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Tonight at Ten: The International Monetary Fund intervenes in the

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debate about Britain's future in the European Union.

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It warns that if Britain votes to leave there'll be

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severe regional and global damage and the Chancellor agrees.

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This is the clearest independent warning of the taste of things to

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come if we leave the EU. I think we are better off if we stay in the EU,

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that would make Britain stronger, safer and better off.

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But there's no reason to think the economy

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would suffer, according to

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those who want Britain to leave, as they dismiss the latest warning.

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This is just a matter of opinion. The IMF is often, like other

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institutions, wrong in the forecasts and opinions its offered.

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The IMF also set out a bleak picture of the world economy and lowered its

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Also tonight: Prince Harry leads tributes in a

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service at Westminster Abbey to remember the British victims of the

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Two years after Nigerian school girls were

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kidnapped by Islamist militants, hundreds are still missing, we have

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Their parents wanted them to have a better life than they had,

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that's why they sent them to this school.

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But it was a choice that had devastating consequences.

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An ambitious project involving British scientists to send a

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spacecraft to another solar system trillions of miles away.

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If we are to survive as a species we must ultimately

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And, Manchester City claim their first

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ever semifinal place in the Champions League.

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Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England cricketer James Taylor

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is forced to suddenly retire because of an undetected

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He says it's been the toughest week of his life.

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The International Monetary Fund has intervened in the debate

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about Britain's future in the European Union.

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It's warned that a vote for the UK to leave could cause severe

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damage to the regional and global economy.

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In its latest report the IMF sets out a gloomy picture

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of the world economy and lowers its growth forecast

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for the UK, the eurozone, and around the world.

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Campaigners who want the UK to leave the EU

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Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed has the story.

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It is certainly a gloomy cocktail - weakening global growth,

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an economic outlook diminished, further financial turmoil

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on the markets and, for the UK, an extra risk -

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that the decision to leave the European union could do severe

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It would create a lot of uncertainty.

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We already see the uncertainty about the referendum result

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And a vote to leave would set off a process of two years,

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a lengthy divorce, with a very uncertain settlement at the end.

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Despite the IMF downgrading the UK's growth forecast,

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the Government welcomed today's report.

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The worse the economic news, the better chance the Government

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feels it has of persuading voters to stick with the European Union.

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Today we have a stark warning from the IMF.

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For the first time they're saying that the threat of Britain leaving

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the EU is having an impact on our economy and they've

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They say if we were actually to leave the EU there would be

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a short-term impact on stability and a long-term cost

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This is the clearest independent warning of the taste of things

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The Treasury certainly thinks this is a key moment.

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The IMF's warning comes in three major parts.

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It warns that sterling could lose its value.

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Now, that's not so good for our holidays, but could

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It warns that there could be a return of market volatility

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which could mean that our pensions and savings investments

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It also warns that trade could be disrupted and,

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of course, the EU is our most important trading partner.

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But whatever the IMF warns, there are plenty of people

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who disagree fundamentally with their analysis.

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The IMF is an important organisation but it's very closely connected

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to the European Union, its managing director is a former

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At the end of the day, this is just a matter of opinion.

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The IMF is often, like other institutions, wrong in the forecasts

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Don't forget, just a couple of years ago George Osborne had a spat

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with the IMF over its gloomy forecasts for the UK economy

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which he demanded they revised and rethought.

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The UK's trade relationship with the rest of the world

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and at the heart of a lot of this debate, the question

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is would economic uncertainty give way to a brighter future?

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Those who support an exit believe it would.

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There would be a fairly short period of uncertainty.

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There's bound to be because some things are changing.

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There are going to be some losers, there are also going

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Before long that gives way to a different world indeed

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in which Britain can take advantage of actually being outside the EU

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and this is what the IMF doesn't seem to have focussed on at all.

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Next week sees the arrival in Britain of this man,

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President Barack Obama, who is likely to deliver another

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He should be well aware of the IMF's views, its chief economist used

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Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg is in

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A big debate about how much weight people should attach to this report,

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how do you see it? I think it does matter because in a debate that's

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full of noisy claims and counter claims the identity of who is making

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the claims matters very much. This is not just some other nameless

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person saying there might be jitters if we leave the EU, the IMF is a

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major international organisation, delivering what is a pretty grim

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warning about what might happen. For the residents of this street who

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want this campaign to be all about the risks to jobs as they see it and

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the risks to our livelihoods t plays perfectly into the

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the risks to our livelihoods t plays want to make in the coming weeks. If

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we think about want to make in the coming weeks. If

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of an intervention like this one trying to look ahead a few weeks,

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how would we read trying to look ahead a few weeks,

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think we are going to hear it again and again. I think we will

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think we are going to hear it again we have heard today from the

