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Tonight, what would you do for the perfect body? We meet one teenager

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so desperate to lose weight he's prepared to risk his life. Is it

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more dangerous to text and drive or drink and drive? Find out when I am

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put through my paces later in the show.

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That's all coming up on tonight's Inside Out with me, Mary Rhodes.

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Many of us try to lose a little bit of weight from time to time. Most of

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us who do wish there was an easy way to do it. But would you be tempted

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by a shortcut? Some people are taking a substance that's supposed

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to guarantee results but at what price? We have been investigating

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the so`called quick`fix that can be fatal.

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Being a former world champion boxer I certainly know what it takes to

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get into shape. But burning fat and building muscle just isn't easy.

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Bodybuilders knee too. Doing it right takes hard work. But it's why

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some cheat with drugs like steroids. And accord according to web chat

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there's another substance doing the rounds. This one burns fat. It's

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called DNP. This stuff heats you up, it makes you sweat and then it

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delivers its knockout blow. By killing people.

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Chris Mapletoft and Sarah Houston took DNP. He was working out. She

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was losing weight. Now their families are living life without

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them. I have spent most of my working life training in gyms which

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is why I want to know more about this substance and why people are

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taking chances with it. I am hoping Luke can help. He's been talking

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about DNP on a website forum. Luke's a Midlands teenager and a fitness

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fanatic. He's also been using DNP behind his parents' back. That's why

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he doesn't want us to show you his face. His name's not really Luke

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either. Luke, how long have you been

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bodybuilding for? I've been bodybuilding for three years now. Do

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you enjoy it? I love it, it's my lifestyle now. How did you get to

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hear about DNP? It was from this other bodybuilder. He was like an

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icon in Australia and I researched him and found out that he was using

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DNP so I thought if it worked for him, it might work for me. So

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someone in the sport of bodybuilding was taking it, he looked good? Yeah,

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he was like the physique that every teenager would want. That's what you

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wanted? Yeah, that's what I wanted at the time, yeah.

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It also gave Luke a reason to try it but what is DNP or dinitrophenol?

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The man in the know is a poisons expert so whatever it is, it doesn't

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sound good. Well, it's a chemical that's been around for probably just

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over 100 years or so. It's a precursor of TNT, an explosive and

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then later on mainly in the 1930s, it came into fashion as a weight

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loss agent, but fairly rapidly banned because of its toxicity.

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Normally when you eat food it gets metabolise eshgs d and the energy

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that's released gets stored within the body as a chemical and DNP stops

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that storage and the body has to find other ways of getting rid of

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that energy and it gets rid of it in the form of heat. Luke knows all

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about that. After the first three days my temperature like really went

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up really high. I started sweating constantly. So I had to have a fan

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around me every time wherever I was. Your breathing is like rapid, and

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you can't sleep because you're constantly sweating. But despite the

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horrific side`effects, Luke was still convinced it was worth it.

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It's also pretty easy to get hold of it. This company's based in Turkey.

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DNP for sale, rapid delivery. Luke had no problem finding it either. I

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already knew he had used it once, but now he is using it again. The

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side`effects, well, tell me about them. How bad were they? This time

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when I took it, it did give me more of an allergic reaction, as well. It

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was a heat rash. I had to go to A My heart rate increased and sweating

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got even worse. I was dehydrated. My lips were bleeding and when I mean

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dehydrated, I thought I was going to die. So DNP's clearly having a

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dramatic effect on Luke's body and I am getting more concerned he is not

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taking the risks seriously. Luke, I want to show you something. This is

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Chris, 18 years of age, keen sportsman. Took DNP and tragically

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lost his life. Here we have Sarah. A promising medical student. But again

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a tragic end. In fact, DNP has been linked to the

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deaths of all the people I am showing Luke here. Just looking at

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these, how does it make you feel? It makes me feel that they might not

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have been aware of the dosage, so that's why this could have occurred.

