24/07/2014 BBC News at Six


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A UN shelter in Gaza is hit by an Israeli missile.

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15 people are killed, over 200 injured.

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The injured are rushed to hospital.

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They were using the shelter after being forced from their homes

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by the fighting. There are injured and many people

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are killed. They are children, young children and women. The head of the

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UN says he is appalled. by the fighting.

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Israel has again accused the Palestinian militant group Hamas of

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using Gazans as human shields, but said it is reviewing the incident.

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Also tonight: A week since flight MH17 was shot

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down the site is still not secure. Can there ever be a credible

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investigation into what happened? The ex-boyfriend of Jayden Parkinson

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is found guilty of murdering her and burying her body

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in his uncle's grave. And I am here in Glasgow where

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the Commonwealth Games are well and truly underway with 20 gold

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medals up for grabs today. The first medal goes to Jodie

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Stimpson in the women's triathlon. And England's Brownlee brothers

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take gold and silver in the men's. Tonight on BBC London:

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As Scotland Yard reports an increase in child sex abuse allegations,

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question over whether it can cope. And could sanctions against Russia

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harm London's economy? Good evening and welcome to the

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BBC News at Six. The UN Secretary General says he is

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appalled by an Israeli attack on a UN shelter in Gaza in which 15

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people have been killed, including women, children and UN staff.

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Over 200 people have been injured. The shelter was a UN school being

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used by Gazans forced by the fighting to leave their homes.

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So far at least 736 Palestinians have died since the start

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of the offensive. During that time 34 Israelis

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have been killed, among them 32 soldiers and two civilians.

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The Gaza Strip is 30 miles long and just seven miles wide.

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The UN says Israel's military has designated nearly half of it a no-go

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zone and told residents to leave. Today's strike on the compound

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happened in Beit Hanoun. With the latest

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our correspondent Yolanda Knell who sent this report from Gaza.

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It contains some distressing images. Angry, distraught and beyond

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consolation. These women and their little children had fled the

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fighting near their homes in northern Gaza and taken shelter in a

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UN school. But it too was caught up in the bloody violence. The Israelis

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hit us in our homes and they hit us at the school, this woman cries.

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Israel says it is investigating and Hamas rockets could be to blame. The

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dead and wounded were brought here to the hospital. 100 are injured and

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many people are killed. They are children, young children and women.

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Then while we were filming... An Israeli tank shell explodes just

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outside the hospital gates. Once again there is panic. The front line

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of the conflict reaches even here. Nearby the Beit Hanoun School is

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deserted. As they ran away people left their belongings behind. There

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are blood stains everywhere here and pieces of shrapnel. This was

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supposed to be a place of safety, but nowhere in Gaza is saved. The

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school took a direct hit. This is how the same school looked when the

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BBC visited just a few days ago. It was full of families. Now it has

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become the fourth UN building to be fired upon in four days. That was a

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designated emergency shelter. We had transferred patients here on 12

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occasions, last time at 10:56am this morning. It is outrageous and

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shocking, it was well known. Survivors of the school explosion

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now find themselves displaced yet again. We find many here in a

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corridor at the Beit Hanoun hospital and they are just a small fraction

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of the tens of thousands left homeless by the ongoing conflict.

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It contains some distressing images. The UK Foreign Secretary,

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Philip Hammond, who is in Egypt trying to help in the effort to find

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a peace plan, called on Hamas to agree to a humanitarian

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cease-fire without preconditions. The Israeli Prime Minister accused

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Hamas of using Palestinians as human shields something Hamas has

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again denied today. Here is our diplomatic

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correspondent James Robbins. As Israeli troops continued their

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assault inside Gaza, Israel's Government insists it is legitimate

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to hunt down Hamas on the ground and destroyed their rockets. But the

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number of civilian casualties is piling international pressure on

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Israel to stop all this. Hamas is only looking for a temporary

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cease-fire. Its leaders has Hamas will go back to attacking Israel

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unless all its grievances are addressed. TRANSLATION: In this

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battle between us and Israel they ID executioners, the occupiers, the

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settlers, and we are the true owners of the land. Israel rejects that and

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international criticism of its actions, particularly the UN human

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rights chief suggesting it may have committed war crimes. It is a

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travesty, it is a travesty of fairness, it is a travesty of common

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sense and truth. I think that it will not prevent us from continuing

