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We report from the frontline, as Iraqi troops make a major

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breakthrough against so-called Islamic State.

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After a huge military operation, Iraqi troops secure

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the airport in the country's second largest city.

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Over there, it's the Iraqi flag that's flying on the airfield again.

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Iraqi forces now have the Islamic State group on the run.

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We'll be looking at whether this is a turning point in the battle

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A lucky escape for one driver, as Storm Doris wreaks

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Migration figures are down - but some industries worry they'll be

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A special report into the widespread sexual abuse perpetrated by UN

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peacekeepers against the children they should protect.

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And what police found in an old nuclear bunker -

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almost ?1 million worth of cannabis plants.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

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Whilst Ranieri's off, Wayne Rooney's staying -

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he's decided to stay at Manchester United for the time being.

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Tonight, we report from the frontline as Iraqi troops make

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a major breakthrough in the battle against so-called Islamic State.

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After fierce fighting, they've taken the airport

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in Iraq's second city, Mosul.

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It's a key staging point to driving the militants

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The east has already been recaptured.

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The massive military operation, Iraq's largest in years,

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has involved tens of thousands of troops, including some British

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Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville and cameraman

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Nik Millard were there as Iraqi government troops

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Before the attack, came the rockets and artillery. It's day five of the

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offensive to retake western Mosul. Slowly, the forces make their way

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past a suspected IS car bomb, talks en route. These armoured columns are

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now moving forward to Mosul airport. The attack of the airport is

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underway. All night, we've heard coalition aircraft and Iraqi

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artillery slamming this area to the north of us. The onslaught had

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cleared this village of IS fighters and civilians. It's a really quiet,

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as the men proceed on foot. A local man tells the special forces there

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were up to 100 IS here yesterday. They have hidden bombs all over. So

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the men took to higher ground. And we followed at a safe distance. As

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the day went on, there was no letup. It's from this factory that IS

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defended the airport. Their flag flew here yesterday, but no longer.

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In less than four hours, Iraqi forces had breached the airport

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barometer, but IS fought back. -- remixer.

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First, a huge roadside bomb which killed an Iraqi officer. Despite the

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air strikes, IS fighters were still putting up resistance. From the

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cover of an armoured vehicle, we were able to see the battle ahead.

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There is a gun battle going on at the moment.

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It was a short battle, but there were no casualties from the front.

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The more they advance, the more civilians they meet, and they are in

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a wretched state. These people had hung on during years of Islamic

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State group rule but, in the midst of this final battle, they were

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overwhelmed. This man says, they are dead in this house, all dead. My

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brother has already gone to the camp. He is heartbroken. Six of his

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family were killed in an air strike. This is the last open ground before

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west Mosul. The desert and farmland here made for swift progress. Iraqi

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forces are now less than a mile away from the city. They are also in

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range of mortars from IS. But it's the Islamic State that is under

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threat. Mosul airport may be in ruins but, more importantly, it's

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back in government hands. Over there, it's the Iraqi flag bats

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flying on the airfield again. This is a landmark moment. Iraqi forces

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now have the Islamic State group on the run. IS might transform itself

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into something else but right now, in Iraq, we are witnessing the final

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days of the caliphate. Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Mosul.

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Storm Doris has brought chaos across the UK.

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Winds of up to 95 miles per hour have caused one death as a woman

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was killed by flying debris in Wolverhampton.

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Trees have been brought down, taking power lines with them.

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Nearly all rail operators have been reporting delays,

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Planes have been grounded and bridges and roads have been closed.

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Tens of thousands of homes have been left without power.

