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Tonight at 10 - there'll be no official inquiry into the most

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violent episode of the miners' strike at Orgreave 32 years ago.

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Campaigners insist that South Yorkshire Police lied

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about the events at Orgreave, but the Home Secretary says

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there's no justification for a public inquiry.

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There were no miscarriages of justice, there were no deaths,

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There was anger at Westminster among campaigners who'd been expecting

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a very different outcome, and they promised to

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Aren't we right in concluding that the establishment stitch-up

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that she has just announced today, is nothing more

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We'll have the detail and reaction as the campaigners insist

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With eight days to polling day in America, signs that the race

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is tightening in some of those key states.

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A report from the outskirts of Mosul, as Iraqi special forces

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advance on the stronghold of the Islamic State group.

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Jail for 10 years for the lorry driver who killed a mother and three

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children when he crashed while using a mobile phone.

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Anyone using a mobile whilst driving is guilty of dangerous driving.

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It only takes a second of distraction to kill someone.

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Mark Carney says he'll stay as Governor

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of the Bank of England until 2019, and not for the full term.

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A glimpse at the private collection soon to be auctioned.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, concern for jockeys

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Jim Crowley and Freddy Tylicki, who suffer what are believed to be

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serious injuries in a fall at Kempton Park this afternoon.

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There will be no public inquiry into the violent clashes

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between police and striking miners at Orgreave in 1984.

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The decision, by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd, has provoked

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a furious response from campaigners who say it's an "establishment

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They have consistently accused South Yorkshire Police

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of using excessive force at Orgreave and of telling lies.

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Dozens of striking miners were put on trial but the cases collapsed.

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The Home Secretary said she'd made the decision because there had been

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no deaths or wrongful convictions - as our political editor

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Horses, batons, beatings. Orgreave was a battle between thousands of

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miers on strike and thousands of police, but there will be no

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inquiry, Noel Hunt for more truth, no new explanation. -- miners on

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strike. One of the miners there on that day just can't understand why.

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The things I saw that day, I wake up sweating sometimes in the night,

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when my mind wanders onto it... And that's why I joined this campaign,

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to get justice and there's been no justice today. Why would an inquiry

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make such a difference to you? Because we could say, we could say,

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we told you so. What we told you happen that day did happen. 95

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miners were charged before their cases collapsed, amid suspicions of

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brutality and cover up in the same police force at Hillsborough,

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campaigners believed an inquiry was coming. Amber Rudd told all of you,

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that there would be an inquiry, the only question was what kind. Her

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exact words were she had to decide what format it would take. It wasn't

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a question for us of whether or not it would happen, it would be in what

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form it would take. She said the culture had changed down the light

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needed to be shone. The Home Secretary denies any promise but her

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decision met here. I have concluded that there is no case for either a

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statutory inquiry or an independent review. In this situation, in

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Orgreave, there were no miscarriages of justice, there were no deaths,

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there were no convictions. The Right Honourable lady should be aware,

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therefore it doesn't merit the same level of status as a public inquiry

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as was required for Hillsborough. Aren't we right in concluding the

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establishment stitch up that she has just announced today is nothing more

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than a nakedly political act? This is an astonishing and frankly

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shameful decision by the government. The government have read those

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families up the garden path for the last two years. Whilst public

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enquiries can be successful, too often they cost huge amounts of

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money, take many years and don't even answer the questions

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thereafter. But Labour has vowed to keep pushing and keep promising an

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inquiry one day. I'm astonished, absolutely astonished. When Theresa

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May with Home Secretary she encouraged the families to write for

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an inquiry. They may have taken a view if they refuse to have it will

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go away, but sadly for them it won't. Look at the Hillsborough

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campaign, look at earlier campaigns in Birmingham and Guilford, the

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determination of people to get justice never goes away. Yet it is a

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straightforward game in politics to call for an inquiry. One minister

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said the hard thing is saying no, but in this case the Home Office

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concluded an inquiry with its possible costs and complications

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just wasn't worthwhile. Enquiries don't erase memories. Those that

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could hardly believe their eyes then and had to believe them now.

