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Jo Cox was 41, a mum with two small children.

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She's been described as one of the nicest people in Parliament.

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I am shocked that she was killed serving her community. Tonight, the

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circumstances of how she died are being investigated by the police. At

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52-year-old man has been arrested. It was reported that he shouted

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Britain first when police apprehended him.

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June evening to you from Birstall, as Tynan shocked this evening. The

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local MP was shot and attack by a knife outside her advice surgery

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this lunchtime. Tonight, 52 old man is in custody and an investigation

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is underway as to the circumstances and reasons for the attack. There

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are reports that the killer shouted Britain first when he was arrested.

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Let me tell you a little bit about Jo Cox, she is married mum of two.

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She was Labour MP for Batley and Spen since the elections last year.

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Recently, the press called a news conference and told us this. Just

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before one o'clock today, Jo Cox was attacked in Market Street in

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Birstall. I am now very sad and have to report that she has died as a

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result of her injuries. I would like to express our deepest sympathies to

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her family and friends at this time. There was an attack on the

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77-year-old man nearby whose injuries are not life-threatening.

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Weapons including a firearm having recovered from a man arrested. Jo

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Cox was pronounced deceased by a doctor who was working with a

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paramedic crew that were attending to her serious injuries.

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There is a large and significant crime scene

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and there is a large police presence in the area.

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underway to establish the motive for this attack.

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There are specifically trained officers with Jo's

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immediate family who are fully aware of what is taking place and we would

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ask the media to respect their privacy at this

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Additional officers are working in the local community this

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afternoon and evening in order to provide

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reassurance and support to our local communities.

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Clearly as this enquiry is at a very early stage and we have

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an individual under arrest we are not in a position

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to discuss any motives at this time.

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We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this

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I am Mark Burns Williamson the Police and Crimes

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Commissioner for Leeds and West Yorkshire.

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My thoughts and prayers are with Jo's family at this time.

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I have worked closely with Jo sensuous collected and I'm deeply

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I have worked closely with Jo since she was elected and I'm deeply

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shocked that such a talented young woman has been so senselessly

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Whilst working in her constituency and circling her

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I want to try and reassure communities that our

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information is that this is a localised incident.

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I must stress that investigations are ongoing and

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We need to let the police do their job in

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understanding exactly what has happened that has led to this hugely

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tragic incident and channel all of our thoughts into supporting the

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families and communities affected at this time.

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Tonight the Home Secretary Theresa May had this to say:

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This is a dreadful event and my heart goes out to Jo Cox husband.

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The pain they must now be in is unimaginable and our thoughts and

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prayers are with them at this terrible time. The fool details of

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what happened outside her constituency surgery this afternoon

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are not yet clear. And hurled the facts have been fully established I

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will not comment further. It is entirely appropriate that all

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campaigning for the referendum has been suspended. All of us are united

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in our deep sadness at the loss of one of our brightest and most

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popular Westminster colleagues. That was the Home

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Secretary Theresa May. As we heard from the police,

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this incident happened just before 1pm at Jo Cox's advice

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surgery in the library in Market Street in

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the centre of Birstall. Our reporter Cathy Killick

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was on the scene shortly afterwards The street is cordoned off as a

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murder scene. It was here that two shots were fired just before 1pm

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this afternoon. The victim was Jo Cox. Recently elected she was a

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mother of two. She took the seat for Labour in the last election. She was

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holding a surgery in the library. Eyewitnesses heard screams and saw

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her being a tax between two parked cars. Her attacker brought out a gun

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and fired twice and then calmly walks away. One man who tried to

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tackle him was injured and is now being treated for his wounds. He

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fired another shot as well. Between the first and the second there was

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about three or four seconds. Be helicopters started coming. We ran

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over and she was lying on the floor bleeding. We try to do CPR. We

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couldn't do anything to help her. The man had a black hat on and he

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was walking away casually. He was not running. Jo Cox was taking to

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the hospital by anglers and police escort. At 5pm news that she had

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died of her injuries was released by the police. While she was being

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treated and armed police operation took place in Birstall. A 52 old man

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named as Thomas Mair has been arrested and is being held by

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police. The reaction in Birstall has been one of absolute shock. Crowds

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have been gathering all afternoon. It is a small place and word has

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spread very quickly. People are offering thoughts and prayers for Jo

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Cox and her family. A detailed investigation at the scene is

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underway. Police are trying to establish what may have led to this

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attack on a women doing her job representing and helping the people

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who elected her. A lot of people witnessed this murder. Here is one

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of them. You have a cafe here. Tel is. We were in the restaurant and

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everyone was having their dinner. We were darting about the football

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match. It was a normal day. All of a sudden I saw people rushing down the

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street screaming and yelling. It is not normal. It is very frightening.

