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Hundreds line the streets in Londonderry

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as the coffin of Northern Ireland's former deputy leader

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The former IRA commander turned politician died early this morning

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after a short illness - he was 66.

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Martin McGuinness first came to prominence at the height

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of the IRA's violent campaign against British rule.

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But the man who began with violence turned into a politician

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with a pivotal role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland.

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The same fierceness that he brought to the arms struggle,

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he then brought to the cause of peace.

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He was determined to give Northern Ireland a different future.

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Thousands of people were killed or injured

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many who suffered will never forgive him.

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You can't forget what he did in his past, which is what everyone seems

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We'll be looking back at the life and legacy of Martin McGuinness.

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Also tonight: Security alert - electronic devices will be banned

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in hand luggage on flights to the UK from six Middle Eastern

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Food and fuel prices are blamed for a sharp rise

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in the rate of inflation - it's at its highest

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And the man who created Inspector Morse, the writer

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Colin Dexter, has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 86.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

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Gareth Southgate says striker Jamie Vardy is in a good frame

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of mind, despite the Leicester striker receiving death threats

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following the sacking of Claudio Ranieri.

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Thousands of people have gathered at a candlelit vigil in Belfast

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tonight following the death of Northern Ireland's former deputy

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The IRA commander turned peacemaking politician

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was thought to be suffering from a rare heart condition.

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Leading figures in the peace process paid tribute to the role he played

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in securing the Good Friday Agreement.

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Buckingham Palace said the Queen, who finally shook hands

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with him in 2012, was sending a private

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The families of some of the IRA's many victims said

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Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler reports.

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In the streets once scarred by sectarian conflict, Martin

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McGuinness's body was carried home. It was here in Derry's Bogside that

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his own brand of Irish republicanism was formed amid the turmoil of

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unrest, and he leaves a legacy of contradictions. He will be

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remembered as both the ruthless paramilitary and a committed

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peacemaker. A pioneering piece and pioneering outreach, Martin went

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beyond what was expected of him. He all the time set the bar very high.

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You can't ignore the violence whenever you look at his life, can

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you? Know, and I don't try to. I don't try to. And Martin

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McGuinness's personal history is tied to Northern Ireland's troubled

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past. During years of Irish republican violence, you was one of

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the faces of the IRA's leadership. McGuinness has changed considerably

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from the young man who used a swagger around the no-go areas of

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Londonderry as a mantra the Provisional IRA doubt. Born in Derry

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into a large Catholic family, McGuinness came of age as the

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troubles deepened. He joined the IRA, quickly rising through its

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ranks. What had started as a fight for civil rights had become a

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vicious battle, and the IRA appeared to have a ruthless disregard for

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life. Republicans were responsible for many notorious attacks,

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including bombing Brighton's grand hotel during the Conservative Party

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conference in 1984. Lord Tebbit and his wife Margaret were seriously

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injured. Today, he said he hoped Martin McGuinness was now parked in

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a particularly hot and unpleasant coin of hell. He knew that the IRA

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had been penetrated to its highest levels and that before long, he

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would have been arrested and charged with some of the many murders which

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he personally committed. So he opted for the Coward's way out and said,

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oh, I'm a man of peace. Martin McGuinness did see opportunities at

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the ballot box for Sinn Fein. The political party linked to the IRA.

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It even them, the language of threat remained. We don't believe that

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winning elections will win the freedom of Northern Ireland. At the

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end of the day, it will be the IRA that will bring freedom. But after

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years of killings and chaos, in the 1990s, IRA ceasefire is offered the

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opportunity for talks between unionists and Republicans. Would you

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like to shake hands? I am prepared to. When there are no guns. There

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are some people who will always remember him as a man of war and who

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can never forget the violence of his early years. But for those of us who

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helped put together the Northern Ireland peace process with him, we

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will remember his legacy as the man of peace. Martin McGuinness was one