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Our correspondent Dan Johnson is in Orgreave tonight.

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We have heard already from some of the campaign at Westminster today.

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What have the local community been saying to you there?

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I have heard tonight from one of the campaigners here who said this is

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not over. The campaigners will have a meeting tomorrow to decide what

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their next move is. When the miners were chased up this field 32 years

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ago by police on horseback with functions and dogs they felt they

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were the victims of an abuse of state power. They claimed there was

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brutality, wrongful arrests and an attempt to frame them for serious

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offences. We've heard stories of retired police officers, all of them

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retired of course, will be pleased with this decision today. But for

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the miners, Orgreave and what happened here, this campaign became

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symbolic of everything they lost. It was a turning point in their strike.

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They lost it and thousands of jobs with it. Many would say trade union

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power has never same the mining communities have been abandoned and

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left behind. But one thing is for sure, the communities around here,

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the many feel the mining communities have been abandoned and left behind.

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But one thing is for sure, the communities former mining villages

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will not forget the Battle of Orgreave. Thank you.

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President Obama has let it be known that he does not

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believe the FBI director, James Comey,

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is trying to influence the outcome of the presidential election.

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Democrats have strongly criticised Mr Comey,

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after he announced the FBI was investigating more material

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that might relate to Hillary Clinton's use of unofficial e-mails

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But as our North America editor Jon Sopel reports,

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the latest allegations seem to have given Donald Trump's campaign

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a new energy, with just eight days to go.

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Hillary Clinton was in Cleveland today trying to look relaxed in a

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soul food cafe, but has is a troubled soul after the intervention

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of the FBI last Friday, when the director announced his new

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investigation. At a rally she gave vent to her frustration. Why in the

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world the FBI would decide to jump into an Hillary Clinton was in

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Cleveland today trying to look relaxed in a soul food cafe, but

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hers is a troubled soul after the intervention of the FBI last Friday,

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when the director announced his new investigation. At a rally she gave

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vent to her frustration. Why in the world the FBI would decide to jump

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into an election evidence of any wrongdoing, with just days I'm not

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making excuses, and I regret it. Now they apparently want to look at it

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was a mistake and I regret it. Now they apparently want to look did of

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one of my staff. I'm sure they will reach the same conclusion they did

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when change the mind of her staunch supporters lining up to see her but

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it might affect independents. The White House wouldn't condemn what

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the FBI did but isn't this very nuanced comment from the President's

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spokesperson about how the Department of Justice should behave

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this close to an election. It's important in the mind of the

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president that those authorities are tempered by at my e-mails for the

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last year, there is no case here. It won't change the mind of her staunch

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supporters lining up to see her but it might affect independents. The

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White House wouldn't condemn what the FBI did but isn't this very

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nuanced comment from the President's spokesperson about how the

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Department of Justice should behave this close to an election. It's

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important in the mind of the President that those authorities are

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tempered by an adherence to long-standing and the president and

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the President believes it is guidelines to be followed. And why

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would you stress that unless you think they might have breached

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conventional norms? While in office Hillary Clinton relied on a private

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e-mail account on her own server, sending thousands of messages both

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personal and government related. The FBI said that was negligent but

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didn't press charges. Now, in a separate case involving one of the

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estranged husband of her close aide, more e-mails have come to light and

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the FBI has reopened its investigation. But that in itself is

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proving controversial. It's not normal for the FBI to comment on an

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ongoing investigation and some Democrats now say the director James

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Cornick dill me might have broken the law which prevents federal

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enforcement officers seeking to influence the outcome of an

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election. Tonight is the night of carved pumpkins as Americans are a

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great Halloween but tonight Hillary Clinton feels she's been tricked,

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while the FBI has given Donald Trump his biggest treat. The Trump

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campaign has never been known for its calm or Serenity Douglas to the

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raw nurse a sense of euphoria at the moment, because these people here

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and the Trump campaign believes that the FBI's intervention could be a

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game changer. I think more people will come on the Trump train. The

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impact should be the independents. I think they go back and forth

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depending on the scandal of the moment. Have to give the FBI credit,

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that was so bad what happened originally, and it took guts for the

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director to make the movie made in light of the opposition he had,

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where they are trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. It's too

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soon to say what the impact of the FBI intervention will be, but listen

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to Donald Trump, all the talk last week of this being rigged election

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has gone. He has fresh believe he can will win. It is a very noisy

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hall here in Detroit where Donald Trump has just finished speaking.

