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David Cameron makes his case for MPs to back British air strikes

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Allies like the French already bomb so-called IS - he says the terror

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We have to hit these terrorists in their heartlands now. We must not

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shirk our responsibility for security or hand it to others.

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But Labour's leader tells the party's MPs that he can't

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We'll be asking if air strikes could make Britain

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More details of George Osborne's spending plans -

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Net migration to Britain hits a new record - it jumps

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And on Reporting Scotland at 6.30pm: Austerity is not over -

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as councillor demonstrate, John Swinney, says the budget set

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by the Chancellor's spending review means he's facing tough choices.

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And, we look ahead to Celtic's crucial

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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Britain can't afford to stand aside from the fight against Islamic State

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extremists, that's the message from the Prime Minister

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today as he called on MPs to back UK air strikes into Syria.

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David Cameron side that IS was a direct threat to Britain and the UK.

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Laura Kuenssberg is at Westminster for us with the latest.

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Two significant things happened in Westminster. The prime went to the

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House of Commons and made an argument for military action asking

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MPs to back his belief that strikes in Syria would be the right thing to

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do. But as we speak Labour MPs are receiving a letter from Jeremy

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Corbyn, saying he cannot back the strikes. He does not think that the

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party ought to. But many MPs have expressed a desire to do so and

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believe that the time may now be right. Tonight in Westminster, there

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are two political fights. The Russians are doing it.

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The French are doing it. And the Prime Minister believes that

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it is now our turn to do it too. Dropping bombs, not just over Iraq

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but on so-called Islamic State in Syria.

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Statement, the Prime Minister: Thank you, Mr Speaker. We can't wait for a

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political transition, we have to hit these terrorists in their heartlands

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right now. We must not shirk our responsibility for security or hand

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it to others. Mr Speaker, throughout our history, the United Kingdom has

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stood up to defend our values, and our way of life. We can and we must

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do so again. The shock of Paris has changed the

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terms of the debate. 130 people died, less than 300 miles from the

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UK capital. David Cameron believes air strikes

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thousands of miles away could stop attacks here.

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That bomb in Paris, that could have been London. If they had their way

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it would be London. I can't stand here and say we are safe from all of

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these threats. We are not. I cannot say we will remove the threat

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through the action that we take but do I stand here with advice behind

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me that taking action will degrade and reduce the threat over time?

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Absolutely. I have examined my conscious, that is what is telling

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me. But what went wrong in Iraq hung

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heavy here. In the light of the record of

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western military intervention in recent years including Iraq,

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Afghanistan and Libya, does the Prime Minister accept that UK

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bombing of Syria could risk more of what President Obama called:

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Unintended consequences? And that a lasting defeat of Isil can only be

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secured by Syrians and their forces within the region.

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There will not be British boots on the ground. So who are the reliable

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70,000 forces that the Government says could help. I ask him to look

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at his figure of 70,000 Free Syrian Army. We have been told directly

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through contact that there are few moderates remaining on either side

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of the Civil War. Today, the Prime Minister wants us to launch a

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bombing campaign without effective ground support in place or a fully

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costed reconstruction and stability plan.

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What a crazy war! Enemies to the right of us, enemies to the left of

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it, keep out! There are objections on all sides. Because of the risk of

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losing, the Government won't even bring a vote here to the Commons

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unless they can be sure of a comfortable win. That means that

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they need the support of maybe dozens of Labour MPs. Their leader

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is deeply reluctant. The rest of them are is split.

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Straight after the debate, Labour's top team gathered to try to agree

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whether to support air strikes in Syria, they could not. Hours later,

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the party's leader said he cannot sport the bombing, though sources

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suggest that more than half of his Shadow Cabinet are in favour and the

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Shadow Affect sounds like he is one of them.

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I think all agree on the threat to the United Kingdom and I think that

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we have a responsibility, it is the first duty of the Government and the

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opposition, to protect the British people.

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For good or ill, there is a growing sense of inevitability. Labour

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voices giving public support. What does it say about our judgment

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if we fail to take heed from the appeal of the United Nations?

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Previous Tory Conservative Party ticks are now in favour.

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On balance the country is best served by the House supporting his

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judgment that the United Kingdom should play... A full role in the

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coalition. Yet unless ministers are totally

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confident they will get the authorities to send British planes

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to Syria, a vote will not happen. Tonight it certainly feels like it

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is moving in their direction. So big questions tonight about what

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impact British military action would have on the ground in Syria

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and whether it could make Britain Our Security Correspondent Frank

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Gardner has this assessment. Syria hasn't always been at war.

