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to persuade Russia to back down over Ukraine. Russian, American and EU

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foreign leaders meet for the first time since the crisis began. Today

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we are trying to use every diplomatic opportunity to bring

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Russia and Ukraine into direct contact with each other at a senior

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level. In Crimea, Ukrainian sailors are stranded on their ships,

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desperate families send in food supplies. We'll bring you the latest

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on the talks in Paris and the situation on the ground in Crimea.

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Also tonight, the EU law that may force RBS and Lloyds to relocate to

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London if Scotland becomes independent.

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While many on the Somerset Levels still battle the floods, a ?100

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million plan to prevent it happening again.

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New guidelines on how much sugar we should be eating, less than the

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equivalent of a can of coke a day. And it's fast, it's dangerous and

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she can hardly see - the British Paralympic skier hoping for a medal

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at Sochi. Tonight on BBC London: The free schools struggling to find

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suitable sites. This head's been told to open on an industrial

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estate. And anger towards the police over a man with learning

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difficulties who was allegedly assaulted by officers.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. It's been a day of

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intense diplomacy over Ukraine as ministers from the US and Europe all

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try to persuade Russia to back down. As the diplomats met in Paris for

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the first direct talks since the crisis began, the European Union

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offered a multi-billion aid package to Ukraine. On the ground in eastern

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Ukraine, pro and anti-Russian demonstrators have been tussling

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over control of the main government building in Donetsk. In Crimea,

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Russia has tightened its grip on key military facilities. Ukrainian

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troops are barricaded inside. Sailors from the Ukrainian navy

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based in Sevastopol are being prevented from leaving their ships

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and tonight some are running out of supplies. Our correspondent Daniel

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Sandford sent this report. The first sign that the Russians

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were tightening further their stranglehold on Ukraine's small

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navy. Russian troops taking up new positions overlooking a Ukrainian

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military dock. We climbed down to see what was happening and found two

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of Ukraine's most sophisticated fighting ships blockaded in the Bay

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and overlooked by a Russian sniper. On the dock, we found a tearful

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woman talking on the phone to her husband just 20 metres away. The

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ship do not come closer in case it is stormed by the Russians.

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TRANSLATION: On the commander of the fleet came to the ship and said he

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would storm hit, it was a bit frightening. War is a very

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frightening thing. On these heavily armed ships, the sailors have

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resorted to the medieval methods of defending themselves. You can see

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the Ukrainian sailors have put mattresses over the railings to stop

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the Russians throwing grappling irons and boarding the ship. The

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entire Ukraine AV is stuck in the harbour, the sailors have to watch

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Russian warships coming and going at will. What would happen if you've

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tried to leave the harbour? There could be a clash between the ships,

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navigation accident which could result in casualties. Then two men

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in black coats arrived. They remonstrated with the officers on

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the ship for a Ukrainian navy statement which had called the

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Russian president a liar. The Ukrainians stood their ground and

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complained about the armed men surrounding them. I am the only one

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who has a weapon, said the most senior officer. I have given up

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everything else. I have the one pistol to protect the crew. This

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evening a small boat came ashore to resupply the ships. Blockaded in

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their own harbour at the Ukrainians are preparing for a long siege. The

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key diplomatic meetings have been taking place in Paris this afternoon

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and our diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall is there for us now.

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Is there any sign the talks are going to bring this crisis to an end

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any time soon? Not any time soon. This is a bit of a gamble today. It

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is the first time these Western powers, the US, Britain, France and

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Germany were able to have the foreign ministers meet the Russian

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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov since the crisis got so momentous and

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turned into a full-blown international crisis. The good news

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is they met and they had proper talks. They met at lunchtime and the

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US Secretary of State and the Russian Foreign Minister Bernard had

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their own talks. There may be more talks going on now possibly into the

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evening. The not so good news is that in the words of one diplomat,

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it has been a very difficult conversation. What the Western

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powers wanted was ideally to get the Russians to agree to talk to the new

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Ukrainian government directly. The new Ukrainian Foreign Minister was

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here in Paris just in case. That did not happen. It seems on other issues

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too pulling Russian troops back in the Crimea, it has been very slow

