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EU migrants face tougher rules on claiming benefits. David Cameron's

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plans get an angry reaction in Brussels. Just 35 days to go before

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Bulgarians and Romanians are free to work in the UK, they'll face

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restrictions on housing and other benefits. People in our country are

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concerned about the pressures and the amount of immigration in recent

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years and I share that concern. A top EU official says the plans could

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make Britain look like a nasty country. We'll be live in Brussels.

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Also tonight. The university lecturer and his family massacred in

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a revenge attack. A businessman is found guilty of murder. Desperate to

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make ends meet. A new study says nine million Brits are struggling

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with mounting debts. More revelations about Nigella Lawson and

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her former husband Charles Saatchi. The court hears there was a culture

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of secrecy in their marriage. # Whoa, we're halfway there.

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# Whoa, livin' on a prayer #. Don't call us, we'll call you.

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William joins rock stars for a charity sing-along. In the sport,

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the latest from Brazil where part of the stadium due to host the opening

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game of next year 's World Cup has collapsed. It killed three people.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. David Cameron has

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promised to make it harder for migrants from the European Union to

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get access to Britain's welfare system. From January next year

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restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians looking for work in the

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UK will be lifted. But migrants will face restrictions on the benefits

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they can claim. Mr Cameron also questioned the principle of free

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movement of people across the European Union. That's been

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described as an over-reaction by an EU commissioner who says the UK

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risks being seen as the nasty country. Our Political Editor, Nick

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Robinson, has been speaking to the Prime Minister. There are just 35

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days to go until any citizen of Rumania or Bulgaria will be free to

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work in the UK. The dates been in the diary for years. But today the

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Prime Minister promised to tighten up the benefit rules. In time for

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January the 1st. This is not just Romanians and Bulgarians, but anyone

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in other European Union countries thinking of coming to Britain

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because it's easier to claim benefits, housing benefit and

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unemployment benefit, I think it's important to send a clear message

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that that is not the case. Frankly, some of this work has come about

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because I have seen other European countries that do take a tougher

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approach than us. Sending a signal means tweaking the rules for new

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arrivals here, who want to claim out of work benefits. They will have to

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wait three months before claiming jobseeker's allowance, it will only

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be payable for six months, and those without work will come in future,

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not be allowed to claim housing benefit at the same time. How many

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will be affected? How much will be saved, Downing Street says they

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don't know. Are you worried tens of thousands of people will come? I'm

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not going to make an estimate. The last government made terrible

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mistake doing that and getting it completely wrong. My job is to put

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in place the right controls, measures, processes, and then to see

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how the situation develops. The images of Rome are sleeping rough

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have fuelled already high public concern. The government is promising

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new powers to remove beggars and a new minimum earnings threshold

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before anyone can claim income support. It is public concern about

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immigration which is forcing all the main parties to think again. The

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Prime Minister has even said he wants to change the basis of the EU.

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The idea that anyone from any country can work anywhere. Whether

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they are a Polish plumber, a Romanian architect or a Brit who

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fancies working on the Costa Blanca. I think people can now see when new

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countries join, if I have a radically different wage rate,

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radically different economies in terms of scale, you will get these

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mass movements of people. Frankly, it isn't right for our own country

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and for those countries. In Brussels, one EU Commissioner said

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it was in danger been seen as a nasty country. David Cameron will

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need the support of many other European capitals if he is to change

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a fundamental European principle. Prime Minister Cameron called me

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yesterday informing me about the intentions he has on this issue of

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freedom of movement. I underlined to Prime Minister Cameron that free

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movement is a fundamental treaty principle that must be upheld. It is

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a sign of The Times that Labour 's main criticism today was the

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government had been too slow to act. We are glad the Prime Minister has

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adopted our proposals on benefit restrictions. But they should not

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have delayed this for eight months so they won't be in place by

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January. And it's not enough. They need to take action over jobs and

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wages now. Many Romanian and Bulgarian have already made the

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journey here, self-employed and got work permits. What today's

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announcement is about as limiting the numbers who follow. You have

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been Prime Minister for more than three years. We are now scarcely

