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Rescue teams in the Philippines warn that there are places in the

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disaster zone that they've yet to reach - more than ten thousand

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feared dead. The devastation in just one city - the head of the Red Cross

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in the country calls it absolute bedlam. The international aid

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response is underway - US marines will help with logistics. Britain

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has pledged six million pounds. Also on tonight's programme: Lest we

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forget, remember the fallen on Armistice Day. The warning that

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closing NHS walk-in centres in England could result in even more

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people turning up at A And the first-ever marathon swim from one

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end of Britain to the other. Coming up in the sport, a fantastic final

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in prospect at the ATP finals where Rafael Nadal takes on Novak

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Djokovic. Good evening from Manila where the

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Philippines government is struggling to cope with what many believe is

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the most powerful typhoon effort to make land. In the south-east of the

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country, whole cities are destroyed. The head of the Red Cross has

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likened the situation to absolute bedlam. With the international aid

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effort only just getting under way, there are increasing signs that

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people in the south-east of the country are becoming more desperate,

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breaking into shops to look for food and water. Our first report tonight

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is from our correspondent who spent the day with survivors at Tacloban

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airport and it contains some disturbing images. People here are

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grieving, homeless and hungry. We are so very hungry and thirsty. You

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have water or food there, maybe you can give us. Next to the runway, a

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makeshift hospital. Some patients being treated without anaesthetics

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to numb the pain. This woman has just given birth, a baby girl, born

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into a world upturned. And alongside them, another young woman is also in

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labour. People waiting here are desperate to get out on any plane

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they can find. This is my dad's only chance for life. I said we have to

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leave tomorrow morning, today, or we will go somewhere else but he needs

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dialysis. He is in a critical condition. If the world is out

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there, send help. These people need it. Outside the airport, hundreds

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have been waiting, desperate for help. They need shelter and in many

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cases they have been separated from their family as well. I need help.

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Maugham, please help me, I am still here in Tacloban and I am still

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alive. Today there was some hope at last with the arrival of the

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American military, helping to organise the response. It is a whole

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government approach. International relief organisations are here. The

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streets are busy as people search for their loved ones, still missing.

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This is the main street through the centre of Tacloban and the

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destruction is almost complete, and there is the stench of death in the

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air. We have seen scores of bodies in the few kilometres we have driven

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from the airport, and somebody's bundled up in tarpaulin behind us.

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The country's interior minister is hands-on, directing traffic, but so

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far there is little sign the government is managing to get a

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doubt to the many in need. So people are doing whatever they can to help

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themselves. This used to be a supermarket. Those who have nothing

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are looking for anything they can find. But unless more relief comes

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quickly, the little food that there is will run out soon.

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As we have heard, Tacloban is a city in name only. From hospitals to

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shops, nothing is functioning. With the authorities largely absent,

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families are having to bury their own dead. Our correspondent reports

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now, and I should say this also contains some distressing images.

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The only way to get someone buried in Tacloban now is to do it

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yourself. Joseph and his friends have come to collect the body of his

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sister. For three days, it lay uncovered in the street. Now, with a

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home-made coffin, they must carry it on foot to the burial ground. In the

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street where Joseph's sister lived, this man is trying to make a list of

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all of his neighbours who are dead. All the children? All the children

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in the car? Yes. A man was found in that house over there. It is still

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almost impossible to know how many people have died in this

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devastation. To give you an idea, we have been told that in this one

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street here, 18 people died, just in this stretch of road in one

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neighbourhood. Many of the bodies are still lying around in the houses

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here, and they are starting to beautify. In the next street over,

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Mildred and her family survived by clinging to the roof of their house.

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For these survivors the biggest fear is hunger now. Outside they are

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trying to dry out their waterlogged rice but nobody knows for sure if it

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is still edible. Here there is the same cry - where is the government

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help? Many people have died. We need food, water. We have rice. That is

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the most important thing we need. And all the dead bodies must be

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buried. Down by the sea, they are digging a grave for the mother of

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these three young men. Suddenly one of her sons is overcome by grief and

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frustration. His mother's body is stuck underneath the fallen coconut

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tree and they cannot get it out. I asked her husband how they are

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managing. I could not sleep. She was a very good mother. I am very

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hopeless. Everything is gone. A short distance away, they have dug a

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much bigger hole, a mass grave. All afternoon and the grim procession

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continues. We counted at least 30 bodies going on here. How many more

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informal graves are being dog we don't know, except that it is many.

