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Andy Murray rounds off a summer of Great British sport as he wins his

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first Grand Slam title at last. It took him almost five hours to beat

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Novak Djokovich in five sets at the US Open. I realised that I had won,

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I was obviously a little bit shocked. I was very relieved and

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very emotional for a few minutes afterwards, yeah, it was an

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incredible match. In Dunblane - where he grew up -

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they partied through the night. Now a much needed rest for the new

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King of New York - the first British man to win a Grand slam

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since 1936. Also tonight: Regrades ordered in

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Wales, but not in England. The exam board caught in the middle over the

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GCSE marking row. Three people are killed and 50

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injured after a coach crashes on the way back from a music festival

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on the Isle of Wight. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

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are shown an orchid named Princess Diana at the start of a Diamond

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Jubilee visit to South East Asia. Later: I will be here with

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Sportsday and the latest on a busy night of international football.

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All four home nations continue Good evening, welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. After five sets and nearly five hours of thrilling

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tennis, Andy Murray has won his first Grand Slam title - becoming

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the first British man to do so since Fred Perry in 1936. Murray

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won the US Open last night, beating the defending champion, Novak

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Djokovic, in New York. Afterwards, Murray - who has lost his four

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previous Grand Slam finals - said relief was the best word to

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describe his feelings. Andy Swiss reports from New York. Basking in

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Grand Slam glory. In New York's central park Andy Murray was today

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parading his glittering prize before the world's media after a

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night when his and a nation's hopes were finally fulfilled. Murray, it

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seemed, could scarcely believe it at first before eventually the

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emotions flowed. After coming so close many times, the eternal

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challenger was at last a champion. It means the world to me and when I

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realised that I had won I was obviously, you know, a little bit

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shocked. I was very relieved and emotional for a few minutes

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afterwards, it was an incredible match. How Murray had to work for

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it. A five-hour emotional rollercoaster, the first set lasted

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an hour-and-a-half when Murray took it and the second set victory

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seemed a matter of time. Djokovic had other ideas. He came roaring

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back to take the match into a deciding set. The old Murray might

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have crumbled but his new coach, Ivan Lendl has instilled a new

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mental toughness and with his family supporting him Murray stayed

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strong and victory ultimately unforgetably, was his. It has been

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a long and sometimes difficult journey. In 2004 at the age of 17

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Murray won the junior US Open title, the start of a swift rise. By 2007

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he was in the world top ten, but Grand Slam success proved elusive.

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In four finals he he experienced defeat and disappointment, most

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vividly at this year's Wimbledon. Right, I am going to try this and

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it's not going to be easy... But from despair, came delight.

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Olympic gold in London, a feat which perhaps gave him the belief

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he needed. Three of the biggest events, Wimbledon, the Olympics and

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then the US Open. Andy was in the final of won and won the other two,

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you can't ask for more, it's an incredible achievement and one he

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should be immensely proud of and hopefully can build on. Andy

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Murray's Grand Slam dream is finally a glorious reality. But if

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he is had to wait a long time, British tennis has had to wait far

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longer. 76 years to be precise since Fred

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Perry won his last Grand Slam title in 1936, no British man could

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emulate him. Until now. This unforgettable sporting summer

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now has the very happiest of endings.

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Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, has described Andy Murray

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as a Scottish legend. In Andy Murray's home town, Dunblane,

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thousands of fans stayed up late into the early hours of this

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morning to watch his historic victory. Today, they've continued

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the celebrations. Lorna Gordon is in Dunblane for us.

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Andy Murray started playing tennis on these courts here when he was

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just three years old. The kids were out at 6.00am this morning

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practising and they came back as soon as school had finished.

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They've been celebrating Andy Murray's win and trying to emulate

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their hero. It was a night of tension.

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Trepidation, and in Dunblane, little sleep for those who stayed

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up to watch Andy Murray triumph. He is a great champion. Nobody

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deserves that any more than he does, phenomenal. It's great for doesn't

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doesn't doesn't -- Dunblane, better for Scotland. Now we can all relax

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and just enjoy his tennis from now on. Dunblane is norm lay --

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normally a quiteter town. His family remain in Dunblane. They

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are all close and know how much a Grand Slam success will mean.