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Just five years ago it was a popular tourist destination. Ruled by a

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largely unpopular regime. Then came the Arab Spring. It

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started as a peaceful protest by unarmed civilians, calling for an

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end to ash tear arrests and torture. But President Assad's regime

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responded with bullets and tanks and more torture. By April 2011, the

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popular up rising was already turning violent. New rebel groups I

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merged, including radical Islamists. It became a Civil War.

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In 2013, Assad's forces were widely blamed for a mass poisonous gas

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attack. Over 1,000 people died. In 2014, the so-called Islamic State

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seized large parts of Iraq and Syria. US-led air strikes on the

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group began. Britain joined in but only in Iraq. So does it make

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military sense to now extend British action into Syria? The military plan

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is credible in military terms and Britain does have something to

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contribute as the weapons are accurate, they can be used in a

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discriminating way. But Britain is not in a position to add huge

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numbers of aircraft or sorties. Syria has had air strikes for more

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than four years as rival forces battle for control of territory. The

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Syrian government is clinging to pockets of land Sloane in red. Then

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the rebel groups, moderate and radical, shown in light red. The

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Kurdish forces in yellow, have been fighting against Islamic State,

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their forces are shown in orange, they are spread across the border

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into Iraq where Britain is already paschaling them. In Syria, the RAF

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can only conduct surveillance. If that now changes to British air

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strikes in Syria, what could go wrong? Many things could go wrong.

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There are so many steps that have to follow in sequence and as we have

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seen with the downing of the Russian warplane, that is the kind of thing

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that canoe cure and throw everything off plan.

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Then there is the terrorist threat here in Britain.

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IS already want to target this country.

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But after such a public debate over air strikes, they are thought likely

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to want to step up their efforts. Yesterday the Chancellor said he

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would not go through with But independent experts who've been

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picking through the details say families could be

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worse off in other ways. They say that some 2.5 million new

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claimants would be worse off under the new system

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of Universal Credit than they would But nearly two million

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would be better off. Our Economics Correspondent

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Andy Verity looks at the figures. If George is the builder, can he fix

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it? Well, sort of. The high-visibility headline what a

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U-turn on tax credits but laying out the detail, the u-turn takes us to

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the same destination. Britain needs to move to a lower

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welfare, higher wage economy, that is what is right for the country. We

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can help families to the transition to the lower welfare, higher wage

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economy and use the improvements in the public finances to do that.

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The Chancellor is planning to take billions from low paid working

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families who need the income topped up but they are the claimants of

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tomorrow, not today. Among today's claimantants is Stuart, his family

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stood to lose up to ?1,500 a year. It means a massive difference to

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myself and my family. We are cautious as we know there will be

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further cuts further down the line but we are happy with the result we

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have at the moment. In this building behind me, the

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Institute for Fiscal Studies has been explaining what happens to the

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incomes of low paid working families and the benefit changes going

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through. 1. 9 million working families will be better off by ?1400

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a year on average, than under the current system. But 2. 6 million

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will be worse off to the tune of ?1600 a year.

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Cuts to tax credits have gone from next year. No-one on a tax credit

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will see a fall in their car benefits next year or into the

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future. But the Chancellor is still making

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the same long-term savings, the way he is doing that is because he is

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making the Universal Credit system to replace tax credits less

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generous. The tax credits cuts reduce the

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amount earned before the tax credit is clawed back. But that happens

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when they are replaced by Universal Credit. A single parent working part

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time with a child will get ?2,800 a year less claiming in 2020 than now.

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For a couple with three children on the Living Wage, it is ?3,050 less.

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But a single worker could claim ?1,000 more. Universal Credit is

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rolled out to jobcentres next year, replacing six benefits from tax

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credits to jobseeker's allowance. But the introduction has been dogged

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by delays. For the Chancellor it must work. His chances of getting

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the budget to surplus depend on it. A brief look at some of

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the day's other other news stories. Barclays has been fined ?72 million

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for failing to carry out proper The regulator,

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the Financial Conduct Authority, said the bank didn't follow standard

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procedures designed to prevent money laundering, because it didn't want

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to upset its rich customers. There's no suggestion, however, that

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any crime was actually committed. Talks have begun in an effort to

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stop the planned industrial action The first

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of three walkouts over pay and The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

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agreed to meet junior doctors' representatives

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at the conciliation service ACAS. A communist cult leader who

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allegedly kept his daughter prisoner for 30 years

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has denied treating her cruelly. Aravindan Balakrishnan told

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Southwark Crown court, the reason she didn't go out alone

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was because she feared she'd be attacked Balakrishnan, who is 75,

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denies sexually assaulting two of his followers

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and imprisoning his daughter. Net migration to the UK has hit

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a new all-time high. The difference between the number

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of people coming to live in Britain and those leaving

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the country was 336,000 in That's 82,000 higher than

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the previous year. But the government wants

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the total to be much lower, just The Government missed the target,

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what happened? The Government has been a victim of its own success.

