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population grew by more than any other country in Europe. 800,000

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babies were born last year. That's the highest number in the last 40

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years. In the short-term, has affected housing, transport,

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services, like education and health. We will be looking at the reasons

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for this baby boom. An acid attack on two teenage girls doing charity

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work in Zanzibar. They've been flown to the capital for medical

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treatment. David Cameron... For struggling AMD departments, but

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doctors say it is papering over the cracks. A month ago, Jeeni was

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enslaved, working off her father's debt in Pakistan. Today, after the

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BBC's report, she can be a child again. In sport, the ICC say that

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Hot Spot will be used for the remaining Ashes test, despite being

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dogged by controversy so far this middle of a baby boom, with the

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highest number of boats for 40 years. New figures show that more

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than 800,000 babies were born last year. It means the UK population

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grew by more than any other country in you rub. We have been looking at

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the reasons for our growing population, and the strain it might

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put on services. A baby, it seems, is the must have item these days, as

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Britain experiences a baby-boom, the like of which we haven't seen since

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you doubt what Stewart was top of the charts in 1972. In the 12 months

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to June last year, more than 800,000 were delivered. It is not one born

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every minute now, it's one and a half. All of those babies have

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helped push the population up by almost 420,000 in just one year.

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There are now 63.7 million people in Britain, thanks to a quarter of a

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million more birds than deaths and 166,000 in net migration. So what do

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some of the crowds of new mums think is inspiring the baby-boom? After

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she came, all you see are mothers and kids. It is booming with babies.

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I see loads of babies around and the playgroups are full, you already

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have to worry about them now. There's lots to think about. It is

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now big business, pregnancy shops, baby shops and kiddie shops. Before

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we just have restaurants and pubs. Immigration has increased the number

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of women of child-bearing age. But it's thought an increasing trend

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towards larger families and women having children later are more

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significant factors. Whatever it is, the rise is seen as worrying by

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some. We want the government to say this growth in population isn't

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helpful, that we'd like people to have smaller families. Sure,

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migration is part of it, but people should be thinking about having one

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or two children, not three or four. Another factor in the population

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increases people living longer. Today's figures reveal that the

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number of men over 75 in the UK has risen an astonishing 25% each

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decade. A number of EU nations are actually worried by their low birth

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rates, and some economists suggest there are advantages in having more

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children. Medium to long-term economic benefits are substantial.

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People who are being born now or the immigrants coming here now, will

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help pay for our pensions and public services in the future. The hope is

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that today's numbers will act as an early warning system to planners. So

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whether by Royal appointment or not, as the new baby boomers grow up, the

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nurseries and the schools will be ready for them. We know there is a

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baby-boom. What I'm interested in is why our figures are so different to

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the rest of Europe. Part of it is immigration, we saw substantial

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immigration to this country over the last 12 years, it does push up the

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number of women of child-bearing age. We also seem to have women

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having babies later, into their late 30s and 40s. So the period over

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which they tend to have babies as longer. But the key thing is that in

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this country we tend to have bigger families than elsewhere in Europe.

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Far more people have three children in the UK than elsewhere in the EU.

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So there's something cultural there. I don't know what it is, but at the

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moment it seems that people think perhaps it's what you do. You have

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more than two kids. Two young British women have been attacked

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with acid on the East African island of Zanzibar. Case Dick -- DGN

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Kirstie Trup were volunteering for a charity. They have been treated on

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mainland Tanzania, but they are due to fly home tonight. This was the

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emergency operation to take the two injured women of Zanzibar island and

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into hospital on mainland Tanzania. Both girls had been splashed by

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acid. One was more seriously injured. Both in pain and shock,

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after the sudden and vicious attack. British consular staff

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helped them get from hospital in the island's capital. Katie Gee and

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Kirstie Trup are both 18. They were two weeks into a three-week trip,

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working as volunteers for a charity in Tanzania. They booked through a

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big UK travel company. Stone town is a major tourist destination. Tens of

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thousands of Britons come here every year. But the Foreign Office does

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one violent and armed crime is increasing. The girls were walking

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up this area of Stone town when suddenly two men on mopeds stopped

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and flung acid into their faces before speeding away. People rushed

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to help as they heard them screaming. It all happened so fast.

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The police still don't know why they were targeted. Zanzibar is a

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majority Muslim island. There have been tensions in the past between

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locals and tourists, for not dressing appropriately or covering

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up. But there's no indication that this was religiously motivated. It

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was said they were appropriately dressed. The girls who were working

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for your aid agency, they were aware? Yes, they were dressed

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appropriately. The girls are being treated for burns to their face,

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chest, arms and stomach. Their injuries are not life-threatening

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and they were said to be in good spirits, despite the vicious attack.