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I think means everything to him. He knows he can go out there. The

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monkey's off his back now, hopefully he won't be known as the

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best player that Britain ever produced never to win a Grand Slam.

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There's already a golden postbox in Dunblane, marking Murray's Olympic

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medal. People now are finding ways to celebrate this latest historic

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win. Town and family and friends all aware of his early sporting

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promise and ambition. The last time I played with him he basically said,

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he calls me Embo, my nickname, get off the court, you are you are

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rubbish. He must have been ten or 11 at the time. And there are now

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plenty of other young players on these courts who Andy Murray has

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inspired. Seen him on TV and that got me into tennis. I love the game

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and I was proud of Andy winning the whole match of the tennis. And many

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here are now hoping for a visit home from their hero, so they can

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tell him how proud they are of his success and of his maiden Grand

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Slam -- win. A maiden Grand Slam win and here, of course, they are

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convinced it is the first of many, so yes they have been celebrating

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through the night and the day, but that will be nothing like the party

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you will see here in Dunblane if Andy Murray does find time in his

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very busy tennis schedule to visit his home town.

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Thank you very much. Our sports correspondent Dan Roan

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is here. What a match, what a victory. A very fitting end to a

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great summer of British sport. Absolutely. Many people

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understandably will have assumed yesterday's victory parade in

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London marked the end of what will surely go down as the most

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remarkable summer of sport in British history. Sure, there have

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been other historic moments the last few weeks, Bradley Wiggins for

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example winning the Tour de France and gold, arguably the best example

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but after decades of disappointment for British tennis Andy Murray

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maybe even surpasses that, it's hard to think of a more deserving

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winner. The question now is will it usher in a new period of success

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for tennis more generally? Some question will it will. They'll

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point to the fact that he felt the need to take himself to Spain as a

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young man, to hone his skills, he is not a product of the British

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system. The next best player after him from Britain is ranked 200 in

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the world. They'll point to the fact less people are playing tennis.

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On the positive, some will say Laura Robson is a new generation of

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talent and the future is rosy. As with the London Games, winning at

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the elite level is one thing, making sure it's not a one-off is

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another. Thank you very much. An exam board caught up in a row

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over the regrading of GCSE English papers says its been put in a

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difficult position after the Education Minister in Wales ordered

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thousands of papers to be remarked, while Ofqual - the exam regulator

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in England - has refused to do the same for tens of thousands of

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students who sat the same exam. Today, the head of Ofqual strongly

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defended its role, as our education correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti

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reports. Exams are stressful enough, but

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this jeer's GCSE -- this year's GCSE English results caused a storm.

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Teachers said the exam board raised the bar through the year making it

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harder for pupils taking the exam in June than in January.

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As MPs today questioned the head of the exam's watchdog, it emerged

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that one exam board had been told to regrade the June papers just two

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weeks before the results were published. But the head defended

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her actions. We know that the June were right, as I said before, those

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few that took units then had what we might call a lucky break but the

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important thing is that the June awarding was right.

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None of this is of comfort to John Townsley, head of a Leeds school

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which saw its English results drop. He says the head of Ofqual should

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resign. Ofqual, it's the chief regulator, has no role to play in

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this matter any more. That's been sacrificed and compromised. We need

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the Secretary of State to intervene in this matter, as a matter of

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urgency. That's straight away is in saying that the English results sat

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in June 2012 are essentially void. Ofqual says it won't order a

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regrading of the papers and here in Westminster the Education Secretary

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says he won't intervene. But in Cardiff it's a very different story,

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with the Welsh Government telling the Welsh exam board it must

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regrade the English language paper. We have taken swift action in order

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to ensure that those students who took these qualifications this

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summer and are now moving on to further learning, either in 6th

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forms or FE colleges or possibly into apprenticeships, will not lose

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out. But the Welsh exam boards papers are sat in Wales and England.

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The Welsh Government is telling it to regrade the papers in Wales, but

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Ofqual is telling it not to in England.