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It was as if they were very concerned about something happening.

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Did usually shots? We saw a man taking something behind the car that

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we couldn't see. I didn't know that it was Jo Cox. Somebody tried to

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restrain him. We thought it might be domestic violence. We got out and we

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saw the guy pulled the gun out of his bag. He was shaking it around

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and then he fired it. I thought he fired it at the crowd. A terrible

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thing to witness. You is adamant that he was going to kill her. He

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intended to kill her. A woman who gave everything for her

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constituency. I know Jo Cox personally. She came to my cafe and

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we campaigned together for the Birstall seats. She is a wonderful

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lady. She represents the youth for future politicians for this country

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and she has got a lovely smile and a very good and outgoing personality.

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She is transparent and truthful and outgoing. She loves people and she

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serves Birstall very well. Thank you. Here is our crime

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correspondence. What do we know about the man who has been arrested?

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He lives 52 and lives locally. An eyewitness had him shouting Britain

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first. He was brought to the ground by two police officers with armed

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officers standing by. This is presumed to be a reference to the

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far right organisation, Britain First. Not like you did have

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anything to do with the EU referendum campaign? It has been

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stopped as a mark of respect. Police would not speculate on any motive at

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the conference. Britain First have issued a statement saying that they

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had nothing to do with it and would never encourage behaviour of this

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sort. People have said it is the right thing to do to suspend the

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campaign in the middle of all this. Indeed, it is a mark of respect to

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Jo Cox. It will be a temporary suspension. Thank you. The tributes

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have been pouring in for Jo Cox to really was an incredibly popular

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local MP. I think this sums it up in many ways.

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Simple words from the Labour party leadership tonight about Jo Cox.

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The leader Jeremy Corbyn said she was a compassionate,

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principled, beautiful person, who championed human rights.

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Len Tingle now reports on the work of a woman popular on both sides

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One hour before news of her death was officially released, Jo Cox

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husband published this on social media. No worries, just a

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photograph. A personal memory. A reminder that Jo Cox was more than a

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Labour MP, she was also a wife and a mum. Juggling those responsibilities

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with her ambition to make a difference. She had worked for Oxfam

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and campaigned for women's right and refugees. It is just over a year

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before she entered the next phase of what was expected to be a

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substantial political career. She was elected MP of her hometown. I

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love all of you very much. Jeremy Corbyn called a halt to campaigning.

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All sides have followed his lead. We have lost a wonderful woman and a

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wonderful member of Parliament. Our democracy will go on and so will her

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work. As we mourn her memory will work in that memory. Melt everyone's

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thoughts are with Jo Cox family at this terrible time. Tributes have

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been flooding in from MPs of both sides of the house. It is not the

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first time that an MP has been attacked during or after holding a

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surgery. What we cannot allow to happen is first savagery of this

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kind to stop the democratic process of members of Parliament doing their

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job. That is what the public expect. Her husband issued a further

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statement urging all to fight against the hated that killed her.

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He said hate does not have a creed, race or religion. It is just

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poisonous. Remarkable tributes there to Jo Cox. Here are some people who

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knew her quite well. Here is a local MP. Tell me about Jo Cox. Today

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Parliament has lost a wonderful and inspirational MP and I have lost a

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great friend. People here have lost a great MP. She was only a member of

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parliament here for just over a year but made a huge difference in that

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time. When she spoke people listen to her like she had been there for

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years. She spoke with knowledge and passion about the things that

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mattered to her. Local issues in this area are about Syria,

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International development. Things that she knew so much about actor

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her successful career at Oxfam. She wanted to be a representative for

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the place that she grew up in and loves. She died doing the job she

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loved and representing the people she loved. A huge waste and a huge

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tragedy. You were an MP here are a few years ago. You're visibly upset