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of the key negotiators in the long nights of deal-making that led to

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the Good Friday Agreement and eventually the huge achievement of

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power-sharing at Stormont. That government brought together at its

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head the unlikely partnership of two former enemies, Ian Paisley and

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Martin McGuinness. The firebrand unionist and radical Republican

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became so close that they were nicknamed the Chuckle Brothers. That

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remarkable journey is something which is incredibly important. I

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must say as a Christian, as a person who reflects on life, it is not how

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you start your life, what is important is how you finish your

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life. There were republicans who continued to threaten that political

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progress, but when a police officer was killed, the then Deputy First

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Minister stood side by side with the Chief Constable to condemn those

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dissident groups. They are traitors to Ireland. Alongside the words,

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there were actions on all sides. The Queen's is in Lord Mountbatten was

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killed by the IRA, yet after the Troubles, royal and Republican were

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able to put their differences aside. I'm still alive. Buckingham Palace

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says the Queen is sending a private message to Mr McGuinness's widow. No

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one can forget the past, but I think we can equally look at the

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contribution that Martin did play, his real focus on reconciliation and

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reaching out to different communities. But when he resigned as

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Deputy First Minister this year, he brought down power-sharing. It will

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now be for others to overcome the disputes between Unionists and

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Republicans at Stormont. My heart lies with the people of

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Derry. Tonight, that voice was absent as Republicans gathered to

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pay their respects. Not all will remember him so fondly, but few

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would be able to deny that he was a key figure in changing Northern

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Ireland. Chris Butler, BBC News. Martin McGuinness' life spanned some

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of the most tumultuous years in Irish history as he moved

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from IRA commander to Our Special Correspondent Fergal

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Keane has been to Belfast and Londonderry to assess

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Martin McGuinness's legacy and the changing

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political landscape. It was in this city that much of the

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worst violence happen, and here too, the first secret meetings that

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brought it to an end. In a room at this monastery in republican west

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Belfast, the IRA began its long march to peace 31 months ago -- 31

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years ago. Father Adrian Egan was one of the helpers at that meeting

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and eventually came to know Martin McGuinness. Despite the current

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political crisis, his faith in the peace process is absolute. There is

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no possibility of going back to where we were. Nobody wants to be

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back there, and I believe that one of the legacies of Martin McGuinness

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and others who were engaged in the peace process is that it will last

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and last well into the future. Nearby is the peace line which still

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separates Protestant and Catholic communities in west Belfast, a

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reminder that smiles between Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley couldn't

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of themselves drained the deep well of mistrust. This war represents the

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sectarian reality that may take generations to change, but the

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absence of violence is a crucial start to that process. And it has

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involved Loyalist man-of-war making the same journey as Martin

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McGuinness. On the loyalist Chang Hill road, I met Billy Hutchinson,

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who was jailed for sectarian murder in the 1970s before he took the

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political road. I don't want to see any young loyalist condemned to a

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prison or a graveyard, so I think we have got that. But we are in nervous

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moments at the minute. We have Brexit. We have had the last

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election, but I still think that people will go via the democratic

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process. This is a day that inevitably brings the human cost of

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the Troubles to the fore, the thousands dead and all left on them.

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The worst atrocity was carried out after IRA ceasefire, 29 people

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killed at Omagh. Kevin lost his wife at Omagh. He respects Martin

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McGuinness, but feels that peace has brought neither justice nor truth.

