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Tonight at Six... Verdicts in the phone-hacking trial from the jury at

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the Old Bailey. phone-hacking trial from the jury at

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The former editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson is found guilty

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of conspiracy to hack phones. Another former editor and News

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International executive, Rebekah Brooks, walks free from court

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cleared on all charges. Today the Prime Minister, who hired

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Coulson as his press spokesman knowing there'd been claims about

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hacking, said sorry. We'll be looking at the verdicts and

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-- it was a bad decision and I am sorry about that. We will be looking

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at products and hearing from phone hacking victims.

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As fighting continues in Iraq rebels tell the BBC they expect to reach

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Baghdad within a month. And the Queen visits one of

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Belfast's most notorious jails with two former inmates.

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The final match for England against Costa Rica as their World Cup

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campaign comes to an end. And coming up on BBC London...

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The Government names scores of language schools it says are

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involved in student visa fraud. And the vulnerable children who are

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"abhorently failed". New calls to overhaul the social care system.

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Good evening. The former editor of the News of the

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World Andy Coulson has been found guilty of plotting to hack phones.

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It follows an eight month-long trial which exposed the workings

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of what was Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, and to

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which Hollywood stars and former Cabinet ministers gave evidence.

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Mr Coulson, who went on to become the Prime Minister's official

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spokesman, was found guilty of conspiring to intercept voicemails.

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The former News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, who was

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also Coulson's former lover, was cleared of four charges including

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hacking voicemails and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

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One of the most high profile victims was the murdered school girl, Milly

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Dowler, whose mobile phone was hacked by the News of the World.

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The Prime Minister has said he took "full responsibility for employing

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Andy Coulson". David Cameron said he was

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"extremely sorry", and admitted it was "the wrong decision".

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Our political editor, Nick Robinson, looks now at the verdicts.

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He walked into court 12 of the Old Bailey a free man. Just before

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noon, the one-time friend and adviser of a Prime Minister, learn

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his fate. Andy Coulson has been found guilty. Found not guilty, his

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former boss and lover, Rebekah Brooks, who lots -- left court for a

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good along with her husband, PA and other senior staff from use of the

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World. All this after 130 dramatic days of evidence about the biggest

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media scandal in years. The scene of the crime, the long abandoned

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newsroom of what was once Britain's top-selling paper, the News of the

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World. The paper, long since closed, its home demolished after it was

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revealed what happened here - the systematic hacking of the phones of

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celebrities, politicians and those whose lives had already been

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blighted by terrible crimes. The couple who ran the paper, Andy

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Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, were indeed a couple - not just

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colleagues, but lovers. They would become two of the most powerful

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people in Britain. She, a regular visitor to Number Ten, a close

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friend of the man who became prime and Vista. He, hired on her advice

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to connect the Tories to the part of the electorate they struggled to

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reach. The man who usually stayed in the shadows has lost not just his

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careers and reputation, the shadows has lost not just his

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careers and but his liberty as well. Today he has forced the Prime

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Minister into making a humiliating apology. I asked him whether he knew

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about phone hacking and we accept that his assurances, and that was

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the basis on which I employed him. I was clear I was giving someone a

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second chance. He had resigned from the News of the World because of

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what happened there. I accepted his assurances and gave him a job. It

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was a second chance and it turns out to be a bad decision and I am

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extremely sorry about that. Phone hacking was easy backs to a basic

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security weakness or many mobile phones. To hear on a -- a voice mail

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or you need is a four digit pin code and often it is a default setting or

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possible to guess, or possible to purchase. With the right digit

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Private messages suddenly become public will stop film stars, sports

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stars, police officers, politicians, rival journalists - the

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News of the World hacked into the private affairs of anyone who might

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provide a story. Most shockingly, perhaps, the mobile phone of the

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murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was hacked. She was not the only murder

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victim to have her phone messages intercepted. We now know that a

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woman who was shot dead had her messages hacked in the hours after

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her killing. Did they know we were doing that on that day? It felt like

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such an intrusion into a really private grief moment. The jury

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decided today that Andy Coulson didn't just know about, but

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sanctioned the hacking. Amongst the evidence that pointed to his guilt

