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William and Kate decide to sue a French magazine which has published

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topless pictures of the Duchess of Camebridge. St James's Palace calls

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the invasion of privacy grotesque and unjustifiable.

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The pictures were taken while the couple were sunbathing in a

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secluded private chateau in France. These people are humans, you know.

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They are Royals and lead a life of immense privilege but should be

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allowed to have complete privacy when not doing their duty. It's

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only the second time in living memory the Royal Family have sued

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the press. We'll look at how it will affect their relations with

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the media. Also on tonight's programme - western embassies,

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including Britain's come under attack many the Middle East and

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elsewhere in response to a film against Islam.

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On trial, the City trader who lost nearly �1.5 billion of his bank's

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money. And Glasgow gives a heroes welcome

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to Scotland's Olympians. Good evening.

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Welcome to the BBC News at Six. The Duke and Duchess of Camebridge have

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taken the rare step of launching legal action against a French

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magazine who've published pictures of the Duchess topless while

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holidaying in France. St James's Palace said it was

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reminiscent of the life of Diana Princess of Wales. It's only the

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second time in living memory the Royal Family have sued the press.

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The couple continue their tour of the Middle East. Nick Witchell sent

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this report from Malaysia. It was a day to be demur. Friday,

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the Muslim holy day, William and Kate were making their first viz to

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it a mosque. Kate's head was covered. They both removed their

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shoes. At that stage, they'd heard about

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but not seen the photographs. They were said merely to be saddened by

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the incident. But after they'd left the mosque,

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officials started to receive copies of what the French magazine had

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published and the intensity of the reaction sudden by changed. Instead

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of sadness, there was fury. Stay 24... Officials who're used to

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dealing with the media started talking about a red line having

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been crossed. William instructed his spokesman to issue an official

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William and Kate had gone last week for four days to a chateau in

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France owned by his cousin viscount Linley. It is extremely secluded,

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according to officials, and yet, unknown to the couple, a

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photographer was staking the place out.

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The photographs were published this morning in a French gossip magazine

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on the front and five inside pages. The magazine's editor appeared not

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to understand what the fuss was about.

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TRANSLATION: One shouldn't dram tiez these pictures. The reactions

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are a little disproportionate. What we saw many the pictures was a

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young couple that have just married who're in love, who're beautiful.

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The relationship Diana Princess of Wales had with the press was a

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complicated one. Her friends say she was constantly hounded and the

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same thing must not be allowed to happen to Kate. I have seen what

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damage is done by a constant intrusion into your life, how

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impossible it is to relax and have downtime if you've always got in

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the back of your mind perhaps there's a Kampusch ra there. These

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people are humans. Yes they are the Royal Family and lead a life of

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immense privilege but they should be allowed to have complete privacy

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when not doing their duty. Tonight, William and Kate left Kuala Lumpur.

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Kate look composed, William looked preoccupied. He and his advisers

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must now decide whether to sue the French magazine under France's

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strict privacy laws. Tonight, after a day of real anger

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here and close consultations with lawyers in Paris, the confirmation

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that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to take action and

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sue the French magazine in the French courts for a breach of their

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privacy. British newspapers were offered the

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controversial pictures but chose not to publish them. Just a few

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weeks ago, prince marry was photographed naked at a party in

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Las Vegas and those images were proproduced in the Sun newspaper.

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This time, Buckingham Palace says a red line has been crossed. Nike

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Higham reports. She's beautiful, elegant and

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constantly on camera. It's her role to be photographed. But some

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pictures of Kate are simply beyond the pale according to the palace. A

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French magazine may have published topless photos, but Lord Justice

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Leveson's report due in November, the British Press will think long

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and hard before following the French lead.

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The Sun today said it had no intention of publishing the photos.

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Yet it did print pictures of Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas hotel

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room, the only paper to do so. He was at least partly to blame for

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what happened, unlike William and Kate and the paper invoked public

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interest. That hardly applies here. A public interest is usually

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defined as exposing crime, hypocrisy. Clearly that doesn't

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apply. If the Duchess had been on a public beach in a public place,

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then we are talking about a different thing because she would

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have chose tonne be in a public place. She chose to be in a private

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place so they're almost certainly private photographs. In London

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today, people were sympathetic. have been there before with

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Princess Diana and I think it should be addressed. The poor girl

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will be afraid to take her socks off anywhere she goes now. What

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pictures British newspapers choose to publish is increasingly

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irrelevant in a world of social media and the global Internet. The

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law too is struggling to keep ufplt I think the geneny is out the

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bottle. We live in an international environment. We have social media

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that is so different to how things were ten or 15 years ago and news

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spreads fast and photographs are published almost instantly.

