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On the eve of one of the biggest political events

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in modern times, the last push for votes in Scotland's referendum.

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Yes campaign leader Alex Salmond urges Scots to take their future

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While the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown urges

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Let us tell the nationalists, this is not their flag, their country,

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This is everyone?s flag, everyone's country, everyone's

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There is no place I would feel more secure than in Scotland because they

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know and they sense an enormous opportunity.

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Reaching every corner of Scotland the ballot boxes

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and polling stations are readied with a huge turnout expected.

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And the other main stories this evening:

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A sharp drop in unemployment - the latest figures show the jobless rate

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It is all worthwhile when you see what is needed actually gets to wear

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it is supposed to go. Why Alan Henning was

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motivated to go to Syria. Tonight there are appeals

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for Islamic State extremists to Pay for the display - The Mayor's

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going to charge for the New Year's And a man's arrested

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after wartime bombs and firearms are Good evening and welcome to the

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BBC News at Six from Edinburgh as Scotland prepares to go to

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the polls tomorrow. The Yes and No campaigns have spent

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the day making their final push Scotland's First Minister Alex

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Salmond has urged people to take their country's future

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in their hands and vote Yes, while the former Prime Minister

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Gordon Brown told No voters to As the campaign enters

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its final hours the latest polls continue to suggest that the outcome

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is just too close to call. Our Scotland Correspondent James

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Cook has our first report tonight. Scotland tonight is a nation

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divided, a country staring into its soul. Day after day, thousands of

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activists have poured onto the streets, many have taken time off

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work to fight for their vision of the future. They control education,

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they control most of the taxes, what else do you want? We get pocket

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money from Westminster, we want control of our own income and

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expenditure. The yes campaign said tomorrow is about hope versus fear.

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The message to the voters is that the choice is simple. Don't be

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confused, if you want real power and want to stay in Scotland and

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organise your own government, taxes and future, bowed yet. There is no

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doubt that the campaign has been divisive but it has breathed life

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into politics in Scotland. The air is crackling with energy as the

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country enters the final hours of the campaign. And cometh the hour,

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cometh the man. Those battling to keep Scotland in the UK have not

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always match the passion of their components, but they have the

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passion of their components, but they have today. What we have killed

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together by sacrificing and sharing, let's no nationalism split

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is under. Tell them that this is our Scotland. This is not their flag,

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their country, their culture, their streets, this is everyone's flag,

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everyone's culture, everyone's streets. The man more than anyone

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who has brought Scotland's to this points does not agree. Is he

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standing on the eve of history? There are fundamental changes and we

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have seen a grassroots campaign with the participation of all. This is a

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festival of democracy we are seeing in this campaign and it is in the

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hands of the Scottish people. There is no place I would feel more secure

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than in the hands of the people of Scotland because they know and they

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sent an enormous opportunity to take Scotland's future into Scotland's

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hands. Both Alex Salmond and his opponents have tried to use today's

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unemployment figures as a reason to vote their way. Everyone who cares

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about our United Kingdom is nervous but I am confident we have set out

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how Scotland can have the best of both worlds. A successful economy

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with a growing number of jobs and a Scottish unemployment rate at 6% is

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lower than it is in London. The people of Scotland have one more

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nights to ponder, one more nights to weigh up what to do, and whatever

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happens, a myth has been dispelled. They say people do not care about

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politics, but they are wrong. Well, it's taken

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two years to prepare for this referendum and with a huge turnout

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expected - there's a massive operation in place now to gather all

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the votes - by air, sea and road. All over Scotland thousands

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of people including volunteers and police are readying

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the ballot boxes, polling stations and counts for tomorrow as our

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correspondent Lorna Gordon reports. In every corner of Scotland, the

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ballot boxes are being delivered. Calmly, methodically, work has been

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continuing to ensure tomorrow goes without a hitch. From the cities to

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the islands, the challenges have been worked through. We have been

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using ferries like this, a normal very. We have also chartered a

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special ferry, and the plane. There are only 121 voters on this island

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but it is important everybody has an equal chance to place a vote. The

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significance of this referendum is not lost on those heading to the

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islands. The best of luck tomorrow. People down the pub are talking

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about it, everybody is talking about it, there is a lot of excitement. It

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is very important. We will have to wait and see. There are some who may

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have other things on their mind. But not many. No classes for these

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children tomorrow as it will become a polling booth. This will be one of

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the busiest in the country and work to transform it is getting underway.

