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British Gas parts of its prices, up to 8 million households face higher

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bills. -- put up. The average cost of bills will go up by more than

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9%, adding to the squeeze on family budgets. Families like ourselves,

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who are just scraping by as it is, with the cost of living going up and

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up, it is beyond our reach. We will be asking if there is

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anything government can do. Also tonight, classroom disruption for

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hundreds of thousands of pupils as teachers in parts of England go on

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strike. And honours all round, Prince

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William's first investiture and an OBE for Andy Murray.

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Coming up in sport on BBC News, the FA stand by their man after England

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manager Roy Hodgson apologises for an inappropriate joke he made in a

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half-time team talk. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

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News At Six. British Gas has become the latest big energy supplier to

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announce a rise in its fuel prices this winter. Nearly 8 million

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households will be affected, adding to the squeeze on family budgets.

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The average dual-fuel bill is set to rise by more than 9%, so the annual

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cost will go up by just over ?120. That would see customers having to

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find nearly ?1500 per year. The energy secretary, Ed Davey, says he

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is extremely disappointed by the price hike and has urged worried

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customers to look at switching to cheaper suppliers. Here is industry

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correspondent John Moylan. It was news that Graham Taylor could

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have done without. He is a British Gas customer but currently

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unemployed, and with a baby on the way he knows getting by this winter

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is now going to be even tougher. With prices going up, it is going to

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be harder than normal to be able to keep our heads above water. I don't

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think the energy companies take that into consideration at all when they

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think about their pockets and their shareholders' pockets. Today,

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Britain's biggest energy supplier delivered the biggest price rise yet

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from the major firms and blamed rising costs largely out of its

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control. The price of wholesale gas is rising, we are buying it in a

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wholesale market that is booming. The cost of moving it to homes is

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rising, and that is set by the regulator. Thirdly, the

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Government's costs are rising, and all of that is 85% of the bill, and

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that has led to this decision today. The news broke as the energy

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secretary was taking questions in the Commons. Labour has promised to

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freeze energy prices and immediately went on the attack. Why won't the

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Secretary of State stand up for consumers, support our Price freeze

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and make the energy companies tell us how much money they are earning?

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If British Gas consumers are worried about this, they should change.

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There are a range of... There are a range of alternative suppliers. Much

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of the heat in this growing row is over the question of how much the

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Government's own policies contribute to the bills. Today British Gas

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called for a review of a ?1 billion programme which requires the big six

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firms to insulated our homes. The average rise in bills for a dual

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fuel customer is ?123. But the company claims that the programme is

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the single biggest component, amounting to ?49. Whatever the

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reasons, in an online Q session, customers are vented their anger.

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How will you feel when pensioners by because they choose to eat instead

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of heat, said one. Another asked, why do all the energy company is put

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up their prices by a similar percentage at the same time? British

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Gas customers will face the highest energy bill ever, and having

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committed to hold prices down as long as possible, British Gas has

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now moved before many of its rivals. And political editor Nick Robinson

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is at Westminster. David Cameron says that he is disappointed, but

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truthfully there is not a lot a lot he can do about it. It reminds me of

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what was said about the bankers a little while ago. You may remember

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that politicians including the Prime Minister lined up to bash a banker,

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and now they line up to bid the big six, the energy firms. The test, as

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you say, is what can be done. Ministers are saying that there are

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two keys to this, transparency and competition. They want the gas

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companies, the electricity companies, to spell out what is

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driving up those bills. They say that British Gas blame them, blamed

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the Government for forcing them to insulated homes, but in reply the

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ministers say that British Gas spends a lot more on that than any

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other energy companies, so perhaps they are wasting money and full sing

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customers to pay for it. They say they will try to make it easier for

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people to switch to other suppliers. Labour, as you were hearing, say

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that is not good enough, the markets needs reshaping, the companies need

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to be restructured, and in the meantime there needs to be a freeze.

