29/03/2016 BBC News at Six


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Airline safety under the spotlight again -

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a Egyptian plane is diverted to Cyprus after an apparent hijack.

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The hijacker went through Egyptian security, but on the flight he wore

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There are vulnerabilities within the system, it is not safe environment.

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Passengers were released unharmed - security officials rule out

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The fate of the Port Talbot steelworks in the balance -

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a crucial board meeting in Mumbai today.

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Big questions for boxing after Saturday's controversial fight

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- veteran boxer Chris Eubank speaks out about safety.

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Even in sparring I tell Junior, stay away from their heads.

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His punching ability is fast, it's powerful and it's dangerous.

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Tighter borrowing rules for buy-to-let landlords over fears

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they are overheating the housing market.

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The army of volunteers who keep public libraries going -

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a special report on the future of the service.

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News: England line up for a friendly

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against the Netherlands, their last match before manager

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Roy Hodgson names his squad for Euro 2016.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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A man who had a fake suicide vest strapped to his body hijacked

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a passenger jet in Egypt today, forcing it to divert to Cyprus.

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All the passengers and crew were freed, but for a few tense

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hours it looked like another terror attack, raising further questions

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56 people were on board the flight when it left Alexandria this morning

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for Cairo before being diverted to Larnaca Airport.

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Our correspondent Yolande Knell is live for us there tonight.

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A cockpit window became the emergency exit as the Egyptair crew

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escaped this hostage drama. The hijacker then emerged

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escaped this hostage drama. The was found to be a fake suicide belt,

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and he surrendered to the Cypriot authorities. On board the plane, the

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man, an Egyptian named Seif Eldin Mustafa alarmed staff when he

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threatened to blow up. The flight, carrying over 60 people, including

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Britain and other Europeans, was forced to divert from Cairo to

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Larnaca airport. Many passengers were released, but a handful were

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held for several hours. TRANSLATION: We got on board the

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plane, and were surprised that the crew took away all of our passports.

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After awhile, we realised the altitude was getting higher. At

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first the crew told us there was a problem with the plane. Only later

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we knew it was being hijacked. As the plane remains on the tarmac,

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this unusual incident is being investigated. And inevitably,

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questions are being asked about security. After a deadly attack last

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year, Egypt was criticised for it airport controls. But this all

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appears to have been caused by a passenger who only pretended to have

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a weapon. Grainy footage has been released that apparently shows the

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hijacker undergoing security checks at Alexandria airport, and Egypt's

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Prime Minister waiver assurances that procedures were rigorous.

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TRANSLATION: We conduct strict and very accurate measures at our

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airports and seaports. We follow up on all fronts. I hope that all will

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go well with the continuous follow-up work, and development with

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the new equipment we have. Security experts say there are some scenarios

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it will always be hard to prepare for. It reminds us to get aviation

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security more holistically. There are vulnerabilities within the

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system, it is not a total security environment. There remain risks.

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This evening, an aircraft flew in, expecting to take travellers back to

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Egypt. While no one was harmed in today's hostage situation, it could

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still have a negative effect on the country's tourism, making

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holiday-makers jittery. With me now is our security

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correspondent, Frank Gardner. It is five months since the Russian

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plane was brought down after leaving Egypt. This will raise new questions

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about security. It will. It is a PR disaster Egypt, as if it needed

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another one. But to be fair, no explosives were smuggled through the

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airport, so the initial claim is reported that a suicide belt and got

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on board was not true, but the fact remains that this passenger, who was

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described by the Cypriot authorities as being psychologically unstable,

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was able to smuggle through Alexandria's airport enough

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materials that resembled a bomb, ie a padded white belt and wires

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sticking out of it, and that I think is going to cause people quite a lot

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of worry, it could even lead to greater security checks. Egypt is

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still reeling from what happened five months ago, somebody smuggled

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aboard a soft ranks can plane flying out of Sharm el-Sheikh airport to

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Russia, and that blew up in midair killing all the people on board.

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Egypt, a country I have lived in twice, it does have a bad track

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record when it comes to airline security. There is an element of

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putting the head in the sand, trying to perhaps not admit that things

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were as bad as they were, and it took some long time to admit that

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was terrorism. They have put a lot of measures in place, and they will

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now have to look again at security reviews in all their airports.

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Frank, thank you very much. The future of Port Talbot steelworks in

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south Wales and the thousands of jobs that depend on it is in the

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balance tonight. Directors of the parent company, Tata Steel, have

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been holding a board meeting in Mumbai today.

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Our business editor Simon Jack is there.

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Port Talbot tonight is holding its breath desperate for any word of

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whether any rescue plan for this loss-making plant has been rejected

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accepted by the Indian board. If it is rejected, there are fears it

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could suffer the same fate as other steel plants in England and

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Scotland, either mothballed, shut down altogether, or shutdown cheaply

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with the loss of thousands of jobs. We are all waiting to get the word,

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and I have been looking round the town to see what it is like to live

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in the shadow of an industrial crisis.

