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New revelations in the phone hacking scandal. Police tell Sarah

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Payne's mother she was a target. The eight-year-old was abducted and

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murdered 11 years ago, her mother Sara is devastated and critics of

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the paper say it's a new low. Sometimes you think how could this

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story get worse, what worse thing is there that the News of the World

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could have done? Then suddenly another thing lands on your plate.

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The paper's former boss, Rebekah Brooks, befriended Sara Payne and

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backed her campaign for a new law on child protection. It's emerged

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tonight that the phone was given to Sara Payne by the News of the World.

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Also tonight: Bigger pension bills for public

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sector workers, more than two million will see their

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contributions rise. It looks around about �900 a year

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between us to find. We are very worried about that because

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everything's going up and we've got a pay freeze for at least two years.

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After the Panorama revelations, the care watchdog has serious concerns

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about other homes run by the same company. Gangsters and their ill-

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gotten gains. A record haul of confiscated assets as Ministers

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announce a new strategy. I will have all the sport as Ellen

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Gandy wins silver for Britain at Good evening and welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. Police have told Sara Payne, whose daughter Sarah was

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murdered by a paedophile eleven years ago, that she was on a list

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of people whose phones may have been hacked. Her name appears in

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notes kept by Glenn Mulcaire, the investigator employed by the News

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of the World. According to the Guardian newspaper the phone used

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by Sara Payne for campaigning to establish a new law on child

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protection was a gift from the News of the World. Tom Symonds' report

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contains flash photography. Perhaps it seemed this astonishing affair

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no longer had the capacity to shock, but the allegation this evening is

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that a bereaved mother who worked alongside the News of the World,

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alongside its former editor, was all along one of its victims. Sara

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Payne's charity was contacted last night to be told her details were

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in the notebooks of phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire. In a statement it

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The last night of the News of the World, and its last edition. Sara

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Payne had previously been told she was not a hacking victim. She

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agreed to write an article for this final issue. She described the

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tabloid as a force for good, and an old friend. And Rebekah Brooks,

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former editor of the News of the World, describes Sara Payne as her

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dear friend. The two worked together to campaign for Sarah's

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Law, the public right to know where paedophiles are living. The

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newspaper gave Sara Payne a mobile phone. The Guardian claims it's

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this phone that was illegally accessed. Tonight Rebekah Brooks

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If all that's true it's just hypocrisy, complete and utter

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hypocrisy. And it makes you despair, doesn't it, of modern journalism.

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11 years after the murder of her daughter, Sara Payne's name is

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added to a long list of potential hacking victims and this

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investigation is far from over. Tom is here now.

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We know Sara was a target, will we find out if she was actually hacked

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into her phone? Not really until this police investigation comes to

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a conclusion. What's almost certainly happened is the police

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have contacted her and said her phone number is in the book, but

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probably some other information, like a voicemail messaging pin

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number, some other detail, because lots of people have their phone

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numbers or names in Mulcaire's files, but the police tend to only

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say somebody's been a potential victim if there's more there that

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they can go on. That will have to wait for. Also, it's interesting to

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know who might have done this. Rebekah Brooks statement seems to

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suggest she didn't know, that nobody she knows of in the newsroom

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knew about that. But we do know that Mr Mulcaire was commissioned

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to do phone hacking by potentially a number of people, therefore, the

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police will be trying to get to the bottom of who knew this was going

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on, if it was, and who commissioned that act of accessing the phone.

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These new revelations on the very day that Lord Justice Leveson

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announcing how he will carry out his inquiry. Yes, one of many

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inquiries that we are going to have over the next year into this whole

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incredible affair. Lord Justice Leveson said it will take about a

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year before he can really start getting to the point where he is

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approaching his findings, but his hearings will start in September

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looking at the shall aou of how the press reacts and interrelates with

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the public and he has a problem because there are police

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investigations going on which he can not interfere with, so it's

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going to be a slow build-up this inquiry to the point where we start

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getting down to the real nitty- gritty of what went on.

