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A historic night for the Conservative Party,

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as it deals Labour a major blow in a supposedly ultra-safe seat.

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The Tories celebrate a stunning victory in

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the Copeland by-election - an area Labour represented

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Copeland is obviously very disappointing.

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I'd hoped we'd win the election there.

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Labour holds Stoke-on-Trent Central, seeing off a challenge from

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We'll be live in both constituenciesm getting reaction

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from our Assistant Poltiical Editor, Norman Smith.

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"Inexplicable, unforgiveable, and gut-wretchingly sad" -

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Gary Lineker's verdict on the sacking of Claudio Ranieri.

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I personally think they should be building statues

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Murdered by a weapon of mass destruction -

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authorities in Malaysia say Kim Jong-nam was killed by a banned

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Royal Bank of Scotland reports a loss of ?7 billion for 2016,

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far worse than the previous year's figure.

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And a group of conservation charities is launching a recruitment

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drive for volunteers to help protect the native red squirrel.

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News, former Manchester City boss

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Roberto Mancini is the favourite to succeed Claudio Ranieri

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at one.

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It was, by any standards, a great result for the Conservatives -

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causing a major electoral upset by winning the long-held Labour seat

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Their candidate beat Labour by more than 2,000 votes.

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It's the first time a governing party has gained a seat

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In the night's other by-election, Labour held Stoke-on-Trent Central -

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holding off the challenge of the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall.

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The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the party's win in Stoke was

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"a decisive rejection of Ukip's politics of division"

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But he says their "message was not enough to win through in Copeland".

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Our Political Correspondent, Carole Walker, reports.

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Harrison, Trudy. The Conservative Party candidate. 13,748.

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This really was an astonishing results. Victory for the Tories in a

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seat which has been Labour territory and that was created.

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What has happened here tonight is a truly historic event. You would have

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to go back more than a century to find an example of a governing party

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taking a seat from the opposition party in an election like this.

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Height the Conservatives are jubilant.

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Though new MP increased the party's share of the vote by more than 8%.

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The Tories have seized on the result has a resounding endorsement of

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Theresa May's leadership and policies, and an outright rejection

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of labour and Jeremy Corbyn. For them to lose a seat to the

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governing party, this has never happened before. And that is a show

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of the weight which the Labour Party is just out of contact with what

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people of thinking. The defeated Labour candidate,

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Gillian Troughton, left without saying a word. The result has piled

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on the anguish for Labour MPs who fear their heading for defeat at the

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general election. Jeremy Corbyn has rejected suggestions he should step

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down I was elected to lead this party.

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I was elected to oppose the redistribution of wealth in the

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wrong direction, which is what this party was doing. We will continue

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our campaigning work on the NHS, social care and housing.

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And there was some comfort for Labour in Stoke Central, where

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campaigners saw off the threat from Ukip to hold onto the seat. The

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party's new MP said it was a victory for the whole labour movement.

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To those of you who came to Stoke-on-Trent to sow hatred and

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division and to turn us away from our friends and neighbours, I have

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one very simple message. You have failed.

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Ukip leader Paul Nuttall's bit of a parliament failed, despite

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overwhelming support for Brexit locally. After a campaign dogged by

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controversy. It left him facing questions about the future of his

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party and his leadership. This seat was number 72 on our hit

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list. There are a lot more that will happen, there's a lot more to come

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from us. I'm not going anywhere. Therefore, we move on.

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The result has also cast doubt and Ukip's strategy of targeting

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traditional Labour seats. This lunchtime the Prime Minister arrived

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in Copeland to congratulate her party's newest MP and what she said

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was astonishing victory. And what I think we've seen from

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this victory is that this truly is a government that is working for

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everyone and for every part of the country. And that... That's the

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message that we bring here to Copeland, and that we will take

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across the country. The Theresa May knows that future

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success will depend not just on her domestic policies, but on her

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handling of Britain's departure from. -- from the EU.

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In a moment we'll get the latest from our Assistant Poltical Editor

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But first to Iain Watson, who's in Copeland.