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Thousands could turn out to vote in this one Glasgow school alone. They

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aim to make sure it runs smoothly. I am proud to be playing a little

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parts in history. It is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for me.

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This is where the final result will be made known. Announcing what that

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is will fall to one person. Do you have a flutter in your stomach? I

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would not be human if I was not nervous and I want everybody to have

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a really good experience on polling day with no impediments to voting

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and everything going smoothly. Then we will get an accurate result that

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everybody can trust. The safety and security of voting stations and

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voters will be paramount tomorrow. The police say their arrangements

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will be appropriate. This could be the largest turnout Scotland has

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ever seen as voters lay their part in making history.

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Emotions running so high now. Last-minute campaigns for both sides

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tonight, have you seen anything like this? I have never seen like this.

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People tell me that politics is boring, but not here and not now. If

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you live in Aberystwyth or Accrington or Antrim, wherever you

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are in England or Wales, I can see why it may be baffling or boring,

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but it is not like that here. For those who are going to vote yes

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tomorrow, this is the end of a huge journey. A journey of decades for

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people like Alex Salmond. And being a mere country to a self-governing

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nation, and nation that takes its own decisions and has to live with

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them. If you are part of the no campaign, it is the end of something

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so valued. Gordon Brown discover the passion today. -- discovered. Ponder

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this, though, if you are watching outside Scotland. It will take about

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2 million votes from the Scottish people to win this referendum. That

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is 4% of the British electorate. Whichever way it goes, it will

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change the lives of the 96% of viewers watching elsewhere.

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And for more on the referendum, the issues, the polls and the

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And I'll have more later in the programme but for now,

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In the day's other news, unemployment has fallen again with

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official figures showing it fell by 146,000 to just over two million in

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The number of people claiming Jobseeker's

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Allowance has also dropped below one million for the first time

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in six years as our correspondent Simon Gompertz reports.

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More jobs, more vacancies, and another sharp fall in unemployment.

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It peaked at over 2.6 million three years ago after the ravages of the

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recession but now with the recovery, it has dropped close to the 2

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million mark, but there is a long way to fall to what it was before

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the financial crisis. Youth unemployment is down by a record

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amount is. Calvin had help from a government funded work experience

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scheme and now has a job in a Hotel. I was starting to get down and

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annoyed that then the scheme made me realise that there are plenty of

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fish in the sea and you can get to where you want to go in life. With

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young people moving into work, claimants for jobseeker's allowance

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has dropped to below 1 million for the first time in six years.

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Unemployment is in young people has reduced by 40%, and that figure in

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this region is higher than the national picture so we know that

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what we are doing works. Scotland is doing best with an unemployment rate

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of 6% exactly. Next comes England with the highest rates in Northern

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Ireland and Wales. People are moving into jobs much more rapidly and that

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is something that ministers are celebrating. Labour complains that

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the same figures show wages moving at a snail's pace. There may be work

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on offer but you could still find yourself struggling to keep up with

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the cost of living. Wages are up just 0.7%, excluding bonuses. The

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latest inflation figures show prices going up by double that. Employers

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can find people they need, and we are not creating any extra value per

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person so we need to obviously pay them more. Stagnant pay is having an

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influence on the Bank of England committee which sets interest rates.

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Discussions published today say most lenders won the cost of borrowing to

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stay low for the moment. -- lenders want.