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The victims are always at the bottom. They always have been at the

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bottom. The victims issue must be dealt with. If the peace process is

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going to go anywhere, it must be dealt with now. Drive west towards

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the edges of the old Protestant plantation, and you reach the

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political heartland of Martin McGuinness, where he joined the IRA

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to fight for a united Ireland. As he was dying, and electorally

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triumphant Sinn Fein called for a referendum on the issue. These two

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men, one a Catholic peace activist, the other a Protestant minister,

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were his friends. I have said to him on occasions that yes, there is that

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journey that Sinn Fein and many nationalists are on, but please, do

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not rush down that road, ignoring how the unionist family are

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responding to this call for a border and a united Ireland. Politically, I

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think it is not realistic, but what is realistic is to imagine that

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people can learn to respect one another and to have a united Ireland

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in that sense, a place of respect. Perhaps the most enduring legacy of

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the generation that moved from war to peace is realism, learned by

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Martin McGuinness and others at an immense cost to this society. Fergal

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Keane, BBC News. The campaign of violence carried out

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by the Provisional IRA against British rule included

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several attacks on English cities and towns that left

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dozens of people dead. The families of some

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victims came to know Others said they could never come

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to terms with what he had done. This report is from our home

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editor Mark Easton. The IRA's campaign of bombings

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and murders on mainland Britain saw At the time, Martin McGuinness

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was a vocal supporter of what he called the war

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against British rule. The only way that Irish people can

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bring about the freedom of their country is through the use

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of armed struggle. In 1974, the IRA planted bombs

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in English pubs, in Guildford, Woolwich and in Birmingham

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when a series of explosions one November night killed

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21 people and injured 182. Among the victims, 18-year-old

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Maxine Hambleton, whose family still regards Martin McGuinness

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as complicit in mass murder. You can't forget what

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he did in his past. That is what everyone seems to be

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forgetting. He has blood on his hands, and he allegedly has killed

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people. He turned from government to peacemaker, but Martin McGuinness

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never apologised for the IRA's attempt to assassinate Prime

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Minister Margaret Thatcher in Brighton. Many will never forgive

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him for the death and carnage. Conservative peer Lord Dobbs was at

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the Grand Hotel that terrible morning. I can't forget. Can I

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forgive? Well, it doesn't matter whether I can forgive or not, what

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matters is what is going on in Northern Ireland today, and that is

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excellent and we must never take that for granted and believe that

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the old times couldn't come back. What we have is a very precious

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jewel of peace. It shouldn't have happened. In 2001, Michael

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McGuinness went to Warrington, where an IRA bomb had killed two boys

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eight years earlier. Of the peace centre set up in the Young victims'

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names, the Sinn Fein leader told the parents of the children that he

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accepted some responsibility for the tragedy. Having the challenge of

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meeting this figurehead, this man who was seen as an ogre and a

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merchant of death by the British generally, to meet him face-to-face

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was quite unsettling. We spoke man-to-man. There was no rancour. I

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can not forgive and equally, not be angry. How times change. In 1991,

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the IRA fired three mortar shells into Downing Street. Today, prime

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ministers past and present paid tribute to an IRA commander who

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would once have willed that attack to find its target. Just as Martin

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McGuinness's relationship with Britain changed over the decades, so

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Britain's relationship with Irish Republicanism has changed. Just a

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couple of years ago, Number Ten described Anglo-Irish relations as

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being at an all-time high. The threat from Ireland - related

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terrorism in mainland Britain is still officially described as

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substantial. But at last we can's Saint Patrick's Bay Parade

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demonstrated, of equal importance is the friendship which is as close as

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it has ever been. And our Ireland correspondent

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Chris Buckler is in Londonderry now. We have seen people on the streets

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of Londonderry and the streets of Belfast tonight but will Martin

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McGuinness's role in the peace process, his legacy be one that

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lasts long into the future? Well, this might sound strange but I think

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there will be many unionists along with nationalists and republicans

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who do feel Martin McGuinness's loss and that's partly because he was a

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negotiator, a man who was capable of compromise. If you look at the

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moment that Stormont is in crisis, power-sharing is in need of

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restoration, he would have been a key figure in those talks and

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ultimately he will be missed from that table. Whenever you look back

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on someone's life you very often try to paint them as either a hero or

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villain, truth is it's normally more complicated and that and that's

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certainly true with Martin McGuinness. He was a man who for

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years defended IRA violence, but he also pushed politics forward here

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and the difference can be seen on the streets of places like Derry,

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where once Army and police patrols would have been on the streets,

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where paramilitary activity would have been a real concern. Now all

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those images of history are just reflected on the walls in murals.

