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an "unprecedented mystery". Three days after it disappeared, ten

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countries are now involved in the search. In Beijing, desperate

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relatives wait for news - 239 people, most of them Chinese, are

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missing. One focus is on two men travelling on stolen passports, who

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investigators say were not Asian-looking. Also tonight... The

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MP Nigel Evans goes on trial accused of indecent and sexual assault and

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rape. Britain's rapidly-changing coastline, after this winter's

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relentless storms. A special report tonight on the cost of living. I am

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near Edinburgh, and I will be asking if the squeeze on families might be

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coming to an end. And Kelly Gallagher and Charlotte

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Evans win Great Britain's first ever Paralympic gold at the Winter

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Olympics. Tonight on BBC London... Claims

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dredging the Thames would have reduced the amount of flooding this

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winter. And a promise from Gatwick airport to pay residents council tax

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if a second runway gets the go-ahead.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. It's being called an

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"unprecedented mystery". Three days after a Malaysia Airlines plane

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bound for Beijing disappeared from the radar, a massive search

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operation has failed to find any evidence at all of the plane. The

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area being searched has been widened again, with ten countries now

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helping to look for wreckage. One focus of the investigation is on two

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passengers who boarded the plane using stolen passports. Police say

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they have identified them on CCTV and described them as "not

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Asian-looking". Many of the relatives of the 239 people on board

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are waiting for news at a hotel in Beijing. From there, our

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correspondent Damian Gramaticas sent this report.

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For three days now, they have been scouring the ocean, and still

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nothing. Flight 370 has simply vanished. Dozens of ships are

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combing the sea. Every lead has proved false. An oil slick spotted

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from the area has been tested. It came from a ship. And what might

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have been adorned now cannot be found. So, no trace of the 239

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people on board, including artists, an IBM executive... For their

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families, cooped up in a Beijing hotel, the lack of definite news is

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taking a terrible toll. TRANSLATION: People are slowly

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coming to accept the awful truth, but while there is a tiny glimmer of

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hope, we are clinging to it. We just want to know what happened, he tells

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me. Investigations have led to this travel agent in Thailand. Two men

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using stolen passports bought tickets here. The agent says they

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did not request the flight, she chose it for them because it was the

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cheapest way to get to Europe. The airline says what has happened to

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its plain is a mystery, but it is still investigating. We have looked

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at the footage of the video, and the photographs. It is confirmed now

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that they are not Asian looking men. And so, the search has been

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widened. It was focusing on the sea, but it now extends across a

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suede of land, far to the west of the original flight path. The black

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box flight recorders will only emit signals for a month. Effectively,

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they have a 30 day battery life, and once that life span has gone, then

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it becomes exceedingly difficult to find what remains of this aircraft.

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In China, relatives are now applying for visas to travel to Malaysia,

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increasingly angry with the airline, their hopes fading. All of

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the weighting and uncertainty is wearing for the families. They say

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now that all they want our answers, to find out from Malaysia Airlines

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where that plane has gone, and they want all of its resources put into

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the search. With me now is our transport correspondent, Richard

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Westcott. An unprecedented mystery - planes have vanished from the radar

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before, but not for this long? What are the theories? Even former pilots

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and air investigators are saying things to me like, it is bizarre, it

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is odd. Most problems with planes will leave a trace. If all of the

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engines fail on an aircraft, it does not fall out of the sky, it can

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glide for 80 - 90 miles, giving the pilot a chance to put in a Mayday

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call. If there is a sudden depressurisation, if a window blows

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out, it will lose altitude quickly, but it will not make the plane

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disintegrate, and you will see it on radar. If a hijacker comes to

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light, there is a special code they can put in to tell everybody what is

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happening. Besides, you cannot land a plane this big anywhere without

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anybody noticing. Everything is pointing to a sudden, catastrophic,

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midair break-up. The tide and the wind could be spreading any possible

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debris far and wide. The trial of the former Deputy

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Speaker of the House of Commons Nigel Evans has started at Preston

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Crown Court. Mr Evans, who is the MP for Ribble Valley in Lancashire, is

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accused of eight counts of indecent and sexual assault, and one of rape.