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The Department of Justice in the past few moments have issued a

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statement to Congress saying they will work with the FBI as closely as

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possible, that they will give all resources on workers judiciously as

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possible. What we don't know is whether we will get any kind of

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verdict before or after the election, but one very important

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footnote to add is the Democrats are awaiting the next set of polls with

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extreme anxiety, and just as the Trump camp are looking forward to

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them. Back to you. Thank you very much.

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Jon Sopel in Detroit with the latest on the campaign.

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You can find out the latest in the race to the White House

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There you will see Jon Sopel's material and the backgrounds to lots

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of the key states and the state of the campaign.

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Mark Carney has announced he will stay in post as governor

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of the Bank of England until the end of June 2019.

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Mr Carney - who met Theresa May today at Number Ten -

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had been facing calls from prominent Conservatives for him to stand down,

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following his warnings about the potential impact of Brexit.

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Mr Carney's departure in 2019 is one year beyond his current term,

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but means he will not stay on for a full eight-year term.

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We can discuss this with Simon Jack. A word first of all about the

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decision on the way it was made. The first important thing to say what it

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was his decision. He arrived as a surprise superstar for signing in

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football terms, that George Osborne appointed. At first everyone thought

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he was great, he seemed to charm just about everyone to stop as the

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referendum approached, which had been called when he was first tired,

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he angered some. Some thought he was getting too political by half by

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warnings of an economic shock that might happen. They thought he was

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overstepping his brief. At that point people thought, he said the

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pound would fall and he was right about that, he warned of an economic

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shock that hasn't materialised yet, then he cut interest rates just

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after the which Theresa May criticised in a conference speech,

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saying that hurt savers. A lot of people thinking some testy exchanges

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between some of the Brexiteers and him. He said he will see out his

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term until 2019 and that's enough for him. The end of June 20 19. What

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does that mean, in terms of that Brexit timetable? Crucially if we

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trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017, that takes us to march

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2019, so it sees us through group. He will see it through to the end of

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that particular process. If you like him or loathe him, most people think

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losing your central bank chief in a process as immense as that is not

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ideal. He's clearly decided that the UK need him for one more year. After

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Theresa May backed him saying he was the right man for the job, he says

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he will stay on. His family are still going back to Canada in 2018.

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He says he has unfinished business here and will stick around until

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2019. Thank you. Simon Jack, our business editor.

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Iraqi Special Forces trying to drive so-called Islamic State

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from its stronghold in the city of Mosul, have advanced

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to the eastern outskirts of the city.

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The campaign - now in its third week - involves hundreds of troops

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in heavily-armoured vehicles all supported

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Our international correspondent Ian Pannell and cameraman

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Darren Conway are travelling with the Iraqi Special Forces

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This battle isn't just for one city, but an entire nation.

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Iraq is a country shattered and shocked by years of civil war.

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Many expect of these troops to pause, to wait for other

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fighters on other fronts, but that's not what happened today.

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As we joined Iraqi counterterrorism forces, moving to the last town

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between them and so-called Islamic State.

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Well, the armoured column, as you can see, has now

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moved out into desert, in what they call a flanking

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manoeuvre, in other words just going round the town of Bazwaya,

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We are in the lead vehicles here with

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the commander of counterterrorism forces.

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Over there is the town of Bazwaya where

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they are going to try to get to, and if they manage to get

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through that then they will manage to move on

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even further towards their main target.

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Over the weekend these men were attacked by the militants.

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In the confusion of battle they lost more than a dozen of their comrades.

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Taking the fight back to Isis, and the closer they get,

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After more than two years it feels this conflict is moving

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The counterterrorism unit have just advanced

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They just opened attack on what they think are IS positions,

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we've just been told to get back into the vehicles.