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The increase is in people coming to work here. Up 73% in three years.

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Why? The economy is doing well. There are jobs. Britain is

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attractive. There is also foreign students. The numbers coming to

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study at UK universities, colleges and schools is flat. Despite the

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global expansion in the sector which led some to say we could be missing

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out on foreign income. Refugee, the debate goes on as Europe deals with

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the exodus from Syria. Refugees, still make up just 5% of non-British

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immigration. So a small part. The real pull factor is our economy. It

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is not just that our economic success is encouraging migrants,

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migrants are boosting our economy. With the new jobs fuelling growth.

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Two thirds are filled by foreigners. The Chancellor did not need to cut

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tax credits and the police yesterday because of an official forecast

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saying that net migration would boost economy growth more than

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expected in the next few years. The better that the economy does, the

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harder it is for the Government to hit the net migration target.

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David Cameron urges MPs to back air strikes on IS extremists in Syria.

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And still to come - a family affair as Great Britain

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hopes to win the Davis Cup for the first time in nearly 80 years.

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And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 18:30.

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Calls for the widening of the government inquiry

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into child abuse in residential institutions.

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And the world premiere of a new opera - sung in Shetland dialect.

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Climate change is something we've reported on many times

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But now it seems that food waste could be making the problem worse.

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Every year we throw away more than 4 million tonnes unnecessarily -

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and most of it ends up on rubbish dumps around the country.

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Scientists are now studying the greenhouse gases

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As world leaders prepare for a summit on climate change in

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Paris next week, our Science Editor David Shukman has been looking

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On a frozen morning steam rises from a mountain of waste.

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A scene that most of us never think about.

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But at this site near Manchester, and 200 others, rubbish dumped

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When you get this close the smell does become pretty intense.

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That is because the waste here, including old bits of food,

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What is happening is that bacteria are working away on that waste

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and giving off a host of different gases, including greenhouse gases.

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This is happening on a massive scale right across the country.

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Households throw away staggering amounts of food.

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For example, the equivalent of 86 million

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We asked researchers to monitor what happens under lights that mimic

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Our time-lapse camera followed the grim process of decomposition.

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Bacteria creating gases that force the chicken to swell up over

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No surprise, flies were soon attracted.

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We have injected the sample from the decomposed chicken

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and you can see this large peak here, that peak is methane.

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Some food is collected by local councils,

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And that means more greenhouse gases added to the air, and money wasted.

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Not only is it costing us a lot of money as householders, that is ?60

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a month for the average family with children, but the 4.2 million tonnes

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A lot of it ends up going to landfill where it basically just

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rots and gives off greenhouse gas emissions.

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There are ways that food waste can be used.

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Here, rubbish is divided automatically.

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Some of it diverted into equipment that goes on to produce electricity.

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Not on a big scale so far, but more and more waste is being

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Any food waste, whether it is leftover food, or food

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that has gone off, it is important people put that in the right bin.

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We can take that material, use it in technology like this,

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People, by recycling their food waste, are actually

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Scientists prepare a drone to fly over landfill and

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Nobody knows exactly how big the problem is, but these flights

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Many landfill sites are due to close in the coming years,

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but even when they do there will be a legacy of gases seeping out

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Muslim organisations have said protecting child welfare is

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a priority, but they have expressed concern about the Government

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interfering in the independence of religious institutions.

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Here's our Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys.

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And 500 children in that one of Preston's largest madrassas. They

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are here for after-school classes and everyday part of growing up for

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many Muslim children. -- and everyday part. They are here to

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learn how to be good Muslims and learned to re-site and read the

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Koran. Under Government plans, any regular teacher like this will be

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regulated. -- recite and read. This is being done to make sure extreme

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it -- extremist views are not being taught. In our madrassa we started

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to say shared values. The madrassas, on the contrary, are making the

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positive changes to the life of many Muslims in understanding the

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mainstream Islam. She says radicalisation happens on social

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media, not at madrassas. The curriculum fit into David Cameron's

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big society and about making a difference in the community,

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cohesion, and integration. That is what madrassas are all about. If he

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wants to take the issue of terrorism and extremism innings to come from a

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very different angle. -- it needs to come from. The religious instruction

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in madrassas is very much part of the normal weekly routine for

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British Muslim children. Madrassas have a core role in shaping their

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perception of the world and their place in society. And there are

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concerns about some teaching happening in backstreet settings. ,

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intolerant views, and children being hit. -- about narrow minded,

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intolerant views. We owe a duty of care to all of the children in this

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country so they are brought up to respect values of democracy,

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freedom, tolerance, and human rights. The Government wants to

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reach further into the lives of British Muslim children. It will

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have to work hard to convince their parent it is in their best

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interests. The head of the athletics' world

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governing body, Lord Coe, Has announced he will resign from

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his role as ambassador of Nike. He was repeatedly questioned about a

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conflict of interests in which he denied. I have stepped down from my

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ambassadorial role with Nike which dates back to eight years. The noise

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around this role is not good for the IAAF, and it is not good for Nike.