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It was late morning when emergency services were called to

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Wolverhampton city centre. A woman had been hit by flying debris. Her

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head injuries were so serious, she died at the scene. Hours later, a

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heavy panel was taken away as an investigation started. Storm Doris

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swept into Scotland this morning, leaving drivers struggling in snowy

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conditions, like here, on the auto macro -- A71. The high winds did not

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stay anywhere for long but they did enough damage on the way, like on

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this moorland road in Staffordshire. Further south, this railway line

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near St Albans was closed by a single voluntary. Such scenes were

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repeated across the rail network. The result was a long, frustrating

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day for many travellers. This was used and, where West Coast Main Line

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services ground to a halt. My train has been cancelled so I'm unsure how

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to get home. I might have to stay an extra night. We didn't know till we

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got here that all Virgin Trains were cancelled, so we are stranded and we

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can't get back to Manchester. 145 miles north in Retford, they were

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very laid back but they knew it could have been worse. Thankful to

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have got back tonight. Absolutely. Still a lot of people in London.

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Yes, it was awful at King's Cross, hundreds of people. I talked to a

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lady and she got on the 1:10pm train, sat there for an hour and had

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to get off the train, and she was still in King's Cross at 5pm. Look

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at the lucky escape a driving instructor had in Spalding this

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morning. Spare a thought for the bumpy

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landings endured by air passengers. This was a service coming into

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Manchester. Storm Doris will be remembered for its southerly track.

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It is now gone, but certainly not forgotten.

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Claudio Ranieri has been sacked as Leicester City's manager.

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Despite guiding the club to what had seemed

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an impossible dream - Premier League

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triumph last season - and being voted Fifa's

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coach of the year, the club's owners tonight

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dismissed him, citing "long-term interests".

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Leicester's dismal season has left them teetering

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above the relegation zone, as our Sports Editor

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He masterminded one of sport's greatest miracles, at less than a

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year after Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City became one of the

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most unlikely Premier League winners ever, the magnitude of the dream has

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been dismissed. Leicester City are the Premier League champions! Last

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season's celebrations have turned to fears of relegation. In a statement

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tonight, the club's vice-chairman said:

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despite being 5000-1 rank outsiders for the title last season, Ranieri

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somehow guided his team to a barely believable triumph. Jamie Vardy's

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goals helped the side window title by ten points and admirers across

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the world. -- win the title. And Italian deservedly crowned coach of

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the year. Incredible that it's happened. But this years and --

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season the euphoria evaporated, and Leicester are languishing one point

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above the relegation zone. Manager real loyalty is in notoriously short

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supply in the Premier League but, given what Ranieri achieved, many

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will be dismayed. Tonight, former Leicester star Gary Lineker

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described the dismissal as inexplicable, unforgivable and

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ducked wrenchingly sad. Ranieri's last game in charge was this 2-1

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game against Sofia last night. He was seemingly unaware of his state.

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We know they are better than us, a very high quality team, very

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experienced. But we have a very big heart. Very big fought. We have each

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other. And I think we deserve this goal. But it is Leicester's for

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performances in the Premier League that could see them becoming only

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the second champion in history to see a title defence ending in

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relegation, and that is what cost Ranieri his job. The memories of

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what he achieved will always be treasured but the fairy tale is

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over. The business of professional

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football can be brutal but even by those standards this will strike

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many as very harsh. Ruthless, cut-throat, a number of

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words you could use. Many people thought Claudio Ranieri would be

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given at least a full season, an act of loyalty perhaps from grateful

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owners given the fairy tale success he delivered just nine months ago.

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The fans are perhaps in shock. Saying about the gratitude they head

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towards Claudio Ranieri. But the owners are worried. They are

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flirting with relegation. The team is just above the relegation zone,

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and that would be financially damaging. There is ?9 million of TV

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revenue to be carved up over the Premier League clubs over the course

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of three seasons and in sporting terms they want to be fighting among

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the best. Relegation threatened that. With 13 games left, they are

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in terrible form. Claudio Ranieri had been described as performing

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miracles to get Leicester City to that title and it may now need

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another miracle worker to save their season.

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The first official figures following last year's EU referendum

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show a fall in net migration to the UK - the difference

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between the number of people coming to live here and those leaving.

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It stands at 273,000, down 49,000 on the previous

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year, though still far above the Government

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The fall is partly due to Eastern Europeans

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returning home to countries like Poland and Hungary.

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There's also been a significant fall in overseas student numbers.