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opponents of Number 10 in this campaign, they have tried to slug

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this off as the campaign, they have tried to slug

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stay in the EU. It's harder for them to shrug off that from the IMF, to

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chuck that accusation around than it is for them to hurl

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chuck that accusation around than it their fellow politicians. Yes, of

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course, we should remember the IMF has been wrong

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course, we should remember the IMF wrong about a lot. As an

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organisation they're pretty remote, they're a bunch of academics based

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in the United States, not necessarily familiar

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in the United States, not to individual voters, but the kind

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of warning this is, the influence they have in these parts, mean this

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warning from today I think we they have in these parts, mean this

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hear again and again and again as this campaign proceeds and it's not

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long now. Thank you very much. And there's much more about the EU

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referendum and the facts behind in the resort of Sousse

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and in the capital, Tunis. Survivors and relatives

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of the victims attended the service this lunchtime,

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along with Prince Harry and the Prime Minister,

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as our special correspondent Their mothers, fathers,

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brothers and sisters, husbands and wives had just been

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on holiday, many on the beach Prince Harry, with the Prime

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Minister watching, laid a wreath at the memorial for innocent victims

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and one by one the names of those who did not come home

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echoed around the abbey. Connor was at the memorial

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to represent his mother, It is important to come

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and do my mum proud, go and walk down with a candle,

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dress up look smart and be a representation of her really,

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because that is what she would have It was a lovely service,

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but I kept thinking how can Who had such a big personality

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and was such a strong character. Nearly a year on it is clear

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you still miss your mum. Some nights I sit there

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and think why is it my mum? I'm never going to talk

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to my mum again. My mum's never going

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to walk through the door It is hard when you're at home

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sometimes and people are saying, oh, you see Brussels or Paris

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and does it bring it all back? But it hasn't gone for me so it

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doesn't bring anything back, Those who were injured and escaped

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were also at the service. Two friends who ran

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after the shooting started. We were so lucky to have come home

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and for us to be able to be there and think of others that

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didn't come home was... Was lovely for us to

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be able to do that. The family who lost three

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generations, the couple enjoying their wedding anniversary,

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the mum celebrating her 50th birthday - families

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destroyed by terror. Ministers might offer state loans

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to tempt a private bid for Tata's steelworks in Port

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Talbot. It's the latest suggestion

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as the government searches for a way of saving thousands of jobs

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threatened by Tata's decision to sell its steel

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business in the UK. The Business Secretary,

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Sajid Javid, said he was looking at a range of options

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when he spoke during an emergency Our Wales correspondent

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Hywel Griffith reports. After two full weeks

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of watching and waiting, are some of the clouds over

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Britain's steel industry At Port Talbot's Docks cafe

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they know all about seeing There is optimism after

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the Government said it could co-invest in the nearby works,

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even take on some of the debt. Watching today's emergency debate,

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steel worker Matthew Piercy What he saw was a

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government under attack. There has been what can only be

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described as an ideologically driven reluctance to get involved

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as the crisis has deepened. It's been a mixture

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of indifference and incompetence. I am fighting for Britain's steel

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workers every hour of the day. I was fighting for them long before

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this crisis hit the headlines and I will go on fighting

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as long as it takes. For me, there is more of a glimmer

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of hope now than there was before. If the suppliers lose confidence

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in our ability to pay the bills, then we won't get those raw

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materials and then the coke ovens will stop, and the furnaces

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will stop, and that will be the end. Any big decisions will be made

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in India, where it's reported Prince William today discussed

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British steel-making With lobbying home and abroad,

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workers here are told to stay hopeful, and yet people here have

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to think the unthinkable. What if, at the end of all this,

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no deal can be done? If production were to grind

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to a halt, it wouldn't just be Tata This haulage company

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carries their steel, Like we explained to the lads,

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it's the uncertainty of everything at this moment

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of time, isn't it? We can't really look them in the eye

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and say there is going to be a takeover and everything will be

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fine from next month on. There's no doubt having a huge

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steelworks in South Wales has Some question whether the Government

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should keep that going. At the moment the plant

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is not making any money, even without thinking about pension

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deficits and clean-up costs. If you factor those two elements

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into any rescue plan, it's very hard to see

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what kind of steel price, what kind of energy price,

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what wages could be paid So much hangs on the next few

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weeks of negotiations. Hywel Griffith, BBC News,

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Port Talbot. The European Commission has unveiled

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plans to force large companies to reveal more

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about their tax affairs. They would have to declare publicly

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how much tax they paid in each EU country as well as any activities

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carried out in specific tax havens. Firms like Google,

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Apple and Amazon have been criticised for not paying

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enough in tax. The rules on country-by-country

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reporting would affect multinational firms with more

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than 750 million euros in sales. It is estimated that EU

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states lose at least 50-70 billion euros each year to

