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A warning to the Police Federation from the Home Secretary - reform, or

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we'll impose change. Teresa May tells officers in England and Wales

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it's time to prove to the public that they're prepared to change. I

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want you to show them that you have the best interests of the police and

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the public at heart. Tonight, the federation says it will accept

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reforms. We'll have the latest. Also tonight: Prince Charles is reported

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to have drawn comparisons between Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine,

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and Nazi Germany. The families of the missing British sailors wait for

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news, as an RAF aircraft is sent to join the search in the Atlantic.

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Millions of eBay customers are told to change their passwords after a

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database was hacked. And making waves - Britain's first artificial

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surfing lake is to be built in north Wales.

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On BBC London: The mother stabbed to death by her ex-partner. She'd

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warned police about him just days before. And allegations of

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widespread cheating in exams amongst London's paramedics. An

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investigation's underway. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. The Home Secretary Theresa May has made an

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uncompromising speech to the Police Federation. She warned the union,

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which represents rank and file officers in England and Wales, that

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if it doesn't reform, the Government will impose change. And she

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announced that public funding, which currently stands at nearly ?200,000

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a year, is to be withdrawn. In the last few minutes, the Federation has

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agreed on the need for reforms. Our home affairs correspondent Matt

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Prodger reports from Federation's conference in Bournemouth.

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She is a Home Secretary as famous for her shoes as she is for putting

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her foot down. She began by praising the police as the bravest, the best

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in the world. And then she pulled the rug from beneath them. But when

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the Federation is sitting on vast reserves, worth tens of millions of

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pounds, it is in receipt of public funds to pay for the salaries and

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expenses of the chairman, General Secretary and Treasurer, we have

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already said that we would reduce this spending, but I can announce

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today that this funding will be stopped altogether. That's not all.

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She's ending the Federation membership of the lease offices by

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default. They will have to opt in to join. -- police officers. The Fed

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will be forced to open up its accounts and, for the first time,

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provide documents under freedom of information legislation. The

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Federation is the closest thing to the trade union that the police have

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got. But it is a creation of Government. After accusations about

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bullying, hidden finances and dodgy political campaigns, the Government

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has taken the first step of imposing change. Most of the delegates left

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in stunned silence. What do you think of Theresa May's speech?

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Others voiced their fury. I felt like I was one of the naughty

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schoolboys, getting the biggest telling off by the headmistress. I

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felt I had the biggest kicking I have had in the police service. The

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Government, in effect, pre-empted a series of changes recommended by

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this man, which the Federation itself only agreed to later in the

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day. I was a bit surprised, I wasn't expecting it. What I said to the

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Federation today was that the best response to the recommendations is

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to implement my report, to show the Home Secretary that view, the

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Federation, are really on the side of reform and, if possible, proved

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the Home Secretary wrong. Labour accused the Home Secretary of simply

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looking for headlines. She certainly found them today.

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Our home affairs correspondent Jim Kelly is with me. How significant is

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this speech? Highly significant. The fact that the delegates in

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Bournemouth voted for this package of reforms this evening shows that

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Theresa May got her message across. In previous years, she has been met

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by abuse, jeers, hostile banners. These were rank and file officers

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that were furious that a Conservative Home Secretary, the

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party of law and order, traditionally on the side of the

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police, she was driving through a package of reforms including

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reductions in numbers, changes to pensions, pay and conditions. This

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year, it seemed the whole dynamic of the relationship had changed. As we

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were hearing, the Police Federation has been mired in controversy now

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for the last couple of years. Plebgate, accused of having bloated

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coffers, Lien, a whole tranche of complaints. You felt that she was

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addressing a badly wounded organisation and she basically let

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them have it. This is all part of her campaign to transform the

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policing landscape. It looks as though she is set to be remembered

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as the Home Secretary who did something here predecessors bulk

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that, she took on the police. The Prince of Wales is reported to

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have criticised the Russian president,Vladimir Putin, appearing

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to draw a comparison between Russia's actions in Ukraine and

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Germany under the Nazis. The Prince is thought to have mentioned Mr

