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Plans for more cuts get the cold shoulder from head teachers. They

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say a funding crisis is forcing them to increase class sizes and cut

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courses. We will be live at the head teachers' conference in Birmingham.

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Also... EU leaders meet in Brussels -

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without Theresa May - in what's billed as the last

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European summit before Brexit BT bows to demands to run a legally

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separate broadband operation, British Cycling admits not giving

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enough care to staff and athletes after ongoing claims

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of sexism and bullying. A new study aims to tell us

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about our musical tastes And coming up in the sport on BBC

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News, Owen Farrell remains a doubt for England's Six Nations match

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against Scotland tomorrow, but they have until an hour before

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kick-off to make a decision. Good afternoon and welcome

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to the BBC News at One. Schools in England are being forced

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to cut GCSE and A-level courses in an effort to balance the books,

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according to a head teachers' union. The Association of Scool and College

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Leaders has warned that budget pressures are causing them to cancel

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things like school trips. They have said budget constraints are driving

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up class sizes. Let's go to our education

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correspondent Gillian Hargreaves, who's at the conference

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in Birmingham. Between now and Easter there will be

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a number of teaching union conferences, this morning, head

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teachers in Birmingham. Justine Greening could have been left in no

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doubt about how strong their grievances are.

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Peter Woodman at the wheeled school might be a head teacher, but he

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still likes to work at the chalk face, partly because he enjoys it am

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partly because it saves money. The only reason we can't survive as we

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are carrying forward money from last year, if the Government stick to

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their pledges at the cash flow and budget, we will be making two cuts

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to around ?70,000 every year, year on year.

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Peter is one of dozens in heads in southern England who wrote to

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parents, informing them of the impact.

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In a poll, almost three quarters of members of this union said they had

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had to cut GCSE or vocational courses in the last 12 months.

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The most common web design and technology, performing arts, music

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and German and many teachers reported bigger class sizes to save

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money. Head teachers gathered in Birmingham

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this morning for the first of a series of teachers' conferences, the

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conversation dominated by cuts. It is the first time Education

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Secretary Justine Greening has laid out the Government's case in how

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schools should operate in these straitened times.

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Education Secretary Justine Greening has halted -- told head teachers

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that well there is no one money she will do her utmost to help them ease

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their way through the worst financial pressures in schools for

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20 years. It is really annoying to find

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Government constantly saying funding has never been higher, yes, because

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we have more students and because of inflation. We have an 8% cuts and

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are expected to continue delivering quality.

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How difficult is it? Like many schools across the country, we are

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all struggling to make ends meet. It is absolutely dire, we are having

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to make cuts to the curriculum and it is untenable.

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The Government points out that class sizes are at the lowest level for a

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decade and ?40 billion is being spent on schools in England this

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year, the highest cash figure ever. Now, this afternoon the new Chief

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inspector of schools for England, Amanda Spielman, will get up and

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make a speech to head teachers in which she says some schools are

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quite deliberately narrowing the range of subjects they are teaching

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and moving difficult pupils out of their schools to help them write up

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school league tables. Again, I suspect that will not go down well

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at all with some head teachers. Downing Street says it is confident

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it will meet its own deadline of the end of March for triggering

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the start of Britain's departure It comes as EU leaders met

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in Brussels to shore up unity Let's cross to Brussels and our

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Europe correspondent, Ben Wright. Well, European leaders are just

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leaving the summit now, having spent the morning talking about the EU's

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priorities, mapping out its future, a feature that will not include

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Britain. While the formal divorce Brexit talks have not started yet,

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there is a feeling that the separation has already begun.

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This is not quite as usual this morning as 27 EU heads of Government

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gathered without Britain Daesh business not quite as usual. Within

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weeks, the UK will start to unpick a decades long relationship with the

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EU and try to build a new one. Everyone expects the divorce to be

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difficulty. A crucial player on the EU side will be Donald Tusk,

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re-elected yesterday as President of the European Council, which

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represents EU leaders. In a fortnight, EU leaders will meet

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in Italy to celebrate 60 years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome, a

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foundation stone of the European unit.