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What nobody much wants to tell you, politicians or energy companies, is

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there are not one energy crisis but three, not just rising bills in part

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because of those higher wholesale prices, but also the need to deal

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with climate change, and the very real threat of electricity

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blackouts. If anybody can convince you that they can curb your bill

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while spending more on green energy and more on building new power

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stations, my suggestion - don't vote for them!

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Hundreds of thousands of pupils across England have seen their

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lessons disrupted after teachers took industrial action in certain

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parts of the country. Schools were closed as teachers went on strike

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over pay, pensions and jobs. More than 2600 were shut completely. That

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is just over a quarter of the total. Education correspondent

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Gillian Hargreaves reports. Teachers who took part in a

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demonstration in London called for the Education Secretary to go when

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they passed his office in Whitehall. Hundreds of other teachers took part

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in rallies in Bristol and Durham. The second wave of regional strikes

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has affected thousands of schools in southern and northern England.

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Teachers are angry over pensions and pay. People larger than by

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desperation to take this action. I am here with my son today, who was

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the next generation of teachers. I dread to think what sort of future

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the profession has. There is no policy, it is just a complete mess.

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I am retiring at the end of year, and if anyone asks me if it is a

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good profession to go into, I would say it was when I started years

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ago, but now. So what have they walked out over? In future, teachers

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will have to work beyond 65 before they can claim a full pension. They

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will have to pay, on average, 3% more into their pension pot. And

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there will be an end to automatic rises through the pay scale. This is

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the second regional strike in England in the past three weeks.

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Teachers are prepared to stand firm, but the Government says performance

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related pay is here to stay, because it will reward the best teachers,

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and that pension changes will bring teachers in line with other public

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sector workers. Across waves of England, primary and secondary

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schools have fallen silent. But the head of two east London schools

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around the majority of her staff acting differently. They have looked

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carefully at the issues, and they are issues that have been raised by

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the unions, not things that concern the teachers working in these

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schools. They fully support the introduction of performance related

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pay, they agree with some of the policy direction that has been

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proposed, and they are looking forward to the opportunities that

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those things will bring for them in the future. The Government accuses

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the unions are trying to cause as much disruption as possible by

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holding two regional strikes in as many weeks. The unions, however, are

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still planning a full-scale national strike in England before Christmas.

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A coroner has ruled that six British soldiers killed in the single

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biggest loss of life of service personnel in Afghanistan were

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unlawfully killed on active service. Sergeant Nigel Coupe Corporal Jake

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Hartley, and Privates Anthony Frampton, Daniel Wade, Christopher

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Kershaw and Daniel Wilford all died when an improvised explosive device

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detonated underneath their Warrior vehicle in Helmand province in March

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last year. A former broadcaster at BBC Radio

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Norfolk, Michael Souter, has been found guilty of historic sex attacks

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on boys after a six-week trial at Norwich Crown Court. The 60-year-old

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had denied 19 sex offences, including indecent assault,

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indecency with a child, and serious sex offences against the seven boys

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aged between 11 and 16. The allegations date from between 1979

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and 1999. Prince Charles's views on the

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environment are well-known, but now he has given a warning to the

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pensions industry. He says the emphasis on short-term investment

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gains run the risk of consigning our grandchildren to a miserable future,

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as he put it. Here is royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell.

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He has never been afraid to go it alone on a favourite cause, usually

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the environment and rural issues. Now the Prince of Wales has targeted

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pension funds gathered for a conference in Manchester. They are

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to forecast on short-term results, quarterly capitalism, as the prince

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called it, in a video message to the conference. With an ageing

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population, and pension fund liabilities that are therefore

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stretching out for many decades, surely the current focus on

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quarterly capitalism is becoming increasingly unfit for purpose.

