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The six soldiers killed in Afghanistan are named. All but one

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was aged 21 or under. They had been in Helmand province less than a

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month when their vehicle was blown up. Members much the Yorkshire

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Regiment paid tribute as the men's families talk of their grief.

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It is such a massive, massive loss, taken away so quickly. He was a

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legend to us and us all. We are heartbroken.

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As the families grieve, we are looking at what the future holds

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for Afghanistan after British troops finally pull out. Also

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tonight: A British man held hostage in Nigeria has been killed after an

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attempt to rescue him and an Italian colleague.

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The early indications are clear that both men were murdered bir

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their captors before they could be rescued.

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Plans to slash billions from the cost of running the railways, but

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what about the price of tickets? A year from the Japanese tsunami, one

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family remembers the mother that they lost and the home that

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disappeared. And Leicester kicks off the Royal

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Jubilee Tour as the Queen prepares to travel the length and the bredth

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of the UK. Coming up: Manchester City are one

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nil down in their bid to reach the quarter fines after a cheeky goal

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from the centre back. Good evening.

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More details have emerged about the six soldiers killed in an explosion

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in southern Afghanistan. Five of them from 3rd Battalion the

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Yorkshire Regiment were 21 or under. Their sergeant was 33 and from 1st

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Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. Three of the soldiers

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were from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, the families have been

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talking about their loss this evening to our correspondent.

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These are the six soldiers who died when their Warrior fighting vehicle

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was blown up in Kandahar province. The oldest was 33-year-old Sergeant

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Nigel Coupe from the 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.

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The others including Corporal Jake Hartley were from the 3rd Battalion

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the Yorkshire Regiment. He should have turned 21 this

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Saturday. Private Anthony Frampton was 20,

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described as a true legend in his battalion. Private Christopher

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Kershaw was the youngest at 19 years old.

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Private Daniel Wade was 20 years old from Warrington, he had

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recently qualified as a Warrior driver. Private Daniel Wilford,

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known to his mates as Wilf was 21. His Commanding Officer said his

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smile would light up any room. Today some of their families

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gathered together in Huddersfield, the town where three of the

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soldiers lived. We are devastated at the loss of

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our beautiful, boy, Anton. We are very proud of him. He is a legend

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to us and all that knew him. We are heartbroken... They were kind,

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generous, a heart of gold. A wicked sense of humour.

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He loved all of his family and friends. They had such a big group

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of friends in the army and in civilian life. He is just such a

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massive, massive loss. These were young men from the

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Facebook generation. There have been hundreds of messages online to

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the families. How much of a support have the

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messages been that you have sat and read last night? Fantastic.

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It has made us cry. I mean, last night reading them, I spent hours

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crying. But they do help knowing that

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people out there did love him as much as we did love him. I didn't

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want him to go to Afghanistan, personally. I didn't want him to go.

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It was in the back of my mind he would come back in a wooden box. He

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said, "No, don't be stupid." Like I said, he has come back in a wooden

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box. Nearby, friends of Private Daniel

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Wilford gathered outside of his home.

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It is just too soon. It can't sink in. He's been there

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four weeks. It is not long enough. I don't think he even got to fire

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his weapon. Like many towns in northern England,

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hudsstpeeld a well-established recruiting ground for the

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recruiting army -- huds field. But one sergeant told me that three

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men were in the same armoured vehicle from the same town at the

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wrong time. 45 miles away in Warrington,

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tributes were paid to Private Daniel Wade.

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He was a life, he will remain so in her heart and for their first child

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expected in June. The men died when the vehicle was blown up by a huge

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Taliban bomb. They said that they are proud of what they did. The

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investigation continues as to how they managed it.

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Whether they have been effective in spotting patterns set by the

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coalition forces, they understand the ground well. The coalition

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force tactics well. Even when the tactics change the Taliban have

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been quick to adapt their tactics. Today at 3 York's Base, they put

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out pictures of the dead, the message is clear, gone but never to

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be forgotten. The soldiers and the families

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mourning their loss this evening. 2014 is the deadline for British

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troops to pull out of Afghanistan. Our diplomatic correspondent is

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looking at the prospects for the stability of the country once the

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secured is handed to the Afghans themselves. James? In the outset,

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the response was clear, to go to the Afghanistan, to push out the

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Al-Qaeda but then what, a decade later, Taliban fighters cannot be

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fought by military pleens alone. It needs a political strategy, but

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critics say that has ran out of steam.

