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Tonight at Ten: The UN warns of tensions between Syria and Turkey

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and the threat of a regional conflict. Turkish troops patrol the

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border as the country authorises military raids into Syria for the

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first time. Several Turkish civilians are injured. Five were

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killed by Syrian shelling last night. There is international

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condemnation. The most important thing of all, is

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that the Syrian government makes sure that there is no repetition,

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whatever, of any incident of this kind.

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We are assessing the threat to regional security. Also tonight:

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Police say that the search for five-year-old April Jones is now

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one of the biggest in recent history.

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What we have to hold on to, really, is that we continue the search and

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the good news is that everybody is determined to follow through this.

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The Metropolitan Police takes charge of assessing sex abuse

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allegations against the late Sir Jimmy Savile.

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And in their first TV debate, they clashed over the economy and it was

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Mitt Romney that came out on top. On Sportsday on the BBC News

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Channel: Spurs draw in Athens. All of the goals from the Europa League

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Good evening. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-

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Moon is alarged by escalating tensions between Turkey and Syria

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is warching that the region flal conflict is growing. It comes after

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bombing of Turkish and the retaliation that followed. The

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Parliament in Ankara has given the Turkish military the authority to

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enter Syria. More on the regional implications in a moment. First,

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here is James Reynold in Akcakale, the town hit by Syrian shelling.

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This was not Turkey' war, but the deaths of one family next to the

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Syrian border, have changed the way that this country sees its

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neighbour's conflict. The government has called the strike

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from Syria a final straw. This is what is left of the family

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home in the border town of Akcakale. The family's mother, and her three

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children were sitting in the garden when the shell hit.

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TRANSLATION: We were eating. Then we heard the sound of a bomb. The

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shrapnel fell, hit the wall and the ground. We could have been killed.

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Syria has apologised for the families' deaths, but those here

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fear another accidental strike. TRANSLATION: We are scared to death.

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We don't know when another mortar is going to be fired. We are

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targets. We are really frightened by what is happening.

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This afternoon, Turkey's Prime Minister won approval from

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Parliament for military operations inside Syria.

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TRANSLATION: We want peace and security in our region. This is

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what we care about. We have no intention to go to war.

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But Turkey is strong enough to protect its citizens and its

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borders and no-one should test that. To reinforce the point, the Turkish

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military is stationened next to the border.

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-- stationened next to the border. Some in this country are worried

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about by where this will lead. Tonight, a crowd draeted against

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war. The protestors had little appetite for an open-ended fight

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with a neighbour in chaos. But in Akcakale, the conflict has

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already arrived. At night we found deserted streets,

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many here have fled their homes. Turkey already play as key role in

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Syria's conflicts. This region is a staging ground for Syrian

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opposition rebels, but the shelling of this house has now led Turkey

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itself into the fighting. If that continues, it will change the

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nature of Syria's war. Well, the violence between the two

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countries was the most serious since the uprising against the

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Syrian regime began. The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, called on

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Damascus to ensure there was no repetition in the coming day.

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Washington also condemned the Syrian attacks. Our Middle East

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Editor, Jeremy Bowen has assessed the threat to regional security and

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the diplomatic response. The border between Syria and Turkey is long,

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porous and tense. A flimsy barrier to a war on a stage set for

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miscalculation and escalation. This is the crossing at Akcakale, the

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Turkish town where the Syrian shells killed five civilians. On

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the Syrian side the rebels control the border posts. At the UN

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Security Council in New York, the paralysis caused by France, Britain

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and Europe to remove the regime and Russia's support of it, meant that

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they struggle to come to an agreement.

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This is a major concern. This sort of cross-border military

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activity is very destabilising and it must be stopped.

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Syria takes seriously the vote in Turkey and NATO member, authorising

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military action. In cases of border incidents,

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incidents that have been between two neighbouring countries, states

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and governments, they should act wisely, rashally and

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responsibleably. But on Syrian state TV's daily

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English language bulletin, the incident with Turkey was not

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mentioned. It called for UN condemnation rebel attacks in

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Aleppo. Russia's Foreign Minister who does not want sudden reel

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change is watching Bashar al- Assad's back, vital for the Syrian

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regime's sure vile. TRANSLATION: This has taken on a

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cross-border demention a long time ago. It seeped out. It is fuelled

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from the outside. All of Syria's neighbours are being

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drawn into the conflict whether they like it or not. The region has

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been divided between Bashar al- Assad's supporters and those who

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stand behind the rebels. Iran denies not all that convincingly,

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that it supplies Bashar al-Assad's forces with arms, training, money

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and troops. Turkey shelters the rebels, they may be helping to

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train and to arm them. It allows men and guns to cross the border.

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Foreign intervention is happening in the conflict with no sign of a

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ceasefire, there is likely to be more of it.

