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More than 500 children are identified as victims of sex abuse

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after a massive police investigation in Scotland.

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30 million images of children being abused,

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from as young as three, were found online.

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These men, predominantly, are using the profiles of children,

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pretending to be children, effectively, to communicate

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with younger children, to groom them online.

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Over 70 people have been arrested so far,

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but the investigation is expected to last another six months.

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Also tonight, nuclear fallout - condemnation of the Government's

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11th-hour decision to delay the deal for a new reactor at Hinkley.

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Hillary Clinton formally accepts the Democratic nomination

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for President and turns her fire on Donald Trump.

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is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

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Minutes from disaster in a sinking boat,

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two men are jailed for trying to smuggle 18 migrants into Britain.

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And saved for the nation, a rare portrait of Elizabeth I,

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after a ?10 million fundraising campaign.

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And coming up on BBC News, Scotland's Catriona Matthew

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has been on a charge at the Women's British Open,

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to take her to joint third at Woburn.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.

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An investigation by Police Scotland has revealed a huge level of abuse

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of children from as young as three up to teenagers.

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Millions of images of children being sexually abused

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More than 500 children have been identified as victims or potential

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The massive operation has led to 77 arrests,

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with officers saying it will take four full-time officers six months

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Our Scotland correspondent Steve Godden has more.

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It is these sinister side of the online world, this summers Scottish

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police concentrated their third spun tackling the sexual abuse of

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children. Six weeks that revealed the scale of a growing problem.

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Codenamed Operation Lattise, detectives identified more than 500

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child victims. They recovered more than 30 million images of children

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as young as three being abused. On one computer alone, 10 million

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pictures and videos were discovered. These individuals want to be

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wherever children are, so they are using websites, forums, chat rooms

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that children use. These men, predominantly, are using the

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profiles of children, pretending to be children, effectively, to

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communicate with younger children, to groom them online, to offend

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against them. In this crime lab, the grim task of and beating a

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computer's dark secrets. In the worst case, it will take a team of

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four officers six months to simply view the material. Behind every

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image is a crime scene, a child who has been subject to abuse, and every

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time that image is shared, that child is made a victim again, and we

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need to make sure that both we tackle the crimes that are being

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committed. Young people are spending more and more time online. Parents

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at this gaming festival in Glasgow have a difficult balancing act. My

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daughter is six, so she is really going just now, but when she gets to

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that age, who knows where social networking is going to be online,

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the internet is not going to go away, it is potentially going to

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become more of a safety issue. Anybody can make up stories, they

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can kid on that they are a child. If they are just typing, you do not

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know anything about them. You need to constantly check and constantly

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monitor what your kids are doing, it will take something wrong to happen

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for you to figure that out. Reputation, safety and

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responsibility... While enforcement continues, so do efforts to warn

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children about potential dangers online. Those catching the abusers

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save prevention is their most powerful tool. Steven is in Glasgow

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now. A number of children reveal that risk is horrifying, but this is

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what police found after just six weeks, is it the tip of the iceberg?

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Police are always working in this area, but for six weeks during the

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summer they took the decision to target their resources on tackling

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online child sexual abuse. They did so because they wanted to shine a

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light on the problem, to understand the scale of it, and what they

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found, their starting point was that the more that they looked, the more

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that they found. Certainly, the biggest here seem to bear that out,

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the numbers are stark. You heard in the piece there, 30 million images

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of abuse children, more than 500 victims. The majority of those

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victims are from Scotland, but when they are talking about this problem,

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police described it as a national threat that is global in nature.

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Also, they say there is no stereotypical perpetrator, the ages

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of those arrested range from 14 to 80. They say they are looking to

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keep on top of new technology, a Constant Djakpa and for them as they

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look to tackle this growing problem. -- a constant challenge for them.

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Unions and a major contractor have condemned the last-minute decision

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by the Government not to sign a contract to start work

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on Britain's first new nuclear power plant in 20 years.

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The deal for an ?18 billion plant at Hinkley in Somerset

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was supposed to be signed today with the French energy company EDF

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and a Chinese company, which is a key investor.

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The Government says it will now make a final decision in the autumn.

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Our business editor, Simon Jack, reports.

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Just when you think you've got there,

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After EDF's board voted to give this project the green light,

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This tent should have been thronging with officials

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celebrating the start of construction in earnest,

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with the on-site workforce growing from hundreds to thousands.

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But the Government said, "Not so fast."

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Deeply disappointed, and I've spoken to many people

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who are really angry, people who have spent years

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working to get us to the position that we've got to.

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There was real celebrations yesterday when EDF's board made

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and this very much felt like a slap in the face from the UK Government.

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So what happens now? Basically, there are three options.

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think, read the small print and sign the original deal.

