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Tonight at six, German police launch a Europe-wide

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manhunt for a suspect in the Christmas-market terror attack.

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This is the man they want, a Tunisian-born asylum-seeker

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who's thought to be armed and dangerous.

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The authorities admit he was known to police.

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TRANSLATION: This person attracted the attention

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of several security services in Germany

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through his contact with a radical Islamist.

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this rise in terror attacks in Europe.

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Also tonight, life for the property-developer millionaire

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I'd be in a hell of a lot of trouble for that,

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and she could have still gone on and blackmailed me.

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Cared for in her home and not on a ward,

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the NHS reforms that critics say will end in cuts.

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The number of vehicles being clamped has doubled

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who are already planning for Olympic glory in 2024.

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Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Saints escape any punishment

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for allowing George North to carry on playing

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after appearing to be knocked out in a match.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.

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A Europe-wide manhunt is under way tonight

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after German police issued a warrant for a suspect

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in the Berlin Christmas-market terror attack.

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a failed asylum-seeker who arrived in Germany last year.

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It's emerged that Amri was known to German authorities

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because of his links to an Islamist extremist.

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So tonight the police there are facing serious questions

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about whether they should have done more to stop him.

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From Berlin, Jenny Hill sent this report.

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You're looking at Europe's most wanted man.

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Anis Amri is the main, the only suspect in the investigation

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into an attack which shattered Germany.

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TRANSLATION: There's a new suspect, we are searching for him.

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We issued a warrant for this suspect's arrest at midnight.

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The warrant covers the whole of Germany and most of Europe.

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We're learning more about the 24-year-old Tunisian.

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He was refused asylum but granted temporary leave to stay.

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He was known to the authorities, considered a threat because of

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his links to one of Germany's most notorious Islamist networks.

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he used six different names and three nationalities.

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The hijacked lorry used in Monday's attack

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documents leading to the suspect and DNA.

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It's thought he struggled with the man who should have been

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behind the wheel before shooting him dead.

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Germany's misery compounded by the suggestion again

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that one of those who sought asylum here may have been responsible.

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Earlier, the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders

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posted a picture of the Chancellor, her hands covered in blood.

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Do you blame Angela Merkel for what happened?

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"Angela Merkel," she says, "is a humanitarian woman."

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"She did the right thing a year ago,

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no-one could know this would happen."

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Flowers for the dead, prayers for the injured.

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Germany's Foreign Minister joined today by his Italian counterpart.

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is Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, who comes from L'Aquila.

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TRANSLATION: We have to realise that we are vulnerable

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right in the middle of our country, of our capital.

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We have to realise that we aren't spared

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the kind of attacks that happen elsewhere.

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Tonight, they don't know where their main suspect is.

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In fact, they're offering a reward of 100,000 euros.

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But this investigation does now have a face and a focus.

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That is, for some here perhaps, a little light in the darkness.

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And we can talk to Jenny Hill in Berlin. The more we learn from your

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report, the more it feels like the German police could have perhaps,

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should have done more. Yes, and I think there will be a growing sense

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of frustration, if not anger, actually, and for two reasons. First

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of all, Anis Amri was known to the authorities, they considered him to

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be dangerous because of his links to an extremist network. Secondly, of

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course, it was 24 hours before they identified him as the main suspect

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in this case, and bear in mind that during that time the police arrested

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and finally released an entirely, apparently, Ennis and man, giving

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Anis Amri a vital head start. -- innocent man. I think too

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compounding the misery for people in Berlin, in Germany tonight is the

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suggestion that somebody who entered this country as an asylum seeker may

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have been responsible, may have been the perpetrator of this terrible

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attack. Already, this evening, there are demonstrations by the

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anti-immigrant party, which has been fiercely critical of Angela Merkel's

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refugee policy. They have been demonstrating in the city this

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evening. I would go as far as to say that tonight Germany is not simply a

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country in morning, it is also a country deeply ill at ease. Jenny,

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thank you very much. With me is our security

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correspondent Frank Gardner. Paris, Brussels, Nice, Berlin,

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people will be thinking, where next? The jihadist threat to Europe is not

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new, it has been around in various forms for 20 years. In the year