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British Muslim leaders have called

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today for the immediate release of Alan Henning,

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the hostage threatened with death by Islamic State extremists in Syria.

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The BBC has obtained previously unseen footage of Mr Henning

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describing why he wanted to deliver aid to Syria.

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There's also been an appeal for his freedom from those who travelled

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with him to Syria as our Special Correspondent Lucy Manning reports.

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Alan Henning, nicknamed gadget, was all smiles as he travelled on the

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aid convoy to Syria last December but he would go from charity worker

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to hostage. In this unseen video, he is filmed heading into Turkey and

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was clear about why he was making the dangerous journey. It is

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worthwhile when you see what is needed actually getting to where it

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is supposed to go. That makes it worthwhile. The sacrifice we do is

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nothing compared to what they go through every day. Moving words

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given his current plight. With aid for Syria tattooed on his arm, Alan

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Henning had been in Syria for less than an hour when he was abducted.

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The man on the convoy with Alan Henning told BBC News about the

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moment his friend was captured. All of sudden, these masked gunman came

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onto the compound and we did not know what was happening. One by one,

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they called all of us out and asked us our date of birth. They were

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trying to find out if we were spies. They came to the conclusion that he

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was a spy because he had a chip in his passport. He handed over his

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passport to show that is just how passport are. He has this message

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for Islamic State. Please, please, please, show him some mercy.

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Understand he is a humanitarian aid worker and not a fighter. He is not

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here for a political reason. He is helping people. Now the charity who

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Alan Henning travelled with, and who are being investigated about the

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actions of one of their fundraisers in Syria, have appealed to the

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Islamic State. You have the ability to spare the life of this man. We

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beg you to tread the path of justice and ensure compassion that is in

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your heart. Ministers have been clear the

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options are limited because they do not know exactly where he is being

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held. The time is a quarter past six. Our top story this

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the Yes and No campaigns have spent the day making their final push for

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every last vote. And still to come, police investigating the deaths

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of two British tourists in Thailand are questioning two brothers from

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evening, later on BBC London, we will debate what impact the Scottish

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referendum could have on the capital. And getting access to

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London's transport network, as Southern trains launches a smart

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card that can be used on trains and buses.

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Trials of a potential new vaccine against the Ebola virus

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If they are successful, it could be used to immunise health

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With the latest figures showing nearly 5,000 people infected

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by the virus, President Obama is now calling it "a potential threat

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Nearly 2,500 people have died during the current outbreak, with half of

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Our Medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has more.

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Could this be what finally stops Ebola? This vaccine has never been

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tested on humans until today. Ruth Atkins heard the call for volunteers

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on the radio while driving home from work, and became the first of 60

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people in Oxford to have the jab. Fantastic. It is that one step and I

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am part of that first step and it gets that vaccine, they know they

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have the right vaccine and they can start giving it and that will make a

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difference to people's lives, big time. To be effective, the vaccine

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must trigger antibodies against in bowler in the victim's -- against

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Ebola in the victim's blood. Normally it would take years of

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human trials before a completely new vaccine was approved for use, but

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the research here in Oxford is being fast tracked at an astonishing rate,

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and all being well, by the end of the year, around 10,000 doses of the

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jab will be available to immunise health workers in west Africa. This

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is why the vaccine is so desperately needed. In Liberia, the health

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service has been overwhelmed. Men, women, children, the virus has

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claimed the lives of all ages. Eight key question for the scientists

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heading the Oxford trial, is the vaccine said? There is absolutely no

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risk of this vaccine giving anyone Ebola because nothing came out of

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the Ebola virus and went into this vaccine. We have used modern

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technology where you use a carrier, another virus, that is safe, and

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being used for lots of vaccine types, and just put one DNA

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sequence, a tiny fraction of the Ebola genomics to it. The vaccine

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can't come a moment too soon for West Africa, where communities and

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whole economies are threatened with collapse.

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Police investigating the deaths of two British tourists in Thailand

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are questioning two brothers from the UK.

