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The NHS mental health trust that failed to investigate

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The BBC has seen the result of an official investigation.

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It blames a failure of leadership at Southern Health.

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Connor Sparrowhawk had learning disabilities.

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Now his mother says heads should roll.

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It's a total scandal, that report, and I just think...

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The trust involved disputes the findings of the report.

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?50 million set aside for the flood victims -

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new severe weather warnings for northern England and Scotland.

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The city where Syria's conflict began is back

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Rebel fighters and their families are allowed to leave.

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A cut price Christmas getaway - motoring experts say it could be

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The Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael survives a legal

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challenge against his election to Parliament.

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And Donald Trump is stripped of an honorary degree and his place

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on a Scottish business group after his remarks about Muslims.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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An NHS Trust failed to investigate the unexpected deaths of more

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than a thousand people, according to a scathing report

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commissioned by NHS England and obtained by BBC News.

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Between 2011 and 2015 there were more than

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1400 unexpected deaths among mental health patients and people

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with learning disabilities at Southern Health NHS Trust.

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But of those, more than 1100 were not investigated.

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The report blames a failure of leadership at the Trust,

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which is one of the largest of its kind in the country.

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Southern Health Trust says that in almost all cases it was not

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Our Social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan has this report.

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This is the story of how the NHS failed to question why hundreds of

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patients died unexpectedly. She's worth crying for. A trust that

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didn't talk to families, was not interested in learning lessons. It's

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like uncovering a scandal. It's a total scandal, that report. Senior

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managers who failed to do their jobs, protecting some of society's

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most vulnerable. One, but not forgotten. Andrea and Jim's daughter

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Tessa died in 2013 aged 20. Despite receiving mental health support for

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years and desperate we seeking help just before she died, the family had

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no idea whether Southern Health investigated her death. Maybe if we

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cut the help we would still have her withers. It's appalling. Lots of

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people involved paid to do a job and they didn't do it. -- have her with

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us. Sorry. No need to apologise. She's worth crying for. Nearly 1200

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unexpected deaths were not investigated by Southern Health over

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the last four years. The likelihood of death being examined depended on

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the type of patient. 30% of mental health deaths were investigated,

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just 1% of learning disability deaths, and even fewer, 0.3% of

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older psychiatric patients, were looked into. The report was ordered

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by NHS England after the death of Connor Sparrowhawk, the 18-year-old

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died in a Bath following an epileptic seizure. His mother says

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the whole weeder ship at the trust should go. There's no reason why in

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2015 a report like this should come out. No reason at all. The board and

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senior team are completely responsible for this, utterly

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shameful. They should go? Without a doubt. They should have gone

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already. They have read the report. This report is a damning indictment

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of one of the country's largest mental health trusts. A failure of

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leadership at Southern Health, a lack transparency, lack of taking

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opportunities. Some deaths could have been avoided if earlier

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instances have been properly investigated. This is the woman now

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in the firing line, Trina Percy has led Southern health since its

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creation in 2011. The report says the failure to bring about sustained

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improvement in the light of deaths is a failure of leadership and

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governance. Tonight Southern Health told us there were serious concerns

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about the draft reports concerns. However, the report says that

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clearly, we have little confidence in the trust is fully recognised

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needs to improve its reporting an investigation of deaths. What

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worries me is that there appears to be no sense the trust is learning,

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that they are changing their practice. In light of this report

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that has to be some accountability here. Someone has to be held to

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account at senior level for the failures of this trust to properly

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investigate and involve families. Tonight, many families will wonder

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why the NHS is seemingly failed to care about why their loved ones died

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is this one trust or could it will stop

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is this one trust or could it reflect a wider problem? The

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important and set is that we simply don't know. It was a forensically

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investigation into one trust, admittedly a large one, but there

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are 51 trusts in England alone, and others in Scotland, Wales and

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Northern Ireland as well. What the report highlighted whether when it

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tried to gauge whether Southern health was better or worse than

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others, is that there was problems with the benchmark of statistics in

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the wider NHS, so more work will have to be done on that. NHS England

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have said this evening that when the report is fully published they stand

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to take action. In the short-term I think the focus will remain on the

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Southern Health leader, she set the culture, lots of questions about her

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tonight, not simply because about what's in the report. We've been

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looking at the deaths at Southern Health for some weeks now and we

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have spoken to families who children died in the area and their families

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have developed mental health problems, and they say they will not

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seek support because they fear what will happen to them if they engage

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with Southern Health. And there's an NHS helpline

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for people directly affected The number to call

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is 0300 003 0025. The Chancellor has

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set aside ?50 million to help the victims of Storm

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Desmond. George Osborne said each family

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would be able to claim up to ?5000 to protect their homes

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from future damage. The fund will be administered

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by local authorities and will be More rain and high wind here

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tonight. It's the last thing people here want to see. Despite these

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flood warnings, nobody is expecting any serious flooding in Carlisle.