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The alleged offences are said to have happened between 2002 and last

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year and involved seven men. He denies all nine charges. Danny

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Savage reports. Nigel Evans, an MP for more than 20

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years, arrived at court today talking about sport. But once he was

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inside, the subject became far more serious. The jury was told he had

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used his powerful influence to sexually assault seven young men

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over an in 11 year period. The prosecution said part of his

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influence included the ability to make or to break the careers of

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young people who would be politicians or work for those who

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govern. The QC said, the prosecution case is that the defendant, often

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when in drink... Some of the alleged assaults took

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place in the Palace of Westminster, others were here in Lancashire, some

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of them at his constituency home. One of those was reported to senior

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figures within the Conservative Party by the complainant, who wanted

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Mr Evans to resign. But he was told the timing was unfortunate, a

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general election was due, and that Mr Evans, who did not deny the

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event, would be spoken to. When running for the prestigious post of

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Deputy Speaker, Mr Evans was subsequently advised to stick to the

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company of MPs and avoid situations which could lead to gossip. He

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denies all the charges, and had this to say when he stood down after the

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allegations came to light. Winston Churchill said, when you are going

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through hell, keep going. Sage advice. And so I will see this

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through to the end. With the support of the people that means so much to

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me. The court heard several MPs will be giving evidence for the

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prosecution, including John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons.

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The trial is expected to last up to five weeks.

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A woman who alleges she was indecently assaulted by the

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publicist Max Clifford when she was a school girl has told a court she

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feared she was going to be raped. The woman, who cannot be named, was

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14 in 1966 when she said he offered her a lift, drove to an alleyway and

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"lunged" at her. Mr Clifford denies 11 allegations brought by seven

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women over a period of 18 years. Labour has pledged to fund a

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guaranteed job scheme for young unemployed people throughout the

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lifetime of the next parliament if it wins the next election. The

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scheme would apply to 18- to 24-year-olds who have been out of

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work for more than a year. The job would last six months and anyone

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turning it down would risk losing their benefits. The Conservatives

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say the costings do not add up. Our deputy political editor, James

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Landale, reports Britain's coastline has taken a battering this winter,

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with one storm after another. Alfie was on the dole, but he got some

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training at this firm in north London. Yes, you learn how to paint,

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but he also learned how to work. I was looking for work and there was

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nothing. I was just e-mailing loads of companies, and this one got back

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to me from the Jobcentre. I jumped at it. So now you are an apprentice.

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Yes, I have come a long way from being out of work for eight months,

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doing nothing. Now, I am working every day, from eight until five,

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with a job. It is the kind of experience labour hopes thousands of

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unemployed young people should have, by forcing them to take a six-month

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job or risk losing their benefits just the same rules would apply to

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thousands of older people out of work for more than two years, a

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policy which the party promised today to fund for five years. But

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paying for 200,000 temporary jobs would cost a lot of money, about ?5

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billion, and Labour would pay for it by imposing a one-year tax on

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bankers' bonuses and permanently cutting pension tax relief for those

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earning more than ?150,000. We are in the middle of another bank bonus

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round. Bonuses are going up. This is an issue of fairness, at a time when

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the economy is beginning to recover, and everybody, including young

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people out of work, should get to benefit from the recovery. Their

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problem is that Labour's promise has been spent the bank bonus tax

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before. The Tories said the Labour plan would not raise enough cash.

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You could only do it if you tried to repeat it, the banks would change

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their arrangements, so that would not work. Some fear businesses will

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struggle to create the jobs, and even if they do, the risk is that

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they will not last beyond six months. I think people understand,

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business is not charity. Businesses will need to invest in their

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business and work hard at training someone. It is not just a matter of

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taking someone on, you have to mentor them and introduce them into

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the business. For Labour, this policy is a triple whammy. They are

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hoping to create jobs, cut welfare and squeeze the rich, all at the

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same time. The question is whether one single scheme can ever be the

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solution to long-term unemployment instead of just some sustained

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economic growth? James Landale, BBC News, North London.

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Britain's coastline has taken a battering this winter, with one

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storm after another. Some areas have suffered the equivalent of seven

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years of erosion in just two months. Now the National Trust has called

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for a re-think on how Britain defends its coastline. It argues

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some locations may have to be sacrificed because the sea can no

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longer be held back. Duncan Kennedy reports.

