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A big hike in electricity prices for British Gas customers.

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More than 3 million will be affected.

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Electricity bills will go up by 12.5% from September.

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Consumer groups says it's a slap in the face for families.

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The bills go up when the prices go up and then

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they don't go down when the prices go down.

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I'm not sure where British Gas is coming from but I guess the

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other option is choose a different supplier.

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But British Gas argues its own costs have risen.

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We'll be asking what, if anything, the Government can do

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At least 60 people have died this year after overdosing

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Dozens more deaths are being investigated.

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Police reveal new tactics to tackle the two-wheeled crime wave

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The President's men - but not for long.

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What Trump's latest White House changes could mean

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And counting down the days to retirement as Usain Bolt gets

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Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

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England women's goalkeeper Karen Bardsley has been ruled out

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of the rest of Euro 2017 after breaking her leg

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in the quarterfinal win over France.

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More than 3 million British Gas customers are facing a big rise

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From September, the company will charge 12.5% more for electricity.

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It means a typical household on a dual fuel tariff

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will see its annual bill go up by ?76.

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British Gas says it's putting up prices for the first time

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in nearly four years because its own costs have risen.

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But the Government and consumer groups have condemned the move.

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Here's our business editor, Simon Jack.

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Electricity, a basic need, a simple product.

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It's the same wherever, or whomever, you buy from.

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If you buy it from British Gas, it will be 12.5% more expensive

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from September, as the UK's largest supplier hiked prices for the first

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Given wholesale costs have come down over that

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We do agree that, over the last few years,

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since we dropped electricity prices the last time,

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wholesale costs have indeed fallen by about ?36 on a

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typical bill but we've seen these other factors of transmission and

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distribution costs, and energy policy costs,

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Electricity may be a simple commodity but the

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factors that influence its price are complicated.

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22% of the bill is made up of the company's

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The wholesale price makes up 36% of the bill.

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That's the price at which the energy suppliers

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buy the energy they then sell onto us.

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British Gas concedes that this has actually fallen since the

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Then there's the cost of delivering the

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British Gas says rising costs here is one reason

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Figures from Ofgem show these costs fell over the last year.

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That includes increased use of renewable

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energy, and promoting energy-saving measures like insulation.

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Ofgem says, yes, they are, but only by 2%.

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No wonder some consumers are confused.

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They make them as complicated as they can and people don't

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The bills aren't very clear, I don't think.

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I'm not sure where British Gas is coming

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from but I guess the other option you've got is choose

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The fact the wholesale prices have stayed

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the same, or going down, as far as I'm aware.

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The fact they're putting them up, for the consumer, is pretty

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British Gas froze prices when others raised them earlier this

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year, so it's catching up with the rest of the pack.

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Consumer groups say it is the Government's

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responsibility to take industrywide action.

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The Government needs to urgently look at what it does for

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those customers who are paying over the odds.

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There has been so much discussion about the energy market

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and that it doesn't work for consumers.

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The discussion needs to end we need to see some action.

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According to the opposition, that action should include a cap on

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We've said from the Labour Party we'd introduce a price

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cut initially, but also we would develop alternative energy supplies

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so that this cartel we have now cannot control pricing

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levels, and hold us over a barrel ever again in the future.

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I think they're exploiting their customers.

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Policies like capping energy prices to support working families.

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The Conservatives had a cap in their manifesto.

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It was dropped from the Queen's speech, and now the Government wants

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Ofgem to find ways to keep the bills down.

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Once again, energy is a hot political issue.

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Our political correspondent, Alex Forsyth, is in Westminster.