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was as e-mail concerning the reality TV star Calum Best, in which Colson

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was as e-mail concerning the reality seen as a huge cat when he was first

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hired by the Tories. The former tabloid editor and I am an with

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connections to Rupert Murdoch, he quit when phone hacking

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connections to Rupert Murdoch, he revealed at the News

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connections to Rupert Murdoch, he but that, we were told,

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connections to Rupert Murdoch, he and all in the past. Wasn't it? Do

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connections to Rupert Murdoch, he you have any regrets? When he walked

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out of his job at Number Ten he insisted he knew nothing. Labour

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said the Prime Minister ignored every flashing light. We now know he

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brought a criminal into the heart of Downing Street. David Cameron was

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warned about Andy Coulson. The evidence mounted against Andy

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Coulson. David Cameron must have had his suspicions about Andy Coulson.

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And yet, he refused to act. his suspicions about Andy Coulson.

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And yet, he refused to Tonight, a man who helped get his boss into

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Number Ten faces the prospect of a life in prison why is the Prime

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Minister is left making his plea in the Court of the public opinion.

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Apologies for the flashing images on that report.

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looks now at the verdicts. The victims of phone hacking are

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thought to run into their thousands. Among them was the former

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Home Secretary, David Blunkett. In an exclusive interview he spoke

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to our Home Editor, Mark Easton about the devastating

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impact it had on his life. I can only put it this way -

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I came as close as anyone could ever come to having a breakdown without

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actually having one. At his Sheffield constituency

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office, David Blunkett has spoken for the first time

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about what he calls the terrible hurt phone hacking inflicted on him,

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his family and his friends. The honest truth is, I don't know

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how I managed to continue doing the job in the way I did.

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I actually think it probably took me two years to really recover.

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The News of the World illegally intercepted hundreds of private

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messages Mr Blunkett had left on phones belonging to close friends,

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intimate voice mails that revealed an affair and would ultimately

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destroy his Cabinet career. It was devastating in terms

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of my life's work. I had given everything to become

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in a position to make a difference to people's lives, to be a Cabinet

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member, to be able to carry out the things I wanted to do.

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I can't believe now how I managed to cope.

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David Blunkett had defied blindness, family tragedy and poverty to

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become a key figure in Tony Blair's New Labour government.

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Then, in 2004, a few days ahead of the News of the World revelations,

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the paper's editor, Andy Coulson, travelled to Sheffield to confront

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the Home Secretary about his affair. I put a tape recorder on the table.

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I said, I'm going to record this because it's so crucial.

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Listening to that conversation, it was clear that you were really

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bewildered as to how Andy Coulson could possibly be so sure

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about the affair. You start to suspect that someone

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has, to put it in the pejorative, betrayed you.

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They believe you might have done it. It sours relationships to

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a terrible degree, which then comes back as a consequence later,

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as it did in my case. The scandal wounded the

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Home Secretary so severely, he was forced to resign.

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Less than a year later he left government for a second time.

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Although unconnected, once again phone hacking by News

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of the World was a feature of a media storm that finally

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destroyed his Cabinet career. The hyenas of the press, he said,

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had finished him off. I call them hyenas

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because it was quite clear that the pack were after me.

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People have said to me, why aren't you bitter?

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And the reason is, you can't send bitterness like an e-mail.

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It erodes you from the inside. The former Home Secretary says

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the law should be changed to protect victims like him

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and those close to him from having to face a repeat of the

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original intrusion in open court. Privacy has been breached

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for a second time. Double victim?

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Double victim and in the end, the only consolation we all have is

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that justice has been done. David Blunkett, the former Home

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Secretary, talking to Mark Easton. What more do we know about how

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journalists at News of the World hacked into the phones of other

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people and how deeply ingrained was a? Our home affairs correspondent

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now reports. This used to be a powerhouse of tabloid journalism.

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But this place, once the News of the World's newsroom, was where the

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phone hacking conspiracy grew into a national scandal driven by the

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pressure to break sensational stories. The News of the World

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contract it at the hacking to Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator.