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Our Home Editor, Mark Easton, reports.

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So you need to cross the wall, the gate, sorry, and on the right

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hand you will find the Minster Cathedral.

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Not that there's too much but that there

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The oldest street in town is Shambles.

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York's tourist industry is booming, now worth a remarkable half

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a billion pounds a year and supporting a record 20,000

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But growth here, as in much of the hospitality industry,

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In fact, with very low unemployment in York,

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businesses like this cannot grow or even survive without a supply

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A quarter of British hospitality businesses say they have

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currently got vacancies that they are struggling to fill.

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With the UK labour market close to capacity and the prospect

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of a squeeze on EU migrant labour, there are real concerns

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It would create a staffing crisis, to get to a point where we can't

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fill that resource with a European worker, then there's a big gap

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For York as an example, there isn't enough of them around.

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The latest figures show a big drop in the numbers coming to work

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in Britain from countries like Poland, down 16%, Hungary,

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More are coming from Romania, up 11%, and Bulgarian, up 8%.

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But many experts predict those arrivals will

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Now it is beginning to change to Germany or beginning to learn

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more German because the UK is beginning to be quite less

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attractive for young people coming to work.

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Contributing to the fall in net migration, the number

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of international students has dropped significantly

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since the Brexit vote, with warnings from universities that

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In the last few days, government ministers have struck

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The UK will always be a welcoming place for people

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who want to come here, work here and contribute

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It's just that there's no support for uncontrolled immigration.

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Reducing net migration by almost two thirds remains a clear commitment

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Supporters of the policy say Britain needs to overcome its addiction

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to cheap migrant labour and train and recruit more home-grown workers.

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But the owner of this Yorkshire carrot farm says he has

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to employ eastern Europeans because there are simply not

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My message is very simple to Mrs May.

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Take my workers away from me, but you'll take yours out

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of your health service and your care homes and see how you can

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run your businesses, because I can't run mine.

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Cutting immigration may currently enjoy broad public support

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but turning Britain into a low migration economy

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Our Political Correspondent Carole Walker is at Westminster.

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That's the dilemma with falling migration, and the Government

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appears to be trying to tread a very careful line on it.

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And interesting that that fall of 49,000 in the net migration figure

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has been met by a pretty muted response, partly because the ONS,

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which drew up the statistics, said it was not significant statistically

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and partly because they say it is too soon to say if it has anything

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to do with Brexit. But also nobody expects the big change until we are

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out of the EU and the country no longer has to accept the free

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movement of EU citizens. Ministers are well aware that many people

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voted to leave the EU because of concerns about immigration, the

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pressures on local communities and services and so on. But they are

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also well aware, as you heard in that report, that many companies say

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they need those EU workers, the agriculture sector said it cannot

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cope without the seasonal workers, the health service has tens of

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thousands of staff from across the EU, the universities say they need

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those foreign students to bring in the funding they need. Ministers

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still face a big challenge even when we are out of the EU, they are well

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off that target of net migration down to below 100,000 and there is

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no clear plan as to how they will achieve that even when we are out of

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the EU. Thank you. A task force set up to tackle child

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sex abuse by UN peacekeepers is due to report to member

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states next week. After a two-year investigation,

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the new head of the UN, Antonio Guterres, has called

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for "game-changing" solutions Sexual abuse by some UN peacekeepers

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has blighted the lives of children In some incidences, they have been

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accused of raping them Our special report from Fergal Keane

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and his cameraman Tony Fallshaw This is the story of how

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international peacekeepers are accused of betraying the trust

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of some of the world's TRANSLATION: At night

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it was very cold and the man offered my son a pill,

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claiming it would warm him. It took my son five

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minutes to fall asleep. It's the story of children being

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abused and a culture of impunity. In July 2014 I informed the French

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government about allegations of French soldiers abusing children

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in Central African Republic. Nine months after that I was asked

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by the UN leadership to resign and when I refused to resign,

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I was forced out. The scandal began in late 2013

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at this refugee camp, an airport runway where French