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The incident is a reminder that the longer that the conflick goes on in

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Syria, the greater the danger to international peace and security.

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In Jordan, more and more Syrian Roy Hodgsons are arriving. Reinforcing

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the sinking feeling that the crisis is spreading. Diplomacy has not

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stopped the war, now it is struggling even to contain it.

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Police in Mid Wales say that the search for the missing five-year-

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old girl, April Jones, is now one of the biggest of its kind in

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recent history. April Jones disappeared on Monday evening after

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being seen getting into a vehicle near her home. The detectives have

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been given more time to question a local man, Mark Bridger. We have

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this report. Every effort is being made to find

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April Jones. Special research, Mountain Rescue and coastguard

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teams helping to support one of the biggest police operations of its

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kind. Hundreds of officers are involved in looking in the

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undergrowth, checking any place where a child could be, but it is

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information that is important in targeting the search for April. We

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have received over 2,500 calls from the public.

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Over 2,500 calls, but they have to be answered. That is being done by

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all 44 forces, Police Forces throughout the country.

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Today the man arrested on suspicion much ip -- April Jones's abduction

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was taken to court. They will have more time to question him. They

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have until tomorrow afternoon to release or charge him. They can ask

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for extension. The house he has been living in has been under

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research. And local residents are doing all

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that they can to aid the search for a missing five-year-old.

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We know she is still out there. We are going to find her. No matter

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what. Farmlands stretching for miles

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across this part of Mid Wales. There is dense woodland all around

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and rivers disecting the area. Many living here that -- believe that

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local knowledge is vital to the search.

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April Jones went missing outside of my house. She is friends with my

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little daughter. After a time when the search

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focused on the town and the immediate areas it spread out to

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more than a dozen villages and all of the land and the rivers

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inbetween. The difficulties cannot be overestimated.

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Hopefully the police can find leads to take us in a different direction

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from where we are looking here. April Jones's mother asked for

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people to wear the pink ribbons today. It is her daughter's

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favourite colour. The support could not be more obvious.

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My heart goes out to April's family. This is every family's nightmare.

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Clearly having this happen to you, the fact that she suffering from

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cerebral palsy, I know a little bit about it from my own children. It

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only makes this worse. As darkness swells, the search

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teams head out again. Each hour is crucial as April Jones's parents

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face a fourth night without their daughter.

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The Metropolitan Police is to coordinate the assessment of

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allegations made against Sir Jimmy Savile. It follows an ITV

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documentary last night in which a number of women re-counted being

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abused by him on BBC premises in the 1970s. The BBC producers denied

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dropping an investigation into the allegations of the radio and TV

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star. Welcome to January the 1st, 1964.

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A DJ, a charity fundraiser, but the stories of five women paints a more

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disturbing picture. One told the ITV documentary how when she was 14,

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Sir Jimmy Savile organised a visit to the BBC TV Centre, and what he

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expected in return. We knew what was expected of us. We

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had to pay. He had an alcove with a curtain over it. He would take you

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behind the curtain. There you are... The allegations are mounting.

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Northampton Police say that two women have come forward also, the

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fourth to be involved. The Metropolitan Police announced that

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it would lead the process of looking at the allegations, adding

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that the priority is to ensure a consistent policing response,

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putting the victims at the heart of their eninquiries. Meanwhile, Sir

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Jimmy Savile was a BBC star for more than 40 years. Today saw the

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first interview by the Corporation on the subject. It said that it was

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horrified, but added it could not act simply on rumours. However,

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statements from a number of women were made to Newsnight. These

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interviews were never broadcast as it said there was no evidence of

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institutional failure. The BBC had a number of stories

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told to Newsnight. They decided it was not the story that they wished

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to pursue. They did not recognise was a story?

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You have to ask the editor of Newsnight. He took a decision to

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consider whether or not an investigation with a difficult

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investigation, that could be going on. These are decisions that

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editors make all the time. An MP has asked the Leveson inquiry

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to look at the issue. Why have the claims taken 40 years to come out?

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The BBC said it investigated records and found nothing. The

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police have looked into claims more than once, but not brought charges.

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Newspapers tried and failed to print stories about Sir Jimmy

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Savile. The BBC said it did not supply pressure to suppress

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anything, but the claims are coming The Chief Constable of West

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Yorkshire Police, Sir Norman Bettison, is to retire. Sir Norman,

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whose role in the Hillsborough tragedy is being investigated by

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the Independent Police Complaints Commission, will step down next

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March. He's always denied any wrong-doing in the subsequent

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police investigation into the disaster. The Bank of England has

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announced that it's left the interest rate at a record low of

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0.5%. They've remained at that level since March 2009. The new

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boss of Barclays has told the BBC the bank has a "significant job to

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rebuild trust", and must provide a "socially useful" service to

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customers. Antony Jenkins, who announced a new

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initiative to help exporters, was giving his first broadcast

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interview since taking the job. Our chief economics correspondent, Hugh

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Pym, reports. Barclays and other banks are battling to restore

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reputations dented by the financial crisis, the mis-selling of

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insurance on consumer loans and then the issue which saw former

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boss, Bob Diamond quit, the fixing of the LIBOR interest rate. Now

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Barclays' new Chief Executive is trying it make a fresh start.