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to act to protect dashed defend our people. What are the main obstacles

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to peace? Either a cease-fire or something more permanent? On the

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Hamas side the leadership demands an end to Israel's blockade of the

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territory. Gaza is sealed off at sea and over land, including by Egypt,

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increasingly hostile to Hamas. Israel says the blockade is vital to

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stop Hamas getting materials to build new weapons. But a fundamental

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obstacle is Hamas refuses to recognise Israel's right to says it

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wants to destroy Hamas' entire rocket arsenal. Israel called Hamas

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a terrorist organisation, not an elected Government, and does not

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accept negotiations involving Hamas will ever deliver a long-term

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peace. It is clear Israel is under growing pressure. Tonight the

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Foreign Secretary seemed to turn up the heat. Israel has a right to

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defend itself, but it also has an obligation to act in accordance with

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international, humanitarian law, as indeed does Hamas. The targeting of

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civilians is not permitted, of course. But another source of

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pressure on Israel is using as airlines gradually restore flights

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to Tel Aviv after cancelling them in response to the risk from Hamas

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rockets. International efforts to stop the fighting continued, but a

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long-term peace looks further away than ever.

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correspondent James Robbins. Two more military aircraft carrying

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the remains of victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has

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landed in the Netherlands. The Australian and Dutch

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planes arrived in Eindhoven. On board were 71 coffins.

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298 people were killed in last week's crash, 194 of them Dutch.

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Meanwhile it has emerged that the crash site of flight MH17 has

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yet to be secured, one week after the plane was shot down.

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A BBC team visiting the site this morning found the scene deserted

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with no sign of any investigators. Fergal Keane reports.

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Only the sounds of the morning. When we arrived there were no guards, no

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workers, the wreckage still spread for miles, the smell of human

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remains. These left behind by emergency workers, civilian

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volunteers and the militia. A place open to any who pass by. For all the

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outrage expressed by the international community, it has

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seemed powerless to ensure that this site is properly protected, or that

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due respect is shown to the remains of the dead. With the war escalating

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it becomes ever more difficult to ensure that there is a credible

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investigation. Australia has offered to send police to protect

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investigators who are waiting in government-held territory. And then

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at mid-morning a site so familiar in war zones, those who cross any front

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line for the sake of humanity. The International Red Cross arrived with

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a clear mission. Our role is to ensure the dignity of the dead and

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the dignified management of the dead and the rights of the families. But

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fighting is still going on nearby. Just 35 kilometres away rebels used

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missiles to bring down Ukrainian air force jets yesterday. All talk of

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investigations and recovery effort must be seen against a backdrop of

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growing fear. A major challenge for European observers who have been the

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most frequent visitors to the crash site. Is anybody in control? I

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cannot comment. It speaks for itself. In the capital done, where

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European observers are based, people continue to lead. They are looking

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for help from rebel officials to escape the fighting. We heard a

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whistling noise and then somebody said get down, get down, Olga told

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me. I lay on my child to protect him, but the blast lifted us off the

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ground. In the hand pressed to windows of buses taking refugees to

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rush it is the story of the war. Fergal Keane, BBC News, done yet.

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Fergal Keane reports. A passenger jet with over 100

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people on board is believed to have crashed in west Africa.

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The plane, operated by Air Algerie, was en route from Burkina Faso to

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Algiers when contact was lost over a Gao in Mali.

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Its route had changed because of severe weather.

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All 117 passengers are presumed dead.

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50 were French nationals. Let's talk to Hugh Schofield

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in Paris. What more can you tell us?

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France feels directly involved, not because there were 51 French

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nationals on board, but most of those were coming to France, in

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transit via Algiers. Airports across France, in Paris, Marseille and

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Lyon, there are psychological unit in play is helping the families of

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the people who were on board. The other focus is on locating the wreck

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and two French Mirage jets based in Chad are in the zone 50 miles north

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of Gao in Mali. This is an area the French know well because they have

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been fighting jihadist is in the area for the last year and a half.

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It raises the question could this have been a terrorist attempt?

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Nothing is being rolled out, but the main hypothesis for the moment is

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bad weather. There was a call from the pilot saying he wanted to be

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diverted because of storms in the area. For the moment that is the

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most likely scenario. What more can you tell us?