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corporate tax avoidance. Our correspondent Alex Forsyth is at

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the European Commission in Brussels. Alex, lots of talk about how complex

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all this is, so how close The thinking behind this proposal is

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that if big businesses have to open up their books to the public, they

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would be less inclined to try to move profits around to avoid tax. It

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needs the backing of European countries and the European

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Parliament but if the law is approved, it would mean any large

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firm operating would have to published details. Critics say the

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proposal is not tough enough. Businesses say publishing too much

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information could be commercially damaging, but EU leaders want to be

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seen to be doing something in the wake of the leaked Panama Papers,

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which exposed large-scale tax avoidance. They have been planning

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this for months but there is no political momentum behind it and

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whether it is UK politicians publishing tax returns or the

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spotlight on big business in the EU, the hope is transparency over tax

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affairs will go some way to restoring public trust. Thank you.

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Two years ago this week, hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls

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were kidnapped by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.

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Their abductors claimed it was punishment for

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But despite global condemnation, an international campaign to free

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them, and a major government military offensive, more than 200

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The girls came from Chibok in northeast Nigeria.

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The BBC's Martin Patience has been given rare access to their former

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school and has spoken to relatives who remain desperate for news.

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Chibok, once a small market town barely anyone had heard of.

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But then Boko Haram came, kidnapping hundreds of its daughters.

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It's now haunted by the horrors of that night.

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A place where families are left picking up the pieces.

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These parents show us all their daughters left behind.

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TRANSLATION: This is the dress she was supposed to wear

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at her friend's wedding, but it never happened.

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I'm going to keep the dress in case she comes back.

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TRANSLATION: My daughter was such a hard-working girl.

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Just before she was taken, she begged me to buy

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She was great with the customer. is a budding entrepreneur.

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These were the last moments I had with her.

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I pray that my daughter will come back alive,

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but if not I hope that her soul will rest in peace.

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I hope the horrors she witnessed during this kidnap are the last

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But how can they make sense of what happened?

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We travelled to the school, granted exclusive access

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It was here late one night that the nightmare began.

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Boko Haram stormed this compound, rounding up the girls

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from their dormitories, which now lie in ruins.

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Then they were loaded onto trucks and driven into the forest.

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The skeletons of desks where the girls once sat.

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An overgrown basketball court, where they once played.

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laughing, having fun, talking about the exam the next day,

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Their parents wanted them to have a better life than they had,

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but it was a choice that had devastating consequences.

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Two years on, there's no news of the girls.

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It's likely many were forced to marry fighters.

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Slowly, life is returning to Chibok but there is an anger

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Because despite worldwide attention, not a single one of

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Martin Patience, BBC News, Chibok.

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And on tomorrow's programme, we'll be hearing about the thousands

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We've spoken to some who've survived their ordeal only

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to be rejected by their communities when they return.

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That will be our latest update on that story tomorrow.

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A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

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The music producer David Gest has been found dead

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The cause of his death is not yet known.

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Born in California, David Gest grew up alongside Michael Jackson

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and his brothers, and went on to produce many of their tours

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There's been an unexpectedly sharp rise in the rate of inflation.

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The Office for National Statistics says the cost of living went up

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The price of goods fell but the cost of services rose by 2.8%.

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A 69-year-old man has been convicted at the Old Bailey

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of murdering his long-term partner in a fit of jealousy

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Dempsey Nibbs beat Judith Nibbs, who was 60, with an iron bar.

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The National Crime Agency says gangs are attempting to smuggle migrants

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into the UK through less busy ports after security was increased

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The findings were uncovered by a task-force set up

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by David Cameron last year to tackle people-smuggling in the wake

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In just over three weeks' time, voters in Scotland will be electing

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The Labour Party, once the dominant force in Scottish politics, has

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for the past decade been overshadowed by the SNP at Holyrood.

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Its new leader, Kezia Dugdale, has set out to reverse

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But she faces a major challenge, as our Scotland editor

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Sarah Smith discovered when she talked to voters.

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No political candidates have come to disturb the practice sessions

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here, in years gone by Labour could have assumed the support of most

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people here, but now, even people who voted

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Labour for generations say

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I was very, very much in favour of the Labour Party

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at one time, Labour was for the working man.

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I don't know what it is

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nowadays, I mean, I feel it has got so mixed up.

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That is why Labour have come up with eye-catching policies

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that are obviously to the left of the SNP.

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A bold pledge to increase income taxes in Scotland is designed

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to try and win back traditional supporters.

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Would you be happy for somebody who would ask

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They should try and recoup some money from the people who can

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But people vote with their hearts as well as their

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Perceptions matter as much as policies.

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Because the SNP were pushing forward Scotland, Scotland,

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Scotland, there was a lot of people got behind it.