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The Welsh board wants both sides to agree one approach, but at the

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moment there's little prospect of that. It means that several hundred

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Welsh candidates could now be getting higher grades than English

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candidates who got just the same marks.

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The watchdog for the health service in England, Monitor, has ordered a

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rescue plan for a hospital trust that was at the centre of one of

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the biggest scandals in NHS history. Independent experts will examine

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how services at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust can be made

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viable. An inquiry in 2009 described levels of care at the

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Trust as appalling. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick

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Clegg, has withdrawn comments referring to opponents of gay

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marriage as bigots. Sources close to Mr Clegg say the word was

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included in an early draft of a speech he is making this evening

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which was released by mistake and not something he thinks.

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The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, said tonight the use of

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such a term was very offensive. Our political correspondent Robin Brant

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is in Westminster for us. Echoes of comments made by the former Prime

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Minister, Gordon Brown, during the general election two years ago when

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he referred to a woman in Rochdale who expressed a view on immigration

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as a bigot. Now, Nick Clegg has not uttered these words and I am told

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by senior aides that he won't be. He didn't say it, he won't be

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saying it, it's not what he thinks is what I am told. Clearly someone

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in his office believes the Deputy Prime Minister would perhaps share

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these views because in extracts of a draft released earlier he did

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refer to opponents as gay marriage as bigots. It's a controversial

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issue, it's divided many here. Clearly it's incensed some

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Conservatives tonight. One MP telling me this is unacceptable.

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It's intolerant. The former Archbishop of Canterbury saying

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it's very offensive and for some in the coalition side the

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Conservatives side, this is just fresh evidence of what they believe

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is a politician out of touch with people, but certainly a politician

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out of touch with Conservatives. Thank you. Three people have died

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after a coach travelling back from a music festival on the Isle of

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Wight crashed on the A3 in Surrey late last night. More than 50

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passengers - all in their 20s - have been treated in hospital. The

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coach was on its way back to Merseyside when it left the

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carriageway and hit a tree. Daniela Relph reports.

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The wreckage of the coach, the police have described the scene

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here last night as harrowing. It was dark, but the weather was fine.

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There were hardly any other vehicles on the road. But still for

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some as yet unknown reason, the coach hit the oak tree, with

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devastating consequences. As well as three people killed, several

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passengers suffered what the police have called life-changing injuries,

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including the loss of limbs. The coach crashed before midnight,

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close to the Hindhead tunnel in Surrey. The investigation will look

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at the actions of the driver, one of those who lost his life. His

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family say he was well rested before beginning his journey last

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night. An eyewitness who was driving

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behind the coach has told the BBC how the vehicle suddenly left the

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road and drove up the embankment alongside. It was going a little

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bit slower than I was. As I went to overtake it, it veered violently to

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the left, up the embankment and then I had to swerve because I

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thought it was going to come back off the embankment, so I had to

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swerve to get past it. The coach pwhropged to the -- belonged to the

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company Merseypride. The owner said the vehicle had been booked months

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ago for the journey to the music festival on the Isle of Wight.

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ourselves are devastated. I have been up all night worried sick

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about what's been happening. I can only say, we don't know anything

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more than you guys know now. The police are not giving us any

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information at all. The focus will now be on working out why the coach

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veered off the road so suddenly. The most crucial witnesses, the

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young people who survived this this Our top story tonight: Andy Murray

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wins his first Grand Slam title to round off a summer of great British

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sport. Coming up:

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How 20 million people in the UK will have access to the latest

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super-fast mobile technology by Christmas.

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Later in business on the News Channel, super-fast 4G mobile

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phones on the way, with one company holding all the early cuts.

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Burberry issues a profits warning as its rapid growth slows right

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More than a quarter of a million Syrians have now fled the country

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to escape the continuing violence, according to the United Nations.

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Its refugee agency says 100,000 people left Syria last month alone.