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peacekeepers protected thousands of people

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and their children from violence They and the UN helped

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to prevent genocide. But some are accused

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of becoming sexual predators. TRANSLATION: After the rape

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he was crying and afraid, but the soldier reassured him

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and said not to mention They allege the soldier then

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threatened to stab him TRANSLATION: At first our child

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tried to avoid us, hardly When I asked why, he explained

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what had happened. His friends were mocking him

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because of the rape. Now he takes drugs and won't go

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to school or socialise The peacekeeping operation

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was launched by the French but it would soon expand

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into a full UN mission. As peacekeepers from other

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nations were deployed, Senior officials were made aware

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but they are accused of failing to act, apart

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from one brave individual. Anders Kompass was a senior UN human

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rights official who, in mid-July 2014, was shown

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an internal report alleging sexual I remember I went home

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and I couldn't sleep during that night because I was struggling with,

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what is it that I can do. At the UN offices in Geneva,

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Kompass approached the country whose soldiers were the first to be

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accused of abuse. He leaked the report to the French,

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prompting them to start The UN was furious,

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claiming his action potentially I was asked to resign for giving

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this report and the accusation A year after Anders Kompass

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alerted the authorities, this 14-year-old was approached

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by a soldier from the Her father was killed in the war

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and her mother was ill TRANSLATION: Hunger drove my

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daughter to see the soldier. He gave her money, food rations,

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and took her to watch videos. The abuse had life

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altering consequences. The girl became pregnant and was

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infected with HIV by the soldier. There is no hope, no possibility

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for my children to go to school I suffer constantly thinking

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about my children's future. It took another month

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and the case of this girl, then aged 12, to push the UN

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leadership into action. UN troops had raided the family home

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to arrest a close relative. TRANSLATION: They started to bang

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at the door to shout, United Nations police,

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get out of here! Her mother told me the girl

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had become separated She told me there was

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a man who took her. She showed us the place

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where it happened. But this incident and the killing

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of civilians prompted alarm at UN headquarters in New York,

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after being reported I cannot put into words how

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anguished and angered The head of mission was sacked,

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there was a clamp-down on abuse, and a UN report would later harshly

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criticise senior figures, including the head of human

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rights on the mission, It said he was one of the top

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figures, whose failure to intervene exposed children to repeated

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assaults and stated he had helped But what has happened

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to Renner Onana? More than a year after being

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condemned in the UN's own report, he has been promoted and is seen

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here still working in The UN said Mr Onana would not

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comment as headquarters It is understood he

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rejects the allegations. We did speak with his boss,

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a respected UN veteran, As an organisation, the UN has

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established rules and procedures and in the case of the individual

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you just mentioned, the staff member you just mentioned,

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the process is ongoing whereby he is being allowed to rebut

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the allegations against him and that process hasn't been completed,

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as far as I'm aware. Do you understand,

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and you are with the UN a long time, how it looks to the people

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who are critical of this organisation when you

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have that situation? Everything that people

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say about the lack of We have processes and those

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processes are now being, And it's my strong belief that,

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at the end of the day Peacekeepers can only be prosecuted

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by their own countries and while a whole contingent has

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since been sent home over allegations, there have only been

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a handful of charges. After two years of investigation,

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France hasn't charged It's terrible for the credibility

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and the trust of the United Nations. First of all vis-a-vis the people

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and the children who have been effected but also to all the people

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who are inside the United Nations The UN says new peacekeepers

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face strict controls. Even if there was only

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one single case left, The hopes of the victims

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depend on it being kept. Fergal Keane, BBC News,

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Central African Republic. A brief look at some

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of the day's other news stories. The fiance of children's

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author Helen Bailey, who murdered her and dumped her body

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in a cesspit, has been Ian Stewart was convicted

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of secretly drugging and suffocating Ms Bailey in a plot

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to inherit her money. Her body was found under their

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garage in Hertfordshire last July. The judge said it was "difficult

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to imagine a more heinous crime". Prisons in England and Wales

