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children in the Philippines. A place shame. Dozens of families in this

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Filipino city are involved in webcam abuse. We have an exclusive report.

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This is, in effect, the epicentre of what NGOs call the cybersex

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industry. It takes place in rooms, in houses around here, undercover.

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No one really talks about it. This man organised and paid for

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abuse from his home in Northamptonshire. --

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Nottinghamshire. The National Crime Agency says he's just one of many.

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We'll be looking at how major crackdown on abusers is unfolding.

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Also tonight: A new row over bankers' bonuses. The

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Governor of the Bank of England says a cap on the size of pay-outs won't

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work. The William Roache trial - a witness

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says the Coronation Street actor wrote her a letter after indecently

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assaulting her. The Royal Marines to the rescue. A

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Cornish village gets some expert help after a Christmas Day landslide

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left them stranded. Tonight on BBC London:

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A teenager is found guilty of stabbing this schoolboy to death on

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a bus in a row over a hat. And the brother of a man who was

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shot dead in the Alps is told he won't face prosecution.

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Hello and welcome to the BBC News At Six. Tonight, we bring you a

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shocking story of child abuse carried out to order by British men

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on vulnerable, young children thousands of miles away in the

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Philippines. It follows a major crackdown by the National Crime

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Agency, which has tracked men here in Britain who use a webcam link to

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issue their instructions. Up to 100,000 children are victims

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of sexual exploitation in the country. Much of it occurs in

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Angeles City in the north of the country, a place now notorious for

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this kind of crime. Our correspondent Angus Crawford begins

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his report there. You may find parts of it disturbing.

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This street holds a secret. A house where children were sexually abused

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and raped by their own family. The room where police say the abuse was

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broadcast by a webcam to foreign paedophiles. This British man,

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Timothy Ford, directed that abuse from his home in the UK. A police

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raid in the Philippines last year sparked by what was found on Ford's

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computer. He was sent to prison for eight and a half years. 12

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children, the youngest just five, were taken into care. This 1... Some

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of the children are now back in the community. Her parents are still in

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jail. Ford planned to buy a house and open an internet cafe here, for

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him and other paedophiles to use. But we have discovered that Ford is

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just one of thousands. You can get easy money from cybersex. They call

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it cybersex. We travelled across the Philippines and found some

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neighbourhoods have been virtually taken over by it. The abuse of

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children online has become an industry driven by poverty. The

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families are in the cybersex business. Some of the father and

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mother and bring their children here to show and get paid by the owner of

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this house. This is Cordova, in the south of the country. It has become

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notorious for this type of crime. This is, in effect, the epicentre of

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the cybersex industry. It takes place in rooms, in houses, around

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here, undercover, no one really talks about it. All they need is a

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laptop and a USB. One recent survey showed that 80 houses were involved

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here in the family selling their children for sex online.

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This kind of webcam abuse has become rooted in the culture here and local

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charities find it difficult to convince families of the harm it

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causes. The customer that is buying from the other part of the globe

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gives the instruction to touch this, touch that, kiss this and kiss that

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and even sends sex toys to these children so they can use them. It is

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a myth that there is no touching, there is no actual contact. There is

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and what is deplorable is some of the parents or the relatives are the

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ones touching the children. A couple of streets away, another home raided

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and emptied. A two-year-old was rescued here. But it is something no

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one wants to talk about. How can I know when the house is closed and I

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did not look inside the house and see what they are doing? This is

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where our children live. Some children to escape the abuse. -- do

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escape. Here, at a shelter, where they can start to recover. They

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really feel small, they feel dirty about themselves. Many are deeply

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traumatised. Some talk of seeing on a computer screen the foreigner who

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paid to watch. Tens of thousands of children are thought to be victims

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of online sexual exploitation. But now at least police here and around

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the world are tackling what charities call an epidemic of abuse.

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Angus Crawford, BBC News, in the Philippines.

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With me now is Alison Holt, our social affairs correspondent. A

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shocking report, Alison. Just how new is this phenomenon?

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Well, more than a decade ago, I visited the Philippines with British

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detectives who, at that time, were trying to gather the sort of

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evidence they needed to prosecute so-called sex tourists. Back here,

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in the UK, in the courts. That was a tough job, but what they are talking

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about is people who physically travelled overseas to abuse a child.

