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Tonight at 10.00: Hopes of a turning point in the Eurozone debt

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crisis. The European Central Bank promises unlimited support for

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countries in trouble. We will have a fully effective backstop to avoid

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destructive scenarios, with potentially severe challenges.

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report from Spain, where there's more resistance to the prospect of

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a bailout. We'll be asking whether this really could lead to the end

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of the Eurozone crisis. Also tonight: In France a British family

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murdered by a gunman. Police reveal how a daughter survived.

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TRANSLATION: We discovered the girl completely still under the legs of

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one of the dead women. She'd stayed there all that time, totally

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invisible. At the family home in Surrey, neighbours expressed their

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deep sadness at the news. A very strong family indeed. A very caring

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family. They always did things together. Relaxing the planning

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rules in England in the search for more economic growth. COMMENTATOR:

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It's going to be peacock. And at the Paralympics, Jonnie

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Peacock wins the big sprint battle, as Britain's athletes beat their

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And coming up in Sportsday on the News Channel: Warwickshire

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celebrate becoming County Cricket Champions, healing the hurts of

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missing out at the elevth hour last Good evening. There are hopes

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tonight of a turning point in the Eurozone debt crisis. The European

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Central Bank has revealed plans to offer unlimited support to the

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weakest economies, by cutting their borrowing costs. The bank's

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president, Mario Draghi, said it has underlined the commitment to

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safeguard the euro and financial markets gave the plan a very

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enthusiastic welcome, as our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, reports from

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Madrid. Troubled economies like Spain got thrown a lifeline today.

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The European Central Bank said it stood ready to buy unlimited

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amounts of bonds, to help bring down borrowing costs for countries

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like Spain and Italy. The markets bounced on news of an ambitious

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plan, designed to ease the eurozone crisis. Six weeks ago, Mario Draghi,

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the President of the ECB, promised to do "whatever it takes" to

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preserve the euro. Today he explained how. We will have a fully

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effective backstop to avoid destructive scenarios with

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potentially severe challenges for price stability in the euro area.

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So, how would the Dragutinovic plan work? The ECB would buy unlimited

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government bonds from a eurozone country asking for help. That

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should drive down the country's borrowing costs but there would be

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strings attached. Nations would first have to request help from the

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eurozone's bailout fund and accept strict conditions, such as

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austerity measures. On the streets of Madrid today,

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protests against a visit by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel,

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they blame her for austerity. When she met with the Spanish Prime

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Minister, Mariano Rajoy, would he not be drawn on whether he would

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now be asking foral bailout. Angela Merkel spoke for the need to

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restore confidence in the euro as a whole. Later a Spanish minister

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cast out on whether Spain would seek help. Are you saying in the

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short-term, certainly, that Spain doesn't need to ask for a rescue?

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According to the figures, and according to the financial

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situation right now, we believe that we can be self-sufficient.

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go to regions like Castile-La Mancha to see why Spain might need

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a rescue. For companies like this furniture factory, it is a harsh

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climate. Consumers are not spending and it is almost impossible to be

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find credit. Once bustling industrial estates in this nearby

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area are shuttered. The town, like so many, is struggling with huge

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debt. Even the street lighting is being reduced here. Today's

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announcement was the ECB's big bazooka. There will be no limits on

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the amount of government bonds the Central Bank can bie. Quite simply,

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they can continue until the borrowing costs of those troubled

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countries are brought down. As to the markets, well, they soared on

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the news. All eyes will now be on Spain. Will it ask for help? And

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will it accept possibly tough new conditions?

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Watching that with me our Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders. Could

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this be the big breakthrough that starts to resolve this crisis?