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I think that we know without a clear and a determined political

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strategy that binds in all of the tribes of Afghanistan and the

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neighbours, then the tactical successes of our armed forces will

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be met by tactical reverses as well. That is what we are suffering.

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So is that right? Britain, the United States and NATO insist there

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is a clear plan. They point to the training up of

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Afghanistan's own armed forces to take over as foreign troops

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steadily withdraw. But future stability means talking

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to the Taliban as well. Persuading them to swap killing for

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a positive role, sharing power in future governments, so far that

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negotiation is barely off the ground. Could it mean trading away

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hard-won rights, including for women as part of the Taliban's

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price? For most ordinary Afghans, their country is more stable now,

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less violent. But their President, Hamid Karzai,

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is widely seen as weak and political progress is very slow.

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Violence still players -- flares up easily, especially when the Afghans

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are provoked, as recently when US soldiers burnt the Koran. All of

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this matters as after the foreign forces leave, any breakdown in

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Afghanistan threatens the entire region it is a tough neighbourhood.

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With Iran and Pakistan next door, any return to Civil War in

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Afghanistan risks spilling across the borders.

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The worst case scenario is probably not a Taliban takeover, but what it

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is you have the central government basically collapse into a very

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ineffective structure. You have the country divided.

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The violent break up of Afghanistan is not inevitable, of course, but

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strategy is far less ambitious than it once was. Western governments

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are reducing expectations of what can be achieved in such an

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impoverished and fragile country. A British man held hostage in

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Nigeria has been killed after an attempt to rescue him and his

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Italian colleague. Chris McManus was captured in May last year,

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working for a construction company in the north-west of the country.

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The Prime Minister said that the rescue mission was carried out as

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the men were in imminent danger. Our Security Correspondent is at

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Downing Street. Gordon, this cannot have been an easy decision? They

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are among the hardest decisions faced in Government, when to deploy

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British troops to rescue a hostage, believed in danger.

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Chris McManus, a British hostage held for nearly a year in Nigeria,

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but today, he and an Italian held with him were killed as the Prime

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Minister announced late this afternoon.

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Preparations were made to mount an operation to attempt to rescue

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Chris McManus. Together with the Nigerian government, I organised it

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to go ahead with UK support. It is with great regret that I have to

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say that both countries and the Italian person he was with are not

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alive. Both men were murdered by their captors before they could be

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rescued. The two engineers were working for

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a construction company when they were kidnapped in Nigeria. Both

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Chris McManus and Franco Lamolinara were taken from a house in May last

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year. There was little publicity, but a video of the men surrounded

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by captors emerged last August. It was a first proof of life that led

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to a belief they were in danger. Another video in December,

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including a credible threat to kill them. After a long search, new

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intelligence led to the men being tracked down to a house in soak

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soak soak. Earlier today the Prime Minister made the decision to

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launch a military operation. Involving, it is believed, the

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Special Boat Service, working in support of Nigerian forces. After a

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fierce gun battle, the hostages were found dead it is believed at

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the hands of their captors. The group holding the men are believed

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to be a splinter of bokbok. A increasingly violent Nigeriaiage

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slammist organisation. They launched this bomb attack in

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Abuja last summer. The group may have developed links with a group

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who have a history of kidnapping Westerners for ransom in North

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Africa. This evening, the family of Chris issued a statement: We knew

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that Chris was in a dangerous situation. However we knew that

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everything that could be done was being done. Hostage rescues are

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always risky operations, this case ended tragically.

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Officials talk of a pressure of collapsing time frame. Of the fears

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of the window of opportunity, of the intelligence, knowing where the

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hostages were, may be closing. Then, the decision must be made to take

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the risk of going in or the risk of losing the chance of being able to

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rescue the hostages. I'm told that the British troops were first in,

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shooting a kidnapper, but by the time they reached the hostages it

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Calls for a mansion tax have grown stronger. Ed Balls has told the BBC

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that any money raised by the new tax should be spent on stopping

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cuts to tax credits and not on cutting the top rate of tax.

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Here's Nick Robinson. Thank you very much! Ed Balls is

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here today for a reason. They do not understand but their parents do.

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This is getting really messy. is the polite way to describe

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Labour's opinion of Government plans to cut tax credits for

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200,000 families that work part- time. The Shadow Chancellor says

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that from next month couples could be better off not working at all.

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If you do 16 hours to get your tax credits you have to find it more

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hours. To suddenly ask for eight more hours, they are not going to.

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I suspect they will not work and they will lose out. The reality is

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that some parents will be better off not working. That is what I am

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doing. The cost of reversing the cuts to tax credits is high. Half a

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billion pounds a year. Where would Labour find the money? For people

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working here at the moment, these are great job.

