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Bottom of the class - our young people lagging behind in the global

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race for skills. 16 to 24-year-olds in England and Northern Ireland do

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worse in English and maths than their grandparents. Head teachers

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are shocked. It's really startling to know that a country as well-off

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as ours is doing so Padley against other countries. We'll be looking at

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what this means for Britain's economic future. Also tonight: The

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banks start unveiling their new mortgage deals under the

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Government's latest Help To Buy scheme.

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The British scientist behind the world's biggest experiment gets a

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Nobel Prize for Physics. The mother of Baby Peter should be released

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says the Parole Board. Watch your favourite BBC shows even before

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they're broadcast - the new boss unveils his plans for the

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Corporation's future. Coming up in the sport: Blackpool

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manager Paul Ince has been given a five-match stadium ban.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. A major international

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study has found that 16 to 24-year-olds in England and Northern

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Ireland lag far behind young people in other industrialised countries

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when it comes to literacy and numeracy tests. The Organisation for

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Economic Co-operation and Development put them in the bottom

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10%. In numeracy, Northern Ireland is

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ranked 18th, while England is third from bottom out of 24. And in

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literacy England slips even further to 22nd, with Northern Ireland

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remaining at 18th. As Reeta Chakrabarti reports, England is the

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only country where the young are less skilled than the old. It's

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careers advice day for these pupils with a visit from people working in

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top City businesses. Today's figures present a bleak picture of the

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skills of those who have just started work. It's really startling

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to know that a country as well-off as ours is doing so badly against

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other countries in terms of literacy and numeracy. In this school and I

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know in many others they're core skills we focus on across every

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subject in order to make sure that our youngsters are fully prepared

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and really developing those skills. our youngsters are fully prepared

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The teenagers here have a strong focus on maths and English. Overall,

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the survey shows that England is the only country where results are going

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backwards with older people doing slightly better than younger. These

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children represent the workforce of the future. The lack of skills of

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those who have left school in the last decade or so is deeply worrying

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with young adults in England and Northern Ireland achieving some of

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the lowest scores of those in their age Group 4. It's a -- in their age

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group. It's a different story in Korea. Experts say the young are not

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particularly ative or risk-takers but excel in their field. If you are

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looking for skill sets meant for manufacturing and production you

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won't find a more consistent group of highly qualified graduates than

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here. Given that level of international competition, the fear

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is that skills in the UK nations are bound to decline over the next

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decade unless urgent action is taken. The managing director of the

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group that runs Premier Inn says they're vital but so are softer

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skills. It's important kids come out of school with the right

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qualifications. It's equally important they come out with good

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social skills, able to deal with the public and work in teams and we can

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help develop their skills to make sure they're successful in our

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industry. Who is to blame for today's poor performance? Ministers

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say labour was in charge when the young people in the report were at

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school. Labour says it actually drove up standards in English and

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maths. Whoever's at fault, the country clearly needs to up its

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game. Our business editor Robert Peston is

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here. How serious are the implications of this report for

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Britain's economic future? Well, look, Britain is still struggling

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under record levels of debt. It's been years since certain

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self-sufficient in energy so we are really pendant on the skills of our

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people to generate growth. Right now the skills of British people don't

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look too bad against international competitors. As it was just said,

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the reason is because we are really dependent on the skills of people of

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our age and older. Our young people, and it is remarkable, are really the

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only young people in the world less skilled, very basic numbers,

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literacy, working with IT, less skilled than the older age group.

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That raises the serious prospect that we will struggle as an economy

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in coming years to perform, to pay our way in the world unless

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emergency action is taken of some sort to improve their training.

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There is another really worrying point about all of this, the lowest

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skills are those from the poorest backgrounds, those whose parents had

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pretty poor education. Our schools are not helping the disadvantaged to

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move up the ladder. There is this risk of a low growth economy and a

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more socially divided economy unless we fix this skills problem. Thank

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you. Some of Britain's banks have begun

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to unveil details of the mortgages they'll offer under the

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Government-backed Help to Buy scheme. The aim is to assist people

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who can't afford the big deposits that banks require at the moment.

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RBS, NatWest and Halifax will start taking applications this week, with

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HSBC and Virgin Money joining later. Here's our personal finance

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correspondent Simon Gompertz. The housing market's been all but

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closed to buyers without a 20% deposit. Now banks are rallying

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behind the Government's Help To Buy scheme designed to cut the deposit

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you need. It's just what Rob's family from Bath needed. With

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£15,000 for a deposit when banks were demanding more than double

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that, Help To Buy could be the kick they wanted. This looks as though

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it's going to help fast-track us on to the property market even though

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we aren't young first-time buyers. We are still first-time buyers, and

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my guess is there are a lot in our position. Yet Help To Buy may not

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help John, looking to buy with his wife in the London market. The

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overall price of the house in the first place in London is very high.