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The Philippines is no stranger to violent weather and even though

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there was plenty of warning about this particular weather system, the

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sheer power of Typhoon Haiyan took everybody by surprise, including the

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experts. Our correspondent has been looking at why it has been so

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devastating. It takes a view from the air to see the extraordinary

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scale of devastation. Ferocious winds combined with massive walls of

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water to lay waste to whole communities. This is the result of

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the weather at its most extreme. For many people there were simply

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nowhere to hide. The survivors are left to appeal to aid from the

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outside world. The typhoon had been forecast but proved overwhelming. It

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reached its peak intensity at the point that it made landfall and on

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that basis it might be one of the strongest typhoon is to ever make

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landfall. Let's use of virtual reality studio to piece together how

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this catastrophic weather unfolded. The people of the Philippines are

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used to the threat of typhoons, they have had more than 20 this year

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alone but nowhere near the scale of this one. It began with a loose

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cluster of thunderclouds, nothing unusual, but these forms together to

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form a single weather system which started rotating, pulling air into

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its centre. The storm stretched for over 300 miles. By now it was a

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typhoon and the heat kept adding to its strength. Higher temperatures

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mean more energy, so in the eye of the storm and around it's the winds

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kept accelerating. Intense low pressure lifted the sea surface to

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create a storm surge. To anyone in its path, only the strongest shelter

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would help them survive. Compare this town before the disaster with

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the same view afterwards. Almost every house has had its roof ripped

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off. Here is Tacloban seen last year, it met a similar fate. The

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devastation is staggering. Today, an official from the Philippines was at

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a climate conference and called for action on global warming. We can fix

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this, we can stop this madness right now. It was an emotional moment. The

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fact is that no single weather event can be blamed on climate change, but

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scientists do say that warmer oceans could make the most vicious storms

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more likely. I will be back a little later, but now it is back to the

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studio. Here, the NHS in England is being

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warned that closing any more walk-in centres where patients can be seen

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without an appointment could result in more people turning up at A

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Monitor says that 53 centres have been shot in the past few years. --

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have been closed. The NHS in England faces tough financial challenges so

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where is it best to spend its money? On the convenience of a walk-in

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centre, or in local GP practices? Most walk-in centres offer longer

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hours seven days a week, opening under the last Labour Government,

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allowing patients to turn up and see a GP. Some people use them after

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failing to get an appointment, but in many areas the NHS has decided it

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is not value for money. We have been told that they are too expensive so

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GPs are paid for people who are registered with their GP practice,

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and then we are told that when those people choose to go to a walk-in

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centre and that centre is paid again, there is a double payment.

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Walk-in centres were opened to make it easier for people to see a GP.

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Over a decade, the NHS created 238 of them in England. In recent years

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almost one in four of them have closed. This Centre in

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Portsmouth... They do a very good job and you have only got to see how

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packed they are, and if this is part I'm sure other walk-in centres must

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be just as busy as well. The future of many centres is just as uncertain

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with contracts due to run out in the next couple of years. This research

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suggests patients will turn to A, something the Government is anxious

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to avoid. Recently the Prime Minister said GP surgeries need to

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open longer. Nine pilot projects will offer the same hours as walk-in

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centres. Doctors say this could be a better way to spend money. It has

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been appropriate to close some walk-in centres where there was no

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demonstrable need for those services, and where the local

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practices and other health services could provide the necessary services

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for patients. Labour says the closure is an act of vandalism that

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could add to the pressure is on A The top story: More than 10,000

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people are believed dead and millions have been left homeless by

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Typhoon Haiyan. The President of the Philippines has declared a state of

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national emergency. Coming up: From off-duty

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firefighters to schoolchildren, we talk to some of the thousands of

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people who volunteered for the relief.