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The real and true lasting legacy of Martin McGuinness will be to try and

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ensure that those images are not repeated in the future.

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Thank you. Airline passengers travelling

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to the UK from six countries in the Middle East and North Africa

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are to be banned from carrying laptops and other electronic

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devices bigger than a phone The Prime Minister's

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spokesman said the measures The move follows a similar

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ban announced by the US Our security correspondent

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Frank Gardner reports. Getting laptops and other electrical

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devices through airport security on certain direct flights

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from the Middle East to the UK is about to get

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even more complicated. Anything bigger than

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a smartphone will now have to go in the hold,

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creating new opportunities British Airways, easyJet and four

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other UK airlines are affected. So too are eight Middle Eastern

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and North African carriers. It follows a similar measure

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introduced by the United States which shares its intelligence with

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Britain. Elevated intelligence that we're

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aware of indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial

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aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods

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to undertake smuggling explosive devices

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in various consumer objects. There is some recent evidence

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of bombs getting on to planes. This aircraft had a hole blown

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in its side over Somalia last year when an al-Shabab militant smuggled

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an explosive laptop on board. He was killed but miraculously

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everyone else survived. The passengers on this

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Russian airliner in 2015 It came down over the Egyptian Sinai

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killing everyone on board after so-called Islamic State had

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placed a bomb in the hold, the very place travellers

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are being told they'll now Behind closed doors in Whitehall

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there's been intensive discussion over how far-reaching

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to make this ban. Security officials believe

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the ongoing threat from jihadists But there'll be a price

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to pay for this. Both commercially

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and diplomatically. The countries affected

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are western allies. All this comes on the back

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of President Trump's highly controversial ban on travellers

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from Muslim majority countries. Now this latest measure will be

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viewed by many around the world as discriminatory and even

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anti-Islamic, possibly Business travellers deprived

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of their laptops, families deprived of their gaming tablets,

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the Government knows this ban is not going to be popular

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and there's no end date in sight. The ban on carrying

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liquids over 100mls, introduced 11 years ago,

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is still in place. A man has appeared in court

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charged with the murder Bidhya Sagar Das, who is 33,

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is also charged with the attempted murder of the boy's twin sister,

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who remains in a critical Both children were discovered

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with serious injuries at a flat Rising food and fuel costs

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are being blamed for a sharp rise It jumped from 1.8% in January

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to 2.3% last month, its highest Here's our economics

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editor Kamal Ahmed. Whether it's the food we buy

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or the fuel we fill up on, the new model laptop we want

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or the upgraded television, prices are rising, as inflation

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creeps back into the UK economy. Today, it hit 2.3%,

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the highest since 2013 Part of what is going

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on is the effect of the fall in the price of sterling,

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following the referendum. But there is often a number

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of factors that will be going on. We have also seen commodity prices

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around the world starting to rise, so oil prices have been

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rising as well. So, there are often

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a number of factors, So, this is our workshop,

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this is where we do... Rob Cole runs a kitchen

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business in Sheffield. For him, rising prices

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are a headache. We've had price rises

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on appliances and on components One reason we get them

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in from Europe is the quality is there, which we don't have

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in the UK. So, price rises on all

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of those things. And it's very difficult for us

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to pass all of those price rises on to our customers

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in a very competitive market. Rising inflation has raised fresh

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fears over a pay squeeze. In 2015, our incomes were increasing

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at an average of 2.8%. At that time, prices

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were only going up by 0.4%. Since then, inflation

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has been increasing. For incomes, they did rise a little

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but are now falling, to the same The consumer has kept spending

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since the referendum, keeping the UK economy purring

