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Tonight at 10pm: Turmoil for rail companies, and the government

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accepts responsibility. The decision to deprive Virgin of

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the West Coast franchise is cancelled, as ministers blame civil

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servants for mishandling the bid. What has happened is unacceptable,

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deeply regrettable and of course I apologise. We have made a big

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mistake. The mistake could cost the tax

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payer �40 million but rail experts say it's the entire system that's

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wrong. I think this is a disgraceful shambles and it is not

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the officials fought, it is the fault of the...

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We'll be asking what impact this might have on the government's own

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reputation. Also tonight: Police extend their

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search for a missing five-year-old in Mid-Wales. April Jones

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disappeared on Monday evening. Her mother made this appeal. There must

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be someone out there who knows where she is and can help the

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police find her. A Syrian attack on a Turkish town

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brings retaliation and an emergency In Manchester, thousands attend the

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funeral of one of the police officers killed in a gun attack.

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And back in the fold, but Kevin Petersen apologises for those

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Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel: Arsenal and

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Manchester City are both at home in Good evening. The future of the

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West Coast rail franchise has been thrown into crisis because of a

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series of embarrassing mistakes by the Department for Transport. The

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decision to take the franchise away from Virgin Rail and award it to

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FirstGroup has now been cancelled, and ministers say the bids were

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handled incorrectly. Three civil servants have been suspended.

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At stake, a 5 billion pound contract to run one of Britain's

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busiest and most lucrative rail lines, the West Coast. Virgin have

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run the service for 15 years. Two of months ago, they were told

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FirstGroup would be taking over. Virgin cried foul. The brand new

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Transport Secretary stuck by the decision. I am satisfied that due

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diligence was taken by the Department and therefore the

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intention is to go ahead. It was about to go to court. Then, a

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remarkable confession. The government had got its sums wrong.

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What has happened is an acceptable, deeply regrettable and I apologise.

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We have made a big mistake. So what exactly went wrong? It seems

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incredible but government experts made basic mistakes in their

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calculations. They forgot to include inflation and failed to

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count passenger numbers properly. Areas that will cost the taxpayer

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�40 million to put right. -- errors. For Richard Branson, it means that

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Charles de bid again. Everybody at Virgin Trains are delighted.

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Passengers are delighted as well. We did not want to have to go to

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court. But his counterpart at FirstGroup saw 19% knocked from his

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share price today. We were bitterly disappointed because the team had

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worked so hard over so many mums and put together a great bid. --

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many months. The government is pointing the finger at civil

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servants, three has been suspended, but questions will now be asked of

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the last Transport Secretary, Justine Greening, who spent weeks

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insisting that all was well. Labour went on the attack today. It is a

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shambles Paul and �40 million of public money down the drain, and

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until recently, the old and the new transport ministers were assuring

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the public and parliament that this was a robust process. It has put

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intense pressure on the system used for choosing rail contracts.

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Politicians are deciding to do something which is basically

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impossible. They are trying to get a 15 year franchise on a fixed

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price revenue risk basis and it cannot be done. There is no chance

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this mess will be cleaned up by that time Virgin's contract runs

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out in December so the big question for customers: Who will keep the

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trains running with the busy Christmas period and beyond, until

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this sort this out? Minister's promise that services will not

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suffer, but they are left with a hard choice. Take the line back

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into public hands or make the embarrassing phone call to Sir

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Richard Branson, asking for help. Our deputy political editor is at

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the Labour Party conference in Manchester. What are your thoughts,

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James, or the potential impact of this mess on the government's

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reputation? It is clearly awful timing for the

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government. Only this year, the government got into trouble at the

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budget, confusion over tax changes, that prompted accusations of

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incompetence. Along comes this mistake and it allows Labour in

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Manchester to reopen that whole question of the government's

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competence, when the government spent so much time trying to move

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on from that. This is the last thing David Cameron wanted. He

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asked for the franchise to be handled properly but it was not

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done. But the wider question is is this a case of a few civil servants

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getting their sums wrong or or is this another illustration of white

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or getting into difficulties whenever it tries to spend large

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amounts of taxpayers' money on big, private sector projects? Whether it

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is NHS hospitals, transport, defence procurement and computer

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systems. We do not know the odds are to that question. Either way,

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the events of today damage business confidence, particularly in the way

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they deal with government, and that can only damage the economy.

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Police in Mid-Wales are extending their search for the missing five-

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year-old April Jones, who has not been seen since Monday evening. Her

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mother has appealed for her daughter's safe return and asked

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the public to help in any way they can. Police are still questioning a

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local man but insist there are other lines of inquiry. Our

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correspondent is in Machynlleth with the latest.