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Pension funds, he said, should focus on long-term investment and

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sustainability. Otherwise your grandchildren, and mine for that

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matter, will be consigned to an exceptionally miserable future. In

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the past, the Prince's interventions, his speeches and many

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handwritten memos to ministers have led to accusations of meddling. This

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time, some pension experts say he is right. Actually, I think he has got

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a good point, and it needs saying. We must invest for our futures,

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looking for the long-term, not just for the very short-term. Charles has

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made it clear that he will not give up his attempts to alert people do

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what he regards as the huge dangers of short-term attitudes, whether in

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relation to the environment or investments for the future. He has

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made it his mission, and he won't be detoured from it. Speaking mind on

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issues is one thing, as Prince of Wales, of course, a habit which will

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need to stop as Charles knows, when ultimately he succeeds to the

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throne. Now, we have just heard about rising

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energy prices, and today the Chancellor has announced a deal in

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China that he says could help limit price rises in the future. Chinese

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companies will be allowed to invest in a new generation of nuclear power

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stations in the UK. From China, Damian Grammaticas reports on the

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latest stage of George Osborne's trip to the world's second-largest

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economy. It is the biggest nuclear power

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plant of its kind in the world. Under construction in southern

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China. Now an almost identical one is likely to be built in the UK.

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George Osborne's post today was stressing the reactor's safety

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features. Special safety procedures? Like Britain, China needs to build

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more power stations. An earthquake or tsunami? You are prepared for

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that? But unlike Britain, China is already racing ahead with almost 30

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new plans in the pipeline. Today the Chancellor said he will welcome

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Chinese involvement in Britain's nuclear reactors. What is in this

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for George Osborne is money, cash that Britain urgently needs to fund

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the building of a new generation of power stations. But there are

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concerns about what bringing Chinese state companies in may mean for

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future safety and security. The new reactors here are European designs.

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The French firm EDF working with a Chinese partner. They should get the

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first UK contract. We are going to make sure that the very strict

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British rules and safety are applied, but Chinese investment in

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British nuclear power means British taxpayers' money can be used,

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instead of building these things come for building schools and

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hospitals, and in the long-term British families get lower and more

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stable energy bills. This is where the new reactors will be built,

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replacing old ones at Hinkley Point in Somerset. The bills may not be

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lower. The Government will guarantee the operators a set price for their

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power, perhaps double today's cost of electricity. It is extremely

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unlikely this is a good deal for consumers, and the Government is

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guaranteeing EDF, the operator, a price over the next three or four

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decades of around ?100 per megawatt hour. If the price of electricity is

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below that, the consumer will make up the difference, and currently it

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is significantly below that. No other Western nation has turned to

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China to satisfy its need for energy. Still authoritarian and

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common as lead, but now with the pockets, China could in future be

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running UK nuclear plans. -- Communist led. Some will find that

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uncomfortable, others, like the Chancellor, see the opportunity. ?

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top story this evening: British Gas announces price rises from next

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month. Average bills for dual fuel

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customers will go up by 9%. Still to come: The half-time joke

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that fell flat. When Hodgson apologises but gets the backing of

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the FA. Coming up in Sportsday, FIFA's

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rankings are out. England are up to 10th in the world. Switzerland,

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Colombia and Belgium will be top seeds for Brazil.

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Having a job is no guarantee that you can escape poverty. That is a

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stark finding in a new report for the government. It says 5 million

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will, many of them women, earns less than the living wage which for the

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average family is ?470 a week. The government will miss its target to

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end child poverty by 2020. It also says older people should be sharing

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more of the burden of austerity with richer pensioners losing some

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benefits. Reeta Chakrabarti reports. For

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single mother Judith Hayley and her ten-year-old daughter Neve, meeting

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ends meet is a struggle. Judith works part time from home. She keeps

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the heating off during the day and cannot afford school trips for

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Niamh. There are so many people in my position. You hear about the very

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rich and the very poor, the people you perceive to be scroungers, but

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don't people like me who basically, we have tried. We did not ask to get

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into this situation. We are doing the best in the circumstances we

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have. That is what it is about, it is survival now. She is not alone.