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Even with the reduction that the first place in London is very high.

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Help To Buy scheme could provide in terms of the deposit there will

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still be a lot going out and that's more than I can afford at the

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moment. For buyers the key feature is that you have to put down a 5%

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deposit but then you have to cover the remaining 95% with a mortgage,

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not easy in the current climate. The Government's providing a taxpayer

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guarantee for the top 15% of that which makes you much less risky to

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lend to. Today HSBC and Virgin Money added their names to the list of

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those promising to take part. There are already mortgages being made

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available. From Friday, Halifax and Bank of Scotland are offering a

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two-year fixed rate of 5.19% on a 5% deposit with a fee. RBS and NatWest

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are already accepting applications for a fixed rate mortgage of 4. 99%

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with no fee. A lot of people will struggle to do that, as they need

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the stamp duty, as well. Those are people for whom these schemes are

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going to work well. The Prime Minister in Northampton today faces

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concerns from MPs and economists that Help To Buy now covering both

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old and new homes will pump up a new housing bubble. I don't believe it

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old and new homes will pump up a new will. If we look at house prices

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across the United Kingdom, if you will. If we look at house prices

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exclude London and the south-east thoer only going up by 0.8% a year.

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Here on this estate because of the Help To Buy scheme the people who

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are building this have explained to me they're going to build more.

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Whether prices race ahead will depenned on how many manage to get a

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mortgage via Help To Buy. Some say thousands could give it a go.

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And there's much more on our website, including a calculator to

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find out where in the country you could afford to live and whether it

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would be cheaper to rent or buy. That's bbc.co.uk/where can I live.

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The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its economic forecast for

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Britain, despite downgrading its forecast for global growth. The IMF

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had said there would be growth here of 0.9% this year but has increased

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that to 1.4%. In 2014, the IMF says the economy will grow by 1.9%. In

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the last hour, the Chancellor, George Osborne, said these figures

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showed the Government's economic strategy was working. It's clearly

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welcome that the IMF says the UK is growing more strongly than it was

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and that shows that our economic plan is working and jobs are being

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created in this country. But the IMF also warns us that there are a lot

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of risks out there in the world economy and that's why we have to

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stick with this economic plan that's helping Britain turn the corner. The

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last three years the economy has flatlined. That's why the deficit

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has not come down but more importantly, is why families are

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worse off and even now the Government's been complacent saying

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the economy plan is working, for families it's not working. They're

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worse off. Our political editor Nick Robinson is in Downing Street for

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us, outside the Chancellor's residence.

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Those two have been arguing about economic policy ever since the last

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election. Will the latest figures help to settle the argument? Oh, no,

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they won't do that. There's no doubt the men inside Number 11 are being

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careful not to say I told you so, but they are absolutely delighted

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that the man from the IMF who just six months ago was warning them that

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they were playing with fire, that it might be right to slow down the

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drive to austerity, to slow down cuts, if you like, the man warning

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there might not be growth again in the British economy in the

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short-term, he has now stopped saying those things and that means

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that a powerful voice that was very helpful to the Labour Party has, in

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effect, been silenced but Ed Balls is still able to say hold on, the

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man from the IMF was asked today whether the forecast settled that

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row between plan A and plan B and he said, and insisted that it didn't.

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Furthermore, he said that the Treasury should still consider the

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possibility of borrowing money when it's cheap to build houses, to spend

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on investment which is of course the Labour Party's policy and the

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forecast Labour are pointing out is much better now but that's because

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it was downgraded before and it's gone back again. I end with a

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forecast of my own, whether I am standing here in two years' time or

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someone else is standing here in 50 years' time, they will still be able

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to have the argument between plan A and plan B because the economists,

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the historians, and absolutely the politicians will still not agree.

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Thank you very much. The leader of the English Defence

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League is leaving the controversial -- controversial group. The

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co-leader is also leaving. The British scientist Peter Higgs

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has won the Nobel Prize for Physics - the greatest prize in science. In

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the 1960s he was among those scientists who came up with a theory

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to describe the most basic building block of the universe - sometimes

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called the god particle. Here's our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh.

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Professor Peter Higgs, winner of the biggest prize in science for

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predicting the existence of a particle that holds the universe

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together, the Higgs Boson. Peter's contribution has been a big advance

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scientifically. The journey we have taken in discovering it has been

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something that's brought along not just theoristses but

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experimentalists and many people excited to see us chasing down this

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mysterious and difficult to find particle. It was discovered last

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year by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva. As a

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young physicist Peter Higgs was fascinated by the behaviour of

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sub-atomic particles. He went on to develop a theory of how they gained

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substance or mass. The theory of sub-atomic physics predicts the

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existence of 17 particles, each with its own symbol. The discovery of the

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Higgs last year was a final piece of the jigsaw. This was important

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because it enables researchers to complete their theory, locking it

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together. And to use it to discover newer, better explanations for how

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the universe works. A year ago Peter Higgs wiped away a

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tear at the news that scientists have discovered the particle he

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predicted nearly 50 years earlier. He shares the award with Professor

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Francois Englert of Belgium. I have never been in a scientific meeting

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like that before, because people got up and cheered and stamped. I

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regarded it as cheers for the home team. And that was what it was

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really about. Maybe they were cheering me, too, but this was a

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minor issue. Controversially, though, scientists from the Large

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Hadron Collider have received no recognition for their discovery.

