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Tonight at 10.00pm - British athletes achieve their best Olympic

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performance in over a century. They're lining up for the run of

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the line. Who is going to get it? Chris Hoy.

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Sir Chris Hoy becomes the first British competitor to win six gold

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medals. Britain's most successful Olympian

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says he's 99.9% certain these will be his last Games. There's been

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some really difficult moments, and to get through them all and to

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succeed here - oh, it's just one of the greatest feelings I have ever

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had. His fellow cyclist Laura Trott wins

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her second gold of 2012 - another boost to the medal tally. We are

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seeing the first British Olympic triathlon champion.

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In the triathlon, a gold for Alistair Brownlee and a first for

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Britain in this event. She has made history. She has made

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history. And a first medal in dressage for

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Team GB, ending years of German dominance.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Which means that Britain has

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already beaten its medal target with five days to go.

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The other main stories tonight: Major changes are called for after

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an inquiry into abuse of patients at a care home near Bristol.

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Shares in Standard Chartered fall sharply after claims that it helped

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Iran to break UN sanctions. And tributes to the pioneering

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astronomer Sir Roger Lovell who's died.

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On BBC London, as thousands clamour to be part of the Games, ticket

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sales soar for the Paralympics. A year on, what happened to the �70

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million pledged by the mayor to Good evening from the Olympic Park

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in east London where Sir Chris Hoy has made sporting history. He's the

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first British athlete to win six Olympic gold medals. His success in

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the Velodrome this evening crowned another triumphant day for Team GB

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with four gold medals added, making 2012 the best performance since

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1908. First tonight this report from our sports correspondent James

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Pearce. And breathe - we all knew the

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feeling. It was going to be hard for anyone watching this one to

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remain composed. The race hadn't even started, and already Sir Chris

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Hoy's mother was looking away. This was to be her son's final race as

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an Olympian. Victory would bring him a record sixth gold medal, but

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this competition is known for its unpredictability. One wrong move,

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and Hoy's chances would be over. As the pace quickened, mum was

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watching all right now - well, most of the time anyway. Down below, it

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was agonisingly close in the last lap as the riders vied for the lead.

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Shoulder to shoulder now as they come up around the bend. Now

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they're lining up. Who is going to get it? Chris Hoy gets the gold

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medal! Jubilation, celebration, relief. The scene of the Olympics

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has so many firsts for Team GB, so many records, but of them all, the

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gold medal of Sir Chris Hoy will stand at the top.

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A guard of honour from the British coaches. This has been a team

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effort, and waiting with a special hug, the man whose tally of five

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Olympic gold medals is overtaken. Steve is an inspiration. I used to

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be a rower many years ago as a schoolboy. We looked up to Matthew,

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to Steve, to all the rowers, and this is an honour to me. To me,

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he'll always be the greatest, no matter how many medals anybody wins.

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Whether Hoy is the greatest or just great, he's a six-times Olympic

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gold medallist, and judging by his reaction, this one meant as much,

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if not more, than any of the other five. It didn't all go Team GB's

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way in the Velodrome. Victoria Pendleton's ambition to become

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Britain's most successful female Olympian was thwarted by the

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Australian Anna Meares. I am overwhelmed with emotion. I mean, I

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would have loved to have won. You know, my final race, but I'm just

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kind of so glad it's all done. I can move on. The other British

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victor was Laura Trott. She won a combination of six different events.

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She's only 20 years old and already has two Olympic gold medals to her

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name. Sir Chris Hoy, watch out. She's got plenty of time to catch

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you up. APPLAUSE

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Team GB's first gold of the day came in the men's triathlon when

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Alistair Brownlee won a gruelling race which included swimming,

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cycling and a 10,000m run. His brother Jonny took bronze. Britain

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had never won a medal in the sport before, and the big crowd of

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spectators at Hyde Park made their feelings known, as Andy Swiss

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reports. Hyde Park is always popular for

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family outings, but it's not often they involve trying to win the

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Olympics. Meet Alistair Brownlee and little brother Jonny, hoping to