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think it is a pretty significant day. If you think back over the

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last two years, the big question that has been hanging over the

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eurozone, hanging over governments, is who is in charge? Who is there

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to stand behind this currency ultimately when it is under

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pressure? Who is going to hold it together? Governments have tried to

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play that role. The European Central Bank hasn't wanted the play

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that role but many people, over time, have decided it was the only

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institution capable of convincing the markets. In a sense it has

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blinked. It has said db OK there will be conditions, the governments

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have to be seen to be doing the right things but if you are Spain

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or Italy and markets are punishing over questions about the euro and

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are suggesting you are about to default on your debt or leave the

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single currency, we are going to protect you and do what it takes to

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protect to you bring down your borrowing costs. I think it is

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significant. We have critics from the German Central Bank who would

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say it isn't a long-term solution, it is propping up governments and

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storing up probsz for the future but for a lot of people out there,

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it is significant. -- storing up problems. For the first time there

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is an insurance policy against some of the worst outcomes people have

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been talking Bif you are begt on Spain or Italy leaving the euro or

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defaulting on your debt, you might now find yourself betting against

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the central most important bank in the world.

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Police in France have given more details of yesterday's shootings in

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which three members of a British family were murdered, and their

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young daughter was seriously wounded. A second daughter was

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found alive by police hours later, hidden among the bodies. A cyclist

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was also found shot dead nearby. The father has been named locally

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as Saad al-Hilli from Claygate in Surrey. The family were on holiday

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near Lake Annecy, from where Jon Kay sent this report. In the

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tranquility of the Alps, a fleet of herss carrying the bodies of a

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family from Surrey, gunned down on their summer holiday.

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They'd been in their car at this remote beauty spot when they were

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shot in the head at point-blank range. The police say what happened

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in this vehicle was an act of extreme savagery. This woman heard

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the automatic gunfire. She told me it lasted 30 seconds, and then

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silence. "why? Why did it happen here? Was

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it random, was it some kind of revenge attack? Those poor little

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girls, it is horrible," she says. At the campsite where the family

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have been saying, the police are trying to find answers. They say

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there is no clear motive for the attack, but one possibility is that

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it was a targeted assassination. They are looking into the family's

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background in Iraq and Mr Hilario's work as a satellite engineer. --

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pll Saad al-Hilli's work. The police have been talking to

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other holiday-makers, searching through the campsite, trying to

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find clues to explain what has happened. So what do we know? The

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family left the campsite yesterday around lunch time and drove their

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BMW from the small town of Saint- Jorioz, along a tourist route

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through the forests to the Hamlet of Chevaline. Next we know is just

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before 4.00pm, local time, their car was found by a British cyclist.

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Inside were the bodies of the three adult members of the family.

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Outside the older daughter was found seriously injured. The body

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of a local man was also discovered. It's thought he might have been

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shot because he happened to witness the killings. Police sealed off the

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area, and it was only when forensic teams arrived from Paris, eight

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hours later, that the four-year-old girl was found in the car, hiding

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under her dead mother's legs. TRANSLATION: The little girl is

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deeply upset and traumatised. She has asked for her family. We need

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to help her and her older sister explain to us what has happened.

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On the shores of Lake Annecy, there is disbelief tonight. Disbelief

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that it took so long to find the little girl. But also disbelief

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that the shootings happened here at all. These British holiday-makers

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were driving in the same area at the time of the attack.! It's scary.

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When we looked at the map this morning, and traced where we had

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been and how close it was to the -- to where the incident happened.

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It's dreadful. As well as shock, there is fear in this region

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tonight, that the perpetrators are still at large. The French

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President says everything possible will be done to find them and to

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restore the Alpine calm. As we've heard, Saad al-Hilli was

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originally from Iraq and moved to Britain where he worked as a

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computer engineer and lived in Claygate in Surrey, where

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neighbours have been trying to come to terms with the news, as Ben

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Geoghegan reports. A few days ago, Saad al-Hilli left his home here in

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Claygate, towing his caravan to France for a family holiday.

