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Nigel Farage is standing aside as the Ukip leader -

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He told supporters he'd achieved his goal when Britain voted

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During the referendum campaign I said "I want my country back."

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What I'm saying today is I want my life back.

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The man with a pint - he reached parts of Britain

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other politicians didn't, inspiring some, angering others.

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Also tonight - the race to lead the Conservatives,

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and the job of negotiating Britain's exit from the EU.

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The Energy Minister, Andrea Leadsom, launches her bid and says EU

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citizens living here should be allowed to stay.

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Chris Evans pulls out of the new Top Gear show -

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he says his best was not good enough.

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They're team mates in Spain, but now Ronaldo and Bale prepare

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to go head-to-head as Wales take on Portugal.

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Coming up in the sport on BBC News: Britain's Andy Murray aims for a

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straight ninth quarterfinal here at Wimbledon, but standing

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in his way is Australian Nick Kyrgios.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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Nigel Farage, the leader of Ukip, has announced that he is stepping

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aside as leader of the party he founded to campaign for Britain's

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He said that task had now been achieved, though he'd be watching

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to make sure there was no backsliding in

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Well, those negotiations will be headed by whoever becomes

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Today the Leave campaigner Andrea Leadsom launched her bid.

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Here's our political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

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Nervous? Nigel Farage? It looked that way. Moments before he was to

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reveal that his time was up. The leader of Ukip, Nigel Farage... His

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main work is done. I now feel I have done my bit, that I couldn't

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possibly achieve more than we managed to get in that referendum so

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I feel it is right that I should now stand aside as leader of Ukip.

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During the referendum campaign, I said, I want my country back. What

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I'm saying today is I want my life back and it begins right now, thank

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you. But his parting shot? Ironically for the man who has

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pushed to reduce immigration, a call for all five contenders to be the

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next Prime Minister to promised EU nationals already here can stay for

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good. Everybody who has come to this country legally has fully protected

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rights. The fact that hereafter we will have a different immigration

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system and not an open door is a separate issue. What happens to him

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or her or them, the 3 million EU migrants who have made their lives

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here is becoming one of the big first tests of the contest to be the

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next Prime Minister. EU countries have consistently said we cannot

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trade freely with them if their people cannot move freely here.

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Andrea Leadsom, Tory minister and want to be Prime Minister, says

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whether from Portugal or Poland, they should be able to stay. I

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commit today to guaranteeing the right of our EU friends who have

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already come here to live and work. We must give them certainty. There

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is no way they will be bargaining chips in our negotiations. One of

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her Eurosceptic rivals who also wants Number Ten, Liam Fox, said he

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would like EU nationals to be able to stay but stop short of a

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guarantee. I would like us to come to a mutual decision that those who

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are already here have full rights to remain, and I would want to see

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mutuality in that particular arrangement. The Foreign Secretary,

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who is backing Theresa May, told me that firm promises cannot yet be

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made. Those who are saying today, no, we will make a unilateral

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commitment that EU nationals can stay in the UK without extracting a

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matching promise that Brits in Spain are able to stay there, I think are

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selling our people out to cheat. We have to make sure this is a

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reciprocal arrangement. The Foreign Secretary has been talking to his

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counterparts around the continent and says we cannot expect to control

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immigration and not lose out on trade. There will be a trade-off

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because the new political reality in Britain is that we cannot carry on

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with full freedom of movement as a right as we have seen it in the

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past, and that will mean that we are not able to get full and unfettered

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access to the market. What all the contenders for Number Ten are

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grappling with is not just the question of why they believe they

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are the right person for the job, but how will they unpick and reshape

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our relationship with the rest of the world? What happens to people

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from Spain, Poland or Portugal who are already here is the first big

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question, but there is no way with complex negotiations ahead that it

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will be the last. It is not likely that people from other EU countries

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will have to leave, but working out what happens to those who have made

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their way to the UK will help decide who gets to move in here.

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Whether it was a photo opportunity in a pub or a verbal assault

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in the European parliament, there was no mistaking

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Nigel Farage's single-minded determination to pull Britain out

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Arguably, he reshaped British politics over the last two decades.

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Our political correspondent Ben Wright looks at his

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career and what might happen to his party next.

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The moment of victory. And time to bow out. For two decades, Nigel

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Farage had a mission, to lead Britain out of the EU. While Ukip

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has just one MP at Westminster, the party's impact on politics has been

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huge. Probably one of the most influential politicians in the

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post-war era, not just of this century, because if it wasn't for

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Nigel Farage and his hard work and the Ukip activists, we wouldn't have

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had a referendum on our membership of the EU. The former city trader

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was a founder of Ukip and soon distilled its pitch to a simple

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phrase. What people are saying is get Britain out. In 1999, Farage was

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elected to the European Parliament, a place he mocked from the start.

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You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade

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bank clerk. He wanted Britain to leave, but the years Ukip could not

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break through with voters and in 2006 David Cameron memorably mocked

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them. I mean Ukip, it is just a bunch of fruit cakes and closet

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racists. A decade later, Nigel Farage would have the last laugh.