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The stuff they're of Tory dreams and Labour nightmares. That just about

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sums it up. Let me expand. Certainly Theresa May's message here in the

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past hour is that the Conservative Party is now the party for everyone,

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not just the privileged few. It will really wrangle with Labour MPs. This

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seat, Copeland, back in 1983 at the height of Thatcherism, it stayed

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Labour. This time it's gone. The word historic will be a reduced. But

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many Labour MPs see this as not just a disappointing result, but a

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catastrophic results. The question is what do the party do about it?

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I've been speaking to voters this morning and there seemed to be three

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interlinked problems for Labour. The first distrust. Nuclear is a big

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issue here. People want investment in new nuclear capacity. Jeremy

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Corbyn came and said he believed in that after all. He was attacked for

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not being nuclear enough. Now he apparently believes in it. But not

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enough people believed him. The second problem is Jeremy Corbyn

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himself. Even left-wing Labour MPs here tell me that his leadership

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came up on prompted on the doorstep, and not in a good way. The third

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thing is that some of the people here don't necessarily see Jeremy

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Corbyn as an antiestablishment figure, that's how he'd like to

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portray himself. They see Labour as the establishment party, they've had

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the MP for the past 80 years and they don't think they've done enough

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for the local area. Those three problems together could be toxic for

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Labour at the next general election. But the overriding problem Labour

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MPs have is they try to dislodge Jeremy Corbyn last year and they

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failed. It looks like they have no workable plan B. Let's go to Norman

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Smith who is in Stoke, where Corbyn will be celebrating later on. One

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wonders how much celebration there will actually be. Paul Nuttall is

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not celebrating either, of course. I don't think there will be much

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celebrating by Mr Corbyn or Mr Nuttall. Let's be honest, this was

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not just a harrowing night for Labour in Copeland, it was a

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difficult night for them in Stoke, too. Even though they won, they had

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to struggle to hold on in what should have been an easy to the Park

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by-election for them, because Stoke has been a Labour seat pretty much

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since the year dot. -- should have been an easy cheesy stroll in the

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park. We are seven years into a Conservative government. We have

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what many people with a real problems in the health service. And

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still Labour is having to fight very hard in one of its safest seats. As

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for Ukip, the question that arises following their defeat in Stoke is

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if they can't win here, then where can they win? Stoke was a prime

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target for them. It is weak Brexit country. It's a traditional working

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class seat. -- it is big Brexit country. Paul Nuttall himself took a

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battering. The one person who seems to have emerged significantly

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strengthened is Theresa May, who pretty much seems to be master, or

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should I say mistress, and commander of all she surveys. And I have to

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say, it does remind me of the early 1980s, when then, as now, we seem to

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have a dominant female Prime Minister with a resurgent

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Conservative Party against a struggling opposition, led by a

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leading many of whom supporters have little confidence in. Norman Smith

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in Stoke and Iain Watson in Copeland, thank you.

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And if you'd like more information on the by-election results,

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there's more reaction and analysis on the BBC news website -

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Former Leicester and England footballer Gary Lineker

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has described the club's sacking of Claudio Ranieri

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nine months after he led them to the Premier League title

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as "inexplicable, unforgivable and gut-wrenchingly sad."

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The Italian was dismissed last night after a string of poor results,

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that has left the side just one point and one place

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Our Sports Correspondent, Joe Wilson, reports.

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And your manager, Claudio Ranieri! He was the smile, the face and the

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manager of the most extraordinary sporting success is anyone in

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Leicester had ever seen - well, quite possibly anyone anywhere had

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ever seen. And Leicester sacked him. The starkness of that reality has

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shocked even those who spent their life in football.

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Yellow ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Leicester City squad,

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including their coach, Claudio Ranieri! Flashback to Sports

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Personality Of The Year. Gary Lineker, former player and lifelong

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Leicester fan. To Ranieri, eternally grateful.

