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A multi-billion pounds plan to get Britain's economy moving. But

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questions over whether money will come from. Ministers want to boost

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spending on roads and railways by up to �30 billion. The Chancellor

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is as a UK pension funds to invest. I think it is the right thing to do

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at a time like this, as we take our country through these difficult

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times. We have got to weather the storm and lay the foundations of

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future economic success. We welcome anything that will make a

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difference to the economy. But the Government doesn't seem committed

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to changing course. With a new forecast predicting a

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double-dip recession, we will be asking if the latest plan is enough.

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Michael Gove lashes out at the unions over the pensions strikes.

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He says some leaders are militant and itching for a fight. The

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innocent man caught up in the Jo Yeates murder investigation. After

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a frenzy to media campaign, he changed his appearance. Sensational,

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exploitative. As titillating, to appeal in every possible way to

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people's four-way eristic instincts. A report into the summer riots says

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that poor policing led to the violence spreading across the

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country. Not cinematic enough for Eccentric, controversial and

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rebellious. All of that and more. The film-maker Ken Russell dies at

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And I will be here with Sportsday later in the hour on the BBC News

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Channel, including a change of heart from Nick Mallett. He might

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be interested in the England job Hello, welcome to the BBC News at

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Six. The Chancellor has announced plans for a big investment in

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Britain's infrastructure, to give a boost to the sluggish economic

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growth. On the eve of his autumn statement, George Osborne says up

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to �30 billion could be spent on roads and railways around the

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country. Most of the money will have to come from the private

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sector. The announcement comes as a leading group of economic

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forecasters said that Britain was Whether it is new money for the

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Humber Bridge to allow cheaper tolls, or extra funding to ease

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congestion on the M3, or new investment allowing use of the Holt

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-- hard shoulder on sections of the M25, it is part of a new �30

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billion funding package for the next 10 years. As the Chancellor

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toured one project site, he stressed that a sizable chunk of

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the programme was not being financed by the Government. Much of

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it is going to come from the private sector, from pension funds.

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We will use British savings to interest in British jobs and

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British building. It is the right thing to do, we have got to take

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our country through these difficult times, weather the storm and lay

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the foundations of future economic successful stock the A14 is a major

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route across the east of England to Felixstowe, crucial for

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transporting goods for export and import. Experts say an upgrade is

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long overdue. There are heavy goods vehicles going up and down here all

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day long. It can get very congested at peak times. One of the new

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investment schemes will focus on widening the A14, starting from

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here, as it goes around the town of Kettering. This local haulage boss

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says that congestion is losing him money every week. Totally

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frustrating. You never know from one minute to the next if you are

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going to have a vehicle that actually gets to a destination. I

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cannot predict if I am going to be earning money or not.

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investment on this route will mean more work for construction firms

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and that could mean more jobs, according to one big company

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planning to bid. It is great news for our company should we Widnes.

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It will be great news for employment. We take on a large

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number of trainees and apprentices, working on schemes such as this and

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elsewhere in our business. where is the �30 billion of

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investment over 10 years going to come from? �20 billion will be from

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private investors, mainly pension funds. The Government will chip in

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�5 billion up to 2015, with money funded by savings elsewhere. There

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will be �5 billion of new government money after that date.

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But it is not yet clear when the pension fund money will be raised

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or how the building work will be financed. Tolls could be levied in

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some cases. Experts say the Government contribution in the next

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couple of years is not that great. �5 billion over three years is

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actually a small amount of money. You could get that from small

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savings from a range of bits of government. The investment plan

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will not help growth in the short term. Today we learned that the

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international think-tank the OECD believes that the UK could slip

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back into a brief recession before the middle of next year. We welcome

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anything that will make a difference to the economy. The

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problem is that the Government doesn't seem committed to changing

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course, really. Tomorrow we are going to see bad figures on growth,

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jobs and borrowing. The Chancellor will have to own up to a gloomier

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outlook for growth when he makes his autumn statement in Parliament

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tomorrow. He will also have to shed more light on what funding will be

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cutback to pay for his infrastructure plan.