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, can the governor do to keep energy prices down? What should the role of

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government be in the energy market scratch but this was an issue during

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the election campaign because Theresa May had said if the

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Conservatives win power than they would introduce the energy price

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cap. The Conservatives did win power but they did not win a majority, so

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that plan has been shelved. That is in part because of Brexit. The

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Government has a heavy programme of legislation to get through the

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Commons. Not every Tory MP with back the idea of a price cap. This is a

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parliamentary battle they cannot afford. Ofgem has sufficient powers

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to do something about this. There is currently a consultation and Ofgem

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is expected to bring forward proposals later this year which may

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help the most vulnerable customers that ministers are stressing that

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idea of a price cap is not entirely off the table. It is something the

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threat warning to energy companies. If you do not do something about

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this, the Government might. Do not expect any significant government

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intervention on this any time soon. For now they are keen to be seen to

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be talking tough. Thank you. The National Crime Agency says that

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60 people have died in the UK in the past eight months

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after taking the painkilling It's 50 times more potent

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than heroin and is the drug that was linked to the death

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of the rock star Prince. Now dozens more deaths

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are being investigated. The painkiller is usually

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given to cancer patients, but it's increasingly being added

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to heroin and other class A drugs, The rock legend Prince died suddenly

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last year at the age of 57. A year on, medical examiners

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concluded his death was due to an accidental

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overdose of Fentanyl. The drugs that killed this showbiz a

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list is responsible for an increasing number of deaths in the

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UK. Fentanyl is a painkiller used to treat cancer patients. It is 50

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times stronger than heroin. It has been linked to the deaths of 60

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people in the UK and there is an even more powerful substance which

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can be up to 10,000 times stronger than street heroin. We talk about

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people playing Russian roulette with these type of drugs. It is an

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extremely dangerous game now with the fentanyl addition to be heroin.

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Sean, who does not want his face shown, lost his sister to a

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suspected fentanyl overdose. She had bought some. She knew what she

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bought it was from the dealer. They found her two days later on the

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toilet. In most of the deaths, fentanyl had been mixed with heroin

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for a bigger fix. They are that far gone on heroin and the other drugs

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and the lifestyle they lead, nothing matters to them. All they are

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bothered about is that relief, getting out of their head and

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getting away from the world for an hour or two. Fentanyl is so lethal

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that this is how police were kitted up when they raided a suspect's

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house. Officers had to be protected against breathing it in. Why is it

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coming onto British streets? We believe this is partly down to the

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ongoing need for dealers to be trying to compete with each other

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and sometimes introducing drugs into the marketplace they believe might

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enhance their profits. Fentanyl is what is known as the synthetic

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opioid. Most of the UK deaths have been in Yorkshire and the north-east

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of England. The police are highlighting the dangers but, have

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addicts got the strength to heed the message?

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Police in London are having to adopt new tactics to deal

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Criminals on two wheels have been riding around the city targeting

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Police say the number of incidents has tripled in the last year.

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Our special correspondent, Lucy Manning, has been investigating

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Last night near Harrods the police and fire brigade rushed

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Liquid, possibly acid, thrown at the victim

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A few months ago in east London and a motorcyclist

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A fire extinguisher let off in his face.

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In London it is increasingly the crime of choice

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Police telling the BBC the average age of moped gangs is 15.

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Please send me the location of where he is...

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Delivery driver Jabed Hussain was attacked three weeks ago

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on his moped when acid was thrown at him as they stole his bike.

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He is now part of a social media group with hundreds of moped drivers

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Just turning left to go towards my next job.

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How often are people posting that they are seeing

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We go with Jabed to meet other delivery drivers,

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some have stopped working after ten o'clock at night, they're

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Everywhere, everywhere around and police do not care.

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Some of them will come when we are just stopped at traffic lights.

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As we talk, a bike cuts across the pavement,

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the driver and passenger with their faces covered.

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The delivery drivers say this is one of the moped gangs,

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Later we check the number plate, the bike is not taxed or insured

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Police believe the characteristics of a stolen bike.

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In the last year there were 16,000 moped related crimes in London.

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Three times as many as the previous year.

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But the BBC has been told police are testing a new way

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Spraying them with liquid that can later be traced.

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We're looking at a spray that delivers a unique DNA piece

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which sprays on them and can be traced back to them later on.

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If equipment or clothing or the bike is UVd.

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And can you use this spray on them as they are taking off?

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We're trying to find a way to do that safely.

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It is being tested under Home Office guidelines.

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There is a misconception that there is less pursuit

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and people do not pursue because they think they

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That is not true, in fact our number of pursuits has increased

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You do not pursue every moped gang when a call comes in?

