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Finally home - the body of Nelson Mandela is in the village where he

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was born, where he will be buried early tomorrow. At the end of the

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journey, cheering crowds celebrated the achievements of his long life.

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China lands its first probe on the moon - a giant leap forward for the

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country's space programme. Hospitals are told to provide more

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doctors at weekends. England's hopes of holding Joen to

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the ashes are balanced on a knife edge.

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Nelson Mandela's family is holding an overnight vigil beside his body,

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in his childhood home of Qunu, on the eve of his funeral. Earlier, a

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military plane, escorted by fighter jets, had carried the casket from

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South Africa's capital Pretoria to the Eastern Cape. In Mr Mandela's

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home province, thousands of people lined the streets to pay their

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respects and celebrate his life. Our world affairs editor, John Simpson,

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reports. In the incomparable landscape in which Nelson Mandela

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spent his childhood, they brought back his body on its last journey to

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the family home. In the morning, the party he'd belonged to for 69 years,

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the ANC, said its goodbyes to him at the airport near Pretoria. For his

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widow, this was the most emotional public moment so far. Friends say

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she's taken her husband's death very hard. President Jacob Zuma broke

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into song, as he likes to do. He's got a good voice, but he's had a

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tough time politically. Since the death of Nelson Mandela, he's been

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criticised, heckled and booed. The guests were varied. They included

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Gerry Adams of Ireland's Sinn Fein, a man who also talked peace with his

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former enemies. But one important figure was missing, Mandela's friend

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and ally, the former Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He said he hadn't been

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invited and didn't want to gatecrash. The ANC said he had been

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invited and tonight he said he would be going after all. Finally, it was

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time to start the journey home to the Eastern Cape. He was leaving

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behind the big cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg, where he had

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achieved many of his greatest successes. There were big crowds

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along the roads from the airport to Qunu, you might have thought they

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would be silent and sad, but they weren't. This is such a sad day and

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yet, everybody is happy. Why is that? It is so painful that he's

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dead, but now, at least, we have the chance to celebrate. So you're

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celebrating his life and you're showing his gratitude? Yes!

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CHEERING Then down the road came the

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procession accompanying the hearse with Nelson Mandela's body. Once he

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tended farm animals in the fields round here, just as children still

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do. Now the one-time shepherd boy had the full panoply of the state to

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bring him back home. For many people in Nelson Mandela's

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homeland, the passing of his cortege was a final opportunity to say

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farewell. Our correspondent, Nomsa Maseko, was among the crowds.

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Nelson Mandela's home coming, they called it his send-off party. Now

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that this day has come, do you think it's reality now? Do you think now

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you can believe he's gone? Yes, we've got this feeling inside and

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sorry. We have freedom just because of him. He mean everything to me.

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He's everything. It was a welcome fit for a hero.

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CHEERING This is the moment people have been

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waiting for. They've been standing here for hours just to bid farewell

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to Nelson Mandela. Most were happy, but some grumbled the procession

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went by too fast. We were here very early in the morning, and Mandela

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just passed by and stopped a little bit, but they never stopped. It was

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just a glimpse of him. It was a day that parents will tell their

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children about. One little girl summed it all up. I am proud of you

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Mr Nelson Mandela for bringing us to freedom in our country and for

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bringing peace in our land. I thank you. John Simpson joins us from

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Qunu, where Mr Mandela's funeral takes place in the morning. John,

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the last act in this great drama. Yes. I think it will be very simple,

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actually, compared with what we've been seeing. I think it will be

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quieter, a gentle and very sad business when Nelson Mandela's laid

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to rest beside his three children, who've all died before him. That in

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itself is going to be a source of sadness and sorrow. I think it will

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be quite quiet actually. There is nothing like the number of people

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that turned up last Tuesday at the memorial service in Soweto. In fact,

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I think Prince Charles is going to be just about the only A-lister

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there, apart from some African presidents, but there's a lot of

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vice-presidents and Prime Ministers from the Caribbean and so forth. It

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won't be, it won't have the status that Tuesday's whole session had.

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That isn't in any sense a criticism of the planning. The planning here

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seems to be pretty impressive, given the difficulties of getting

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everybody here. It seems to be that as far as one can tell that

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President Obama decided to jump the gun and make Tuesday rather than

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tomorrow his big day and most people just followed suit. John, thank you.

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On to other news. China has become the third nation, after America and

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the former Soviet Union, to land an unmanned space craft on the moon-

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the first such mission for almost 40 years. A rover will now embark on a

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three-month programme of exploration. As Damian Grammaticas

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reports from Beijing, the mission is seen as underlining China's status

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as an emerging world power. 250,000 miles from earth and descending to

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the moon. Live coverage of this mission was beamed across China.

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Computer animation is used to show China's unmanned mooned lander

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manoeuvring into place. 100 metres above the lunar surface, on-board

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cameras began sending still images of the landing site, known as the

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Bay of Rain bows. Computers on the probe controlled its final moments.

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Four metres from the surface, it hovered, then cut its engines, a

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perfect, soft landing, one giant step for Chinese ambition.

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TRANSLATION: This proves China is becoming a strong, big country.

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China now is in the front rank, right behind the United States. Just

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as with America and the Soviet Union's moon missions 40 years ago,

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China's now is a statement of The National Lottery Live prowess -- is

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a statement of thenation's prowess. They want to one day sent an

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astronaut there. A robotic Rover will spend three months exploring

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the surface, looking for rare minerals and energy sources that

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China could one day exploit. For this rising nation, the science is

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less important than the sybolism as it reaches for the moon.