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Consular staff were helping to arrange an emergency medical

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evacuation flight to get them back to Britain, where their mums gave a

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joint statement, read by a family friend. Both families are extremely

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upset and distressed that this completely unprovoked attack on

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their lovely daughters, who had only gone to Zanzibar with good

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intentions. We understand that they will be flying home overnight. We

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appreciate all the interest and support we have received from the

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media, but we would ask that we are left alone until we've been reunited

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with our daughters. The authorities here say nothing like this has ever

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happened before, and police are still tracking the two men and

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investigating what might have been behind this vicious and unexpected

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attacks. UK border staff in France have been criticised for not taking

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the fingerprints of thousands of people caught trying to enter

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Britain illegally. The chief Inspector of Borders and immigration

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said records should be kept in case the same people later claimed asylum

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in the UK. He also said people smugglers were not being fined

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heavily enough. Ministers have agreed to review the issue. Several

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companies and charities say there. Advertising on the website Ask.fm,

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after the death of a teenager who was bullied online. 14-year-old

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Hannah Smith was found hanged at home in Leicestershire last week.

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The Prime Minister has urged people to boycott social media sites which

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fail to respond to concerns about bullying. Reeta Chakrabarti is with

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me now. Who are these advertisers that have pulled out? They have been

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pulling out during the course of the afternoon. They include names like

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Spec Savers, Vodafone, Laura Ashley, Save the Children, the sun

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newspaper, BT and eBay. A couple of the companies have said they didn't

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know they had adverts on this website, they were sold this

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advertising space as part of a wider package by other agencies.

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Nonetheless, they've moved fast to get out of the website this

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afternoon. The pressure has been growing on Ask.fm, so much so that

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this afternoon the founders of the website actually put out a long,

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open letter, saying that they defended their website, they don't

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condone bullying. They say that users can report any abuse, and they

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say users can elect not to have anonymous contact with other

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people, because anonymity has been one of the key reasons this website

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has been criticised. David Cameron said today that he felt that users

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needed to be protected, and that users should boycott websites where

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they are not properly protected. The trouble with that is, as one expert

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said to me, young people live their social lives online as much as they

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do offer it. How realistic is it to expect them to boycott a website?

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The issue was more about regulation. The NHS is to get an extra �500

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million to help bail out struggling accident and emergency departments

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in England. The government says the money will be spent over the next

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two years. The British Medical Association, which represents

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doctors, says the bailout is merely -- is merely papering over the

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cracks. Accident and emergency departments across the UK have been

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getting busier. Over the winter, waiting times in English hospitals

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increased. Leading to warnings from doctors, hospital managers and MPs

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that emergency care was facing a crisis. Now the Prime Minister is

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offering hospitals financial help to avoid similar problems this winter.

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We need to make sure that GPs surgeries work more closely with

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hospitals. We need to make sure that the frail and elderly better cared

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for in our communities, rather than going in and out of accident and

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emergency departments. government is offering �500 million

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to be spread over two years, which comes from savings already achieved

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in the NHS. But it represents less than half of 1% of the �110 billion

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budget for the NHS in England. It is likely to be shared between 25 to 50

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hospitals which have faced the biggest problems in A&E. At Salford

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Royal they are trying to relieve pressure on the busy emergency

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department. This is known as deflection will stop a nurse

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assessing patients to make sure they really need to be admitted. If they

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don't, they are offered advice and could even have an urgent

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appointment booked with their local GP. Accident and emergency

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departments across England have seen more patients walking through the

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door. But at the same time, there's been a real problem recruiting

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doctors and nurses to come and work in this intensely pressurised

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speciality. Not all doctors are convinced that the money today will

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make a real difference to the root causes of the problems. Doctor

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Clifford man, standing by to receive casualties from a motorway

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accident, knows all about the pressures of working in A&E. The

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Health Select Committee recently said just 17% of emergency

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departments were fully staffed. The doctor says that won't change with

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today's announcement. We welcome the money but it doesn't address the

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root cause of the problem in A&E department, which is a lack of

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senior decision-makers. But experts warn there are also problems with

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the ability of hospitals to discharge people back into their

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communities. When you can't do that they start backing up, and that's

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where you see the problems in the A&E department. It isn't necessary

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where the source of the problem is. A review of emergency care is

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looking at longer-term solutions, but winter pressures will soon start

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to build again. Britain is in the middle of a baby boom. Latest

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figures show the population grew by more than any other country in