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The UK is on course to outpace the world's major advanced

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economies this year after the International Monetary Fund

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raised its growth forecast for the UK for the fourth time in a row.

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The IMF forecast has been upgraded by almost half

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a percentage point to 3.2%, driven by consumer spending and

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a tentative boost in manufacturing. The forecast this year

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for the United States is 1.7% and Germany 1.9%.

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One of the most disturbing cases in living memory.

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That is how the police described the murder of 17-year-old

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Jayden Parkinson. Her former boyfriend, Ben Blakeley,

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has today been found guilty of her murder.

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He killed her 24 hours after she told him she was expecting his child

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and buried her in his uncle's grave. Duncan Kennedy reports.

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She was just 17 years old, but Jayden Parkinson would die at the

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hands of her violent former boyfriend. That man was 22-year-old

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Ben Blakeley, who had a history of abusing his girlfriends. The tragic

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story unfolded on CCTV last September. They were first seen at

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Oxford station, then at Didcot, apparently heading to a place to

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discuss the news she was pregnant. Later that night Blakeley returned

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alone having killed her. Two days later he returned to bury

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her. But three days after that he returned again, dug up her body, put

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her in a suitcase and took a taxi to a nearby graveyard. He hauled the

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suitcase into this churchyard where he re-buried her in the grave of his

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uncle. Please say this was the first time in living memory that an

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existing grave was being used to hide a body. After the burial

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cameras capture him yet again, this time coverage in the mud of Jayden

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cameras capture him yet again, this time coverage Parkinson's blood. We

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thought we had seen all and could not been shocked or surprised, but

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we were just as surprised and shocked when her body was found in

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that grave. Tonight her mother left court with her family and friends

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relieved that the guilty murder verdict. It is good that she has got

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justice and the family could not be more happier. Ben Blakeley will be

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sentenced tomorrow. His plan to hide Jayden Parkinson on sacred ground

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was literally on earth. And The time is 6:15pm. A shelter has been hit in

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Gaza. Several people have been killed and injured. Outdone by

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Australia. There is no golden glory for Sir Bradley Wiggins as he and

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his team takes silver in the men's pursuit. Later on BBC London:

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Helping to free up homes for families - why ageing Londoners

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should be encouraged to downsize. And the efforts to save a shipwreck

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lying off the coast of six for more than 350 years. -- lying off the

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coast of Essex. MPs are calling for major rethink on how we dispose of

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our waste and are accusing the government of lacking vision. Last

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year 39 million tonnes went into landfill sites in the UK, enough to

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fill over 300 Olympic sized swimming pools per week. A committee of MPs

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has called for tax allowances on recycled products, extended

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warranties on electrical goods and a ban on food waste going into

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landfill. Claire Marshall has been looking at the options. A great deal

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of what we throw away is useful and valuable. In effect we are burying

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money, but it doesn't have to be this way. Food, for example. Live in

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North London and you can throw a half eaten apple in a compost bin,

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it is collected and taken away to a processing site. Then it is treated,

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turned into high-quality compost and now it can help a tree with all its

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valuable apples, to grow. But in England only a quarter of councils

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provide this service. The urgent message being given by MPs today is

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that we need to learn how to reuse resources. It's about waste

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altogether. And it is really moving away from the throw away a society

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that so many of us have been brought up in and got used to. But how? Each

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local authority does recycling differently. Not even the bins are

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the same. More is spent managing waste than on housing or planning

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but the UK is set to miss European targets. If you take a posse bottle

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to recycle you don't know which bin to put it in and these are obvious

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problems we could sort out today and if we did that and delivered that

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plastic wattle or whatever to a reprocessing factory we could

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capture the value in it. Look at the value here, this had all been thrown

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out. Technology is endlessly evolving and we all want the latest

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and the best and the old stuff we just throw it away. When actually,

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all it needs, like most things here, is to be taken off the shelf,

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powered up and then turned on. A computer being repaired, now a rare

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sight. Today's report says companies like this should be rewarded with

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tax breaks. If we can grow what we are doing it would be massive.

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Obviously we are here to make money as well because we are a business,

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from the sustainability point of view and the environmental impact if

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we could grow what we are doing and have more of an impact and just in

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London that would be hugely beneficial for the environment. More

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valuable rubbish arrives. The government says it is investing in

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this area and will respond to the committee in due course. Every put

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into undercover policing at Scotland Yard has revealed how a secret unit

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gathered information on no less than 18 justice campaigns for murder

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victims and for people who died following contact with the police.

