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Tonight at Ten: After days of mounting pressure,

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the leader of the West London council responsible

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Were you pressured by Number Ten to resign?

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Nicholas Paget-Brown, from Kensington and Chelsea,

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said the scale of the tragedy inevitably meant the borough

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As council leader I have to accept my share of responsibility

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Documents obtained by the BBC suggest cladding

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fitted to Grenfell Tower during its refurbishment was changed

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Meanwhile, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn puts pressure

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on the Prime Minister to speed up the public inquiry into the tragedy

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A coroner says the presence of lifeguards on Camber Sands

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might not have prevented the deaths of seven men last summer.

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Several people, including doctors, are reportedly shot this evening

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And the Tour de France starts tomorrow, with

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Britain's Chris Froome seeking a fourth win in five years.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, the British and Irish Lions

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have been told they need to man up if they are to beat the All Blacks

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in the second Test and keep the series alive in New Zealand.

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The leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council,

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Nicholas Paget-Brown, has announced that

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he's standing down - after days of mounting criticism

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of the authority's response to the Grenfell Tower fire.

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It was rebuked by Downing Street after a decision last night

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to abort a public meeting - and there's been further

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evidence that cost-cutting resulted in a downgrading

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In his statement, Mr Paget-Brown said he had to accept responsibility

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for what he called "perceived" failings after the tragedy -

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which has claimed, according to police, at least 80 lives.

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Here's our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds.

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Were you pressured by No 10 to resign?

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He was the leader criticised with failing to cope

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His council quickly lost the confidence

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Two weeks ago, his Council offices were invaded.

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And last night, he couldn't even hold a council meeting

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after deciding that it wasn't possible to speak freely because

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In particular, my decision to accept legal advice that I should not

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compromise the public enquiry by having an open discussion

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in public yesterday, has itself become a political story.

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And it cannot be right that this should have become the focus

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of attention when so many are dead or still unaccounted for.

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And this was the reaction to his resignation.

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It is good news because there needs to be big changes made

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in the council and this is at least a start.

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Mr Paget-Brown claims no council could have coped with this.

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He thanks the community for its response, the emergency

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services, other London boroughs, but not the government.

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His deputy and his housing chiefs have also gone.

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Investigations by the BBC and The Times newspaper

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into the decisions made when the council refurbished

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Grenfell Tower added to the pressure.

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The big change was the addition of aluminium cladding panels

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Documents passed to the BBC revealed that zinc panels were originally

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In 2012, the architects' designs showed this clearly.

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Residents were told it would be zinc.

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But there was pressure from the council on contractors

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By 2015, they had been given amendments to the original tender

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and told to fit aluminium cladding instead of zinc.

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So did the change make a difference to fire safety?

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Well, this panel is similar to the ones that were eventually used.

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It's an aluminium sandwich with a plastic filling,

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The original zinc panels were marketed as capable

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Both panels have the same safety rating under European tests.

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But one expert has told us there are circumstances

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where the cheaper material would have burned faster.

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However, even the fact that there was pressure to cut costs

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has infuriated those affected by the fire.

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Those affected and the wider community are utterly sick of this

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lack of value ascribed to human beings who pay their council tax,

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Meanwhile, cladding from 149 tower blocks has now

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The whole process has been criticised as

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the cladding is being tested, not for example, installation,

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It is very critical at the beginning to do these screening tests,

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just to see whether there is a risk or not.

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Whether buildings have this flammable cladding or not.

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Many do, so now the question is, what do we do about it?

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And are there other risks that might happen as a consequence

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or are there other things we need to consider?

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Resignations, a crisis in social housing, a police investigation,

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a public enquiry, unimaginable loss of life.

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Let's talk to our political correspondent, Iain Watson,

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Despite Mr Paget-Brown going, the opposition is keeping up the

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pressure. That's right. Despite the Kensington leader's resignation this

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evening, he seems to have lost the confidence of government ministers

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as well as the local community, the opposition do not want this to draw

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a political line under the crisis. So Labour's London Mayor Sadiq Khan

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is effectively calling for the whole Conservative Administration of

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Kensington to be sacked. He wants the council to be run by

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commissioners. These are usually experts and senior officials. But

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for Jeremy Corbyn, the main target isn't so much the council, its

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Theresa May. In a letter the Prime Minister this evening he worries the

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public enquiry she announced will have narrow a remit and some of the

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wider concerns the residents have will be simply overlooked. He also

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wants to see an interim report into the crisis produced by September at

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the latest and throughout this letter you get the impression he

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wants to push the government just one step beyond where they feel

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comfortable going, to try to seize the initiative. Tonight, Downing

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Street say they can reassure residents their voices will be heard

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throughout the public enquiry. Iain Watson, many thanks.