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along pretty nicely. But a recent survey of thousands

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of consumers across Britain about what they were worried

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about revealed that two concerns had Above concerns about immigration,

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above concerns about the NHS. And the two concerns are these -

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the economy and rising prices. Attention now moves here,

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the Bank of England, where rising inflation often means

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one thing - rising interest rates. But with those consumer concerns

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and living standards under renewed pressure,

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most economists believe we won't see Somalia's drought has claimed more

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victims with six million people, that's half the country's

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population, now in Aid agencies are continuing

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to warn that the situation However, even if famine is averted,

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for many families the current drought has already had

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a devastating impact as Andrew Harding reports

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from Puntland in northern Somalia. We are deep in northern Somalia

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where roads are as rare as rivers and every drought is a test

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to be stoically endured. We find 1,000 nomadic families

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gathered in the stifling heat They've travelled miles

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in search of help. Guns everywhere, of course,

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clan wars, pirates, militants - But this drought is something

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out of the ordinary. They say they've never lived

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through anything like it before. There's not much in town

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except for a well. Abduwali and his wife

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are accomplished builders. Five of you sleep here every night,

:24:30.:24:33.

it's quite a squeeze. You might assume they're used

:24:34.:24:39.

to this sort of poverty. Then a mobile phone

:24:40.:24:42.

appears from a pocket. It's a useful reminder that these

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aren't poor people at all, And what they're experiencing today

:24:50.:24:51.

is what we'd recognise Outside town, like rock paintings,

:24:52.:24:59.

the nomads' dead livestock. Across Somali, the drought has

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already killed millions of goats. This family had 100, the equivalent

:25:11.:25:15.

of almost ?10,000 in savings. We were wealthy before this,

:25:16.:25:19.

she says, now we're destitute, Some of the sickest children have

:25:20.:25:22.

been taken to a clinic in town. But their youngest child

:25:23.:25:33.

never made it this far. Abduwali and a five-year-old show

:25:34.:25:39.

us the unmarked grave of a nine-month-old,

:25:40.:25:43.

he died last week. If this drought continues

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I fear my other children will die too, he says,

:25:49.:25:54.

we have only two goats left. It's not enough,

:25:55.:25:56.

I will have to beg now. For now, of course, the priority

:25:57.:26:00.

is to save lives and to drag Somalia away from famine but beyond that

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with the climate changing and the droughts here getting

:26:09.:26:12.

tougher, it's tempting to wonder whether the days of

:26:13.:26:14.

the nomad are numbered. Sunset, and the wind picks

:26:15.:26:23.

up, but still no rain. Andrew Harding, BBC News,

:26:24.:26:27.

in northern Somalia. Scotland's First Minister,

:26:28.:26:35.

Nicola Sturgeon, has told members of the Assembly that it would be

:26:36.:26:37.

unfair and utterly unsustainable for the Westminster Government

:26:38.:26:40.

to refuse to allow a second She was speaking at the start

:26:41.:26:42.

of a two-day debate on whether the Scottish Government

:26:43.:26:48.

should ask the UK for the power Conservative, Labour

:26:49.:26:50.

and the Liberal Democrat Our Scotland editor

:26:51.:26:53.

Sarah Smith reports. Nicola Sturgeon hopes

:26:54.:27:00.

she is marching towards another vote The first step is to get

:27:01.:27:03.

the Scottish Parliament to follow her and ask the UK

:27:04.:27:10.

Government to allow a referendum. Whether we like it or not,

:27:11.:27:14.