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People are still coming year to volunteer to help, but no longer

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are members of the public searching the area. That work is being done

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by specialist teams, the police, the Coastguard and mountain rescue

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us. It has been revealed tonight that April has cerebral palsy,

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adding yet more urgency to find her. This report contains flash

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photography. Across acres of land, the search

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goes on. Scouring fields and rivers for any sign of April. The five-

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year-old has now been missing but two days and two nights, and as

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time goes on, April's family are becoming more and more desperate

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for any details of where she could be forced stop It's been 36 hours

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since April was taken from us and there must be someone out there who

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knows where she is and can help the police find her. We are desperate

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for any news. April is only five years old. Please, please help find

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That plea feels ever more urgent as every hour passes. The police are

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continuing to question Mark Bridger, arrested yesterday on suspicion of

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April's abduction, and they have released a picture of his Land

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Rover Discovery. Please, even if you have the smallest information,

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it could be crucial to this investigation. Mark Bridger had

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lived in Machynlleth but a couple of months ago, he moved to this

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small village a few miles further up the River Dyfi. Detectives have

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been searching his home. The guy was down there. We did not talk to

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him much. He did not mix with the rest of the village. It is a very

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close community here. At the moment, all we can do is think about the

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little girl and try to find her. Child abductions are extremely rare

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but in such cases, police now have the power to launch a child rescue

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alert, which insures other people are warned and the case is given

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huge publicity, with a single national the telephone number

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issued. Focusing on this fast- moving river now just on the edge

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of the town. There is also much dense woodland, and any part of

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this could be a clue for people's whereabouts. Every time we think

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about it, along comes to my throat. I just want to cry. In the town

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this evening, there was a vigil for April. The constant sound of

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helicopters audible even in the Church are a reminder of the surge

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still going on. All thoughts of the girl with cerebral palsy missing,

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with a family desperate for her to be found.

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There is definitely a different mood in this town today. There is

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almost an uneasy anxiety. But people are holding on to the hope

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that people can be found safe and well. It is why so many people are

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still getting involved in the search. Police today have been

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given more time to question Mark Bridger.

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NATO ambassadors will hold an emergency meeting tonight to

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discuss the growing tension between Syria and Turkey. Earlier this

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evening, Turkey fired shells into Syria in retaliation for a mortar

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attack from Syrian territory, which killed five people. Earlier in the

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day, dozens of people were killed in Syria when a series of car bombs

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exploded in the city of Aleppo. James Robbins reports.

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Syrian shells fallen civilians, but this is Turkey, in a town near the

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border. Five people are reported killed, including a woman and her

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three children. Tonight Turkey announced it had already fired back.

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The Turkish government, deeply hostile to President Assad, says

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Syria must be held to account and it is edging NATO allies to help.

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It is a very, very dangerous situation and all responsible

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nations need to band together to persuade the Assad regime to have a

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ceasefire. This is exactly what many people feared. Syria's

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conflict spreading, inflaming an already divided region. Turkey

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backs the rebels, lightly armed but without clear leadership. They have

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taken the ground from a substantial Syrian army, backed by Iran in

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particular. Assad no longer controls his country but equally,

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he has not lost it. The longer the Syrian debt lot, the greater the

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risk that its neighbours and that region will get sucked into

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confrontation -- the longer the Syrian deadlocked. You would see

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that proxy tension boiling over. We need the international momentum to

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form a consensus that can shift the ground away from conflict. But no

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end to conflict is in sight. Syrian state TV said this was the result

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of rebel bombings in Aleppo today. After months of fighting, much of

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the city is already in ruins but Syria has rarely seen suicide

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attacks on this scale. Most of the over-thirties dead were apparently

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soldiers in a government controlled district -- over 30. Neither side

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can defeat the other, and Syria's neighbours are increasingly at risk.

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In Iran, tear gas has been used by riot police as they clashed with

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protesters in Tehran, unhappy about the sharp fall in the national

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currency. The rial has lost around 40% of its value against the dollar

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in the past week. President Ahmadinejad blamed Western

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sanctions but his rivals say his Police officers and members of the

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public have turned out in their thousands in Manchester for the

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funeral of Nicola Hughes, one of two police officers killed last

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month in a gun and grenade attack. The funeral for PC Fiona Bone will

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be held tomorrow. Our home editor Mark Easton reports. This lunch

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time the normally bustling city of Manchester pauseed to pay tribute.