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2000, Al-Qaeda plans to attack a Christmas market in Strasbourg, some

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16 years ago. But we have seen an intensification of plots, and the

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Syrian conflict has drawn in unprecedented numbers of

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international jihadists, would-be fighters, and some of those have

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been killed on the battlefield, some have given up the fight, but a large

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number of them are still there or trying to come back, winning their

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way back into Europe. There is a problem on the borders, a problem

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with all the different names, so the call to attack European countries is

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about two years old, specifically from so-called Islamic State. Their

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spokesman, to jihadist he was quite charismatic, and he issued his call

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- he is now dead, but a lot of people that call, and that has

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outlived him. All right, Frank, thank you very much, thank you.

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A millionaire property developer from south Wales has been jailed

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for life for the murder of his personal escort.

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Peter Morgan strangled Georgina Symonds,

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who earned up to ?10,000 a month, at her home in Newport.

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He had admitted killing her but denied it was murder.

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Georgina Symonds, mother to a five-year-old daughter -

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she was strangled by the man who called himself her sugar daddy.

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The 25-year-old had met property millionaire Peter Morgan

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The married 54-year-old had become infatuated with her.

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But the court heard he killed her in a carefully planned attack

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out of cold anger on finding out that she planned to blackmail him.

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Georgina Symonds's mother, Deborah, said their family was broken.

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The death of my daughter, Georgina Symonds,

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has been a devastating tragedy for the whole of our family.

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Her beautiful daughter has been left without a mum.

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Georgina has left a hole in our lives that will never be repaired.

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During their relationship, the father of two

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had paid Georgina Symonds up to ?10,000 a month,

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taken her on helicopter flights and bought expensive gifts.

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She moved into a bungalow in the grounds

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of a ruined mansion that he owned, but she didn't know that

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he'd installed a listening device disguised as a plug adapter.

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The multimillionaire overheard a conversation in which

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she spoke of plans to blackmail him by threatening

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to send intimate pictures to his family.

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Police visited her bungalow when she was reported missing

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after failing to pick up her daughter from school.

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claiming that he didn't know where she was.

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Where did we think she was going at 12 o'clock?

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Didn't say. She didn't say.

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But Georgina Symonds was already dead.

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Peter Morgan had concealed her body in a barn at his family home.

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that Peter Morgan told police officers what he'd done.

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The trouble was, once I'd sort of attempted to murder her,

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I'd be in a hell of a lot of trouble for that,

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and she could have still gone on and blackmailed me, couldn't she?

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During his trial, the jury had been told

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that Peter Morgan had Asperger's syndrome.

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He had denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility,

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but the judge told him that the plans that he had made

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and the steps he had taken to cover up what he'd done showed

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that he was in control and understood his actions.

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Peter Morgan showed no emotion as he was sentenced to life

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in prison with a minimum of 25 years for the murder of Georgina Symonds.

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Sian Lloyd, BBC News, Newport Crown Court.

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The Queen and Prince Philip have delayed plans to travel

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to their estate in Sandringham in Norfolk today, because

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they both have what Buckingham Palace described as "heavy colds".

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The Queen, who celebrated her 90th birthday this year,

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usually spend the Christmas break at Sandringham.

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Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell

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Neck, what more can you tell us? Well, this is the story of the day,

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George, all the travel arrangements were in place for a train journey

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from King's Cross to King's Lynn at around 11 o'clock this morning, the

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protection people were there but then they were told to stand down,

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nobody would be travelling. Speculation started, at 1:30

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Buckingham Palace let it be known that the Queen and the Duke had, in

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their words, heavy colds, and travel was delayed. The question is whether

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they will be able to make the journey tomorrow, Friday or indeed

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Saturday, Christmas Eve. There is every expectation that they will,

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the Royal Family gather at Sandringham for Christmas, and they

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certainly won't want to miss that. The health of the Queen in recent

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times seemingly as robust as ever for somebody in a 91st year. The

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health or so of the Duke, at the age of 95, seemingly good at recent

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times. So heavy colds, in the words of Buckingham Palace, an expectation

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that they will travel, and no undue concern here tonight that I can

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detect. All right, thank you very much.