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Welcome news tonight, more government cash in Cumbria,

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Lancashire and Scotland to help businesses get going again, to help

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with the clear up and make sure people in places like this can start

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again. There is so much that needs to be

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done. This is just one street, but every home here has been flooded. To

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help families, the government has promised ?50 million, money to

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rebuild lives. This is what is left of one home, Natalie has only been

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here one year, and the insurance will not cover everything. There is

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so much damage. Will this covenant cash help? Any bit of help is

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welcome. We have never done this before, we have only been here for a

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year and we are having to take everything out and start again. Any

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help is greatly appreciated. So many are in need. So many relying on the

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goodwill of volunteers for the basics like food and water.

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Everything here has been donated by people in Carlisle. This charity is

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what Janine Wright is relying on. She has no insurance, and could

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claim up to ?5,000 from the government's Flood fund. She needs

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all the help she can get. I have a friend who put me up on the couch,

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she didn't have to do. I have a dog and she took the dog in. Without

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that kindness, what would have happened to you? I wouldn't like to

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say. I honestly wouldn't like to say. To help Janine, these roofers

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are working for free. How important is it to do this? It's very

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important, helping the community when there has been so much

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devastation about. Today, Carlisle felt like a volunteer city.

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Strangers, not just delivering food, but showing support. The football

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club here called on fans to help clean up the stadium. Those recently

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made homeless rely on the kindness of volunteers at this rescue centre.

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They are a godsend. Without them we would be... We might have starved.

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Yeah, they have given us clothes, toiletries, food. Somewhere to

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sleep. To keep this city safe, once again flood defences are being

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checked. Tonight, more rain and high wind, as if people here could take

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any more. Ed Thomas, BBC News, Carlisle.

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It was known as the capital of Syria's revolution,

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and has seen some of the fiercest fighting of the four year civil war.

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But today, under a UN-backed ceasefire, the entire city of Homs

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is back under Syrian government control.

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Homs saw some of the earliest protests against President Assad

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It then came under bombardment from the Syrian army,

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with thousands of civilians caught in the fighting.

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Today, rebels withdrew from the district of al-Wair,

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and for the first time in almost a year, aid was allowed in.

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Our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet

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The families of the fighters were the first to leave,

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The fighters gathered at the entrance to al-Wair,

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some still carrying their personal weapons.

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These are the men with extremist groups, some with Al-Qaeda links,

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On the other side, the soldiers they have fought

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About 100 families are being bussed to northern Syria,

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The fighters will continue waging war from there.

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It's hard for anyone to leave home, especially when you don't

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Local aid workers try to make it a bit easier.

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But there is also relief to leave a besieged area where food

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Mohammed tells me it was very difficult.

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I have back problems and there was no medication.

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It's very important, he says, what's happening today.

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But, one day, I hope to return to my home.

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This neighbourhood, when the crisis hit,

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about 300,000 people were living here.

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We believe with the implementation of this agreement, more people

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will opt to come back to their homes.

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The government calls this reconciliation.

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The critics say this is a surrender forced by the government's siege

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of al-Wair, which cut off food and water to the community.

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TRANSLATION: We don't see it this way.

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What we see is that most of the armed groups here in al-Wair

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And that will bring peace and security to Homs.

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This is both a military ceasefire as well as a humanitarian agreement.

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There are those who believe this is the only real forward

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But this local ceasefire took nearly two years

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Every deal will depend on who's doing the fighting,

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Today's ceasefire means the fighting across Homs is now over.

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That's a relief to many who paid a terrible price.

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But the war in Syria is far from over.

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A brief look at some of the day's other news stories...

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Police in Paris have identified a third suicide bomber who attacked

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the Bataclan Theatre, killing 90 people last month.

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French media named him as Foued Mohamed-Aggad,

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He's believed to have travelled to Syria alongside his brother

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The Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael

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has survived a legal challenge against his election last May.

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Four of his constituents argued that he'd lied about the leaking

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of a memo during the general election campaign,

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but judges ruled he wasn't in breach of election law.

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A petition calling for the Republican presidential hopeful

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Donald Trump to be banned from entering the UK has reached

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200,000 signatures, meaning it will be considered

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It was posted in response to Mr Trump's call for a temporary

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2-4,000,000 a litre before Christmas -

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It says the average price of petrol is expected to drop

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It's come as the oil price fell to less than $40 a barrel

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for the first time in almost seven years.