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more than a month from this deadline. This smacks of panic,

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doesn't it? It's taken some time to turn the situation around. We

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extended the time of a transitional controls in Bulgaria and Romania

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from five years to seven years, put in place an immigration cap for

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migration outside the EU, we tore up the last government's hope a set of

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old measures, but if you are saying is there more that needs to be

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done? Yes, and I'm doing it. There's more to be done, he says, but there

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are just 35 days to do it. As the immigration debate

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intensifies, polling shows high public concern about it. Our Home

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Editor Mark Easton has been to Boston in Lincolnshire, a town that

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has seen rapid immigration from Eastern Europe, to assess the impact

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of a decade of change. Boston, an ancient Lincolnshire town

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transformed by rapid and significant immigration from Eastern Europe.

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What lessons have the Prime Minister promised I had an increased

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immigration from Romania and Bulgaria? One local school now has

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two thirds of pupils from migrant households. Exam results are

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excellent here and it seems a model of good practice but the prospect of

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yet more immigration without extra resources is a concern. Generally,

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we are full, so when we're talking about the possible migration of

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Romanian and Bulgarian children, actually, as a school, we haven't

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got any places at this point. What will happen? That's a very good

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question. The public perception of people drink alcohol in this place

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particular... Police conduct assessment identifying hotspots

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where trouble might flare. Officers admit they were too optimistic about

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the impact immigration might have. We did have our head in the sand

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from policing perspective and from partners as well in terms of what

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was going on. That was more down to the fact we went seen the

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information coming in. It was the speed of change that locals find

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disconcerting thought up in 2001, virtually everyone in Boston was

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white British, ten years later, it was just 84%. A dramatic cultural

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shift which short tensions spill over into protest. Stand up for this

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country and for the English people. A peaceful demonstration a year ago

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highlights exactly the concern is the government nationally is to

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today. The man behind the protest is warning that patience is wearing

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thin. I think it's about time we took our head out of the bucket of

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sand to see what they've done to this country, to see the problems

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which is being caused by the first wave of immigration from Poland and

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Latvia and Lithuania and say we can't cope any more. This family are

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Romanians have lived in Boston for ten years. She is a senior NHS nurse

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who finds the media portrayal of her countryfolk disturbing. If you came

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to my house, I can take you to my Romanian friends here in Boston,

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social workers and nurses and stuff like that. They are very good

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people, they go to church every Sunday. Boston is exceptional but

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lessons may apply elsewhere. Economic Lee, immigration has

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thoroughly boosted the time but culturally, rapid change has made

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this place and easy. -- uneasy. In a moment we will speak to Nick

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Robinson but first our Europe editor is in Brussels. Gavin, as we saw,

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there has been a swift and angry reaction from Brussels. What are

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they so worried about? George, you're quite right, there has been

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some strong coders here. One commissioner said reaction in the UK

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was based on hysteria. One Bulgarian MEP accuse David Cameron of sliding

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towards nationalist rhetoric. Another official said migrants pay

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far more in taxes than they receive in benefits. But there is one big

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key question here. Whether these new restrictions on benefits for

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migrants undermine freedom of movement? Whether they break the

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rules? It is interesting in that phone cupboard to the President of

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the commission here, and David Cameron, where he underlined that a

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court treaty principle was freedom of movement. It had to be upheld. It

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was not negotiable and it is clear to me any new legislation coming out

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of London will be scrutinised very closely here to see whether it

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breaches those rules. Nick, in Westminster, you talked about this

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in your interview. This weeks to go before this deadline. Why is David

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Cameron only doing this now? The cynical view is politics. The

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opinion polls show people are very concerned, certain newspaper owners,

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big selling newspapers, are reflecting sometimes fuelling that

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concern and there are elections next year for from all the parties on

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their bus of UKIP breathing down their neck and UKIP are saying the

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key to getting immigration down is to get out of Europe. A less cynical

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view is to say something fundamentally has changed in Britain

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in the last ten years. People felt misled about the numbers of East

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European who would come down. They are saying to the electoral

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representatives, we think the rules are not there between us and them.