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The company that owned the care home at the centre of shocking

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revelations on Panorama has been told that there are serious

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concerns about some of its other services. The care quality watchdog

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says the problems are not on the same scale as those discovered at

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Winterbourne View, but called for root and branch reforms at the

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parent company Castlebeck. Our correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti

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reports. These scenes of people with learning disabilities being

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hit, slapped and abused shocked all who viewed them. Filmed secretly by

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Panorama they led to the Care Quality Commission inspecting all

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the services in England run by its owner, Castlebeck. The QCQ unveiled

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serious concerns about four places today, although not on the same

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scale as Winterbourne Sraou. They include Rose Villa where they

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couldn't be sure people's privacy, dignity and independence were

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always respected and another where people weren't always properly

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protected from physical and emotional harm.

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The Prime Minister on a visit to Bristol reminded Castlebeck of what

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could happen if it didn't improve. If care home providers aren't up to

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shape, then they should be properly criticised and have homes taken

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away from them if they don't do the job properly. How we care for our

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elderly and other people who need care is vitally important. I would

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agree it does appear very damming and I would agree with most of the

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recommendations they've put forward. I think over the course of the last

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six months, since I have taken over as chief executive, we had already

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started looking at a series of changes that we needed to make

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within the organisation. Terry worked at Winterbourne View

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And blew the whistle on what was going on. He says people with

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learning disabilities shouldn't be locked up for long periods. Some

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were here for many years. There's nothing worse, the people feel

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forgotten. It's a closed society. It's locked.

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Winterbourne View is now closed and its patients elsewhere. But while

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the company running it, Castlebeck, has come under close scrutiny,

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experts say the problems identified in its homes are very likely to be

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found in similar places run by other private sector companies.

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These disturbing images have prompted the watchdog to carry out

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another bigger review, this time not just of Castlebeck, but of the

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whole sector. Millions of civil servants, doctors,

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nurses and teachers have found out how much more their pensions will

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cost. The lowest paid will see no rises, but everybody else will face

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rises of up to �3,000 for the highest earners. The Government

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says the increases are needed because people are living longer,

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but critics argue that the money is going straight to the Treasury to

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help cut the deficit. Here's our industry correspondent, John Moylan.

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They've known for months that their pensions were going to change, some

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even went on strike, but today 2.5 million teachers, civil servants

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and health workers found out how much extra they're likely to have

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to pay from next April. As the details emerged Kim Barnes, a

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teacher, went online to calculate how much extra she will have to to

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contribute and it's left her facing a stark choice. As a teacher I am

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going to find it difficult to keep paying into the pension plan if

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increases continue so I will have to consider opting out. How much

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workers will pay will depend upon what they earn and what they do.

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For those earning up to �15,000, nothing will change. But a nurse

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earning around �21,000 will have to find an extra �126 a year.

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A teacher on �35,000, will pay around �420 extra.

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An NHS consultant on �130,000 will have to pay more than �3,000 more.

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The moves will help the Chancellor tackle the deficit, but as he

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launched a new enterprise zone in Birmingham today he insisted that

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the pensions would remain among some of the most generous available.

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You are going to get among the best pension you can get in Britain, but

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because we are all living longer, you are going to have to make a

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contribution to that, as well. I think that's fair to them, they get

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a great pension, which many people in the private sector will be

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jealous of, but it's fair to taxpayers and that's why we are

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doing it. In total the Government wants to save �2.8 billion from the

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cost of public service pensions, but these proposals will only get

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it about a third of the way there. That means nurses, teachers and

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civil servants will likely have to pay even higher contributions

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towards their pensions in the years ahead.

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The announcement led some unions to warn of a repeat of last month's

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strike. They deny that pensions have become unaffordable, the NHS

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scheme, for example, takes in more cash each year than it pays out.

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They're being told to work longer, pay more, and get less, even though

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all the evidence, some independent experts, is we should not have to

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do that. If the Government isn't prepared to change direction we

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anticipate large-scale strikes in the autumn. Today, one union leader

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said that the Government's tactics were putting talks on pensions in

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jeopardy. Those talks are due to be completed by October, but with so

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much to be agreed, that timetable is starting to look increasingly

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difficult. Let's go live to our political

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correspondent Vicky Young at Westminster. This is going to turn

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up the heat in relations between the Government and the unions,

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they're already pretty bad. Yes, that's right. The unions voicing

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that in no uncertain terms, they're irritated about the timing of this.