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progress. The BBC has learned that both Royal Bank of Scotland and

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Lloyds may be forced to move their headquarters to London if Scotland

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votes for independence. It's all because of a European Union

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directive which stipulates that companies must locate their head

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offices where the bulk of their business is. Let's talk to our

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business editor Robert Peston. Tell us more. What I have discovered is

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that banks and regulators have only recently become aware of a very

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interesting EU law that was passed in 1995. As you say, what it

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stipulates is that banks have to have their homes where they run

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themselves, where their head offices are and where the bulk of their

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operations. Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds have their homes in

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Scotland. But the bulk of their operations are in England. The EU

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law probably means that within hours of a yes vote they would have to

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move their homes from Scotland down to London. The interesting question

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for me is what effect it will have on the battle over Scotland's

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future. Those in favour of the UK staying together will argue that

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independence means that some highly skilled and valuable jobs would

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automatically move away from Scotland, were the Scots to vote for

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independence. But I do not think it is all bad news for Alex Salmond who

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was very much in favour of independence. There are enormous

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liabilities attached to these banks. They have balance sheets of ?1.9

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trillion, something like 15 times the value of the Scottish economy,

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is GDP. It means that were these banks to get into trouble again,

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they could not really be bailed out by Scottish taxpayers. That is no

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longer a worry for Alex Salmond because they are definitely going to

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be, according to the EU, our responsibility in England, not a

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Scottish response political if Scotland goes for independence. A

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?100 million draft plan seen by the BBC has been drawn up to prevent a

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repeat of the severe flooding of the Somerset Levels. The proposals from

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the county council, Environment Agency and local residents include

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raising a number of vulnerable roads and building a tidal barrier near

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the town of Bridgewater. Jon Kay is on the Somerset Levels for us now.

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Jon. Yes, six weeks ago when the flood

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water was at its deepest and the political blame game was at its

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height, the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson stood here and gave

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the local people six weeks to come up with a plan to save the Somerset

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Levels for the future. Tomorrow he will get the plan on his desk. I

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have seen it and it is long and expensive, a wish list, basically.

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What people want to know is how much of it will actually be put into

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effect? Ten weeks on and the road is still a river. Villagers still

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relying on military vehicles and boats to get them in and out. Two

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hours to get a bottle of milk. Yes, that is it. As he heads home from

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the shops, Nigel is glad to hear that the 20 year plan includes a

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proposal to raise the road here to stop it flooding again. Make the

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rail -- it would make a real difference. Shuttling backwards and

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forwards, spending hours a day buying a pint of milk. Raising the

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road is just one of dozens of proposals in the document ministers

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will receive tomorrow. It aims to prevent a repeat of this winter's

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crisis. 40 square miles of Somerset were swamped and 150 homes flooded.

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The plan proposes more pumps as well as dredging the rivers and even a

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barrage to protect the town of Bridgwater. Heartbreaking. This home

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was one of those that flooded and today the repair work began in his

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cottage. He welcomes all of the ideas in the 20 year plan but he

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wonders if they will ever come to anything. Next year will be a

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different government. It might be the same party, but it will be

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different people. Will they stick to whatever has been promised? Who

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knows. The plan is basically a wish list. If ministers rubber-stamp the

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whole thing it would cost more than ?100 million and there is little

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detail in it over who would play. 250 miles away they also had major

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flooding before Christmas, they hope any public money will be shared and

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Somerset will not get special treatment. I need it -- they need it

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but we need it as well. It is for everybody. As I say, they are in a

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worse state than us. The 20 year plan for the Somerset Levels will be

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on the Prime Minister's desk tomorrow morning. Last month he said

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money would be no object in helping Britain recover from the floods.

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This ?100 million wish list will test his commitment.

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The former boss of News International, Rebekah Brooks, has

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denied covering up the extent of phone hacking at the News of the

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World. In court, Mrs Brooks admitted knowing since 2006, when she was

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editor of the Sun, that there were many more victims of hacking than

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her company had admitted. But she told the trial that, at the time,

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she had no reason to believe hacking had been carried out by anyone other

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than a single rogue reporter. Mrs Brooks denies all the charges.