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And that is why it is striking that the Lib Dems today, but they didn't

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oppose this, the Labour Party didn't oppose it. One other factor, too,

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though, David Cameron think there's movement amongst European leaders

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and if the Brussels bureaucrats are slagging him off, I think it will

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put a big smile on his face. Thank you both. A businessman has been

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convicted of murdering a family of four in their home in Northampton.

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Anxiang Du, from Coventry, repeatedly stabbed his former

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business partners Jeff and Helen Ding, and their daughters. He went

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on the run and was one of Britain's most wanted criminals. Northampton

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Court heard that he killed them in a revenge attack after losing a legal

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battle over a Chinese herbal medicine business. Ben Geoghegan

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reports. For Anxiang Du, the day of the royal

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wedding was a day for revenge. He travelled to Northampton armed with

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a knife. And murdered a family of four. These were his victims. Jeff

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and Helen Ding and their two daughters, 18 years old and 12 years

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old. To find four people from the same family massacred in their own

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home, was horrendous in itself. But to find that two of those people

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were young females, the daughters, I find that unforgivable. I can't in

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any way get used to that as a concept. Anxiang Du went into

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business with the Dings but the relationship turns sour. After years

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of legal disputes and was left with debts of nearly ?90,000. On the day

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of the murder, he took a bus and headed to the family home. The

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prosecution said Anxiang Du carried out the murders with ruthless

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efficiency, stabbing two adults in the kitchen and then went upstairs

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and attacked their daughters. The Jubilee were also told that

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afterwards, while he was still in the house, he laid down and fell

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asleep that the jewellery. Between them, the victims suffered a total

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of 51 stabbings. Anxiang Du fled abroad but was tracked down more

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than a year later living rough on a building site in Morocco. Some of

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Helen Ding's relatives travelled from China to hear the evidence

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which the judge said was truly horrendous.

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TRANSLATION: During the whole trial, we listened with deep sorrow

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and painful is finally, today the verdict is murder. Anxiang Du will

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get what he deserves. He admitted the killings and claimed he was

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suffering mental illness. And guilty only of manslaughter. But today, the

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jury decided this was murder and nothing less. Two people have been

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killed in an accident at the stadium that is due to host the opening

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ceremony of the World Cup in Brazil next year. A crane is reported to

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have fallen onto the stadium in Sao Paolo destroying parts of the

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stands. The arena is due to be completed at the end of December to

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meet a FIFA deadline. Brazil has admitted it is struggling to have

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all 12 venues ready. This week we've reported on allegations that The

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Royal Bank of Scotland pushed small businesses into administration and

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then bought their assets at a knock-down price. Today the bank's

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chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, told the BBC that the claims would be

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fully investigated but also insisted that RBS had kept alive tens of

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thousands of struggling companies. Here's our chief economics

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correspondent, Hugh Pym. It is a bank mostly owned by all of

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us, the taxpayers. The hope is that it is lending to businesses to help

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the economy grow, but this week there have been claims RBS has been

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squeezing the life out of some small firms in order to get hold of their

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properties. The allegations came from an independent adviser to the

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Business Secretary, Vince Cable. RBS has brought in a top law firm to

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look at the evidence, and today the bank's chairman gave his first

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reaction. If these allegations are true, they are extremely serious,

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and that is why we are going to take investigation of them extremely

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seriously. At the moment, all we have is some unsubstantiated,

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anecdotal allegations, that is what it amounts to at the moment. We need

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to get to the bottom of this, get to the facts, and if there are facts

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that show that we have behaved in the wrong way, we will take the

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appropriate action. The former boss of a company which was an RBS

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customer is among those who have accused the bank of not playing

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fair. They saw as as an opportunity, a company that had a

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problem, it has been well documented, and it's all that it was

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a classic case of being able to take control of the company, replace

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management and asset strip it. RBS says that with that business it does

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not believe it did anything wrong. It is understood that the Serious

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Fraud Office, based here, is looking at the allegations levelled at RBS.