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A former Royal Marine Sergeant, who's serving a life sentence

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for murdering a wounded Afghan fighter in 2011,

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has been refused bail while he awaits an appeal hearing.

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The family of Alexander Blackman - who's known as Marine A -

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had hoped he'd be released from custody in time for Christmas.

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His case is due to be reconsidered next year.

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At least 31 people are known to have died

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in a series of explosions at a fireworks market in Mexico.

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Around 60 other people were injured, many with severe burns,

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The cause of the fire is unknown, but it's believed one stall

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caught fire before triggering a chain reaction of blasts.

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It's the third major fire at the market since 2005.

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NHS England has hit back at suggestions from some campaigners

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that it's about to embark on a major programme of cuts.

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Medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has told the BBC that plans to make

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radical changes to the way the NHS is run - with services

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concentrated on fewer sites - will deliver better patient care.

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that what he called "difficult choices" will have to be made.

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This report from our health editor, Hugh Pym.

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With threats to local hospitals, cue protesters, and that's what's

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They fear NHS reform plans will mean the local A being downgraded,

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Local managers say nothing's finalised, but with maternity

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services recently reduced, these demonstrators claim

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We need a hospital that is going to support the population of Banbury,

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and I feel that reducing the services of Banbury

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and forcing people to go elsewhere is going to put lives at risk.

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I want the Horton to stay as it is and grow, really.

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Not to shrink, to get better and bigger.

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It's just one example of sustainability and transformation

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plans drawn up in every area of England, with local health

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and social-care leaders urged to do more

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to look after people away from hospitals.

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Campaigners out trying to protect local hospital services

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The question is whether protests like this become more widespread.

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NHS leaders know they have to work hard

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to convince the public that changes could benefit patients.

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It's incumbent on those who are putting those proposals forward

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to be absolutely clear about what the benefits and risks

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of each proposed change are, because many communities

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will have some pretty difficult choices to make.

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What would you say to those who say this is a smoke screen for cuts

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There will always be people that think that.

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But actually, this is really about a proper conversation

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about how we improve the services, and in particular

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how we link up social care and the National Health Service.

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The local plan in Kent draws on pioneering work

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it sees GPs, the NHS and social care looking after patients together.

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I'm a lot better than I was, darling.

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Barbara, who has heart, lung and kidney problems,

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has visits whenever she needs, so she can live in her own home.

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The doctors come in and nurses, the carers come in and say to me...

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I recommend being at home to get better, rather

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Northern Ireland and Scotland already have integrated

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The landscape's the same across the UK, with an ageing

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England's attempts to join up local services offers opportunities,

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Police in Germany have launched a Europe wide

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manhunt for a suspect in the Berlin Christmas

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The success of Rio 2016 is still fresh in our minds,

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but these athletes are already thinking of Olympic glory

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Coming up on Sportsday in the next 15 minutes on BBC News,

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Kvitova's injury is worse than feared, the two-time Wimbledon

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champion said to be out for six months after injuring her hand

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Businesses and politicians are warning that Northern Ireland

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will be especially vulnerable when the UK finally leaves the EU.

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The two parties in Stormont's power sharing government were on different

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But since then they have been united in calling for a deal that

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recognises Northern Ireland's unique position as the only part

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of the UK with a land border with another EU country.

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In the latest of our series of reports looking at Brexit six

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months after the vote, here's our Ireland

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Londonderry is known as the walled city.

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These barriers were built as defences four centuries ago.

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But to protect itself in the future, most here want Derry to be

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There is particular concern among businesses about what the UK

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losing its European Union branding will mean.

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This labelling company sits just a mile from the border

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between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

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Soon that line will mark the point where the UK starts and ends.

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Northern Ireland, I believe, should have a special deal.

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Not only for the movement of goods and services

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but for the movement of people within the island of Ireland.

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It would be a nonsense to think that the island will be

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It has been pointed out time and time again that Northern Ireland

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is the only part of the UK to have a land border

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But it's only when you come to a city like Derry that you really

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There are people who live on one side and they work on the other.

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And people cross that border just to see friends and family

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Fearing stormy times ahead, Scotland has also been

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pushing for a special deal, or potentially even a second

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Something Irish nationalists have been watching closely.