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Option two, renegotiate - try to save money by offering EDF

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a lower price for the energy from Hinkley, but this might

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further delay or risk the project collapsing,

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Option three, cancel - walk away, save ?18 billion,

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saying, after a decade of effort from two previous governments,

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But then where would the electricity everyone agrees we need

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The Government says it wants to take its time

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After all, this is a 50-year commitment we're talking about.

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It'll lock us in a contract that could cost consumers ?30 billion

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That all seems fair enough, but they didn't tell the very people

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building it until the last moment, and that seems a strange way

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to treat important trading partners like China, like France,

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at the very time you're trying to tell the world

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Remember, EDF is 85% owned by the French state.

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If one of the governments, one of the sides cancels the deal,

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it's going to be very bitter on the other side,

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and, yeah, it could contribute to a souring

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of the relationships between the two countries,

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especially in the context of the Brexit.

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China agreed to put in a third of the money,

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a result, in part, of a George Osborne charm offensive,

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but changing partners or price will be very difficult.

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I think, effectively, what it means

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is that the deal in its current form is dead in the water.

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I think the only reason for a review can be one of two factors.

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First, that the Government don't like the price that is being asked.

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Second, that they don't like the involvement of the Chinese

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I think it's going to be very difficult

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Once again, the decision on this mammoth project

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this time for the Government to decide the way forward.

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was due to start generating power in 2025.

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So with the project on pause for now, what are the Government's

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other options for making sure the lights stay on in future?

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Here's our science editor, David Shukman,

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and, David, it's a very complicated picture.

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You're right, it is complicated, and the context for this

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long-running saga is that over the past decade one government

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after another has tried to balance three very different aims,

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keeping the lights on as older power stations are phased out,

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keeping energy bills as low as possible for consumers,

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and cutting our carbon emissions to help tackle climate change.

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So Hinkley, which would produce 7% of UK needs

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with carbon-free power, meets two of those objectives,

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Even so, supporters say it's essential.

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When you look at a nuclear plant back row, we look at capital cost,

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it is very high, but you have to look at the lifetime cost, and how

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long they are generating four. Hinkley Point will be generating for

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50 years plus, and for all of that time it will be giving secure

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electricity, reliable electricity and clean electricity continuously.

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The two reactors planned for Hinkley were picked because they were the

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most modern design with the largest power output. The operating concept

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is the same as for a pressurised water reactor... But the project to

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build these EPR reactors have struggled. One in Finland is running

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nine years late, and there is not yet one working anywhere. So what

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about alternatives? Renewable energy produced 25% of UK power in the

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first three months of this year. It is carbon free and costs are

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falling, but wind and solar are intermittent, which really matters

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in a long, cold winter. Gas is another option. It provided 37% of

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our power earlier this year. It is the cleanest fossil fuel, but either

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we imported, which creates uncertainty, or get it by fracking.

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And we've seen the opposition to that. So a serious home-grown supply

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could be years away. A third option is to be more efficient. Modern

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appliances use less power than older ones, so demand fell 6% over the

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past three years, nearly as much as Hinkley would generate. So critics

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say nuclear power is a costly mistake. If you look at the cost of

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Hinkley to the consumer, astronomical, they are now talking

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about consumers paying ?30 billion above the wholesale price of

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electricity during its lifetime, a huge sum of money, and then you got

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to deal with the nuclear waste. You got to store this wait for hundreds

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of thousands of years, it is very radioactive. They don't know what

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they are going to do without waste. Ultimately, there are no

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easy options, all of those objectives

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of being reliable, Big decisions about energy

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are always hard, and this one

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is tougher than most. Hillary Clinton has formally

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accepted the Democratic nomination In a speech at the party's

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convention in Philadelphia, she took aim at her rival

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Donald Trump, accusing him of having neither the character nor

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the experience to hold the office. Our North America editor,

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Jon Sopel, was there. Ladies and gentlemen,

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our next president, Hillary Clinton! She's spent a quarter of a century

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in public life, but no speech has mattered

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as much as this one. First, though,

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the historic formalities. and boundless confidence

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in America's promise that I accept your nomination

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for President of the United States! They cheered themselves hoarse -

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some cried as Hillary Clinton sought to reintroduce herself

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to the American public. It was personal, but she set out

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detailed policies too - some influenced by Bernie Sanders'

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insurgent campaign. Bernie Sanders and I will work

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together to make college tuition free for the middle class

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and debt-free for all. by someone who shouldn't

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have a gun in the first place. And she promised to raise

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the minimum wage. If you believe the minimum wage

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should be a living wage should have to raise their

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children in poverty, join us! to make about temperament

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and experience - why she was fit

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to be commander-in-chief Imagine him in the Oval Office

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facing a real crisis. is not a man we can trust

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with nuclear weapons. This has been an optimistic

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and upbeat vision of America presented by Hillary Clinton

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as the fireworks go off, a sharp contrast

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to the bleak and dark picture Politics is normally conducted

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in shades of grey, but the difference between

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump it's the chance of a lifetime

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to be here, I'm so thankful! We're excited for the

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first woman President. What did you think of her?