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A spokesperson said, we are aware of the issue and are monitoring

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developments. City regulators are also looking at the accusations that

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RBS pulled the plug on viable businesses to make more profit. The

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bank says it may have been too heavy and too lax in dealing with

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distressed firms since the crisis. The time is 17 minutes past six, our

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top story this evening: Just 35 days to go before Bulgarians and

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Romanians are free to work in the UK, they will face tougher rules and

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claiming benefits. And still to come...

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# Living on a prayer... The Prince of pop, William as you

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have never seen him before. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,

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can Manchester United make it through to the knockout stages of

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the Champions League? They need a win against Bayer Leverkusen.

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Manchester City also play. The scale of the debt problem faced

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by Britain's has become clear today, nearly one in five adults is

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struggling with their finances. -- Britons. A new survey says that over

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9 million people say they are over indebted or more than three months

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behind with their bills. Nearly half said their problems stopped them

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from buying the basics. Hardest hit is Hull, where 43% are deeply

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indebted. Personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz has

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been there. Rising prices, stagnant incomes, and

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high cost lenders cashing in, it is not that borrowing is higher in

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Hull, it is that so many are taking on more debt than they can handle. I

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am stressed, fed up, not very well all the time. This taxi driver has

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lost control of ?40,000 of debt. He did not want us to show his face,

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he's frightened after confrontations with bailiffs on his doorstep. I go

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to work eight or ten hours a day, sometimes 12 hours a day. I come

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home, I tried to pay the rent, the council tax, the food, fuel for my

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car, I just don't have anything left. Everything else just swallows

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it up before I can pay my debts. At a food bank around the corner,

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borrowing has become a way of life. Along with it, the worry when you

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cannot meet payments. Nerve wracking, it made me really old,

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yeah, it made meal. If the gas and electric go up, and also the

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possible interest rate rises, that is going to literally tip us over

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the edge. So who are the people who have too much debt? Well, nearly

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half of them, 48%, own their own homes, 58% are in work, 64% are

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women, but only 17% are getting advice and help with their debts.

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Too many are turning to payday lenders to make ends meet,

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compounding the problem when they could get free help from the likes

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of national deadline and Citizens Advice Bureau is. It is a fear

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factor, people certainly feel they can sort these things out

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themselves, but debt problems very soon become too big to sort out

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yourself. You can deal with debt by negotiating lower payments or even

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going bankrupt. The challenge now is to make more people get the advice

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they need. There have been further revelations

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about the relationship between Nigella Lawson and her former

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husband Charles Saatchi in court today. Before the trial of their

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personal assistants on charges of fraud, lawyers said there had been a

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culture of secrecy in their marriage. Luisa Baldini is at

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Isleworth Crown Court, what did we hear in court today?

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The jury was sworn in this afternoon, and opening the case the

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prosecution said that sisters Elizabeth and Francesca Grillo spent

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in excess of ?685,000 on Charles Saatchi's company credit card in a

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greedy and fraudulent free for all in a four-year spending spree. The

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sisters at its spending the money, but they deny fraud. Their defence

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is that there was an understanding between them and Nigella Lawson that

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they could spend on the cards if they did not reveal her alleged drug

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habit. The sisters' defence barrister claimed that Ms Lawson

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lied to her husband about her alleged drug-taking because there

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was a culture of secrecy in their marriage. The barrister said that if

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Mr Saatchi was also telling the truth about the celebrity chef's

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alleged drug use, then Ms Lawson is an habitual criminal. The prosecutor

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told the jury, these details are secondary as use, this case is one

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of fraud. Mr Saatchi is expected to give evidence here tomorrow.

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In Italy, the Senate has voted to expel former Prime Ministers Silvio

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Berlusconi from parliament with immediate effect over his conviction

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for tax fraud. Berlusconi told thousands of supporters in Rome that

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he would fight on despite the vote, saying it was a day of mourning for

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democracy. He is now banned from taking part in any general election

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for six years and has lost his parliamentary immunity and could

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face arrest over other criminal cases.