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At this cultural centre in Derry you can order the Christmas special

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And there are some here who say if Scotland gets

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a vote on independence, there should also be

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If their argument to get another vote is based

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on remaining in Europe, the same argument should apply here.

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A majority on this side of the Irish Sea did

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But polls suggest there has been no real rise in support

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Yet since the Brexit decision, even in unionist areas like North Down,

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post offices have seen a surge in demand for applications for Irish

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and what will remain European passports.

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People from Northern Ireland are entitled to joint citizenship.

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I would like to feel European, but I won't now, will I?

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Other than the fact I've got an Irish passport,

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It's not yet clear what gifts could be offered by the EU

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or Westminster to this part of the UK.

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But on the road to Brexit, Northern Ireland needs to find a way

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of ensuring its unique position stands out.

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

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The European Court of Justice has ruled that the "indiscriminate"

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collecting of emails and other electronic data by the UK

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EU judges said communications information can only be retained

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if it's targeted and used to fight serious crime.

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The Home Office says it'll try to get the decision overturned.

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The Italian Parliament has approved a government plan

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for a possible ?16 billion bailout of the country's banks.

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It follows an announcement from one of the oldest

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surviving banks in the world, Monte dei Paschi, that it may run

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It's believed the Italian Treasury would use the fund to prop up that

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Inspectors raised "serious concerns" about patient safety at one

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of England's main abortion providers, Marie Stopes

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Concerns over the quality of training for some staff

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and checks on the skills of anaesthetists, doctors

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Marie Stopes International says "considerable changes" have been

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made since the inspections this summer.

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A Labour MP has announced he is quitting Parliament to take

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Jamie Reed - an ex-shadow health minister - has represented Copeland

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His resignation, which he called the "hardest decision of his life",

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has triggered a by-election in a seat Labour retained in 2015

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New figures show that the clamping of cars for non-payment of vehicle

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tax has soared since the paper tax disc was scrapped two years ago.

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The data obtained by BBC News through a Freedom of Information

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request shows that the number of vehicles clamped was running

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at 5,100 a month in the run-up to the paper disc going.

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But in the latest six months - up to October this year -

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Some people complain that they forgot to renew

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because they didn't have the disc to remind them.

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Our Personal Finance Correspondent, Simon Gompertz, reports.

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It's the last thing you want to see locked onto your car. And the cost

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of getting rid of the clamp can be much more than the car tax itself.

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It was quite shocking. I'd just finished a 13 hour shift... Joanne,

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a nurse in Salford, had to pay ?340 when she was clamped. She'd moved

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house. The reminder went astray and now there is no paper tax disc on

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the windscreen to jog her memory. I noticed it had been clamped. In all

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the years I've been driving, I've missed one, and that's only since

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they removed the tax disc. Mine has always been paid on time. I think

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it's a bit heavy-handed. I was shocked, annoyed, upset. This is how

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the cost can mount. An ?80 late payment penalty and a ?100 release

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fee for the clamp, rising to ?200 once they have taken your vehicle to

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the car pound after a day. ?21 a day in the pound and if you don't come

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and pick it up, this is what they can do to your car.

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They can crush it, break it up or just sell it. This is one of 75

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clamping fans on the hunt. Cameras check number plates as they pass

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vehicles on the roadside. Alerting their clampers when they spot one

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which isn't taxed. 9000 clamps a month is nearly doubled two years

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ago. The DVLA has deliberately stepped up the rate to send a

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message to evaders. The law is that you pay your tax. Some of those

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people are saying is heavy-handed, they never meant not to pay the tax.