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They have another unit coming from the other side of the town.

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There is also a fighter jet overhead trying to give some cover,

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as you would expect, it's a very confused

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Many thought the town was abandoned to the fighters,

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but from behind closed doors, on walls and along alleyways, dozens

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They've been trapped between warring parties here for years,

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We liberated the land and the people.

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And finally, there on the horizon, less than a mile away, is

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the heart of the self-declared caliphate of Islamic State.

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TRANSLATION: We are very, very close to Mosul.

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We have run out of time today but tomorrow

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the Iraqi people and the world will celebrate its liberation.

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The people who live here are Shebak, an ethnic group who have suffered

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TRANSLATION: Thank God we survived Daesh.

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Don't go out, or we will behead you."

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They are also a reminder of the sectarian problems here.

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If they are ever to live in peace, this campaign also needs a plan

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As more families are made homeless, more lives lost, and still the real

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Ian Pannell, BBC News, just outside Mosul.

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A lorry driver has been jailed for 10 years for killing

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a mother and three children, because he was looking

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at his mobile phone while travelling at 50 miles an hour.

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The judge said that Tomasz Kroker might as well have had

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his eyes closed when he crashed into stationary traffic

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The family said the 10-year sentence was insufficient for a crime

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which - they said - had caused so much suffering and destruction,

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as our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports.

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The precious moments of a family life which no longer exists. Here,

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Ethan, Josh and their sister Aimee, the three children who died in the

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crash. They died with their mother Tracey, at the end of what had been

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a family holiday. They were killed by this man, Tomasz Kroker, seen

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here on his mobile phone moments before the crash. Cameras in his

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lorry show him scroll through his music for up to 45 seconds, before

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he hit a queue of stationary traffic. Tomasz Kroker can be seen

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in the hooded top moments after the crash. Tracy's Mark was in the Silva

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estate which shunted the vehicle under the lorry. We pulled up behind

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some lorries just crawling along. And then that was it. Bank.

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I looked down at his car and I couldn't believe it. The crash

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happened on the A34 in Berkshire. The judge said it was as if Tomasz

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Kroker had been driving with his eyes closed. Aimee's birth mother

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said driving with a mobile phone had tragic consequences. His use of a

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mobile phone while driving turned the lorry into a lethal weapon. It

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only takes a second of distraction to kill someone, destroying your

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life, your family's lives and those of your victim and their family. The

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law in this area is clear. It is illegal to use mobile phones while

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driving are traffic lights or while queueing. But you can use them if

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parked or making a 999 emergency call. Hands-free sets are also

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allowed, but if police EU distracted, they can stop and

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penalised you. The RAC said today mobile phones played a part in more

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than 400 accidents last year, in which 22 people died. The government

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has already announced it plans to double the penalties for using a

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mobile phone. In future, motorists could face a ?200 fine and six

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points on their licence. Tomasz Kroker was today jailed for a total

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of ten years after he admitted dangerous driving. His victims'

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family say their deaths could have been avoided and has left them

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arrest. -- the rest. The jockeys Jim Crowley

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and Freddy Tylicki have been taken to hospital with suspected spinal

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injuries, after four horses fell The horses were not reported

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to be seriously injured. Fellow riders Steve Drowne

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and Ted Durcan also fell but were able to walk

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off the course. The Labour MP Keith Vaz has been

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elected to the labour Justice committee after he was forced to

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step down from the home affairs select committee. Mr Vaz left his

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position after newspaper allegations that he had paid for the

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A man has been jailed for life for murdering a waiter 18 years ago

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in North Lanarkshire, after standing trial

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Ronnie Coulter was originally cleared of stabbing

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Surjit Singh Chhokar, who was returning from work

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But the Crown was given permission to bring a second prosecution

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over his killing following changes to Scotland's

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Officials in Glasgow have approved - in principle - a controversial plan

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to set up the UK's first so-called "consumption rooms",

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where drug addicts can inject heroin and also smoke the drug

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The scheme aims to address the problems caused by

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an estimated 500 users, who inject on the streets of Glasgow.

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Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan has the story.

