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Jose Mourinho is sacked as Chelsea's manager

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after a disastrous start to the season.

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From triumph just seven months ago, when he led his team

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to the Premier League title, to this, no longer the special one,

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as Mourinho is driven away from the club's training ground.

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He's been a good manager here, he's done well, and his time is up.

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I think they've treated him badly, to be honest.

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I think the players should be ashamed of thems also.

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Also on the programme tonight, ahead of a crucial summit,

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but a warning in Brussels for David Cameron -

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he's told some of his proposals for EU reform are unacceptable.

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A Government review is ordered into how deaths are investigated

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by NHS trusts after failures by Southern Health.

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A rise in the number of families evicted from their homes

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and now facing Christmas in temporary accommodation.

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We don't have any fixtures, we have never put pictures up, you are

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always constantly ready for the next move.

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And it's not all in the genes - lifestyle rather than DNA

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is the main factor behind cancer, claim researchers.

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the BBC can reveal that a former Catholic monk accused of sexual

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abuse at a Highland school is to be extradited from Australia.

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over the Budget and its impact on education.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.

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Chelsea has sacked their most successful manager, Jose Mourinho,

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after a terrible start to the season.

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The man who dubbed himself the Special One

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led his team to Premier League triumph in May.

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the club has seen a complete reversal of fortune.

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Chelsea have lost nine of their 16 games this season

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and are now just one point away from the relegation zone.

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Joe. Yeah, you may have been watching, reading, listening a few

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hours ago as BBC Sport through Dan Roan revealed that the deed had been

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done. We had begun to wonder what Roman Abramovich was waiting for,

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the delay, I'm sure down to Jose Mourinho's unique status at Chelsea,

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but so strained had relations become between manager and players, in

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particular, that even a volley to seemed preferable to Mourinho. -- --

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void. Jose Mourinho leaving Chelsea today,

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unwilling even to be seen. Remember, he had begun his second

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spell at the club with a promise This time, he said,

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he would be happy. Well, look at him this

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season, happiness lives It became Mourinho versus

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the world, with his own players, in Mourinho's mind,

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even betraying his work. If that made the end

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inevitable, officially Chelsea

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say the parting was mutual. In reference to Mourinho,

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their statement reads: Is three titles over two spells

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makes in the most successful manager in our 110 year history. But both

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Jose and the board have agreed results have not been good enough

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this season and believe it is in the best interests of both parties to go

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our separate ways. Three in the box for Mahrez.

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He curls it in. On Monday night, Mourinho watched

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a team in blue play with tenacity, If that defeat sealed

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Mourinho's fate with the owner, not every supporter

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at Stamford Bridge today We have come all the way here,

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we are from Lancashire, and we have found out

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he has gone. At the end of the day,

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he has been a good manager here, he has done well but his time is up,

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everyone has their time I think they have treated him badly,

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to be honest, the players Only the Chelsea players themselves

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really know if Mourinho was right So Roman Abramovich

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must find another manager. Money to him has never been

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an issue, but what is he selling Come to a club on the brink

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of the relegation zone they will play Chelsea

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without Mourinho. I am shocked, to say the least,

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they must have already somebody lined up, to have done it now,

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they must have somebody paid to take over the reins, whether that be

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short-term or long-term, I suppose we will find

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out very quickly, Chelsea's decline

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has been staggering. After two goes out

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the job, Mourinho must now be part of their history,

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but after leaving an apparently demotivated, declining team, where,

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any successor may ask What now? Guus Hiddink has been

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tipped as a temporary option, but surely general Sisi need a long-term

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strategy to recapture all the ground they have lost. -- Chelsea need. We

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need immediate future, their regular media conference scheduled for

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tomorrow has been cancelled. Joe, thank you.

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The President of the European Council has warned David Cameron

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that some of his proposals for reform ahead of a referendum

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on British membership of the EU are unacceptable.

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David Cameron wants changes to protect the power of national

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parliaments to make the EU more competitive and cut red tape

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and to protect countries that don't use the euro from decisions

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But most controversially, he wants to ban

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in-work benefits for migrants for four years.

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And that's proving to be a sticking point for EU leaders.

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Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg,

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Sobey, nearly three years ago now, David Cameron made a very big

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problems, which was also a big risk. -- Sophie. He promised to change the

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rules of the whole European Union and then give us a vote on whether

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we wanted to stay. Tonight is its first major chance to get the other

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27 political leaders onto his side. There is a very big problem already

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- he is determined to cut back the benefits that workers from Spain,

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Poland or Hungary can get if they work in the UK, but it is very hard

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to find anyone else in this place who agrees with him.

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Having an entourage - shiny cars, lots of staff -

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The Prime Minister is walking into a fight, maybe a trap,

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We are not pushing for a deal tonight, but we are pushing for real

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momentum so that we can get this deal done, so I'm going to be

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battling hard for Britain right through the night,

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and I think we'll be getting a good deal.