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They played him -- paid him hundreds of thousands of pounds. In 2006,

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police raided this office in South London and inside, they found a

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massive haul of evidence indicating phone hacking on an industrial

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scale. This is the former office of Glenn Mulcaire. He was very

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organised. He set out a strategy on whiteboards. Welcome to go to

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network services, Helensburgh in, tan -- can I take your name? He had

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a special trick when targets change their number. I need to do a voice

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mail reset. He is calling a voice mail -- phone network employee to

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reset a voice mail pin number. Bethany Usher was a young News of

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the World reporter who was often asked to hand over the numbers of

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those she had interviewed. I was not in a position to question what they

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were asking. I would never say, why do you want this number? I would

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just give it to them will stop do you suspect it might have been to

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use it for phone hacking? With hindsight, yes. That makes me angry.

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There were people who had an interview with me because they

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trusted in me and the idea that they would have hacked their phone is

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sickening. Having access to the voice mail secrets of the stars only

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helps the paper so much. Journalists could never admit how they got the

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information but it helped to prove stories were true. Former reporter

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Matt Driscoll did not see evidence of hacking but says accuracy was

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surprisingly important. It is a big myth that tabloids were reckless

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with the information for their story. The News of the World was all

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about making sure that in a few months time that it was not denied

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and also that there was not a legal letter that was going to cost the

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paper a lot of money. Andy Coulson's was not the only

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conviction. Dan Evans admitted hacking phones. James weather up and

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Neville fell back all pleaded guilty as well. So much for those thinking

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that Clive Goodman was the rogue reporter. An editor who unwittingly

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agreed payments was acquitted today and thanked his lawyers. Most

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remarkable and it is to them I owe a huge and injuring thanks for the

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result, the unanimous verdict, of the jury today. Thank you. Rebekah

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Brooks may have been cleared but more journalists face trial next

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year as the multi-million pound police

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year as the multi-million pound investigation into the dark arts of

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the tabloids continues. Secretary, talking to Mark Easton.

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Our Political Editor Nick Robinson is in Westminster for us now, Nick.

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Where does this leave David Cameron tonight?

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The Prime Minister has said sorry but in many ways has blamed Andy

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Coulson from what went wrong. That, I think, will not do for many of his

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critics, not just his political opponents, but others as well. They

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will say that he had plenty of warnings, as we heard the Labour

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leader say in my report. In other words, warnings not just from the

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Labour Party but also his coalition allies, the Liberal Democrats,

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warnings from his close colleagues in the Conservative Party, warnings

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from the newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic who began to expose

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what really happened at News of the World. It is worth remembering that

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you will not hear a full-blooded debate about what should and should

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not have happened until the legal process is over and it is not

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tonight. The judge has sent the jury home because we have yet to have

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verdict on two crucial accusations, with the suggestion that a royal

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phonebook was purchased. Andy Coulson left court this evening

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still not knowing what will be his fate, still not knowing the sentence

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that awaits him. When it is over and when this becomes a matter of

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politics, David Cameron will know, I think, that sorry may be a hard word

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to utter but in this case, it may not be enough.

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Our top story: Andy Coulson, the former editor

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of the News of the World, is guilty of conspiring to hack phones.

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His former colleague, Rebekah Brooks, was cleared of all charges.

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Still to come: The Queen visits the set of Game of

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Thrones. Later on BBC London:

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In 2010 the Mayor dismissed phone allegations as "codswollop".

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And the latest radical design to guilty verdict.

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In Iraq, Sunni insurgents, led by the group ISIS,

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have continued their advance, as stark new figures today highlight

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the human cost of the fighting. According to the UN, more than 1,000

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people - mostly civilians - have been killed in the country

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in the last two weeks. The rebels say they've now captured

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a key oil refinery, although that's disputed by the Iraqi government.

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While John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, travelled

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to the northern city of Erbil. He called for unity in the region

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to confront the rebels' advance. In an exclusive interview,

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Sunni fighters have told the BBC that they'll reach Baghdad within

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a month. Our special correspondent,

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Fergal Keane, is in Erbil from where he sent this report:

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In the shadow of its ancient citadel,

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Erbil is a haven from the war. And it was here that we

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Erbil is a haven from the war. Sunni fighters who travelled to

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and from the frontline. They very rarely talk to Western

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media. But these insurgents are confident.