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They include relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian

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man mistakenly shot dead by police officers in 2005. The Metropolitan

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Police says it regrets the distress caused to families. June Kelly

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reports. It was the case of Stephen Lawrence which exposed this new

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scandal. Police also kept information on the mother of Nikki

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Reel, and the relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes and Harry

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Stanley, who were both shot dead by firearms officers. This week saw the

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ninth anniversary of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, killed

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after he was mistaken for a suicide bomber. His parents travelled from

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their home in Brazil to see the underground station where he died.

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His case provoked a massive campaign involving some of his relatives in

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London. Now it has emerged that police gathered information on the

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family. The family feeling credibly distressed and upset to hear they

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have been spied upon. It feels like a real violation of privacy at a

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time when they were just seeking and service to find out what happened

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after the death of a loved one. Today's report says undercover

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forces did not in portrait the Justice for gene, or any other

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family campaign group, but officers who were working undercover in

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political protest organisations learned information about the

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families which they then passed back to their bosses. -- Jean Charles de

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Menezes. The way it worked is they collected a vast amount of

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information and retained it but it was never passed out of special

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Branch. It wasn't used to protect, it was used as gathering because we

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can and keep it just in case. Harry Stanley was shot dead after officers

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shot him after mistaking the chair leg he was carrying for a gun. His

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family and the others feel they were spied upon. They have invaded my

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privacy. I feel like we have done something wrong. We are not

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criminals and we haven't done anything wrong and have not got any

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records, so why treat us like this? They have shot my husband, have we

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not been through enough? The Scotland Yard unit at the heart of

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this was the now disbanded Special Demonstration Squad, or STS, and the

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report makes it plain this was all about the failure of management. The

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officers in charge of the SDS were flouting the rules and down the

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years some of those in charge of Scotland Yard didn't even know it

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existed. Today the force apologised to the families of the dead for the

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distress they had suffered. June Kelly, BBC News at Scotland Yard.

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After last year's storms more than 1 million people were left without

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power and many customers were frustrated at the length of time it

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took to get reconnected and for the level of compensation they received.

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Now the energy regulator Ofgem says it is more than doubling the minimum

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payment for consumers who lost power for 24 hours from ?27 up to ?70.

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After the excitement of last night's opening ceremony of the

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Commonwealth Games in Glasgow the first medals have been won but there

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has been disappointment with the news Mo Farah has pulled out of the

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competition. Let's go live to Glasgow for the latest with Sophie

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at the Tollcross centre. There are high hopes for Scotland's

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swimmers. The poster boy of the games Michael Jamieson won silver at

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the Olympics and can he add a commonwealth gold? Hannah Miley is

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on top form breaking her own Commonwealth record in the heats

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this morning. Meanwhile, the first gold-medal of the games went to

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England's Jodie Stimpson in the women's triathlon and there was a

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thrilling and rather cool finish from the Brownlee brothers in the

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men's event as Natalie Pirks reports. Day one, official

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programming! This weather has shocked even the locals but it is

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showing no signs of letting up. Sport plus sunshine equals a happy

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crowd. But would the Brownlee brothers be as content with this

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challenging course? Two laps around the loch and all was calm, with the

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Spanish world champion missing there was no surprises who were the

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red-hot favourites. The Brownlees dominated the podium in London, but

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it is younger brother Jonny Brownlee who leads the rankings in this

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field. As expected, though, it is those two who are right in the mix

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at the first transition. But Scotland's Mark Austin was not

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letting them out of his sight. The 20-year-old revelling in the home

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crowd's cheers. The Brownlees proved too strong at not a good separate

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them as they came through final transition. At the family

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pleasantries soon stopped and the race broke out. It was Alistair,

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though, who opened up the lead on Johnny so big that he could afford

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to take his time and savouring the moment when Commonwealth gold was

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added to his long list of titles. This is the gold I wanted to achieve

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this season and I've done it now so that is what I wanted to do really.