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Are you prepared to back down on some of

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your proposals on benefits, Prime Minister?

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He won't answer yet because he can't.

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The Prime Minister wants to change how Europe works,

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cut back benefits for EU workers in Britain.

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But he needs all the other European leaders to agree.

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It's legitimate to listen to the British Prime Minister

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but unacceptable to revise founding European commitments,

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proposals to restrict benefits for your people in the UK?

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As far as I know, David Cameron's proposals

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Three are supportable, easy for us, basically we agree.

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Some parts of the British proposals seem unacceptable.

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It's about Brexit, but I think this is no time for exit in Europe,

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The real business, of course, is done behind closed doors.

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That's why there's this frantic atmosphere, scouring for clues

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of anything that said outside, but listening to leader after leader

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as they arrive, the odds seem against David Cameron.

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The German leader, Europe's decider, said, we would like

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to keep Britain in the EU but at the same time

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don't want to limit basic liberties.

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Yet it's even been hard for David Cameron

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to elbow his arguments adamant onto the table.

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EU leaders are trying to concentrate on the migrant crisis.

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But while the desire to help is genuine,

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the clash over benefits is very real.

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So far there is nothing in the nitty-gritty

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that even these power brokers can agree.

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And look who else is in town today - the Labour leader, sensing perhaps

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David Cameron is taking the biggest gamble of his career.

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But he's come here for an argument without being

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Why can't he just say, well, actually, this argument really

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belongs within the Conservative Party, and perhaps the

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Conservative Party should sort out what their problem is first?

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It was pressure in his own party that pushed the Prime Minister

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changing the UK's relationship with the EU,

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then giving you a vote to stay or go.

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But looking around this room, trying to get

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nearly 30 countries on side, politics at home

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There is going to have to be compromise on one side or another,

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but there is precious little sign of idiot. So far tonight it is

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stand-off, with David Cameron and the other leaders about two sets

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down to dinner where they will discuss these tricky issues.

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Remember, this is a negotiation, and at the beginning of any hard

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negotiation, few people are willing to show their real hand.

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81 people have been convicted of being part of the largest

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car-insurance fraud network ever seen in the UK in a series of trials

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obtained by Gwent Police, shows a vehicle being driven

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into a forklift truck to make it look

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The scam cost the insurance industry more than ?750,000.

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The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde,

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has been ordered to stand trial in France for alleged negligence

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over a compensation payment to a businessman.

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when she was French Finance Minister.

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Her lawyer says she denies any wrongdoing

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and will appeal against the decision in the next few days.

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A review is to be held into how the NHS investigates deaths

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following a damning report into a mental-health trust.

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Southern Health has been strongly criticised for failing to carry out

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proper investigations into hundreds of unexpected deaths -

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as the BBC exclusively revealed last week.

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Today, as the official report was published,

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the chief executive of Southern Health apologised unreservedly

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and said improvements had to be made.

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Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan reports.

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We've spoken to all their families, who say failures by Southern Health

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Most say a lack of compassion afterwards from the trust added

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Nico Reed died in 2012 - he choked to death on his own vomit

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after being left unchecked for longer than he should have been.

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Southern Health were not his care provider

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but were responsible for investigating his death.

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His mother, whose case is highlighted in today's report,

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is appalled by how they've been treated.

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and we were so unimportant to them, they literally didn't care.

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They didn't care enough to even engage with us.

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We were nothing to them, and we were just brushed aside.

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The trust wrote to them, saying they'd carried

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out an initial assessment but decided not to involve the family.

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An independent investigation has now been ordered.

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it will be over four years since Nico died.

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Today's report reveals significant widespread problems

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Last week, we obtained a leaked version of the report which said

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there were 1454 unexpected deaths over a four-year period.

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Of those, more than 1,100 were not investigated.

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But in today's published report, half of those deaths

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have been reclassified as expected death incidents.

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That still leaves over 700 unexpected deaths,

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of which 450 were never investigated.

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NHS England said it had approved complex to decide what was and was

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not an unexpected debt. They head of southern England met me today. The

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report says a failure of governance led to too few deaths being

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investigated. You must have considered resigning. Let me be

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clear, our board and myself are very clear that over this four year

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period which this report looks at our investigations and reporting

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processes, we are clear that we did not get it right. We have made a lot

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of improvements... Why are you not resigning? The buck stops with you,

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you have to take responsibility for the failures. We have made a lot of

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improvements already, and our nurses and doctors of a very compassionate

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end of life care to many people, they offer high quality services. So

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no resignations, but that does not been no change. The regulator will

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come here in the New Year and carry out an inspection. They are also

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going to carry out a broader piece of work looking at how deaths are

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investigated, because the fear is that the issues investigated yet may

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be more widespread across the system. NHS England said that

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Southern Health have lost the confidence of a number of families.