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This French paparazzi says he can't understand the British tabloid

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refusal to publish. I mean, it's so stupid. She's a young lady. She's

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nice. She's not fat. She's beautiful. So you have to show them.

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Are you going to show the pictures on your programme? Of course not.

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So it's a kind of hypocrisy - very British. The pressure from the

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palace combined with public sympathy for Kate and a press made

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ultra--cautious in the run up to Lord Justice Leveson's report means

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these photos are highly unlikely to be published by a British newspaper

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or magazine, but that won't stop the paparazzi taking them and

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selling them abroad. It won't stop anyone with a mobile phone taking

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them and sharing them with their friends and it won't stop anyone

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looking at them online. Demonstrators have attempted to

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storm the British and German Embassies in the Sudanese capital

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Khartoum in protest against an amateur film made in America which

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mocks the Prophet Mohammed. Demonstrations about the film have

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swept across many countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Our

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Diplomatic Correspondent, Bridget Kendall, has the latest.

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An attack today on the British and German Embassies in Sudan's capital,

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Khartoum. The crowds couldn't breach the high

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walls of the British compound but at the German Embassy, police

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couldn't hold them back. The angry anti-American mood in the Muslim

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world has spread. They broke through to scale the

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embassy's walls, smash windows and set fire to the compound.

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The German flag was replaced with a black Islamist one.

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TRANSLATION: When they insult our religion under the slogan of

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freedom and democracy, we say to hell with freedom and democracy.

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Mounting fury to the amateurish film out of California whose

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offences comments about the Prophet Mohammed were seen as blasphemous

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and deeply insulted to -- insulting to Muslims. I condemn the anti-

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Islamic video. Still, this cannot be a justification for the outbreak

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of violence, this violence must stop immediately.

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This week's protests first grabbed the world's attention in Libya

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where an armed mob killed American diplomats. By then, violent

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protests were also building in Egypt and in Yemen an angry crowd

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pre-ly broke into the US mission. Today, the unrest spread further

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with attacks in Khartoum and Tunis and protests in Lebanon, Turkey,

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Kenya and Nigeria. Further east in Afghanistan, India, Indonesia,

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Malaysia and Bangladesh. It's in Egypt that the protests

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have been biggest, from early morning today in central Cairo

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demonstrators confronted riot police, violent clashes for the

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fourth day running. Tear gas dispersed the protesters and cement

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barriers blocked access to the US Embassy. Elsewhere, like here in

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Bangladesh where crowds gathered after Friday prayers, many protests

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though angry were peaceful or heavily controlled by Security

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Forces. What's not clear is whether this

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wave of anger will continue to spread.

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Police say a British girl who survived a shooting in the French

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alps which claimed the lives of three members of her family has

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been released from hospital and is going back to the UK. Seven-year-

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old Zeinab Al-Hilli was shot in the shoulder and sustained head

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injuries in the attack near Annecy last week. Her father died, along

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with his wife and her mother, and a local cyclist. A 32-year-old woman

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has been arrested in connection with the murder of a university

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graduate in Somerset. The body of 23-year-old Catherine Wells-Burr

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was discovered in a burnt out car in a field close to the A583 near

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Ilminster. Two other men have been eliminated from the inquiry. The

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Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has criticised the Chief Constable

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of West Yorkshire for making what he called ill-judged and

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insensitive comments about the Hillsborough disaster. Yesterday,

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Sir Norman Bettison said the behaviour of Liverpool fans impeded

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the work of police at the stadium in 199. Sir Norman, who was

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involved in South Yorkshire police's internal investigation

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into the disaster, has denied asking officers to manipulate their

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reports to shift the blame on to Liverpool fans.