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Members of the Scottish Parliament had a first chance to debate their

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government's plans for independence this afternoon. The white paper was

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launched yesterday with First Minister Alex Salmond describing it

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as a blueprint for an independent country. Here is Scotland

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correspondent James Cook. Where does Scotland's future like,

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within the United Kingdom or as an independent state? Politicians had

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barely one day to digestive this document, a blueprint for

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independence, before the debate about its contents began.

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Independence gives us the opportunity to make choices, to

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spend less on weapons of mass destruction and more on educating

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our children. Alex Salmond said there would be more free childcare

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in an independent Scotland, saving families thousands of pounds a

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year. Labour says he could do that now. If it were transformational, if

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you believed it was that important, he would start now. The First

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Minister has only just discovered the issue of childcare. But

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independence is bigger than any one issue. The white paper promises to

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build an Scotland's cultural ambitions, and as if on cue, this

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giant work of art was unveiled new Falkirk today. This mystical,

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quizzical sculpture seems to suit the mood of Scotland today, a nation

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pondering its future, uncertain which way to turn. So what of the

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voters who have to take that decision? What do they make of the

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white paper's promises for their country? How much more tax would I

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have to pay in order to keep Scotland independent? If Bush comes

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to shove, I will go south to England anyway! Most of the facts have not

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emerging, it is all conjecture, and only now people beginning to realise

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there is quite a lot of implications as to what would happen if it was a

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yes vote. I love Scotland, it has been my home since 1990, and I would

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never go back to live in England again. Could Scotland go it alone?

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Yes. And it should? Yes, it should. For now, there is still work to be

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done on this sculpture, and there is still much debate to be had about

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the future of this nation. Prince William managed to surprise

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the audience at a charity gala in Kensington Palace last night, not to

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mention the rest of the world, when he took to the stage at the end of

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the evening with Jon Bon Jovi and Taylor Swift for an impromptu

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singalong. Here is royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell.

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So there you are, having a little soiree at your place with some

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musical salts, and somehow you end up on stage hoping not to miss your

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shoe. Deep breaths now! # It doesn't make a difference if we

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make it or not. # We have got each other, and that's

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a lot for love. # Give it a shot.

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# Oh, we are halfway there. At Kensington Palace, Taylor Swift,

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Jon Bon Jovi and Prince - Prince William. Whoa-oh, living on a

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prayer! And who was it that had persuaded

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him to take to the stage, Mr Jonathan Ross. At heart, he is a

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rapper, not a singer. I think next time we will try to get up with tiny

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temper, that will be special. The evening did have a serious purpose,

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they were there to raise money for homeless charity Centrepoint, but

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this is what will linger in the memory, karaoke night at Kensington

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Palace. He is not bad! Time for a look at

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the weather with Tomasz. I wanted to sing, they would not let

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me! As far as the weather goes for tonight, another chilly night, quite

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a cloudy one, a little bit of drizzle here and there, nothing more

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than that. Quite chilly in one or two spots across Scotland were skies

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might just about clear, there could be an early frost, but most of the

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story is that there is cloud and fog forming over the Vale of York, and

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you can see this high pressure that has been stuck around for a long

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time, giving as cloudy sty is, that is persisting through most of

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tomorrow as well. The overnight temperatures, 6-8 degrees, that

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should cover it for most of us, a similar start to the day tomorrow

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compared to today, drizzly across the South, cloudy. There will be

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some sunshine to the East of Scotland, these of the Pennines, but

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on balance, overall, another cloudy, chilly day with temperatures

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hovering for most of us around eight or 10 degrees. There is a change on

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the way happening Thursday night into Friday, so the high-pressure

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slips out into the Atlantic, central and North Atlantic, this cold front

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brings isobars that we have not seen so many of them quite a while. That

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translates to gale force and severe gale force winds across Scotland,

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wintry showers across the hills. For a lot of us, a breezy day with sunny

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spells, one or two showers, temperatures of nine or 10 degrees.

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After we are done with all of that weather front, the isobars push

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awaits towards the near continent and we get back into that high

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pressure we have got over us right now, so that in turn is going to

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translates to this, so it looks as though after a bright Saturday,

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there is going to be more cloud on the way for the weekend. Just one

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chilly, breezy day. That is all from the News At Six,

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goodbye from me and

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