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turn the world's biggest event into a sibling rivalry. Stage one, a

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one-and-a-half-kilometre swim around the serpentine. Avoid the

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flailing limbs. Mission accomplished but at the first

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changeover Marx take by Jonny - he'd got on his bike too early - a

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15-second penalty. Both stayed in the leading pack as they peddled

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around Buckingham Palace. Come the final run, it was just the

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Brownlees and Spain's Javier Gomez, but Jonny still had to serve his

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penalty. The 15 seconds must have felt like hours and by then, his

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brother was out of sight. Just one lap to go now, and Alistair

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Brownlee is on course for gold - just two-and-a-half kilometres

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stands between him and Olympic glory.

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And in the end, it was literally a stroll - enough time to collect a

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flag and saunter into sporting history.

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Yet another gold for Britain - success, it seems, is getting

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contagious. I have been watching all the sports

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for the last ten days, and you know, just so excited to start. I woke up

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this morning, and I wasn't even nervous. I was like a kid at

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Christmas again. I was so excited to get out and race, so yeah, it's

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great to come out and race, and obviously I got the result I wanted.

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Behind him Jonny took bronze, but the effort took its toll. He

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collapsed after finishing, exhausted but ultimately

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exhilarated. I am very, very proud of what Alastair has done, what we

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have both done. It has been a Jo journey. We started doing this when

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we were ten, and now we're in the Olympics. It's a remarkable

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relationship, brothers yet rivals. They trained together in Yorkshire,

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pushing each other to new heights. I think they both understand and

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believe that neither of them would be where they are today if it

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wasn't for the fact that they've got each other to support each

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other, to train with and to be with each other, so I think they realise

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that they're a team. So two medals, one surname - not a

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bad day for the Brownlees, and what a snapshot for the family album.

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Team GB's equestrians have achieved a notable victory by claiming their

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first ever Olympic dressage medal. There were loud cheers at Greenwich

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Park for the second time in two days following the showjumping

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triumph yesterday. The British competitors beat their nearest

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rivals Germany, who'd dominated the sport since 1976, as our

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correspondent Joe Wilson reports. The dancing hooves and perfect

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poise of dressage. It is a discipline of great subtlety and

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considerable mystery, even for those who come to watch. We know

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nothing about dressage. We thought we'd come and see the horses.

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LAUGHTER Both of my boys didn't completely

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understand it, and neither did I, but we're getting it I think.

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The technic alties may be hard to grasp, but there's one thing

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everyone here understands - for the first time, really, there is now an

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outstanding British dressage team in the Olympics. Carl Hester grew

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up on Sark in the Channel Islands where it helps to learn to ride.

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There are no cars. The judges marked him at over 80%. That's

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excellent, and the crowd knew. Germany had utterly dominated the

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sport of team dressage - seven consecutive golds before London.

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Christine Ohuruogu -- conspiracy to On Third and last to go for Great

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Britain, she knew a solid score would be good enough, but she rides

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a wonder horse, and this was the best of the day. Laura

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Bechtolsheimer of Gloucestershire played a big part two. The three of

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us have great horses when London decided to host the Olympics, and

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here we are winning the dressage medal, and it's a gold. It's

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unbelievable timing. There is still time for more, two more days of

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equestrian. So at the end of day 11 - with

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another five days of competition left - this is how the medal table

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Let's take a look at the day's other main stories.

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An official inquiry into abuse at a private care home near Bristol says

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there should be fundamental changes in the way vulnerable adults are

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looked after. 11 former staff members have admitted neglecting

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and ill-treating patients at Winterborne View complex in Bristol.

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A Serious Case Review has criticised the care home's owners,

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Castlebeck, for putting profits before patient welfare. Our social

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affairs correspondent Alison Holt reports.

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The corridors of Winterbourne View Hospital for people with learning

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disabilities are now stripped bare. But it was here that hidden BBC

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Panorama camera filmed the most appalling abuse of vulnerable

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patients. It cost authorities �3,500 a week to send a patient to

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this private hospital, but today's report describes a place of

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arbitrary violence, where restraint was commonplace. The 11 members of

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staff who have admitted the ill- treatment and neglect of patients

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are awaiting sentence. Wendy's daughter Kirsty was at

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Winterbourne View. She has been shocked by what happened there.

