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A race against time in Colombia as rescuers search for survivors

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At least 200 people have been killed after a torrent of mud and debris

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engulfed the town of Mocoa in the Amazon basin.

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The Prime Minister tries to reassure the people of Gibraltar saying

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Britain will work with the territory to get the best

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A teenage asylum seeker remains seriously ill in hospital

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after being attacked by a group of people at a bus

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And Celtic celebrate a sixth successive Scottish league title.

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Rescue teams in Colombia are continuing to search

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through tonnes of mud and debris for anyone who survived devastating

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At least 200 people have been killed but with hundreds

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of others injured or missing, the Colombian president

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says its impossible to know what the eventual death

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The torrent of mud engulfed the town of Mocoa,

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where rescue efforts are being hampered by bad weather.

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Mocoa is a place of mud and misery. When the rolling war of water and

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debris rushed through here on Friday night it swept away houses, cars,

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trees and people. Whole families did here.

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The painstaking search for survivors is continuing, rescue workers moving

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quietly through flattened neighbourhoods hoping for signs of

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life in the wreckage. Nothing here. With every hour that passes hopes of

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finding more people alive diminish. Within hours of the deluge message

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boards went up listing the dead and missing. Many of those unaccounted

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for our children. We are searching for a baby she says, a little baby,

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we cannot find them anywhere. This man has lost his daughter. I hope

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somebody has her he says, she's called Luisa. Closest to the river

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the streets are narrow fields of boulders, full of people trying to

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retrieve what they can of their lives. The shock of this disaster is

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still sinking in. The rains that caused this flood were unusually

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heavy but deforestation upstream played a part as well. This tone of

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40,000 people is still without power or freshwater, the homeless need

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housing, the infrastructure needs to be restored and the wreckage

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cleared. Deep in the Amazon basin, Mocoa was hard to reach before. Now

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with roads and bridges washed away the challenge is even greater.

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The Prime Minister has told the people of Gibraltar that the UK

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would "never" allow it to slip from British control

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In a telephone call aimed at reassuring Gibraltar

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about its future after Brexit, Theresa May said Britain

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Here's our political correspondent Iain Watson.

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Legend has it to win the Barbary apes leave Gibraltar the British

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would be far behind. Well they are still here, but the 30,000 human

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residents who want to remain British are worried the Spanish government

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could soon have more say over their lives. The EU has said Abdur Brexit

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London will have to talk directly to Spain about the territory 's future.

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A former Conservative leader said the UK commitment to Gibraltar would

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be no different than its commitment to the Falklands. Another woman

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Prime Minister sent a task force halfway across the world to protect

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another small group of British people against another

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Spanish-speaking country. But don't panic, four days after triggering

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the Brexit process there is not serious talk of conflict. Spain is

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more interested in talking about trade than territory perhaps raising

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questions about Gibraltar 's low tax regime and its policing of

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cross-border contraband. We have been told Gibraltar did ask Downing

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Street specifically to mention its interests in the letter the Prime

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Minister sent to the European Union to trigger the Brexit process. Of

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course we know that did not happen, but today Theresa May got on the

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telephone to the most senior politician in Gibraltar and pledged

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her most steadfast support not just for its sovereignty but its economy.

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And the Chief Minister of Gibraltar seemed reassured. When the time

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comes we are making the right decisions with the Prime Minister

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leading us in those negotiations which will be in the interests of

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the people of Gibraltar and the pursuit of their wishes. But Labour

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say the process still causes an economic problem for Gibraltar. How

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will the deal affect the Gibraltar economy? To what extent will they

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have access to the single market and Customs union because their economy

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could be strangled if the negotiations go wrong. This is just

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the start of the process of leaving the European Union. Downing Street

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has moved to -- did use any row with Gibraltar but difficult negotiations

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with the European Union and Spain still lie ahead.

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Our correspondent Tom Burridge joins us from Gibraltar

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How are people feeling after two days of this debate? People are

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worried here in Gibraltar. I don't think Brexit really impact the

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debate over Gibraltar in sovereignty, Britain and Spain will

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never agree that probably. But by saying Spain can decide whether a

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trade deal between Britain and the EU can apply to Gibraltar, the EU is

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saying Gibraltar, the way of life here, the close relationship,

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distinctive relationship the territory has enjoyed with the EU up

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until now it is up for grabs. The economy here relies on low taxes and

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the normally free-flowing border behind me. The threats coming from

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Madrid are nothing new for people here in Gibraltar but if Spain

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really does get that leveraged in the wider Brexit talks it makes the

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negotiation between Brussels and London even harder. Thank you.

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Four men and two women have been arrested on suspicion

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of attempted murder, following an attack on an asylum

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seeker at a bus stop in south London on Friday night.

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The 17-year-old, who's Kurdish Iranian, was subjected

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to what detectives say was a 'savage' beating.

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Simon Jones is at the scene for us in Croydon now.

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Tonight six people are being questioned and remain in police

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custody, officers say the 17-year-old was at this bus stop

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late on Friday when he was approached by a group of around

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eight people. They asked him where he was from, he said he was an

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asylum seeker and at that point the attack began.

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The 17-year-old, a Kurdish Iranian, was chased from this bus stop down

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the road. When he fell to the ground police say he suffered repeated

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blows to the head. He was left with a fractured skull and the blood

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caught on the brain. This man heard the screams. Normally Friday night

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people are always making noise but something sounded funny. Looking out

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the window, a group of people beating one person. Some people

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tried to intervene, others dial 999. The police are treating the attack

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as a hate crime. The local MP who is also the housing minister told me he

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was appalled. I described him on Twitter as scum and I think this is

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a cowardly and despicable attack and I hope we find the people

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responsible and we face the full force of the justice system. Fleece

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are trying to reassure people this is not typical of the area but it's

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a community in shock. It is appalling really. You expect people

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to appreciate one another. This is a diverse society. It was a shock, I

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have two daughters and a boy and my wife. It's not good, it's not safe.