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Putin after hearing the experiences of a woman who fled Germany in 1939,

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and lost members of her family in the Holocaust. Clarence House said

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it wouldn't comment on a private conversation. Our Royal

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Correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. It is a visit packed with

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more than 40 engagements. This was Charles today. Literally hundreds of

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brief conversations with strangers. On Monday, the Prince was in

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Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was there that he met Marianne Ferguson. She

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told him how, as a child, she and her family had lived in the city of

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Danzig between Germany and Poland. They were Jewish and fled for their

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lives, head of the invasion of the Nazis and their leader, Adolph

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Hitler, an invasion that led to the Second World War. In his

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conversation, over a cup of tea, Prince Charles evidently drew a

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comparison between what the Nazis did in Europe then and what the

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Russians, under Vladimir Putin, are doing now in Ukraine. The precise

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words are disputed. A Daily Mail reporter who was present, that is

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hurt behind the pillar, said the prince said, in relation to Ukraine,

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and now Vladimir Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler. Charles

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has met Vladimir Putin several times in the past. In a couple of weeks

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they will both be attending ceremonies to mark the 70th

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anniversary of D-day. Any comparison between Vladimir Putin and Hitler

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will be seen as the Russian leadership as deeply offensive. You

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can't be much more insulting about a Russian van comparing them to

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Hitler. Hitler, of course, killed 26 million Russians. I suspect,

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privately, he will be rather angered by it. Here, political leaders are

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divided over the remarks. The Deputy Prime Minister said that the Prince

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was entitled to say what you did. I think Prince Charles is able, I

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would have thought, to be able to express himself. I don't know

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exactly what he did or did not say in that conversation, because he

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thought it was a private conversation. The Leader of the

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Opposition also said he had a point. I think he has got a point about

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President Putin's actions. I think he is entitled to say there are real

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concerns about that. Nigel Farage said that the Prince should keep

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quiet. Sometimes there are issues that it might be better that elected

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governments dealt with. Interventions by Charles has

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certainly raised eyebrows before. As he moves ever closer to the throne,

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they pose obvious risks, as the Prince knows. One point of view is

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that Charles was merely articulating what many people have said in

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private. The question is whether it was wise for the future king of the

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United Kingdom to share such views with a complete stranger. Or might

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it now be more prudent for him to follow more closely the example of

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his mother? An RAF plane has now joined the

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search for the four British sailors missing in the Atlantic. The 40-foot

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Cheeki Rafiki was sailing back to the UK from a regatta in Antigua

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when it got into difficulties six days ago. The US Coast Guard resumed

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its search yesterday. The sailors' families say they are hopeful that

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the men will be found. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy has

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more. 9am, the start of another testing

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day for the families of the four missing men. This is the home of

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James Male in Romsey, where the dining room has become an Ops room.

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A place to funnel social media and the meagre bytes of information. In

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the kitchen, Lorraine keeps on keeping them going. Sustenance, in

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the search for her son. Waiting is horrible, isn't it? We'll hear

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something soon, we know that much. Dad Graham has become the public

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face of the family, as well as the key driver of the mood of optimism.

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The object is to bring those boys back. Now we know it's happening,

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it's taken some of the stress off, in some respects. But of course the

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stress now is back on. This search has to work and it's going to find

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them. His son, James, who is 22 and his friends, Andrew Bridge, Steven

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Warren and Paul Goslin went missing while crossing the Atlantic. For the

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families, like this one here, this has now gone on for six days. Most

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are fighting exhaustion and trying to stay optimistic, with little or

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no news about their loved ones. That includes the family of Andrew

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Bridge, their home in Surrey, where photos, not facts are all they have

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to cling to. He is very giving and loving. It is all coming back to us

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now. We are waiting for him. In Somerset, the family of Steve Warren

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are also filling their waiting hours, trying to keep his image, his

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absence, in the public's mind. You can't eat, you can't sleep, your

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stomach is going over. It's awful. It's like living in a nightmare,

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really. The search for the men of the Cheeki Rafiki is now enormous,

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with nearly 3000 square miles covered since the operation

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restarted yesterday. Three American aircraft have been joined by an RAF

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Hercules, as well as six merchant ships. The men may be missing, but

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they are not forgotten, and that will provide comfort in four British

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homes tonight. The jury at the inquests into the

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deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at Hillsborough has been shown a

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sequence of videos to explain how the tragedy unfolded 25 years ago.