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In a moment we will speak to our political editor Nick Robinson.

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First, Stephanie Flanders is here. A whole load of figures in that

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report, including that �5 billion from the Government. Is it going to

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be enough? There is a lot we do not know about that �5 billion. Maybe

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we will find out more tomorrow. We know it is not new money, ministers

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have been clear it will be from existing spending plans. Compared

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to the size of the economy, there is not very much money. Over three

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years, �5 billion, it sounds like a lot. But we have a �14 billion

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economy. I don't think ministers are talking about this as a way to

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kick-start the economy in the short run. As the OECD made clear, and

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other broadcasters have made clear, the prospects are looking pretty

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bleak, for the short-term. Flat or falling growth over the next few

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months. Mr Ross Brawn doesn't think he can do much about that tomorrow.

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He knows that the short-term story is going to be written more by what

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happens in the eurozone. Let's talk to Nick Robinson. Those caveats

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aside, some people will say that this is, in effect, a Plan B from a

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Chancellor who said there was no Plan B? George Osborne will insist

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that if he is not spending more than he planned, if he is not

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borrowing more to kick-start the economy, it is not Plan A. But two

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big bats. On the one hand he is doing as much as he can without

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spending extra money, trying to bring in money from the private

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sector, trying to find the odd billion to increase infrastructure,

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launching schemes in order to do something to get the economy moving.

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Tomorrow he is going to have to announce not just that growth is

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much lower than he hoped and planned for, but borrowing is much

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higher. If he is not going to cut more and tax more in order to bring

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that borrowing down, he might have to tell us that the deficit will

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not be brought under control in this Parliament, in the next four

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years, but might have to drift into the next one. Some people say that

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is, in effect, a sort of change of plan. What is most striking tonight

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is that as heat writes the last words of his autumn statement, we

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know that it is not what he planned it today, merely a report back on

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the state of the economy, it looks and feels like a mini budget from a

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Chancellor who is going to have to tell the country, we are off

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You can get all of the latest information on the state of the

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economy ahead of tomorrow's The Education Secretary Michael

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Gove has attacked what he called militant union leaders ahead of

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Wednesday's public sector strikes over pension changes. He singled

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out the leaders of the Unite Union and Unison as itching for a fight

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and urged teachers to reconsider their decision to walk out. One

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union leader accused him of trying to bully public sector workers.

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This will be the scene across the UK on Wednesday. Instead of the

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bustling sound of children, classrooms will fall silent and

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hundreds of thousands of teachers are expected to walk out on strike.

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More than 20 schools -- 20,000 schools are expected to close. So,

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who is to blame? Today, the Education Secretary singled out

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some senior figures in the trade union movement. Hardliners,

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militants, itching for a fight. They want families to be

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inconvenienced. They want mothers to give up a day's work and pay for

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expensive childcare because schools will be closed. The Government

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wants to cut the cost of the pensions of public sector workers

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such as teachers. Unions say it will leave staff pay more and

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working longer to get less in the end. The union which represents

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Head Teachers has called its members out for the first time in

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its 114 year history. We very much regret the inconvenience that will

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happen on Wednesday. Head teachers spend their whole career trying to

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get people to come into school, to send them away for even a day is

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very painful. We also feel we have not been listened to in

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negotiations. It is likely to be the biggest strike in decades, amid

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fears of 12 are queues at Heathrow the Government says that police

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officers will replace border staff. Local government services,

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including refuse collection, will be hit. In a rare move, some NHS

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staff will also walk out. More than 5000 operations have been cancelled.