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The way that everybody got behind Leicester last season was just

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something that I had never witnessed really in football before. And I

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think to toss that all the way over a premature decision and a disloyal

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and in many ways a lack of gratitude, is quite gobsmacking. But

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I just think you deserve a little bit more, and certainly more time.

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-- I just think he deserved. I think they should be building statues, not

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backing him. Do you think the players are culpable? Do you think

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some players will be thinking, crikey, did I cause this? If the

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players are involved, they should have a long, hard look at themselves

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as well. There was always going to be and after the Lord Mayor's show

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season. It was never going to match anything like last season. This was

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the reality of where less than normally are. They're all sorts of

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different reasons why this happened, but I just think it's a really sad

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day for Leicester in many ways, that it's come to this. I think he

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deserved and bought himself a bit more time than this, really. I'm not

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ashamed to say that last night, when the news broke, I shed a tear. I

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shed a tear for Claudio, for football, and my club. Leicester's

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Thai owners stressed that the club is in crisis, that they acted to

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help the club survive. They urge Leicester fans to try to understand.

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I was shocked. I was not surprised, because when not playing too well,

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but I was definitely disappointed because after last season he

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deserved to stay with us, until the end of the season, even if we got

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relegated. You can't run a business like this.

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One year he did the impossible, the next you're sacking him. Disgusting.

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Days when players could be from selling fruit and veg on. That was

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the Lineker business before football. Days when winter pictures

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were often marred. But if the sacking of Ranieri is just modern

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football, what does that say about modern football?

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Let's speak to David Ornstein, who's at Leicester City's ground.

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As we saw there, there was real anger out there about this. Simon,

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there is a feeling of high emotion in the city, and among the support

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base today. It ranges from the sympathy for Claudio Ranieri to the

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downright anger at the decision to sack him. Some, however, it must be

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said, do understand the decision made by the club. When Ranieri was

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appointed in 2015, it was a decision that raised eyebrows. He proved

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those critics wrong. He answered them - and how! He brought

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celebrations to this city and this club, the like of which they had

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never seen before in the club's 133 year history. This stadium, the

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stadium work Craig Shakespeare, the assistant manager, is now giving a

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news conference as we speak. The stadium where we saw such scenes of

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celebrations. Now it's come to this. This is where Claudio Ranieri came

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last night to learn his fate. Now, however, that dream is over. All

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focus will turn to Liverpool on Monday. They visit the King Power

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stadium and Leicester must win that. They're one place and one point

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above the relegation zone. They could become the first club since

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Manchester City in the 1930s to become relegated having won the top

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flight the season before. A big task for Leicester, but they will have to

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do it without Claudio Ranieri. David, thank you very much.

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Police in Malaysia say the half-brother of North Korean

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leader Kim Jong-un was murdered with a highly toxic

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Kim Jong-nam was attacked at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.

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Our correspondent, Stephen Evans, sent this report from Seoul.

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The assassin pulled the cloth over Kim Jong-nam's face

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He sought urgent medical help, but so deadly is a chemical agent

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The Malaysian police chief was adamant it was VX.

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It is the VX nerve agent, which is a chemical weapon.

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You don't know how it was brought in?

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The police have three people in custody.

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The two women alleged to have actually attacked,

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and a North Korean man said to have helped.

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One of the attackers may have contaminated herself.

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Police want to talk to at least seven others, including

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a North Korean diplomat and an employee of North

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In 2013, Kim Jong-un inspected chemical weapons masks.

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North Korea's long been suspected of making chemical weapons.

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South Korean experts think the relation attack confirms that.

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-- think the Malaysian attack confirms that.

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A tiny drop of the VX agent can kill anybody within a minute.

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So I think it is this, it can absorb the skin, eye,

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So it's more than 100 times toxic than the nerve gas commonly

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And the problem with this VX is its toxic,

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The airport in Kuala Lumpur is to be swept for traces of any other deadly

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chemicals that the assassination team may have left.

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North Korea is, in effect, a dynasty.

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The all-powerful leadership goes from father to son.

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One threat to Kim Jong-un is now no more.