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The families of five friends from London who drowned off

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Camber Sands in Sussex last summer have demanded to know

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why no lifeguards were deployed on the beach.

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The five died just a month after two other men drowned in the same area.

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Lifeguards were introduced at Camber soon afterwards.

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A coroner concluded that all seven deaths were due to misadventure.

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It's the beach where generations of families have made

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A place where happy memories are created.

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But for Kobi Saththiyanathan, his brother Ken, Nitharsan Ravi,

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Inthushan Sriskantharasa, and Gurushanth Srithavarajah, it

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Tonight the men's families rejected the coroner's findings that

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them. Their anger, matched by their anguish.

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They didn't make any attempt to find those boys.

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And even then my brother was found by the public.

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Even all the other boys were found by the public, not by the staff.

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The families also said Rother Council, which runs Camber Sands,

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had been wrong to suggest people from ethnic minorities

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That's why we're fighting, to change something.

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Not for us, because my son will never come back to us.

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Saththiyanatnan, the father of the two brothers,

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Kobi and Ken who died, said his children were being blamed

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This is the moment it became clear the five men had drowned.

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Rother Council said it hadn't put in lifegaurds,

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partly because it didn't have the money but did have

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Tonight the council was asked why it hadn't yet

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The council has made it clear that they send

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We do not wish to see that happen again on any of our beaches.

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The coroner has taken away a lot of information from this and will be

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Dr Simon Boxall is an expert in oceanography.

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He says the five men who died were most probably caught by strong

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Dr Boxall also said that sea temperatures on this stretch

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of coast at this time of year could be as much as 12 degrees

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He said it was likely the men entered the water

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Just a month earlier, on the same beach, Mohit Dupar

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and Gustavo Silva Da Cruz also drowned.

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For the family of all the men who died in this unprecedented

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sequence of beach tragedies, there is bewilderment about how this

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could happen in such a benign, relaxed and familiar setting.

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In New York, several people - including at least three doctors -

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are believed to have been wounded after shots were fired

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Police say the suspect barricaded himself inside New York City's Bronx

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They swarmed the building in search of him, and say he's now dead.

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We can go to our correspondent in New York, Nada Tawfik.

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What more do we know about what has happened? Media reports have

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identified the shooter as Doctor Henry Bello, a 45-year-old male, who

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was a former employee of Bronx Lebanon Hospital. This afternoon he

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walked into the hospital just north of here New York's Borough of the

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Bronx, with an assault rifle concealed under his white doctor's

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code. From there he went on the 16th floor, where he fired several

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rounds, injured five or six people, some doctors on duty. We don't know

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the conditions of those people. A Fire Department official said one

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doctor was treated with a fire hose used as a tourniquet. Another said

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the public barricaded themselves in rooms. The NYPD has confirmed the

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shooter is dead, after taking his own life. It's unclear what his

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motive was. New York is one of the few states in the country that has a

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ban on assault rifles like these. Thank you.

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Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of one of the victims

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Coronation Street stars joined mourners in Stockport at the funeral

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of Martyn Hett, who was a huge fan of the soap.

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Martyn Hett loved to make an entrance.

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At 29, he'd planned his own funeral, with two white horses

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His family took a moment for private grief, before

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a very public celebration for the extrovert blogger.

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We have received messages from all around the world

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from people who followed Martyn, just waiting for his

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Martyn loved being in the limelight, and the centre of attention.

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He will be loving every minute of this fantastic

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Hello, and welcome to the Ten O'Clock News,

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I absolutely adore Coronation Street...

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Martyn's family played this film, including a tribute

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to his love of Corrie, and his favourite character.

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Some of the cast were there to celebrate their superfan,

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I love you, and I'm so happy that we got a chance to meet.

