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Theresa May arrives in Birmingham ahead of her first

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Conservative Party Conference as Prime Minister.

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Brexit looks set to dominate the agenda.

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She'll announce new laws to make Britain what she calls "sovereign

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and independent" again. Social policy is also on the agenda,

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as those with long-term conditions won't face being reassessed in order

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to claim disability benefits. Questions again over safety

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in boxing, after the death of Mike Towell following a bout

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in Glasgow. And Rory McIlroy leads

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the charge for Europe, as they try to overturn team USA's

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The Prime Minister has arrived in Birmingham ahead of

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the Conservative Party Conference, where Brexit is expected to dominate

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The agenda. She will interdeuce a great repeal bill, that would end

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the supremecy of European law over British law. It comes as the

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Government announced a shift in policy today for tens of thousands

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of people claiming disability benefits. This report contains flash

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photography from the start. It's Theresa May's birthday. Happy

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birthday. She'll have plenty to say on Brexit this week, she doesn't

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want her Government defined by it. So in Birmingham, she'll be battling

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on the home front too, trying to convince voters that Conservatives

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are hard headed, but not hard hearted. So straight away, there was

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an announcement that repeated medical assessments for benefit

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claimants who suffer from long-term sickness, would be ended. For people

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who got a serious condition that means that they can't work, if that

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condition is going to stay the same or get worse, there's no point

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re-assessing them. We will stop re-assessing them when we've worked

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out who they are. But it will be a large number of people. It will help

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many tens of thousands of people. But two million people receive

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Employment and Support Allowance, so it's only those with chronic,

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long-term illnesses such as MS, who are likely to benefit from the new

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policy. Those whose conditions may improve are still likely to be

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regularly re-assessed. So Labour want the Government to go further,

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but they also accuse Theresa May of attempting to steal their political

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clothes. Certainly it's a welcome U-turn by this Government, following

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my announcement last Monday that the Labour Party would be scrapping the

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very discredited work capability assessment, which the Government

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tried to reform in 2012. So, yes, it's a positive move but the devil

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will be in the detail. When she stood here in July as our

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new Prime Minister, Theresa May pledged to fight burning injustice

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and to help what she called ordinary, working class families.

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Since then we've had a policy on grammar schools. Now she's invading

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Labour territory once again, not just in welfare, but on workers'

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rights. As well as that political fight on the home front, Theresa May

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will take on those who say she's dragging her feet on Brexit. She'll

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announce that the Government will introduce new laws next year to make

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Britain a sovereign nation. But she's not quite ready to tell us

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exactly when we'll leave the EU. Our political correspondent,

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Vicki Young, is at the Tory How signifcant is tonight's

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announcement on Brexit? Since Theresa May became Prime

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Minister, she's stuck to that mantra Brexit means Brexit. She's come

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under a lot of pressure to give more details. What she's giving us here

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is detail about the preparations, the things that need to be done

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before we actually leave the European Union. This is about EU

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laws. Before Parliament starts scrapping the ones that it really

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doesn't like, they have to be put into UK law. She is saying that

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process will now start in the spring, but it will not come into

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effect until the day we leave the European Union. In an interview with

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the Sunday Times, she says this marks the first stage in the UK

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becoming a sovereign and independent country once again. Her team say

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this shows that they're serious about Brexit, that they have a

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practical plan and they want to make this a smooth process as possible.

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It's music to the ears of many of her Euro-sceptic MPs, former Tory

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ministers called for exactly this earlier in the week. Important to

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say what it doesn't mean. This does not tell us anything about when she

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will trigger the negotiations with our EU partners. It won't tell us

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what our final relationship will be like with the European Union, nor

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what exactly she wants to see in that. I spoke to one Cabinet

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minister here earlier and said, the problem about it dominating the

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conference. He said that Brexit is incredibly important. It's very

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important that we have this discussion, particularly tomorrow.

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But then they want to move on to domestic policy as well. Thank you.

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The boxer, Mike Towell, has died in hospital

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after being seriously injured in a bout on Thursday.

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The 25-year-old, from Dundee, was stretchered out of the ring

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after a fifth-round loss to Dale Evans in Glasgow.

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His partner said she "was absolutely heartbroken".

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The biggest moment of his undefeated career.

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Mike Towell was looking to make his name in the ring

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The young man from Dundee becoming the third UK boxer in just

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over two decades to die following a professional fight.

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He was knocked down in the first round, then again in the fifth.

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Mike Towell collapsed and after receiving treatment,

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Nobody wants to see anybody going out of the ring

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Taken to this Glasgow hospital, Mike Towell was put on a

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life-support machine, suffering from severe swelling

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Late last night, he died, his family at his bedside.

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She's adamant this won't be part of their young son's future.

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Mike Towell's death has led to renewed questions

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The British Boxing Board of Control do a fantastic job.

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The medics are on hand at every show.

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But campaigners say boxers paytoo high a price for their sport.

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We've been calling and the British Medical Association have been

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calling for boxing to be banned for many years.

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As long as you have people punching each other in the head

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at great force, neurological damage will be sustained.

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It's very rare that it's a one-punch or very rare

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there are deaths in the ring, but there are many,

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many people who end up with life-long disability.

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As boxing mourns the death of Iron Mike and considers

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the consequences, his family have to come to terms with a tragedy

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that's left a young boy without a father.

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A 39-year-old man died and three people were seriously hurt,

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when a coach carrying Rangers supporters crashed in East Ayrshire.

