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The most successful Paralympic Games in history draw to a close

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with more medals for Great Britain. David Weir claims his fourth gold

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medal of the Games - this time winning the marathon.

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Paralympics GB celebrate their medal haul with over 100 in total.

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Coming home - the four-year-old girl who saw her parents murdered

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in France returns to Britain. Iraq erupts in a day of sectarian

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violence as attacks across the country claim at least 60 lives.

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Cooling off in Brighton - but union leaders warn they'll be turning up

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the heat with more strikes over pay. And, Nice to see you Mr Bond - Andy

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Murray gets some home-grown support as he prepares to try and win his

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Good evening. The most successful Paralympic

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Games in history are drawing to a close after a final day of sport

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that brought more gold for Great Britain. Victory in the marathon

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made it four gold medals for David Weir, who's been one of the leading

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lights of these Games. He and fellow multiple gold medallist,

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Sarah Storey, will together carry the flag for Great Britain at

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tonight's closing ceremony. The Games have been a sell out,

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showcasing disability sport as never before in Britain and

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bringing a remarkable summer of sport to an end. James Pearce

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reports. 11 days of competition which have

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left their mark on all who have witnessed it. It is agreed these

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are the best Paralympics ever, embraced by the British public,

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faces which have become some of the best known in the country. David

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Weir won Britain's 34th and final Gold medal of the Games. Large

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crowds in London cheered him on as he won the marathon. He had entered

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four Avensis and his finishing with four gold medals. There was a

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silver medal for Shelly Woods in the women's race. The sun has shone

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on 2.5 million people who have visited, but the focus was on the

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ability rather than disability. But it will tomorrow will this be a

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memory? There is no doubt some attitudes have changed, but for how

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long? The views of those watching were positive. The it has changed

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my attitude. You see them now as athletes in their own right, what

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ever their disability. People won't stir so much. That must be a

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benefit for the people with disabilities are themselves.

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Applauded at ParalympicsGB House earlier. The flag bearers, eight

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gold medals between them. Every time we have seen a medal won and

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lost, it has been about sport and not about disability. Hopefully the

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wider public have embraced the games and have their inspiration

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taken from that, as well as our Olympic colleagues. It has been a

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fantastic six weeks of sport. wasn't just Coldplay playing tunes

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at the Olympic Park, others were getting in on the act. Happy,

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smiling faces is a site we have become familiar with.

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Paralympics one not change things overnight. The next 10 days won't

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be like the last 10 days, but there is a momentum. There has been so

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much discussion about disabled people and the great things

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disabled people can do. This is an exclusive gathering, they are all

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gold-medallist. They summed up their gains by stating, mission

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accomplished. The same can be said about the Paralympics, it has

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inspired and possibly changed us. 34 gold medals for Paralympics GB

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brought a top three finish in the China took the top spot with 95

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gold, followed by Russia and then Great Britain with 120 medals in

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all. That was up from the Beijing total but there had been hope of

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getting into second place. Well the Paralympics closing

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ceremony almost upon us, a chance to reflect on all that we've seen

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in the last nine days and on the Olympics before that. James Pearce

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is with me now. So many great moments, James, but the promise for

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the Games was always about more than the sport. That is the case

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for the Paralympics. Looking at the Paralympics and the Olympics, it

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could not have gone any better. There has hardly been a criticism.

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The reality will hit tomorrow, the venues will be empty, the clocks

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will go back and winter will set in. These games have tried to generate

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participation. But we are getting reports from all over the gate of

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numbers of children taking up sport. The greatest legacy, many will tell

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you it is the Paralympics that is the greater legacy. In China it

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changed the attitude towards disability. It seems that could be

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the case here as well. Thanks to James Pearce who has covered every

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step of London 2012. Away from the Olympic Park.

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The four-year-old girl who witnessed her parents being shot

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dead while on holiday in the French Alps has returned home to Britain.

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Zeena al-Hilli's father, Saad, was shot dead in the family car

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alongside his wife and a woman believed to be her mother. At the

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family home in Surrey, more police searches have been taking place.

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Mike Sergeant is there. What more can you tell us? FA second day,

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police have been searching the family home bar anything that might

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help with this investigation. The two young girls who survived will

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be deeply traumatised. Four year olds Zeena, who hid under her

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mother's skirt and was in the car for eight hours before the police

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discovered her, is, as you say back in the UK. For obvious reasons she

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won't be returning to the family home, she will be looked after by

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relatives. The better news from France is her older sister, Zainab,

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is improving. She is out of the medically induced coma but is still

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under sedation. When the French police talk to her, they will be

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hoping she can provide information that will help track down her

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parents' killers. In Iraq, more than 60 people have

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been killed in a wave of violence targeting the security forces. Over

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20 bomb and gun attacks struck at least 11 cities, with one of the

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worst incidents in the southern city of Amara, where two car bombs

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killed at least 14 people. In Dujail, north of Baghdad, officials

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say 11 soldiers died when their base was attacked by insurgents at

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dawn. Emily Buchanan reports. In Kirkuk, they were just coping

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with one car bomb, when another exploded, wreaking havoc. The

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targets were police recruits waiting in line for jobs with the

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state run oil company. No one has claimed responsibility, but the

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local police commander claimed Al- Qaeda, which often targets the

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security forces. Elsewhere, the bombings exposed Iraq's sectarian

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divide. A car bomb in a popular market in Basra was aimed at Shia

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Muslims. Sunni insurgents, who feel sidelined by the governments are

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often accused of being responsible for such attacks.