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At Brexit will no doubt overshadow the party. Theresa May, who left the

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summit last night, insists she will trigger the starter Brexit by the

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end of the month and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been

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clear about the future cost of access to EU markets.

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It is not reasonable, I don't think, for the UK, having left the EU, to

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continue to make vast budget payments. I think everybody

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understands that and that is the reality.

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From the other side of the negotiation, an idea from the senior

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MEP who was not a negotiator but will represent the European

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Parliament during Brexit. He says there could be some way for UK

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citizens who wanted to retain their EU identity.

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Many UK citizens say I want to continue to have my European

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citizenship, I think we need to examine what type of special

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arrangement we can make for these individual citizens who want to

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continue to have a relationship with the European Union.

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But how that might work in practice is anyone's guess. We are on the

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brink of negotiations that have never been attempted before. The

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risks for both sides are high. Now, EU leaders desperately did not

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want Brexit to happen, but now it is going to they are keen to get on

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with it and there is a real sense of the phoney war phase of this coming

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to an end. Theresa May has said for a long time she intends to get the

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best deal for Britain, EU leaders and people within the institutions

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have insisted they will get a really good deal for the EU, crucially one

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serving as a warning to EU countries who might think about leaving in the

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future. But the next time Theresa May is here, the rhetoric around

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Brexit will have been replaced by the reality of tough negotiations.

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Thank you, Ben Wright. The row continues over

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the Government's plans to increase National Insurance contributions

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for some self-employed people. Labour has accused the Government

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of a partial U-turn after the Prime Minister said MPs

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won't vote on the plan Let's speak to our political

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correspondent, Iain Watson. He is at Westminster for us. Has the

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Prime Minister blinked here? Yes, she has. She is not closing her rise

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to the concerns of her own Conservative MPs, but it is not

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clear how far she will change your view. -- she is not closing her

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eyes. Because this boat will now be in the autumn, to bring in these

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measures, it will be after a review into working practices have been

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published -- because this bowled. It is likely to recommend more rights

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for the self-employed, such as rights to maternity and paternity

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leave, so the Government can argue from the autumn that the

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self-employed are getting more value for money from the National

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Insurance rise. What they might do, I have spoken to potential

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Conservative rebels and they say the Government to be more radical, to

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draw a clear distinction between the genuinely self-employed and those

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who worked just one company, such as a career company. They say that

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latter category should be hit with higher National Insurance but in

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return for full climate rights and perhaps the chance that they could

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find a little bit of time and space to ease the pain on the genuinely

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help -- self-employed such as hairdressers and plumbers. At every

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Conservative MP I have spoken to has said, of the record at least, that

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the Government should be more upfront about the fact that it had

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broken a manifesto pledge to some workers and explains why. They say

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they are not sure that a relatively small financial gain, ultimately, is

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worth all of this extended political pain. Thank you.

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BT has agreed to set up a new company to run the UK's

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national broadband network after being criticised

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BT Openreach has been accused of looking after its own customers

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at the expensive of rivals like Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone.

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Those companies welcomed the news, saying everyone's customers

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Here's our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.

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It's got a massive and vital task rolling out fast broadband across

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the UK. Its critics say BT's Openreach has not been up to the

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job, delivering poor service are not investing enough. After a long

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battle, office-macro has said that Openreach should be separated from

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BT. This is what customers have demanded. They have been concerned

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that open reach is not performed well enough, broadband has not been

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good enough and they see the greater independence as a greater means for

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Openreach to operate with the telecoms industry at heart, not just

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BT. This deal is meant to make Openreach much more independent. It

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will have 32,000 employees working directly for it, there will be an

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independent board in charge of what goes on and it will have its own

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brand, the BT logo will disappear. BT had been accused of taking

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profits from Openreach and spending them on sports rights, a charger

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denies. The firm could have been ordered to sell the division

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completely and seems content with today's deal.

