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British astronaut Tim Peake has just arrived at the International Space

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He blasted off from Kazakhstan this morning with two other astronauts

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from Russia and America at the start of a six month journey in space.

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Minutes after lift off, a thumbs-up from Tim Peake -

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the first British astronaut to go into space for 25 years.

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Waving goodbye to his dad - six-year-old Thomas watches

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on with the rest of the family, as Tim Peake makes history.

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I'm very very humbled and proud that our son is up there,

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In the last half hour, the astronauts completed one

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of the trickiest parts of the journey, when they successfully

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More than 1,000 schools in Los Angeles are closed

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for the day, after a security threat.

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Police say they'll search every campus.

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The UK's inflation rate turns positive for the first time in four

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months. Star Wars - the most hotly

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anticipated film of the century - The country's ambulance crews say

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half their call outs at weekends are due to alcohol-related

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incidents. And a Christmas strike

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on the Caledonian Sleeper Service Good evening, and welcome

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to the BBC News at Six. The British astronaut Tim Peake has

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made history this evening as he docked at the

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International Space Station. The 43-year-old former army pilot

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is the first publicly funded The Soyuz space capsule carrying him

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and two other astronauts arrived at the space station half an hour

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ago, after a six hour This is the Soyuz as it approached

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the ISS a short time ago - it docked a little later

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than expected after a tense Let's join our science

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correspondent Palab Ghosh, who's in Khasakstan from where

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Tim Peake blasted off this morning. Sophie, I am in Baikonur city's

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community hall, and it is here that Tim Peake's family will be coming to

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speak to him, from the International Space Station. It will be their

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first chance to hear about his remarkable journey, which began this

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morning. A momentous day for Tim Peake. And

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an historic one for Britain. How do you feel? Fantastic. Really good. We

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are ready. He is finally on his way to space. Tim and his fellow crew

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mates are at the cosmodrome in Baikonur, to get ready for the

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launch. On the other side of the glass, his

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family. This will be the last time they will see him, before he blasts

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off into space. Space. He is waving and smiling and giving the thumbs

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up. His wife Rebecca and his two son, next stage to go on the the bus

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to go to launch pad. With him, on his left, is his

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commander, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and next to him, is

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Nasa's Tim Kopra. So how does Rebecca feel a few hours before the

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launch? I am really happy, you know, it has been a long swrurny to get to

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this point, we are really excited to get to this stage in the game. He

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looks so ready for it, it is great. A final wave goodbye, before Tim and

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the rest of the crew get onboard their Soyuz rocket. It stands on the

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same launch pad from which Yuri Gagarin set off to become the first

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man in space, more than 50 years ago.

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The final countdown begins. 3, 2, 1!

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Look at that. Bye daddy. Bye. And lift off. Lift off of Tim Kopra,

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Yuri Malenchenko and Timothy Peake on their way to the International

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Space Station. So far getting good first stage

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performance, the Soyuz delivering 930,000 pounds of thrust from its

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single core engine. First stage of the Soyuz 68 feet in length, 24 feet

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in diameter, it will be burning liquid fuel four the first two

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minutes and six seconds is of the flight.

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On the ground jubilation, from his friends, and family. Very emotional.

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I have to confess, it was. It has been such a long time an he has want

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it for such a long time and finally it is here. We have done it.

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In the capsule, Tim tells us he is feeling fine. Pitch and roll

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nominal. The crew are weightless. The danger from the launch is now

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over. And coming into view, the Soyuz

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capsule, a scene from the International Space Station. And

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then, the spacecraft docks. Tim will have to wait until the hatch is

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opened, and he begins hiss mission in space. We had expected to see

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pictures of the moment they docked with the space station, we didn't

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get those. It was a pretty nerve-wracking approach, wasn't it.

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Well docking is supposed to be completely -- completely automatic

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but as it approached it was clear that the automated process failed.

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Something, it seems had gone wrong with the guidance radar so the

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commander Yuri Malenchenko took manual control. Now, although it was

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a little tense, they are all prepared for manual docking, and as

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you know it ended successfully, there were champagne corks popping

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here, what happens next, what we are waiting for is that hatch to open,

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and for Tim Peake to glide through, and become the first British

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astronaut to serve onboard the International Space Station. And the

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UK Space Agency hope he will be the first of many Britons that will

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serve on the space station and perhaps even explore the moon.