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They say negotiations are ongoing and this undermines that and if you

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listen to the language from some of the union leaders, saying the

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Government has used crude and naive tactics, a lack of negotiating

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skills and one even saying the talks were in jeopardy. They're

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also irritated because they say this amounts to a tax on public

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sector workers, they say this money goes back to the Treasury and they

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use that to reduce the deficit which they say they didn't nothing

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to cause. But the Government says it's about fairness, at the end of

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the day public sector workers will still have decent pensions, some of

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the best available in the country. They say they have to balance that

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with fairness for the taxpayer, many who work in the private sector

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and don't have that guarantee. Ministers also saying it shouldn't

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come as a surprise because even under the last Labour Government

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they knew higher pension contributions were coming and

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hanging over all of this is the threat of strike action, one one

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union leader saying today that was likely to happen in November.

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Thank you. At least 20 people have been killed

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and dozens more injured in a triple suicide attack on a government

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compound in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed

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responsibility for the attacks in Tarin Kot, which targeted the

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police headquarters and deputy governor's office. One of the

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victims has been named as the BBC journalist Ahmad Omid Khpalwak, who

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worked for the Pashto Service. An inquest into the deaths of three

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British soldiers killed by a rogue Afghan soldier has returned a

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verdict of unlawful killing. Major James Bowman, Lieutenant Neal

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Turkington and Corporal Arjun Purja Pun were killed during an attack at

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their base in Helmand Province last year. Their commanding officer paid

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tribute to all three men at the inquest. I relied on all these men

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and they never failed to give anything less than their all. They

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did so not for me, or for themselves, but for the soldiers

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that they led. They leave behind a hole that can never be filled. And

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the loss experienced by their families and loved ones is

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unfathomable. Our correspondent is at the coroners court now. What do

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we know about the circumstances in which these men died? Well, the

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attack took place at a parol base in Helmand in the early hours of

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the morning. Their assailant was a sergeant in the Afghan national

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army. Lieutenant Turkington and Corporal Pun were in the operations

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room tent and died of multiple gunshot wounds. Major Bowman was

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killed in his tent as he slept and others injured. The key question

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was whether the Army had failed in its duty properly to protect these

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men from the risks posed by the soldiers with whom they were

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embedded. The coroner said there was no evidence of any systemic

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failure on the part of the Army to protect these men while they were

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in a British base. He recorded verdicts of unlawful killing while

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on active service and ended the inquest by paying tribute to all

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three men. Thank you. Just two weeks after

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their wedding, as their Caribbean honeymoon was drawing to a close,

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newlyweds Ben and Catherine Mullany were shot dead. Three years on, two

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men have been found guilty of their murder. The Mullanys, from South

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Wales, were shot during a dawn raid at their luxury holiday chalet.

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Catherine was a qualified doctor and he was training as a

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physiotherapist, but on the final night of their honeymoon a violent

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robbery stole life away from them. The jury was unanimous in finding

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Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin are guilty of the killings. It has

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taken three years for them to be brought to justice, await their

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parents found difficult to bear. A statement was read on their behalf.

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There is no joy at today's verdict, just a sense of relief that after

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three years of waiting there is justice for our children and the

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hope these two individuals can never again inflict the same

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anguish and devastation to any other family as they have two hours.

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Their cabin was chosen at random by their killers. They shot the couple

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in the back of the head and raided the bedrooms save before making off

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with Ben's mobile telephone. That stolen telephone help to link one

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of the killers to the crime. A day after it was taken, Avie Howell

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started to use it and the records proved he was here just a few yards

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from the hotel minutes after the shooting. Antigua's waters draw

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thousands of newly weds here every year, but the murders have had an

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impact on tourism. The Government is keen to prove they are tackling

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crime. Antigua and Barbuda are very safe places to be. We have beefed

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up our law enforcement and hour surveillance. We have tried to

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strengthen the police force as best we can. The two men who murdered

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Ben and Catherine Mullany will be sentenced in September. Avie Howell,

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a teenager at the time of his killings, may spend the rest of his

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life in prison. Kaniel Martin may face the death penalty. The

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victims' families say they will never comprehend the killings and