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We have listened to the criticisms from the general public, service

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providers, politicians and the media and looked to address them. That is

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what we are doing with the fundamental reforms today.

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Around 90% of UK homes have access to fast broadband but the hope is

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that the roll-out will accelerate and service will improve.

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We hope these reforms will really lead to a big change by Openreach

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and make them much more focused on delivering for their customers, but

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also transformed this market so that we see more competition and

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customers having much more choice about who they get their broadband

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and phone services from. Even rivals like TalkTalk who had

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once called for BT to be split up of welcome this more limited move, but

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they are calling for Ofcom to make sure that open Reach -- Openreach

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delivers on its promises. In South Korea, two people

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have died in clashes between police and demonstrators

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who were protesting at the removal from office of the President

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by the country's highest court. Park Geun-hye was found

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guilty of corruption But she's refusing to leave

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the presidential palace, as our correspondent in Seoul,

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Stephen Evans, now reports. The head of South Korea's highest

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court says President Park committed It was against the constitution

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and the trust of the people. Outside the court, pro-Park

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protesters clashed with police. Two died, one apparently by falling

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from the top of the bus The central allegation

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is that the country's biggest companies paid money

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to the President's best friend So top business leaders now face

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awkward questions which may yet The police have been out in force

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because feelings run so high. There will be a general

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election in 60 days. One of the consequences of that may

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be a move to the left. If the government here moved

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to the left, there would be a different attitude

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towards North Korea, Every Saturday night

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for three months now, there have been huge demonstrations

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against President Park. But what pushed her from office

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was a Constitutional Court finding her guilty of crime

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in a country which has only been Stephen Evans, BBC

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News, South Korea. A short time ago, Steve went out

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into the streets of Seoul to gauge the atmosphere,

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and sent this update. The centre of Seoul tonight feels

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like a victory rally for the protesters who pushed

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the president from power. There are also pro-Park people

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who are nursing their wounds, President Park, ex-President Park,

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rather, is in the presidential She emerges tomorrow as an ordinary

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citizen and she may well face criminal charges and end

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up behind bars. Steve Evans in Seoul.

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British cycling has admitted not paying enough care and attention to

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the welfare of staff and athletes. It was responding to the leak of the

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draft report into its handling of allegations of discrimination

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against Jess Varnish by Steve Sutton. David Ornstein is that the

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National cycling Centre, tell us about what is in the document?

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For almost one year this has been hanging over British Cycling,

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Britain's most successful and well funded Olympic sport, like a dark

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cloud. It started when Sprint cyclist Jess Varnish made

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allegations of sexism and discrimination against the former

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performance director Shane Sutton. That is before other riders and Stav

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supported her, talking about a culture of fear and bullying. --

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other riders and staff. A report into the culture of British Cycling

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was commissioned, a leaked draft published in the Daily Mail backed

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up many of the complaints, perhaps most damningly describing certain's

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predecessor, Sir Dave Brailsford, as being untouchable. It said many

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elite riders experienced trauma while with British Cycling and

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confirmed that culture of fear. Today British Cycling issued a

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statement disagreeing with the factual accuracy of some of the

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points made in the report, but admitting to specific shortcomings

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and a failure to address early warning signs of problems. It said a

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39 point action plan for reform announced here last week was already

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under way, while many of the key staff have since departed and been

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replaced. For the first time no British Cycling and, perhaps,

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British sport as a whole, have to address that difficult balance

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between them no compromise approach that has brought so much success and

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also a duty of care to athletes and Stav. Thank you.

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Classes in England are going up, say headteachers.

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And coming up in the sport at half-past: Ireland must win

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in Wales tonight in the Six Nations to realistically keep

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Anything less and they could open the door for England to wrap it up

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It may be more than 60 years since the Great Smog of London,

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but air pollution in the capital is again a huge issue.