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Unions deny the Education Secretary's charge that they are

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seeking a confrontation. We are not itching for a fight. We want an

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agreement. We do need ministers that want to reach an agreement

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with us, including Michael Gove. With no chance that the strike will

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be called off now, the rhetoric unions as to who is to blame is

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likely to increase in the coming days. That will do nothing to help

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the millions of people whose lives will now be significantly disrupted

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The man who was arrested and later released without charge over the

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murder of Joanna Yeates has told the inquiry into press standards

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about what he called the media witch-hunt against him. Christopher

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Jefferies said he had been shamelessly vilified in the

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tabloids. Nicholas Witchell has been at the hearing.

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Christopher Jefferies, on the left, has changed his appearance since

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his image received such unwelcome attention a year ago. This is how

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he looked last December, when he was arrested over the murder of

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Joanna Yeates. Christopher Jefferies was innocent. But his

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reputation was torn apart by the press. The whole slanting of the

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reporting was intended to be as sensational, exploitative and as

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titillating, to appeal in every possible way to people's for way

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The stories were so distorted that when he was released by police he

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had to go into hiding. For a period after I was released, I was

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effectively under house arrest. I went from friends to friends,

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rather as if I was a priest at the time of the Reformation, I suppose,

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going from safe house to safe house. Charlotte Church has been in the

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public eye since she was a teenager. The singer decide -- described how

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she had been asked to sing at the wedding of Rupert Murdoch. She said

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she was offered either a fee of �100,000 or a favour of positive

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coverage of her career. I remember being told it was the offer of

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money or the offer of the favour, in order to a basically get good

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press, to be looked upon favourably, as I said in my statement.

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International said it had no recollection of such an offer.

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Charlotte Church described years of press intrusion. The most upsetting,

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she said, had been an expose by the News of the World on her father's

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private life and the impact it had on her mother's health. I hated the

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fact that my parents, who had never been in this industry, apart from

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in looking after me, were being exposed and vilified in this

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fashion. Finally, the broadcaster Anne Diamond, who recalled the cot

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death of her son. She and her then Hawes -- husband had baked editors

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to respect the privacy of his funeral. But The Sun got hold of a

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photograph will stop the editor of the sun rang my husband and said,

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we have got a picture, it is an incredibly strong picture. We would

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like to use it. My husband said, no, we have asked all of you to stay

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away. No. The editor said, well, we are going to use it anyway.

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inquiry has heard for five days from people who feel they have been

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victims of the press. Tomorrow it will move on, issuing from a former

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tabloid reporter he was disillusioned with what he was

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being asked to do and a Guardian reporter who, more than anyone,

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10 people have been charged with the ill-treatment of a vulnerable

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patients at the Winterbourne care home in Bristol. The home was the

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subject of an undercover investigation by the BBC's Panorama

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programme earlier this year and was closed shortly after. Millions of

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Egyptians have been queuing to vote in the first election since the

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uprising which toppled President has been well Iraq in February. It

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takes place against the backdrop of the violence and growing unease

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against the activists who made Tahrir Square. Our Middle-East

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This is what happened at one polling station in the district of

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Cairo. The first of voters were queuing two hours before it was due

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to open. And they have to wait almost two hours more while some

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details, like bringing in ballot papers, were sorted out. Apart from

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a row about queue-jumping, it was peaceful. The army, not the still

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despised police, asked handled the security. He told them to form an

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orderly line. And then they were ready to vote. Me and my wife and

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my son. We are going to get the today because we are feeling this

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is a good day. This day will be history. The ballot papers were

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enormous. This district had 122 names to choose from. No one seemed

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to mind. They used to have elections under the old regime but

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they were always fixed, so most people didn't bother to vote. Not

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today. TRANSLATION: First time, I wanted

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to be good for everyone. Whoever wins, I just hope they don't stay

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forever. Getting a free vote was a big part of the revolution for a

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lot of Egyptians, and it is finally happening. There are still serious

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questions about the amount of power the Army wants to retain after

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civilian politicians are elected. In the street the Muslim

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Brotherhood, the front runners, were getting out the vote. They say

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they want a proper democracy. Many secular Egyptians believe that's