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That is true but the reality is by the time we get the call

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for most of these offences, that moped has already gone.

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Bristolbiketaker, with pictures of mopeds,

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Avon and Somerset Police who are investigating say

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the account is used to taunt the owners of stolen bikes.

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Others appear to offer keys for sale to unlock mopeds.

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And teenagers post videos of themselves driving recklessly,

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This is believed to be riders filming themselves

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And police video shows phone thieves fleeing up

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The BBC has been told moped gangs are now coming

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into London from Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Buckinghamshire.

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Police believe this growing problem in the capital

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Five prison officers have been taken to hospital following violence

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There has also been a second day of rioting at the Mount

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It's understood that prisoners seized control of part of one wing.

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Officials say the incident is now under control.

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The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford has become the first

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in the NHS to move patients because of concerns

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about fire safety following the Grenfell Tower disaster.

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It's closing the inpatient wards of the trauma unit after a review

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found problems with the cladding on the building and with other fire

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A great day at the White House - that was Donald Trump's assessment

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last night after his new director of communications,

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Anthony Scaramucci, was sacked even before he'd formally taken

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But the President's take on events seemed -

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not for the first time - at odds with many observers

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of his US administration, as our North America editor

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It is being billed as The Last Supper.

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Anthony Scaramucci last night having dinner at where else?

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The restaurant in the Trump Hotel just hours after he'd been

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At roughly the same time came this extraordinary

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What? Are you kidding?

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The swearing-in of General John Kelly as chief of staff being

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seen as a new beginning for this administration.

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He will do a spectacular job, I have no doubt, as

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So, could this mark the end of what's been a turbulent,

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dysfunctional six months for all the President's men?

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The former national security adviser was the first to go.

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Fired after just 24 days in the job, after he lied about

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his contacts with the Russian Ambassador.

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Three months after being fired, Trump's first communications

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director, the rather anonymous Mike Dubke,

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The high-profile and brutal dismissal of the former FBI

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Infuriating the President with his investigation

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into links between the Russians and the Trump campaign.

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11 days ago, it was the turn of beleaguered press

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He walked, furious that President Trump had

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hired Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.

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The departure of Reince Priebus came as little surprise after he was

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subject to a vicious verbal attack by incoming communications

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After just ten days into the job, Mooch was front

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stabbed by the incoming chief of staff.

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The profound hope among those close to President Trump is that

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with General Kelly in charge there will be a fundamental change

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A change in personnel leading to high

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expectations, followed by a swift return to normal.

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In the meantime, the late night comedians are making hay.

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The President has been very busy repealing and replacing his staff,

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most notably Anthony Scaramucci, the Mooch.

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The Mooch Lasted as communications director for only ten days.

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Then he left us with nothing but memories, like a bunch of weird

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But some things are still refreshingly familiar.

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Donald Trump tweeting a short time ago, only the fake news media

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and Trump enemies want me to stop using social media.

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The only way for me to get the truth out.

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The general election in June confounded pollsters

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and commentators, taking many by surprise.

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Very few had expected Theresa May to lose her parliamentary majority.

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For the past three years the British Election Study has

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followed a panel of the same 30,000 voters, asking them

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hundreds of questions about their political

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It offers the most detailed look at the issues which most

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Our home editor, Mark Easton, has been examining the results.

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And what we're saying is the Conservatives

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They don't have an overall majority at this stage.

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It was the election result that almost no one forecast.

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Certainly not Prime Minister Theresa May who had anticipated the result

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I felt, I suppose, devastated really.

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The gold standard of electoral analysis is regarded

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as the British Election Survey which followed a panel

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of 30,000 voters before, during and after the campaign.

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Now we can reveal what was really on voters' minds.

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Many issues were mentioned as the single most important but one

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came up three times more often than any other.

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Normally you would expect to see a balance of issues.

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You would see the economy particularly but you would see

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What was unusual about 2017 was that Brexit seemed so dominant and not

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just in terms of the things that people were thinking

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about but in terms of how people actually voted.

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The Conservatives wanted the election to focus on Brexit.