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Horrified, absolutely horrified. You listen to what she'd said to me

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over time, and it just made me think that each time that I'd

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spoken to the manager and questioned things she'd said, I'd

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always been given a logical answer,ed a then you start asking,

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why didn't I take it further? Today's Serious Case Review is

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damning. It shows that Winterbourne patients went to accident and

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emergency 76 times in three years. The local council received 38

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safeguarding alerts, but little was done. The report concludes

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Castlebeck, the private company that owned the hospital, took

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financial rewards without any apparent accountability. This left

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vulnerable adults in the hands of poorly trained and poorly

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supervised staff. Typically, with this kind of abuse, the full scale

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of crimes are unknown. We often use the metaphor of a tip of an iceberg,

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and that's very apt in relation to Winterbourne View. The councils and

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health authorities who sent patients here are said to have had

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an out-of-sight out-of-mind attitude. They say they'll learn.

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In statement, the owners of Castlebeck say they have made

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changes to ensure there can't be another Winterbourne View. Terry

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Bryan is the nurse who blew the whistle on what was happening there.

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He now acts as an independent inspector, but says abuse remains

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difficult to detect. People can hurt people if they want to. If

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they want to they will because they'll do it behind closed doors.

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Winterbourne View was closed down more than a year bus, for many it

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leaves the question of how such a place which was large, locked and

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cut off from the community could ever have been the right place for

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people with learning disabilities? Charities and families are already

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pressing for other such hospitals Shares in the British bank Standard

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Chartered have fallen sharply following accusations by US

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regulators that it breached economic sanctions against Iran.

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The bank has strongly denied hiding details of tens of thousands of

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transactions for Iranian organisations worth up to �160

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billion. If found guilty, Standard Chartered could lose its banking

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licence in the United States. Our business correspondent, John Moylan,

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has more details. Can a bank really stand for something? This is how

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Standard Chartered sells itself, a trusted bank with operations across

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the world doing good. But tonight executives here at its

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London headquarters will be reeling from accusations that it sceemd

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with the Iranian Government, hiding up to 60,000 alleged transactions

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which are said to have laundered up to $250 billion or �160 billion.

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But how could this happen? Say an Iranian company with a French bank

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account wants to sell oil to a German firm, the oil is traded in

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dollars. Such transactions can be scrutinised and rejected altogether

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so it is alleged that Standard Chartered deliberately hid details

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that would have revealed the Iranian link. If true, the

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consequences could be could be huge? Material amounts of their

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business is conducted in US currency and if it were to lose its

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US banking licence, it is possible that Standard Chartered would not

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be able to continue in that activity.

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Standard Chartered says it rejects the allegations. It believes 99.9%

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of its Iranian transactions meet US regulations. What is more, it

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seemed surprised by this because it says it launched its review into

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its compliance with US sanctions two-and-a-half years ago and it

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says it has been keeping the US authorities up-to-date with

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progress. But back in 2006, a senior US

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executive warned of very serious or catastrophic reputational damage to

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the group. A London executive is said to have responded "you

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Americans, who are you to tell us the rest of the world that we are

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not going to deal with Iranians?" Tonight the White House said that

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the US Administration is in close contact with the New York

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authorities. They have demanded that Standard Chartered explain its

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And for more on the Standard Chartered allegations and the

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implications, you can visit our Coming up on tonight's programme:

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We take a closer look at the technology which helped deliver

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In Syria, President Assad has appeared on state television a day

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after his Prime Minister defected to the opposition and was seen

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greeting an envoy from Iran. The president restated his aim of

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purging the country of terrorists. As the fighting in the biggest

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Syrian cities continues there is increasing evidence that foreign

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fighters are involved. Our special correspondent, Allan Little, has

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been looking at claims that an extremist Islamist group with links

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As the Syrian struggle intensifies the bat toll remove the Assad

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regime is pulling in volunteer fighters from across the Arab world.