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Through his school visits Professor Higgs is inspiring a new generation.

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A shy man, he wouldn't give interviews today. But he said he was

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overwhelmed to receive the award. Muslim school in Derby has been told

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to stop discriminating against women or girls or face closure. The letter

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came after a visit from inspectors. This faith school only opened its

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doors to pupils last September. Tonight its future is in doubt. The

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Department for Education has serious concerns about the way it is being

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run and is considering removing its funding. In a letter to the chair of

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governors, the education minister said the school had breached its

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contract with the government by failing to ensure the safety of

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children. Delivering an unacceptably poor standard of education and

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discriminating in its policies and procedures towards female staff.

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There have been reports of segregation of boys and girls and of

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the enforcing of the strict dress code on non-Muslim teachers. This

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former teacher said she was left feeling shocked and upset. After

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working there for about three weeks, at about 9:30pm one night I

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received a text from the principal making a comment about the way I had

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been dressed at work. It had been deemed to be immodest. Obviously I

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was incensed. Doctor Stuart Wilson deemed to be immodest. Obviously I

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is in charge of the pupils here. He says they are working to put them

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first. There are things we had to address, without disagreeing with

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the Ofsted report but their view is objective. Ofsted has already made

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public its concern about incomplete record keeping of safeguarding

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checks on staff. Its full report will be published soon, but the

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clock is ticking for this school because the Department for Education

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says it needs to see an action plan for change by the beginning of

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November or else public funding will be withdrawn.

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Our top story this evening - and international study says young

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adults in England and Northern Ireland are close to the bottom of

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global league tables in maths and English. Still to come: It is a

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British success story, a cheap computer designed in Cambridge and

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made in Wales that aims to the will -- change the way children interact

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with technology. We will bring you the latest from the England camp,

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the players have been talking to the press ahead of their game against

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Montenegro. The BBC's new Director General has laid out his plans for

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the future of the corporation. Following one of the most

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controversial periods in the BBC's history, dominated by the Savile

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scandal and executive pay-offs, Tony Hall said he wanted a more

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personalised BBC. He spoke about the next generation iPlayer, which would

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allow viewers to see programmes before they are broadcast. There'll

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be a new plus one service for BBC One, where programmes will be aired

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an hour later. And Lord Hall set an ambitious target to double global

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audiences to 500 million a week. Our Arts Correspondent David Sillito has

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more details. It has been a turbulent year for the

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BBC but this was a speech aiming to shift the debate both to the future

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and the way the corporation relates to us. At the moment we treat

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audiences like licence fee payers, we should be treating them like

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owners. A new relationship. The iPlayer will become increasingly

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personalised, its features increased. Increasingly watching

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whenever you want on whatever device you have, wherever you are. Wherever

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whenever you want on whatever device you are in the world. And the BBC

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has got a new target to double its global audience to half a billion.

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It wants to get more of its contents global audience to half a billion.

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seen around the world, probably for free on advertising supported

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platforms. Whereas the BBC in Britain, you will have to pay the

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licence fee. One of our roles is of being an information provider, a

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provider of debate, of coverage of our hearts and these other things,

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which is kind of unique in the world. We have an important role. It

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was also a chance to show off new possible programme technology. This

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allows you to point the camera where you want. The BBC is about to enter

:20:17.:20:27.

negotiations about its next ten years Charter. What will happen with

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BBC funding in a world where it has got these wonderful OnDemand

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services, the temptation from a politician to say you can monetise

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that, you can charge for those services now, you don't need the

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licence fee any more, that is definitely going to be the long-term

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challenge to the way the BBC is financed. I am incredibly flattered

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to be asked about my ideas... The celebrities were also doing their

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bit today. It is hoped it will be a simpler, less bureaucratic

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corporation. The parole board says that Tracey

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Connelly, the mother of baby Peter, should be released from jail. She

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was released indefinitely -- jailed indefinitely, with a recommended

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minimum term of five years, in May 2009, for causing or allowing her

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son's death in north London. A Parole Board panel recommended her

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release from prison following a second review of her case. Is there

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any way of knowing when she will be released? In theory, as soon as the

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decision is made by the parole board, she could be released. It is

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extremely unlikely anything will have happened today because there

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are plans to be made, housing for instance would need to be sorted.