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about this. Lille I was really shocked. I was striving into the

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town at about 1:30pm and I heard it on the radio. I felt so shocked and

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six. I had to stop the car and switched off and try to digester I

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had just heard. I did not believe it. I can believe such a vibrant

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person had disappeared. She would have been great in Parliament. As

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our homemaker maiden speech and I listened carefully. She looked

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beautiful. I was impressed and I wrote to her and said, I heard your

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speech and your contact was brilliant. What you wrote you said

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you would do was very good and I wish you well. I think she is a

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great loss to Parliament and in particular to her family. Can I have

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the local vicar here, you knew her very well, didn't you? We did talk

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and I found her such a wonderful person. She was determined to help

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individuals and groups within the community. For that we supported

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her. The thing about it was that when you looked at her work before

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she was an MP, she was committed to human rights and Jankovic things

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better for people. She has been all over the world and has been to

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Afghanistan. It is ironic that she died here at home in a place that

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should have been safe. I knew her husband very well for a number of

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years. The children as well. It is such a tragedy to dig out of this

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world is such an amazing woman and politician. She was also a mother

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who had so much to look forward to and so much still to give. She will

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leave a legacy in just the 42 years that she left. Such a lasting

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legacy. If you think what she achieved in that short space of time

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she could have gone on to achieve so much more. In your commitment to

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public service do you think about it when this kind of thing happens as

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well? Of course. Today our thoughts and prayers are with her family and

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her husband, her parents and children. This is not the first time

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this has happened. There was another colleague of mine who was stabbed in

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his constituency surgery. We do need to think about how we do our jobs,

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but you cannot do the job of an MP unless you are in the heart of your

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community because you can't represent people if you put a buyer

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between yourself and the people you represent. The reason why Jo Cox was

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such an amazing MP is because she was rooted in the team unity that

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she loves. If you take the MP at the community then they can't do the

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job. But we need to think about safety when we're going about our

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business. Our thoughts are with her family today. Can Askew both about

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the community here. This is a great time and I have been here many

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times. It is an alien thing that has happened here. Well everyone rally

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round? The area that she represented was very communal and comes together

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well. I think she was gaining the respect already by what she was

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setting out to do. Unfortunately that has really been cut short. I

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can remember three or four times I had to have police presence at my

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surgeries because they knew who was coming. You can't think about that.

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You can't not go, you just get on with it. The community here is a

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strong community and I believe it will continue to be so. We're having

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a vigil at 8pm tonight in the church and expect a number of people to

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turn up. We're going to give people the opportunity to ASCII big

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questions, but also to have some quiet time in their own prayers and

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praying for the family and the whole community. We can get out of this

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and through this. Can we reflect on the first speech that she made. That

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is the nerve wracking speech that every new MP has to go through. What

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impression did she create with you? I knew her before she was an MP. I

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encouraged her to stand for Parliament, because I saw in her a

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real passion and vibrancy. She was so proud to represent the town where

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she grew up in and went to school in. Her parents are so here. It

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instilled in her a great pride and a huge responsibility to do right by

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the people she grew up with. She called debates in Parliament. On

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Syria, international development issues and people listened. In my

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first year as an MP I don't know if that even happened. People release

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that up and listens because she knew what she was talking about. She

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spoke with so much energy. We must not let that spirit and that energy

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die with Jo Cox. We must continue her work. Thank you Barry much.

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We are reacting to the death of the Labour MP Jo Cox. Jo Cox has been

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killed in the West Yorkshire constituency. All EU campaigning has

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been suspended as a mark of respect. She was attacked in the village of

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her skull early this afternoon. Eyewitnesses say she was shot and

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stabbed and later died of at Leeds General Infirmary. A 52-year-old man

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has been arrested. No motive has been established yet. This was the

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tribute from Jeremy Corbyn. The whole of the Labour family are

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devastated tonight. Jo Cox has been killed doing her duty, doing her

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work as a constituency MP. She is somebody who dedicated her life to

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human rights and justice. She worked for anti-slavery campaigns, she

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worked for Oxfam and she became an MP for the area where she was born

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and grew up and love. In Parliament she was respected across the whole

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house is somebody with a deep commitment and passion for human

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rights and justice. Sadly, today she died. She was killed on the streets