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With his love of the drink, Farage is not like most politicians but the

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jovial demeanour disguised serious intent. The seriousness that

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hardened after he was injured in a plane crash in 2010, an experience

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that spurred him on. Over the next five years Ukip made huge strides,

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coming first in the European elections in 2014. He celebrated in

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a Westminster pub of course. Ukip's campaign was cutting through, not

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only winning over disillusioned Tories, but many working-class

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Labour voters as well. David Cameron promised an EU referendum, in part

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to head off the Ukip advance. Today in Essex, where Ukip came second in

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the general election, some disappointment at Nigel Farage's

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decision. Shocked when you told me, he seems a nice guy, not scared to

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say what he wants. It up the party from being a fringe organisation to

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a mainstream political force is so very impressive figure. I am glad he

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is going, especially the way he treated people in the EU, the way he

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spoke to people is disgusting. A divisive rabble-rouser to some,

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their hero to others, Ukip without Nigel Farage will lose some of its

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colour. Where the party heads next is a question for his successor.

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The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has made a direct appeal

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After a week in which he's lost the support of most of his MPs,

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he posted a video on social media today defending his

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Earlier, Angela Eagle - who resigned from the Shadow Cabinet last week -

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warned that she will mount a challenge if Mr Corbyn

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Our Political Correspondent Vicki Young has the details.

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Nice to see you all thanks so much for coming.

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Resignations are popular at Westminster right now, but the

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Labour leader has never been a follower of fashion.

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Jeremy Corbyn's under enormous pressure to go, but

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today he couldn't have been clearer...

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Only nine months ago I was very honoured to be elected leader of our

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party. Using social media to speak

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directly to his party, But many of his MPs are in no mood

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for compromise and Angela Eagle says she's to launch

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a leadership challenge. I have the support to run

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and I will do so if Jeremy doesn't Last week, more than 60

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of Mr Corbyn's front bench team Then in a vote of no-confidence,

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more than 170 Labour their leader, but his team say

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he was elected by a quarter of a million party members and thousands

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more are signing up to support him. There's been some talk of a brokered

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deal between the Labour leader and his MPs, but it's hard to see

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how that would work. Many now expect

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a leadership contest. One MP told me they'd have the fight

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of their lives and if Mr Corbyn was

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re-elected they are openly talking about a split

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in Mr Corbyn's team said

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that he is simply getting on And this afternoon, that meant

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a grilling from MPs about allegations of anti-Semitism

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in the Labour Party. organisations are fearful

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with you as leader of the Labour Party,

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that you are fostering a period in

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the party were anti-Semitism exists? I think it's deeply unfair

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and deeply So you regret using those words? Of

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course. Labour MPs hoped Mr Corbyn will resign but he is drawing

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strength from the tens of thousands of party members who propelled him

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to victory last year. For now, there is no sign of this stand-off coming

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to an end. Chris Evans has stepped down

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as presenter of Top Gear, saying his best shot

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at the programme wasn't good enough. Ratings for the BBC show,

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which was relaunched in May after Jeremy Clarkson

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was sacked, have been falling. Here's our Media Correspondent,

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David Sillito. Welcome to Top Gear with our

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all-new improved audience. When Chris Evans replaced

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Jeremy Clarkson as the face of Top Jeremy Clarkson had turned the show

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into a global success story and then Chris Evans stepped in alongside

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former Friends star, Matt Le Blanc. But Chris Evans has

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lasted just one series. He's faced a stream of negative

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stories in the press and also allegations about his behaviour

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going back to the 90s. This morning, he said

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nothing as he left Radio 2. A few hours later, he sent

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this tweet. One Top Gear fan who is also

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a former Stig agrees. I think it was an obvious

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consequence of the first show, Now, the shows have got

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an awful lot better, but that was the key moment

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the new show and Chris had And they just didn't get

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the first one right. When you add in catch-up and

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repeats, around 9 million did watch the first programme,

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but since then figures have dipped. Last night's ratings

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were below 2 million. The BBC says the show will continue,

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filming for the new series But while Chris Evans will be back

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on air on Radio 2 tomorrow, the world's biggest factual

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programme has once again Six men have been jailed

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for distributing drugs The judge at Birmingham Crown Court

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said the quantities of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy involved

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were truly colossal. The drugs, valued at more

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than a billion pounds, were hidden inside Dutch ambulances

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which entered the UK The investment company Standard Life

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has suspended dealing The company said it took

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the decision following an increase in requests from investors

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about withdrawing their funds as a result of uncertainty

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for the UK commercial real estate market following the EU

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referendum result. The Chair of a major child abuse

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inquiry in Scotland has resigned following claims she made comments

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which were "offensive" to survivors. Our Scotland Editor Sarah Smith

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is in Glasgow with more details. You had better give us the

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background to this? Even before Susan O'Brien QC resigned today, the