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It's not as bad a drug if you know what you are doing. I think that

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these people probably didn't have the correct dosage and didn't know

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about getting very dehydrated which would cause death.

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You are saying about the dosage, surely it's the poison they're

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putting in their mouths? It is that, as well, but if you put more dosage

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in, it's more poison towards you. Convincing Luke he is risking his

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life is proving much harder than I thought and I am also really

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concerned by how easily he managed to get hold of this stuff. I am even

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more shocked when our supply arrives.

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Packed into a small box with no instructions whatsoever. But more

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importantly, there's not a warning to say if you take these things they

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might just kill you. The Food Standards Agency is already

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talking tough. It can prosecute anyone caught selling DNP to burn

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fat but some websites are trying to get around that by warning people of

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the dangers. Putting a disclaimer on the bottle

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or the label doesn't cover you in any way. It's already illegal to

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sell this as a food supplement so the legislation is already there.

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It's already active. In terms of what we need to do to prosecute

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anyone that sells this or anyone trafficking it, the law is already

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provided for. But we still managed to get hold of

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DNP. Is the law working? We have already closed or altered 40

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websites around the world to stop this industrial chemical coming in

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and being used for people. Geoff and Gina Houston say that's

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not enough. Their daughter Sarah died after taking DNP and like

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Luke's parents didn't know she was taking it. If I can't stop Luke, I

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am hoping her grieving parents can talk some sense into him. Tell me

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about Sarah, what kind of a girl was she? She loved life. She loved to

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have fun with her friends. She was passionate about her medicine. She

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would have made an exceptional doctor. When did you find out then

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she was taking DNP? We found out after she died. The police found a

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brown envelope of pills in her room. It was only about three months later

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that we found out they were DNP capsules. I brought Luke along who's

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been taking DNP. What advice can you give him? Luke, over what period of

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time had you been taking DNP and what sort of side`effects did you

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have from taking it? Heavy breathing and sweat sweating throughout the

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night, not being able to sleep. Did that frighten you, scare you? Yeah.

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Did you go to hospital? When I had my allergic reaction that's when I

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went to hospital. You realise in hospital there's nothing they can do

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to help you. Once you have taken it, it's a completely irreversible

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reaction. Once it starts working, there's nowhere to go. It's

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horrendous, so that's why... It is what killed our daughter. And we

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loved her very much. Geoff and Gina's message to Luke is

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deliberately blunt. But they also want the Home Secretary to sit up

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and listen. That's why we are here in front of the cameras saying,

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look, guys if you are taking it, you have got to stop it because your

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life's in danger. But also that's why we want to appeal to Theresa May

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in terms of getting it reclassified because it raises the Met abottlic

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rate and is `` metabolic rate and is incredibly dangerous and therefore

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should be a controlled substance. Their MP is also backing them. I

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have written to the Home Secretary. This is not a drug to be used to

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control body weight. It can be lethal and is proving to be

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increasingly lethal because we have seen this increase in deaths. While

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changes to the law will take time, Geoff and Gin A's meeting with Luke

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has `` Gina's meeting with Luke has already made a difference. Yeah, I

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am going to stay away. What they said about their daughter when she

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passed away, they didn't know what killed her. It was an unexplained

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death and that's quite scary. It seems Luke has learned his lesson in

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time. Other users haven't been so lucky.

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I do hope that Luke sticks to his word. If you would like advice on

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how to lose weight safely, there's more information on our website.

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Next, from diets to dangerous driving. In a recent survey yearly

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half of all drivers questioned admitted to being distracted by

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phones on the road. Really how dangerous can sending a quick text

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be? Traffic cops see things like this

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all the time and hear the same old excuses. The first reason you came

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to our attention is you are not wearing a seatbelt. Sorry finishing

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off a quick text. It doesn't take long and sometimes they're really

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important. Important enough to risk your life

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or someone else's? In getting the sat`nav to work or changing the

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destination, that's essential, isn't it?