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I liked her! If conventions and razzmatazz won

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elections, the Democrats would be home and dry, but with Donald Trump

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in the fight, they don't - More than 500 children have been

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identified as victims of sex abuse after a massive police investigation

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in Scotland. And still to come,

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Pope Francis visits Auschwitz and meets survivors

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of the Holocaust. we'll be live at Wigan Warriors

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to look ahead to their big Challenge Cup

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semifinal meeting with the Super League leaders,

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Hull FC, tonight. Two men - one of them a former

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British judo champion - have been jailed for trying

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to smuggle 18 Albanian The group, which included two

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children, were rescued from their inflatable boat

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as it was sinking off None of the migrants had been given

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a life jacket and they believed Our Correspondent Duncan Kennedy

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is in Dymchurch where Yes, they were. The judge said this

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was a tragedy narrowly avoided. You join us on what was a beautiful

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summers evening here but last May when this happened it was cold,

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dangerous and extremely choppy here. That did not stop the smugglers

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bringing these migrants across the Channel. There is was one of two

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court cases dealing with this issue today, providing some success for

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the Home Office and proving that they are dealing with this problem,

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although also showing just how vulnerable the British coastline can

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be. One and a half miles off the Kent

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coast, this was the ghostly image of the migrant boat adrift,

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without petrol and taking on water. Closer, you can see the two

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smugglers in the red Robert Stillwell and Mark Stribling

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had life jackets on. The 18 Albanian migrants on board,

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including two children On the right of the shot,

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you can see one migrant desperately The judge today said that everyone

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here was within a Stillwell and Stribling were each

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paid ?2000 to smuggle migrants in. The migrants each paid ?5,000

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to make the journey. We often see that people

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smugglers treat human In this instance, they

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were treated as cargo. Robert Stillwell was a former

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British judo champion and was today Mark Stribling had a long criminal

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history and was also The court heard the two men

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were hired hands and that the real organisers were looking to make

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around ?90,000 from this one single Today's sentencing brings to an end

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one of the biggest people smuggling cases ever

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to reach the British courts. There have been warnings for months

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about the vulnerability of the UK coastline,

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given the numbers of migrants The government says it is aware

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of the problem and has now increased In a separate but also identical

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case today, this man, Steven Jackson, was also jailed for people

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smuggling along the south coast. He used this catamaran to bring in the

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17 Albanian migrants, into Chichester Harbour. They, too, were

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caught. 35 migrants were involved in today's two cases. More than nine

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have now been sent back. This has been a success for the Home Office

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but also warning about British coastal defences.

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Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, Kent.

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Pope Francis has visited the Auschwitz death camp in Poland,

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where more than a million people were murdered by the Nazis.

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He spent much of his visit in silent contemplation and prayer and met

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From Auschwitz, Tom Burridge reports.

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To a place which exposes the inadequacy of words. Where more than

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1 million mainly Jewish people were systematically murdered. Pope

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Francis spoke with some of the few who survived that horror.

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And a moment to reflect. At the wall where a Nazi firing squads executed

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thousands. Then, a prayer in a cell, we are a Catholic priest volunteered

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to die instead of a stranger. Before they were led to their death, human

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beings were locked up here like animals. Silence was the response of

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the Catholic Church. When Nazi Germany demonised Jewish people, and

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then attempted to eradicate Jews from Europe. Another visit by a Pope

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reminds us about the evil perpetrated in these buildings. But

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questions remain for the Catholic Church. About what it knew at the

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time of the Nazi death camps and the systematic programme of genocide. A

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psalm sung by a priest from a Polish village which sheltered Jewish

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families. Events here shamed humanity. A place that every Pope

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now visits. A pilgrimage of reparation. Tom Burridge, BBC News,

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in Auschwitz. BBC News has learned that an NHS

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Trust at the centre... One firm received more than ?5 million from

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Southern health for a contract originally valued at less than

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?300,000. The trust says the contracts provided value for money

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in the department for health says that they want to see urgent

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improvement of care at Southern Health as soon as possible.

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The US state of Florida has confirmed the first four cases

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of the Zika infection to be contracted from mosquito bites

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The Zika virus, which can cause birth defects,

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first gained public attention in Brazil last year.

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Until now, all known cases in the United States have

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been connected to people catching Zika abroad.

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Police in Sussex say they're concerned for the welfare

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of actress Honeysuckle Weeks, who's gone missing from her home.

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The 36-year-old actress - who's best known for her role

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in the ITV series Foyle's War, was last seen in Chichester last night.