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Thank you. Well, Tim Peake has a very busy six

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months ahead of him. While in orbit he will be conducting

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experiments and working on projects designed to draw more young

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people into science. Here's our science

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editor, David Shukman. Wild commitment at the sign museum

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in London during the launch. 3,000 children caught up in exactly the

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kind of enthusiasm that taec wants to inspire. -- Tim Peake. Watching

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closely the first Briton to go into space Helen Sharman. Tim is going

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through pretty much what I went through, I did it 24 years ago, and

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Tim is really going through that now. It brings back the memories,

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actually. For the next sixth months this will be Tim Peake's home, in

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Orr bits where everything feels weightless which makes life onboard

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unusual. So, you can't wash your hair in the normal way. You use dry

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shampoo. A great sleeping bag. There are no bedroom, you zip yourself

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into a pod. That is good core. You have to exercise for two hours a day

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to avoid your muscles wasting away. So it will be a strange existence on

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the space space, and will take some geding used to. It is the largest

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structure assembled in space. It is about the size of a football pitch.

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Where is it? It is about 250 miles above us, that might not sound much,

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but it is beyond the atmosphere and definitely in the hostile

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environment of space. This outpost of humanity is travelling round

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earth at 17,500 miles an hour, an extraordinary speed. Because each

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circuit round the earth takes 90 minute, the crew can see at least 15

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sun rises an sunsets every single day.

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Now, the space station was built section by section over the last 15

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years an one module is European. Here it is. It is called Columbus.

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It is a laboratory where Tim Peake will spend much of his time. So let

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us imagine that we could be right inside it. It is cramped. Filled

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with experiments that make use of those weightless. One project looks

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at metal alloys to help work out how they can be improved for the

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electronic devices we use. Another is testing, if bacteria can survive

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in space, to see if they could be living on Mars. And there is a study

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into house fluids behave inside the brain. That could help with faster

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diagnosis of medical problems. This is going to go in your ear.

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Here they are testing a new system for measures pressure inside the

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brain and they are looking or ward to what Tim Peake finds out.

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For decades the Government never wanted to pay for British

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astronauts. Now Tim Peake is the first to have official backing. And

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there is huge interest in investigating the potential for

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longer missions. I think the most exciting thing is of course we want

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to build bases on the moon and Mars, hopefully in my lifetime and beyond.

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So the way that space impacts the human body over six month, 12 months

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that is what he is focussing on. From now until next June Tim Peake

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will be living away from earth. At the same time encouraging the next

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generation to become scientists, engineers, and maybe astronauts as

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well. Millions of people will have stopped

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this morning to watch Tim Peake People gathered at the Science

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museum in London and also at a school in Sussex,

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in the village where Duncan Kennedy was with the school

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children watching lift off. Yes, they are all back tonight, here

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in the village hall, to witness Tim Peake here dock with the spacecraft

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and eventually to see him crawl inside the space station, just as

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they were all here this morning to witness that incredible take off,

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and I do mean all. It seems like the entire village and all the people

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from his former school here turned out to witness this event. To see

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one of their own finally make it into space.

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If you could bottle pride, this is what it would look like, when the

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cork is popped. These are Peake's people. Brimming

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with joy for Tim Peake. The local boy who became a spaceman.

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What did you think of that take off? It was brilliant. I can't believe

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someone from West Brom Primary School is going up in space to the

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national space station. -- west born. Are you proud of him? Yes.

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Really cool that somebody who is used to come to our school is

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actually going up into space and to see the space station. You going to

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be an astronaut? Maybe. You could be. Yes. Tim was. Yes, He went to

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this school. It could be you. Any time. 20 years' time.

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You can tell just how proud they are here at west born primary by the

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size of the arrow on his school photo. Who knew then what this

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little boy would become. Certainly not his school best friends The

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whole village was buzzing. It is the biggest thing that has happened to

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west born since I was born to be fair. Proud. My heart is pumping

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really. 3, 2, 1. There was another countdown at his old school today.

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This time, in a gravity experiment. Another sign he is an inspiration to

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his successors. Before he took off, Tim even sent a personal message to

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everyone here. Thank you so much. Have a great tale and the next time

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I talk to you will be from up there. -- great day. Today, although this

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wave from Tim may have been to the world, here, they saw it as a

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gesture to the place it all began. A small village in Hampshire, whose

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star pupil is now circling the world.

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More than 1,000 schools in the city of Los Angeles have been closed

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The announcement affects nearly 700,000 pupils.

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The alert comes two weeks after 14 people were killed by a radicalised

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Muslim couple in nearby San Bernardino.

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Our correspondent David Willis is in Los Angeles

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Across this sprawling city, school buses were left idle and city

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schools closed, after a threat was received at five o'clock in the

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morning. Prompting officials to shut down more than 1,000 schools.