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It damages people's health and contributes towards thousands

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All this week, the BBC has been highlighting the growing

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As part of our 'So I Can Breathe' series, our correspondent

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Graham Satchell has been looking at the changing conditions

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in Britain's cities, and how to achieve cleaner air.

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'London has been brought to a halt by dense smog,

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The Great Smog of 1952, dramatised in the Netflix series The Crown.

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'Be careful out there, it's a real pea-souper.'

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Anne Goldsmith was eight in 1952 and remembers it well.

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We could hardly see in front of us really, and when I got to school,

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the handkerchief would be absolutely black.

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'Special filtering masks are the latest weapons...'

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It's now thought 12,000 people died in the Great Smog.

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The enemy then - coal, used in factories and people's homes.

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What followed the smog was the Clean Air Act of 1956.

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It introduced smoke-control areas, where only smokeless

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Fast-forward 60 years and the enemy now is nitrogen dioxide,

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These are the engines that have been removed out

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The local authority here in Birmingham has got funding

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to replace the diesel engines in 65 taxis.

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We removed 99% of the nox that the taxi was producing.

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There are hundreds of taxis in Birmingham.

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The Government's overall plan is to introduce so-called 'clean air

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I will look at the evidence, and when the evidence comes

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through as to where the key areas of pollution are, we will take

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the action that is needed to address the need for clean air in the city.

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Well, I'm afraid the Government's been hopeless.

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Critics like Client Earth say what we need today

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is a new Clean Air Act, and a scrappage scheme

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You have to phase diesel vehicles off our roads.

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But it would cost a fortune, wouldn't it?

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Well, yeah, it's going to take time to do it, but we've got

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Back in Lewisham, in London, Anne is meeting nine-year-old

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We called it 'smog', and you couldn't see,

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On days when pollution is bad, Amy and Eloise are kept

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indoors at playtime, just as Anne was in 1952.

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Sometimes, we have to stay inside because the air is bad.

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More than 60 years on, air pollution is still damaging children's health,

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A tennis coach is on trial, accused of causing child cruelty

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as he coached his daughters to become tennis stars.

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In one incident, John De'Viana from Essex, is said to have kicked

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and punched one of his daughters after a tennis match.

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Our correspondent, Helena Lee, is at Snaresbrook Crown Court.

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Tell us more about what was said in court. This is the second day that

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the defendant John De'Viana is giving evidence in his own trial. He

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is accused of subjecting his two daughters, now 21 and 90, two years

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of physical and mental abuse, in his desire to get them to become tennis

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champions. The girls went on to become a successful junior tennis

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player, but in court today, John De'Viana told the jury that it was

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the decision of the girls to play tennis, that he had never forced

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them. He was asked by his defence team, did you force Monaei, his

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eldest daughter, to play? He said, no, that would be

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counter-productive. He said, you cannot just force a child to play a

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particular sport, especially when that child is progressing at a rapid

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rate. The court also heard earlier how Mr De'Viana had written an

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abusive notes on the back of match reports after the girls had played

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tennis when it did not reach the standard that he wanted them to and

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he was asked in the last moments in court why he used such language. He

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replied, it was the only way I could vent my frustration as a coach. He

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denies two charges of child cruelty in the case here at Snaresbrook

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Crown Court, which continues. Thank you.

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Rugby's Six Nations returns this weekend,

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with England playing Scotland in the Calcutta Cup at Twickenham.

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Scotland are after their first Triple Crown since 1990,

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while England are aiming to equal New Zealand's record

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We'll have more on that in a moment but, first, to Cardiff,

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where Wales take on Ireland in a match the visitors have to win,

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if they're to have any chance of securing their third title

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Katherine Downes is at the Millennium Stadium.

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-- the Principality Stadium. No pressure on Ireland! Yes, as you

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say, the Six Nations returns after a couple of weeks away and this will

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be the most pivotal weekend of the tournament so far because while the

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Championship cannot be won this weekend, it can certainly be lost.