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Hundreds of police officers from every rank and branch filed

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solemnly into the cathedral as thousands more lined the streets,

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silver badges and service medals shining in the autumn sun.

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started with Nicola here. I know her family as well, yes. A really

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tough day for you? Yeah, for everyone, really, regardless of

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whether they knew her. I think everyone is feeling the same and

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everyone wants to do her proud today, really. I think they are.

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think so, yeah, we're trying. you very much.

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Among the many Mancunians who stopped to pay their respects, few

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knew Nicola Hughes, but they know what she stood for, the values she

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lived for, the values she died for. Nicola was one of two unarmed PCs

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hurrying to answer a routine call. Along with her colleague, Fiona

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Bone, the pair died in a hail of bullets. Paying tribute to nick

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larks the Chief Constable said arming police would not be true to

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the values of the young constable. -- paying tribute to Nicola.

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understood it is central to our commitment to the minimum use of

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force to our relationship with the public and to serving citizens

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rather than controlling them as some arm of the state. Funerals are

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occasions to mourn what we've lost but also to remind ourselves what

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we still have. Today the police were paying their respects to a

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colleague greatly missed. But the public was also paying tribute to

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those who continue to protect, those who continue to serve.

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Just a few hours to go before Barack Obama and his Republican

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challenger, Mitt Romney, engage in the first of three televised

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debates ahead of the presidential election. The first will be held in

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the battleground state of Colorado and will focus on the economy and

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healthcare. Our North America editor, Mark Mardell, has been

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there to gauge support among the growing number of Latino voters.

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When the candidates take to the stage tonight we'll want to

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convince people they speak their language. Sometimes that's more of

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a stretch. OBVIOUSLY THEY WON'T BE SPEAKING

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SPANISH SKAPGS TONIGHT BUT WOOING AMERICA'S FASTEST-GROWING ETHNIC

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GROUP IN THEIR OWN LANG WOODGE COULD BE CRITICAL IN THE ELECTION

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AND IT IS GOING TO BECOME MORE IMPORTANT IN THE FUTURE. ONE-

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QUARTER OF AMERICANS UNDER 18 ARE LATINO Canvassing in Colorado a

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swing state where the Latino vote is hugely important. 60% went for

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Obama four years ago. Now some are disappointed that he hasn't done

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more to help the millions of illegal immigrants who have come

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across the border but Caroline says few find this election a hard

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choice? We know between the candidates there is only one

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candidate that supports any kind of immigration reform that is of any

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value. That's Bam BA Romney would turn back whatever progress we have

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made. -- that's Obama. So what has are gone wrong? When

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Ronald Reagan says la teen yos were naturally rer Republicans. He meant

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they were aspirational and conservative but Mitt Romney seemed

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to turn Latinos off. He backed a controversial law in Arizona which

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some said was racial processing. The answer is self-deportation,

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which is people decide that they can do better by going home bus

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they can't find work here because they don't have legal documentation

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to allow them to work here. But in the last couple of months the

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Romney campaign has really put on a burst of speed, intensely targeting

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Latinos, especially in swing states like Colorado. No wonder the latest

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poll gives Obama 70% of the Hispanic vote. Romney has

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backpedalled and rewriten policy with a much softer focus on illegal

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immigration. Some say this debate is a chance to punch home the new

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message. Throw away the rhetoric, throw away the language that turns

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people off and talk about it to the people in a real leadership way.

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night fews over Denver, the candidates' intense preparations

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are at an end. They will soon face each other for a debate which some

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say could shake-up the race for the White House.

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Sussex Police are the latest force to reveal a complaint of indecent

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assault against the late Sir Jimmy Savile. They say they were

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approached by a woman in 2008 but were unable to pursue the

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investigation because she wouldn't take the matter further. Our

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correspondent, David Sillito, has spoken to another woman who came

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forward this week with her own allegations. Jimmy Savile, there

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were rumours for years but now finally the stories are being told.

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They have the transcripts from all the other women. I spoke to Katrina.

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In 1975 she was just 14. The DJ said he would show her his studio

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and then on the way back, he took her into his flat. I froze. I just

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didn't know what to do. I did not know what was happening. I was

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quite a naive 14-year-old. The worst thing I will never get out of

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my head is the taste of his cigar breath.