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Danny Savage is outside the headquarters of West Yorkshire

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police in Wakefield. Mr Bettison clarified his statement today. Has

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that done enough to satisfy the families of those who died at

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Hillsborough? Well, the origins of this row were

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yesterday when Sir Norman Bettison made that statement about his

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involvement, saying that he didn't have anything to hide. He then did

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go on to say that the fans made the job of the police harder than it

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needed to be. The Deputy Prime Minister called those comments

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insensitive today and told him to clarify what he had to say. He did

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that very promptly and he did say that the fans of Liverpool were in

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no way to blame. "I'm sorry if my earlier statement caused further

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upset. My role was never to besmirch the fans there". There are

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still plenty of people calming for his resignation, especially those

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concerned with the Hillsborough disaster. One other thing, the

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Chief Constable of South Yorkshire has outlined the charges that South

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Yorkshire police may end up faceling in the wake of the

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revelations this week, saying there could be the potential for

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corporate manslaughter charges, the possibility of manslaughter

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investigations against individuals and a look at possible misconduct

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in office. This really does underline the serious charges which

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could follow on from this Hillsborough inquiry this week.

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A city trader who lost �1.4 billion of his firm's money in high risk

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trades went on trial today. The jury heard that Kweku Adoboli

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exceeded his trading limits at UBS in a bid to get a bigger bonus and

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boost his ego. The Swiss Bank's share price dropped by 10% as a

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result of his actions says the prosecution. He denies charges of

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fraud and false accounting. Emma Simpson reports from Southwark

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Crown Court. Kweku Adoboli, the City trader

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accused today of being a gambler two a way from destroying

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Switzerland's largest bank. The court heard he racked up huge

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losses through dodgy deals and deceit, a greedy banker out of

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control and out for himself. He worked for UBS, a global

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investment bank. The jury heard he joined as a graduate trainee,

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rising through the ranks here in London to become a senior trusted

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member of the bank's trading team. But he cheated the system since

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2008. The prosecution claim that Mr

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Adoboli exceeded trading limits, falsified records to balance the

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books, as well as inventing income and clients.

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The court heard that Mr Adoboli's luck ran out at the start of last

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summer when losses started to spiral. The prosecution barrister,

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Sasha Wass QC told the court that he was throwing money wildly into

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the market, hoping to dig himself out of the mess. Like most gamblers,

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she said, he believed he had the magic touch, like most gamblers

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when he lost, he caused chaos and disaster.

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The court heard that at one point, Kweku Adoboli had exposed this bank

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to potential losses of more than �7 billion, putting its very existence

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at risk. It was only when things started to unravel and questions

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were being asked that he finally revealed what he had done.

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The court heard details of a bombshell e-mail to a colleague

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The prosecution claims he acted alone and later changed his story

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to implicate colleagues. The court heard that Kweku Adoboli's defence

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will argue that the bank's management were complicit in this

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fraud. He denies all the charges in a case that is expected to last

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eight weeks. Our top story tonight:

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are suing a French magazine after

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it published topless photos of her on holiday.

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Coming up: A modern fake or a 19th century

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masterpiece? How 21st century technology is helping to find the

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I will be here Withe bought as the Premier League returns after the

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international break. Will have the The Business Secretary, Vince Cable,

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says he wants to make it easier for bosses to dismiss workers without

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having to resort to the complex employment tribunal system in

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Britain. He's also calling for a cut in the maximum amount employees

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can claim as compensation for unfair dismissal. Our chief

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economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, Excessive regulations, form-filling,

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bureaucratic procedures, for sort of thing most businesses hate. It

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is known as red tape and today saw the latest initiative from the

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government to cut through the burden on employers. This company

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in Telford makes specialist components for industries like

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electronics and aerospace. It wants to expand but says it needs more

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flexible rules for managing its work force. Her at the moment

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there's a lot of red tape. There's a lot of procedures you have to go

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through, a lot of paperwork. You have to involve a lot of people

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within the organisation. Somehow we need to simplify VAT. Ministers

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believe companies like this would employ more people if it was easier

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to get rid of underperforming workers. They say latest measures

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will help small businesses. They are worried if things go wrong and

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they find themselves in a tribunal with complicated procedures, costs

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and delays. We want to help them, but we don't want to undermine