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The future of Port Talbot steelworks is shrouded in uncertainty today.

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After 30 years of working there, Andrew O'Connor is about to leave

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for another night shift, uncertain how many more

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It affects so many people in the wider area, and the wider

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community, like my family, my son is a local plumber.

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Work like that is going to become more scarce if the steelworks goes.

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Hopefully the survival package will be accepted by the board

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The decision to save this plant will not be made in Wales

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or in Westminster, but in Mumbai, where the board of Tata Steel have

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been listening to a rescue plan that could save over 3000 jobs.

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It's all a far cry from the glory years.

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NEWSREEL: Today this triumph of British private enterprise

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provides the Government with its greatest export asset.

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Steel has been produced here for a hundred years.

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At its height it employed 20,000 people, but that was before China

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arrived on the scene, producing hundreds of millions

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of tonnes a year, more than its own slowing economy now

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We have the cheap importation of steel from China.

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There's a glut of steel, cheap steel, on the market.

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I think we have an issue around procurement where many

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of the projects that we have in the UK should be

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And thirdly then with regard to the high energy prices

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Where we do not have a competitive landscape at the moment.

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The question for the company, and ultimately for the future

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of this community, is whether these low prices are a temporary thing

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caused by a short-term glut and worth toughing out,

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or whether they're part of the long-term economic landscape.

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It involves turning losses of ?1 million a day into profit

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within two years, and will require Tata ploughing in more money.

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If it's rejected, it's feared Port Talbot could see the flames

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of primary industry snuffed out, suffering the same fate as Redcar

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in Teesside, the biggest casualty of a cull which claimed 5000 steel

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Buyers and investors have partially saved plants

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Port Talbot is holding out for a saviour of its own.

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And we are expecting some sort of communication at eight o'clock.

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People have been winding down their windows asking if there is any news.

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Whether that will be enough to conclusively sealed the fate of this

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plant one way or another remains to be seen. Meanwhile, we wait. Thank

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you, Simon. Buy-to-let investors could soon find

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it harder to raise funds. The Bank of England says it wants

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lenders to make more stringent tests The bank is worried that the growing

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number of buy-to-let sales Our economics correspondent,

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Andy Verity, has this report. Signs of an old fear about the

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housing market returning to haunt us. In 1988, a rush to buy ahead of

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tax changes caused the housing market boom which turned to bust.

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Now it is buy-to-let landlords rushing to beat a big hike in stamp

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duty next week. For every estate agent branch, there are 406 to three

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house-hunters, the highest number of the highest number for 12 years.

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Here is what the Bank of England is worried about. Buy-to-let landlords

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borrowed more than ?40 billion before the crisis, and last year we

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were nearly already back up to that level, and it is speeding up.

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Lenders expect it to grow by this year and next, another ?100 billion

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of buy to let lending. They say lenders are all asking the right

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questions before they lend, so they are ordering to tighten up their

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standards. Borrowers must be able to afford a hike in interest rates to

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5.5%, and where borrowers have to chip in their own money to cover the

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mortgage, that income must be verified. And lenders must make sure

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borrowers can afford not just the mortgage but the tax payments.

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What's worrying, perhaps, is that after the boom and bust we have had,

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there are still lenders who are not doing that already. I think lenders,

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our members, will only be happy that this is a proportionate approach

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from regulators, but at the same time, because it is a balancing act,

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we would want to see regulators keeping a close eye on all these

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different interventions they are making to make sure they don't

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overdo putting the brakes on the buy-to-let market. Another blow for

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buy-to-let landlords is the restriction on tax relief for the

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interest they pay on their mortgages, announcing this month's

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budget. Now it is not just the Chancellor but Bank of England

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bearing down on them. I feel like this is an unnecessary crackdown on

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buy-to-let lending. George Osborne has already seriously put the brakes

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on buy-to-let, and what the Bank of England are now doing is far too

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late, and most lenders already have the kind of stress tests on lending

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that the Bank of England is talking about bringing in. But the

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that the Bank of England is talking England says the biggest risk to

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financial stability is the referendum on Europe. It says that

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financial stability is the uncertainty surrounding the vote

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could force up borrowing costs across the economy.

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There are new questions about safety in boxing after Saturday's title

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fight. Nick Blackwell is still in a medically induced coma in hospital

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after losing to Chris Eubank junior. Today, Chris Eubank senior has

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after losing to Chris Eubank junior. questioned the decision to allow the

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sport to go on. Richard Conway has more.

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Doctors later revealed he had suffered a small bleed on his brain.

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Today, his opponent, Chris Eubank Junior,

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together with his father, Chris Senior, the former

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When I am watching him after the fight and he is lying

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on the ground with an oxygen mask, that is when worry sets in.