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Antony Jenkins, who has been in the job five weeks, today advicated

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glass manufacturer. He was launching a new scheme to help

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customers sell more goods abroad. We are trying to encourage more

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businesses, like yours, to export and... Mr Jenkins, who was promoted

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internally told me about the challenges of being in the top job.

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You were part of the senior management team during a period

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when you had the LIBOR scandal, problems with Payment Protection

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Insurance, do you not take some responsibility? Well as an

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executive of Barclays, of course there is some responsibility but I

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would say, more importantly, having somebody who understands the

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organisation from the inside out, is able to address these problems

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more quick lane more effectively than somebody coming in from the

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outside -- more quickly and effectively. There are big

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questions over what Barclays and the bigger banks will look like in

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a few years' time. The Government wants them to ringfence their high

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street operation and keep them separate from riskier investment

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banking. The industry has been accused of trying to water down

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some plans. Labour says if it wins power it wants it split up the

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banks. For Barclays new chief, managing the two sides of the bank

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will be far from straightforward. On the one hand they have the

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retail bank. It should be possible to improve the culture to make it

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more customer-focused, but on the other hand they also have a world

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sized investment bank. The culture there is set out of New York, it is

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very much banker first, client second. That will be very hard to

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change. For now the new Barclays' boss says he twoobts focus on

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helping business customers like this and restoring the bank's image.

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-- he says he wants to focus. think Barclays has a significant

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job to rebuild trust. I'm confident we can. It goes back to what we do.

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If we serve customers and clients day-in and day-out in the way that

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people perceive as socially useful, we will rebuild that trust. I'm

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also not naive about how long it'll take, it'll take time. Socially

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useful banking. He may have to work hard to show what he means by, that

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at a time when the industry is far from popular. Coming up:

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# Love, love me do # You know I love you... # How the

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Beatles launched a musical revolution, 50 years since their

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In the US, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger for

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the White House, Mitt Romney, have gone head-to-head in the first TV

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debate of the election campaign. The two men clashed over the

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economy and afterwards most analysts thought Mr Romney had come

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out on top. Our North America editor, Mark Mardell, was watching.

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In a country fraught with bitter political divisions there is a rare

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moment of agreement. Mit ROM outshiens President Obama in their

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first debate. Consensus of the American media, Mitt was a hit.

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Warm hand-shakes ahead of 90demerve-wrecking minutes, watched

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by 58 million Americans -- 89 nerve-wrecking minutes. President

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didn't want to let go. He started with a campaign line, his opponents

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would cut taxes for the wealthy and hurt the middle classes. That

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topdown economics where folks at the top are doing well, so the

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average person making $3 million is getting a $250,000 tax break, while

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middle class families are burdened further, that's knotted what I

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believe is a recipe for economic growth. Mitt Romney has having none

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of Tha'ir. Under the President's approximately sis middle and income

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Americans are being buried, their income is crushed. Their income has

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come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I will call it

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the economy tax. It's been crushing. Mitt Romney so, often stiff and

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wooden, seemed a different mab. Look at the gleam in his eyes as he

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talks directly to his opponent. The President spoke to camera, measured

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but hardly fired up. They clashed on jobs, health care and why the

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President hadn't picked up a plan to cut the country's huge debt.

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President should have grabbed it, take it, go to Congress, fight for

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it. That's what we have done. Made adjustments and we are putting it

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forward before Congress right now. You have been President four years.

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You said you would cut it in ha. It is four years later we still have a

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triallian dollar deficit. If you are re-elected we will get to a

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trillion dollar debt. President Obama rarely interrupted again,

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afterwards his teams admit Romney might win an Oscar for a vigorous

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performance but claimed it was untethered from the truth. The

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President echoed the complaint. met this very spirited fellow who

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claimed to be Mitt Romney it. Couldn't have been Mitt Romney,

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because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for

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the last year promising five trillion dollars in tax cuts that

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favour the wealthy. The fellow on stage last night said he didn't

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know anything about that. Leaving Denver, Mitt Romney can afford to

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look pleased with himself but there is another nervous wait. Of course

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the theatre of one debate doesn't change the way most people intend

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to vote. But it does mean the next string of opinion polls are really

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important. If they narrow, it suggests Romney is back in the game.