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In a recent survey 75% of drivers felt that driving was riskier than

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it was ten years ago and they blame it on being distracked by gadgets.

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`` distracked by gadgets. `` distracted by gadgets. He is still

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on the phone. There he is. Phone to his ear. Have you got your phone

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with you? Grab your phone out. OK. Before we carry on I will caution

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you... When it comes to multitasking on the

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move West Midlands traffic cops PC Mark Holden and PC Eric O'Neill have

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seen it all. You get people watching DVDs and things on laptops while

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driving along. A lot of people having video conferences calls now.

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Reading a newspaper. People putting on make`up. Male and female.

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Basically, you name it, if you can possibly do it in the car somebody

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will try to do it at some point while driving.

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It goes on so much spotting them is easy. This chap's got hold of the

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steering wheel and has not got the phone to his ear, he is holding it

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in his hand. For Nazan Fennel the warnings can't be overstated. Her

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daughter Hope was hit by a lorry and killed in 2011.

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It was her 13th birthday. Just five weeks into her 13th birthday, so as

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she said herself, a brand new teen. She loved it. She loved being a

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teen. The trucker, who had been texting and driving through the city

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prior to running Hope over, was convicted and jailed for dangerous

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driving and perverting the course of justice for deleting his texts.

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When he realised what was under his vehicle and the emergency services

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were called, and a lot of people were panicking out here, he went

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back into his cab and deleted the evidence which was his texting all

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the way through, approaching about half an hour before he struck Hope.

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Nazan is now campaigning for greater road safety in Birmingham as part of

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that campaign, a ghost bike marks the spot where Hope was killed. The

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presence of the bike means that someone has died here at this spot

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exactly. This is a visual warning for the traffic as I say. And for

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the pedestrians crossing. It makes them think what is this for here?

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What's happened here? We saw plenty of bad habits at the

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very crossing where Hope died. It seems this type of behaviour isn't

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as socially unacceptable as drinking and driving. But I have come to meet

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someone who says he can prove it's just as dangerous. Vp Dr Nick Reed

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is a researcher at the Transport Research Laboratory and he is Gok

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put my driving skills to the `` he is going to put my driving skills to

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the test in a simulator. This is the driving simulator. First, with no

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distractions. Then the phone goes. OK. A text.

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This could prove to be interesting. First, find my phone.

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It's probably the office. It usually is.

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Yeah, it's my producer. Am I coming out on Friday?

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I wonder if she needs an answer now? Probably.

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This is the variability and position as she goes around the bends. These

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are the reaction times. The sat`nav needs my attention now.

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OK, Mary. The location for the shoot has changed. We would like you to

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head to RG 403 GA. This is where it gets interesting. The doctor's

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giving me a drink. I have to say it's a bit early! Even for a

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journalist! I will pour this for you. Crikey. The measure of alcohol

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in there will get to you the legal limit. We would like you to drink

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that within five minutes, if you can. Back behind the wheel I can

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feel the alcohol is taking effect. I am not convinced that using my phone

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is worse than this. Her position behind that vehicle is very much `

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much more than it was in the controlled condition. Well done,

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that's the end of the drive. You can bring the vehicle to a halt. That

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glass is wine is really taking effect. So I am not really safe

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behind one of these. Right, Nick, I would be interested to know how I

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got on. OK, come in, take a seat. So, firstly, in the base line drive

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you drove very well compared to other people we have seen in here,

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you drove well, controlled, very careful. But what about when I was

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distracted texting on my phone? The big difference that we noticed was

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your position in the lane. Firstly, when you were following that lead

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vehicle. You were staying much further behind and your position

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relative to that vehicle was changing a lot more. Your responses

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were clearly impaired by the distractions we were throwing at

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you. There was a tendency to drift across the lane, you probably

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noticed when you were sending the message you were moving across the