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Wow, I didn't realise this was going to happen, you know?

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With Blackwell's face bloodied, the swelling visible,

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Eubank Senior reportedly banged on the canvas during the fight,

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He then stepped into the ring to warn his son that his opponent

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was hurt, questioning why the bout was continuing.

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One, he's getting hurt, two, why isn't the referee

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It was Eubank Senior's 1981 world title contest against Michael Watson

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After a brutal exchange of punches, Watson spent 40 days in a coma,

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and had six brain operations, leaving him partially paralysed.

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The memory of that night still resonates.

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The objective is always to advise my fighter,

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who is in this case my son, and also, if necessary,

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From the seventh round, I told him what I told him

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because it was based on an emotion I went through 25 years ago

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Boxing's regulators say they are satisfied with the way

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the fight was officiated, but one brain injury charity says

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there are serious questions to answer.

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The surgeon who operated on Michael Watson 25 years ago

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believes more effort should now be devoted to minimising harm

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You will never get rid of it, like you could never get rid

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of injury in all sport, but the only way of bringing that

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down is to stop fights earlier, and I think this has raised

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Nick Blackwell remains in hospital in a medically induced coma,

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but it's believed there are no plans to operate on him.

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Over the weekend, his family thanked the public

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They, together with the world of boxing, are hopeful he can

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An Egyptian playing is hijacked by a man wearing a fake suicide belt. All

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passengers and crew on board and are released unharmed.

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Privacy questions after the FBI say they have hacked into one.

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Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England's cricketers,

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both men and women, get ready for tomorrow's

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semifinals at the world T20 tournament in India.

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The number of people sleeping rough in England is rising.

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Latest government figures show an increase of 30%.

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In Manchester, it's risen by 50% in the last year.

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Some of the city's homeless are now living in tents in a makeshift camp

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Our UK Affairs Correspondent Jeremy Cooke has spent a night with them.

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Gary is 36, trying to get off the heroin and get off the street.

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It's upsetting, it is depressing really, you know.

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You walk past someone's house, you look in the window.

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You see them around the TV, all warm and cosy.

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You feel so depressed, you feel so low.

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I was staying in a lift shaft in a car park,

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and you know, getting woke up at five in the morning by the guy

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who's mopping the place out, saying "come on, mate,

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off you pop, on your way," is degrading.

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It's embarrassing, very embarrassing.

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Volunteers for the Coffee 4 Craig charity know that in Manchester

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alone the number of rough sleepers has leapt by 50% in the past year.

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Every night brings more mouths to feed.

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As more lives descend into chaos and homelessness.

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In many ways, this is the easy part because later tonight it will get

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colder, and while some of these people may be sleeping in hostels

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and temporary accommodation, others will be sleeping rough

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In squalid, makeshift city centre campsites,

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Booze and heroin and everything in between.

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Dave lives like the others, amid the filth.

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He is covering his face, not because of the law

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but because he doesn't want his family

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It's hard to keep your spirits up when you're

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I mean at the end of the day, I lost my housing, I've

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lost my benefits, I lost the girl that I loved.

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I never expected to be living in a little tent like this.

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Yeah, I would say this is my lowest moment.

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The Government says it is protecting and raising funds to prevent

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homelessness, and that no one should have to sleep rough.

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In Manchester though, it's not proving that simple.

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I don't think people should be sleeping on the streets

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of Manchester at all but we are struggling,

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trying to find places for everyone to go.

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We are in a real challenging situation.

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As the city moves on, the homeless risk

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Gary, for one, is fighting back, he's now in temporary

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accommodation and has been off the drugs for three weeks.

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I'm just trying my best now because obviously

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I can't carry on down this path, it's the wrong way to go.

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Starting to see things for what they are.

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I want to start work straight away, I want to jump in.

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Homelessness is a growing problem in cities across the country,

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A legal stand-off between the FBI and the technology giant Apple

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The FBI wanted the company to unlock the phone used by the man

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who was behind the shooting of 14 people at San Bernardino

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Now the US Justice Department says it's managed to access data

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Our technology Correspondent Rory Cellan Jones reports.

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It was an attack that left 14 people dead and then sparked a conflict

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between the US government and America's wealthiest technology

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The FBI wanted to know whether the two San Bernardino

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killers had collaborated with others, and demanded that Apple

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help it crack the passcode of an iPhone belonging

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Now the FBI says someone else has helped it get access to the data

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on the phone and the court case has been dropped.

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Basically it's over for them right now.

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The broader issue is not over though.

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The Government and law enforcement are going to keep wanting

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Tech companies are going to keep fighting back.

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Apple said creating what it called a back door to the iPhone

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"We believed it was wrong and would set a dangerous precedent."

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The statement went on: "This case should never have been brought."