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With still over six hours until kick-off at the Principality

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Stadium, the city centre in Cardiff is buzzing with pre-match

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excitement. Perhaps even pre-match nerves, particularly if you are an

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Irish fan, Ireland come here knowing they must beat Wales tonight to keep

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alive their chances of winning this year's Six Nations title. Welsh

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hopes already disappointed after those back-to-back losses to both

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England and Scotland. If Ireland win here tonight, they set up a final

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weekend showdown against England and that could well end up being the

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championship decider in a week's time. So let's look ahead to the

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night, and both sides name an unchanged starting line-up. Not

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surprisingly Ireland given the way they have played over the last

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couple of weeks, but Wales have had strong criticism for making that

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decision and some say it shows too much of a Conservative approach

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under their interim coach, Rob Howley. Attitude aside, besides

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equally matched in terms of experience. Ireland have 715

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international caps in their side, Wales just one fewer, 714. Ireland

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playing the way they have, Wales playing here at home in front of

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those passionate home fans, it is set to be a fiery encounter when the

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lights go down here at the Principality Stadium and this place

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comes alive. You can watch the pre-match build-up from 7:30pm on

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the match kicks off at 8:05pm also on BBC One. Thanks very much.

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More now on England's match against a resurgent Scotland team

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which has just reached its highest ever world rankings.

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So it's a team which believes it can do what no Scottish side has

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done for over 30 years - beat England at Twickenham.

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Here's our sports correspondent, Joe Wilson.

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South again to Twickenham, where Scotland do win,

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Rugby union was strictly an amateur sport.

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That really was one of the great Calcutta Cup tries!

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Scotland winger Roger Baird worked in the grain industry then,

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as he does now, and the spirit of '83 lingers.

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I still see, you know, a lot of the guys that I played with.

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So I think, yeah, you know, with a smaller nation,

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you always feel up against it a wee bit, you know.

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In adversity, you know, that maketh the man.

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So, yeah, I think the spirit will be there in aplenty.

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These days, England's rugby resources are unmatched, boasting

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In Scotland, that figure's around 49,000.

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This season, Scotland have already beaten Ireland and Wales.

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If you can't go through your opponents, you can dodge round them.

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Two chances, two scores, two tries for Scotland!

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Vern, knowing your players as you do now, what is the key

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asset which will enable you to win tonight?

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And making sure that, um, we back each other up

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and we keep our heads up the paddock and see what's coming.

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Well, back in '83, power ballads were the rage.

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It was only whispered here as the team left,

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but if Scotland beat England here, they could win the Six Nations.

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Whether it's pub music, summer festivals, or street buskers,

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the UK is alive with the sound of live music.

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But what does it tell us about our musical likes and dislikes?

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Today, the UK is carrying out its first live music

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Our Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon, has been taking

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a look - and a listen - to the music scene in Glasgow.

:27:15.:27:24.

Buskers on the streets of Glasgow, passionate about their music,

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I love it and I do it every day, and it's a way I can play

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with my friends and enjoy life with other people and share

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From classical to contemporary, from concert halls to gigs in pubs,

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In our cars, at home, on our phones, we listen to plenty of music.

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Volunteers in six cities across the country are

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We're asking them how many events they go to,

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why they maybe go to an event, what's the main reasons

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There are plenty of free performances to go to but, even so,

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British consumers spend more on concert tickets than on physical

:28:20.:28:21.

records, digital downloads and streaming combined.

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And the organisers of this census say that even those who think that

:28:25.:28:27.

silence is golden should care about the state of the

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Music is a huge driver economically within the creative

:28:30.:28:34.

industries which are, of course, a big export for the UK,

:28:35.:28:36.

There's a lot of research to suggest that music is also important

:28:37.:28:45.

for our health and well-being but, for me, music is really

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important because it's part of what makes us human,

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it's a fundamental part of being part of the human species.