Scotland again faces a fundamental decision about what sort of country

:27:15.:27:17.

we want to be. The question before this

:27:18.:27:20.

chamber is simple - For the UK Government to stand

:27:21.:27:23.

in the way of Scotland even having the choice would be,

:27:24.:27:28.

in my view, wrong, unfair Tories here and in Westminster

:27:29.:27:30.

believe they can sustain their position that now

:27:31.:27:38.

is not the time. The people of Scotland don't want

:27:39.:27:42.

it, it will not wash to have a First Minister standing

:27:43.:27:45.

there, washing her hands, saying, it is not me

:27:46.:27:48.

that is dragging us there, it is with a heavy heart,

:27:49.:27:50.

a big Tory did this, and ran away. It won't do, First Minister,

:27:51.:27:55.

take responsibility. Nicola Sturgeon wakes up every

:27:56.:27:58.

single day thinking of ways to engineer another referendum,

:27:59.:28:02.

because leaving the UK is the only The SNP need the Greens

:28:03.:28:05.

to win the vote. They fear Scotland won't have a say

:28:06.:28:11.

in the Brexit process. The citizens of Scotland, the only

:28:12.:28:14.

people voiceless in that process. The SNP will almost certainly win

:28:15.:28:18.

this vote, even though the Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems

:28:19.:28:32.

will all vote against them. The nationalists have got

:28:33.:28:34.

the numbers in Parliament. But the opposition parties are sure

:28:35.:28:36.

that beyond here Scottish voters It is mostly No voters who don't

:28:37.:28:38.

want to go through it all again. Many Yes voters can't wait

:28:39.:28:45.

for another referendum. I don't think there

:28:46.:28:48.

should be another one. They had their chance, and we voted

:28:49.:28:52.

to remain part of the UK. I think my mother is completely

:28:53.:28:57.

wrong because we were basically promised we would stay

:28:58.:29:01.

in the European Union, basically. And we are not in the

:29:02.:29:05.

European Union, so that is a bit The debate in Holyrood

:29:06.:29:08.

will continue tomorrow. The debate over Scotland's future

:29:09.:29:13.

will not be resolved so soon. There is a long road

:29:14.:29:18.

ahead in this battle over who gets to decide

:29:19.:29:22.

when or if there is The man who created Inspector Morse,

:29:23.:29:24.

the writer Colin Dexter, The Morse novels sold millions

:29:25.:29:32.

and were adapted for television. Our arts correspondent Lizo Mzimba

:29:33.:29:39.

looks back at his life. Two of literature and television's

:29:40.:29:43.

best-known policemen. So many crimes solved

:29:44.:29:54.

by them over a pint. Which came first,

:29:55.:30:01.

the death or the theft? And, occasionally,

:30:02.:30:04.

under the watchful eye Dexter came up with Morse

:30:05.:30:06.

during a wet family I gave him a few of my qualities,

:30:07.:30:12.

a great liking for crosswords and real ale and Richard Wagner

:30:13.:30:19.

and so on. So, I suppose in a way

:30:20.:30:21.

it's a composite factor, Hang on a minute, I'm as unhappy

:30:22.:30:24.

as you are about being The intricately plotted books

:30:25.:30:36.

were a hit with readers and their adaptation for TV

:30:37.:30:50.

made his characters As a writer, what I will remember

:30:51.:30:51.

him for is the convoluted Nobody plotted with more

:30:52.:30:55.

deviousness than Colin Dexter. As trees are by their

:30:56.:30:58.

bark embraced... Morse ran for almost 15 years,

:30:59.:31:05.

its appeal not just its complex storytelling but more

:31:06.:31:08.

the relationship of its An added appeal for fans,

:31:09.:31:10.

the chance to spot Colin Dexter's People often ask me why

:31:11.:31:16.

I killed Morse off. I say, I didn't kill him off at all,

:31:17.:31:23.

I say, he died of natural causes. His crime writing may have been

:31:24.:31:31.

dark and threatening. He will be remembered as an author

:31:32.:31:35.

who was the opposite, warm, The writer Colin Dexter who's

:31:36.:31:38.

died at the age of 86. We speak to one man whose father

:31:39.:32:06.

took a bullet in the back of the neck. Join me now on BBC Two.

:32:07.:32:11.

Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.

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