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Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes

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You have just been added to the airport where, according to

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authorities, a weapon of mass destruction was used a few days ago.

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How are they taking this? A little more relaxed than they perhaps

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should be, Simon. I have been in the airport this afternoon, this

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evening, it has taken a good hour or two to get back, when we left there

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were no signs at all that the authorities were carrying out this

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week for the decontamination effort they claimed they were going to. I

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am afraid to say there is little credibility to their claim that they

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are taking the threats of other people seriously and doing something

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about it. In terms of what happens now, what

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happens to the body, what does North Korea wants to happen to that?

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I think this takes the whole crisis between Malaysia and North Korea to

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a completely different level. We were talking about a potential

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assassination until today, now we are talking about not just an

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associate nation but potentially be used by a country of a banned

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chemical weapon in another country's major International Airport. This

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has really pushed relations between Malaysia and North Korea to the

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verge of breaking point. The Malaysians Foreign Minister today

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affectively threatened the North Korean ambassador but if he does not

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stop what he called spewing lies, Malaysia may well expel him. Thank

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you, Rupert. An historic night for

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the Conservative Party as it deals Labour a major blow

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in the supposedly ultra-safe America moves to calm fears

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in Mexico that US troops could be sent in to deal

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with illegal immigrants. Coming up in sport at half-past,

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centre Ben Te'o will make his first start for England

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in Sunday's Six Nations match Reports from the Iraqi city of Mosul

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say government troops have entered a neighbourhood in the western half

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of the city. They captured the airport yesterday

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as part of their battle to expel Islamic State forces from its final

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stronghold in Iraq. Let's speak our correspondent

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Wyre Davies, who is with Iraqi Just how significant is this

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progress? Sorry, we

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obviously have a problem with a link to Wyre Davies.

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Sorry about that, we will try to get him a little later.

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America's Homeland Security chief has moved to reassure Mexico

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that the US army won't be deployed to deal with illegal immigrants.

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John Kelly made the pledge during talks in Mexico

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with the country's President and other senior officials.

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Concerns were raised after President Trump spoke

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about a military operation to deport criminals.

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Our correspondent Dan Johnson reports.

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There's already been a change on Mexico's border with the USA.

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A new flow of people heading back south.

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These Mexicans were sent home because America says

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TRANSLATION: In Portland, Oregon, as I was coming out of the court

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when I went to pay my ticket that I owed, they were

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That's the new reality under what President Trump calls

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You see what's happening at the border.

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All of a sudden, for the first time, weeding gang members out,

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We're getting really bad dudes out of this country.

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And at a rate that nobody's ever seen before.

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Also crossing the border, Rex Tillerson, the Secretary

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of State from Texas, year to talk to his counterpart

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and forced to listen to Mexican concerns.

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TRANSLATION: It is a fact that is obvious that

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Mexicans are worried, irritated, before what is perceived

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as policies that might be harmful to our national interest

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and to Mexicans in Mexico and abroad.

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Inconsistency in tone is an early feature of the Trump administration.

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The Secretary of State took a much softer line than his boss.

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Two strong sovereign countries, from time to time,

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We listen closely and carefully to each other as we respectfully

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and patiently raise our respective concerns.

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There were discussions with the Mexican president, too.

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Promises of closer cooperation and reminders of the cultural

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Figures do show the number of Mexicans leaving the US

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in recent years actually outstripped new arrivals.

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Protesters have called for bridges to be built instead of walls.

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TRANSLATION: I think there couldn't have been a better symbolic protest

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than burning Trump's wall, because there shouldn't be

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He intends to deport more people he considers a threat and filters

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We have re-established links with Wyre Davies in the Iraqi city of

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Mosul and can update us on progress, they have entered parts of the West

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of the city? This is a very critic... Critical

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point in the battle for Mosul. We have heard that after taking the

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airport yesterday, as of dawn this morning Iraqi forces have moved in

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with heavily armoured units to try to push so-called Islamic State

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fighters into the city itself. It is a very built-up area, 750,000

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citizens, very difficult to fight in. I am at a joint American and

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Iraqi military base and it is apparent that international forces

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are very much part of this. There are American artillery units firing

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position shells at Isis positions in and outside of Mosul. Their boots on

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the ground, as the Americans call them, trying to help the Iraqi army

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to take the western part of the city. This is very critical part of

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a fight to try to remove so-called Isis from its last big stronghold in

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Iraq. Thank you very much, Wyre Davies.