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A Coast in crisis. This is Sussex, Birling Gap, whether just got

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bigger. Take a look at this. Here, they have seen seven years of

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erosion in two months. Good for a photo, less good for safety. This is

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another, at Hastings. Again, tonnes of rock dislodged onto the beach.

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Just like here in Bournemouth. All of it, the result of pounding by the

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waves and rain. It comes as the National Trust produces this new map

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of coastal erosion hotspots around Britain. There is a warning that

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man-made defences may no longer work in places like Orford Ness and

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Formby. We have come to rely on defences in the past which will no

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longer be a plausible option for every where in the future.

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Adaptation is something we will need to look at. This is an example of

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adapting, near Chichester. That gap in the shoreline is where the sea

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has been deliberately let in, because the defences could not cope.

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And this is how it works. Whereas the sea once stopped there on the

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beach, it is now being allowed to flow in here. In fact, it goes four

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kilometres inland to wear a new set of defences has been set up. Whereas

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all this used to be dry land, now, as you can see, the sea is in

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charge. And although that means some houses have been saved, not everyone

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agrees with it. What do you think of the idea of letting the sea in?

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Absolutely crazy. There is a lot of people live down here. They really

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ought to do something about it, try and stop the sea. Old photos show

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the relentless progress of coastal erosion. This is Sussex in 1912. The

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same spot 20 years later. And look now. The changing shape of Britain.

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Our top story this evening... The search for the missing Malaysia

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Airlines plane has been widened. Three days since it disappeared,

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there's no trace of wreckage. And still to come - Oscar Pistorius

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is physically sick as he hears details of his girlfriend's

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postmortem. Later on BBC London, the parking

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firm which forced over-67s from their jobs after initially claiming

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it could not get them insurance cover. And taking to the dance floor

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to express views about multicultural London.

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Now, is the UK economy firmly back on track? There's been some more

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good news for the Chancellor ahead of next week's budget. The British

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Chambers of Commerce says millions of workers should see their wages

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grow faster than rising prices. This week, George Alagiah is looking at

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the progress and the pitfalls of the economic road ahead. He begins

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tonight in West Lothian. Thank you and hello from Livingston.

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I'm at one of Tesco's largest distribution centres. If you are

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wondering why I am wearing a coat, it's freezing in here. Let me give

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you some idea of how big this place is. You could fit eight football

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pitches into this site. 1800 people work here. Every week, from here,

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about 4 million cases just like this get sent out to shops in Scotland,

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the North of England and Ireland. The cost of groceries matter to

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people. It affects their standard of living. So, I've been asking, what

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does it feel like now that the recovery does seem to be underway?

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I've been talking to people around here, and I began with one of the

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employees here on this site. Tom Simpson knows all about rock

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bottom. His business crashed in the financial crisis. This job at Tesco

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has been a lifeline, changing the outlook for him and his family. How

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you doing, you OK today? This is a parade that was going on when we

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were in Florida. Last year, the family went on holiday It was the

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first time in four years. This is my mum and my little brother. Susan and

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Tom work alternate day and night shifts, keeping childcare costs

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down. It's hard going but, for them, this is a time to be optimistic. Now

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there is certainly light at the end of the tunnel. I used to be in a

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really dark place, when I lost my job and was self-employed. But now

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I'm employed again. We have extra money every month. We're going on

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holiday still. The interest rate is helping with the mortgage. You

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know, that's helping us at the moment. So... We feel as if the

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recovery is happening. Next stop for me was Johnston, about an hour's

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drive west, where I heard a very different story.

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Jamie, it's George Alagiah. Nice to meet you. Jamie Caldwell has escaped

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three rounds of redundancies at his workplace. At 25, he still lives

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with his parents. It's home, but he longs to have his own life, his own

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space. Jamie, in many ways, you're fortunate, you've got a decent job?

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Yeah, I've got a decent job, but I'm still part of the working poor. I

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feel like I'm a burden on my parents and you shouldn't really feel you

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are a burden on your parents. But, you know, they're basically

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subsidising my living, in a sense. Making up for the money that I don't

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have. It's only a ten minute drive to Paisley and suburban gentility.