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Coming up in Sportsday: The Formula One seat-swapping has started. Massa

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is the latest driver to switch teams next season from Ferrari to

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Williams. Acts of remembrance have taken place

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around the country to mark the anniversary of the World War One

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armistice, with two-minute silences at military bases, town halls,

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churches, schools and at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire.

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It has also been marked in Belgium where many of World War One's most

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deadliest of battles were fought. In a moment, we will hear from Nicholas

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Witchell, who is there. First, this report from Robert Hall.

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It was the moment when men looked at one another in disbelief. The moment

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the thunder of guns faded. The moment when the slaughter stopped.

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At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, we paused on a busy

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Monday and shared the silence. Dorothy Ellis is the last direct

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link to what became known as the Great War. Wilfred, the man she

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married, was left for dead on the Western Front, but he survived.

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Today, on her 93rd birthday, Dorothy laid her wreath in his memory at the

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National Arboretum. I have done something today that I feel was

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worthwhile. Unfortunately, I couldn't do it in the way I would

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have wanted to. I couldn't stand up. I did the best I could.

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In the classrooms of St Aidan's School in Harrogate, amid the hushed

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traffic of Trafalgar Square, the baton of remembrance has been passed

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on once more. They have been at piece for -- peace for nearly a

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century now. In the field of Flanders where they lost their

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lives. At the Menin Gate, in Ypres, at the monument where the names of

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the tens of thousands who have no known grave are recorded, the Duke

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of Edinburgh came to witness a special act of remembrance. The

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funeral gun carriage drawn by six black horses from the Royal Horse

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Artillery had been sent from Britain. It was there to collect

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sandbags of soil gathered from First World War battlefields by children

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from Britain and Belgium. The bags, one from each battle site, were

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loaded as the Band of the Coldstream Guards played the lament When I Am

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Laid In Earth, Remember Me, Remember Me. The Parade was brought to

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attention as the gun carriage was prepared for its departure. At the

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end of the Great War, the body of one unknown British soldier was

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taken from the battlefields of Flanders amid great ceremony for

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burial at Westminster Abbey. Nearly a century later, soil from those

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battlefields is making its way to Britain. That soil, taken from the

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cemeteries which once were battlefields, will form a memorial

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garden in London which will be opened by the Queen on Remembrance

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Sunday next year. The shoe retailer, Barratts, has

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gone into administration for the third time in four years, putting

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more than 1,000 jobs at risk. The company said it was left with no

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choice after an investor pulled out of a plan to invest ?5 million into

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the ailing business. The regional airline FlyBe has

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announced it is cutting 500 jobs. The company says it is having to

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take tough decisions in order to save an extra ?26 million from next

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year. The Government says more than 2,000

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people made offers on flats and houses as part of the Government's

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extended Help to Buy Mortgage Guarantee Scheme. In its first

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month, high street lenders say there's been a strong uptake in the

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scheme which offers 95% mortgages to first-time buyers. Labour says

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building affordable homes would be a better way of tackling housing

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problems. Shares in BSkyB have lost 10% of

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their value on the first day of trading since it lost the rights to

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broadcast live Champions League and Europa League football matches to BT

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Sport. Shares in IT V also fell. After four months and more than 900

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miles, a man from Cheltenham has become the first person to swim the

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length of mainland Britain. Sean Conway set out from Land's End in

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June swimming along the west coast of the UK and reached John O'Groats

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at lunch time. James Cook was there to meet him.

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Stroke after stroke, day after day, month after gruelling months, Sean

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Conway set off from Land's End in June hoping for a summer swim to the

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tip of Scotland. He knew it was a challenge - that was the attraction.

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But he had no idea just how tough it would turn out to be. No-one has

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ever done it. Surely it is possible, considering Land's End to John

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O'Groats is such an iconic route. As soon as people told me I was going

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to die, I sort of thought I'm going to prove you wrong. But doing that

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was far from easy. Jellyfish stings, dangerous tides and autumn storms

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meant the adventure was full of peril. There were times when this

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moment felt like it would never come, but 135 days after setting

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off, the adventure was over. Sean swapped the bitter tang of saltwater

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for the sweet taste of success. I hadn't swum in the sea at all before

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this. It proves that if you put your mind to something, anything's

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possible. I would like to thank my crew who stayed for a lot longer

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than they said they would. So 900 miles, three million strokes - and

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one moment of triumph! Back to the devastation caused by

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Typhoon Haiyan. George is there in the capital. George?