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The NHS is to announce plans to improve care for hospital patients

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at weekends, with more senior staff on duty. It follows concerns that

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patients treated on Saturdays and on Sundays suffer worse medical

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outcomes and higher death rates than those admitted during the week. Our

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political correspondent is here. What do we know about this? For the

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past year, the medical director of the NHS in England has been looking

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at improving patient care at weekends, precisely people could be

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12% to 16% extra risk of death if admitted at the weekend. What he's

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likely to recommend is that in future people will be seen within 14

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hours by a consultant, the most senior doctors and if they're

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already in hospital, they'll be seen within 24 hours. He believes that

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people shouldn't have to wait any longer for test results in hospital

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simply because it's the weekend. If hospitals don't comply they're going

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to face potentially very costly sanctions. He has been setting out

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some of these ideas in the Sunday Times. What I'm not clear about

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tonight is how it will be paid for. Perhaps on the Andrew Marr programme

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tomorrow when he makes an appearance, he can tell us then. ?

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Vment Thank you. Detectives searching for a missing

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17-year-old from Oxfordshire have said they are now treating it as a

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murder inquiry. Jayden Parkinson was last seen at Didcot railway station

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on December 3.. A man and a 17-year-old youth have been

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arrested. Philippa Thomas reports. Dissident republicans, opposed to

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the peace process, say they carried out a bomb attack in Belfast last

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night. Detectives say the device, which was hidden in a black holdall,

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could have caused death and serious injury. Police managed to evacuate

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the immediate area before the bomb exploded. As relatives of those

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killed in the Lockerbie bombing prepare to mark the 25th anniversary

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of the tack, the anguish of one mother has only just began. Carol

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King-Eckersley gave up her baby son for adoption. She recently

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discovered he was killed in the attack, while, as a young student,

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he was travelling home to the United States.

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As the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing approaches, they

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remember their dead. 35 students are enrolled here in memory of the 35

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who were killed flying home from a term in London for Christmas, 1988.

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Kenneth Bissett's mother is attending this annual ceremony for

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the first time, having only just learned of her loss. Even though I

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didn't have him with me, physically, he was always in my heart. Carol

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gave up her son for adoption at birth. As the daughter of a school

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principal in 1967, she felt it would have been socially unacceptable for

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her to keep him. There was always the hope and dream that someday

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there would come a knock on the door and I would open it and there would

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be this tall, handsome gentleman saying, "Hi. I guess you're my mum."

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Her dream of reunion died earlier this year, when she decided to

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search for her son online. I looked and I said, my God, it's him. Why

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are they only showing part of his life. That's not right. Finally, it

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dawned on me that it was right. I just said, "My God. My baby's dead."

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Kenneth Bissett was one of 270 people killed when a terrorist bomb

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blew up the jet over Scotland. One day Carol King-Eckersley hopes to

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come here to Lockerbie to see the place where her son fell. We love

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you, sweet heart. Carol will join hundreds of others bereaved by the

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bombing at 25th anniversary events next weekend, to remember all those

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who were lost at Lockerbie. And the programme Living with

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Lockerbie will be broadcast on Monday just after 10.30pm on BBC

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Scotland. Now here's all the sports news.

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Good evening. We will have the latest from the Ashes in a moment.

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If you're waiting for Match of the Day, please look away now and turn

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the sound down. There was an incredible match at the

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top of the table, as Manchester City maintained their 100% record at home

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in the league beating leaders Arsenal 6-3 at the Ethiad Stadium.

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The news got worse for Arsenal, as Jack Wilshire could face a possible

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ban after apparently making an abusive hand gesture towards the

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crowd. West Brom have sacked their manager, Steve Clarke, after their

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fourth defeat in a row. They lost to Cardiff. Chelsea are up to second,

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just two points behind Arsenal. High winds caused some games to be

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abandoned or postponed in Scotland, but only one Scottish Premiership

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match was affected. The top five all completed their games and all came

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away with victory. So Celtic remain seven points clear after their win

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over Hibernian. Bottom side Hearts lost against Inverness and there

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were wins for Aberdeen, Dundee United and Motherwell. In a few

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hours, England will resume play in the third Ashes Test. This third day

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could be a crucial one in the series with Australia 2-0 up, England must

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get close to the hosts first innings total of 385. They're currently 205

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runs behind. Joe Wilson reports from Perth. The debris of a day's cricket

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in Perth, eight hours seeking hydration in the shaless expanses of

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a scorned old stadium. There is something left to fight over in the

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Ashes, but the final decision may be looming. England had finished off

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the Australian innings fairly promptly and found themselves in

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pursuit of 385. It started well. Car berry and Cook started well. Then a

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miscalculation, ball off bat into stumps. So Joe Root, the on-field

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umpire decided he edged the ball. Root said no. Review. The replay

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revealed nothing. The audio is played. Was that the sound of ball

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on bat? If the conclusion was inconclusive, the decision stayed as

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it was. Root gone for four. Cook fought to 72 and unleashed a shot

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against Nathan Lyon to Darren Warner. -- David Warner.

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A wonderful catch by Johnson, and the Australian team celebrated the

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success of a plan coming together, again. It's just Kevin Pietersen

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being himself. There is still time for Bell, Stokes or Prior to make a

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meaningful contribution with the bat. That time is now or never. That

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is all from the BBC sports centre for now.

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That's it. There will be a special programme on the funeral of Nelson

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Mandela tomorrow morning, starting at 5. 30am, here on BBC One. The

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Andrew Marr Show will be on BBC Two at 9am. From me and the whole team

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here, good night. ( Good evening. The latest satellite

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sequence shows today's miserable weather now spreading south across

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England and Wales. Some squally showers to follow across more

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northern parts. For tomorrow, the next batch of wind and rain heading

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to the north and west. For some of us

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