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The Government has said there is no evidence to recommend the urgent

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removal of substandard breast implants. It will cover the cost

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for the small minority of women who had their surgery on the NHS, but

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not if it was done privately. don't know where it's left me. I

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don't have the funds to have these removed, so now I have to walk

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around with ill health. Nobody knows. This could get worse. Also

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on tonight's programme: The parents of the murdered Indian

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student Anuj Bidve retrace their son's final steps. Anuj was our

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only son, and we cannot comprehend this terrible tragedy. We do not

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blame the people of this city for what happened. The only person we

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blame is the man responsible for taking Anuj away from us. David

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Cameron's new plans to improve nursing care in England including

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hourly ward rounds. And Amir Khan's appeal in his

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defeat. He asks who is the man in the hat, and did he interfere with

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Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm. The Government has

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just announced it will pay for the That accounts for just 5% of the

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40,000 British women who have used the silicone implants. A Government

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review has concluded there's no evidence to recommend their routine

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removal. That contrasts with the stance of the French government

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which has agreed to fund the removal of the implants.

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These breast implants are being filled with medically tested

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silicone. The company in north Lanarkshire is the only British

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firm which makes them. By contrast, the French PIP implants had

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industrial-grade silicone and were banned. Health officials in the

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Czech Republic followed France's lead today recommending women have

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PIP implants removed as a precaution. The official line here

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is there is no need for removal, but the NHS will pay for

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replacement implants if cancer patients are suffering anxiety.

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What is rather important is not to exaggerate the reasons to be

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worried, but if women are worried, we'll support them. We expect - I

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expect - and the expert group want to see private providers offer that

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same standard of care. It's thought 40,000 or more women have PIP

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implants. 95% were done by private clinics, mostly for breast

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enlargement, 5% by the NHS for breast reconstruction after cancer.

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Karen Arthur is now desperate to have her PIP implants removed. One

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has ruptured. Ministers say private clinics have a moral obligation to

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help patients like her, but there are no legal powers to force them.

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I don't know where it's left me. I don't have the funds to actually

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have these removed, so now I have to walk around with ill health.

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Nobody knows. This could get worse. No-one can look into the future.

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This has only come out now. This comes down to an assessment of risk.

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Every woman undergoing implant surgery is told there is a danger

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of complications. Eventually, Theresa May all need to be replaced.

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The Government review group considered whether the PIP implants

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carried additional, unacceptable risks that would require their

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removal. They are very robust. surgeon says private clinics should

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pay for replacements, but women must not be abandoned by the NHS.

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They didn't know the risk that they'd be implanted with non-

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medical-grade implants. The NHS picks up the bill for smoking and

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alcohol-related diseases. We all know that smoking and alcohol can

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cause problems and yet the NHS still picks up the bill.

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The Government's decision means women who cannot persuade private

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clinics to help them will have to pay for replacements like these or

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simply live with their PIP implants. Fergus, this suggests one outcome

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for NHS patients and a different outcome for private patients, and

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women will just be wanting to know, where these safe or aren't they?

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The official line on safety hasn't changed. There is no need, say

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Ministers, for routine removal, no evidence of cancer no, specific

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safety concerns. What is new is the psychological impact. Ministers

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accept women are worried about this. There is deep anxiety. If NHS

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patients after seeing their surgeon say I want them replaced, the NHS

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will cover the costs. That covers one in 20 patients. The rest were

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done privately. What about those women? Well, lots of those clinics

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have shot down. These were largely cut-price clinics. Lots are not

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there anymore. There are one or two firms Whoa have said they'll pick

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up the bill. The rest will either have to pay for them or fight to

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have them replaced. Thank you. The parents of an Indian student

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who was shot dead in Salford on Boxing Day have paid an emotional

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visit to the scene of his murder. 23-year-old Anuj Bidve, who was

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studying at Lancaster University, was shot at point blank range while

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he was out with friends. Judith Moritz is in Salford. This was

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obviously a very traumatic day for his parents.