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While other parties, notably Labour, wanted to talk about austerity

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But if the Tories assumed a focus on the negotiations to leave

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the EU would help them, they were mistaken.

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At the start of the campaign, Labour were far behind the Conservatives

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and while the Tories did win votes, from Ukip and floating voters,

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During the campaign, the survey suggests Conservative

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But Labour went up by 14%, more than half of floating

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They had a good campaign and they increasingly won over

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Remain supporters who were looking for a home, so there might have been

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Labour were really the only viable option for a lot of people

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There is always churn in an election but this

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was predominantly one way - towards Labour.

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Undecided voters like the parties promised to retain the benefits

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of the EU's single market, even if the leadership's

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position on Brexit was not always crystal clear.

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But there was another factor at play too.

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At the start of the election, Theresa May had a sizeable lead over

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Jeremy Corbyn in terms of her likability.

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But by polling day, the two were almost neck-and-neck.

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People were a little bit scared of Corbyn at the outset but I think

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the more they saw of him the less that became the case.

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And, in contrast, May had quite a bad campaign.

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One could interpret the election result with both Labour and Tories

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getting more than 40% of the vote as a return to traditional two-party

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politics but scratch the surface and it's clear the divide was not

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about left versus right, but Britain's relationship

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Pancreatic cancer is one of the most challenging to treat -

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fewer than 7% of patients make it beyond five years after diagnosis.

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Now a team based in Birmingham believe that moving to surgery

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earlier than is currently the case could improve success rates.

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Over 9,500 people are diagnosed with the cancer each year in the UK.

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In a pilot scheme involving 32 patients, the average waiting time

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from diagnosis to surgery was cut from two months to two weeks.

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In the vast majority of those cases - 31 patients -

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Doctor says it will be two years before they can be really sure

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if operating earlier does extend life chances.

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In Venezuela, two opposition leaders have been taken to a military prison

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by the security services - a move that has been

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The family of the former Mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma,

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released this video of him being taken from his

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They'd called for a boycott of Sunday's controversial vote

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In the last few days at least ten people have died in protests.

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In Afghanistan, at least 29 people have been killed in explosions

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at a mosque in the western city of Herat.

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Police said the attack took place during evening prayers

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and was carried out by a suicide bomber and another assailant,

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South Africa's ruling party, the ANC, is facing one

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With the country in recession, its president, Jacob Zuma, has been

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It's a charge that's divided his party and he's facing

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Today, party members were told if they don't back him, they should

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leave the ANC. One MP who has openly called

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for the president to resign has been She looks nervous,

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and with good reason. Makhosi Khoza, a member

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of parliament here in South Africa, You have 14 days to

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live, says one text. Her crime - to speak out in public

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against South Africa's Dr Khoza is an MP for the governing

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ANC but she's broken ranks, calling for the President

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to step down. If we get threatened,

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our lives get threatened because we express particular

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political views, that begins to tell you that you are actually

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officially in a dictatorship. In public, the ANC's leaders

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still pretend they're united. But President Zuma himself

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admits a ferocious power There is a war that is

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silent, eroding the very existence of the African

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National Congress. of looting the state,

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of monstrous corruption, it's a charge they deny but leaked

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e-mails are fuelling new allegations I think every South African is very,

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very worried about what is happening and we are hoping for

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a miraculous solution. Some believe that solution

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could take the form of an upcoming vote here in parliament

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on whether to remove But there's no guarantee that

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disillusioned MPs like Dr Khoza These are alarming and invigorating

:25:25.:25:28.

times for South African democracy, so much to fight for,

:25:29.:25:35.

so much at stake here right now. The fate of President Zuma,

:25:36.:25:38.

of the economy and of Africa's Many, perhaps most South Africans,

:25:39.:25:41.

still hope the ANC can self-correct. When good people keep quiet,

:25:42.:25:51.

then the evil prevails. And we want to make sure our people

:25:52.:25:57.

do not lose faith in us, simply because we have taken one

:25:58.:26:02.

or two missteps. But Dr Khoza, in hiding now

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and threatened with expulsion from the ANC, believes her party has

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sunk too far. It has not been easy to confront