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Now I've done everything I wanted to do so I don't know what to do, might

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as well retire! Earlier the first gold of the games was up for grabs

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in the women's race. After a cagey bike section England's Jodie

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Stimpson muscled her way into the lead and the others could not quite

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match her pace. Her compatriot the Tory Holland took bronze. The smiles

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of spectators and athletes as wide as the loch they swam in. --

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Victoria Holland. In the last half-hour Sir Bradley

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Wiggins of England and his team-mates were beaten in the

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cycling pursuit final losing gold to the favourites Australia. From the

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Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome Andy Swiss reports. He's been here many times

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before. He is the man who simply has it all, Olympic titles, world

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titles, but Sir Bradley Wiggins had never won Commonwealth gold. Was

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that about a change? For the first time in six years Wiggins was back

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on the track in the team pursuit. He inspired England to the final but

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against world champions Australia they were always underdogs, and this

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time not even Ben Knight Rider could rescue them as Australia charged to

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an emphatic victory. Not quite the fairy tale return for Sir Bradley

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Wiggins. Another Commonwealth silver to add to his collection, but once

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again he has missed out on gold. Hannah Mears is flying! Earlier

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there had been more joy for Australia, one of their biggest

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stars anomie is taking gold in the time trial. Anna Meares wins gold

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for Australia! With England's Jess Varnish taking bronze. Being pushed

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and is half a lap away. The first ever Commonwealth para- cycling

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event produced a Scotland versus England event, Sophie Thorn him and

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her team-mate edging out the Scots. It was a very happy one for them. --

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Sophie Thornhill. In the last few minutes we have had another of the

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big finals, the men's team sprint. England versus New Zealand in the

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final. It was a thrilling finish but New Zealand held on to win the gold.

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They were the favourites. England had to settle for silver. So a

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frustrating day for that team, and indeed for Sir Bradley Wiggins. But

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a very eventful day here at the velodrome.

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There was also huge disappointment in Glasgow today when the Olympic

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star Mo Farah announced he has withdrawn from the Games after

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failing to recover from a recent illness. He was supposed to run in

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the 5000 and 10,000 metres but will now concentrate on being fully fit

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for next month's European Championships. Tonight the focus is

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on the poster boy of the games, Scotland's Michael Jameson who will

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be competing here at 9pm this evening. Hannah Miley of Scotland is

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also going to be in action just after 7pm. There is huge pressure on

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both of those two in front of the home crowd. The support they have

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been getting in today's heats has been incredible. You can watch it

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all on the BBC with Clare balding who will be here from 7pm. But right

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now let's have a look at the latest weather with Darren Bett who can

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tell us all about it. It's been another incredibly hot day in

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Glasgow. It looked really hot for the

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triathlon. The pool was the place to be. Temperatures up to 27 degrees in

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Glasgow and 30 in Dorset. We have since and storms in Northern Ireland

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and Devon and Cornwall and there has been some flooding in Bude. The

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storms and rain will continue over the next few hours and fade away and

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it will be dry overnight. We will see low cloud coming back through

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the central belt into the Moray Firth and into the eastern side. Not

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great weather for sleeping. But how will retreat to the coast. More low

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cloud and we have had today, otherwise lots of sunshine, the heat

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triggering some showers in the south-east mainly, possibly dry in

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the south-west of England this time. Heavy and potentially thundery

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downpours in the afternoon sliding their way towards the London area

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and West as well. Another hot day through the Midlands and Wales. High

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temperatures away from the North Sea coasts. The last of the hot days I

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suspect for Northern Ireland and Scotland. It's going to be very worn

:27:52.:27:55.

indeed for the bowls and rugby sevens. But a different story along

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the coast in Carnoustie where we have the shooting medals in the

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afternoon but the money could be rather grey, misty and murky as well

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but obviously a lot cooler as well. Similar story heading into Saturday

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but again a bit of a grey and misty start. Still the warmth for England

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and Wales and maybe one or two showers later on but there are some

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signs of change coming to Scotland and Northern Ireland with

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temperatures slipping away as the showers moved in. The showers will

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move further south on Sunday with more cloud and longer spells of more

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rain for Scotland. But we getting north-westerly breeze this time

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which will have a major impact on the temperatures compared with

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today. Scotland and Northern Ireland will be 10 degrees cooler a bit

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cooler for England and Wales but still 25 in the south-east but not

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as hot as it is right now. A reminder of the main story:

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15 people have been killed and up to 200 wounded after a UN run school

:28:50.:28:55.

has been hit by a missile in northern Gaza. That's all from the

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