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will expected to reform and rehabilitate offenders,

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as well as punish them, under new plans to overhaul

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the prisons system. Other measures presented

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to Parliament today include to clamp down on the use of drugs

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and mobile phones in jail. The Justice Secretary said the bill

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aims to reduce prison CCTV images of the moment

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a convicted murderer escaped during a hospital visit have been

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released by police. Shaun Walmsley, 28, was getting

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into a cab with prison officers when he was sprung

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from custody by two armed men. Walmsley is described

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as "highly dangerous". Polls have closed and counting

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will get underway shortly Both were Labour seats -

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Copeland in Cumbria Our Deputy Political

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Editor, John Pienaar, There's a lot at stake here,

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and not just for Labour. An enormous amount at stake. These

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by-elections can flare up and be forgotten just as quickly but these

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elections have the capacity to set or resit the mood in British

:28:26.:28:30.

politics. Why? The city of Stoke has been in labour hands since 1935 and

:28:31.:28:35.

so have the Copeland by-election and they ought have been banalities but

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Labour has had to fight for its life. -- formalities. It has tempted

:28:39.:28:49.

the Ukip new leader Paul Nuttall two chances on here and if he can beat

:28:50.:28:53.

Labour and strike fear into labour seat because the north and Midlands

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in particular. Paul Nuttall and Ukip have wobbled in recent days,

:28:58.:29:00.

admitting a claim on his website that he lost friends in the

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Hillsborough disaster was wrong and that has given Labour hope they can

:29:04.:29:07.

hang on. Meanwhile, Theresa May and the Tories are watching Ukip and

:29:08.:29:11.

labour in this life or death struggle and they are a mile ahead

:29:12.:29:15.

in the polls and believing that in Copeland they might take that seat.

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The first win by a governing party in a by-election for 35 years. The

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voting is going on as you can see, they are stacking up the seat and

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after an awful day of weather, a lot is at stake and it is not just

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election hype. Thank you. Thousands of cannabis plants have

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been discovered by police growing in an underground nuclear bunker

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near Salisbury in Wiltshire. The crop has an estimated street

:29:37.:29:38.

value of more than ?1 million. Officers say the plants

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were being grown in 20 large rooms with almost every part

:29:42.:29:43.

of the bunker dedicated to what they described as the "wholesale

:29:44.:29:46.

production" of cannabis. Hidden in the Wiltshire countryside,

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RGHQ Chilmark, a vast underground bunker built to protect Britain's

:29:49.:30:00.

leaders in a nuclear war. This afternoon, police showed us

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the vast cannabis growing operation How would you describe

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what you have discovered here? A huge, massively professional

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setup, the biggest cannabis factory farm that I've seen in my 25

:30:21.:30:24.

years of service. To find this in the heart of rural

:30:25.:30:26.

Wiltshire is quite incredible. Each one kitted out with specialist

:30:27.:30:30.

equipment to grow the plants Officers say huge amounts of power

:30:31.:30:37.

have been secretly siphoned Every room has got this

:30:38.:30:43.

setup in it as well. The vents at the top to withdraw

:30:44.:30:49.

all the fumes and take that outside In some of the rooms

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you see signs of people This was the old canteen,

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still being used last night, it seems, years after the bunker

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was sold off by the Three people were arrested inside,

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including a 15-year-old boy. Three older men were arrested

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outside on suspicion of human In this room police have found

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hundreds of bags of old compost and they say that suggests this

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bunker has been used It is all very different

:31:20.:31:22.

from when the Cold War bunker The site had been under surveillance

:31:23.:31:25.

for some time but officers swooped last night when they saw

:31:26.:31:33.

the doors opening. They say local people had reported

:31:34.:31:35.

suspicious activity and a powerful Newsnight's about to begin over

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on BBC Two in a few moments. Tonight, a rare interview with one

:31:39.:31:49.

US Supreme Court judge And we're on the ground

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in the by-election which could reshape the contours

:31:55.:32:00.

of British poliitcs. Here on BBC One, it's time

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for the news where you are.

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