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Rebuilding trust after such scathing criticisms will require more time

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Jose Mourinho is sacked as Chelsea's BBC News, Southampton.

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manager after a disastrous start to the season.

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the Government's new plan to reshape our sporting future.

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And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6.30:

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The Celtic and Rangers managers agree

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that expanding Scotland's top flight could benefit the game.

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And it may look like a dinky donkey derby,

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but it's actually the Grand National for Shetland ponies.

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More than 100,000 children could be facing Christmas in temporary

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accommodation - some in places like hostels and B -

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after a rise in the number of families asking for help

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Many of them have lost their homes after being evicted.

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The latest figures show that in September this year,

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almost 69,000 households in England were in temporary accommodation.

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That's 13% more than September last year.

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Jeremy Cooke has been to meet three families facing an uncertain future.

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The last moments before another family is made homeless.

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She and ten-year-old Ellie have packed their bags.

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But there's no real preparation for when the bailiff

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Did you need a photocopy of your eviction notice?

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And with that, quietly, they are out.

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Akoua, a full-time hospital cleaner, is inside for hours

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explaining how she couldn't afford the rent, had no tenancy agreement

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and so no housing benefit, but was finally evicted.

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Her support worker has seen it all before.

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Homelessness touches everybody, so it doesn't matter

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if you're working full time or if you are on benefits,

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the situation is if the landlord wants

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there's not very much you can do.

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Akoua is offered emergency overnight accommodation.

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Those evicted generally only qualify for help if they are vulnerable

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Across town, the Kara family know that

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Diresh and Jeilan and the three girls lost their home four years

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ago, and that began the miserable trail of temporary accommodation,

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We had to spend three nights in the car while they

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were investigating, you know, whether we were intentionally

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homeless, whether they had a duty of care, so we had nowhere

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Today's numbers say nearly 69,000 households in England now live

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The family here has been moved seven times.

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The stink of damp is everywhere

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A working family with an uncertain future.

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It is like waiting for life to begin, basically.

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You come home, every day you are thinking you will get

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a phone call saying we have to move next week.

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We don't have any fixtures on the wall, we don't put

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any pictures up, there is hardly anything in the front room,

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because you are always constantly ready for

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An acute shortage of social housing is

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a nationwide problem, a London crisis.

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When we spoke to Harrow Council, they were struggling to house 1,000

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families with only 35 available properties.

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It's a disastrous situation, we are having more and

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more numbers coming into the same situation

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The Council are doing the best job we possibly can to make sure

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these people have a roof over their heads, but it's not

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a home, it's a roof over their heads, and that's

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the trouble, because it is destroying communities

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Eviction levels are high and rising, up 30% in the last three years.

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And across London, yet another family is waiting

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I just don't want to move house or, like,

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I don't know which place I'm heading to.

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The housing charity Shelter says thousands of families will be

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and blames a chronic lack of affordable housing.

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The Government insists there will be more money to tackle the issue

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and that it's committed to helping the most vulnerable in society.

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Members of the Democratic Unionist Party are gathering in Belfast

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Arlene Foster is standing unopposed and will become Northern Ireland's

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first female First Minister in the New Year.

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She's only the third leader of the DUP in its 45-year history.

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Chris Buckler is at the hotel where the party is meeting.

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There'll be no surprises about the outcome -

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but what are the challenges for her in the new job?

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Yes, this isn't a contest, it is a coronation, Arlene Foster will leave

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here is DUP leader. Her political career began after a childhood that

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was affected by violence in Northern Ireland. The IRA tried to kill her

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father and she herself as a teenager was on a school bus which had a bomb

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exploded under it. Now, she will go into the role of First Minister in

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January to sit alongside Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister,

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of course, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein, the party with historical

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links to the IRA and the relationship between the parties is

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of course crucial to the success of power-sharing here. There are

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challenges for the party, as you mention. They are facing an election

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in a matter of months to the the Vamps Assembly and there are

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questions about which direction she will lead the party -- the Stormont

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Assembly. Will be tough on things like blocking the introduction of

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same-sex marriage in Ireland or will she soften their stance? It is

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remarkable to think that since this party was formed at the start of the

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1970s, only two people have led it, Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson and

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tonight, Arlene Foster's name is added to that list.

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A 17-year-old boy from the UK has been killed on a skiing holiday

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The teenager was with a group of friends when he lost control

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According to French police, he was going down too fast

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despite signs asking for skiers to slow down

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Almost all cancers are caused by environmental factors

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and lifestyle choices - like smoking and drinking too much

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alcohol - that's according to the latest research

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But the new study is at odds with a report earlier this year

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which indicated that most cancers were down to bad luck and the result

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Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

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There are choices we can all make to cut our risk of cancer,

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most importantly not smoking, having a balanced diet and not

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getting obese, and protecting our skin from sun damage.