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Our economics correspondent Andy Verity reports.

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Enjoy it while it lasts, the Bank of England told us.

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Petrol prices won't continue to fall.

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Now, ahead of Christmas, snow might not be falling,

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It should be a bit cheaper than that though, I think.

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Being a minicab driver, it makes a big difference.

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Yeah, petrol prices going down would be lovely.

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After dropping to a pound per litre in 2009, petrol prices climbed,

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driven by surging demand from China and India.

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Then, oil producers pumped out too much oil.

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They bounced back, but now they are dropping again.

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Petrol prices getting down close to a pound per litre might seem

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like great news for motorists ahead of Christmas, but it's also

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The world isn't just producing more oil than it needs,

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it's also burning less than it was expected

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because of a global economic slowdown.

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This is how the newest offshore rig in the North Sea should look

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Ordered when oil prices were higher, it was doubled to make money.

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Worldwide, there are nearly 3 billion barrels of unused crude oil,

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China's slowdown means there's less demand,

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not just for oil, but commodities like steel and copper.

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have also collapsed, devastating mining companies

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One of the world's biggest traders of commodities told us rises

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My read of this is that the Chinese economic underperformance is likely

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In that environment I would expect commodity prices

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While the global economic gloom might lie behind the cheaper prices,

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you will not see many motorists lamenting it.

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The average litre of unleaded is not yet as cheap as it was in February

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after the first big drop in oil prices, but it's heading that way.

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Southern Mental Health Trust has been blamed for failing

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to investigate 1,000 unexpected deaths.

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still to come, the Hatton Garden diamond heist. The court blames two

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of the accused were no strangers to high-profile robberies.

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And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6:30.

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Celtic's John Collins says their final European match

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of the season is one they could do without,

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as the team trains in Istanbul tonight.

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And we'll explain why these giant pink bunnies are proving

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the antidote to the granite city gloaming.

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Delegates at the UN climate talks in Paris are studying the draft text

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of what many hope will be a new global agreement

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It marks a crucial stage in the negotiations,

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but there are already arguments about what might be left out

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Our Science Editor David Shukman is in Paris.

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Thank you. Yes, basically, for two decade International talks on

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climate change and got nowhere so what happened today is pretty

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significant. The French, hosting this conference, came up with what

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they see as the basics of what could become the first global agreement to

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tackle climate change. It's got lots of gaps, plenty didn't like about it

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but many say it's a promising start. Trying to tackle the world's

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changing climate. Some of the poorest countries fear

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global warming will threaten their survival whilst others

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are reluctant to take action. Today in Paris, delegates

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were given the latest draft of what could become

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a landmark agreement. 29 pages designed to head off

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the dangers of rising temperatures. The developing nations immediately

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said there wasn't enough I'm worried about the fact

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that there is no clear commitment from the international community

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particularly the main major emitters in terms of what they are going

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to do in terms of support for the most vulnerable

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small island states. Negotiators have been poring over

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this draft document. Checking if it suits nearly 200

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different governments. I got my copy and, like everyone,

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saw while a lot of key points are agreed, many fundamental issues

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are still to be sorted. So it talks of a goal

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to limit global warming. It calls for deep cuts in greenhouse

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gases but it's not clear by when. And it says there will be reviews

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of national climate plans it doesn't At the heart of this is a dispute

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over who should reduce the emissions And today the United States called

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on the biggest developing countries Carbon pollution

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is carbon pollution. And it does the same damage

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whether it's coming from Baltimore So we all have to be

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smarter about the future. The talks have gone far more

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smoothly than many expected but long The jury in the Hatton Garden

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diamond robbery trial has heard that two of the men who have pleaded

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guilty to the burglary were also involved in two of the most

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notorious robberies of the 1980s. Daniel Sandford is outside

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Woolwich Crown Court. Yes, George, until now the jury had

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been kept in the dark about the criminal past of the men who had

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already pleaded guilty to the Hatton Garden burglary but today they

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discovered, that two of them had served long jail sentences for two

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of the most notorious armed robberies of the 1980s.

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Brian Reader, 76 years old, and Terry Perkins, 67,

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both pleaded guilty in September to the Hatton Garden burglary,

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But we can now report for the first time, Brian Reader's previous

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involvement in Britain's biggest gold robbery 32 years ago.

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Gold bullion stolen from the Brinks mat and depot in a violent armed

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robbery is unlikely to turn up again in its original form that is.