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TRANSLATION: And the explosion took place in front of my shop and there

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was a soldier and a woman on the ground. Many people were killed and

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our shops were damaged in the blast. The car bombs hit Shia

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neighbourhoods. This is the usual pleas for city of Nasiriya. Two

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bombs exploded killing many people. Bomb went off near the French

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consulate, bus and no staff were. Co-ordinated, spasms of violence

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are becoming more regulator and expose the power vacuum in Baghdad

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where the Government is divided. This isn't a civil war, but neither

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is it the peaceful vision hoped for when the American coalition forces

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left Iraq nine months ago. There has been continued violence

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in Syria this weekend with at least 160 people killed. There's been a

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second day of air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo. Unverified

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amateur video shows the aftermath of an attack on a residential

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district where it's said at least four were killed and dozens more

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injured. Here, dozens of organisations

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involved in implementing the Government's changes to the

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benefits system have warned that millions of claimants could be

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disadvantaged. Claimants will now have to go online to receive the

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new monthly universal credit payment and in documents seen by

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the BBC, many charities and local councils are concerned some lack

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the necessary access or computer skills. The people we are most

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concerned about are those financially disadvantaged, those

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living on the basic minimum they need to live. Asking them to access

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a technological system that can be expensive for people who don't have

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it set up at home, and don't have the means to set it up at home.

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Our political correspondent, Robin Brant, is in Westminster. Robin are

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these groups right to be concerned? Yes, it is interesting. There are

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plenty of organisations who broadly support what the Government is

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trying to do. The Ian Duncan-Smith, will come to Parliament in the week

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to update MPs about universal credit, about how far reforms are

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progressing. It is a significant change, perhaps the biggest the

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welfare system has faced since its inception. Many of these

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organisations supported, but they are worried about moving to Monty

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Panesar and making the system Basic debased around online access. --

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monthly payments. The scent of the Social Justice has told the BBC the

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governments should do more to provide help, services and training

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for budgeting. Also, try and get voluntary organisations, housing

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associations to go to people's houses with mobile computers to

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help them access these services. Even those who support Ian Duncan-

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Smith, thing more needs to be done in terms of the major transition

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coming this time next year. Union leaders are warning of more co-

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ordinated strikes over pay as the Trades Union Congress begins its

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annual conference in Brighton. Many public sector workers currently

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have a pay freeze, with the National Union of Teachers already

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voting to strike over pay and working conditions. Unions say

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their private sector members are also feeling the pinch. From

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Brighton, here's John Moylan. Soaking up the last rays of summer.

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Thousands of people took time out from their busy lives and headed to

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Brighton beach. Joining them is Brendan Barber, who has led the TUC

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for the past decade, and Frances O'Grady who will become its first

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woman secretary later this year. It is all change, but the opposition

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to the austerity measures remain. The key message is posterity isn't

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working, the economy is flat lining, millions of ordinary people are

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paying the price with their living standards squeezed. Concerns about

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job security. We need a change of course. Trade unions mobilise more

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than a million workers to take strike action over pension reforms.

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But at Congress this week, it is the issue of paid which is likely

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to result in repeated calls for more co-ordinated industrial action.

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Millions of people with jobs including the health service and

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local governments have seen their income hit because of pay freezes.

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Now the boss of the biggest public sector union says it has got to end.

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We will seek to reach compromises, because that is what you doing in

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talking. If there is no way forward, we will have no alternative but to

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move back to our members and seek a ballot for industrial action. This

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will be a ballot for industrial action, for which we won't lose.

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Over the past five years, the gap between public and private sector

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pay has widened from 5.3% in 2007, to 8.2% last year. That gap is

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likely to narrow as pay restraint in the public sector continues. The

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Government insists pay restraint has saved jobs, but few agreed.

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Some want to step up the campaign against the cuts and consider a

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general strike. Lewis Hamilton has pushed rumours

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about who he might be driving for next season to one side, sweeping

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to victory in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. The McLaren driver

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led from pole to flag ahead of Sauber's Sergio Perez and

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Championship leader, Fernando Alonso in his Ferrari. Hamilton's

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team-mate, Jenson Button, was in second place before a mechanical

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fault forced him to retire. Andy Murray will face defending

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champion, Novak Djokovic, in the US Open men's final at Flushing

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Meadows tomorrow. Djokovic has just beaten David Ferrer in four sets.

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Murray booked his place in his fifth Grand Slam final last night

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after beating Thomas Berdych. Our sports correspondent, Andy Swiss,

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reports from New York. After yesterday's storms, a calmer

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day at Flushing Meadows, particularly if you are Andy Murray.

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He was resting after his victory over Thomas Berdych. Still

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absorbing his post-match press conference invaded by his Scottish

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fan club. Enter, says Sean Connery and Sir Alex Ferguson. Andy Murray

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enjoyed it, but he is waiting for his first grand-slam title. I am

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ready for the final. I know it is going to be challenging. In his

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four Grand Slam finals, Andy Murray has tasted only disappointment. But

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he has had a great deal months - a Wimbledon final followed by the

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Olympic medal. His mental toughness has been hardened by Ivan Lendl,

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who like Andy Murray lost his first four Grand Slam finals, before

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winning his 5th. Could that be an omen? This looks like his best

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chance so far. The schedule has been good to him. While he has been

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