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He was a star at the height of his fame and it took nearly 20 years

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for her to pluck up the courage to speak publicly. Then at the last

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minute her nerve failed. I don't think I'll ever stop beating myself

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up with not having the courage to speak up and get it out in the open

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while he was still alive. Now so much has changed in a week. The

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women that have spoken to ITV. Sussex Police saying an allegation

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was made in 2008, the BBC's offer it help any police inquiry. There

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has to be a full investigation. People had to have known something

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was not right. They might not have realised the extent of it. They

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might not have realised that there were girls out there being raped,

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but they had to have known that this man liked young girls just a

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bit too much. A BBC star a charity fund raiser

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but for Katrina Rose and others, claims that there was a very

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different side to Jimmy Savile. A day after unveiling Labour's new

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slogan, Ed Miliband has been explaining how he plans to

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translate his One Nation vision into electoral success. Mr Miliband

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said he planned to unite Britain but admitted there would be "tough

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times ahead" and he wouldn't be able to "turn the spending taps on",

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even if he won the next election. He's been talking to our political

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editor, Nick Robinson. Down the years Labour has had many rallying

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cries. Slogans meant to cap tuert party's appeal. They line the walls

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of this museum in Manchester, down the road from where their current

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leader has unveiled no, wun nation. Today I asked -- unveiled another,

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One Nation. I asked him how it was different from the party's past.

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There is no return to old Labour. It was a party of sectional

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interest and didn't spend money wisely. New Labour had great

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achievements but in my view was too silent about the responsibility of

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those at the top of society and too timid about the powerful influence

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like the banks. New Labour was Tim bid how to reverse the

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privatisation of the railways. After today's chaos talk of public

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ownership is back in fashion. course we need to look at it open

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mindedly, neither ideologically, about the public private or sectors.

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It could be private, public or not for profit franchises. In a series

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of interviews today Mr Millband has been quizzed as his aides listened

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in intently about what yesterday's barm storming rhetoric really meant.

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You say you want to be different from other politicians. I think

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that means telling the truth, saying the next Labour Government

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will almost certainly have to cut things you like. I think that there

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will be many people who want to us do things that we are not able to

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do but, look, I'm going to... cut things you are currently doing

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But I'm going to be clear. Look I'm going to be clear about the

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decisions the next Labour Government will make when we see

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the financial circumstances that we face but I couldn't be sending a

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clearer message, Nick. I'm sending a very clear message that there

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will be tough times even under a Labour Government. The spending

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taps won't able to be turned on. Scarcely mentioned at this

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conference have been the great figures of Labour's past, the

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former leaders who shaped the party. One name in particular has been

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notable by its absence. You talked about a lot of influences on you,

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yesterday. You didn't talk about your political influences. The man

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who really gave you your job. Gordon?

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Yeah, look, I have been influenced by him, I have been influenced by

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lots of people. What did you learn about why it didn't go right for

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him that is useful for you? I think the most important lesson I learned

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is that you need a very, very clear sense of where you want to take the

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country. I think after ten years of a New Labour Government, it was

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less clear than it should have been and that's what I have tried to set

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out with One Nation. A clear sense where Britain would go with Ed

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Miliband has Prime Minister. Miliband has given Labour a new

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slogan to stitch on to baerns a new tune to hum, a new band to replace

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New Labour. The test of One Nation will be what on earth it means in

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practise. Kevin Pietersen who was depropd

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England cricket team for sending provocative text messages about his

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team-mates has been given a new contract but the England and Wales

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Cricket Board says he will have to undergo a reintegration programme.

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In Columbo the man who leads English cricket, the ECB chairman

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and the man who is toing the line. Kevin Pietersen, officially he is

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now in the process of reintegration and that began with a public apoll

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ji. I would like it take this opportunity to apologise to my

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team-mates, all England supporters and the ECB for the situation that

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has arisen over the last couple of months but thankfully we have drawn

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a line under it and it is time to move forward. In August Kevin

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Pietersen was dropped over text messages sent to South African

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players. He admits they were provocative but he cannot recollect

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being derogatory about England colleagues. Last month he was left

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out of England's squad to tour India later this year. Today he

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signed a short-term dee. He will get a full contract if he

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reintegrates. -- short-term deal. In essence he is on trial. Coach

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Andy Flower will decide if Pietersen is disrupting team spirit.

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Some feel he has done that throughout his career. We were told

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Pietersen's England team-mates want to make up. I know that major

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players have contacted us and said they are keen to do so. The senior

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players have themselves taken that initiative. I'm very encouraged by

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that. In Columbo the world at Twenty20 continues, there is huge

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excitement about Sri Lanka's chances. England have gone home,

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knocked out, admitting they missed Pietersen or at least his batting.

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Kevin Pietersen has made no secret of his desire to play for more the

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Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League. England now say he

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