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There are plenty of people, in fact the vast majority pay their taxes no

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problem at all. The fact there's a small tax disc in the window

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shouldn't be an issue. After all, people pay their TV licence and they

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do have to put a little licence in their front window. So in the end,

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the most important thing is people do pay their tax. There is little

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doubt the end of a tax disc has provided more targets for the

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clampers, but the DVLA promises its fans will scour every postcode area

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twice a year, saying all car owners have a responsibility to pay. Simon

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Gompertz, BBC News. Now, it was one of the

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highlights of the year. Team GB's performance in Rio

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delivered gold medal after gold medal and will live long

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in the memory of sports fans. Now, Team GB's bosses

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are looking ahead, not just to 2020, but they're

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already working with Our Sports Correspondent

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Natalie Pirks has been It was a summer of unprecedented

:24:26.:24:28.

sporting success. Golds were boldly won where golds

:24:29.:24:33.

hadn't been won before. Never before had a nation

:24:34.:24:39.

exceeded their medal tally at a Summer Olympics,

:24:40.:24:44.

immediately after a home games. Adam Peaty takes Olympic

:24:45.:24:47.

gold for Great Britain. But future stars are already

:24:48.:24:50.

on the springboard, UK Sport was you big when it

:24:51.:24:56.

launched its eight-year Not only does it invest in athletes

:24:57.:25:01.

with what it calls "podium potential" for the next Olympics,

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but also for the athletes coming up behind them,

:25:11.:25:12.

like diver Kat Torrance, with two golds at the recent

:25:13.:25:14.

World Junior Championships she's an Olympic hopeful

:25:15.:25:16.

learning her trade alongside An Olympic medal, a gold one

:25:17.:25:18.

for Team GB had never happened, so it did almost seem impossible,

:25:19.:25:23.

but now they've done it, it's like OK, maybe it's not impossible,

:25:24.:25:26.

maybe it could be repeated It's kind of weird to think

:25:27.:25:29.

we are role models for them, but I think they were hugely

:25:30.:25:38.

inspired by watching the Olympics We've got such talent, just here,

:25:39.:25:41.

and its young talent as well, So looking forward

:25:42.:25:46.

to 2020 and onwards, Another sport to exceed

:25:47.:25:49.

expectations in Rio, Everybody's looked at gymnastics

:25:50.:25:53.

in Great Britain and thought London was going to be a fluke and then it

:25:54.:25:59.

would drop off the cliff. We set out to make sure that

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that was sustainable going through to Rio,

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and in the same way now, we expect that to be

:26:06.:26:08.

sustainable going on to Tokyo One of the gymnasts

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on the eight-year pathway He's part of Great Britain's

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juniors, who this year won their fifth

:26:16.:26:23.

European team gold in a row. The ultimate dream,

:26:24.:26:25.

to win an all-round medal at the Olympic Games,

:26:26.:26:27.

at least by 2024, or 2020 is a dream,

:26:28.:26:31.

and 2024 is reality? With confidence like that,

:26:32.:26:43.

it seems Britain's future medal We have been hearing about some

:26:44.:27:04.

rough weather on the way. Let's get the latest.

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Looking ahead to Christmas and in the next few days alternating

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between rain and windy weather. It will remain very windy. Through this

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evening and overnight, Saint Gales and frequent wintry showers in

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north-west Scotland. Rain developing in southern England will clear away

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and as it does so we will see some patchy fog forming in the south-east

:27:29.:27:32.

later. As sky is clear it will turn chilly in the countryside. Close to

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freezing and some icy patches in Scotland, especially at high levels,

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with the snow continuing. Gales and showers in Northern Ireland. A few

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coming into Western Ireland and Wales. Much of England dry and quite

:27:49.:27:53.

sunny. There will be a chilly feel in there. Not bad where the winds

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are lighter in the south and you get the sunshine, but vertically cold

:27:58.:28:01.

with the Gales and showers towards the north-west. We have our storm,

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Barbara, heading towards the north-west of Scotland. A deep area

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of low pressure. That weather front on Friday will give us all a spell

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of rain. The wind will be the main feature. The Met office have issued

:28:14.:28:18.

this amber wind warning for Friday and into Friday night. The strongest

:28:19.:28:23.

of the winds will develop across the North West of Scotland. Cost of 90

:28:24.:28:27.

miles an hour. Across the rest of Scotland on Friday and Friday night,

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gusts of 70 miles an hour, so doing Northern Ireland and North Wales.

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Christmas Eve morning, the winds becoming lighter. Still blustery

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showers in the North and some could be wintry. It's not as wintry

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further south, but clouding over, just in time for Christmas debts.

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Very windy, especially in the north, but it could be very mild.

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Thank you very much.

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