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He served eight years for handling some of the ?26 million worth

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of bullion stolen in the Brinks mat heist of 1983.

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We can also report Terry Perkins' time in prison.

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22 years for the security express robbery in the same year.

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A gang, up to six of them, carried shotguns.

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At the time, it was the biggest cash robbery Britain had seen.

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This week, the Hatton Garden trial were shown this security camera

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footage capturing the moment that some of the stolen jewellery

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Today the jury heard that the taxi driver,

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John Hardinson, told police, I'm totally innocent

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of any involvement in this burglary,

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I have morals and I would not nick anything.

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Police estimate of the ?40 million stolen in the burglary,

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only two to four million has been recovered.

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He's played at Twickenham many times.

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Just six weeks ago, Jamie Roberts represented his country

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in the World Cup, but tomorrow the Wales and British Lion centre

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will take to the field for a rather different occasion -

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the 134th Varsity match between Oxford and Cambridge.

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Roberts, who is also a qualified doctor, decided to go back

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Huw Edwards spoke to him in Cambridge.

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Certainly, the five or six weeks I've been here,

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it's been a bit of an eye-opener really.

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Nothing I was ever used to, compared to what I was used

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It's such an amazing, amazing place to study,

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What does it mean to you, given that there will be people

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watching thinking, gosh, this guy has played in such enormous

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matches, why would you get excited about the Varsity match?

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I think it's the pinnacle of student sport and certainly,

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as a student, when I started on my undergraduate course

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in medicine in Cardiff when I was 18, you saw people get

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excited for the Cardiff- Swansea Varsity match which I used

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I suppose you look to the pinnacle of student sport and that's always

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been the Varsity match, whether it's the rowing or the rugby

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To get a chance to play in it now, whilst I'm coming back

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to being a student again, the eternal student,

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How do you have the balance between your academic duties

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and all the rest of the stuff you need to keep up with?

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Yeah, I suppose I try to spin quite a few plates in my life.

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Yeah, it's tough, there's no doubting that.

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I work pretty hard at whatever I set my mind to.

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I was always used to it, from 18, doing a medical degree

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in Cardiff University, balancing playing alongside studying.

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I've always found that one is an escape from the other.

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If I'm training really hard, I escape into the library or do some

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work and I'm ready to go training again and vice versa.

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For people wondering where Jamie Roberts is going to be

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in ten years' time, are they right to think you're probably going to be

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in medicine, that's going to be your full-time occupation,

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It would be a wise man to not bet against me being a doctor

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I've devoted near a decade to my medical studies.

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I haven't worked as a junior doctor yet which is something I really

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Yeah, I've given a lot of years to being a medical student

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and there have been some great experiences.

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I've met some wonderful people along the way and I'd love to be able

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And you can see the Varsity match tomorrow on BBC Two from 2.00pm.

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George, hello, it's more of the same to be honest with you. I wish I

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could wave a magic wand and all that wind and rain would fade away but

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no, unfortunately, for the next week or so it's going to be a case of

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spells of rain coming off the Atlantic. This is one weather system

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crossing the west of UK right now. Strong wind in the west of the

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country, lots of ice bars here so real thrust wind coming off the

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Atlantic, so let's see what's happening over the next couple of

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hours or so. 60-70 miles an hour gusts of the Western Isles, the Lake

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District and the South of Scotland and we could see 50-60 miles an hour

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gusts and the rainfall is a concern always across this part of the world

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after flooding 40 millilitres, nowhere near compare to what we had

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a week ago but it's not very pleasant when you look out of your

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front window at that flooding. The rain keeps coming. The good news is

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later on in the night, the bane will shift further south and will end up

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across southern areas, -- the rain. 10 degrees. In the north, colder.

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The reason is a cold front crossing the country tomorrow so in the

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south, it's cloudy, rain falling in the south-west about to the North,

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particularly Scotland, I think old enough for some wintry showers

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particularly across the hills. Six in Glasgow, eight in Glasgow, in the

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south, mild weather, 13 in London, and Friday is not pretty in the

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south. Cloudy skies for most of us with rain on and off. Cold still,

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relatively cold across the northern half of the UK. The weekend? It will

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turn milder, there are some rain on the way but it looks as though the

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rainfall could be a bit tricky to forecast exactly where it will fall.

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We will know a bit better tomorrow so a real mixed bag continues. Thank

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you. Before we go, a word

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about an exclusive report coming It's from our correspondent

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Ian Pannell on the battle Now on BBC One, it's time to join

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the BBC's news teams where you are.

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