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A South African boxer has told the Oscar Pistorius murder trial that

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the athlete fired a loaded gun in a restaurant last year and then asked

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him to take the blame. The incident happened in January last year, just

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weeks before Mr Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He

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claims he mistook her for an intruder. Andrew Harding's report

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contains flash photography. Relatives gardening Oscar Pistorius

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on his way into court this morning as the prosecution continues to

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build a case against him -- guarding. This professional boxer

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Kevin Arena, the first witness to appear on camera. -- Kevin Lerena.

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He described an incident at a restaurant a month before Oscar

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Pistorius shot dead Reeva Steenkamp. The athlete fired a friend's gun

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under one of these tables, seemingly by accident. Then allegedly he asked

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the friend to take the blame. I remember him saying, apologising, is

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everybody OK? I remember him saying, please, say it was you, I do not

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want any attention. Said it was you. This is a murder trial so it

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may seem strange to be discussing a separate comparatively minor

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incident. It gives the prosecution a unique opportunity to raise

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questions about his character. Discharging a gun under the table,

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trying to ask his friends to be compromised in the process, they are

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painting a picture of Oscar Pistorius. It was not all bad for

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Oscar Pistorius today. His lawyer picked holes in the vital evidence

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of two neighbours. It is nonsense. They said they heard a woman scream

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before the gunshots, contradicting Oscar Pistorius's version of events.

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It is a man's life at stake. Let us look at other possibilities.

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Today's restaurant revelations may prove damaging to Oscar Pistorius

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but his team has shown signs of the formidable research it has done to

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prove he did not mean to kill Reeva Steenkamp. Our top story this

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evening. Russian blockades strand Ukrainian sailors in Crimea as the

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high levels talks to resolve the crisis continue. Still to come...

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The 13-year-old Preston schoolboy who's carried out a nuclear

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experiment. On BBC London. More of the world's

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super rich are coming to the capital and buying houses like this. And

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designer Vivienne Westwood joined a protest in south London over people

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being told they can no longer stay in a council homes.

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Eating too much sugar can lead to obesity, heart disease, cancer and

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other health problems. Now the World Health Organisation is changing its

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guidance on the maximum amount of added sugar we should have in our

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diet. Until now, its experts said that no more than 10% of a person's

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daily food intake should be in the form of added sugars. Today it's

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suggested the limit should be halved to 5%. For an adult, that's the

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equivalent of less than one can of coke. So how would that work in

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practice, and could we stick to it? Our health correspondent, Dominic

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Hughes, has more details. The amount of sugar in our food has become one

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of the most controversial issues in health, and it's not just the

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obvious sugary snacks either. Added sugar is found in all sorts of food

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you don't expect. The World Health Organisation's proposals will mean a

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drastic cut in the recommended amount of sugar we consume every

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day. Why does this matter? Well, the World Health Organisation is an

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incredibly influential body, setting the benchmark for different

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government's health policies across the globe. But for all of us, doing

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the right thing when it comes to food is not always as easy as it

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should be. Charlotte Simpson is a busy mum who wants to give her two

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children a healthy diet. She prepares most of the family meals,

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but sometimes time is against her. So she resorts to tens and jars. She

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wants the manufacturers to be much more honest about what in their

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products. If I was cooking this myself, would I put sugar in? If

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it's a cake, yes. If it's pasta sauce, no, I'm not putting sugar in

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it. I want them to make what I would make at home if I had time. I want

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them to put in ingredients that are normal wholesome ingredients and not

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fill it up with junk. The point about added sugar is in most cases

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it just isn't necessary. Experts say it is simply extra calories that

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feeds growing levels of obesity. And there are some simple ways to cut

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down on our sugar intake by going back to basics. The obvious things

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are cut -- to cakes, biscuits, sweets, soft drinks. Having real,

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fresh food, cooking your own, like great grandmother used to live.

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Leading supermarkets and food producers have signed up to the

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Government's responsibility deal, voluntary agreements to cut calories

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in their products. The UK's biggest supermarket chain, Tesco, says it

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has already done a lot, putting sugar in soft rings and offering

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low-calorie products. Its chief executive admits much more needs to

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be done. We need a level playing field. Everybody needs to raise

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their game to a certain standard. We've got the responsibility deal

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and have signed up to more of the conditions than anybody, but I think

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we don't want to just wait for legislation, we've got to act now.