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Ed Balls insisted in Birmingham at a factory that it would help the

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economy grow more. He also said he would back the idea for a brand new

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tax. Do you like the idea for a mansion tax, tax on the most

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expensive properties? I have supported it in the past. We need

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to look at it carefully. If the Chancellor wants to go down that

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road, I will support him. What is the purpose? If the purpose is to

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help families facing higher tuition fees, higher VAT and higher fuel

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bills, for instance boosting their tax credits, then yes. But George

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Osborne seems to be saying that the priority is to use the mansion tax

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only to help people on a highest incomes of over �150,000. I say

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that is out of touch with the struggle that families are facing

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and will not get people into jobs, which is what we need. At GKN,

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which makes parts for aeroplanes and cars, Ed Balls was told the

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company can see green shoots of recovery. He says that banks to

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Government austerity they are not growing fast or strong enough and

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Britain still needs the stimulus. I think it is essential right now.

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George Osborne has cut too far and too fast. The VAT rise was too fast.

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The idea that stimulus the cause economic borrowing is a nonsense.

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Are you saying that the Chancellor could afford to cut VAT and avoid

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the cuts in tax credit that you do not like and avoid the cuts in

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child benefit and deal with fuel duty? Where will he find the money?

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He can deal with the tax credits changed by closing the stamp duty

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loophole for properties above �1 million. If he is looking at Manton

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tax, that could pay for support for child benefit and tax credits. --

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mansion tax. Growth has flat lined and unemployment has gone up and he

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is borrowing more. The economy is not growing and unemployment is

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rising and that costs us more. Balls and Ed Miliband used to help

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Gordon Brown write his budgets but they cannot write this one. They

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are trying to influence it. Coming up on the programme: What

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caught the Queen's attention on the catwalk at the start of the Diamond

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Jubilee tour of Britain? One year ago this Sunday, a huge

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earthquake shook the sea bed 40 miles off the coast of Japan. The

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country is still struggling to deal with the consequences. 15,000

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people were killed in the Sugiyama that followed and thousands are

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still unaccounted for. -- the tsunami. We have been too Yuriage

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to speak to one family that were caught up in the disaster.

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Shadows on the landscape, all that is left of Yuriage. Avoid full of

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memories. For Tatsuya Suzuki it is the memory of the smile that his

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wife gave him as he left for work. I wish I could go back in time, he

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says, to go back to that day. If only I could have saved her. He is

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burdened by guilt that he survived and his wife did not. As the

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tsunami swept into Yuriage, he managed to get their two children

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to save places inside buildings. Seconds later his wife was carried

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away by the waves. Today Hikaru, seven, and Hibiki it has taken one

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year, says Tatsuya. A sometimes they cry out in their sleep. When I

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see the sadness I struggle to know what to say. My heart aches.

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Alongside his wife, the tsunami killed 1000 of the 7000 people

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living here, according to the final tally. One year on and the

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Government is now burning the little that remains of Yuriage.

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They want to raise the ground three metres higher and build this Town

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again, and for hundreds of miles along the coast it is the same

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story. Dozens of communities that were raised are planning to start

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anew. -- erased. First, the unfinished task of accounting for

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everybody. More than 3000 are still missing. At this school in Okawa,

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70 children were swept away and four have not been found. Nothing

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moves on. I have been following police teams like this all year. I

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cannot find any trace of my daughter. Hibiki and Hikaru used to

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be inseparable from their mother. Hikaru is doing well in a new

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school. Their father feels trapped by the past. Even though one year

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has gone by, nothing has really changed. Time has stopped for me.

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We are still grieving. His children never want to live in this Town

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again, but one day Tatsuya says that he will move back. He says

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this place still feels like home. The envoy appointed by the United

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Nations to help resolve the conflict in Syria has said the

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country's opposition should sit down with its Government and reach

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a political solution. Kofi Annan warned that further militarisation

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of the conflict would worse than a desperate situation. His comments

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have been criticised by Syrian opposition leaders. They said they

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would encourage President Assad in his use of force.

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The Greek Government has indicated it is confident of completing a

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crucial deal with private investors to bring down its debt and secured

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a second international bail-out. Investors have until 8 o'clock this

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evening to secured the deal. It will see them making losses of 50%.