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The Ministry of Justice will not say when she is being released, or

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whether she will get help in changing her identity or advice.

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After all, it was such a high-profile case. Our sources

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suggest it is unlikely that will happen. She will be released on

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licence so if she breaches the terms of that release she will be recalled

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licence so if she breaches the terms to prison. She served six years.

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That is because Peter died in August 2007, she was arrested sometime

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after that although she was not sentenced until May 2009, that

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sentence will include the time she spent on remand. Thank you. The

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Welsh Government says it will increase its spending on the health

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service to improve patient safety and cope with rising demand. It made

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the announcement as it set out its 15 billion pounds budget plans for

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next year - cuts are being made in other departments to pay for the

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plans. More from our Wales correspondent, Hywel Griffith.

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From the first years in the classroom to caring for growing,

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elderly population. Adding infrastructure and the Welsh

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government has a long list of demands for the £15 billion it has

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been allocated from Westminster. But nothing has been scrutinised or

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criticised more than the Labour administration 's record on health.

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In four years, it has cut back more on the NHS than any other part of

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the UK. Today a turnaround of sorts with an extra £570 million over

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three years. There are huge pressures on the health service and

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we are responding particularly to the Francis review of the crisis at

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we are responding particularly to Mid Staffordshire foundation trust

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and we are responding to that. It is a small step in the right

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direction. Cat spent three years waiting for a hip operation. In 2012

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she made it as far as the ward before surgery was cancelled because

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of the bed shortage. They obviously need the money to be put into the

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hospitals so that patients like myself and other people in constant

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pain can get these operations done. There are few patients who will

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argue against giving more money to the NHS at a time when demand is

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growing and waiting times are getting longer, but spending more

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money here as to mean cuts elsewhere. Specifically in local

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government, libraries and other council services will take a 9% cut

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over two years. Local government will take a massive hit, I think

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many Labour council leaders across Wales will be looking hard at their

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colleagues and asking why they have been meted out for special

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treatment. It will be under more pressure than ever to show it can

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deliver on the NHS. It's the size of a credit card,

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cheap to buy and was aimed at teaching children about the skills

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of computer programming - now 18 months since its launch, the one

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millionth Raspberry Pi has just rolled off the production line in

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South Wales. Its creators say it's a great success story for British

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technology. Here's Rory Cellan-Jones. Made in Wales, the

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tiny educational computer which has been a worldwide hit. At this Sony

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factory in South Wales, they have now made a million Raspberry Pis. It

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all started with a Cambridge scientist who wants to change our

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relationship with computers. His scientist who wants to change our

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idea was a computer that will demand a bit of work from the user, rather

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than just switching it on. I remember being told this was a

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non-saleable product. I think a lot of our success has come from the

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fact that there was a latent need for something like this. Enthusiasts

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have found all sorts of weird and wonderful uses for the Raspberry

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Pi, from playing xylophone... To Saturn system for bikes... To

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filming the leap from a high altitude balloon by a teddy bear.

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This has been a hit with computed using us around the world but that

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was not the point, it was designed to change the way children use

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computers and to teach them programming. That involves learning

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to speak the languages that make computers work, typing in an

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instruction to make something happen. At a Cambridge School, this

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class is getting a first taste of computer programming, using the

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Raspberry Pi to make music. I think it is really good. It is really fun

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as well. Not complicated. It definitely made me want to do more

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with computers. It is really clever. Would you like to learn to do more?

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Yes, I want to do more with this. This is a rare sight in schools.

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Raspberry Pi has shown we can make computers in Britain but the

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revolution in how we teach children to use them as some way to go.

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Now, the weather forecast with John Hammond. 20 degrees plus today but

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we can wave goodbye to that because it is time for a reality check with

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cold air surging its way across in the next few days.

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There will also be a strong, northerly wind. It will be turning

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colder, but for many there will be plenty of dry weather around as

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well. Some showers around at the moment but a lot of dry weather and

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that is the way it will stay for most. Further north, signs of

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change, the showers pepping up, the wind picking up, and this is a sign

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of things to come because this cold and windy weather will head its way

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southwards during the course of the day. It will carry bands of

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showers. One such band of showers will be heading its way down through

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Wales towards southern counties mid-afternoon. Still some reasonable

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temperatures but not as warm as today and turning progressively

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colder further north. Just 10 degrees in the mid part of the

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afternoon. A whole packet of showers further north and some wild wind

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across the far north-east of Scotland, severe gales here and snow

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across the Grampians. These strong winds go all the way down the east

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coast, there will be big waves crashing over the seafront. Further

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west after a cold, possibly frosty start, plenty of dry and bright

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weather around. Looking further ahead towards the weekend, after a

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frosty start in places, some sunshine across many northern areas.

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Further south, some uncertainty. It looks like there will be an

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increasing chance of rain developing through the weekend.

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That is all from

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