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The pair were stopped from leaving the country

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The bodies of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found on the

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From there, our correspondent Jonathan Head has sent this report.

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The police are still here in force on Koh Tao, searching for evidence

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on the spot where Hannah Witheridge and David Millar died, but this

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crime scene was never sealed. It is unlikely they will find much now.

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Instead, they believe forensic examination of the bodies will give

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them what they need to track down the killer. British embassy

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officials were invited to the pleas hospital in Bangkok to hear what

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progress they are making. They are also now holding two British men for

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questioning. Christopher Ware, and his brother James, spent time with

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the two victims in the days before they were killed. Christopher Ware

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was written by police on Monday, but then allowed to leave the island.

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The Thai authorities are still looking into the possibility of the

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killer could be a local man. They are continuing to question Bernie 's

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workers on Koh Tao. All options appear to be open. TRANSLATION: With

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the information we have, I think we can identify the murderer. However,

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we must wait for the test results to come out. Three days on, and you get

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the sense now of an investigation that is kicking into a higher gear.

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After some pretty mixed messages from the police, you have to wonder

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whether opportunities and perhaps even evidence to help solve the

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crime might have been missed. Thailand's tourist industry has

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already been hit hard this year by political turmoil. These horrific

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murders are another blow. The pressure is on the Thai police to

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solve this crime quickly and credibly.

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More now on the referendum in Scotland, with Sophie in Edinburgh.

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Two years after this independence referendum was announced, there are

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just hours to go before the people of Scotland decide on their future.

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The Yes and No campaigns have been mounting

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First Minister Alex Salmond has been urging on the Yes campaign.

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"Wake up on Friday morning to the first day of a better country".

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The former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is right

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He's telling supporters to "stand up and be counted tomorrow,"

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and, a new poll by Ipsos-MORI has been released, which suggests that

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the Yes campaign is on 49% and the No campaign is on 51%.

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That's broadly in line with other polls.

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Well, there have been a number of key issues during the campaign.

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One is whether promised new powers can be delivered in the event

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But first, the arguments over the currency that an independent

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To talk about that, I'm joined by our Business Editor, Kamal Ahmed,

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Well, Sophie, as you say, the currency goes to the heart of the

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future of Scotland if there is a Yes vote tomorrow. There are four main

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options, the first is actually a currency union. That's where

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countries or states agreed to share a currency and negotiate and agree

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on a port of matters like interest rates. We have examples like that,

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the Euro or the dollar. In this scenario, the Bank of England would

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stand behind Scottish banks and would support the Scottish economy,

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but the three big Westminster parties have said they don't support

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that. Now, Alex Salmond, the First Minister, has said it is not a

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matter for the Westminster parties, it is a matter that will be

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negotiated. He also says that a currency union would not only be

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good for Scotland but would also be good for the rest of the UK, because

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there would be no transaction costs, and trading would be easier. The

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second option, ugly word, sterlingisation, where Scotland news

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as the pound but not in arrangement with the rest of the United Kingdom.

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Third option, the Euro, Alexandre and has ruled that out, because he

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does not want to join the European Union. The third would be a new

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radical currency with the Scottish bank. That probably won't get off

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the drawing board, because Alex and has said he will use sterling if

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Scots vote yes tomorrow. Another big issue is whether

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Westminster can deliver promised new powers to the Scottish government

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in the event of a No vote. Our Deputy Political Editor,

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James Landale, is in Westminster. James, are we now clear what

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the government would offer the Sophie, I think the direction is

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clear, the detail is not. The leaders of the three largest parties

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in the UK have promised that Scotland will get more powers over

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its tax, spending and welfare. They have promised to publish draft

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legislation in January to make this happen. But the Conservatives, the

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Lib Dems and Labour all have different ideas about what this

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might mean in practice. So first of all, David Cameron, Ed Miliband and

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Nick Clegg will have to agree amongst themselves. They will also

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have to get the agreement of their own parties, and that cannot be

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guaranteed. Many MPs are worried about what they see as rushed

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constitutional reform. Many Tories believe that now English MPs alone

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should decide legislation that affects England. In Wales, there are

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fears that fixing Scotland's funding formula will mean no extra money for

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the Welsh, and in Northern Ireland there will almost certainly be calls

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for corporation tax to be given to the Stormont assembly. So none of

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this will be easy. The dilemma facing voters who are undecided

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tonight, thinking about voting no, is this: Can they guarantee a new

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Scotland with new powers within the union?