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The fans were on their way to a match at Ibrox stadium,

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when the accident happened at a roundabout near Kilmarnock.

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One passenger said the bus had swerved before ending up

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An air raid on the rebel-held half of the Syrian city of Aleppo

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is reported to have hit the area's largest hospital for the second

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The medical charity, which supports the hospital,

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said it had been struck by two barrel bombs.

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Our correspondent, Mark Lowen, is in Istanbul.

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Strong criticism from the French, what more can you tell us? Another

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attack on what should have been a place of sanctuary. Doctors in the

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hospital in Eastern Aleppo say there were cluster munitions, barrel bombs

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and even chlorine bombs that hit the hospital this morning. Two died and

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ten were injured. Can you see in those pictures the destruction of

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the medical facilities. The French Foreign Minister, as you say, has

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said the perpetrators will be held to account. He said that France is

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mobilising the UN Security Council to bring this tragedy to an end. For

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five-and-a-half years the UN has proven itself unable to end Syria's

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tragedy. Last month there was the serious fire agreement for Aleppo

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between the US and Russia that collapsed into acrimony. The Assad

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regime seems to push on towards Aleppo. It feels if it wins Aleppo

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it could win the war. The price appears to be the annihilation of

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vast swathes of Syria's largest city.

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Thank you. Hungary will vote in a controversial

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referendum tomorrow on whether to accept future

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EU migrant quotas. Figures seen by the BBC show that

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at least a thousand refugees and migrants each week

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are still attempting to reach the EU Many of the refugees reaching Serbia

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now are coming with the help of people smugglers,

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as our Europe correspondent, This is how they're

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getting into Europe now. Afghan refugees clinging

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to the bottom of a train 20 hours they spent there,

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among them, Hamid. Each person 1500

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euros for one person. Caught by police,

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Hamid is now in Serbia. He'd spent months trapped in Greece,

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passing the time, teaching English to other refugees,

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determined not to go back to Afghanistan, too

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afraid after the Taliban The Taliban said ourself,

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they took one of our friends, get down on the bus,

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they search his pocket and found the identity card

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as American translator. So Serbia, along with Greece,

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is now becoming the new staging The army has been sent

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to secure Serbia's borders, but up to 200 refugees a day

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are being discovered. Smuggling is now so lucrative,

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we were told, other forms of crime TRANSLATION: Our information

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is refugees pay for 800 It's very good business,

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good money for the smugglers. In Greece, thousands are stuck in

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grim conditions. Several hundred refugees have

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disappeared from this The children and their mother

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are from Damascus. Anyone who can afford it uses

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a smuggler, she says. If you have money, you go in with

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the Mafia. Yes. This is the route the refugees have

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been taking from Greece, through Macedonia over the mountains

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eventually to Austria and Germany. Governments say closing the borders

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have stopped the flows. But it seems refugees

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are still making it through, Further north in Serbia,

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they're starting to back up. Borders may be tightening

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but the dream of Europe isn't fading, just turning into

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an organised underground racket. With all the sport, here's

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Lizzie Greenwood Hughes Europe's Ryder Cup hopes

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going into the final day This evening's action is finely

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poised. Our correspndent Andy Swiss has

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the story of the day Confident, just a little. The US

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fans with their familiar dawn chorus. But after yesterday's

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comeback, could Europe silence them? Let them have their chance. Let them

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have their US, USA, all that stuff. I think we've got this one.

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Momentum's on our side. Quelling the crowd wouldn't be easy. Thomas

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Pieters showed them how to do it. Passions were running high. Missed

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European putts greeted with glee. But the visitors held their nerve.

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From four down, Rafael Cabrera Bello thrillingly snatched a half. 24

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hours earlier, Europe looked down and out. Now they trailed by just a

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single point. There was a dazzling start to their afternoon, that's

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courtesy of Danny Willett, how to answer your critics. As the golf

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starting hitting uncharted heights, McIlroy utterly magnificent. That's

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what the Ryder Cup means to him. But the US fans are still cranking up

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the volume, as Patrick Reed gave them something to shout about.

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COMMENTATOR: No, surely not! Oh, it's unbelievable. On a glorious

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day, the sporting temperature is rising fast.

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It's certainly a lively atmosphere. In fact, Rory McIlroy confronted one

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fan who verbally abused him. As for the golf, Europe are currently

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leading in two of this afternoon's four matches. So it looks to be

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heading for a thrilling final day. Lewis Hamilton dominated

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qualification for tomorrow's Britain's reigning world champion

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will start on pole in Sepang tomorrow, hoping to take back

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the lead in the drivers' standings Rugby League's so called

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million-pound match lived-up to it's pricetag in entertainment value,

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as Salford relegated Hull KR from Super League

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after beating them 19-18. They call this the million-pound

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game, no other occasion in this sport comes with such a price tag or

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such pressure. Here only the winner gets to stay amongst the game's

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elite. That kind of motivation can give a side a special kind of

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strength. Adam Walker powering Hull KR in front. Before they found their

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way round the side. Eight points behind, with less than two minutes

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to play, for Salford's survival, it was now or never. They were brought

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closer. The hooter had gone. But for Salford the drome hadn't. Greg

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Johnson astonishing levelled the score with the final play. A kick to

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win it. Glory with have to wait for extra time. If that late drama was

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unexpected, no-one saw this coming. O'Brien from near the halfway line,

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a drop goal, the golden point. A kick worth ?1 million. For Salford

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it was priceless.

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