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Yes, it was. This unassuming Salford side street has become

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something of a focal point now for the community here. It's where Anuj

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Bidve was killed. It's where a mass of floral tributes have been left

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for him, and it's where today his parents came to see for themselves

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the spot where their son's life ended. Four,500 miles from home,

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Anuj Bidve's mother laid flowers where her son was had lain dead.

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It's 11 day since the 23-year-old student was killed, shot at close

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range. The family say it was important to come here.

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This has been an extremely difficult journey to make. Anuj

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left in September last year. He was full of hope and ambition for the

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future. We were all so very proud of him. Anuj was our only son, and

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we cannot comprehend this dreadful tragedy.

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REPORTER: It must have been a very emotional experience following your

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son's footsteps today. Can you put that into words for us? There are

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no words, ma'am. All our - the world is finished for us. That's

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what I can say. In the early hours of boxing day, Anuj was with a

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group of fellow student whence they were approached by two men. One

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spoke to him briefly and shot him in the head. 20-year-old Kieran

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Stapleton has been charged with murder. He told the court his name

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was "Psycho" Stapleton. During today's visit, the family spoke to

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local people who had come to offer support. We met him, and we said,

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you know, that it was an awful moment, and we are here to give

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full support to you. I just came just to give condolences to Anuj's

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family. The Bidve family say they have faith in the British justice

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system and the police investigation. Anuj's parents will now fly back

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with their son's body to take him back to the country he left just

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four months ago. Co-incidentally, David Cameron was also in Salford

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today promoting a Government health initiative. The Prime Minister

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didn't meet with the family in person, but this afternoon he did

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speak by phone to Subhash Bidve, and in that conversation, he

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promised Anuj's father that the police and the judiciary would do

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everything in their power to do justice for Anuj.

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Thank you. David Cameron says he wants to

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improve standards of nursing in the NHS in England. Among a number of

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proposals, the Prime Minister wants nurses to conduct hourly ward

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rounds to make sure patients are comfortable and have enough to eat.

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He's also backed the idea of patients having a role in hospital

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inspections.Our health correspondent Jane Hughes reports.

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No paperwork here at all - that's what we like to see. It's the bug

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bear of nurses everywhere - now David Cameron is calling for them

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to be freed of paperwork and given more time with patients. In a visit

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to Salford Royal Hospital, he called for a complete reset of the

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approach to care. Of course there is always pressure on NHS resources,

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but the hospital I'm standing in right now shows that with the right

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management, with the right standards, with the right level of

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hourly ward rounds by nurses you can have good standards of care.

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The Prime Minister promised that patients, not paperwork, would be

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nurses' top priority. He promised hourly nursing ward rounds in every

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hospital, patients and members of the public doing hospital

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inspections and a new watchdog body to promote best practising in

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nursing. For business Pryor, the changes can't come soon enough.

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When her mother went to hospital, she was denied even her most basic

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dignities, left to wet her bad, get badly dehydrated and to develop an

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infection. It was the basic nursing care that I was very upset by. The

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medical care was fine. It was the basics - TLC. What saddened me is

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that mum died two years ago, and still here I am talking to you

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about all these things. How are you this afternoon? Some ask why nurses

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should be told to do things which seem so central to their job? In

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North London, regular ward rounds are already routine. Over the years

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with the bureaucracy and administrative - that have been

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built up, nurses have been taken away from the bedside. This is to

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make sure nurses focus on their role and their job. For nurses,

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this all feels we'reingly familiar, another in a series of initiatives

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designed to improve patient care. Some are asking how it sits with

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the Government's commitment to end NHS targets and to take the

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politics out of health care. It was Labour Party which brought in

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targets. They say the Prime Minister's taking the wrong

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approach. How will it help improve nursing standards when we're seeing

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48,000 nursing posts cut on his watch in the NHS in England while

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at the same time he's spending �3.5 billion on a pointless back room

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reorganisation? And the question being asked by the Patients'

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Association is whether the Prime Minister's rhetoric today will be

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turned into reality tomorrow. Police investigating phone hacking

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have arrested a long-serving former assistant to the ex-News of the

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World Editor Rebekah Brooks. The woman's been questioned on

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suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice and released

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on bail. She's understood to be 47- year-old Cheryl Carter from Essex

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who'd worked for other news international executives and was

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also Beauty Editor at the Sun. The male nurse arrested at Stepping

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Hill Hospital in Stockport has been named locally as Victorino Chua.