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We need the cooperation of the whole of Los Angeles today. We need

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families and neighbours to work together with our schools and with

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our employees. To make sure our kids are safe. The Los Angeles unified

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school districts an area of more than 700 square miles and accounts

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for some 6440,000 students. Teachers and other staff were also told to

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stay at home. Schools here are closed today, and

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maybe for longer, depending on how long it takes to search every single

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city run school in the second largest city in America.

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At every school here, packages and backpacks are to be searched. The

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circumstances in the neighbouring San Bernadino, I think what has

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happened in the nation, I think what happened initially, I am not going

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to take the chance with the life of a student.

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Officials in New York say they received a similar threat but deem

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it a hoax. Here in the light of recent events nobody is taking

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anything for granted. Tim Peake has become the first

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British astronaut in space In the last hour, his Soyuz space

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capsule safely docked at the International Space Station

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after a nerve-wracking approach. The main teaching union says it's

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confident there will be a deal with the Government on the return

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of national testing. As engineers work on fixing

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the Forth Road Bridge for its replacement,

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it's work in progress. The birth rate in England is rising

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so rapidly that almost a million places for secondary school pupils

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will have to be created over Councils are considering creating

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super-sized schools that take up to 3,000 pupils to accommodate

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the growing demand. Primary schools will also need

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to expand, as our education editor, At the heart of its community

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for more than a century, Edmund Waller Primary

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could double in size. A baby boom has created

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a demand for more school Parents told me they fear something

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really special would be lost. We lose a lot of the community

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sense of the school, a lot of the parental

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involvement that is so key. The relationships

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with teachers, I think. Is it going to get really

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competitive, aged eight, to be in the football team,

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if you've got four classes? And that's not what

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primary's about, is it? It's a big step going to school

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aged four, you know, and if you're going into

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a playground with 1,000 What happens here isn't yet decided,

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but school sizes are booming and with them, the debate

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about what that means for children. You're going to read

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through each chapter extract. These year sevens are at one

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of England's biggest schools, More on this scale are planned

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by several councils. Finding your way is a challenge,

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but pupils thought parents I was like, dad,

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don't worry about it. It might be a big school,

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but I'll make friends and we'll be So you learn to find

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your way through. When you see the whole

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school you're like - you never expect this many people

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to be in one school at once. Really, year seven, you're

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old enough to realise your way around and realise

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what you've got to do. And that includes navigating

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the mega queue at lunch. When this school opened in 1964,

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with 1,500 pupils, it was one Now, there are more than 2,500 and,

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just to give you some idea of the scale, this dining room

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serves up 6,000 lunches The choice of subjects

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is a reflection of the school size, from hairdressing to

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three modern languages. There's not much evidence school

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size makes academic results any worse, but how do you create

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a community with good discipline? Through a very strong pastoral

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system, having very, very clear expectations

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about our standards and what we'll accept and what we won't accept,

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and through working with youngsters through the pastoral care system

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to ensure that they understand. More super-sized schools

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are on the horizon, but some parents A Metropolitan Police firearms

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officer is to be suspended after a man was shot dead

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in north London last Friday. 28-year-old Jermaine Baker

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was killed during a police operation The Independent Police Complaints

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Commission is investigating what happened and suggested

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the officer be suspended from duty European politicians

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are considering raising the age of consent for social media websites

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and email from 13 to 16. It could mean teenagers under

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the age of 16 would be banned from using internet

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services like Facebook unless they have

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parental permission. Industry and child protection

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experts say the move The coffee chain, Starbucks,

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has said it has paid ?8 million in corporation tax in

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the last year off the back Pre-tax profits jumped

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to just over ?34 million compared with less than ?2

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million a year ago. The company said in 2012 it

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would pay significantly more in tax after a public outcry at how little

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it had paid in fourteen The rate of inflation turned

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positive in November for the first But it remains close to zero,

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at 0.1% with low oil prices and competition between supermarkets

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keeping prices down for consumers. Our economics correspondent,

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Andy Verity, reports. It's not just fuel that's getting

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cheaper before Christmas, Second hand car prices are 4.6%

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lower than they were a year ago. To these buyers that means

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they're getting a bargain. There's better much

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better value now. The reason car prices are coming

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down is the same reason that the price of most goods has

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been coming down right through the past year,

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plentiful supply of the products In other words, fewer buyers buying

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the products which means the buyers have the upper hand and they can

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pull the prices down. While second hand car

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and fuel prices fell, it was by less than

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the previous month. One reason the cost of living

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overall ticked up by 0.1%. Break that down and goods prices

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fell by an average of 1.9%, while the price of