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Two thirds of poor children are in homes where parents are working.

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This will become an annual report, an audit of the life chances of the

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worst. The conclusions are stark. Government and employers must act.

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It says the balance between what working families and richer

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pensioners get from the state should be rethought. This year, out of a

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total forecast budget for Great Britain of ?204 billion, people of

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working age and children get 93 billion. Pensioners get 111 billion,

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of which universal benefits like winter fuel payments account for ?2

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billion. Free TV licences for older pensioners accounts for 0.6 billion.

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I think the right question to ask is whether, at a time of austerity,

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when you have such long-term youth unemployment, when family incomes

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are being squeezed and public services are being cut, and when the

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poorest people are facing a cap on their benefits, that wealthy

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pensioners continue to have their benefits not just protected but

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enhanced. I think many well-off pensioners feel instinctively

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uncomfortable. Many ministers beg to differ. That is not a view I hear

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often by pensioners who feel they are not an affluent section of the

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population. Both points of view work echoed by these pensioners in

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Yorkshire. I would not say anything about the television licence and

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fuel because I would gladly give that up. If you have worked all your

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life and paid into the system, you had your opportunity so why take it

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away from us. That might sound heartless and I am not really but I

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feel adamant about that. Many grandparents will find themselves

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better off than their children or grandchildren will ever be. There is

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no agreement on what should be done. Declining living standards for today

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could be storing up major problems for tomorrow.

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A Muslim free school has been described by Ofsted as dysfunctional

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and rated inadequate in every category. That is less than a year

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after it opened. I inspection at Derby's Al-Madinah school was

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brought forward after fears were raised over teaching standards. The

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school said it will act to improve its performance.

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The Al-Madinah free school, opened a year ago. But already, Ofsted's

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report highlights a catalogue of chaos. Al-Madinah it says is failing

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in every area of inspection. Achievement, inadequate. Governing

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body, ineffective. Attendance is low and declining. The school was

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described as dysfunctional. Special measures is of a disaster for any

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school but certainly for us. This is not where we want to be. This is not

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the position we want the school to be in at this stage. We fully

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acceptable report. With heavy heart we accept the report and we will use

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this to help move the school forward as quickly as possible. This girl's

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Mum says her daughter was bullied while in reception class at

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Al-Madinah. She says the report is no surprise. I am very angry and

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they have broken the trust. As professionals and teachers they have

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let us down. This Ofsted report is the latest blow for a school which

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has already been told by the government that its funding will be

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cut off unless it makes serious improvements. Still some parents are

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determined to stick with it. For me it suits my lifestyle because it is

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an Islamic school. I know they are teaching my children well and I am

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seeing their progress and I have no concerns at all. There is politics

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here. Labour on the offensive. It is a devastating blow to the Education

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Secretary's flagship policy. It reveals that pupils have been failed

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on every possible measure and parents will want to know why the

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Education Secretary has allowed this to happen. Were not prepared to

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allow a school to fail its parents, children and community. We said we

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will take swift action and that is what we are doing. Al-Madinah is

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only one of 174 free schools, most of them oversubscribed. The problems

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here raise the question about how much freedom free schools should

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have. Payday loans companies will be hit

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with a possible 10% tax on their profits under a Labour government,

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that is according to Ed Miliband. The Labour leader wants to crack

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down on what he called exorbitant interest rates charged by payday

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lenders. Some firms can charge for thousand percent interest on

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short-term loans per year. Mr Miliband said the levy would fund

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the creation of alternative lenders like credit unions. The number of

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badgers killed in a controversial cull has fallen well short of its

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target. The government said only 30% of the

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badgers in Gloucestershire had been killed during a pilot scheme to

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prevent the spread of bovine TB. The target of the cull had been 70%.