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the reality that maybe as a liberation movement,

:26:15.:26:21.

maybe we have reached the dead end. A bleak warning

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from a defiant woman. Andrew Harding, BBC

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News, South Africa. He's the fastest man in history,

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with eight Olympic golds But Usain Bolt's glittering career

:26:34.:26:36.

is coming to an end. He'll run his last

:26:37.:26:43.

ever 100 metre race at the World Athletics Championships

:26:44.:26:44.

in London on Saturday and then his final sprint

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relay a week later. As he prepares for retirement,

:26:49.:26:51.

he's been speaking The world's fastest man

:26:52.:26:53.

is about to say farewell but Usain Bolt remains

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the star attraction. This, the stir he caused

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in London today at the end In one of his last interviews before

:27:06.:27:08.

his final 100 metres on Saturday, the Jamaican telling me retirement

:27:09.:27:14.

was the right call. I think it's time for me

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to slow down a little bit, you know what I mean and then

:27:18.:27:22.

I decide if I want to pick it up. But for me after I retire

:27:23.:27:26.

I want to take it slow Is there no way you could be

:27:27.:27:36.

persuaded to reconsider retirement? I don't think so. I think I am just

:27:37.:27:42.

done so much, I really - I feel accomplished. I feel like I have

:27:43.:27:43.

done enough. Here comes Usain Bolt,

:27:44.:27:47.

he is pulling away! Bolt's decade-long sprinting

:27:48.:27:49.

supremacy has entered the realm of legend with a remarkable eight

:27:50.:27:53.

Olympic golds and a further 11 He currently holds three world

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records and with the personality to match the performances athletics

:27:56.:28:00.

is losing a figure who If you could describe the legacy

:28:01.:28:02.

you want to leave behind, how you want to be remembered

:28:03.:28:10.

in sport, how would it be? Just simple, I just want

:28:11.:28:13.

to be one of the greats. When conversations are had

:28:14.:28:16.

about greatest sports star I wanted I want people to say yeah,

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Usain Bolt was one of the greatest sports stars that has ever

:28:21.:28:25.

done any sports. Do you believe your world records

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will be beaten, taken away one day, I haven't seen anybody

:28:28.:28:30.

in this era now to do it. So, maybe a couple of years,

:28:31.:28:34.

ten years from now, I don't know. But right now, I think my

:28:35.:28:37.

record is safe so far. Bolt burst on to the scene

:28:38.:28:40.

in Jamaica 15 years ago when he starred at the World Junior

:28:41.:28:43.

Championships. Since then, he has become a national

:28:44.:28:46.

hero and a true sporting superstar. And back in the north of the island

:28:47.:28:51.

where he grew up those closest to him are willing him to go out

:28:52.:28:54.

on a high. Because if he lost, then it

:28:55.:28:57.

will be heartbroken for me. Usain Bolt is a genius. I can't

:28:58.:29:25.

think, other than Mohammed Ali in my sporting lifetime, I can't think of

:29:26.:29:29.

anybody that has so had an impact inside or beyond their sport. With

:29:30.:29:34.

recent doping scandals casting a long shadow over his sport Bolt's

:29:35.:29:39.

often been portrayed as the saviour of athletics and he issued this

:29:40.:29:41.

stark warning to those tempted to cheat.

:29:42.:29:47.

I think as long as they understand if they keep this up, the sport

:29:48.:29:51.

Hopefully at least understand that and they will help

:29:52.:29:55.

Arguably the greatest track and field has ever seen,

:29:56.:29:58.

sport's ultimate showman intends to mark his retirement

:29:59.:30:00.

The World Championships will provide final memories of a unique talent,

:30:01.:30:04.

filling the void he leaves behind could prove athletic's

:30:05.:30:06.

And you can watch Usain Bolt's last races before he retires on the BBC.

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Full coverage of the World Athletics Championships begins this Friday at

:30:20.:30:24.

7pm. That's just about it from us.

:30:25.:30:27.

Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.

:30:28.:30:30.

International condemnation of the crackdown in Venezuela.

:30:31.:30:40.

Tonight we speak to an opposition Senator in Caracas as the

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

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