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Angus's report shows how the spread of the internet has changed at least

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the nature of some of that abuse. Effectively, it means paedophiles

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can operate from the comfort of their own living room. It makes it

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all too easy for them to abuse someone at the click of a button.

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But even if the person who is paying for that is many miles away,

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nevertheless, a child is still being abused, it is at their direction, by

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someone else. It is very difficult to know the true scale of this but

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last November, on the Six O'Clock News, we reported on how a Dutch

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charity visited chat rooms and they used a computer-generated image of a

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ten-year-old Filipino girl who they named Sweetie. During the ten weeks

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that Sting, 20,000 men contacted her, 1,000 tried to pay her money to

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perform sex acts and as a result, the names of 110 British men were

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passed to the police here. Now, tomorrow, the National Crime Agency

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will detail results of its own crackdown and it will set out plans

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for working with authorities elsewhere, such as America,

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Australia and the Philippines, in tackling what is, in the end, a

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global problem. Alison, thanks very much.

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The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, says he does not back a

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"crude cap" on bankers' bonuses. It comes after the Labour leader Ed

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Miliband challenged the Government to intervene if the largely

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taxpayer-owned RBS offered its staff bonuses that were greater than the

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employee's salary. But David Cameron says he would only veto an overall

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rise in pay and bonuses. Our Political Editor Nick Robinson has

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the story. It is back. The political row about

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the banks and whether they pay out too little to those who need their

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loans and too much to, well, bankers. In the spotlight once

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again, the bank owned largely by you and me, whose decisions on pay and

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bonuses need the approval of the men in Downing Street. RBS are expected

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to ask the Government to approve bonuses of over 100% on

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multi-million pound salaries. Does the Prime Minister think that is

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acceptable? If there are any proposals to increase the overall

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pay, that is pay and bonus bill, at RBS, at the investment bank, any

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proposals for that, we will veto it. Under a new EU law, bank bonuses

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will be capped at the same level of salaries, so a top bank are getting

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paid a million could get more would need the approval of the banks'

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shareholders, in this case the Treasury, and Labour says they

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should say no. Ministers say instead they will block any increase in

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RBS's total pay and bonus bill. That could be easy, though, because the

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bank is shrinking. RBS used to employ 250 highly paid bankers. The

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last figures were just over 90 and the number is still dropping. Not

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good enough, says Ed Miliband. When ordinary families are facing the

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cost of living crisis, surely he can say that for people earning ?1

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million, a bonus of 1 million should be quite enough? He comes here every

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week, he comes here every week to complain about a problem created by

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the Labour Party. Last week it was betting, this week, it is banking.

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Where is the apology for the mess they made RBS in the first place?

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Ministers say they have not even been approached by RBS yet, but the

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new law covers next year's not the new law covers next year's not this

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year's, bonuses, and besides, they are fighting it in the courts. It

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may be bonuses that really set people's pulses racing, but what

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worries policymakers is the fact that the big banks are not learning

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enough money to small businesses. The answer, everyone seems to agree,

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is more competition. Later this week, Ed Miliband will unveil a

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proposal to cap the size of those banks, to force them to off-load

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some branches, to try to get more competition. Ideas that seem to get

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a pretty cool reception from the Governor of the Bank of England. MPs

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first asked Mark Carney if he shared their view that a crude bonus cap

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was the wrong way to control bankers' pay. Do you agree with that

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conclusion? Absolutely. And there was more. Did he agree that a cap on

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the bank's market share might not actually work? The answer again, was

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yes. Just breaking up an institution doesn't necessarily create viable or

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more intensive competitive structure. For a short while, it was

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the big six energy firms getting the flak. Now, once again, it is the

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turn of the big five banks. Nick Robinson, BBC News,

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Westminster. A woman has told a jury how the

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Coronation Street actor William Roache sexually assaulted her in the

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men's toilet at the Granada Studios in Manchester when she was14. The

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alleged victim, who's now 63, is one of five women who accuse the

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81-year-old actor of sex crimes in the 1960s and early '70s. He denies

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five counts of indecent assault and two counts of rape. Judith Moritz's

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report from Preston Crown Court contains flash photography.