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Does that look like most of the private investors are accepting the

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deal? We will not get the precise figures until tomorrow morning but

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Government sources are saying that 85% of private investors, even as

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many as 90%, have agreed to take steep losses on their holdings of

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Greek Government debt. What does this mean? For the first time

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almost since the crisis in Greece began, Greece's debt will not

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continue to go up and as a result of this deal it will go down by 100

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billion euros. Almost certainly, the EU and the IMF will approve a

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second Greek bail-out, staving off Greek bankruptcy. What does this

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mean for the overall crisis here? I think it provides a breathing space.

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It does by some time for Greece. Even after today's deal, as

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Greece's debt remains high and this country is in its 5th year of

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recession with no growth in sight and appalling unemployment figures.

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This question remains unanswered, where will the growth come from to

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deal with the remaining debt? you.

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The cost of running Britain's Railways is one-third higher than

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most European countries according to the Government, so they have set

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out plans to cut inefficiency and waste to save �3.5 billion a year.

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Will it succeed in stopping the inflation-busting train fare rises?

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The UK railway network costs too much to run and needs to be more

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efficient. That is the Government's key claim after a report found that

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some European networks were 30% less expensive to operate.

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Ministers say that big savings will ensure a brighter future.

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railways are too expensive in the first place. There is a huge amount

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of inefficiency there. I am challenging the industry to work

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together more effectively so that they can take out �3.5 billion of

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inefficiencies that we are all playing for. Ministers want some

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savings used to keep a lid on flowers and an end to inflation-

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busting increases within the next few years. Some fares at peak-time

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may rise, while others fall to try to spread demand. It is certainly a

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controversial issue with passengers. I am shocked by how much railway

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travel costs in this country now. Frankly, it is simply not worth it.

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I think we need to look at what transport means for the economy of

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this country. Like in other countries, we see it as a public

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good rather than a profit-making machine. Other changes anticipated

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by the Government include fewer ticket offices with more scope to

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buy tickets elsewhere including Post Offices. Smart ticketing will

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see greater use of pre-paid swipe cards and there could be fewer

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train guards, as operators cut costs. One railway union has

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threatened industrial action, claiming that thousands of jobs are

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at risk. They have said that passengers will lose out. There

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will be stationed with no staff whatsoever. No ticket offices using

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smart ticketing. People will turn up at stations and they will be

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muggers' paradises. One of the aims of the policy is to have more

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joined the management of the railway system, for example getting

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train operators to work more closely with Network Rail managers

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in their area to try to ensure minimal disruption for passengers

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in the event of engineering work. But delivering these changes, which

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apply to England, Wales and routes between Scotland and England, would

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not be easy. Delivering efficiency savings never is.

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The Queen began her Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK with a visit to

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Leicester today. Crowds lined the streets to welcome Her Majesty,

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accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of

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Cambridge. Over the next four months the Queen will travel across

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the UK. This report contains flash recover -- flash photography.

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10 years ago the Golden Jubilee got off to a comparatively slow start.

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That was not the story today are. The people of Leicester, a

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culturally diverse city in the heart of England, came out in their

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thousands to welcome the Queen and her guest companion for the day,

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the Duchess of Cambridge. It is that cultural diversity that made

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less to the place to begin the Queen's Diamond Jubilee visits. --

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Leicester. Few places demonstrate the changes that have occurred in

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British society over her reign. At Leicester Cathedral, the Queen

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attended a special service where representatives from different

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faith communities joined Christian leaders. Prayers were said for the

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six British soldiers killed in Afghanistan. We pray for those that

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died in Afghanistan yesterday, from the Yorkshire and the Duke of

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Lancaster's Regiment. There were also prayers for the Queen in her

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jubilee year. Your gift of love and joy and peace. Outside the

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cathedral the Queen and the duchess stood side-by-side to receive

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bouquets of flowers. The fact that the Queen invited the Dutch is to

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join her today is a public endorsement of her importance to

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the royal family now. At times they worked as a team, the Queen taking

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one side of the crowds and the Duchess the other. They went

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together to a fashion show at De Montfort University. Their

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relationship appears to be easy, the younger woman leaning across to

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chat. Then in the city centre, the Queen hoping perhaps that the

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newcomer will absorb a few lessons. But there is something more to the

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Duchess's presents today. It is also a subtle signal that after 60

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years the Queen recognises the importance of bringing on someone's

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who will be so central to the monarchy of the future. -- someone.

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There is no doubt who is the star of the show. Not everybody is a

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monarchist, that is for sure, but this monarch appears to be as

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popular as ever. She is the Queen of our country and I am proud of

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her. Coming to last as part of the Jubilee tour is just fantastic. We

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