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But this afternoon the police arrived and local people began to

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realise that it was their own neighbour who had been brutally

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murdered in France. Shock and - you know, you just feel sick. French

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police say Saad came to the UK from Iraq in 2002. Although neighbours

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think the family moved here much earlier. His wife, Iqbal, trained

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as a dentist in Iraq and was hoping to practice in the UK. Saad worked

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for a firm in Guildford, called Surrey satellites, and he had other

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business interests. Neighbours say they were a very close family

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was an engineer. Very dedicated to his family and to his children and

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very proud of his children as well. And it's indeed a very sad loss and

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a very, very sad day for everyone who has known him and a very sad

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day, of course for his children because, it will be very difficult

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for them to grow up without a father or a mother. The question

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being asked by everyone is why Saad al-Hilli and his family were

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attacked, and why it was so violent? They were shot through the

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head, so that sounds like a professional killing, which is

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really very worrying, because you wouldn't think it was a casual

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killer who would do that. That's a worrying thing. But the reason for

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that, I haven't got a clue. Police have been here all afternoon at the

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home in Claygate and they have spoken to some of the neighbour

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abouts what has happened to Saad al-Hilli and his family. It is

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clear that officers here in the UK will play an important part in the

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investigation in southern France. Saad's two daughters may hold the

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key to this investigation. But no- one knows when they'll be able to

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speak about what has happened to them.

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And no-one knows, if they will ever return to the family home.

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For the latest from the French Alps tonight let's talk to Jon Kay who

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is there. Do you detect any sign of any meaningful progress in this

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investigation now? On the face of it, Ehui, no, not at the moment. --

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Huw, no. No news of any breakthrough in this investigation.

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No sign of any arrests, as far as we know there is a gunman or gunmen

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at large in this remote part of the French Alps close to the bored we

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are Switzerland. The French authorities are stressing they are

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committing large resources to this but are taking it very seriously.

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They know they face criticism for failing to find the little girl in

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the car for so long. They say that happened because they were trying

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not to disturb the evidence, trying not to contaminate the scene of the

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crime. The British Ambassador has been here tonight and he says he

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has no problem in the way in which the French authorities are doing

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this. The police here say they are ruling nothing out. And of course

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the danger of that is that it means that every rumour, every conspiracy

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theory in a way is an open door but they know that the two people they

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really need to talk to, are those two little girls who survived the

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incident but the gendarmes have told us that they know that talking

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to those little girls is going to be a long, difficult and very

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sensitive process. We will get an Businesses and housing associations

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have welcomed the Government's plans to boost house building in

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England. For a limited period, homeowners will be able to build

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bigger extensions without planning permission and some developers

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won't need to include affordable homes when building new

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developments. But Labour says it's hardly likely to make a difference

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to economic growth, as James Landale reports. These are the

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apprentices who will get the jobs to bill the homes that will house

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the families and get the economy moving. That is why David Cameron

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hopes will happen when he relaxes the building rules, changes

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planning laws and offers hope to first-time buyers. I want private

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and social housing built. We want to get Britain building and both

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those things will happen. It should provide at least 140,000 jobs, and

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saying to people, if you want to build a conservatory and a house,

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you can. Let's get Britain building and hope to get Britain working.

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today, he and Nick Clegg rewrote the rules for building in England.

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Homeowners can extend their houses by up to eight metres without

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planning permission and there will be similar changes for businesses.

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There will be held for up to 16,000 first-time buyers by extending a

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scheme where the Government and developers lend people up to 20% of

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the deposit for a mortgage. But perhaps most importantly, the rules

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forcing developers to build affordable housing will be relaxed

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next year, so commercially risky schemes become more viable and are

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more likely to go ahead. The firm behind this development in

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east London has to ensure that one third of the flats will be

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affordable, sold or rented below market value. But today's changes,

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agreed last night, mean that for the next three years, firms will be

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freer to build more profitable homes. In return, the Government

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will build 15,000 affordable homes at a cost of �300 million. The

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Government has a huge problem with the economy. There is not enough

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growth. Today, the economic think- tank the OECD slashed its forecast

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for Britain saying the economy this year will shrink by 0.7%. So the

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Government's fate depends in part on more homes like these being

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built. The question is, will these new reforms make a difference? The

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view from industry and housing groups was that they would.