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He's being questioned on suspicion of administering or causing a

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person to take a poisonous substance. Police are not linking

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his arrest with the deaths of four patients at the hospital. The 46-

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year-old worked on the same wards where the patients died last summer.

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A bomb attack in central Damascus has killed 26 people and wounded

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dozens more according to the Syrian Interior Ministry. Reports suggest

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a "powerful explosion" was caused by a suicide bomber in a heavily

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populated neighbourhood. It's the third such attack in the capital in

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a fortnight. The boxer Amir Khan has accused an

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unidentified man of "interfering" with officials and the judges'

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scorecards during his world title defeat by American Lamont Peterson.

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The mystery man can be seen talking to one of the match supervisors

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during the fight. Khan's appeal against the controversial result,

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which cost him his WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles, will be

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held later this month. Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports.

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Few sports do controversy quite like boxing. Last month Amir Khan

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thought he'd outclassed Peterson, but the judges thought otherwise.

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Peterson in front of his home crowd was awarded a narrow points win.

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Cue anger and deepening intrigue. The reason - an unidentified man in

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a hat who Khan believes interfered with the officials. At first he

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sits next to them in the front row. He's asked to move, but by the

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second round, the mystery man is back and stays this. In the second

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round he seems to pass a paper along the panel of judges. Come the

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11th round, he picks up a yellow slip, one of the score cards Khan

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believes and spoke with an official. He later celebrated with an

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official, all very curious. Khan told me he wants answers about what

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was going on. Whenever the judges are judging a fight and the

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commission, no-one is allowed to talk to them. No-one is allowed to

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handle paperwork and stuff like that. It's just a question I asked.

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I asked the commission, and they didn't get back to me, so I I put

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it on twitter so everyone gets to see it. It's big news. I just want

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to know who this person was and it would be nice know what his role

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was. This is a big issue in sport. If it was any other sport, it would

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have caused a big fuss. Now I am causing a big fuss about this

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because I don't want this to happen to any other fighters. Here at his

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training centre in Bolton, there is controversy about his defeat. Now

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the World Boxing Association says they'll investigate.

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The boxing authoritying insist the score card hadn't been tampered

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with. Others believe there was nothing sinister. That was a close

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fight. If Amir Khan could have won, I don't think you could have argued

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too much. If Mr Peterson won, you couldn't have argued too much.

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it dodgy scoring or just a bad case of sour grapes? Amir Khan's appeal

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against the decision will be formally heard later this month.

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The fisticuffs might have finished, but this battle certainly hasn't.

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The time is 6.15pm. Our top story tonight:

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The Government says there is no evidence for removing substandard

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breast implants but will remove the minority of implants provided on

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the NHS. Coming up:

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# Paint me a picture I can see # The new kid on the block - the soul

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singer following in the footsteps Despite the economic gloom, the

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number of cars made in Britain in the last 12 months has gone up

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significantly. But they're not being bought here. New car sales in

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Britain are down. The majority are being shipped abroad which is good

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news for British exports and the economy as John Moylan reports.

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He car-making is not what it used to be. This is the Formula One

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giant, McLaren's state-of-the-art plant in Surrey. The sports cars

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cost around �175,000 each. It is out of the reach of most of us, but

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the company's order book is full of overseas buyers. For any country

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economy having a manufacturing basis is a fund a melting building-

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block. You have history and Technology Inc all blended together

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and you can sell in the global marketplace. There is up on a

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normal amount of money globally and McLaren wants to be out there.