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Europe. Still to come... Too much on show? Why the Co-op won't be

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stacking some lads magazines anymore. In Sportsday, Rickie

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Lambert is the surprise name in the England squad to face Scotland up

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when you next week. A Southampton striker could make his international

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ten-year-old Pakistani girl who worked for 15 hours a day, virtually

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a slave, paying off her father's deaths. The name is Jeeni and she is

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not alone. A leading NGO said there are 12 million child labourers

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working in Pakistan last year. It believes 25 million children and

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teenagers are not in school. But as for Jeeni, her life may be about to

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change. Deep in the cotton fields, Jeeni is at work, a child

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shouldering the burdens of adults. But if looks like hard Labour,

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remember what she left behind. This brick kiln was her home and

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effectively, her prison. She and her entire family toiled here. They were

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bonded labourers, enslaved by debt. But after we featured her story,

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that debt was suddenly forgiven. We were taken to see the small room

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Jeeni shared with 14 family members. This campaign from the

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Child rights group, SPARC, said she would have been liable for her

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parents' debt. She would have had to work for her entire life to pay off

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this loan but she would not pay alone like that in her whole life.

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The owner of the kiln claims he treats his work as well although

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bonded Labour is illegal. He said Jeeni's father owed him almost

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$8,000 which he wrote off out of compassion. TRANSLATION: After the

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BBC report, campaigners said to me and I said I have forgiven the

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debt, now they are free. I have children as well. I'd took pity on

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Bears. How are you? For Jeeni and her family, this new-found freedom

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means the chance of a better life. Still poor but no longer trapped.

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Her father says with what they earn picking cotton, he hopes to send

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Jeeni and her brothers to school. She is hoping for that as well and

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tells me she likes it here working the land. There we spent all day in

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the mud making bricks, she says. Now we work for only four hours a day.

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We are better off here. This is another advantage of their

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new location. For Jeeni, life certainly looks a lot different.

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Here, at least for a time, she can set work aside and simply be a

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child. But the biggest change is she can look forward to taking her place

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in the classroom, having a chance to learn and that is something which

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seemed impossible before. Millions of children in Pakistan never get to

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school. But for Jeeni and her siblings, a new future might be

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written. A Mafia boss who has been on the run

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for nearly two decades has been arrested in London. Domenico

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Rancadore, who is 64, and wanted by the Italian authorities, was

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arrested at home in Uxbridge. The co-operative has confirmed it

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will no longer sell Nuts magazine from early next month. It comes

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after the title's rubbish rejected an ultimatum to use modesty barracks

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or be removed from the shelves. -- modesty barracks. They are known

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as lads mags and in the Co-op, they're often sexually charged

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covers are hidden behind modesty boards. But now the Co-op wants to

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go further and put them in sealed bags. This is about responding to

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the needs of our customers. response from one of those magazines

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was simple. To Co-op we are saying we're not going to put our magazine

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in modesty barracks and if that means they not available, we will

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encourage our readers to shop elsewhere. They will buy the

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magazine and their shopping somewhere else. This is more than a

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row over a magazine. It is a claim that public attitudes have shifted.

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However, when it comes to a fence, the boundaries are not clear.

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not like to see them in shops because they are very explicit. I

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have small children with me and I do not want to answer questions about

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why they are there. Not very nice. We macro I think they are

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ridiculous. A beautiful woman, who does not want to see that? Bikinis

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do not just appear in lads mags. Will we have to ban women's

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magazines as well. The same pictures are in the sun and the daily the

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daily Star so would we have two put covers on that as well. There has

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been evidence that the tide has turned. There has been a gradual

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normalisation of soft porn. We do not have to stand for it any more.

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We can challenge it. The clearest evidence is how many people are

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buying them. Loaded used to sell 400,000 copies 15 years ago, it has

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now lost 90% of its sales, down to around 13,000 copies for each

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addition. And if the decline continues at the same rate, there

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may be nothing left to cover up. Shoppers were once attracted to big

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out-of-town supermarkets because they could get everything under one

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roof. Now as we buy more electrical and household goods online, major

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retailers are facing a challenge, what to do with all their spare

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space in stores. As our business correspondent reports, Tesco has

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more of these than anybody else, and this year they reported their first

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drop in profits for 20 years. Tesco, it still takes more of our

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money than any other retailer, but here is its problem. Shoppers do not

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need to visit these big out-of-town hypermarkets any more, but Tesco

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thinks it has found a solution. Today, a glimpse of the future,

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Tesco's multi-million pound experiment. Its aim is to make this

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story on to more than just the weekly shop. It has bought a

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restaurant chain and given space for community activities. The boss told

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me hypermarkets across the world are facing a challenge. Our answer is a

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reinvention of the hypermarket. Food first, lots of experience, lots of

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eating places, lots of browsing places, focused right on the family.