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Health campaigners saved cutting our sugar intake can be done. They point

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to the success in reducing levels of salt in food. Now sugar is in the

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firing line. Dominic Hughes, BBC News. The BBC is to axe its digital

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channel BBC Three. It's the first time the BBC has moved to cut an

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entire channel as part of its drive to cut costs. Many of the

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programmes, which are aimed predominantly at a younger audience,

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will be shown on BBC iPlayer instead. Our media correspondent,

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David Sillito, has more. Hello, welcome to BBC Three for another

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wild evening of telly. Is it a Welsh thing? Gavin Stacey was a ratings

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and critical hit. Sergeant Wilson carried his boss on board. Our war

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about soldiers in Afghanistan was award-winning. What about this?

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Good. And where else would you find something like this? But cuts are

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needed. BBC Three as a TV channel is facing close down. Behind this

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decision, and need to cut ?100 billion. However, even if you cut

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all the programmes on BBC Three, that would still only be 90 million.

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The plan is to shift the brand to the iPlayer. But the problem is that

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the station reaches parts of Britain that the rest of the BBC struggles

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to reach, especially young people. One in four young adult watches BBC

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Three, and they are watching on television. Only around 4%

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viewership is done at the moment through iPlayer. Young people,

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though, are watching less and less television, a drop of 20% over the

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last four years. They are turning to other devices. So is this the

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answer, make fewer, better programmes and show them where the

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young are, online? If you were to pick any service that you could

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safely move online without losing the audience it is probably this

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one, because in so far as the audience are young, they are much

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more likely to follow that format. And there are shows that some older

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and more conservative BBC viewers and staff really think the

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corporation should not be making. But when it comes to reaching big

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young and less affluent, BBC Three scores well will stop cutting

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production and shifting its best programmes online may save money but

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it's a gamble with an important part of the audience. Downing Street has

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denied suppressing a report which apparently suggests that immigration

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has less of an impact on British jobs than first feared. Ministers

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had said that every 100 new arrivals from outside the European Union left

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23 British people without a job. That number is now in dispute.

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Labour and the Liberal Democrats are calling for the report to be

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published. Our deputy political editor, James Landale, is in Downing

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Street. This is potentially rather embarrassing, what more can you tell

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us? Economists have argued for years over the impact of immigration on

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jobs, and they don't always agree. A couple of years ago, the Home

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Secretary, Theresa May, seized on the conclusions of one particular

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group of independent experts who estimated that when the economy is

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struggling, every time 100 immigrants come here from outside of

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the EU, about 23 Brits don't get a job as a result. But there's a new

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bit of analysis doing the rounds in Whitehall that challenges that

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analysis. According to at least one source, it shows there is relatively

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little evidence of any impact of UK workers losing their jobs as a

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result of immigration. That report has not been published. Labour and

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the Lib Dems are accusing the Government sitting on it because

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they believe will be unhelpful and undermine the Government's

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rationales for tough economic curbs. Downing Street had said they are not

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sitting on it and it will be published shortly. The Home Office

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has challenged the idea that this new report in any way threatens the

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original analysis. This tells us that immigration remains a hugely

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sensitive issue for the coalition and both sides are now fighting hard

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over what the latest data shows. The Winter Paralympics get under way in

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Sochi this Friday and the British Paralympic team will be hoping for

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their first ever gold medal. 28-year-old Kelly Gallagher, from

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Bangor, Northern Ireland, is one of the team's brightest hopes. She is

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visually impaired and skis with the help of her guide, Charlotte Evans.

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As Kate Grey, herself a former Paralympian, reports, it may look

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terrifying but the pair are full of confidence. Skiing down an icy

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mountain at 60 mph is scary enough, but Kelly Gallagher does it blind.

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And with guide, Charlotte Evans, she is dreaming of Paralympic gold.

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Sometimes we are skiing so high in the mountains that it is all white.