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And I know that you're shining down on us from heaven.

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Me and my group of friends and everyone at Radio One

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were always commenting on how funny, how sharp and how hilarious Martyn

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The service was beamed to the crowd outside.

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The impact of the Manchester attack still felt here.

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Martyn was really the complete opposite of the person

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He just swallowed it all up, all that hate and anger,

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and his star is shining bright for us all to see and remember.

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Martyn's mum said she wanted him to make a diva exit, and so he did.

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Applauded by his family, his friends, his audience.

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In Merseyside, mourners lined the streets to pay their final

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respects to 15-year-old Megan Hurley, who also died

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Her family asked for privacy at today's service, where the bells

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of St Nicholas Church in Halewood rang 22 times for the

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People were encouraged to wear Megan's favourite colour,

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The Iraqi army says it will announce the recapture of Mosul

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from so-called Islamic State within the next few days.

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But for the moment fighting remains fierce and the situation

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for civilians still trapped in the Old City

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Our correspondent, Nafiseh Kohnavard, has travelled

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to Mosul and spoken to families who've fled the fighting,

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After nine months of fighting, there is now celebrations.

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The Iraqi flag raised over what is left of the historic Al-Nuri Mosque

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where the leader of the so-called Islamic State once declared himself

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The security forces are close to pushing out the militants

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Just 500m away from us in this direction,

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occupy is getting smaller and as this happens,

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rescuing trapped civilians becomes extremely challenging.

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This is one group that managed to find safety.

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These children were held as human shields by IS.

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Most of them were living in an orphanage but the militants

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moved them closer to where the fighting was taking place.

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Transported here as IS occupied their villages.

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The Iraqi forces are now moving them out of the Old City.

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The children are now being looked after by aid workers

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They will be safe but like so many here, the future remains uncertain.

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Thousands of British students who fail to get places in medical

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school here, are heading to Eastern Europe to train to be

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Research done by BBC News suggests there's been an increase

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in the numbers of students going to places like

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That's partly because of the limited places at universities here.

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There are 7,600 places available each year in the UK to study

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medicine but competition is fierce, as there are about 14,500

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And this at a time when we're facing a shortage of doctors.

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Our Health Editor, Hugh Pym, reports from Varna in Bulgaria.

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They're so keen to study medicine, they've come a long way

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These British students are at the University

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of Varna in Bulgaria, because it was difficult

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One of them is Zahara, a mature student who is a mother of four.

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She's frustrated she was turned down by a British medical school

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They were thinking it's going to be like, I'm

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going to leave in the middle or something like that.

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So actually I was very disappointed and very upset.

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So I thought, like, there's no need to waste my time here in the UK,

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and try to convince them or impress them with my grades

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They do need to learn Bulgarian to talk to patients.

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Shahswar, from West London, explains that competition

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for places at British medical schools is intense.

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So to pursue his dream of becoming a neurosurgeon,

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We have Ph.D students and Master's students

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who are applying for the same places as you are applying to.

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And we have a lot of people get rejected, a lot of good

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There are 250 British medical and dental students in Varna,

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Living costs are cheaper, and tuition fees lower than in England.

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But I asked the university vice-rector how she could be sure

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British students were up to doing medicine if they hadn't got

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Those who approach the university are highly motivated young British

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people who are very much willing to study medicine.

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And we pass them through our system for admission.

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They need to sit for entry exams in biology and chemistry.

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There's nothing new about British medical students wanting

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What we've discovered is that there has been a noticeable

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increase in the numbers going to medical schools

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in Romania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Croatia,

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They're being promoted around the UK at events like this.

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An agent charging a fee helps with the application process,

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and says those without A grades at A-level can still get in.

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Some universities might be actually a bit more, a little flexible,

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and might go for something lower like a C or something like that.

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But, these people they need to go through some exams.

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But you could get a place, could you, with Bs and Cs?

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Doctors qualifying at an EU medical school are automatically

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But the regulator, the General Medical Council, says things might

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change after Brexit, with extra tests imposed.

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At a time when new doctors are badly needed, these students say they'll

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do whatever it takes to work in the NHS.