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And from well beyond. Mohammed is a 22-year-old

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engineering student from London. His parents fled Syria 30 years ago.

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This summer, he went back with a camera to try to document what he

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sees as the struggle for a free and democratic Syria.

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I joined this brigade and I was going to work as a reporter for

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them, you know, just taking videos of their attacks and you know, due

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to this, they had to train me to use a gun.

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Mohammed says he went to Syria because he wanted to play his part

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in freeing his country, but the chaos unleashed by the uprising has

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drawn in foreign Jihadists, Islamic extremists, some believed to be

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affiliated to Al-Qaeda. The Foreign Office forged links with the

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opposition and has given its support to overthrow the Assad

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regime. There are some British Muslims radicalised who are in sir

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yarx fighting -- Syria fighting for a a different cause. A British

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photographer and a Dutch colleague were kidnapped and held for a week.

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They said some of their captors spokes English with Midlands

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accents. They were part of a group of

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radicals. The numbers are small, ten or twelve British Muslims at

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most so far, but it is a dangerous development.

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Yes, from a security prospective, of course, because they are, we

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presume they are British citizens. What's their plan? What's going to

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happen after they obtain the skills? Guerrilla warfare, other

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war fairs? -- warfares. Islamic extreme extremism is

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finding a home and now evidence of Sir Bernard Lovell the

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distinguished scientist who pioneered radio astronomy in

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Britain has died at the age of 98. Sir Bernard founded the Jodrell

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Bank Observatory in Cheshire and served as its director for 30 years.

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The telescope which came into operation in 1957 still plays a key

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role in the study of stars as our science editor, David Shukman,

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reports. An extraordinary machine to reveal the most distant reaches

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of the cosmos. The telescope at Jodrell Bank revolutionised as tron

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me. It was the brainchild of of Sir Bernard Lovell. They are an account

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of signals which have been travelling through space for 8,000

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million years. The Lovell telescope was in at the dawn of the space age.

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Watching over British airspace and exploring Deep Space.

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The telescope attracted royalty. This was a device of national

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importance. It survived longer than expected.

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It is astonishing that in spite of the new developments and all the

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new instruments that the Jodrell Bank telescope has an important use.

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Today Bernard Lovell was remembered at Jodrell Bank. A book of

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condolence was opened and there were plenty of them.

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Bernard Lovell was one of the great visionries of British science. The

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telescope which he built was ambitious at that time and it is

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doing great science over 50 years later.

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The telescope is a popular attraction. Bernard Lovell always

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wanted the public to share his science.

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Radio astronomy didn't exist before Sir Bernard was involved. It was a

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whole new science looking at the invisible sky.

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Interviewed by Sir Patrick Poor, he was modest.

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I thought 20 years we knew all we knew about the structure of the

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universe and now we know almost nothing.

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Few can be as majestic as this telescope which was the creation of

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Tributes to Sir Bernard Lovell who The outspoken and influential art

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critic Robert Hughes has died after a long illness. He was 74. Why get

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excited by bits of paint on canvass. The Australian critic presented a

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landmark BBC series on art, The Shock of the New which was seen by

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more than 25 million viewers in the 80s. He also wrote a best-selling

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book, the Fatal Shore about Britain's track cyclists confirmed

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their domination of the Olympic velodrome with two more golds today

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bringing their total to seven at London 2012. Their nearest rivals

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were left trailing leading to more interest in some quarters in the

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preparation and methods used by Team GB to bring home the medals.

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Our sport correspondent, Tim Franks, Rarely has Britain mined such good.

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It is part down to raw talent and part the home crowd. But it is

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because it has been The Crucible for some of the most advanced

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experiments in sports science. So much so the man on the left of your

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picture, here seen losing to Britain's Jason Kenny, asked

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whether there wasn't something shifty going on. The question for

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the mastermind of British cycling. For some reason they were convinced

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we were using some kind of futuristic wheel. When they asked

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we did say the trick of our wheels is that they are round. Really

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round, not just nearly round, but really round! They took that on

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board. That was nice! It is a little more complicated

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than that. Here a look behind the curtain at project. Two of Team

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GB's analysts, ear pieces in, laptops out, pouring over every

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thousandth of a second in an effort to give Britain an edge.

