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David Cameron defends his controversial plan to help home

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buyers, as the Conservative Party conference gets underway. The Prime

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Minister denies it will fuel a housing bubble, and says without the

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Help to Buy scheme, people's aspirations will be trashed. A

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tourist boat catches fire on the River Thames. 30 people have been

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rescued. Gemma holds the trophy! And Liverpool win the Women's Super

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League title, ending Arsenal's nine year run. Good evening. David

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Cameron has defended bringing forward a scheme allowing people to

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take out 95% mortgages. The second phase of the controversial Help to

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Buy scheme will start next week, three months earlier than planned.

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Speaking at the start of the Conservative Party conference in

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Manchester, the Prime Minister denied he was stoking a housing

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bubble, and as he spoke 50 thousand people were preparing to demonstrate

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outside the venue against the government's spending plans. James

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Landale reports. She is no longer with us but here

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are her memory lives on. The personality cult of Margaret

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Thatcher has survived her passing and today, the Tories gathered to

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pay tribute. As they applauded the past, their minds turned to the

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future and how he and they can win the majorities that Mrs Thatcher

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enjoyed. David Cameron hopes that homes like these could help. He came

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to a building site outside of Manchester to say that a scheme

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would start next week, three months earlier than expected. He rejected

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claims that it could fuel a house-buying boom. I will not stand

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back as people's aspirations are being trashed. That is why we need

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to act. The government will guarantee part of people's mortgages

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so they only have two pay 5% of the value of the home. It is for

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properties worth up to £600,000. The Prime Minister said Labour's biggest

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idea for the cost of living with anti-competitive. What was needed

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was more competition. The only way to sustainably raise living

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standards is to keep the recovery going and the economy is now

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moving. We need to create jobs and we need to cut the deficit, and we

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need to cut people's taxes. There are clear differences between the

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parties. The the conference centre is praising Margaret Thatcher but on

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the streets of Manchester they are shouting Tory scum. It is quite

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nostalgic. The police estimated 50,000 people took to the street in

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a union backed rally to protest against spending cuts, particularly

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to the NHS. As for Blair calls against higher taxes for the rich,

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the Prime Minister ruled it out. Even in the hall, the Tories could

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not escape the price of austerity as to retired soldiers heckled the

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Defence Secretary. At this conference, you cannot escape the

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people the party says it wants to help. To win their votes, the people

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at this conference will have to work hard as well. Our Political Editor

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Nick Robinson is in Manchester now. It is obviously a big week for the

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Conservatives. What will David Cameron hope to achieve over the

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next few days? There is an internal goal. He talks of a repair job, a

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repair job of the relationship goal. He talks of a repair job, a

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between himself and the party who are frustrated by the compromises of

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a coalition and fearful of the are frustrated by the compromises of

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threat that from UKIP. That is why David Cameron has written to its own

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members and said he does not have a working relationship with them but a

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friendship which is based on common values. That is why you heard about

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Margaret Thatcher and curiously, that demonstration that took place

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helps to line the Tories. They think they know who the enemy is. He is

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trying to tell the public that there was a deficit problem but we can

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trying to tell the public that there help you. The housing scheme

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promoted today. In a sense, there is real symmetry between all of the

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parties, all of them trying to make offers, whether it is on school

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meals or house prices. If it had not been for the law that would tell us

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when the election would be, we would be speculating as to when it will

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be. We have to wait, though. The British Chamber of Commerce says

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bringing forward the second phase of the Help to Buy scheme is "less than

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responsible." And other critics have questioned whether it will make

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housing more affordable. Our Business Correspondent Joe Lynam has

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more. The Help to Buy scheme was designed

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to help borrowers get up the housing ladder but the British Chamber of

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Commerce has dismissed the scheme and said they are rushing into it.

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Commentators say it is unwanted meddling in the market. It is clear

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that government intervening in the markets never ends well. Recent

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surveys have shown major divide in house price trends. While the

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north-east has fallen by 2% over the last year, England, the Southeast

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and London have been booming with prices up 7% in the capital. 20

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eight-year-old Christine Taylor Place £1400 a month on rent. She

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would rather own but she does not have the money for a deposit. By

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addressing affordability without supply, you now have twice as many

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people looking at the same properties so you have a lot of

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competition and it makes it harder to get a flat. Nat West, RBS and

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Halifax, lenders who are state-controlled, will take part in

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the scheme, but other big lenders are yet to decide. The government's

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decision to bring forward the Help to Buy scheme will accelerate the

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application process. Banks like Lloyds will process mortgages sooner

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but they will not pay out until 2014. I like it here. Even before

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the controversial scheme gets underway, other banks are looking

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for new mortgage customers. The market may be curbed.

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In Pakistan more than 30 people have been killed and 70 others injured in

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a bomb attack in the city of Peshawar. Two blasts ripped through

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a busy market, setting shops and vehicles alight. It's the third

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deadly bombing in Peshawar in the past week. Here's Aleem Maqbool.

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The historic storytellers reside in the city of Peshawar, burning and

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bleeding. In mid-morning in the busy marketplace, please say a vehicle

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packed with 200 kilograms of explosives was detonated.