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We came to this wasteland to see the remnants

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The necessary tools of an heroin addiction strewn far and wide.

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Up to 500 people inject heroin in public in Glasgow.

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Within minutes, we'd been joined by two of them.

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They'd come for their first hit of the day.

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Moments later I watched as the heroin kicked in.

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With such problems, plans are afoot to open the UK's first consumption

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centre, a clinic where addicts can safely take their drugs.

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Safe injecting rooms would save a lot of lives.

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Coming to places like this, as you can see, it's certainly

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You come round here at night time, there's no guarantee you're

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Drug-related deaths are at record levels across Britain,

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and experts said a spike in new HIV infections in Glasgow last year

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was mainly due to heroin users sharing needles.

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But it's also an issue of public safety.

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This neighbourhood has had to live with the dangers of used needles

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She went to put her baby in the pram, and there

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Not a needle, needles, in the kid's pram.

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This is a safe consumption room in Denmark.

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Needles are clean and kept on-site, protecting both users

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Glasgow's drug services are highly regarded,

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but officials believe more is needed to help street users.

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One option would see addicts bring their own drugs to the clinic

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and hopefully engage with other services.

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We know that a lot of people that are in this situation are homeless,

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have mental and physical health problems, so it's not just teaching

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This pharmacy highlights the drug problem.

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It has a separate entrance for users of methadone,

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But opening consumption rooms will not reduce demand,

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It's effectively legalising drugs and providing people with easier

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It's promoted, I think, by people who in many instances have

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given up on the idea of recovery, and their most convincing

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and persuasive suggestion is to enable people to use illegal

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That is not how Scotland should be tackling its drug problem.

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Heroin addiction has ravaged the lives of many in Glasgow,

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Dealing with that legacy has now put the city at the forefront

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Michael Buchanan, BBC News, Glasgow.

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Hundreds of works of art, from David Bowie's personal

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collection, are to go on display at Sotheby's in London

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from tomorrow, ahead of an auction in a few weeks' time.

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Bowie was actively involved in art throughout his career,

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as an artist himself, as a writer,

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The exhibition includes work from some of the 20th century's

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Our arts editor Will Gompertz has had an exclusive preview.

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David Bowie made this painting with Damien Hirst,

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who described the singer as "childish and childlike

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One of the star attractions in the sale, which accounts for well

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over 50% of the late pop star's entire collection of art.

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I'm not a buyer of things, I think the only thing I buy

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addictively and obsessively, probably, is art.

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The sale is extensive in both content and style.

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There's pop art, German Expressionism, British Modernism,

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a Tintoretto, some Picasso pottery and a chess set

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So Beth, 350 works, what do they tell us about the collector?

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They tell us an awful lot about David's way of thinking, how

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A very particular world, his recent history.

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A lot of works in the collection are modern British,

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painting and sculpture, and, of course, he was a

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A lot of the art was made around that period, or the period

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So David used the collection to understand his place

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It is largely a mid-20th century take on British life,

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of city living, landscapes and coastal scenes,

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all of which might seem quite conservative for

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a man with a reputation as an avant-garde performer.

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He acquired much of it in the mid-90s, with the help

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He was the most remarkable man to work with.

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He was deeply invested in what he was doing.

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His focus was exhausting and all encompassing,

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and when he was on subject, on the subject of buying

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modern British pictures, he was incredibly intense.

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I think you see the intensity with some of the selections

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OK, but which one of those on sale was his favourite?

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He very famously talked about the Auerbach, and that's

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David talked about how this work could change the way he felt

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If he was feeling joyous that morning he said, hey,

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yes, I want to sound like that painting looks.

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Several of these poppy post modern pieces from Bowie's collection

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are priced in the low hundreds of pounds, tantalising for some,

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maybe, but then that's the auction estimate before the bidding starts.

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There will be little more on the US elections coming up on Newsnight.

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Whether it is Trump or Clinton that wins next week, they will be

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president of a country that is divided and sometimes angry. We will

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be hearing how hard it will be for either to put the United back into

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the United States. Join me now on BBC Two, and that 11pm in Scotland.

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Now it is time for the news where you are. Good night.

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