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After two decades of breakneck expansion, building large

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supermarkets like this one, the race for space is now over. Many

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retailers have too much of it. This shift is being driven by consumers

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and the way we now shop. And one of the big changes for supermarkets is

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shopping online. New figures out today suggest just over one of us --

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one in ten of us are doing all our food and grocery shopping on the

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net. That is a rise of 40% in three years. Shopping habits are changing

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and online groceries we think will double over the next five years. We

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can buy when we want, how we want at a time which suits us. That is one

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of the challenges retailers are having to deal with. We are also

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shopping more locally, more often, in smaller convenience stores.

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Little and often because I work. When I have a day off I do what I

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can but I am picking up it's on the way home most nights. I am finding

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the larger stores too daunting. By the time you have gone half way

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round, you have had enough. Offering something different than just

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filling up the bags. All superstores will have to evolve if they are to

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keep their customers keen. Hawk-Eye, the goal line technology

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system for the Premier League and Wembley Stadium has been unveiled

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today. The system uses 14 cameras and will take just a second to send

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a signal to the referee's watch and earpiece, indicating whether the

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ball has crossed the line or not. It will be used for the first time this

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Sunday in the community shield match between Manchester United and Wigan.

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The International Cricket Council have confirmed that controversial

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HotSpot sensors which show whether a ball has hit the bat or not will

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continue to be used in the two remaining Ashes tests.

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That is despite complaints about its unreliability and allegations denied

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by England and Australia that players have tried to cheat the

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system. Joe Wilson reports from Chester-le-Street.

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You can see the pace of change in the north-east sky. This is how the

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Nissan car factory generates some of its energy. But is old-fashioned

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best when it comes to cricket? There is a feeling that technology has

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gone too far. I would like to see umpires make decisions. That is what

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they are there for. They are trained. With the RS it is not

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conclusive. This HotSpot is not picking it up -- DRS. Unless it

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works 100% I do not think there is any room for it. Every move the

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player makes is scrutinised by cameras. The slightest touch of ball

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on but is opposed to show up. Kevin Pietersen is forced to deny that he

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takes his bat in a way to fool the cameras. Suggestions of foul play

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were made on Australian TV, ridiculed by England and Australia.

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A lot of people play with their favourite bats and put tape around

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them to make the bats last as long as they can. Cricket's governing

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body is trying to reassure the teams that the umpires know what they are

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doing. I think they have held their hands up and said mistakes have been

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made. It is something they are trying to iron out so it is not a

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talking point. It goes back to almost what it says on the tin,

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trying to get more decisions right so those decisions do not have a big

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impact on big aim. Taped up that have always been around in cricket

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but there has never been an Ashes test in Durham. They would rather

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see runs than reviews. Australia insist they are still motivated to

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square the series, even though they have already lost the Ashes.

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What is the weather going to be like for the cricket? Helen Willetts has

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decent day tomorrow. This has been creeping off the Atlantic, a weather

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front. It is creeping into Northern Ireland. It will take centre stage

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through the night and tomorrow. Some heavy bursts of rain along that

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weather front, fairly breezy as well. There will be a lot of cloud

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sitting on the hills. Quite grey and damp to start tomorrow morning. It

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does look brighter by the afternoon. You could be caught and some nasty

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conditions in the rush-hour in the morning. What it should blow away

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quite quickly. Then the sun comes out. 12-macro showers and eastern

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areas. Fairly confident for a decent day at Chester-le-Street. And you

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can catch the coverage on BBC. There will be some showers around in

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eastern England. For many of us, a lovely day. We will see temperatures

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around average for the time of year. The rain will linger little more in

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the north-east of Scotland. It is also looking very promising for the

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Welsh Eisteddfod tomorrow and Saturday. As we head towards the

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weekend, there is a question over the detail. For Saturday, many parts

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of central and southern and eastern areas are looking fine and dry. A

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fresh breeze and showers north and west. A noticeable breeze on Sunday.

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This weather system in the South might introduce some rain across

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England and Wales. Hopefully, it will be for the first half of the

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day and will slowly clearer way. It will be a bit up and down in the

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weekend. Please do not make this the last forecast you see if you do have

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plans. There is more information on the website.

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A reminder of our main stories tonight: Britain is in the middle of

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a baby boom. The latest figures show the population grew more than any

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