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not true. Sorting out the economy is the key to political stability

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here for whoever wins. 700,000 new people enter the workforce every

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year. Many never find a proper job. It is -- at his second hand

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bookshop, this man has seen it all. He remembers picking, deposed by

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army officers, whose successes still rule the country. Don't worry,

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he says, the army will deliver the government to civilians. The

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protesters still hemmed into Tahrir Square tried to stop an election

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they said would be fraught and violent. Now they are deeply

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divided about voting at all. This day isn't perfect, but it really is

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Our top story tonight... The government's latest plan to get

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Britain's economy moving. A �30 billion boost to roads, railways

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and infrastructure. Coming up... Camera speed. Take one. Looking

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back at the career of film director Ken Russell, who has died aged 84.

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Later, the OECD issues a stark warning for the global economy. And

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bookings slump at Thomas Cook after The failure of the police to act

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decisively when the summer riots started in London led to the

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violence spreading across the country. That is the view of the

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Riots Communities And Victims Panel set up earlier this year. The

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inquiry also heard criticism of police use of stop and search

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powers, and warned that the danger of a repeat of the disorder if

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action wasn't taken. We report from Tottenham, where the riots began.

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Today's report reflects on what lay behind five shocking and

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traumatising days in England last summer. Will riots happen again,

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the panel asked, quite possibly yes, was their answer. The trigger for

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the riots was the shooting dead of Mark Duggan by police in Tottenham.

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The panel encountered widespread criticism of the Met's insensitive

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handling of that incident. But more probably were disturbed to find

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significant numbers of people in some communities were sceptical or

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even hostile to the police. They heard from many young black and

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Asian witnesses who complained that police stop and search was

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consistently carried out without courtesy. And warned there was a

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very real danger that stop and search will have a corrosive effect

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on their relationship with the police. The panel recommended the

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practice needs immediate attention to ensure that community confidence

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is not undermined. There was agreement that stop and search is

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necessary in order to fight crime and move dangerous individuals from

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the streets. But there was concern among law-abiding young people that

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is all that often, or sometimes, they were being stopped and not

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being treated with the level of respect and courtesy they thought

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was appropriate. The Metropolitan Police said today that the

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commissioner is committed to more intelligent and effective use of

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stop-and-search, stressing that while an essential tool, it must be

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done objectively and with courtesy. The panel says immediate action is

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required or riots will happen again. Deprivation is no excuse, but the

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government must look at the underlying causes, they say, noting

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the striking and sad similarities to the Trigger's identified by Lord

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Scarman in his report on inner-city rioting 30 years ago.

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Indiscriminate use of stop and search powers against black people,

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a controversial law, was found to have contributed to riots in

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Brixton and other inner-city neighbourhoods. Today in Tottenham,

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there are many who still think police abuse their power. Sometimes

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people are targeted by police and it's not good for them. Some of

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them are really bullies. The way they approach you. It turns your

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stomach. Today's report does not try to excuse the rioting but it

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does find an urgent need for police to work with communities to ensure

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a lack of trust is not passed to another generation. The family of

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former Wales manager Gary Speed say they've been overwhelmed by

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messages of support following his death. The 42-year-old was found

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dead at his home in Cheshire at the weekend. He'd taken his own life.

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For the fans in Cardiff the grief is still all too raw. All day came

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the tributes, shirts, flowers and the personal messages. Struggling

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to understand how the life of a national hero had been cut so

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tragically short. At their home in Chester, Gary Speed's family spoke

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of their loss. Gary's family would sincerely like to thank all the

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people that have sent messages of condolences and tributes, in what

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is a very difficult time. They have been overwhelmed by the support. It

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really has helped. Football has been left bereaved but also

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bewildered. Just a fortnight ago, Gary Speed was here celebrating a

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famous win over Norway. Only on Saturday he was talking excitedly

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about his plans for the future. For the fans there are still so many

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questions. It's just a tragedy that Gary Speed is not going to be there

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to take them forward. God only knows why what happened happened.