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Some of the footage, which includes CCTV and police video, has never

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been broadcast before. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is in

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Warrington. Yes, some of the footage shown in

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court today has been used to identify a large number of the foot

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all fans who died at Hillsborough, in some cases, depicting them alive

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for the last time before they were later discovered as casualties. Some

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of the relatives of the 96 who died were in court today, to watch that

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footage. They were told they may leave the room if they were finding

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it too difficult, and some viewers may find some of the footage in my

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report distressing. Hillsborough was a disaster captured

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on camera. More than 2000 clips of video were recorded by the police,

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the BBC and on CCTV. Some of it has never been broadcast for. Today, the

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jury saw for themselves images of the tragedy as it unfolded. At two

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o'clock, one hour before kick-off, the police can be seen looking down

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from the upper tier onto the crowd which can be seen on the standing

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area below. 49 minutes later, this BBC footage shows the same

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terraces, which were split into fenced pens. The jury was told some

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of the funds shown here are those who later died. -- fun the

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about 2000 fans at estimated to enter the ground, a significant

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number heading towards the terraces. Just before three o'clock, the FA

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Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest kicked off. Two

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minutes later, fans on this footage can be seen climbing over the

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perimeter footage onto the pitch. The appearance and condition of the

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fans was mentioned to the jury. After five minutes of play, the

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match was stopped. With no football to film, the cameras kept rolling,

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showing advertising hoardings being used as makeshift stretchers to

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carry the injured and those who had died. Tomorrow, the court will hear

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evidence about the stadium from a structural engineer. On Friday, the

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jury will be taken from here in Warrington to Sheffield, to see the

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football ground for themselves. Shopping in supermarkets and on the

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High Street is booming, according to new figures which show the strongest

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annual rise in UK retail sales for ten years. Sales grew by nearly 7%

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in April, compared with the same month last year, and it's food

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shopping that's playing a big part. Our economics editor Robert Peston

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has been looking at the numbers. That great British pastime, handing

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over cash to shopkeepers. In recent weeks, we have started, perhaps, to

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go a bit bonkers again. Full retail sales, it is apparently back to the

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boom of a decade ago. In April, the amount of stuff we bought rose 69%,

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compared to the same time last year. That is the fastest growth since May

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2004. This was no blip. In the latest three-month period, the rate

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of growth was 5% and it was a strong 5.5%, excluding fuel. One happy

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shopkeeper is the boss of John Lewis in central London. Have you been

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taken by surprise by the strength of your sales? We monitor our sales

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regularly. We know that we are 8.8% ahead, year-on-year, since the

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beginning of the trading year. Do you think you can keep this up,

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incoming week Sandman's Girl is to we are cautiously optimistic,

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fashion is doing well, home is improving and electronics is doing

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well. We British love to shop, but you can have too much of a good

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thing. If the Bank of England was to conclude we are spending recklessly,

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spending money we can't afford, spending too much, too fast, they

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could push up interest rates, push up the cost of money to slow us

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down. They also seem to be spending in the sunshine in Newcastle. What

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is a former member of the Bank of England committee which sets

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interest rates think the bank should do? I think the longer this period

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of strong growth goes on, the more it becomes clear that having a base

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level of interest rate at 0.5%, which is what we have, is not

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appropriate for the UK economy. The Bank of England needs to move

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interest rates up. The key thing is to make sure they do it gradually,

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rather than a sharp hike. There was also further evidence of potential

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overheating in the mortgage market, as the Council of mortgage lenders

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reported a 36% year-on-year rise in gross mortgage line Lending, defying

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the Bank of England assessment that the pace of lending for house

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purchases could be slowing down. Investors reacted by betting that

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the Bank of England will raise interest rates earlier than they

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have been thinking, perhaps as soon as the autumn. Minutes of the last

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Bank of England meeting shows that some members think that the rates

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may have to rise soon. If we start to believe that interest rates are

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on the rise, perhaps we will become more cautious in spending. But let's

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hope not so cautious as to stymie economic recovery. Our top story

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this evening: The Police Federation accepts a raft of reforms after the

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Home Secretary told the union it's time for change.