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basic labour rights and create insecurity. The employment law

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insecurity. The employment law changes include measures to allow

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voluntary pay-off agreement between employers and staff who wish to

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move on, her plans for streamlined employment tribunals and a cut in

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employment tribunals and a cut in the maximum payout of just over

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�72,000 allowed for unfair dismissal claims. Labour say

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changes to the rules on wrongful dismissal will erode the safeguards

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for employees in the workplace. They are making it harder for

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people to claim for unfair dismissal and they are also

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reducing the amount of compensation you can receive at the tribunal

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where you have been treated badly. Until now that has acted as a good

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deterrent for unscrupulous employers. Today's package comes a

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few months after a political row inside the coalition. At Downing

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Street had commissioned a review by the business leader Adrian Beecroft.

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He recommended socle know full dismissal, giving employers a free

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hand to get rid of employers -- employees when they wanted. Vince

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Cable has confirmed he will not go down that route. Some businesses

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say he should have done so, removing more of what they see as

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red tape in the workplace which restricts expansion and growth.

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A serious case review is to be carried out at Rochdale in Greater

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Manchester, where nine Asian men were found guilty of systematically

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grooming and sexually abusing white girls. The board that works to

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safeguard children in the borough says it has taken the decision to

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see if more could have been done to protect the victims.

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The Welsh economy requires a "new deal" for jobs and growth,

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according to Plaid Cymru. Addressing her party's annual

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conference for the first time as leader, Leanne Wood said her party

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should back a green agenda and use Wales' natural resources to their

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full potential. Live now to our Wales political editor, Betsan

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Powys. One of the first acts of a Plaid Cymru government would be to

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establish Allah own national Power House, green energy, investing in

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our national infrastructure from tidal energy to community owned

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wind and hydropower. Focused on our own energy needs and where

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appropriate, exporting this valuable commodity. But

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repatriating for profits and reinvesting them for the benefit of

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the people of Wales. We can speak to Betsan Powys. This marks a

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change of direction for Plaid Cymru. It does. You are seeing the

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relatively new leader of a party that has been losing ground in

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Wales. Plaid Cymru came third behind the Conservatives at the

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last Welsh election. They are trying to recover break the party's

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message and car felt some new turf. We didn't hear the word

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independence mentioned, nothing of the Welsh language and culture. The

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focus was on the economy, on slamming Westminster's public

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spending cuts, questioning Labour's contribution in Cardiff Bay and

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offering voters Kitts Green at New Deal. What Leanne Wood is saying it

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OK, you don't support independence for now in Wales, you think Wales

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is to pour, it is, but give us your vote and we can prove that in

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future Wales could be better off and therefore independence could be

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a realistic prospect. The next Welsh elections are not until 2016

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so Leanne Wood will be keenly aware that by then, she will have to find

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many ways of closing this new deal with Welsh voters. Thank you.

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Thousands of people lined the streets of Glasgow this afternoon

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as Scotland's Olympic and Paralympic heroes took part in an

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official victory parade. Sir Chris Hoy spoke of his joy at being part

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of the record-breaking team. In the last few minutes, a similar parade

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has been taking place in Cardiff. Let's go live now to our Scotland

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correspondent, Lorna Gordon, who's Those celebrations in Cardiff just

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getting under way now. The celebrations here in Glasgow have

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been going on all afternoon. Scotland, as part of Jean bit --

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Team GB, punched above its weight at these Olympics and thousands

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turned out on the streets of Glasgow this afternoon to celebrate,

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to salute that incredible sporting achievement.

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It is Scotland's turn to celebrate its summer sporting heroes. And in

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the country's biggest city, Glasgow, the weather cleared as crowds

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gathered to welcome the athletes back home. Their medals, once again,

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on display. Unbelievable reception, everybody has been cheering and

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waving and asking for autographs. Such is hugely emotional day for

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everybody to see the support we have had. It really has been a

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nationwide gains, not just the London Games. The sporting action

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centred on London, but their successes were closely followed

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here and 1,000 showed their pride in what had been achieved. It has

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been a wonderful event for the whole of Britain and to see of the

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Scots who have done so well, it has been wonderful. For ease guys made

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it, so they did. -- V's guys. A quarter of the medals from Scotland.