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likes of Bentley and Rolls-Royce have been taking their share. But -

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- across the board 2012 is likely to be a record year for car exports.

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It is not just McLaren doing well. Industry figures are expected to

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show the UK manufactured 1.3 5 million cars last year, and that's

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expected to rise to 1.45 million this year. It is a far cry from the

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1970s. We churned out a more cars and exported just over half of them.

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Now four out of five cars are made here go overseas and the big names

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are gearing up to meet that demand. In the past 12 months, Jaguar and

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Land Rover splashed out on a new plant and new jobs as sales took

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off. The owner of many committed half a billion pounds, securing

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production for years to come. Meanwhile, Nissan made almost half

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a million cars in Sunderland, a new record for a British plan. The UK

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car industry has done well, partly on the back of the depreciation of

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sterling which makes UK exports more attractive overseas. We are

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making premium cars that is attracted to a middle class

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emerging in China. If exports are booming. This car is off to Beverly

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Hills. As the Government seeks to rebalance the struggling economy,

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the motor industry is in pole position.

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The outdoor-clothing retailer Blacks looks set to be taken over

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by JD Sports, after the company announced it was going into

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administration with debts of �36 million. The new owner is expected

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to take on all 308 stores, which include branches of Millets. Blacks

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currently employs 3,500 staff. There have been more problems with

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the London Olympics ticket website today. Organisers have had to

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temporarily stop customers from putting up for sale any tickets

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they no longer want, after the site was slow to update sessions which

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had already sold out. Our sports correspondent, James Pearce, is at

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the Olympic Park in East London. It's not the first time there have

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been problems. Is this a bit embarrassing for the organisers?

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bit embarrassing is the understatement of the New Year. It

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is extremely embarrassing for London 2012 and for Ticketmaster.

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It should have been simple. It was a way to combat the ticket touts, a

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resale process. If you have a ticket you don't want, we should be

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able to log on, explain which tickets you did not once, click on

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a button and they would be put on sale. Once they were sold, the

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money you had originally paid would have been credited to your account.

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It ended up being more complicated. Initially those who put tickets are

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on sale got a message saying "you'll request cannot be

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processed". Some of them were put the sale when they have been sold

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hours before. The thousands of people were trying to buy tickets

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that did not exist. At theme from earlier in the week when

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synchronised swimming tickets were sold that did not exist. About

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10,000 of those tickets have to be exchanged. All in all a bad start

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for the year for London 2012. This year's Irish Open Golf

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Championship will be staged at Royal Port Rush in Northern Ireland

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- for the first time since 1947. It follows the phenomenal success of

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local golfing superstars such as Rory McIlroy, Darren Clarke and

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Graeme McDowell, with three major wins in little over a year. Mark

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Simpson, is at Royal Port Rush for us, this is a real boost the sport

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in Northern Ireland? No doubt about it. This is a big

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breakthrough for Northern Ireland Sports. One of the biggest

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tournaments in Europe is coming to the edge of Europe. This quiet

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little corner in north Antrim. My report does contain some flash

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photography. It is the silver lining for

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Northern Ireland's three major winners. Rory McIlroy, Graeme

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McDowell and Darren Clarke will get to play on home soil, when the

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Irish Open comes to Royal Port Rush in June. It is the biggest golf

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tournament in Northern Ireland for half a century. And it could

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attract some of the biggest names in the game. Fantastic for the fans.

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To bring it to one of the best courses in Ireland, the Irish Open

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is going to be brilliant. I hope we get the crowds and the support.

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Rory McIlroy will be there. The US Open champion, plays much of his

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golf in America, but he will be back for the Irish Open. It is nice

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to come home and support your home tournament and maybe bring a bit of

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joy back into some people's lives by playing your home event. I am

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looking forward to getting there and trying to win it.

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The Open golf Championship is held for the first time in Ireland.