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It is all in the pursuit of marginal gains. Helmets are made to

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measure from 3D laser head scans and lined with an aluminium

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honeycomb. Wind tunnels are used to study drag. The aim is for the

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rider to punch through the air with the minimum of resistance. Bikes

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are hand-made to measure. They are so so light, you can lift with them

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with with two fingers. The man who pioneered the use of

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extraordinary looking gear was Chris Boardman. He took gold and he

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is advising the British team. Any clues? The better the questions

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that are asked, the shorter the answers. Nobody gives away really

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important data. The coaches won't give you a training programme and

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tell you how that is and I'm not going to tell you too much about

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the equipment. The British team concocted a

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winning mix of athletes, coaches and equipment. The rest of the

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world will catch up, so the task for the next Olympics - simply to

:25:03.:25:13.
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There was more success for Team GB in Weymouth. Nick Dempsey took

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silver in the windsurfing. He finished behind Holland's Dorian

:25:17.:25:25.

Van Rijsselberge. Dempsey was so the sea to greet fans and his son

:25:25.:25:29.

who had been promised a silver medal.

:25:29.:25:32.

Amid the celebrations for Team GB's record performances, there was one

:25:32.:25:34.

major disappointment today when Phillips Idowu failed to qualify

:25:34.:25:37.

for the final of the triple jump. There was, however, a bronze medal

:25:37.:25:44.

tonight for Britain's Robbie He had come to be known as the

:25:44.:25:47.

invisible man of British athletics, but no sooner had Phillips Idowu

:25:47.:25:51.

appeared at these Games, he was gone again. Speculation over his

:25:51.:25:54.

fitness and whereabouts had lent intrigue to the triple jump

:25:54.:25:57.

competition, but today there was no mystery. Phillips Idowu wasn't

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himself. Phillips Idowu, a last chance to

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make it through to the final. The Beijing silver medallist fell

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short of the qualifying mark required and Phillips Idowu was out.

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That That wasn't me out there. I competed for 12 years and I can't

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remember a time when I performed that badly.

:26:17.:26:27.
:26:27.:26:38.

But that wasn't the end of British interest. This evening, Robbie

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Grabaz competed in the high jump. In the end, he couldn't manage

:26:42.:26:52.
:26:52.:26:52.

higher, but all wasn't lost. As this failure handed the Briton

:26:52.:26:55.

bronze and Team GB could celebrate because that had taken Britain's

:26:55.:26:57.

tally to 48 medals, better than Beijing.

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I got a medal. If someone said, "You are going to get a bronze

:27:05.:27:11.

medal" I would have bitten their hand off, I'm so happy.

:27:11.:27:18.

There were plenty of emotion in the women's hurdles. The favourite

:27:18.:27:28.

carried the expectations of a nation.

:27:28.:27:38.
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Time for a word with James Pearce. James, you do wonder now that the

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medal target is met and there is five days to go, where we could be

:27:55.:28:00.

come next Sunday? It is difficult not to get swept along with the

:28:00.:28:04.

tide of optimism. If you look at medal chances for Team GB, there

:28:04.:28:09.

are a lot of them. Boxing, we haven't got to the finals round. A

:28:09.:28:13.

number of British boxers in with a chance of a gold medal. We have Tom

:28:13.:28:17.

Daley to go in the individual diving. We have Mo Farah in the

:28:17.:28:22.

5,000 meters and both the men's and women's hockey teams are through

:28:22.:28:27.

for Team GB into the semi-finals after the Beijing Olympics and Team

:28:27.:28:31.

GB did so well and got the 19 golds, there were senior figures in

:28:31.:28:35.

British sport, we were worried, but are delighted with how well the

:28:35.:28:39.

team performed. They were worried because it was an unrealistic

:28:39.:28:42.

target for Team GB to match in London. Well, for them to have

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