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welcome help for first-time buyers, which is good news for

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housebuilders and first-time buyers. We are pleased with the reforms

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that will help to build their homes and we would like more hope for

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homebuyers. At the end of the day, it is the problem of deposits, so

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we would like more money channelled in from the Government. Those not

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building but adding to Holmes said relaxing planning for extensions

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would help, but more could be done. I welcome it but I think it needs

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to be tied with a serious look at the VAT threshold, because for us

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that is the real killer. That is music to his ears - Labour wants

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the VAT cut, too, and he does nothing more extensions amount to a

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proper economic policy. I want these schemes to work. I do not

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want the economy stuck in the position that it is in, but I fear

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this will not have the effect the Government is hoping for because

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they are not dealing with the central problem, the failure of

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Plan A. But David Cameron and Nick Clegg believe as they can give

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Britain building they will be on to a winner. But for now, they will

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just have to cross their fingers. Coming up on tonight's programme.

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A third gold for David Weir on a night of British success at the

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Paralympics. In a few hours Barack Obama will

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address the Democratic Convention in North Carolina and accept his

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party's nomination for a second presidential term. His candidacy

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has already been given a stirring endorsement by former President

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Clinton who warned Americans against handing the White House to

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the Republicans. Let's join our North America editor, Mark Mardell,

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at the convention. Well, the crowd are enjoying a

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performance by James Taylor at the moment but in a few hours it will

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be the President on the stage. Surprisingly, with just 60 days to

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go before the vital election, he has not really set out what he

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would do with his second term in the White House. We know his vision,

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but this is a chance to talk about his plans. Earlier, his record was

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defended by one of the biggest beasts of American politics.

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President Bill Clinton. The once disgraced President wrote to the

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rescue. Obama mania has faded, along with hope and change, and the

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man who defends himself as a little country boy is the best for now.

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Only sheer charisma can hold a crowd enraptured with a speech of

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facts and figures explaining Obama's achievement, riffing on his

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values, defending his record. we where we want to be today? No.

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Is the President's satisfied? Of course not. But are we better off

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than we were when he took office? The President came on, a brief

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Hyogo. They are not friends but they are now allies. It -- there

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was a brief embrace. Although the magic has faded, many still love

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Obama. But the streets outside the convention centre bear witness to

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the raw passion raised in this election. If you Oreo homosexual...

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Particularly on issues like gay marriage and abortion. Detailed

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plans are another matter. Thomas voted for Obama last time but he is

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wavering and is here looking for answers, asking what the President

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will do if re-elected. Most of what I have heard is about gay marriage,

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abortion, social issues. I am not going to have an abortion and am

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not worried about gay marriage. I am concerned about the economy and

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I am not hearing a lot of answers about the economy. That will make

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my decision at this election. 2008, Obama's election rally was

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inspirational. Tonight was going to be in another big stadium.

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Democrats say that it was moved because of the weather, but

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Republicans say it was because they could not fill the seats. Obama has

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had four years now. He did not focus on the economy, the debt and

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the deficit. Anything contrary to that tonight is just smoke and

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mirrors. Tonight, Obama stands alone, his turn to defend his

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record. They are clapping now and I'm sure

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there will be raptures when the President comes on stage, but there

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is no doubt about his soaring rhetoric. People will be looking

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out to see if he gets the tone light in the middle of a difficult

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economic time, and if he comes up with any details about what he

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would do in a second term. In South Africa, a small number of

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miners are back at work at the mine in Marikana where 34 strikers were

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shot dead by police last month. A breakaway union refused to sign the

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deal with the owners which was meant to bring an end to the long-

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running dispute over pay levels. Karen Allen reports.

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Jubilation, as protesters walked free today from court, as murder

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charges against them were withdrawn from what has now been called the

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Marikana Massacre. This, the enduring image of the strike,

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protesters at the mine gunned down as they demanded more pay. Pictures

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captured the moment when the police opened fire. 34 miners dead. Now, a

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maverick youth leader, expelled from the ANC, has repeated his call

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to make the mind is impossible to govern. What do we mean by that. I

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mean they must put down their tools. I am not calling for violence. I am

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not calling for killing of anybody. Workers must refuse to sell their

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labour. But hours after this March late yesterday, a breakthrough.