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how their lives were taken for a handful of cash and a mobile

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telephone. Our top story tonight: New

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revelations in the telephone hacking scandal. Police tell Sarah

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Payne's mother she was a target. Coming up: The National Museum of

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Scotland reopens tomorrow after a major refit. Thousands of unique

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treasures are on show for the first Hollywood studios have won a legal

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battle against online piracy. A High Court has ruled that BT should

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block its customers from using the website accused of flagrant

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copyright infringement. As our technology correspondent reports,

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it is a landmark case that could set an important precedent. For the

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movie industry it was a courtroom drama which ended in a victory in

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its battle against online piracy. If you want to get hold of a film,

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you can pay for a DVD or download it for nothing from the internet.

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This site, Newzbin, based in the Seychelles, has links to more than

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70 copies of that film alone, along with all kinds of other movies,

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music and games. Now BT has been told it must stop its internet

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customers from getting access to the site. At momentum pictures,

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they were celebrating. They say piracy is not a victimless crime.

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Without the money we make legitimately from consumers, these

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films may not get made. If you allow piracy to get out of control,

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you end up in that situation where the money is not there and the sums

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are not getting made. Nobody argued in court that Newzbin was not

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giving access to all sorts of pirated material. The question was

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whose job it was to stop that. Now the judge has ordered BT, and by

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implication all internet providers, to block access to the website.

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Internet freedom campaigners say that ruling could send us down a

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dangerous road. The concern is that consumers' freedom to roam where

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they like on the Web will now be curtailed. It is pointless and

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dangerous. Pointless because it will not work to stop serious

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infringements, and dangerous because there are risks of

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degradation and slowing down of the service. Newzbin's owners say they

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are confident they can get around any blocking measures and critics

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of the ruling State for every site that is blocked another will pop up.

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But movie-makers say without protection from pirates a whole

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industry is under threat. Sports cars, diamond rings and

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designer shoes were among more than �1 billion worth of assets

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confiscated from organised crime gangs last year. Ministers who

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unveiled a new organised crime strategy for England and Wales

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today say they want to make it easier for the police to seize

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criminal assets. The Government says organised crime

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is a growing menace from the drug trade that blights people's lives,

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to the human traffickers who enslave young women. Insurance

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scammers are made premiums unaffordable and internet was as

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empty people's bank accounts. Where is a new organised crime strategy

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for England and Wales to begin? This morning, it began at a house

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in Darlington where police arrested four people suspected of

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involvement in various scams. Under the new strategy if convicted,

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there would be a greater risk of having their assets seized and

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businesses closed down. It will hit the where it hurts and deprive them

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of their lifestyle and tell them there is no place to hide. Last

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year, police confiscated or froze a record �1 billion worth of

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criminal's possessions. This is where it all ends up, a police were

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how a spot of just the kind of luxury goods you would expect a

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gangster to spend his money on. But seizing the profits is only half

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the battle. There is a plan to pool the resources of the Border Agency,

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and Revenue and Customs. The Government was to target the dodgy

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accountants and bent lawyers used by criminals. The strategy will be

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co-ordinated under the new national crime agency.

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By looking at the intelligence, by being focused, by understanding the

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problem more clearly, we are better able to target resources to

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identify those individuals and therefore ensure they are

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disruptive. But there is no extra money and critics say without that

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it will be hard to keep up with the criminals. Tackling global crime is

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like pushing a boulder up the hill. You may get somewhere on some of it,

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but the ball is going to roll back down again and the technology means

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people doing bad things will be ahead of the game almost all the

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time. It will be a major effort to keep pace with it, let alone stop

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it. Police budgets are already being cut by 20% and no amount of

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luxury goods seized from gangsters will plug that particular hole.

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Policing are always say they have finished the search for the bodies

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of those killed in a mass shooting on the island of Utoeya on Friday.

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But they cannot confirm whether all those missing have been found.

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Anders Breivik, who has admitted carrying out the attacks, is in

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solitary confinement and will be questioned again tomorrow.

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Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, has announced half-

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yearly profits of �1.3 billion, down sharply on the same period in

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2010 as a result of rising wholesale costs. It has already

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announced plans to raise gas and electricity prices next month.