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Tonight one response to what police have condemned as a savage attack.

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The 17-year-old remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition.

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Neighbours say around 20 onlookers were watching the attack, the police

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are calling on them to do the right thing and come forward.

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A university student has paid tribute to her mother and younger

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brother who were stabbed to death in their home in the West

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Lydia Wilkinson laid flowers outside the house in Stourbridge.

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She said her mother Tracey had always put others first.

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23-year-old Aaron Barley - of no fixed address -

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has been charged with the murders and with the attempted murder

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He is known to the family and will appear in court

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The BBC has seen an internal Lloyds Banking Group report

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which calls into question the bank's assertion that it only learnt

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of a fraud by some of its bankers and their consultants in 2016.

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The report reveals that senior executives discussed fraudulent

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behaviour at an HBOS subsidiary as long ago as 2008.

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Our economics correspondent Andy Verity reports.

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In the HBOS fraud consultants branded greedy and devious bribe

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dishonest bankers. In exchange the bank for small business customers to

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pay for the consultants who plundered the businesses to buy

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holidays, foreign property and yachts. In February they were jailed

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for corruption, fraud and money-laundering. This man who ran a

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successful hairdressing business said the fraud drove him to

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bankruptcy and destroyed his marriage. Like anyone's life, got

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used to a standard of living and Vivian and I had built the business

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from our early 20s. The business was going up and up and up and then

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suddenly it was stolen. And crashed. Lloyds banking group recently told

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victims that the bank had no evidence of criminal behaviour based

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on its own internal reviews until the trial in 2016. But a source

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inside the bank leaked a major report to regulators and I have seen

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its conclusions. It says... Nicky Turner, another victim of the

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fraud first warned the bank in 2007. The bank responded by trying

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repeatedly to make car and her family homeless. We are not

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interested in recrimination, we just want victims to be compensated. At

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this point it has happened, the fraud happened, the cover-up

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happened, we are where we are, let the bank just do the right thing

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finally. It's so huge, it makes the great train robbery look rather

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small. The police and crime commission for Thames Valley Police

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said when the bank asked shareholders for money in 2008 they

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should have been warned about abroad. He wants the victims

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compensated. You do not leave 50-100 people who have been totally

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defrauded without any money and then insist over the next ten years

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trying to take away their houses and everything they possess, I think

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that totally immoral. Lloyds banking group C allegations in the report

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are unsubstantiated. It says once it was made aware of its existence it

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asked for it to be sent to the appropriate authorities.

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The writer, broadcaster and civil liberties campaigner Darcus Howe has

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Born in Trinidad, he moved to the UK to study law and campaigned

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for black rights for more than 50 years.

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In 1981, he organised the Black People's March

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after the New Cross fire in which 13 black teenagers died.

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Later he became chairman of the Notting Hill carnival -

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and made a number of television programmes about the lives

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With all the sport - here's Olly Foster at

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Celtic's March to the Scottish premiership title is over, 5-0 win

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at Hearts saw them winning the league with eight games to spare and

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they will look to become the first team in the history of the Scottish

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premiership to remain unbeaten throughout the season. Brendan

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Rodgers first match with Celtic was a -- at Tynecastle, a perfect venue

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then for the coronation. Today told the story of the season were Celtic

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beat everyone into submission. Scott Sinclair's thunderous effort sent

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them on their way. That is just wonderful. Just three minutes later

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a devastating break provided Sinclair his second. A party was

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breaking out and Stewart Armstrong brought the bubbly with his fizzing

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right foot. They have got the title willing feeling again. For Celtic

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it's not just about winning, it's about how they win and they were

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going for it. With a little help from Hearts. Scott Sinclair on a

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hat-trick, you know the rest. His 21st of the season sealed a 5-star

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performance. When you support a team like this as a boy and now the great

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history of the club, I was happy to take on the responsibility to make

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the supporters dream, to make them happy and hopefully we have done

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that. In England he came close to league victory and he has finally

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tasted it here with eight games to spare. Still unbeaten now, his all

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singing all dancing Celtic reign supreme. Two games in the Premier

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League, Arsenal still sixth Manchester City fourth after a 2-2

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draw at the Emirates, and Chester city twice took the lead through

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Leroy Sani and Sergio Aguero, Theo Walcott and Mustafi scored for the

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gunners -- Leroy Sane. The match between Swansea and Middlesbrough

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was goalless. Tens of thousands of spectators lined the Thames today

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for the boat race, the Oxford men victorious to make up for their

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women's group who handed Cambridge victory from the start of the race.

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Let's talk to our reporter out on the course, dramatic racing, also

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dramatic start to the day? Yes, I am sure the race organisers had a

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sleepless night and emergency services worked overnight to remove

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a World War II unexploded bomb which had washed up on the shore a little

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bit behind me. It was removed, the race was given the go-ahead at 1pm

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and it was the women's race up fast and it was over before it began. One

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of the Oxford crew got there or stuck in the water, they lost their

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momentum, the Cambridge boat capitalised and crossed the finish

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line victorious in a new course record. The men's race followed and

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was much more of a battle but the Oxford team managed to pull away in

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the latter stages of the race. They beat Cambridge who they lost to last

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year and made it one win for both teams this year. Thank you. Saracens

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will be the only British cup in the European Champions Cup semifinals.

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They were too strong for Glasgow Warriors, Krish Aston scored two of

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their four tries, 38-13 the final score. They will face Munster next,

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Leinster will play Clermont in the other semifinal.

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There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel,

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we are back with the late News at Ten - now on BBC One its time

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