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"Baghdad will soon fall", they told me.

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"Baghdad will soon fall", It is a matter of time.

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Less than one month. Now they are asking young Shia

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to fight against us, but we will be there very soon and Baghdad

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will fall under the revolution. And they say that

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Prime Minister Maliki will be executed if he's captured.

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TRANSLATION: Sharia law says

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the killer must be killed. We will follow the law.

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The fighters are from Sunni tribes, spurred to radicalism

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by a government crackdown in their home town of Fallujah.

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One reason they may have decided to talk to us, is a growing resentment

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of ISIS and its foreign fighters, a feeling that the Sunni revolution

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has been taken over. TRANSLATION:

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I want to say to America and the world that this is not

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an ISIS revolution, this is a Sunni revolution.

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We ask the EU and America to support the Sunni people.

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We are not terrorists. The Iraqi army is still striking

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at insurgents but is demoralised and weak.

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Latest reports suggest the country's biggest oil refinery

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has fallen to the militants. Now America is pressing

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for a new Iraqi government, more acceptable to Sunnis.

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Without an adequate transformative decision by the leaders of Iraq,

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anything that the United States or other allies or friends with troops

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do to fight back, is going to be limited, if not impossible.

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John Kerry was speaking here in Erbil where Iraq's ethnic groups

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co-exist peacefully under the Kurdish majority.

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It is a dream but only that, of what a peaceful Iraq might look like.

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Iraq is a complex catastrophe and the idea that there will be one

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outright winner who can control the whole country is a fallascy.

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-- fallacy. What we've heard from the Sunni

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fighters suggests a growing resentment of their ISIS allies.

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So even if the insurgents do win, it could merely be the first phase

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in a much longer war. Let's have a look at some of the

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other stories making the news today. Reports from Sudan say a Christian

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woman who was released from prison yesterday after her

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death sentence for renouncing Islam was annulled, has been re-arrested

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at Khartoum Airport. It's thought Meriam Ibrahim's

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husband and two young children were also detained.

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An estimated 48,000 immigrants may have fraudulently obtained English

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language certificates to allow them to get a UK student visa.

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The figures come from a Government inquiry set up

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after an investigation by the BBC's Panorama earlier this year.

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The Immigration Minister says work has begun to remove anybody who is

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in the country illegally as a result of such cheating.

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Air traffic controllers in France have started a six-day strike

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which is disrupting flights to and from Britain.

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Ryanair, British Airways, Easyjet and Flybe have all cancelled

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some flights across Europe. Many airlines are warning of delays.

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Journalists around the world have gathered to protest against the

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seven-year jail terms given to three Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt.

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A court in Cairo found Australia's Peter Greste,

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Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed guilty of spreading false news.

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The trio had denied the charges and are expected to appeal.

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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have visited a former prison

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in Belfast on the second day of their visit to Northern Ireland.

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They were shown around the Crumlin Road Gaol by two former inmates -

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the First Minister, Peter Robinson, and his Deputy, Martin McGuinness.

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Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports.

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The report contains some flash photography.

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Witchell reports. For so much of her reign,

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visits to Northern Ireland have been sombre affairs,

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devoid in much of the way of hope. Today, though, was different.

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The Queen had come to Belfast's Crumlin Road to the

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building which once was a prison - a bleak place where rival groups

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of paramilitaries, republicans and loyalists had been incarscerated.

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Guiding the Queen today, two former inmates of Her Majesty's

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Prison Crumlin Road. Two men who are now Northern

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Ireland's elected leaders, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, and the

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Democratic Unionist, Peter Robinson. The First Minister and Deputy First

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Minister took the Queen through one of the prison wings, transformed now

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into a visitors centre, but little changed physically from the days

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when Mr McGuinness was locked up here, charged with IRA membership.

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Mr Robinson, with protests against Anglo-Irish talks.

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That was then and Northern Ireland has moved on,

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with political reconciliation and economic regeneration.

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Take this, for example. The American TV programme Game

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of Thrones is one of the most acclaimed drama series

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in the world and it is made in Northern Ireland, bringing millions

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of pounds to the local economy. The Queen was shown the studio sets,

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in what was once part of the giant Harland Wolff shipyard.