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Veterans who took part in nuclear tests almost 60 years ago have been

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granted permission by the Supreme Court to appeal for damages. More

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than 1000 former servicemen blame their involvement in nuclear

:24:05.:24:09.

weapons testing in Australia in the 1950s for years of ill-health and

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birth defects in their children. The MoD denies negligence.

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The first colour TV and a 37 ft totem pole are among some of the

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unique items on display for the first time in decades at the

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National Museum of Scotland. It is opening its doors tomorrow after a

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multi-million-pound refurbishment. Our Scotland correspondent James

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Cook is there. They are preparing for an opening

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dinner at the National Museum of Scotland tonight. Unlike other

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national museums here they bring together natural history, arts and

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science and a one, spectacular Ruth. It is an encyclopaedia in three

:24:50.:24:55.

dimensions. This is the story of a restless people and a restless

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nation. Scotland's heritage of invention and discovery put this

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small country on the map. The power of the steam engine revolutionised

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industry. John Logie Baird's television changed the lives of

:25:10.:25:13.

millions and as the Victorian Scots set out into the world they sent

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back treasures from afar. origins of the collections came

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from Scots as great inventors, explorers and colonial missionaries.

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A lot of them brought things back to Scotland and donated them to the

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museum. In many ways the stories we tell here are in part for the story

:25:32.:25:36.

of Scotland's engagement with the rest of the world. There are also

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all the tales like T Rex in the Natural History gallery. There are

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stories of survival and some of the exhibits have survived for decades

:25:45.:25:50.

in the freezer and some date back to the 19th century. Now they are

:25:50.:25:54.

being used again to teach the theory of evolution. Charles Darwin

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once lived on the side of the museum. He was a student in

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Scotland, but Alexander Fleming was the real McCoy. His Nobel Prize for

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discovering penicillin is a gem in this eclectic collection. We have a

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chance to remake the universal museum that was the dream of the

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Victorian period to bring lots of subjects together and to give

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people a waiter in -- understand the inter-connectedness of nature

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and people and science. Scotland has a rich literary tradition as

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well. Edinburgh was a very great printing centre. One of its airs

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his Alexander McCall Smith. What does this say about Scotland today?

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I think this opening is very significant in that it demonstrates

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there is a spirit of confidence in Scotland. Whatever happens

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politically, it will encourage people to perhaps take a more

:26:50.:26:57.

optimistic view of the future. 8000 exhibits both small and large,

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the curators hope more than 1 million visitors a year will come

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here to gaze in wonder. Four out of five of those 8000

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objects have not been seen for a generation or more, so that might

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bolster the numbers of visiting even further. So might one other

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thing, entry is free to this museum. That is interesting because the

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funding has come from a variety of sources, the lottery, the Scottish

:27:25.:27:30.

Government, but also from private donations, and they exceeded the

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target by �1 million. It may be that we expect even a further

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improvements in this museum in years to come.

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Whereas Scotland was a hot spot yesterday, it is a different story

:27:48.:27:53.

today. This cloud is associated with a weather front which has been

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bringing some patchy rain eastwards. There it is right now across parts

:27:58.:28:03.

of northern England. This central slab will have a lot of cloud and a

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bit of dampness on either side. Drier and quite misty across some

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areas, but not the extensive fog that we saw last night. Mild and

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remaining in double figures. Where the sun comes out it will feel warm.

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But there is a risk of one or two showers. That might mean a delayed

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start at Trent Bridge. It will sink surfers, but most of the range will

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fade away and many places can look forward to some brightness in the

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afternoon. A lot of sunshine across northern England, feeling

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pleasantly warm and in Scotland as well. The best of the brightness

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and the temperatures will be further south-west. A decent state

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to come across Northern Ireland. Plenty of sunshine, 20 degrees in

:28:54.:28:59.

Belfast. More brightness along the west coast of England and Wales

:28:59.:29:05.

compared to today. It will feel quite pleasant for holidaying

:29:05.:29:10.

makers. There is a risk of one or two showers developing across

:29:10.:29:16.

southern counties. If you catch one, it it might be quite heavy. The

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weekend will start on a fine and sunny note. There is some

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uncertainty about Sunday. Much more detail, as ever, can be found

:29:26.:29:33.

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