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And still to come: England's World Cup squad in training for what their

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manager calls an "incredible adventure".

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Later on BBC London: Royal Mail says it's to start delivering parcels to

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Londoners on Sundays - a response to the boom in internet shopping.

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Plus the new squeeze on mortgages and what it means for the London

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housing Market. People across Europe start going to

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the polls tomorrow for the European Elections. Voting over the coming

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days will decide 751 members of the European Parliament. Of those, 73

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are British - the allocation is based on population size. In total,

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MEPs represent the interests of 500 million people. Our Brussels

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Correspondent, Matthew Price, has been on a tour of the European

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Parliament with students from the UK.

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All aboard for the European Parliament. Perhaps not every

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teenager's destination of choice. What do you think is more relevant

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to you, Parliament in Westminster or parliament here in Brussels?

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Parliament in Westminster, just because it's more related.

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Definitely in Britain. I suppose Britain, really because that is

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where I live. That's my base, but this is equally has a massive effect

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on us, I suppose. Time then to find out how much of an effect. Some say

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the parliament dictates terms to Britain. Others say this is the only

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democratically elected part of the union. So this is rather ugly

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building in the centre of Brussels is the European Parliament. Let's go

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on a tour. This is where the MEPs have their offices. MEPs from 28

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different countries. This is one of the committee rooms where MEPs

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discuss all sorts of things which affect the European Union in 24

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different languages. And this is called the Hemi circle, it's one of

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the places where MEPs debate and vote on legislation that affects

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everybody across the EU. Which is why this lot, studying international

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business, chose to come here. The European Parliament works alongside

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the EU's 28 national governments. The MEPs who work here help to draw

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up EU legislation. It seems quite complicated, the process that they

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have to go through for legislation. Do you understand the process?

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Fairly, yes. But I'll probably do a bit more research when I get home.

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It's not often you get into the main hall where the European Parliament

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make all the big decisions that can affect the whole continent. Chicken

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and 50 euros. Why? Well, both are a good illustration of the influence

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some MEPs have. For instance, a British MEP was instrumental in

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bringing about better food safety standards in the last few years.

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Another key in lowering bankers' bonuses. Love it or loathe it, this

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Parliament plays a big part in all our lives. Like most of us, the

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students don't fully understand how this lace works, but tomorrow some

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of them will vote for the first time and in a European election.

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And there's more on the European and local elections on our website. You

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can access it on your mobile, tablet, or

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Millions of eBay customers are being advised to change their passwords

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after hackers gained access to a key database. The online marketplace,

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which has nearly 130 million registered users worldwide, says

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there's no evidence of any unauthorised activity on the site.

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Our Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, is here.

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It sounds very serious, what is happening? Well this looks like a

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very serious breach of eBay's defences. The company says the

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hackers didn't get hold any financial information but they did

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get quite a lot of other data. So amongst the data that's been put at

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risk is encrypted passwords. The question there is could the hackers

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actually break the code? They have also got people's home addresses -

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one key piece of information of course, along with their date of

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birth. If you put all of that information together, people could

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be at risk of identity theft. EBay have asked people to change their

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passwords but how did they get in? They got access to some key

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employees passwords and that let them into the company. They will be

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scratching its head and working out how to shore up its defences to make

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sure it does not happen again. The England manager, Roy Hodgson,

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said today that preparations for the World Cup are going as well as he

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could possibly have hoped. The England squad is continuing training

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in its warm weather camp in the Algarve in advance of what Hodgson

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described as an "incredible adventure". Our chief sports

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correspondent, Dan Roan, reports from Portugal. This may be the start

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of their final World Cup reparations, but this England team

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makes time for family as well as family. Wayne Rooney with his son