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When Charlotte comes into my frame of view, all I see is the orange and

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I chased down the mountain. The relationship between skier and guide

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is crucial. Technology also plays its part, the pair communicate by a

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microphone on the slopes. But success depends on trust. So for the

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guide in particular there is a lot of responsibility. There's no room

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for error. It's going to fast and there's too much happening for error

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to happen, so I have to make sure I've got it down and sorted. Kelly

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and Charlotte are competing in five events in Sochi over the technical

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slalom and ski disciplines. Their recent performances suggest they

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represent Britain's best chance of a first medal on the snow in 20 years.

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She has put in a gutsy performance... Four years ago in

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Vancouver, Kelly came fourth and sixth with a different guide. But

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with Charlotte, the medals have come thick and fast. They won their first

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world title last year in Sochi and in January added another three World

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Cup gold. Now the focus is on a successful return to Russia. Every

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season has had a different goal. Sometimes we reached it and

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sometimes it's taken a bit longer, but we are feeling pretty good about

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it. We've put our heart and soul into this and will continue to do

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with that in Sochi. The challenge for the Paralympics is to continue

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the momentum established in London. For the British team, their aim is

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to follow the success of their Olympic counterparts, with Kelly

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Gallagher and Charlotte Evans leading the way. Conducting nuclear

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experiments is not something you'd normally associate with 13-year-old

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school boys. But Jamie Edwards, from Penwortham Priory Academy in

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Preston, has done exactly that, becoming the youngest person ever to

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carry out the task. Our correspondent Danny Savage was there

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and lived to tell the tale. A school classroom in Preston isn't the first

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place you'd expect to find a nuclear reactor but, yes, this is a

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13-year-old who's built one. Jamie Edwards today attempted to become

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the youngest person ever to smash two hydrogen atoms together, making

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helium through nuclear fusion. Folks, can I ask you to leave? It's

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not without its risks, so the room was cleared, although we did leave

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the camera running. And after a few minutes... I heard the geiger

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counter rapidly go up and thought, what is that? I looked over and the

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neutron counter was up of scale nearly. I thought, it must have done

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it, that is neutrons, I can't believe it! His mum watched on from

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outside, hoping practical science didn't turn into horrible histories.

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Relief that he's safe and all right and he's achieved what he wanted to

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achieve. Feeling really relieved at the moment. Radiation is measured

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with a geiger counter. A couple of Christmases ago, Jamie spent all his

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Christmas money on buying a geiger counter. He has since gone on to

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develop this project to become the youngest fusioneer in the world. The

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previous record was held by a 14-year-old in America. Jamie turns

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14 this weekend, so he had to get it done today. And for his next trick,

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Jamie plans are many Hadron Collider. Danny Savage, BBC News,

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Preston. Time for a look at the weather. We must have missed that

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class, nuclear fusion! The weather is set to change for the

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better. We've been looking back at the appalling last three months'

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weather we've had, but finally settled weather is on the way. We've

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got a big area of high pressure moving in. It will sit right across

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the UK for a good part of next week. It will be dry and at times quite

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warm. Ahead of that, we do have some rain coming. Quite misty on the

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hills. Temperatures holding up underneath that cloud but dipping

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away at the end of the night across northern Scotland and dipping for a

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time early in the night under clear skies across the south-east. At 8am

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tomorrow, it's a grey affair for Wales, south-west England and much

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of the Midlands. Outbreaks of rain in the West, a glimmer of brightness

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in the far South East. Really dull, dismal and damp across Northern

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Ireland, much of northern England, southern Scotland, too. Further

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north and you have some early brightness for the Northern

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Highlands. The temperatures close to freezing in places. The rain moves

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northwards across Scotland through the day. Turning heavy at times

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across western parts. Rain is on and off all day for Northern Ireland,

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western England and Wales. But a glimmer in the south east once

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again, where temperatures will reach 13 or 14 degrees. A brief incursion

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of cold air for many of us on Friday, but it doesn't last. Watch

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this. As we go into the weekend, lovely, warm air pushing in from the

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south across most of the UK. Temperatures in some places up into

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the mid-teens. All the signs are we've got some fine weather to come

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next week. Russian blockades are stranding

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Ukrainians in crime era, as the high-level talks to resume the

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crisis continue.

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