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services rose by 2.4%. Earlier this year, the Bank

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of England governor, Mark Carney, was confident prices

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would be rising much faster than now and it would be clear

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when to raise interest rates. We expect inflation to be very low

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for the next several months, but over the course of the year,

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as we get towards the end, inflation should start to pick up

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towards our 2% target. But that was before the slowdown

:21:29.:21:31.

in economies like Brazil or China, which meant less demand worldwide

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for goods from fuel to steel and, For the next few months, at least,

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a rise in interest rates by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy

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Committee looks unlikely. I don't think the MPC is going to be

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in any hurry to follow the US in raising interest

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rates very quickly. We think that they'll probably wait

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until the middle of next year and, even then, interest rates

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here are going to rise That puts us on a different economic

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path to the United States where today the latest data

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showed inflation of 0.5%. Tomorrow, the US Central Bank

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is widely expected to announce a rise in interest rates,

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the first in nine years. It's probably the most hotly

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anticipated film of this century. And last night, the latest Star Wars

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- the Force Awakens - had its world premiere

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in Los Angeles. Disney has paid more than $4 billion

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for the film rights. So will the film's global power

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prove to be a price worth paying? Our entertainment correspondent,

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Lizo Mzimba, reports. John Boyega, one of the film's

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young British leads, reunited with Mark Hamill

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who reprises his role as Luke The recreation or simply the return

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of much-loved figures a key selling point for the movie,

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the first in more than 30 years to feature the main actors

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from the original trilogy. How do you feel at the fact that now

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so many fans are going to get to see how your character, how the saga

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continues for something people have That's the idea, is to continue

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to build on the stories that Is this the day you've been waiting

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for when it finally goes out then, No, because then I think

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I would have wished away It's very exciting

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for it to be here now. Disney paid George Lucas more

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than $4 billion for the rights to the series along with other

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Lucasfilm properties. Thanks to one of the biggest deals

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in Hollywood history, they now plan top

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release a movie a year. It was exciting, there

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were lots of surprises. Even if box office takings

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and merchandise sales don't reach hoped for levels, it's

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all still good news The current plan is to make

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all the films at Pinewood in Buckinghamshire, a commitment

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worth tens of millions of pounds. The whole picture may not be clear

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for another few years because Disney needs not just this one,

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but each of the new forthcoming movies to keep delivering

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huge audiences. In those films, the characters face

:24:38.:24:39.

monumental struggles and battles. With their multi-billion dollar

:24:40.:24:47.

investment, in financial terms, for Disney the stakes

:24:48.:24:49.

are almost as high. Not far until Christmas Day. It is

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still so mild? Crazy. We might break records over the next few days.

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Mild, mucky. A lot of mist and murk over the last few days. That will

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continue I think generally in the outlook period. For some it's still

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a winter wonder land. This is Dallas, Dallas in Scotland, not

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Texas. Even here the snow welcome back thawing away as the warm air

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moves up from the south-west. How warm will it get? Into the mid teens

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by day, four to six degrees above what it should be for this time of

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year. Rain around this evening, heading northwards and eastwards.

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Heavy rain to Wales with gusty winds. That will move into the

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Midland and England. The worst of the overnight rain will have eased

:25:52.:25:55.

away by morning time. A dull, murky start to the day. Look at the

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temperatures. 8.00am, 13 or 14 degrees widely. Northern Ireland and

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Scotland dryer. As the thaw sets in across the highlands and the

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Grampians we will see mist and fog developing, I think. Through the day

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I'm hopeful we will see break developing in the cloud cover. Some

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places will see watery sunshine at times. Although there will be

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drizzly bits towards western exposure a lot of drooi weather.

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Where there is sunshine temperatures rising to 15-16 degrees. Milder than

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it has been across Scotland. Another weather front will come in from the

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west tomorrow evening into Thursday. We will see persistent rain for the

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likes of Cumbria and given the state of the catchments here we will keep

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a close eye. Warnings are in force. Rain heading in from the west to the

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south and east despite a gusty wind exceptionally mild. All the latest

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on weather warnings of course can be found on the BBC weather website

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much we will keep an eye on the forecast and those temperatures over

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the next few days. Thank you. Now, before we go,

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more on our top story. Well, in a moment we join the BBC's

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news teams where you are, but I'll leave you with

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images of the day - the moment the British astronaut,

:27:35.:27:36.

Tim Peake, launched into space. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Lift off

:27:37.:28:03.

with Tim Koprast Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Peake on their way to the

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International Space Station. CHEERING It makes me think I want to

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go to space when I grow up.

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