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But what proportion of cancers are really down to lifestyle,

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The biggest cancer killer of women in the UK is lung cancer.

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Victoria Hurd lost her mum to the disease last year.

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As with most cases, she had been a committed smoker.

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It is the second Christmas without my mum and it is devastating

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to know that my little boy won't really remember my mum

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when he grows up, so when I look at young women smoking,

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I think they are absolutely crazy, because they are going to pay

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the price 30 years down the line because they possibly

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Every family in the UK has been touched by cancer.

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There are 2.5 million people in the UK living

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When it comes to bad luck or lifestyle, researchers

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in New York mathematically modelled cancer incidents and conclude that

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between 70-90% of cases are the result of environmental

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factors, and just 10-30% are down to bad luck.

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That contradicts other US research from January which claimed that

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The latest research team say an unhealthy lifestyle

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is like playing Russian roulette with your health.

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There is an element of luck whether a person gets cancer or not.

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But if someone smokes or is exposed to other external factors,

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then that is like adding two or three more bullets to the gun

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and therefore there is still an element of luck but the odds now

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Old age is the biggest risk factor for cancer and while none

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of us can hold back time, a healthy lifestyle will lower our

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odds of getting cancer and a host of other diseases.

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Why is it proving so difficult to get more people -

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young and old - to take up sport and get fit?

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That's a question the Government's still grappling with.

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Now children as young as five will be targeted

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Sport England is to share its ?1 billion budget more widely

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in what's being described as the biggest shake-up

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of community sport in over a decade.

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Our Sports Correspondent Katie Gornall reports.

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A few miles from London's Olympic Park, the fight for the sporting

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The Sports Minister announced the biggest shakeup of community

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sport in over a decade, and a plan the Government hopes

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There are lots of groups that provide support to communities,

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where there are perhaps physical or learning difficulties, to older

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people's groups and we definitely want to encourage that in order to

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make sure we get more people physically active. Under the

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Government's plan, money will be diverted from national governing

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bodies, with more made available to charities and community groups, like

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this boxing club in north London. And this is what prompted the

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Government to act. Since 2012, the number of adults playing sport in

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England has fallen and for 5-10 -year-olds, it has dropped.

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Previously, Sport England supported those aged over 40 but to tackle the

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dip, the new strategy will look after children aged five and over

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outside of school -- aged 14. The battle to secure the legacy remains

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as tough as ever. Many were welcomed the announcement is a chance for the

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country to strengthen its relationship with sport while others

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will suggest the problems are partly the Government's own making. Cuts to

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local authority budgets and a decline in school sport have also

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been blamed for disappointing participation figures in the wake of

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London 2012. Many of our members rely on people being able to take

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part in their activities in local authority facilities, so if they are

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more expensive or there are fewer of them, it will make an impact. It is

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not just enter sports and leisure centres to get people fit, we all

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have a role to play and the individual has as well. The London

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Olympics were sold on a promise to inspire a generation. As those

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memories fade, now comes an attempt to revive its sporting legacy.

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Some or rather springlike scenes. The weather is ridiculous at the

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moment, isn't it? Weather watchers have been sending us pictures of

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daffodils, such as here in Oxfordshire and further north, we

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have cherry blossom, would you believe? It really is extremely mild

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for this time of the year. Temperatures today peaked in the

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south-east of London, London, 16 degrees. The average temperature

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nearer 7-9. We have some rain across East Anglia and the south-east, that

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will break and a few showers blown into Western areas. The brisk wind

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will continue but not a cold night. Not as warm as last night in the

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south but the most, temperatures remaining in double figures.

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Tomorrow, breaks in the cloud and tantalising glimpses of the Sun in

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the east before it clouds over and we see rain pushing into the

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northern half of the UK. Further south, a few showery bursts early

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on, across Wales and the south-west, may be fading into the Midlands but

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mostly dry. It will cloud over in East Anglia after some early

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sunshine. Some rain the northern England, chiefly the north-west, but

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it will be wet the most of the day across Northern Ireland, heavy rain

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into the South and West of Scotland, a couple of inches before it clears

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away and there will be more rain overnight. This weather front brings

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the first spell of rain, another one line set up overnight and then

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stumbles into England and Wales is weak head into Saturday. Saturday,

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the rain will continue in south-west England and Wales, the heaviest

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across South Wales. Either side of that, something a bit brighter,

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still very, very mild on Saturday, those temperatures across the board

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14 or 15 degrees. Maybe not quite as mild as that on Sunday, a blustery

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day, again it will be windy, some sunshine and some showers.

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Thank you. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

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so it's goodbye from me

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