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This was about celebrating Scottish Olympians and Paralympians win as,

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too. Side by side and cheered by all. For and plastic to be back in

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Glasgow and to have the crowds coming down. -- fantastic.

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celebrating a great summer of sport and hoping to build on the success

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with the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.

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Those last few months of sport topped off, of course, with Andy

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Murray, a gold medallist, winning a Grand Slam earlier this week at the

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US Open. It was hoped he would be here this afternoon, but he is said

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to be exhausted after four months of tennis and he is said to be

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devastated that he didn't make it to what turned out to be a very

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special afternoon at of Olympic celebrations.

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Discovering a new painting by one of the world's most renowned

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artists is something experts dream of yet happens rarely. But cutting

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edge forensic techniques are making it possible to establish the

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authenticity of pictures in ways not thought possible before. As a

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result, paintings by some of the great masters that were either

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unknown or considered fakes are now being re-evaluated. I followed the

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investigation of a painting by one Blue Dancers, a painting by one of

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the great Impressionist master's, Edgar Degas. At least it was until

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the 1950s, when the foremost Degas expert decided it was fake. Its

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owners were left holding a painting once extremely valuable, now worth

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a few hundred pounds at best. What didn't he like about the painting?

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A few things. The face of the dancer, which he called trivial.

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The position of it, he said it was not a formal pose. And for

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draughtsmanship at the head. Paintings like those at the Musee

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d'Orsay in Paris at Degas are the most sought-after and fakes are

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common. After lengthy investigation, it is possible to trace the bills

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of sale of the Blue Dancers back to the moment it left the studio in

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1882. But today's Blue dancer could have been a later copied of the

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genuine work. Art experts Philip Mould took up painting to be tested

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for the precise pigments used. You're going for the bonnet of the

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dancer. Yes. It is the most obvious area. If there is detain him white

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in the painting, used only after Degas's death, the painting had to

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be fake. This is very encouraging. The main elements found on lead,

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which is good because it indicates that lead White was used and not

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titanium. As opposed to the dreaded titanium? Yet. What about the

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criticisms about the positions of the dancer? In one of the rehearsal

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rooms at the Paris Opera House where Degas loved to paint, a

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ballerina tries to recreate the pose. Looking down, facing forward?

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That is exactly it. That is it. The new evidence about the Blue Dancers

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was enough to persuade the world's foremost Degas authority that the

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painting is genuine. Brace yourselves. We have the pleasure to

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inform you that the painting described below fair to have

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submitted is an authentic work by Edgar Degas. Fantastic. Real lesson

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in not giving up. Blue dancer can now take its place in galleries

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around the world. A painting rediscovered, recognised as from

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the brush of one of the finest Impressionist masters.

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And you can see more on that story on "Fake or Fortune" on BBC One

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on "Fake or Fortune" on BBC One this Sunday at 6.30pm.

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Let's take a look at the weather now with Alex Deakin.

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Most places having a decent day tomorrow. It will be chilly first

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thing, but a bright and breezy Saturday across the UK. Not as

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windy as today. As for Sunday, more on that in a moment. Some rain in

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the forecast. Tonight it is dry. Of the winds are dying down. One or

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two scattered showers over north- west England and north-west

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Scotland, but for most it is a dry night. It will turn chilly. One or

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two mist and fog patches forming, too. In rural areas, temperatures

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as low as five Celsius. The mist and fog clears away and then it

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will be a fine day. Across eastern areas, we should hang on to the

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sunny spells. In the West, there will be a bit more cloud. Maybe

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even a spot of drizzle, but the north-east Scotland, a fine day.

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Temperatures might reach 20 Celsius on the Moray Firth. Bright and

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breezy with sunny spells in Northern Ireland. Have more cloud

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in north-west England and North Wales. Maybe a spot of drizzle.

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Inland, we should see sunny spells and further east, feeling warmer

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than today because the winds will be lighter. Up it will be a dry

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Saturday evening foremost, but we will start to see a change in the

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north-west. Wet weather pushing him. First thing on Sunday, a grey start

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across southern Scotland. That rain edging across northern England and

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eventually into the Midlands. Many southern and eastern counties

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staying bright until late in the day. In summary, Saturday is fairly

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