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A review of the main sex offender treatment programme -

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which was used in England and Wales until very recently -

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has concluded that it failed to cut re-offending,

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and, if anything, made prisoners more likely to commit

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The study found that the group therapy sessions may have

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Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to gather

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in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, tomorrow to celebrate

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It's a nation that thrives on diversity and which welcomes tens

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of thousands of refugees every year but not everyone is celebrating

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the country's milestone, as our chief correspondent

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The start of a long weekend party. Canada has begun celebrating its

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150th birthday. Millions of people expected to celebrate a young

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country that unexpectly roots its identity in multiculturalism. Canada

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means home, but it means diversity. We're accepting everyone here.

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Diverts of different minds, sex, everything. Why do the celebrations

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matter? Canada finds itself in the spotlight, astride one of the great

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fault lines at the moment. Its Prime Minister, Justin Trudeux troou has

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become a standard bearer for Liberalism in stark contrast to his

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neighbour to the South, Donald Trump. Justin Trudeux made point of

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going to the airport, with warm clothing, to welcome Syrian

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refugees. A school gate in Toronto. This couple picking up their

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children once fleed Homs in Syria. The mother is at college and the

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father is a taxi driver. They want to feel Canadian as soon as possible

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Somebody asks me - do you like Canada? I tell them it is the best.

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My neighbours, the street, anywhere, they ask is where we are from.

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And they have offered, if we want help.

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But Canada cannot escape the scars of its past.

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These are the lands of the Iroquois, building

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Some indigenous groups, native Canadians, are boycotting

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For many, the past 150 years have seen lands taken

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We were here, we look back further than 150 years.

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Because we have been here for thousands of years.

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And you think Canadians are celebrating, well,

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not everybody who lives in this country is celebrating

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And then there's the British connection.

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Today, Prince Charles was in the small town of Wellington

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One day, if things remain as they are, he will be

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Many in the crowd want to retain the British ties but elsewhere,

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At this anniversary, Canadians are celebrating their history

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They seem on a different path to their friend

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and neighbour to the south, the United States.

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It may prompt Canada to be assertive in promoting its own identity.

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Andy Murray will begin his defence of his Wimbledon title

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against a player ranked 134 in the world, when the

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He pulled out of his last warm-up game today because of a hip problem,

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but was practising on the grass at the All England Club.

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Murray is drawn in the same half as the French Open

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champion, Rafael Nadal, and Stan Wawrinka.

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The British cyclist Chris Froome will attempt to defend his

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title when the Tour de France begins tomorrow.

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He's hoping to complete his third straight win

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But he faces stiff competition from some the world's leading cyclists.

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The race begins in Dusseldorf in Germany, from where

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Chris Froome becomes the first Briton to retain

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Chris Froome knows what it takes to win the Tour de France.

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Tomorrow, he starts his quest for a fourth victory

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Media interest is always sky-high, but this year, Froome's team roll

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off the start line the subject of an ongoing doping investigation,

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and with questions looming over their leader's credibility.

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I've been involved in this sport a long time and I've tried to do it

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absolutely the way that I've always thought it should be done.

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And I'm proud of what we've achieved in this sport,

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Evidence from Sir Dave Brailsford and other Team Sky officials to MPs

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earlier this year, revealed an alarming lack of

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It all relates to a package alleged to have contained a banned substance

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administered to Sir Bradley Wiggins shortly before he went on to win

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Team Sky and Sir Bradley deny any wrongdoing,

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but the issue has presented the sport, and the head

:26:37.:26:38.

of its world governing body, with a familiar problem.

:26:39.:26:42.

Certainly the reputational problems that have been around that team

:26:43.:26:45.

in the last few months have not been helpful.

:26:46.:26:49.

We were previously considered pariahs of the anti-doping world

:26:50.:26:52.

and now we've got one of the best reputations in sport, I believe.

:26:53.:26:55.

The Tour, like its cyclists, endures.

:26:56.:26:59.

Millions will watch on TV, and, just as in Yorkshire in 2014,

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thousands will line the route for the start, which this year takes

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For Chris Froome, he must now focus on more than 2,000 miles of racing

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that stand between him and road cycling's greatest prize.

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This is the biggest challenge I've faced in my career.

:27:16.:27:39.

I think the level of my rivals and the course that we're racing

:27:40.:27:42.

on this year leads it to be a much more open race.

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