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TRANSLATION: I was here when there was a blast. Black smoke spread all

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over and nothing was visible, and I saw people lying on the road. There

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was no want to pick them up. The incident happened a few hundred

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metres from where a suicide bomber killed hundreds a week ago in a

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church. The main hospital in Peshawar is once again overflowing

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with the injured. It has seen 140 dead following the attacks in the

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last week. All this just after the Prime Minister said the government

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wanted to talk to the militants and he was backed by other prominent

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leaders. While the militants said they wanted to talk peace as well,

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the killing has continued. This video appeared, apparently made by

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the Pakistani Taliban, reportedly showing when an army jeep was blown

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up. Should talks still go ahead? There are those in Parliament who

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believe the only way to do ends the bloodshed is to talk to the

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militants. With every attack, there are many Pakistanis saying there is

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nothing to discuss. 30 people have been rescued after an

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amphibious tourist boat caught fire on the River Thames. Some of those

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on board jumped into the water to escape. As Andy Moore reports, it's

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the latest in a string of accidents escape. As Andy Moore reports, it's

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involving similar vessels. A terrifying scene played out in the

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heart of London, close to the A terrifying scene played out in the

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of Commons. As the fire took hold, many passengers took to the water.

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Others tried to pluck up the courage to jump. We saw the tour guide and

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the captain looked at each other. They encouraged us to put life

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jackets on and jump off. I was worried the boat might blow up. I

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wanted to get into the water. I knew I would be fine if I was in the

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water. The cause of the fire is under investigation. There have been

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previous incidents with other boats. Two separate incidents in

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Liverpool and their licence has been revoked. A young child was allowed

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to go home after medical treatment. Ambulance crews say they dealt with

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30 people at the scene. Many were cold and wet after ten minutes in

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the water. Three people were taken to hospital after minor injuries.

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Seven people breathed in smoke. We mobilised appliances and the fire

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boat. They work very quickly on scene. This incident happened very

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close to a fire station on the River Thames. Rescuers were able to get to

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the scene very quickly. One please source said, the outcome could have

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been a lot worse. In this case, the boat was in shallow water near the

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bank and other vessels were near at hand. It could have been very

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different. One of England's most senior police

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officers has called for Class A drugs to be decriminalised. Writing

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in a Sunday newspaper, the Chief Constable of Durham Police Mike

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Barton, also said drug addicts should be treated and cared for,

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rather than prosecuted. Here's Luisa Baldini.

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While the existence and consumption of drugs cannot be eradicated, the

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war on drugs can, according to Frank Hewetson from London and Anthony

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Perrett. -- Chief Constable of Durham Police Mike Barton. He

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compares the situation to prohibition in the USC. Mr Barton

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says prohibiting hard drugs, only enhances the power hold by gangs.

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Decriminalisation is the way to wrestle it away from the gangs. He

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says if an addict was able to access drugs by the NHS or a similar

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organisation, then they would not have to go out and buy illegal

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drugs. Drugs should be controlled and they should not be freely

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available. Mike Barton's views are backed by the local Police and Crime

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Commissioner. There will always be people who are tempted but what we

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need to do is have a control mechanism so we can control the

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quality of the drug and we can care for the individual and seek to

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remove him from that addiction. Experts warn that the number of

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users has actually fallen and a former addict is sceptical about the

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role that the NHS could play. How about functioning Addicks or people

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that are working? Or people that are not open about their problem? They

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would not go to hospital to get their drugs. It is aimed at people

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who are in the Charity services or people in the streets. The Chief

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Constable's calls follows others around the world who say the war on

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drugs is being lost. Now for the sport.

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Thank you. We start with the Premier League when Liverpool beat

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Sunderland 3-1 at the Stadium of light. Luis Suarez scored, after he

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was banned for ten matches for biting another player. The second in

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the table. Jonny Howson's first half strike guided Norwich to the second

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win of the season as they beat Stoke 1-0 at the Britannia Stadium.

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Liverpool are the women's league champions as they do beat Bristol

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Academy 2-0. A title decider and the question of who could hold their

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nerve. In the blue corner, the Bristol Academy up against the

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league spenders in red. It was Bristol Academy up against the

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Liverpool who cashed in on their dominance. With Bristol struggling

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for possession, their frustration got the better of them. Liverpool

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have seasoned internationals. Investment from the men's club

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allowed this player to arrive on Merseyside at the start of the

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season and her finish put the title beyond Bristol's grasp. Whistle have

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come back from bigger deficits but not this time. -- Bristol. This

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sparked a real change in the women's game. To win the title is

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the big one, really, and people go through their whole career never

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having this opportunity. It feels unbelievable, it really does. These

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girls are my best friends and I believe we deserved to win it. The

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Tour de France winner Chris Frew pulled out of the road race this

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afternoon after he struggled with the treacherous conditions in Italy.

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The whole British team abandoned the race as well. It was a close finish.

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And cycling's world governing body has asked a member of team sky to

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explain possible discrepancies in the readings. Team sky said they had

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no doubt about the performance of the readings. Team sky said they had

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the cyclist who won last year's toured Britain. They say the

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anomalies showed in readings before he joined the team.

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Thank you.

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