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We are just asking why, why has he killed himself? It's terrible.

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a decade as a player and a year as a manager, Gary Speed became a

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Welsh legend. Today the flags were at half mast and the game at

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struggling for answers. This is what gives us the big shock. If you

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knew that there was a problem somewhere or whatever, then perhaps

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you could start to go down that road and understand these things.

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But there's absolutely nothing. I saw him on the television on

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Saturday and he was just the normal Gary Speed that I know. And it

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still across the country the tributes pour in. From Everton to

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his other clubs, Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield United. Football

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united in sorrel for a man universally loved. An annual report

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on safety in England's hospitals says that patients are more likely

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to die if they are admitted at weekends. The Dr Foster company

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concluded that outside normal working hours, when fewer senior

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doctors are present, death rates are on average almost 10 % higher.

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The controversial film director Ken Russell has died at the age of 84.

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Perhaps best known for the film adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel

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Women In Love, he also directed the Devils, The Boyfriend and the

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Ken Russell's portrait of the composer Elgar, one of a series of

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acclaimed arts documentaries he made for the BBC in the 1960s. They

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were beautiful to look at, seductive to listen to and

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thoroughly self-indulgent. They marked him out as a film-maker of

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Camera speed. Take one. At the BBC he learned his craft as a director

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and developed his trademark style - a flamboyant and visually

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extravagant. He moved into cinema, where his second major feature,

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Women In Love, was acclaimed as a masterpiece. We champs to save them,

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But as time went on his films became more extreme. The Devil's

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reflected his fascination with sex and religion and was widely panned.

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I was making films around that time, 71, 72. He also disturbed me.

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Whether you liked it or disliked it. You have a strong reaction to the

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work either way. This is rare. Tommy, made in 1975, was typically

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overblown. It followed more than 30 years in which his films grew

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progressively less successful, and the difficulties he faced in

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financing them became progressively greater. I sent a script to Channel

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4 the other day and it eventually came back about six months later,

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signed by somebody I'd never heard of. Totally unknown to me, saying,

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thank you for your script, it's not cinematic enough. I nearly went

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mad! Not cinematic enough for me?! He was, and his films remain, the

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work of a genius. Sa genius he was extraordinary and, like all

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geniuses, sometimes his films were much less than genius. Better to

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remember his successes, like the musical the Boy Friend, starring

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Twiggy. A reminder that Russell, however self-indulgent and

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undisciplined it was, could also be wonderful. The Life and Work of the

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director Ken Russell, who has died The weather goes downhill tonight.

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We find that cloud beginning and it turns wetter, particularly in the

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West. The wind strengthens as well. Strengthening southerly winds

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actually lifting the temperatures as the night goes on. But

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concentrating the rain in Northern Ireland and across Scotland in

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particular. Although western Scotland we have weather warnings

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of rain from the Met Office, amber warnings, it could lead to some

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local flooding. A wet start in Northern Ireland tomorrow. The

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heaviest rain around Perth, Kinross, Stirling, Dumfries and Galloway.

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Not quite so wet across the eastern side of Scotland but the wind is

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picking up here. The wind holding off in the North of England but

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there will be a lot of cloud and some strong winds. The temperatures

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down the eastern side of England are higher than they've been

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through the course of today. There will be rain here round there but

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nothing much at this stage. Further west, the rain gathering in the far

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south-west of England and Wales. Here, as the rain arrives, so we

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will see gusts of up to 70 mph. It will be a very windy day. We've got

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the band of rain sitting across the West initially. It clears away from

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Northern Ireland and it drives across Scotland, Wales and western

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England during the morning, and then into eastern England later in

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the day. Squally winds, potentially damaging. Ahead of the rain we've

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got the milder air. After the rain goes through the temperatures

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really do drop away significantly. It will feel a good deal colder.

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That's the way I think it will stay through the rest of the week. It's

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