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It's a big boost for his campaign. But if they don't, even after an

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acclaimed victory, then he really is in a hole.

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Hundreds of police officers and many more members of the public

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have attended the funeral of PC Fiona Bone, who was murdered in a

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gun and grenade attack in Greater Manchester last month.

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She was killed with her colleague, Nicola Hughes, whose funeral took

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place yesterday. For the second time in 24 hours,

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Manchester stood still to pay its respects. Police and public side-

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by-side, lining the ruelt of PC Fiona Bone's funeral cortege. --

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lining the route. The service of Manchester cathedral

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was for 1,000 friends, relatives and workmates. Outside, many more

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listened as it was relaid on speakers.

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Fiona, for me, was a perfect police officer. The reason for that was

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who she was as a person. She was everybody's friend, a good listener,

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and a steady influence in the most difficult of circumstances. God

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bless you,. If i. PC Fiona Bone was on shift a

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fortnight ago when she was called out to respond to a reported

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burglary. When she got there with her colleague, PC Nicola Hughes,

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the two women were shot dead. # Ava Maria... #

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Very few of the people here knew Fiona Bone personally. But, as they

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did yesterday for Nicola Hughes, they've come here in their hundreds.

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Public and police officers standing to the in grief, and solidarity.

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! I didn't note individuals. It is part of the police family. I felt I

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had to be here to pay my respects. After the service, thester's body

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was taken away for a priet burial. -- officer's body. One colleague

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said that PC Bonne represented the best that humanity had to offer.

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The President of the European Central Bank has praised Spain for

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what he called remarkable progress in addressing its huge debt. But

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Mario Draghi warned that the country still faced significant

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challenges. Stephanie Flanders is here. What exactly is Mario Draghi

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trying to say? Well you will remember, George, a month ago the

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European central bnk confirmed it was willing to stand behind

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countries like Spain in the financial markets if they were

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unpressure, having it pay very high interest rates because of a fear

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they might leave the euro. When he said that, there was a great new

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mood of optimism in the financial markets, a sense of relief and

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easing of the pressure on countries like Spain from the financial

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markets. But as they pointed out today, there were always conditions

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attached to that promise. Spain had to get its act together, had to get

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the right policies in place to get its economy and budget in shape

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over the long-term and it had to apply formally for a support

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programme from its European partners. Now, as he mentioned, we

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have seen some of the first of those, we have seen some difficult

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budget decisions from Spain in the last few weeks but it has yet to

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formally apply for this support programme and more generally there

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is a feeling that an air of complacency has crept in amongst

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European leaders as regards the crisis because of this promise from

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the ECB I think he was saying - we are still here, doing our bits but

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governments have to move ahead. England's women have won their

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semi-final in the world Twenty20 cricket tournament in Sri Lanka.

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They beat New Zealand by seven wickets in Colombo. England will

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play either West Indies or the defending champions, Australia, in

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Sunday's final. Now, it was October 1962 and a new

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band from Liverpool released their first record. It was called Love Me

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Do and they were called The Beatles. Nobody knew that exactly half a

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century later they'd still be revered as a musical powerhouse.

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Here's our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz, on three words, a Fab

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Four and 50 years. It was a simple song, with massive reverberations.

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# Love, love me do # You know I love you... # Love Me

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Do launched the tpwhand put the swing intop six tis -- launched the

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band. Andlet led a pop revolution that spanned the globe. It might

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never have happened if it wasn't for this music production, George

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Martin from EPI's Parlophone records. He, unlike others, gave

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the young men from Merseyside a chance. They came here to Abbey

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Road in London for their audition, walked over the now legendary

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crossing and to the studios over there, where they played George

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Martin a collection of their songs. None of which impressed him very

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much but he decided to take a bit of a punt and give them a contract

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anyway. So, what was it about the individuals who you met that you

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thought -, this probably is worth persevering with, a bit? It's funny

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you say that because, of course one has to like the music and I didn't.

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But the answer was their charisma. They were such engaging people.

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They were - they made me laugh. they were smart enough to listen to

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his advice. We thought about what you said about doubling the speed,

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and would you like to hear it now? Then they played me, Please Please

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Me. I actually said to them, after the end of the session, "You know

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you have your first number one." It was fresh, energetic and modern.

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The Beatles had arrived, and how. A form of mass hysteria spread

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worldwide. Diagnosed by the media as Beatlemania. They started making

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films. Then, only eight years after the

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release of Love Me Do, it was all over. The band split up. But their

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music has stuck around. Who knows what the future holds for music?

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But it always borrows from the past. Everybody in music really is a

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beggar and a thief but I think everybody has begged and thieved

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from the Beatles more than they probably even though. And to think

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