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William Roache arrived at court for the second day of his trial,

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accompanied again by three of his children. His is a household name,

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but here, he is the defendant in the dock. The actor has played Ken

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Barlow in Coronation Street for more than 50 years, having appeared in

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the soap since its first episode in 1960. But the prosecution say that

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in the 60s, he took advantage of his stardom to abuse teenage girls. The

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star's first alleged victims says that she went to the Granada Studios

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in Manchester, where the soap was filmed, in 1965, when she was 14.

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The jury heard she had gone to the studios to take part in a

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children's talent show and William Roache had pulled her from her

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dressing room into the men's toilets. -- from his dressing room

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into the men's toilets, where he indecently assaulted her. Now 63,

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she said she didn't tell anyone in the studios about it, adding...

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In the dock, the 81-year-old actor listened as the jury was told that

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soon after the assault, he had sent a letter to the girl, which included

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the lines... This afternoon, a second woman, also

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came to give evidence in courtroom number one. She says that in 1965,

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she was a 16-year-old actress and she also alleges that William Roache

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indecently assaulted her in the toilets at Granada television. Both

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of the women that came to court today confirmed that they don't know

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each other and that they have made their allegations independently.

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The actor is charged with seven sexual offences against five girls

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and denies them all. The case continues with evidence expected

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tomorrow from the third alleged victim. Judith Moritz, BBC News,

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Preston. At a separate trial, woman has been telling a jury that she was

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indecently assaulted by the former BBC One DJ Dave Lee Travis in a BBC

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studio in the 1980s, when she was a trainee newsreader. He denies 13

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counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. June Kelly's

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report also contains some flash photography. Dave Lee Travis has

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been described as an "opportunist who targeted vulnerable young

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women". Today, the court began hearing from his alleged victims,

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who he has said are the money or media attention. None them can be

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identified. In the early 1980s, one was based at the headquarters of BBC

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Radio, Broadcasting House. She was a trainee in her mid-twenties. Today,

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she described her Dave Lee Travis, then a major name, came into her

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Radio 4 studio and indecently assaulted her while she was

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introducing a programme. Testifying from behind a screen, she said...

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She said she couldn't reporting because he was one of the big stars

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of Radio 1. She believed the management response would have been,

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you are a big girl, deal with it, and there would've been a black mark

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against her. During cross-examination by Dave Lee

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Travis's barrister, the witness denied making up the story to boost

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her media profile. He said his client maintained the incident had

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never taken place. The jury then heard from women who worked with

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Dave Lee Travis after he left the BBC. Two women described how, this

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radio station, he targeted them. One said they used to pray he wouldn't

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come near them. The court heard how on one occasion she shouted at him,

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don't touch me, you are a pervert. The former DJ of reading not guilty

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to 13 charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault.

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Our top story this evening. Child abuse to order. How British men use

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the internet to abuse children in the Philippines. And still to come.

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The Calstock landings. How the Royal Marines came to the rescue of a

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Cornish village after a landslip. Later on BBC London, throwing out

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the big bins. Why Lambeth is the latest council to introduce smaller

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ones. And the cafe where you are not charged for food or drink. You pay

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to stay by the minute. Some of Birmingham's best known

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landmarks, including the NEC, could be sold off to help the city council

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pay more than ?1 billion in legal claims over equal pay. The authority

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has an estimated shortfall of ?550 million. It needs to settle with

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thousands of workers, mainly women, who for years were paid less than

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other employees on the same grade. From Birmingham, Jeremy Cooke

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reports. From the original concept in the early 70s... To the Royal

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opening ceremony in 1976. It's always been the National exhibition

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Centre but the pride of the city of Birmingham. Owned by the council.