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Hello, again, from Manila. As we have been hearing tonight, much of

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the international aid effort is only just coming in to here now. The

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people of the Philippines ha had to defend on their own resources. There

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has been criticism of the government here. This disaster in the

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south-east of the country has brought about a volunteer army ready

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to help. Relief operations are always about

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logistics and this one is more complicated than most. The country

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is a collection of islands and the disaster zone is hundreds of miles

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away. On the edge of Manila airport, volunteers are preparing basic

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survival packs. There are church groups, off-duty firefighters and

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these schoolchildren. They were like our brothers and sisters. So, we are

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here to help them. It must be very tiring work for you? Yes. It took a

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lot of time for us to get here. We are from other cities. We still have

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classes tomorrow, so we need to hurry. You have classes tomorrow?

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Yes. What time do they start? 6.00am. I think - I know we will be

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going home late tonight. It will be hard. You don't mind the hard work?

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Yes, we don't mind it. It is for our country. So each bag of relief

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supplies that's being put together here contains the bare essentials. I

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was looking at what goes in there. There is tinned fish, coffee, tinned

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beef. The water is being supplied separately. The man in charge of all

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of these volunteers is Roy. Thank you very much for talking to us. How

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much of a challenge is this for you? Yes, this is a challenge. In fact,

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we mobilised from all networks of our society, from private sectors,

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civil societies. I have seen some of the students and church workers and

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so on. How many people have you got going at any one time? Last night,

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we already produced 2,200 volunteers. You will keep going for

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as long as it takes? Yes, yes. It is a continuous process. We encourage

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more volunteers to come and help us. The next stage is for these food

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parcels to be flown down to the south-east of the country, but with

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hundreds of thousands needing help, this is just a tiny proportion of

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what's needed. In the last few hours, a senior UN official has

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given a press conference. He's confirmed that estimate of the

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number of dead as 10,000. He said 660,000 are homeless and 9.8 million

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people have been affected by this typhoon. Those are the bare figures.

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As we have seen through this programme, behind those figures is

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the human suffering and loss. That is it from Manila for tonight.

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Thank you very much. Time for a look at the weather now. I gather there

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is more bad weather heading for the Philippines.

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A tropical depression has now formed to the east of the Philippines that

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looks like it will run over the southern islands. We are talking

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about some heavy rain, perhaps 100 millimetres of rain. So, obviously,

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an area that is very vulnerable at the moment, with more bad weather to

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contend with. The weather here?

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A much more benign story. If you are taking to the roads, through this

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evening, even into tomorrow, poor visibility could hamper you

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somewhat. A combination of rain, surface water spray and low cloud

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and mist and murk across England and Wales. The weather front responsible

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will pull away south-eastwards as we move into Tuesday. Behind it,

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clearer skies tonight across Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland

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and Northern England. That could mean a patchy frost. To the south, a

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milder story. It could take a time for that rain to finally clear from

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the south-east through tomorrow afternoon. So, perhaps, Kent, Sussex

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and parts of Essex hanging on to the grey weather through the second part

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of the day. Generally, talking about tomorrow, we are talking about a

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drier and brighter picture than today. Quite a keen westerly wind

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will feed showers. Through the middle part of the week, high

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pressure will build. That means a lot of fine weather for England and

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Wales. It does mean one of the first widespread frosts of this autumn.

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So, dig out the de-icer, I think. The frost is more limited to the

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north. That is because here the wind will be starting to strengthen and

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through Wednesday, we are going to anticipate it continuing to

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strengthen, particularly into the small hours of Thursday.

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Further south, some sunny spells. Temperatures pushing up to double

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figures. A longer outlook on bbc.co.uk/weather.

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That is all from the BBC News at Six. Goodbye.

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