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for Mosul underway, there will have to be some follow-through. So what

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comes next? Join me on BBC Two. A fresh search at the former home

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of convicted murderer. Wiltshire Police say they've begun

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digging at the garden of Christopher Halliwell's previous

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home in Swindon. How did details of an investigation

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into the former prime minister Sir Edward Heath appear

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in a Sunday Newspaper? Specialist police officers have been

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digging tonight at the former home of the convicted murderer

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Christopher Halliwell. Halliwell is already serving two

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life sentences for killing Wiltshire police say this search

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is based on new information. Our Swindon reporter

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Will Glennon is there now. The whole alleyway is sealed

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off behind me, behind here on Broad Street

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near the centre of Swindon. They are behind

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the tarpaulin which is blocking the alley, you can just

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about make out a white police scene of crime tent and vehicles

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at the gardens. Wiltshire Police have

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issued us a statement Specialist officers they say

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are currently carrying out of two properties in Broad Street

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as part of an ongoing investigation

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by the major crime team. This relates to intelligence

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that the force has received. This is significant

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because the convicted double murder Christopher Halliwell is known

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by the BBC to have lived here between the years

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of 1996 and 2000. Police have not told us

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what intelligence they have or details about what they are doing

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or what they're looking for. Christopher Halliwell was convicted

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in September last year of the murder of a young Swindon woman,

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Becky Godden-Edwards. Christopher Halliwell was handed

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down a whole life sentence That is because he was already

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serving a life sentence for the murder of another young

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Swindon woman, Sian O'Callaghan. She went missing on her

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night out in 2011. There are eight years

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between the murders. There is significant speculation

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that there may be other victims that Christopher Halliwell

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is responsible for . Wiltshire Police have not

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officially linked other crimes to him but they have appealed

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to Christopher Halliwell to search his conscience and to tell

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them anything else that he knows. A driver's been sent to prison

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for more than seven years after an accident in Nailsea

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in which a teenager died. 23-year-old James Bisset from Yatton

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in North Somerset hit a group of pedestrians on Valentine's Day

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last year, fatally injuring Bisset was jailed for dangerous

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driving, and was banned from holding There are calls tonight

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for Wiltshire's Chief Constable to explain how details

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of his force's investigation into Sir Edward Heath ended up

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in a Sunday newspaper. Officers have been investigating

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the former Prime Minister as part Our Home Affairs Correspondent

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Charlotte Callen reports. It all started here at

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the gates of Sir Edward I am appealing to anybody that has

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been a victim of crime or a witness to something that may have taken

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place concerning Edward Heath. At a cost of more than ?800,000

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Operation Conifer has been trawling through every aspect of the former

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Prime Minister's life Wiltshire Police say

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they have a duty to properly investigate all allegations

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of historical sexual abuse. Newly elected, Heath takes his place

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in Number Ten in 1970. Now his place in the history

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books is uncertain. With such a high profile

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investigation, there's no surprise None more so than from friends,

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like his former agent, a woman who worked with

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Sir Edward for many years. It should have stopped months

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and months and months ago. It is destroying the idea

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of a man who is blameless. are concerned about apparent leaks

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or briefings to the Mail on Sunday about operational details

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in this case. Yesterday the paper

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claimed that more than 30 alleged victims had come forward,

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that the Chief Constable, Mike Veale, was certain

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allegations were 120% genuine. The level of detail contained

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in the newspaper reports has led some, including friends

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and politicians to wonder whether there was a leak

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within the investigating team. I asked the police today if they had

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been involved in any way with this I asked them if the 30 plus figure

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re victims was also correct but again they refused

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to mention anything. The Chief Constable has

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always said he is in sole charge of Operation Conifer

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and that no details on numbers of alleged

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victims would be released. I rightly accept the scrutiny

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and it is important to affirm to the public and my staff

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that the conduct of this investigation is my

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responsibility and my responsibility This afternoon the

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Conservative MP James Gray told me if the leak came

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from the Chief Constable, And that this kind of briefing

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risked prejudicing the inquiry. So far there have been two arrests

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from the investigation but they have no link

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to Sir Edward Heath. For now his life remains

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under investigation. Police say they'll be studying CCTV

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pictures of crowd trouble at Bristol Rovers' game

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against Port Vale at the weekend. Four people - including a match day

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official - were arrested. Staffordshire Police say more

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than 30 Rovers fans were thrown out Six suffered minor injuries

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in a disturbance after the match but were treated at the scene

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and boarded coaches back to Bristol. Events have been taking place

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across the West to highlight migrant workers and their place

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in the local economy. This was one gathering in Bath this

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morning as part of the 'One Day without Us' campaign -

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with another at the With Brexit about to begin,

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Robin Markwell has been exploring what the future might hold

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for migrants already The lunchtime rush at

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Los Gatos in Swindon. It's not just the dishes here that

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have a continental flavour. For Jose and Max -

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Brexit has made them think again If we have to leave England,

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it is good to come here. If people don't come,

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we lose our job. Brexit is a big thing

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which will make me stand up for myself and think

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about my future. So tonight, for one night only,

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the restaurant owner has asked all her European staff

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to stay at home. She wants to prove just how

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reliant her business has We don't set out just to employee

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Spanish people and European people. We advertise locally and have

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never done anything else. People apply for jobs

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and we hardly ever get any local people applying

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for jobs to work here. The dicey issue for

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Government is this. Until Brexit negotiations get

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underway, there's unlikely to be any cast-iron guarantees

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for the European nationals It's a matter not just

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for Westminster but Brussels too. Over the next three years,

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their position does not change. We are hopeful in the

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early re-negotiations, we will stabilise not

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only their position but the position Let's not forget them

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as well in this equation. In Swindon's Park Estate,

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they voted heavily for Leave. It was a decision

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driven by uncontrolled They come over here and haven't been

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in the country five minutes and they The foreigners.

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Not our country any more, is it? Public pressure on tightening our

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borders remains intense. But first politicians must

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reflect on the future Mild and misty and at times damp for

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the next two days. Thereafter, a change to windy

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and colder conditions as we head One weather front trapped right over

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us for the next few days, keeps the moisture and keeps a low

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cloud and the mist and drizzle. It will remain mild,

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nine or 10 degrees. Some brief brightness

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but on the whole it will be cloudy, spots of drizzle, a brisk westerly

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breeze but again it is relatively mild, temperatures

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around 11 or 12 degrees. I mentioned the change,

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that will come as we head into An active weather system

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sweeping through, Much brighter in the afternoon after

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it's gone through but temperatures will drop down to two

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or three degrees. Friday a bright, dry day

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with temperatures back We're back with you in Breakfast

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tomorrow from 6.30. But for now

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from all of us here. little milder, but it will be a wet

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start and it will brighten up later. As you have just seen, after a day

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in which some of you have been shedding the layers, you will be

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putting them back on for the rest of this week. Big changes ahead, all

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down to where the air has been coming from. Today, it originated in

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the Caribbean, hence the name tropical maritime air. Temperatures

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peaked at 18 degrees. But later this week, the winds go to the

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north-west, a different source, polar maritime air. Still over the

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sea, but from a colder

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