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was in 1951. Since then, Northern Ireland has struggled to get big

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sporting events. The Irish Open coming here is a tribute to

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Northern Ireland's new political stability and golfing success. The

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timing of the tournament could hardly be better. Northern Ireland

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is currently going through a golfing boom. At the shop in Bangor,

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they sold more junior sets of clubs last year than in the previous 10

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years. It is where a young Rory McIlroy used to get his clubs and

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he is now starting a trend. We have got Rory McIlroy, Darren Clarke and

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they are local heroes. The young have grown up with that and it has

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made a massive impact on local golf, especially in the north. If the

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tournament goes well this summer, it could come back into contention

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for the Open Championship. Of course, that is the big prize.

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The Open Championship one day. But the Irish Open is a good start, and

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there's every golfer knows, a good start is very important.

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The radio and television presenter, Bob Holness, has died at the age of

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83. He had a career spanning 60 years but was best known as the

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host of the quiz show Blockbusters. Mr Holness' health deteriorated

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following a number of minor strokes. His family said he died peacefully

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in his sleep this morning. An unassuming soul singer from

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London has won the BBC's Sound of 2012 award. Michael Kiwanuka, came

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top of the poll of music industry insiders to find the most exciting

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new artist of the year. Previous winners include Adele, Jessie J and

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Ellie Goulding. The 23-three-year old singer said he felt "honoured

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and humble to have won". We have been to meet him.

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Michael Kiwanuka may have won the accolade of BBC Sound of 2012, but

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his music and timeless quality will probably feel as at home in the

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1970s, as it does today. I never expected to be the winner. It will

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be a great platform for me. It is a dream for any magician. I feel very

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happy and humble to be part of that. -- musician. Over the past few

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months, he has been winning some high-profile fans. And the North

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London singer, songwriter is earning favourable comparisons to

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artists like Marvin Gaye. In part, thanks to his use of digital

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recording equipment to achieve a vintage sound. The list is put

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together by asking more than 180 people, ranging from a music

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writers and DJs to name their favourite new artist. Recent winner

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-- winners include Jessie J. Ellie Golding. And an Adele.

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Some have accused us of becoming too mainstream at the expense of

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independent music, partially as a consequence of major record

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companies deliberately promoting a particular artist, when the list is

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being compiled. One palace disagrees. The record companies are

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were this could help and gives an enormous boost. The do push singers

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towards it. But to get to the top of the list people vote for things

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that are good. You have to be pretty good to get to the top of

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the list. With so many convinced of Michael's potential, great things

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are expected from him over the next 12 months and beyond.

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Bit of Sunshine, a bit of rain this weekend. Nothing to exceptional. We

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do have some week France crossing the country. They are producing

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outbreaks of rain, notably across the western parts of the UK. Damp

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and drizzly weather. No great amounts and bits and pieces will

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spread to other areas pushed on by the wind. Most of the rain will

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clear through in the night but showers will follow on to the north

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of Scotland. Not a desperately cold night. We should avoid a frost.

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Tomorrow is looking OK. Bright and breezy, nice for a walk. Sunshine

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just about every work. Cloud pushed on by the breeze. A few fleeting

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showers. The sharpest will be across the North of Scotland where

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there could be snow over the mountain tops. Most places, it will

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be reasonable with further spells of Sunshine persisting in the

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afternoon. There are the showers across the far north of Scotland,

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Chile in the wind. Working South, most of the cloud is towards more

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western coastal areas. Into the North Midlands, maybe Lincolnshire.

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They won't last long and many places will avoid them.

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Temperatures around 8, nine degrees. You may have her there have been

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copious amounts of the white stuff in the Alps. It has caused

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avalanches and problems to British tourists. The threat of snow pushes

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east across the Alps this weekend. All in all, a lot of snow for

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skiing. No snow at home on Sunday, but there will be rain pushing into

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the West. After a bright start it will be clouding over. But for most

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of us, it is looking good. More information about the snow

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conditions in the Alps can be found A reminder of the news: The

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