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Many refugees are heading for Jordan, where our correspondent met

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one Syrian family who have fled there after becoming caught up in

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the conflict. The Khadoors, a close-knit family

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from Homs, now confined to a cramped hotel room. Mealtime, as

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with young children anywhere, is a battle of wills. They fled here

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after losing everything they had, everything but their lives. These

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are the faces behind statistics of untold suffering emerging from

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Syria every day. They were fast asleep when a shell hit their home.

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It started a fire, which quickly engulfed the children.

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TRANSLATION: They were burning. I heard them crying. I ran after them

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to take their clothes off. I tried to put the fire out. I did not feel

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the pain or the fire my hands. Thank God we managed to save them.

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When you remember that day and what it did to your family, what do you

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think? TRANSLATION: It is a very hard

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feelings. I feel for myself and my children. We got hit and know the

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pain. I feel for every Syrian child and every Syrian person. Six-year-

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old Abdul Malik managed to escape the flames, but his three-year-old

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sister could not. And the four- year-old has third-degree burns all

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over her body. Translate -- TRANSLATION: Once she looked in the

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mirror and said mum, I am burnt. I used to be beautiful. Why did I

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come this way? I told her, you are still beautiful. The children's

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personalities have changed. Once outgoing and sociable, their

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parents now keep them inside to protect them from stairs. -- people

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staring. Today this child's left hand is being operated on. A

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traumatic experience for a small child, and it is not her first or

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last operation. Doctors are removing deep scar tissue on her

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hand so that she can use it properly. This Medecins Sans

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Frontieres Hospital has a bridge on thousands of people injured in

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confits across the Middle East. The surgery is complicated. Her face

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will have to wait a couple of years until it is likely to succeed. Her

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mother said that she had you, the doctors, could make her as

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beautiful as she was before, maybe even more beautiful. This is

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because she is her mother, you know? But I can assure her, she

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will be near-normal, if not normal. Another operation is over for this

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child, but many more lie ahead. The damage done to one family by a

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single shell in Syria's escalating war.

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A major Chinese telecoms company is to invest and spend more than a

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billion pounds in the UK over the next five years. It could lead to

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the creation of 700 jobs. The news comes as the Business Secretary,

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Vince Cable, set out his long-term vision of the economy, calling for

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closer links between government and business.

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The industrial landscape is gloomy, so the search is on at Westminster

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for new ways of finding growth that do not involve the government

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spending money. So why not get another country to spend its money?

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Today their Chinese telecoms giant Huawei announced that it would

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invest �1.2 billion in the UK over the next five years, creating 700

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new jobs, a deal signed in Downing Street that ministers are said

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proved Britain was opened for business. This is very good news, a

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significant investment by one of the world's leading companies. I

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met the founder this morning, he told me about the project. He made

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it clear he regards Britain as an excellent place to do business, and

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that is why they are committing money here. There will be a

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significant number of new jobs for British workers. To get more of

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that, the Business Secretary promised a new industrial strategy

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where the Government would support key manufacturing and high-tech

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industries and unlock credit within a new lending body that would work

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with existing small banks. But a committee of MPs today raised

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concerns about an existing scheme to boost investment. They found

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that only �60 million from the regional growth fund had made it to

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any businesses. This from a pot worth �1.4 billion. Officials

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insisted that these figures are out of date. And it was not just the

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Government getting stick. Today the TUC Congress defied Labour and

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voted to consider the practical issues of a general strike. They

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heckled Ed Balls when he promised to keep the cap on public sector

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pay. Why do we hear you and Ed Miliband talk about supporting this

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Tory pay freeze when I am having to make decisions about where I can

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pay my heating bill and whether or not I can choose to buy food?

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know it is hard, Liz, and I want things to be done in a fair way.

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But we cannot argue for a paper for jobs at the moment. And it is jobs

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he wants, too. Today David Cameron let those working in the food

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industry as they showed off their skills in the Downing Street

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kitchen. Yes, he is still talking about cuts, but these days, he is

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also talking about government doing more.

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By Christmas, 20 million people will have access to state-of-the-

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art mobile technology in 16 cities across the UK. New 4G mobile phones

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should allow users to download high-definition films in just

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minutes and give uninterrupted access to the web while on the move.