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of her constituency doing her duty as a local member of Parliament

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helping people. She leaves behind a husband, a wonderful man who,

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likewise, spends his life campaigning for human rights and

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justice. She leaves behind two young children, two young children who

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will never grow up to see the mum again. They can be proud of what she

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was, they can be proud of what she did and they can be very proud of

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everything that she stood for. We come together at a time like this,

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we come together to support the family and to mourn and reflect that

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violence is not an answer, it is not an answer to anything. We need to

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come together and express our deepest condolences to Jo and her

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family. We have lost a wonderful woman, a wonderful member of

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Parliament, but our democracy will go on. Her work will go on as we

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mourn her memory we will work in her memory to achieve that better world

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she spent her life trying to achieve. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour

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Party leader. This is how David Cameron react to the news. This is

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absolutely tragic and dreadful news and my thoughts are with Jo's,

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Brendan, their two children and her wider family. We have lost a great

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start. She was an MP, a great campaigning MP, with huge

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compassion, Descartes and people are going to be very, very sad that what

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has happened. Dreadful, dreadful news. It is right that we are

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suspending campaigning at liberty in this referendum and everyone's

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thoughts will reap with her family had her constituent of this terrible

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time. There has been an outpouring of grief and tributes for the kind

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of person she was. What did you know of her? I know she was a very strong

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campaigning MP. She had a great track record of caring for refugees

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and took a big interest in how they could look after Syrian refugees and

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the right thing to do in our world. She had a key chart, compassionate,

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caring MP. She was a bright start, no doubt about it. She was A* right

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across the house and we have lost the start, but above all I am

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thinking of her husband, Brendan, her children, her family and her

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constituents who will be feeling this huge sense of loss tonight and

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I think it is right we stop the campaigning activity as we think of

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them and what they have lost. Theresa May made this statement a

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short time ago. The full details of what happened outside Jo's

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constituency surgery in Birstall this afternoon are not yet clear and

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until the fact sat been fully established I will not comment

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further. It is entirely appropriate that all campaigning for the

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referendum has been suspended. All of us are united in our deep sadness

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at the loss of one of our brightest and most popular Westminster

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colleagues. Thank you. Theresa May. The West Yorkshire Police have made

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a statement about the death of Jo Cox. Jo was attacked by a man who

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inflicted fatal injuries. Subsequently, there was a further

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attack on a 77-year-old man nearby who has sustained injuries that are

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not life-threatening. Shortly afterwards, a man was arrested

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nearby by local uniformed police officers. Weapons including a

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firearm have also been recovered. At 1:48pm Jo Cox was pronounced

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deceased by a doctor working with a paramedic crew who were attending to

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her serious injuries. This is a very significant investigation with large

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numbers of witnesses that have been spoken to by police at this time.

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There is a large and significant crime scene and there was a large

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police presence in the area. A full investigation is underway to

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establish the motive for this attack. There are specifically

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trained officers with Jo's immediate family who are fully aware of what

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has taken place and we would ask the media to respect their privacy at

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this very difficult time. Additional officers are working in the local

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community this afternoon and evening in order to provide reassurance and

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support our communities. Clearly, as this enquiry is at an early stage

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and we have an individual under arrest, we are not in a position to

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discuss motive at this time. We are not looking for anyone else in

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connection with this incident at present. We will be getting more

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reaction to the death of Jo Cox from her constituency where she was

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attacked this afternoon. Let's just pause for a moment and look at the

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weather forecast. Drier weather for the weekend could

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not come soon enough, particularly as we saw another day like this in

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Worcestershire, heavy showers for many. The day started off with a few

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showers but they generated across England and Wales, some of them

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really quite heavy. More persistent rain into Northern Ireland and

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Scotland at times and it felt quite cool here. Some of those showers

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will ease through the night but some keep going and it is going to be a

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pretty murky night with a lot of low cloud again and some patchy fog

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first thing. Temperature sticking at between nine and 14 degrees. There

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will be outbreaks of brain from the word go. Elsewhere, we will see some

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showers which will become more widespread, more sharp and thundery

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potentially into the south-east corner as we go through the second

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half of the day. Some of them heavy again potentially leading to

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localised flooding. 17 to 19 degrees the high here, cooler up north with

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highs of just

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