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Then, in the centre of Belfast, she walked through a covered market, not

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far from what was once the strongly republican area of the Short Strand.

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For so many years, a visit such as this would have been unthinkable.

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At Belfast's City Hall the Queen paid tribute to those who'd worked

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for reconciliation. You have come this far by turning

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the impossible into the possible. And as you face the future,

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and difficulties that may appear insurmountable,

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always remember that the thoughts and prayers of millions,

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including my own, are with you. For a monarch who's seen so much

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change during her reign, and not all of it for the better, this has been

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one day when the dominant emotion really has been that of hope.

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Cricket now and on the fifth and final day of the Test match, England

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are trying to avoid a First Series home defeat to Sri Lanka.

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Moeen Ali made his half century.

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A short time ago he was on 96 not out. England are on a total of 236-9

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with two wickets left. century.

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Heather Watson became the third British player to reach

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the Second Round at Wimbledon with an impressive win

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She brushed her aside in two sets to go through to the second round of

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the Women's Singles. at Wimbledon with an impressive win

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against Costa Rica. Whatever the result, they and many of their

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fans, will be heading home tomorrow, as our chief sports

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correspondent, Dan Roan, reports. # We're going home #

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Some trying to look on the bright side but having followed their team

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to the bitter end this wasn't the party they envisaged, journeying

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half way around the world for a match reduced to the meaningless

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friendly. We only got tickets for this game. I quit my job. You quit

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your job? Yes, to come here. I got tickets. I was excited. I will not

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let it ruin it. I made the effort. I wish the team had done the same. I

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the spent so much money and time. We came out here but what place no,

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better place than Brazil to get knocked out. England made radical

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changes to the team. But one of the two who kept his place, Daniel

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Sturridge, came closest early on. Unlike their more vaunted opponents,

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Costa Rica have shown just what's possible here, qualifying for the

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second round. Now a reminder of way. Ben Foster was forced into action.

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England claimed to have no luck in Brazil. Perhaps they are right.

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Sturridge unfortunate not to earn a penalty but in truth, by now, even

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they found it hard to care. Well the names on the shirts may have changed

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for England but it is still the same old story. No goals, 0-0. Still 25

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minutes inside the second half against Costa Rica in what is a very

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poor match as England such desperate for a mod come of salvage, pride.

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After this match they fly directly home and in truth, the end of their

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World Cup can't come soon enough. Time for a look at the weather.

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It is lovely there in Brazil. Nice weather to end the day in the UK.

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However there weather to end the day in the UK.

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around, just like yesterday and even one or two thunderstorms. Just in a

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few areas. As far as tomorrow goes, hazy sunshine and I think right

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across the country it is going to be that little bit cooler. Now this the

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satellite picture from the that little bit cooler. Now this the

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hours. Again, just like yesterday, across this portion of the UK is

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where we had a few downpours. One or two rumbles of thunder but we will

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say goodbye to them through the evening hours.

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say goodbye to them through the clouds will thicken through the

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course of the night. By the early hours of Wednesday morning, there

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will be light hours of Wednesday morning, there

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Belfast and also Glasgow but for most, a dry night. Tomorrow, it

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starts off on a bright note for many areas. The cloud will increase

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starts off on a bright note for many little bit. But overall it should be

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a fine day across most of England with temperatures hovering in the

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mid-to high teens, possibly 21 in London but fresher in the north-west

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with a few spots of rain for Northern Ireland and western

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Scotland in particular. For the play at Wimbledon tomorrow, overall not a

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bad day with hazy sunshine and around about 20.

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For Thursday, Glastonbury-glrs will want to know about the weather -- --

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Glastonbury-goers. It looks like rain on Thursday and

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into fri. You can keep the forecast in the palm of your hand with our

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BBC weather app throughout the course of the weekend.

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And, finally on Friday, this is where the rain will be, across son

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parts of the country. You can see an increasing breeze. That's basically

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the start of what is going to be quite an unsettled weekend, just

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after all of this fine, bright warm weather we have been having.

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Inevitable, I suppose. That's all from the News at Six. Goodbye from

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me. On BBC One, we

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