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It started like this. Then we moved on to this. Now we are promised an

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even faster mobile connected future. Britain's first 4G network is

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launching within weeks, courtesy of Everything Everywhere, better known

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as Orange and T-Mobile, who now want to be known as EE. The network

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is promising much faster speeds to phone users to upgrade to 4G, it

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has not yet said what it will cost. You could phone will not work on

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the new system. You will also need to be on the EE network, and you

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can only get it in 16 cities before Christmas. A quick test shows what

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people in those cities could see. This phone is running on a standard

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3G network. This one runs on 4G, probably on its own. Let me check

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the speed test on both fronts. On the first phone, it is really

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struggling. It is struggling to get up to one megabyte. Whereas on this

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foam, off it goes all on its own, and it has whizzed up beyond 30

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megabytes. All the mobile phone firms are preparing to go 4G. 02

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has had a tram network running since last year, with video Wharf -

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- video playing game-playing users clogging up the network, rivals are

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angry that EE have started early. There are countries that already

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have 4G. It matters because the UK is typically setting the benchmark

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in terms of using mobile phones and new applications. So the digital

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infrastructure has to catch up. don't yet know whether Apple's new

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iPhone, due to be unveiled tomorrow, will work on the new EE 4G network.

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The faster future is on the way, and the competition for mobile

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phone customers is about to get even more intense.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in Singapore at the

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start of a nine-day visit to South East Asia and the South Pacific to

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mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Prince William and Kate started

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their tour at Singapore's Botanic Gardens, where they were shown an

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orchid named after Diana, Princess of Wales. This report contains

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flash photography. He looks increasingly at home in

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this role. She looks composed and confident. For William and Kate, it

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is the start of their second overseas tour together. It is a

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smooth double-act which looks the part and finds the right words.

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This was Wiliam at a speech tonight in Singapore. For Catherine and me,

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this year will also be special for the privilege of making this trip

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on behalf of her Majesty the Queen. The couple's first engagement in

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Singapore had been a poignant one. They had gone to the Botanic

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Gardens to see an orchid named in honour of William's mother, Diana.

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She never saw it, de Gea, said Williams. Diana was killed two

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weeks before she was due to pay a visit to Singapore. For William, a

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moment of reflection. And then another orchid and something to

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celebrate. This one has been bred to mark the couple's visit. It

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looks like royal tourism, and to a certain extent it is. The orchids

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have been done in little more than ten minutes. But alongside the

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super-fast sightseeing, there is a serious purpose to royal tours like

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this. Over the next eight days, first here in Singapore and then in

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Malaysia and finally in some of the islands of the South Pacific, the

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couple will promote British interests and pursue issues which

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matter to them personally. There will be intense extra grit --

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scrutiny of what she is wearing and We have a real taste of Autumn over

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the next couple of days'. Temperatures today have certainly

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struggled. Tomorrow, more of the same. Disappointing temperatures.

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At least today, we had the sunshine. Tomorrow, a lot more cloud in the

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forecast. Tonight, we will have clearing skies in central and

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eastern areas, but we keep the cloud towards the West. More rain

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around Northern Ireland and south- west Scotland overnight. Here,

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temperatures will dip down to single figures. Some early

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brightness across central and eastern parts first thing in the

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morning, but much more cloud further north and west. By the time

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we get to the afternoon, a lot of that cloud and rain is sinking

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further south and east, so we should start to see things

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brightening up across Northern Ireland, with a mainly dry picture.

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Maybe a few showers to the north- east of Scotland, but some

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brightness. A cool north-westerly breeze. Further south, a scattering

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of showers across parts of Wales, with a brightness in between. Given

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some sunshine here, we might creep up to 18 degrees. For the Midlands,

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East Anglia and the south-east, a lot more cloud, with patchy rain

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tomorrow afternoon. Those showers will clear into the North Sea

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tomorrow evening. As pressure starts to rise with the clearing

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skies, temperatures drop away. Our coldest night of the week comes

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tomorrow. In the countryside, it will be even colder. First thing in

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