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By any standards, Zhou and Frank are well off and they now earn too much

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to qualify for child benefit. But they say pay freezes have left them

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worse off. Four years ago when we were doing our weekly grocery

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shopping, it was about ?50. Now it's about ?70 or ?80, easily. We

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actually find our living standard is gradually dropping, as the economy

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recovers. So, if the people along Scotland 's M8, linking east to

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west, are anything to go by, the recovery means very different things

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to different people. Now if today's report about wages

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and the cost of living proves right, families should be feeling the

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effects in their household budgets by the summer. Our chief economics

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correspondent Hugh Pym has been looking at the numbers to see what's

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happened to household incomes in the last few years. He's sent this

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report from Glasgow. Coming up for air, that is what

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anyone who hasn't hazmat Charvet wage rise in recent years and had to

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cope with rapidly rising living costs is hoping happens soon. For

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some, it has been a long struggle to stay afloat. The squeeze on living

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standards has been one of the big economic themes since the recession.

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Before the downturn, average earnings were higher than the cost

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of living increases, then the trend reversed, putting a lot of pressure

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on consumers. The gap has begun to narrow, with many economists

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expecting it to close completely later in the year. That means the

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cost of living outlook by the end of 2014 may well be better than it has

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been for a while. We are seeing employment growing, so employers are

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willing to pay more. We are seeing inflation being subdued, so those

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two factors together are feeding through to probably rising real

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wages for the first time in some considerable time. That's got to be

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a good outcome for 2014. So, what has happened to incomes, after

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taking into account changes in taxes and benefits and inflation?

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According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a have sold an

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average income will receive 32 thousand ?500 in its current

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financial year, down just over 2100. Income is increasing again, open

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just under ?200 in the coming year. Forecasters are saying it, but

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forecasters will want to see the reality. Inflation predictions can

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be thrown out by unexpected events such as a jumping oil prices. The

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cost of living issue is sure to remain high on the agenda.

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Just one other fact for you. In the last hour, well we have been a

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year, 45 trucks have left the depot. Well, that's all from

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Livingston. Tomorrow we'll be on Merseyside, where I'll be asking if

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Britain is experiencing the right kind of recovery. From the scene

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here, goodbye. The South African Olympian Oscar

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Pistorius was physically sick a number of times in court today as

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graphic detail was heard about the postmortem carried out on his

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girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The judge banned the media from

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broadcasting the evidence live because it was feared it may cause

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undue distress. Oscar Pistorius, who says he mistook Reeva Steenkamp for

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a burglar, denies murdering her on Valentine's Day last year.

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Four days, this trial has been about what Oscar Pistorius did or didn't

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do. Today, the focus shifted to his victim, Reeva Steenkamp. The

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evidence presented in court so gruesome, the live cameras were

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switched off. I chose at the outset to indicate to the court that I

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would not be comfortable in the streaming of my evidence due to the

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very nature thereof. Oscar Pistorius listened in silence as the State

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pathologist began to describe three devastating injuries to her head,

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arm and pelvis. The bullets were specially designed to break upon

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impact, he said, causing maximum tissue damage. Meters away,

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Pistorius slumped forwards and began to retch loudly and repeatedly

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during more than power of testimony. From today's graphic

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testimony, the prosecution are likely to focus on the fact that

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Reeva Steenkamp had eaten a meal sometime after midnight, about two

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hours before she died. Oscar Pistorius, in his evidence last

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year, made no mention of that. Could that mean they were both awake,

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later, and perhaps browing as the prosecution claims? -- browing. A

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badly shaken Pistorius will have his chance to answer that in the weeks

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ahead. A man who says he took part in the attack on PC Keith Blake

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clock in the Broadwater farm riots in north London in 1985 has

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described how the officer killed in a ball screamed for help as he was

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attacked by a frenzied mob. The witness told the jury he saw

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Nicholas Jacobs stabbed a constable with a machete. Mr Jacobs, 16 at the

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time, denies murder. The former Prime Minister Gordon

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Brown has been adding his voice to the debate on Scottish independence.