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But today it seems the entire NEC group, including the LG Arena, the

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National indoor Arena, and the International Convention Centre,

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will soon be on sale to the highest bidder. A court victory for council

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workers, mainly women, who has been paid less than colleagues, mainly

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men, on the same grade, has left the council liable with back pain

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estimated ?1.1 billion. -- back pay. The need for cash is urgent and

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the council leader went on local radio to tell his city that the NEC

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group may have to go. We need to invest in the NEC in order to ensure

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the future of the next 20 years or so and it may be that, to do that,

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Birmingham City Council has to diversify either part or all of its

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ownership in the NEC. For a cash strapped council, selling this could

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be the quickest most simple way to raise the millions they need. But

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there are no easy decisions here. This is one of Birmingham's most

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iconic landmarks, a real asset to the city and letting it go, would be

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a one-off, irreversible decision. Birmingham is not alone in selling

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assets. Croydon council sold Chinese ceramics are more than ?8 million.

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Somerset raised ?18.5 million selling farms. Tower Hamlets council

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is considering selling this Henry Moore sculpture. Selling assets

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raises money fast and that's potentially good news for people

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like former Birmingham council worker, Rosemary. They need to

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consider the people at the soldier level rather than big businesses

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because it is affecting people at this level more than their public

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image. A lot of money. It take awhile to raise it I suppose? It

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took them a long time to take it from us, bit by bit, as well. The

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sell-off could generate ?300 million. Still leaving the council

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with millions more to raise. Two men and three boys have been found

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guilty of a series of rapes and sexual assaults in Peterborough.

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Zdeno Mirga, Hassan Abdulla and three teenagers who can't be named

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were found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey. The group targeted five

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teenage girls including a 13-year-old with a severe learning

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disability. Two men and one boy were cleared of involvement in the

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attacks. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has urged the European

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Union to become competitive partly by cutting welfare spending. In a

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major speech in London, Mr Osborne said that the treaties underpinning

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the EU were no longer fit for purpose and a failure to renegotiate

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and reform would condemn the continent to further economic crisis

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and decline. Vicki Young reports. The promised to change Britain's

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relationship with the EU was supposed to calm the rows in the

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Conservative Party but some Tories are impatient for change. And the

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tone of the debate has riled senior figures in Brussels. The right of

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all citizens to move freely in Europe is one contentious area. The

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government has tightened the rules on migrant claiming benefits but

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today politicians were warned not to inflame tensions. Let's not use

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stereotypes and let's have a reasonable debate. Let us not give

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into scaremongering. But Conservatives hit back saying they

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went out to stigmatise any nationality. You need to be careful

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not to join others to drag the debate down because they can't argue

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against it and start accusing people of saying things they haven't said.

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But the Bulgarian Foreign Minister in London for a conference on EU

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reform said offence had been caused. The campaign that was going on

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especially last year was, I would say, a bit unpleasant. This

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situation, the signals coming from the UK, will be changed and I expect

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much more positive signals on both sides. Almost 100 Conservative MPs

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have called for the UK Parliament to have a veto over all EU laws. Today,

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the Chancellor George Osborne did outline a case for reform but he

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certainly didn't go that far. Instead, he insisted this wasn't all

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about Britain's does I had to pull back from Europe, change was

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essential to make the EU more competitive in global markets. The

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biggest economic risk facing Europe doesn't come from those who want

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reform and renegotiation. It comes from a failure to renegotiate. It is

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the status quo which condemns the people of Europe to an ongoing

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economic crisis and the continuing decline. But the immediate challenge

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for the Conservative leadership is to try to contain the party's

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disagreement over Europe. A barrister and part-time judge has

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appeared in court where she's been accused of lying to police about her

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role in exposing how the disgraced cabinet minister, Chris Huhne,

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avoided speeding points on his licence. The prosecution say

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Constance Briscoe helped Mr Huhne's former wife, Vicky Pryce, to expose

:22:34.:22:40.

his wrongdoing to the press. She is then accused of giving two

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inaccurate statements to the police. Ms Briscoe denies three counts of

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perverting the course of justice. The Liberal Democrats say one of

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their peers, Lord Rennard, won't face any further action in

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connection with claims that he sexually harassed female activists

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because there is insufficient evidence. Lord Rennard, who

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strenuously denied the allegations, has expressed a hope that he can now

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resume his roles within the party. Our Deputy Political Editor, James

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Landale, is in Westminster now. James, what happens now? Lord

