45.

of a shower. Across Northern Ireland, some brighter skies down to

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the south and the east. For Scotland, with some patchy cloud

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around, the odd light shower. Cooler and cloudy along the Aberdeenshire

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coast line. Some rain affecting Shetland. This evening and overnight

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tonight, watch out for the return of the mist and Merck coming back in

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from the east. Temperatures, similar to the last couple of mornings. So,

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things tomorrow will be brightening up, especially along the south

:31:20.:31:22.

coast, through parts of Wales and into the north-west. But it does

:31:23.:31:27.

look like that cloud will continue to affect eastern Scotland and

:31:28.:31:30.

north-east England, producing some patchy, light rain and drizzle. But

:31:31.:31:37.

when we come into the sunshine, we are up in two the mid-20s. Later on

:31:38.:31:43.

in the day, the risk of some showers affecting the south-west corner. We

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will be watching out for showers on Thursday and Friday as well, tied in

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with that low pressure sitting in the Bay of Biscay. It looks likely

:31:53.:31:57.

that there could be some showers for England and Wales during the day on

:31:58.:31:59.

Thursday. Thunderstorms are possible. Still some mist and low

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cloud for the north-east of England as well as eastern Scotland.

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Increasingly humid on Thursday. Those showers potentially are with

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us on Friday, pushing their way northwards. Further north, we are

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more likely to stay dry, if a little bit overcast at times. More details

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online. Now a reminder

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of our top story this lunchtime... The three main Westminster parties

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have pledged to transfer extensive powers to Scotland, if there is a no

:32:40.:32:43.

vote in the referendum on Thursday. The yes campaign says it is too

:32:44.:32:47.

little, too late. That is all from us.

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