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Glasgow has a really active music scene.

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There are 70 live music events in the 24-hour period this

:28:57.:29:02.

census is taking place, but here and across the UK, the live

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Some iconic locations where famous groups honed their acts have closed

:29:06.:29:13.

Some smaller, more intimate, venues are only just breaking even.

:29:14.:29:23.

Surviving as a small venue is difficult at the moment

:29:24.:29:25.

because property prices are increasing, because of the tight

:29:26.:29:27.

This attempt to measure the economic and cultural

:29:28.:29:40.

benefits of live music is, census organisers

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Whatever they find out, that live music in all its glorious

:29:42.:29:51.

forms brings joy to many is already beyond doubt.

:29:52.:29:57.

Now, you know that saying about how showbiz and children don't mix?

:29:58.:30:07.

Our colleagues on BBC World News were interviewing a contributor

:30:08.:30:16.

live from his his home, via the internet, when one

:30:17.:30:18.

of his children decided to make a guest appearance.

:30:19.:30:22.

Not to be upstaged, along came child number two.

:30:23.:30:29.

Followed very, very, quickly by a harassed mum!

:30:30.:30:35.

The interview, of course, faultlessly continued! And I am sure

:30:36.:30:41.

nobody noticed. Well, not many millions of people, anyway!

:30:42.:30:46.

That she had a lot of people this morning.

:30:47.:30:48.

It cheered us up in the weather centre. Yesterday, we were talking

:30:49.:31:00.

about how beautiful the clear blue skies were. This is today. A layer

:31:01.:31:06.

of grey, one of our weather watchers sent this picture. This is from

:31:07.:31:15.

Wales! This is another one from Dorset. Foggy here. And a nice

:31:16.:31:27.

sunrise from Hull. I will practice that Welsh name, I promise you. Cold

:31:28.:31:32.

breaking in some areas but overcast for most of the day with a what more

:31:33.:31:37.

cloud in the Atlantic heading our way for this weekend. Quite a mixed

:31:38.:31:43.

picture overall. Let's concentrate on this afternoon first. We have

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established with that great picture, cloudy across most of Scotland,

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although I suspect the Western Isles will be getting some glimmers of

:31:53.:31:58.

sunshine now and then. And you will notice some rain across the UK,

:31:59.:32:02.

almost anywhere really. Temperatures today getting no higher than around

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13, 14 degrees. Still feeling relatively mild. You have got some

:32:08.:32:13.

mist along the South Coast. The weather does not change this

:32:14.:32:17.

evening, so for the Six Nations, Wales versus Ireland, that kicks off

:32:18.:32:22.

just after eight o'clock, around 10 degrees and cloudy skies. Tonight,

:32:23.:32:27.

we keep the cloudy skies and the temperatures will not take away a

:32:28.:32:30.

lot of staying around double figures in London, up to 9 degrees. Rain

:32:31.:32:37.

pushing through. For Saturday, I have mentioned a lot of cloud across

:32:38.:32:42.

the UK, more cloud lining up in the Atlantic. This will come rushing our

:32:43.:32:47.

way during this weekend, so the first weather front is here on

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Saturday, in the North. We will see a weather front crossing the country

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on Saturday, but the weather is not that bad because on one side, to the

:32:56.:32:59.

North, there is sunshine across Scotland and Northern Ireland,

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Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast gets bright weather. In the South, clouds

:33:03.:33:06.

break up, we could get temperatures up to 18 Celsius. But those weather

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fronts keep coming and a different picture I think on Sunday. To

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summarise, the weekend, Saturday is your best today and by Sunday, it

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looks like we will get at least a bit of rain. Back to you.

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A reminder of our main story this lunchtime:

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Head teachers say cuts in funding are leading the courses in England

:33:32.:33:36.

being scrapped and class sizes going up.

:33:37.:33:37.

That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me.

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And on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

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