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Frankly, it is a distraction to the 18 hour days that I and our teams

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are working to steady the ship. Our Sports Editor Dan Roan is

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in Monaco. Why has he stepped down?

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Ever since he became the most powerful man in athletics earlier

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this summer he has faced tough questions over whether or not it was

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right that he retained a paid ambassadorial role for Nike, the US

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sports giant, worth around ?100,000 per year. This question only

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intensified earlier this week when the BBC obtained an e-mail, which

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appeared to show that he has been in discussions with a senior Nike

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executive. He maintains it doesn't constitute a conflict of interests.

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He wasn't lobbying on the half of the executive. He said he wasn't

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doing anything wrong. But the pressure has got too much. He said

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it wasn't because it was wrong, but because of the noise around the

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controversy. Others will say the timing is interesting, coming just a

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couple of days after that story. The calls for him to quit that role

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mirror the slogan of Nike, Just Do It. And he has.

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Thank you. Andy Murray is

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the man who brought success back to British tennis many feared would

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never come again with the first But now he's aiming for success

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which might mean even more; winning The Davis Cup final begins tomorrow

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with Great Britain playing Ghent, where the modern world

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squeezes in alongside the medieval. For centuries a city of rivers,

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for the next few days the world's The biggest tennis occasions are

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routine for Andy Murray, And what stronger team than

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a family? Britain's final is

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down to the Murrays' commitment. For us to be able to be a part

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of that, on the same team, is a pretty unique thing to do, I think,

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for two brothers to play at the highest level in sport and being

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able to represent your country, too, Five or six years ago, we were way,

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way behind, you know, I think it was the lowest

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level we have ever been at. Four or five years later,

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to be playing, and competing in the final,

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it is a great opportunity for us. There is the draw,

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Andy Murray will play Then it's Andy and Jamie Murray

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playing the doubles on Saturday. Basically, Britain need to win three

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matches to get back the Davis Cup. Britain actually have not

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won it since the 1930s. However you look at it,

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it is a big deal. This is a reward

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for all those who followed the team. Travelling to Ghent at a time

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of heightened security in nearby Brussels required careful

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consideration. We are really not aware

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of anything untoward going on. It just feels like

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a normal European city. It could be a once-in-a-lifetime

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opportunity for us. Obviously,

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we have never been anywhere near a Davis Cup final before in our

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lifetime, and you just don't know what's around the corner, in terms

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of the next players coming through. Kyle Edmund, aged 20, will make

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his Davis Cup debut for Britain But what will it feel

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like without the Murrays? Imagine approaching this

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inflatable with a great big pin. It has been a fine and quiet day for

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most. This was taken by one of our view was taken by one of our blue

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sky and sunshine. Temperatures today reached 15 Celsius. Well above

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average for this time of year. Some brightness in the east. For most,

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quite a lot of cloud. That sticks with us this evening and overnight.

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Things will cool down over the coming days down to this cold front

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sweeping in from the aromatic ocean. The aromatic ocean. Before it

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reaches us, we have the miles south-west air flow. -- Atlantic.

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Drizzly outbreaks mainly over the hills in the West at the

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temperatures overnight, around ten to 12 Celsius. Starting off mild for

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most, but attention turns to this cold front. It is heading in a

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crossover Northern Ireland and Scotland initially. Winds and heavy

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rain. That will sink South. To the south-east of that, we have the mild

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air, so double figures. Further north and west, around four to six

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Celsius, with some wintry showers arising. On into Saturday, snow

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showers, many across the hills of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Further south and east, that is where we see the clear and dry

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conditions. But where ever you are, it will be a chilly start of the

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weekend with temperatures in towns and cities typically at Fort

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Celsius. It is looking unsettled this weekend. This front is coming

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in. -- four Celsius. It is looking pretty windy through the course of

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the weekend, and cool. Further outbreaks of rain added a bit of

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sunshine. Lots happening over the next few days, keep an eye on the

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website and the latest weather forecasts.

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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me.

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