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Rennard was once one of the most powerful men in the Lib Dems,

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running campaigns, picking candidates and last year he was

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accused of sexual harassment. Today's internal investigation

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found, yes, he did distress a number of women by violating their personal

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space, but it also decided it wasn't enough evidence to prove he had

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deliberately acted in a way that were sexually inappropriate. Now

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there's slightly messy outcome has angered senior Lib Dems, Nick Clegg

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has said he's not content and once Lord Rennard to apologise and says

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he's not going to have any role in the party's election campaign but

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Lord Rennard has issued a statement with no apology saying the

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investigation is over and is looking forward to resuming his role as a

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policymaker in the party. Not surprisingly, the women who made the

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complaint against him are not happy, accusing the party of cowardice and

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a cover-up, so a difficult day for the Lib Dems. A party that claims to

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be the fairest of them all being accused of being anything but.

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James, thank you. A ten-year-old boy has called in the Royal Marines to

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rescue cars stranded in a Cornish village. About 40 vehicles were

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trapped after a road collapse caused by a landslip on Lower Kelly,

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Calstock, on Christmas Day. Charlie Southcott suggested bringing in the

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marines after meeting a senior officer at a carol service. It

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happened on Christmas morning. This landslip left 40 cars trapped in a

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Cornish village. How would they get out? Enter ten-year-old Charlie,

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whose mother's car was among those stuck. He met Commodore from the

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Royal Navy at Cosmos carol concert and had kept his business card. So

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when the parish council asked for suggestions... I said I have the

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Navy's phone number. Well, the maybe -- Navy answered his call. Today

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they brought four landing craft to Calstock so the cars could be freed.

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The schoolboy watching closely as each vehicle was loaded up and taken

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away. How are they doing? Very good at the moment. They have got about

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ten cars off, I would've said for them and it's all because of you?

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Yes. For the drivers who thought their cars might be stuck for

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months, and unusual but very welcome rescue. I didn't expect this at all.

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It's fantastic and will mean a lot to the local community. Have you

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been rescued like this before? No. Four hours, Marines provided a car

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ferry on the River Tame. There is something very bizarre about being

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on a Royal Marines landing craft, glorified vehicle recovery service.

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As well as helping the community where they are based, the Marines

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said this exercise also had a serious purpose. This is training

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for us and helping the population because we could be called upon to

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do this in the future. Providing disaster relief. It was a ten minute

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journey from the village to a key where vehicles could be unloaded and

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driven away. Among them, Charlie, and his mum's car, now free. It's

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been really good and I enjoyed the day. Does a military career beckon?

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No, he wants to be a train driver. Time for a look at the weather.

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Here's Nick Miller. Hi, George. This time last, harsh

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winter but today, nothing like it. We're halfway through the

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meteorological winter and we have had temperatures like this, widely

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into double figures, just scraping it for many, but well above on the

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North Devon coast, at 13 Celsius. Many of us had to content with more

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rain and there's more pushing east across the UK tonight. The wind will

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ease in Scotland and Northern Ireland allowing patchy fog to

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develop under touch of frost and ice. Elsewhere, colder than last

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night but a few degrees above freezing and showers coming into the

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south-west later in the night, sign of things to come tomorrow. A breezy

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day but the shower was not evenly distributed across the UK. Some will

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have more than their fair share. A low pressure area to the west of

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Ireland swirling in here and some of those showers will be heavy with

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Halen Thunder. Not too much wet weather in Scotland that Taylor and

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thunder. The wind is strengthening, especially for Scotland. In Northern

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Ireland, we have to watch the rain tomorrow night into Friday morning.

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Rainfall totals mounting. The showers moving across bands in

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England and Wales. Further west, not many showers but along the south

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coast, the West, showers keep on coming with Halen and thunder.

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Friday, repeat of the same. Some bright and sunny spells. Look how

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windy it remains in Shetland and the weekend. As for the weekend, it

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looks like we will have to endure another spell of rain on Saturday.

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Some of it may be heavy. Sunday, though, some sunshine, a scattering

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of showers. At the moment, Sunday looks a better day this weekend.

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That's all from us. It's goodbye from me. And on BBC One we now

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