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It's considered to be a masterpiece of the English Renaissance and now,

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for the first time, this historic portrait of

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Queen Elizabeth I celebrating the defeat of the Spanish Armada

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It follows the success of a ?10 million fundraising

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campaign to keep the oil painting in the country.

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A triumphant Queen Elizabeth in all her finery.

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It was on this very day, 428 years ago, that the Spanish

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Armada was first sighted off the English coast.

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This portrait commemorates that great crisis of Elizabeth's reign.

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But experts say there is so much more to this iconic image than that.

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The painting itself has gone beyond the specific event it

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represents to encapsulate the entire Elizabethan age.

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It is a one-stop image if you want to think

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about what the Elizabethans thought of themselves.

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Two almost identical portraits were painted at around the same time

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but this one is considered to be the most important.

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It is thought it was commissioned and owned by that charismatic figure

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in the court of Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake himself.

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And it has been in his family for more than 400 years.

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They had an overwhelming public response to the appeal.

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Musicians busked, schoolchildren baked cakes and with 8000 donations

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in just ten weeks, they raised more than ?1.5 million.

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Along with other major donations, it means the painting's future

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I think it is good that it is staying in this country

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because it is kind of like a piece of the history of the country.

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?10.3 million of public money, though.

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I mean, for the future history, heritage, culture.

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The amount of money spent on a painting, on a single painting,

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The Armada portrait will hang in Queen's House, the last

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remaining part of the palace where Elizabeth was born.

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Sophie Long, BBC News, Greenwich.

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All this week, we've been reporting on the athletes

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to watch from Team GB, who'll be competing

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at the Rio Olympics, which starts in a week.

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This evening, it's the turn of David Florence who has won

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silver in canoe slalom in the last two Olympics.

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Our Sports Correspondent, Joe Wilson has been to meet him.

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In canoe slalom, they call it white water.

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For Davy Florence, it might seem silver.

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At the Beijing Olympics, second in the C1 class.

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In 2012, silver medal again in the C2 doubles.

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He goes in both events in Rio, teaming up with Richard

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Florence will be the first man to represent Britain in three

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consecutive Olympics in canoe slalom.

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If you came back with another silver, would

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It's so dependent on the circumstances, really.

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I mean, for me, what I aim to do is to go to a competition,

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to prepare the best I can, to feel like I get there in the best

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shape I could put myself in and give my absolute all.

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It has been a hectic time in the Florence family.

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The first one is a year-old and David's second child

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Grandparents assist, wife and baby will be coming to Rio.

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David has already done six training trips there.

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We've had a very good experience there and I've taught myself

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Portuguese, so I've had a chance to chat a bit more

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You know, sometimes I chat to the locals and they say, yeah,

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it's dangerous here and we have drug-trafficking, but we don't

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Everyone has a different perspective on what is dangerous.

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David is a linguist, studied as a physicist and once even

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When you have seen all the publicity Tim Peake has had over

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the last year or so, has part of you thought,

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I think he was much better qualified for the job

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but when an opportunity comes along like that to apply,

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you are not going to get it unless you apply so I thought

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The flight to Rio was by aeroplane but with the pilot none other

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than David Florence's father, it should have been a lot smoother

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We have got some pretty lively weather out there at the moment with

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plenty of scenes sent in like the one behind me. This is a funnel

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cloud in Cambridgeshire taken over the last hour. Lots of pictures sent

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in these funnel clouds across Cambridge, down towards Essex. This

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is indicative of a lot of energy in the atmosphere. There's been a real

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mix of sunny skies across parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and

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England, but we have this front sinking south and on that system

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heavy showers. The odd thunderstorm for parts of the Pennines and

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eastern England, the heaviest of the showers should be easing away.

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Things becoming largely dry overnight tonight with just a

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scattering of showers continuing across the North West of Scotland.

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For most of us, temperatures feeling cooler and less humid compared to

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recent nights. Still miles towards the south-east. Through the day, we

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have a north westerly airflow bringing us a slightly fresher feel

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to the weather. Lots of dry weather with long spells of sunshine and

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some showers popping up during the afternoon, particularly towards the

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North West. Temperatures round about 17 or 18, but further south, we

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could see 22 or 23. Heading through the course of Saturday evening and

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overnight, the daytime showers will fade away. Largely dry and clear

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conditions into the early hours of Sunday morning and it will be chilly

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first thing, looking at single figures in the countryside. A fresh

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start to the day but the should be plenty of sunshine once again. A

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similar day for Saturday. A westerly breeze bringing a mix of sunny

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spells and scattered showers particularly towards the north-west.

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Temperatures cooler than they have been. Feeling a touch cooler as we

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had through the weekend but for most of us, the should be some decent

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spells of sunshine. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

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so it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

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news teams where you are.

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