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The Royal Bank of Scotland made a loss of nearly

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$7 billion last year, more the three times the loss

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Well, our business editor Simon Jack is with me.

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We have been talking about losses at RBS for a 031 time? If you have a

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sense of deja vu, this is the ninth loss in a row RBS has made, ?7

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billion today on top of 51 billion over the last decade, ?58 billion of

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losses in total. The UK taxpayer put in ?45 billion in 2009, we have gone

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through all of that and then some. It was not meant to take this long,

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we were meant to be back to health, so I spoke to boss Ross McEwan and

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asked why it is taking so long and whose fault it is.

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I don't think it's a matter of fault.

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I don't think people saw the magnitude of the conduct

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and litigation issues that would come through.

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Who thought that we'd be paying, as an industry,

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Who thought these charges would come through of this magnitude?

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It is not over yet, I think it is very likely that RBS will make

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another loss next year, they have too settled with US authorities over

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the RBS role in the sub-prime mortgage crisis, so more to come.

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Underneath the wreckage, there is a decent bank, ?1 billion of profit

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every quarter, lending to UK businesses and homeowners, but we

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have some way to go before we get there. Thousands of jobs could go

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over the next year, pain ahead but also some light at the bank today,

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they said for the first time they were confident they would make a

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profit in 2018. Thank you very much, Simon Jack.

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Police are questioning a man and woman over

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the escape of a convicted murderer in Liverpool.

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They're being held on suspicion of helping Shaun Walmsley,

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who got away from guards during a hospital visit.

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Let's get the latest from our correspondent Judith Moritz.

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Still no sign of him? That's right. Shaun Walmsley escaped from here on

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Tuesday afternoon, he came for a regular hospital appointment at this

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hospital and as he was leaving and was escorted here by prison officers

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from Liverpool prison a short distance away, as they were getting

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into a car to leave the group were ambushed by two men, whose faces

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were covered, brandishing a gun and a knife and who escaped with Shaun

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Walmsley in a gold covered Volvo. -- gold covered Volvo. Merseyside

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Police arrested a 27-year-old man and a 26 year macro woman, both of

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the same address in the Norris Green area of Liverpool. I understand they

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are being held at separate police stations on Merseyside and being

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questioned about the escape on suspicion of assisting an offender,

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it is not thought they are part of the group that at the hospital on

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the day. Police say they are still looking this Shaun Walmsley and the

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two men who were part of that escape effort and choose day. They are

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telling members of the public they should not approach Walmsley if they

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see him, he is a dangerous criminal who was sentenced to life in prison

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with the minimum term of 30 years back in 2015. Merseyside Police say

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they are combing CCTV footage, they have released imagery of what

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happened here that afternoon in the hope that witnesses may come

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forward, because it was in broad daylight. I know plenty of people

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may have seen what happened. I should add that Merseyside Police

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say they are working not just with police forces around the UK on this

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but also liaising with police forces abroad, notices of information have

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gone out to Port authorities, airports, they say they are working

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around the clock to try to get Shaun Walmsley back.