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Education Secretary had already begun proceedings to try to have her

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sacked. The comments she said were unacceptable, made during a training

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session during a specialist psychologist. Concerns were raised

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when she appeared to make light of abuse suffered by an individual at a

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boarding school and about a joke she made about the teacher facing child

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sex allegations. The Education Secretary said she has shown a

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shocking level of misjudgement over this affair and he was worried that

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if she stayed in post, and these comments were made public, it could

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undermine comments in the whole enquiry. Susan O'Brien has fired

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back at dramatic resignation letter, in which he accuses the Scottish

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Government of trying to control and micromanage her enquiry and attempt

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to undermine her. Another member of the panel resigned last week in

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support of Susan O'Brien. While survivors of child sex abuse in

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Scotland are left calling for a judge led enquiry into historical

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allegations, like the one currently being held in England and Wales.

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Thank you. Wales are preparing to take

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on Portugal in the country's biggest fixture ever,

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the semi-finals of Euro 2016! It's a meeting which will see two

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giants of international football, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo,

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who both play for Real Madrid, But Wales's Gareth Bale insists

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the match is about much more Our Wales Correspondent Hywel

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Griffith is at the Wales training base

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on the French coast. Together on a journey

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that is breaking new ground. Wales are the first team

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from Britain to make it to They've shown they've got the guts

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and the heart to perform Some, of course, are used

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to the limelight. At Real Madrid, Gareth Bale's every

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move is under scrutiny. In this semifinal he'll

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face his Portuguese team-mate, We know that everybody knows that

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really it's about two Although you are the star,

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do you feel that really it's more that some of the other players have

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come onto a different level? There's no stars in our team,

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we are all together, We all run for each other,

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we all tackle for each other Wales' low-key approach has meant

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enjoying Brittany's beaches with ice creams and kickabouts,

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keeping things relaxed. But Gareth Bale's meeting

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with Cristiano Ronaldo As the younger of the two,

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Gareth Bale has 60 caps, While this is Bale's

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first major tournament, But so far, Bale is having a better

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Euro 2016 with three goals Portugal's path to this semifinal

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depended on penalties. They've not won a game

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within 90 minutes. That has some Welsh fans and former

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players daring to dream. They are going up

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a level, every game. He didn't cuddle me when we played

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together, he's given me six cuddles already in the last three weeks

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when we were over there. We're all proud of them,

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all of the nation are proud. With the attention trained

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on Gareth Bale, Wales have found a way of making

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the whole team thrive. Having come this far,

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they're in no mood Tennis now and both Roger Federer

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and Serena Williams sailed through their fourth

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round matches today. Britain's number 1 Andy Murray is

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on court now as Joe Wilson reports. Well out by week two. It is fine if

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you are turf behind the baseline, but the soloist must be stronger.

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Andy Murray prepared. He wasn't playing Roger Federer got past Steve

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Johnson. The American was the fly chasing uncharted territory. Roger

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Federer stood and watched, waiting to swat. Straight sets win, Roger

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Federer in his 14th Wimbledon quarterfinal, equalling the record

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with the spirit of a teenager. 149 days after federal, Serena Williams.

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But 34 she still has great power. But progress isn't always easy,

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especially when the court is a bit slippy. Drizzle closed the roof and

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suddenly Serena Williams was liberated against Svetlana

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Kuznetsova. 6-0 in the second set. Through. In waiting for someone?

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Andy Murray's match B game just after five o'clock. This time he was

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playing an opponent talented enough to beat him. Early signs, this is a

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match which could have everything. Andy Murray one very tight first set

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and has just broken the serve in the second set. Both players have a

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certain reputation for their temper, but they are friends, and so far it

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has been a great watch and very good-natured.

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Time for the weather. 12 showers, but much of eastern England is dry

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today, unlike what we have seen further north. This evening we have

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some heavy bursts of rain working from west to east. If you are on the

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roads, a lot of surface water, a brief spell of intense rain in

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northern England especially. Heavy rain eases in the night, just cloud

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and patchy rain and drizzle heading south east across England and Wales.

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Introducing fresh weather to the north and but drier conditions into

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the morning and humid across East Anglia and the south east. The cloud

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and patchy rain or drizzle here. A strengthening wind pushing away the

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humid air. Much of England and Wales and Northern Ireland, dry and fine

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Tuesday. Plenty of showers across Scotland, which could be into the

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north-east of England. Generally a fresher day, nice notably across the

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South but more sunshine in the north-west are not too bad. Cool

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start to Wednesday, Sony stop the many, but the cloud will increase

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from the West and it is the north-west of the UK which will see

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the rain developed. Northern Ireland and western Scotland and a few spots

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to western part of England and Scotland. Temperatures will rise,

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but a wet night for part of Scotland and Northern Ireland. That links

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into another area of low pressure but Thursday which will introduce

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cloud and outbreaks of rain from the south-west and the north-east of the

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country. Rainfall amounts will bury. But to the far north we will see

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something brighter. The south east staying brighter again.

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