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Because they felt patriotic to Scotland.

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Yet there is a desire to see a Labour resurgence,

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I have faith in Labour and hope they will come

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SNP are making a lot of promises they will not be able to keep.

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In towns like Coatbridge in central Scotland,

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plenty of voters do believe the SNP.

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Where once this was the definition of a

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The heavy industries, coal and steel, that

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once dominated this part of

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Scotland, has been consigned to the museum

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Now, the fear from many in the Labour

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Party is that the days of Labour rule in Scotland could also be

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The party have moved significantly to

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the left, to try and win back some of their traditional supporters, but

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the independence referendum still casts a long shadow.

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Labour did not handle the whole constitutional question well.

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It took a rather sour approach to saying no to

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And that is what young voters remember.

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In Scotland now, 16 and 17-year-olds can vote, which suits the SNP.

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Younger voters are far more likely to support them.

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Do you think you know what Labour stand for?

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No. Not at all.

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They spend a lot of time talking about what the SNP are doing

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and what their policies are and how it is bad,

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but I don't understand what Labour's policies are.

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Scottish Labour want people to understand they have changed.

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But they won't win over young hearts or old heads if

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voters aren't listening to their promises.

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The England and Nottinghamshire cricketer James Taylor has been

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forced to retire at the age of 26 after being diagnosed

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He said his world had been turned upside down

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Scans have revealed it's the same rare condition which caused

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the former Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba to suffer a cardiac

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The golfer Danny Willett has arrived back in the UK

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The 28-year-old arrived at Manchester Airport this morning

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wearing the winner's traditional green blazer.

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The more you say it, obviously, and things like this happen,

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obviously I think you start to realise just what we did last week.

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And everything that's going to go with it and kind of come round.

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So, yeah, hopefully we will take it in our stride

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We have had a lot of encouraging messages from a lot

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of really nice people around the world, offering advice.

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Football, and Manchester City have reached the semi finals

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of the Champions League for the first time

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They beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in Manchester tonight, giving them

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One of the biggest nights in their history, and certainly

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Could Manchester City go where they have never gone before?

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At 2-2 after the first leg, hopes were high but Paris

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic testing Joe Hart's fingertips.

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Sergio Aguero upended, penalty, but one of

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Could that prove costly? promptly did this.

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After the break, they were soon living dangerously.

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Hart once again denying Ibrahimovic, but with 15

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minutes left the pressure was quite gloriously lifted.

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Kevin De Bruyne sending the Etihad into euphoria with a moment

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The visitors now had to score twice, but Hart was inspired, and soon City

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For the fans, their European adventure is into

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What a night for Manchester City, through to the semifinals for the

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very first time, and for their manager Manuel Pellegrini, who is

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leaving at the end of the season, what a way to go if he could win

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European football's biggest prize. Leading scientists including

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Professor Stephen Hawking have given their support to an ambitious

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project to send a spacecraft The ship would need to travel

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trillions of miles much further than any before, and the plan

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is to develop a craft about the size of a microchip that could travel

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at exceptional speed. Our science correspondent

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Pallab Ghosh reports. For thousands of years,

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people have dreamed of one day The world's most famous

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scientist, Stephen Hawking, thinks that that day

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will come very soon. Astronomers believe there

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is reasonable a chance of an earth-like planet

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orbiting one of the stars There are no greater heights

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to aspire to than the stars. Technological developments

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in the last two decades and in the future make it

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in principle possible So what are the sort of distances

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we are talking about? Already, a probe has

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been sent to Pluto. That is seven-and-a-half

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billion miles away. And Voyager 1 has reached the edge

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of the solar system, The plan is to send spacecraft

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to a star in another solar system. That is a staggering

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25 trillion miles from Earth. Using current technology,

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it would take a spacecraft 30,000 years to get to our closest star,

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but by making them Over the years the size

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of spacecraft have shrunk. In the 1980s this micro satellite

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was used for Earth observation, in the '90s, this nano-satellite

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was launched for communications. The ultimate aim of the new research

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programme is to make To cram all the cameras

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and instruments you have in these, The idea is to launch these

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mini-spacecraft into A giant laser on Earth would give

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each one a powerful push, Life on Earth faces danger

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from astronomical events like asteroids or super novas and there

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are dangers from ourselves. If we are to survive that,

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we must ultimately go to stars. Here in Surrey where they pioneered

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the development of mini satellites 30 years ago, scientists believe

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it will be possible. What we did back in the 1980s

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was considered very whacky, and now small satellites now

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are all the fashion. This is currently

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a whacky sounding idea, Now it is not just whacky,

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it is just difficult. There is still a lot of work needed

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to develop the technology. But scientists believe that,

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although it will be difficult, What was once a distant dream

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could very soon become reality.

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