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Well, the people of Scotland are within

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hours of one of the most important political events of modern times.

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Whatever happens here tomorrow could set Scotland,

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and the United Kingdom, on a different course for centuries.

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"Should Scotland be an independent country?".

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Edinburgh has never seen anything like it, and neither has anywhere

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else in Scotland. Yes or no? It's the question that has sparked so

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much passionate debate. More than 4.2 million people have registered

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to vote, that's 97% of those eligible, making it the largest ever

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electorate in Scotland. And among them will be 16 and 17-year-olds

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scum who will be voting for the first time in any national election

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in the UK. In the next few hours, they will be putting up the signs

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here. This is one of the many polling stations, in fact there are

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more than 5500 polling stations across Scotland, but many people

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have already voted. Almost 790,000 people had registered for postal

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votes. The polls will open at 7am and close at 10pm tomorrow night.

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There will be no exit poll. Instead, you will have to wait until all the

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votes are counted. 32 Scottish councils will report the local

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totals to the central count in Edinburgh. The bulk of the result

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are expected between two and five in the morning but nobody knows when we

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will get the answer to shore. One thing is for sure, the world will be

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watching when Scotland heads to the polls in the morning.

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Our Scotland Political Editor, Brian Taylor, is in Glasgow.

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Brian, you've been tracking this referendum from the start.

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On the eve of the vote, what has it taught us

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We have had weeks, we have had months, we have had years of

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campaigning on this. It was intriguing today, I attended a

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couple of rallies in Glasgow on either side, and pitch on either

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side, those who support independence say that independence would energise

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the people and empower them to produce a prosperous and just

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Scotland. On the other side, those who support the union said the

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genuine patriotic perspective for the people of Scotland is to have a

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more powerful parliament within the union, formally within the union.

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Those two options go before the people, a momentous, monumental

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decision, but the people will choose, not the politicians. Time

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now for a look at all of the weather.

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High pressure has been dominating so far this month. It has actually been

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the driest start to September for over 50 years. Just 7% of the

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expected rainfall was that it has been one as well buy a couple of

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degrees, a little bit cool at times on the east coast, had it like

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today, where we have had this persistent low cloud, and that is

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coming inland overnight, bringing more mist and fog, especially to

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hills and coasts in the east where there will be a bit of light rain or

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drizzle. Another warm night thanks to the increasing cloud, one or two

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sharp showers and the far south-west. Tomorrow starts Gray for

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many of us, misty too. We should see the sunshine breaking through for

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most places, still rather do dowel and damp -- go and damp. For

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Scotland, sunshine likely in the West, Easton area still dull and

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damp, rather cool as well. Across Northern Ireland, it may take a

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little longer to get the sunshine. It won't be quite as funny as this

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afternoon but we should see an improvement to the north-west of

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England. The other side of the Pennines, still rather cool.

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Very few thunderstorms, most places will be drivers that we are more

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likely to get some showers on Friday. These could be heavy and

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thundery, but again, a bit hit and miss, and maybe pushing up not just

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across southern inland but into Wales and the Midlands. Altogether,

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a cloudier looking day altogether, we could get a few showers in

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western Scotland and Northern Ireland too, those temp just not

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quite so high. As we head into the weekend, we should eventually push

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those showers away. I pressure is building in yet another one pushing

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in across the UK, drying things off and hopefully we will see eventually

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an apartment in the north-east.

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