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Management at the platinum mine and all but one of the trade unions

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signed a deal paving the way for talks. It is very important for

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people to return to work. That frees us up to engage in this

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negotiation and within the next 30 days to find ways of ensuring that

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we can arrive at an amicable solution. Meanwhile, bleak scenes

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at the Marikana mine today, as storms saw further protest

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dismissing the deal cancelled. The weather seemed a fitting metaphor

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for the turbulence of the past few weeks. Although the hailstorms have

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scuppered plans demonstrations, they have served to expose the

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appalling conditions so many South African as the face. This dispute

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is as much about ongoing inequality and frustration about leadership as

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it is about pay. I find a striking miner mopping up after another

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downpour. Once, this family voted for the ANC without question. They

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hoped that their lives would improve. But political infighting

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and broken promises have left them out in the cold. Who do you blame

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for the ongoing inequalities? TRANSLATION: I think the government

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are responsible. They are the ones in charge. They are the ones who

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should be blamed. It is their duty to improve our lives. What happens

:23:55.:23:59.

here may be a wake-up call, but not an Arab Spring. Even so, there is

:23:59.:24:03.

bitterness that poverty that stubbornly persists is being used

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to settle political scores. It has been a great night for

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Britain at the Paralympics. Jonnie Peacock has won his 100m final, the

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showcase sprint event of the Games, beating defending champion, Oscar

:24:19.:24:23.

Pistorius of South Africa. Earlier, there was a third gold medal on the

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track for David Weir, as Britain surpassed its metal target, as

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David Bond reports. -- It's a medal target.

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The Olympic Stadium has already witnessed so many great nights, but

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for the Paralympics this promised to be the best so far. There might

:24:40.:24:45.

be more than 20 different 100m finals, but here was the most

:24:45.:24:49.

eagerly anticipated. Britain's Jonnie Peacock, the fastest amputee

:24:49.:24:54.

in the world, against Oscar Pistorius, the face of the Games.

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Even before it started, the 19- year-old was in complete command.

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And once the gun went, it was obvious we were watching the

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emergence of a new sporting superstar. Peacock had his right

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leg amputated after contracting meningitis as a young boy. He only

:25:14.:25:18.

took up sprinting in the last three years, but here he was, beating a

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world-class field which included Pistorius. The South African as one

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last shot at individual gold in the 400m, but this felt like a Changing

:25:28.:25:33.

of the Guard. If Peacock is the new Prince of Paralympic track-and-

:25:33.:25:37.

field, David Weir is the undisputed king. With two gold medals already

:25:37.:25:42.

under his belt, he was aiming for his third in the T 54800 metres. It

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was tight, but the roar of the home crowd it did its bit again. He will

:25:48.:25:53.

aim to complete an unprecedented quadruple in the marathon on Sunday.

:25:54.:25:58.

Earlier, Hannah Cockroft set the tone for a remarkable evening by

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winning the T34 200m and completing the sprint double. If the Olympics

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had super Saturday, there is no question today was the most

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memorable day of the Paralympics for Great Britain. From the stadium

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to the swimming pool, to the Cycling, there was success after

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success, as the hosts surpassed their medal target for the Games.

:26:20.:26:24.

At Brands Hatch, Sarah Storey won the women's Road Race by a

:26:24.:26:28.

staggering seven minutes. That is now four gold medals in London and

:26:28.:26:31.

11 Paralympic titles, an achievement which equals the modern

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British record held by Dave Roberts and Tanni Grey-Thompson. What she

:26:36.:26:42.

has achieved is amazing, because to compete at six Games and IND two

:26:42.:26:46.

sports is something very few people can do. 15-year-old Josef Craig

:26:47.:26:50.

also showed himself to be a rare talent tonight, breaking the world

:26:50.:26:55.

record for the second time in a day, as he powered to gold medal in the

:26:55.:27:04.

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