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The FBI wanted Apple to write software which would stop the iPhone

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from deleting its data if too many failed attempts were made

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In the end, someone else helped it get past the phone's defences.

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The problem for Apple is that it just doesn't know how that was done.

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So it can't be sure that hundreds of millions of iPhone customers

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around the world are safe from a similar attack.

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One Israeli newspaper claimed it was a Tel Aviv-based firm called

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It's already developed software to crack the codes of older iPhones.

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Apple constantly upgrades its software when it discovers

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One security expert told me this time it's working in the dark.

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We find ourselves in the rather ironic position where the FBI know

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about a vulnerability, apparently, in Apple's device,

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the iPhone, which Apple themselves don't know about.

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Apple have not been cooperating with the FBI so far.

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So of course if Apple don't know about this problem and what this fix

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needs to be, then they can't fix it for their customers.

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As it tries to make those customers more secure,

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Apple is in an arms race with hackers probing its defences,

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and this time it is the US government which is ahead

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

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched

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an investigation after a 24-year-old man was shot by police

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There are unconfirmed reports armed officers called on the man to put

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A 32-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder

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of a shopkeeper in the south side of Glasgow.

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40-year-old Asad Shah was killed outside his shop last Thursday.

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Police had described the incident as a religiously prejudiced attack.

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100 new nurse training places will be made available

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in Northern Ireland from the autumn onwards.

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Northern Ireland's health minister, Simon Hamilton, made

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the announcement due to what he said was a rising demand for nurses

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They've been seen as the cornerstones of our community.

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A trip to the local library used to be a regular occurrence a way

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An investigation by BBC News has revealed that more than 300

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libraries across the country have closed in six years.

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Thousands of jobs have disappeared and many are manned by volunteers

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leading to fears for the future of professional librarians.

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Bringing books to life, Young wizards conjuring up the magic of

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Harry Potter at this library in Wiltshire. It is a wet day in the

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Easter holidays and this place is busy. What's your favourite book?

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That one, Room On The Broom. I often browse through cookery books and

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things that I might not be able to buy in the shops. What have you got

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today? That is a stamp catalogue, they are ?25 each to buy, there is

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six in a series so it is a lot of money. I can look at it when I wish.

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Figures obtained by BBC News teams across the UK show that in the last

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six years, 343 libraries have closed. During that time, almost

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8000 jobs have gone in UK libraries but over the same period,

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8000 jobs have gone in UK libraries recruited. Volunteers like Sue,

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Joyce and Christine who have saved their local library but they say

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they cannot do everything. their local library but they say

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end of the day we need trained librarian on the end of the phone

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whenever we librarian on the end of the phone

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to be able to deal with the things we cannot do. We don't have the

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depth of knowledge they have got about books, literature. You know,

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that's their career, whereas for us it is a pleasure.

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that's their career, whereas for us Libraries are exciting places...

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Councils say libraries need to diversify to stay relevant and

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viable in tough economic times. For those really socially isolated

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people, it is a space in every community that they can

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people, it is a space in every welcome. They don't have to pay for

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anything and yet they are welcome to sit and be in the library. Do you

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think libraries will survive in a digital future? We have to move with

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times. Across the UK there wide variations. Figures show libraries

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in England have suffered the deepest cuts.

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This weather cannot be trusted, sunny one minute, raining the next.

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It was sunny for many but the shower clouds built up during the course of

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the day. This shot taken from Devon earlier on, then it absolutely

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poured down across this part of the world, as it did across Wales as

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well. Some thunder and lightning, some snow over Welsh mountains, and

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this bank of wet weather has arrived in the London area just in time for

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the rush hour. There has been snow over the Pennines, that will clear

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through. Further showers affecting mainly western areas overnight. It

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will be another chilly night and in some rural spots we won't be far off

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freezing first thing in the morning. Another day of sunshine and showers,

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on balance tomorrow there will be fewer showers around which means you

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have a better chance of staying dry, but there will still be some sharp

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ones around, and wintry showers across the north of Scotland in

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particular. In the sunshine with light winds it will feel pleasant,

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when the showers, long temperatures will tumble away by several degrees.

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As we head over to the subcontinent, it will be up into the 30s for the

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world T 20s. 27 degrees even in the evening, but importantly it will be

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dry. Nothing like that at home tomorrow night, in fact it will be a

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particularly cold one with a widespread frost. This could be the

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scene first thing on Thursday morning, but Thursday is looking

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pretty good. The vast majority will be dry, still some showers,

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particularly across more northern parts of the UK, but with light

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winds and lots of sunshine I think Thursday will be one of the best

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days of the week and hopefully where you are, you will stay dry. A

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reminder of our main story. A man has been arrested after an Egyptian

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plane was hijacked. The aircraft landed in Cairo and all on board

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were released unharmed. That's all from the BBC News at Six

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so it's goodbye from me

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