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today in Portugal. Last week, Roy Hodgson named one of the youngest

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England squads and it seems it is one of the most relaxed. There is a

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tremendous feeling of enthusiasm and energy because they are so happy

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they are taking part in this incredible adventure and they will

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be leading the way for England in the next few weeks. Roy Hodgson and

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his squad are aware that the work they put in here could be crucial

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when it really matters up the World Cup. They will stay in the Algarve

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for the rest of the week, but it is only the first stage in their

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build-up to Brazil. Next week, they play a friendly against her room at

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Wembley. They then had to Miami and two warm up games against Aqua does

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and one juror. Then they travel to Brazil for their match against Italy

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on June the 14th. England have a video analyst, and preparation is

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underway off the pitch as well as on it. No stone is left unturned and

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the manager will make sure we are as well prepared as we can be for every

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game. England hope that with just three and a half weeks left before

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their opening match, practice makes perfect. For now, it appears a happy

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camper. We've heard of artificial ski slopes

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but now the UK is going to have its first artificial surfing lake.

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Revolutionary engineering is being used to build a giant wave lagoon

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the size of three football pitches, in the mountains of North Wales. Our

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correspondent, Claire Marshall, has been to the Spanish city of San

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Sebastian, where a rather smaller prototype of the lake has been

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built. Riding the energy of the ocean takes

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exceptional skill. Every surfer has to learn somewhere, so could it be

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here on this industrial wasteland in the Welsh mountains? Well, work has

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just started on an inland surf lake, the first in Britain and the first

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of its type in the world. We went to northern Spain to see the prototype.

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The engineering is unique and secret. It's taken a decade to

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develop. An underwater foil operates like a snow plough, pushing the wave

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up and out. Were able to create perfect waves. Every time? Every

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time. This could even make surfing an Olympic sport. You are watching

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the coat of the British surf team. To be able to come and surf a wave

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every minute, it's going to be a huge benefit. Not just to UK surfers

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but anybody who wants to improve their surfing anywhere in the world.

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Off the coast of Portugal earlier this year, see this spec on one of

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the biggest waves ever ridden? It's Andrew Cotton. His day job - a

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lifeguard in North Devon. So what does he think? It's a great way to

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get people into surfing. And for surfers to enjoy when it's flat. But

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nothing can take over from actually being in the ocean and that's what

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surfing is about. I have surfed a bit at home. I've never tried

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anything like this. Going to give it a go. There are more waves at the

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push of a button, so it doesn't matter how often you fall off.

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Really fun. Really difficult, but really fun. Fancy having a go? The

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first lagoon opens in Britain next spring.

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I don't think I would be as good as her.

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Time for a look at the weather. We have weather warnings out for

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heavy rain. It is lurking over the other side of the Channel and is

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beginning to move north and west. It could be torrential. Thunder in the

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mix and setting in later this evening and in the early hours of

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this morning. That is when these livid colours appear and it could

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cause some disruption. You could be kept awake by the temperatures in

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the night. Cooler across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Largely dry

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across northern parts. The rain beginning to ease away from

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south-west England in the morning. Heavy bursts across Wales and the

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West Midlands. But the West Midlands should be fine and warm. The rain

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heavy enough to cause problems across the North of England. In

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Scotland, cloudy and also in Northern Ireland. A cool breeze

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across Scotland blowing in from the North or North East. Make cooler day

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tomorrow. The rain really sets in along with the breeze. Picking up

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across north-west Scotland and picking up across the East of

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England. The sun will break through but that will encourage heavy

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showers in the afternoon. Some of them could be thundery. Chilly in

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northern areas, 11 or 12 degrees at best. We keep the same temperature

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grading going into Friday. Cooler across northern parts, some showers

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around. There will be heavy showers into the weekend. Some sunshine in

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between and when the sun breaks through, it should feel warm. A bit

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unsettled for the rest of the week. A reminder of our main story: the

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Police Federation has accepted a raft of reforms.

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Prince Charles is reported to have drawn comparisons between Vladimir

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Putin's That's all from the BBC News at Six.

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