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Speaking in Glasgow, Mr Brown said the Scottish Parliament should be

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given more powers, including greater control over income tax, as a way of

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creating a partnership of equals between Scotland and the rest of the

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UK. A 23-year-old serving soldier has been arrested on suspicion of

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murder after a body was found at an army barracks in Shropshire. The

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dead man has been named as 32-year-old Corporal Jeffrey

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McNeill. He was also serving with the First Battalion, the Royal Irish

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Regiment. His body was found inside a Golding at Clyde barracks on

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Saturday morning. Great Britain's won its first ever

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Paralympic Gold medal at the Winter Olympic. The skier Kelly Gallagher,

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who's visually impaired, and her guide Charlotte Evans have made

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history by winning the Super G event in Sochi. The 28-year-old from

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County Down, who didn't take up skiing until she was 17, said the

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race was nerve-wracking but they were delighted with their medal.

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She is surely the definition of delight. 27-year-old Kelly

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Gallagher, happy and glorious indeed. Alongside her, guide

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Charlotte Evans, Britain's first-ever Winter Paralympic

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champions, after a triumph of talent, trust and teamwork.

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Gallagher, who was born with a visual impairment, can only see

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Evans's orange bib on the slopes and hear her guidance via headset. But,

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nervously, she hurtled down the mountain at nearly 90 kph.

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The pair had been tipped for a medal in Sochi. But in Saturday's downhill

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they finished last and in tears. Today, what a contrast. Kelly

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Gallagher sets the pace! The first pair down, they'd clocked a testing

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target. The question now, could anyone beat it? Well, their own

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team-mates came close. Jade Etherington and Caroline Powell

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claiming bronze to go with their silver on Saturday. But British gold

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was just around the corner. She's missed the gate! When the final pair

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failed to finish, Gallagher and Evans had done it. We've always been

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second and third, all the time. This season, we started winning more

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races and stuff. So today we got to stand in the centre. And, with

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another British girl on the podium, Caroline and Jade - like, this is

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cool. We've worked so hard for this and it's finally come, we've just

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won gold. For Gallagher, cheered on by her mum, Margaret, it was also

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the most poignant of victories. She did it for her daddy. We lost her

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daddy a year and a half ago. So it was more emotional because of that

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as well. But she did us all proud, so did Charlotte, bringing her down

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safe. I'm just so happy. And with very good reason. For the first time

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in Paralympic or Olympic history, British champions on snow, on a day

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when finally, the white stuff turned to gold.

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Lets have a look at the weather now. Lots of amazing sunshine at the

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moment? That's right, dry as well. That sort of weather is set to stay

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for this week. High pressure has spent the day building in across the

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UK. Of course, it's never that straightforward. If you've been

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close to this decaying weather front with the cloud affecting parts of

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East Anglia in particular, your day has been very different compared to

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yesterday. You have been 12 degrees lower than yesterday. On top of

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that, we have seen the nagging north-easterly wind as well. That

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area of cloud will stay with us tonight. If you are underneath

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that, it may expand its coverage little bit and you'll avoid a

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frost. Parts of south-west England, Wales, maybe later in the night East

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Anglia will see frost. Across northern England, Scotland and

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Northern Ireland, temperatures close to freezing for frost and patchy fog

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as well, Northern Ireland in particular. With those areas of high

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pressure tomorrow, those letters are important, dry. The northern part of

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the UK will see the best of it. We still have the area to the south

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with the breeze, additionally the Bristol Channel and southwards. This

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is how it looks at three o'clock in the afternoon. Northern Ireland,

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some of the fog, late morning before it clears. You have sunshine

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replacing it. Northern England, sunny spells. It feels warm and that

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sunshine, even though temperatures are not far from normal. Underneath

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the cloud with the breeze, it doesn't feel too special. The sting

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and, including London. Some sunny spells for the far south-west. That

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is how it looks tomorrow afternoon, for the next few days you can't bank

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on the sunshine. There will be some fog around to start the day. It

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always feels warmest when you've got the blue sky. If you are clear at

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night, it will be chilly enough for a touch of frost. The most

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significant feature of the weather, dry. No storms in the forecast. Our

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weather can be like this! A reminder of the main stories: The

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search for the missing Malaysia airlines plane has widened, three

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days after it disappeared. There is still no trace of any wreckage. And

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the MP Nigel Evans has gone on trial, accused of indecent and

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sexual assault and rape.

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