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Thank you, Judith Moritz. Prince Charles is reported to back

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new plans to sterilise grey squirrels in a bid

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to protect native reds. The proposals would see

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grey squirrels given an oral contraceptive -

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hidden in chocolate spread - The Wildlife Trusts are having

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their biggest-ever recruitment drive Conservation charities say

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the population could disappear from England,

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Wales and Northern Ireland Red squirrels were once a common

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sight across much of the UK. But the introduction of their grey

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cousins 141 years ago spelled Carrying a disease which kills reds,

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the bigger, greedier grey squirrel dominates our landscape more

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than a century on, with more There are just 140,000

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reds in comparison. But in recent years,

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efforts to protect reds have had some success and now for the first

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time the wildlife trusts are combining to recruit

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5,000 volunteers to help People will be asked to monitor

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and record data and, if they're willing, they'll be given

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training on how to cull They're hoping the Red

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Squirrels United project will not only maintain,

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but maybe even increase numbers. We can train people to help

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with monitoring, so using trail cameras and hair tubes,

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we also need people to record their sightings and report

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them to us and also help It's a really great opportunity

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for people to get involved in a large-scale conservation

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project but also at a local level This map shows how many red

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squirrels were around The campaign hopes to focus

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the efforts of volunteers on the nine areas where there

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are already red squirrels, including the Glens of Antrim

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in Northern Ireland, Anglesey in Wales,

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and Merseyside in England. The Saving Scotland's Red

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Squirrels volunteer project Most of us will never get this

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close to a baby squirrel. Rachel's nursing this

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one back to health. But with this campaign there's

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a chance to make sure this native species survives and maybe even

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flourishes once again in the UK. The price of first and second class

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stamps will go up by 1p next month. From the end of March,

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a first class stamp will cost 65p, with a second class stamp

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increasing to 56p. The Royal Mail have said

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the increase is needed to ensure the sustainability

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of the post service. A woman who died after being hit by

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debris and Wolverhampton city centre yesterday has been named as Tanni,

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she was 29 and from Stafford. Winds of up to 94 mph were recorded

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at its height in the UK, causing power cuts, flights to be

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grounded and trains cancelled. Some welcome tranquillity at last

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for some of us, a beautiful start to the day in Cumbria. In Cumbria the

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sunshine will not last long, as we see in a moment. Doris has been

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hurtling its way across northern parts of Europe, causing some

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problems. For us, a window of sunshine for many places this

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morning, there are further fronts lying in wait in the Atlantic and

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there will be rain for many through the weekend. Enjoy the sunshine

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while it lasts, across many parts of England and Wales it will be a fine

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afternoon with broken cloud and sunshine. Lots of cloud across

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eastern counties at the moment, I hope that will break up to some

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extent. Feeling cool after the chilly start, sixes and sevens but

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the winds are nothing like as strong as they have been.

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Sunshine in Cumbria, brightness and eastern Scotland but all the west

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rain in Northern Ireland and into western Scotland this afternoon.

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That rain will continue eastwards overnight. A period of snow over the

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Highlands before it turns back to rain. Rain will cascade its way down

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across many areas. Reaching... Very little reaching southern counties,

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it will be mostly further north. Temperatures will be on the rise

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here. Under clear skies it will be quite a chilly night.

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Tomorrow morning does not look that chilly. Lots of rain around the more

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northern and western areas. It will improve across Scotland and Northern

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Ireland, things will brighten up through the afternoon. Showers

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across the far north-west, dribs and drabs further south, across England

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and Wales at least. Technically and mild today but with the wind and the

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rain it will not feel that pleasant, the wane -- the rain will be most

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obvious across parts of Cumbria. Some respite before it comes back on

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Sunday. Keeping our eye on rainfall through Cumbria this weekend, the

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risk of some flooding. There are warnings in force, another

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weather system comes into Sunday, especially to more northern and

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western areas with increasing winds. Further south on Sunday, mostly dry

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and bright, there will be some sunshine around commerce and

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increasing cloud but are largely fine enter the weekend, temperatures

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doing pretty well up and down the UK, into double figures in many

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places. That will be tempered by wind and rain.

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Mild and blustery this weekend but nothing like as windy as it has

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been. Some rain around, particularly across the more northern and western

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areas. All the latest on the warnings can be found on the BBC

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weather website. A reminder of our main

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story this lunchtime... A historic night for

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the Conservative Party as it deals Labour a major blow

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in the supposedly ultra-safe That's all from the BBC News at One

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- so it's goodbye from me, Copeland is very disappointing, I

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hope we would win, we did not.

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