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That is around 3000 in total. The England manager Roy Hodgson has

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apologised for using the phrase, feed the monkey, to Andros Townsend

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during a team talk on Tuesday. He said he meant no offence by the

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comet which he says was a punch line to a joke. Our sports editor David

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Bond is here. Why the fuss given that none of the players have

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complained about this publicly? Because the question of racism in

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English football is now so toxic that even an indirect allegation can

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lead to a huge media storm. This afternoon, there were all sorts of

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rumours flying around about exactly what Roy Hodgson had said during his

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half-time team talk. This led to the FA issuing a statement where they

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said they fully backed the England manager and they had spoken to a

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number of players and they confirmed no offence had been taken. That was

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followed up with a statement from the antiracism group Kick It Out.

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They said as far as they were concerned the matter was closed.

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Except that there is another significant point which is someone

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inside that dressing room on Tuesday night felt the need to leak this

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story to a couple of newspapers knowing just how damaging this could

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be to what Hodgson. That raises some questions about how united this

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England team really are. Thank you. The Duke of Cambridge has presided

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over his first investiture ceremony in Buckingham Palace. Prince William

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presented awards to recipients from across the UK, among them the

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Wimbledon champion Andy Murray who received an OBE. Peter Hunt was

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there. The National Anthem in the

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Buckingham Palace ballroom in honour of Prince William's grandmother. One

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day it will be played for him. Before then he continues to learn

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the ropes. This investiture ceremony of the latest stage of his royal

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education. Having practised in private, this was for real, safely

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wielding a ceremonial sword which had belonged to King George VI on a

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head teacher and new night. Those honoured included some familiar

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faces. Mr Andrew Murray for services to tennis. The Wimbledon champion

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was nearly late after officials arrived at his house to conduct a

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random drugs test. Drama over, he chatted to Prince William about his

:24:58.:25:03.

recent back operation. I thought he seemed very confident. He spent a

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long time chatting to everyone. I was told it was just over a minute

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and I was told it would only be 15 seconds. He gave everyone a lot of

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time and seemed confident. With William's days of saving lives as an

:25:18.:25:20.

RAF search and rescue pilot at an end, he is looking for another

:25:21.:25:25.

full-time role. While he does, he will continue to undertake some

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royal duties. Prince William, a cautious man, is tiptoeing towards

:25:31.:25:34.

his future when one day he will reside here. There is no rush. But

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this morning he had another taste of what will lie ahead for him. For the

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moment though, it is the present on the -- not the future on the mind of

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the Cambridge is. Let's find out what the weather

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holds for us. This Esau weather conditions --

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these Esau weather conditions continue for us. Despite a few

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showers we had a lovely day today. This time of year, with clearer

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skies, as temperatures fall away, widespread fog could become a

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problem. I suspect vulnerable areas will be across eastern England. More

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cloud and a few showers. Look at the Northern Isles. It will be chilly

:26:39.:26:44.

here. First thing in the morning, the talking point will be the fog

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will stop perhaps through the Vale of York there will be some dents,

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stubborn patches of fog. Widespread fog across East Anglia and the

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Midlands. If you have a journey to make first thing in the morning, it

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is best to listen to your local radio stations for up-to-date

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forecasts. The fog will ease away. We will see the rain moving into the

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West. Fairly light and patchy across western fringes. More cloud around

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than we have seen. Mild in the South. The rain continues to push

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steadily northwards overnight, some persistent and heavy rain into

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Scotland. I want to draw your attention to the south-east corner.

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We could see a cluster of sharp, thundery showers in the south-east

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early on Saturday morning. Hopefully, they will ease away and

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then we are left with sunshine and blustery showers. A miserable day I

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am afraid in Scotland. It is a day of sunshine and showers for the

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second half of the weekend. Thank you.

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A reminder of our main story: British Gas announces price rises

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from next month. Average bills for dual fuel customers will go up by

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more than 9%. That is all from the BBC News at Six.

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It is goodbye BBC News at Six.

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It is goodbye from me.

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