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lane. Sometimes into the lane adjacent which clearly would be a

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big risk. Then we did the final drive, the third drive with the

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alcohol. Although your reactions and driving was clearly impaired, it

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wasn't to the same extent in the measures we were taking to the

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distractions. Your reaction times were actually faster when you had

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the alcohol than they were when you had the distractions. So even though

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I felt so unsafe after the wine, I was actually more dangerous when

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using my phone. It fits with our research. The times when you are

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using the smartphone, when you are being distracted by these other

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tasks you are at greater risk of collision than when you are at the

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legal limit of alcohol. Back in Birmingham, the officers are

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moving in on the drivers behaving badly. It's the simple things that

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give it away. He has it in his right hand. Come from the right`hand lane,

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turning right. He still can't give a signal.

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Those lights were on amber then. The man driving the white van is

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drinking from a flask. And yet more drivers are being stopped for using

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their phones. Yeah, he still is. Tell me what you know about using

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your phone and the law whilst driving. OK, you are restricted...

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And this driver reaches 80mph in a 50 zone. Is there any reason for

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your speed? With so many cars on the road the way we behave and the

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choices we make when we are driving are more important than ever before.

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When you are travelling, you know, at 30, 40mph in a motor vehicle, you

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are travelling great distranses in seconds. Things can change in an

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instant. `` distances. Just turning around ash not looking at the road

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in front `` around or not looking at the road in front can make the

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difference between somebody dying and somebody not dying. Sound advice

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there. It's easy to get caught newspaper

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the moment and think one text can't really hurt, but having been put

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through my paces it showed just how distracting it can be.

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Ludlow Castle was built in the 12th century want as Richard III's

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childhood home for a time. We are going into the great hall now. There

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would have been a porch here. You can see there is a doorway that

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would have gone to those quarters. The door we are going through may

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even be the original door. There's bits of original door this way and

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window shutters up on one of those windows. Sonia is the custodian here

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at Ludlow Castle. She told me a bit about what it would have been like

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for Richard III living here. You can see the fireplace here. There would

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have been big roaring fireplaces. Over the doorways they would have

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had rugs and things hanging to keep drafts out. For a child of eight or

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nine that would have been brilliant running around. Know billity would

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have sat in the `` nobility would have sat in the window seats

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watching everyone having fun. What a great place to be a child. Fantastic

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for riched around III. `` Richard III. It's fantastic as a room, but

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can you imagine as a real house. Although it was an important place

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in the King's life, it was under a council car park in Leicester where

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his remains were uncovered. It is a year since that extraordinary

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discover discovery put the city on the world map but after all the

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initial excitement, a reburial planned for this spring has been

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left in limbo. This is not a fight over an object.

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It's about laying to rest a human being in the most appropriate place.

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Richard's remains will leave Leicester over my dead body.

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In 2012 an archaeologist dig turned into one of the most extraordinary

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discoveries in recent history. This is the exact moment archaeologists

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started to unearth the King in a car park. Yeah. There is the other

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leg... Then a year ago this week came the news that everyone was

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waiting for. The individual exhumed in September 2012 is indeed Richard

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III. At the University, home to the expert team behind the dig, students

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flock to open days. Archaeologists were overwhelmed by interest and

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Leicester was well and truly in the global media spotlight. Canada.

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South Africa. The Philippines. Thailand. For Leicester, things

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couldn't have been going better until out of nowhere a group calling

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themselves the Plantagenet Alliance. They're challenging for the way the

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licence for the dig was granted. Are you a trouble`maker? Um... I am

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quite passive, I think. Generally I am not a trouble`maker, I am trying

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to right a wrong. Where did it all go wrong? I have come to the

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University of Leicester to meet the man who project managed the Richard

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III dig and whose name is on the licence that started this whole

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thing off, and who, since January, is now an OBE. Your words say a

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research excavation is under way to investigate the remains of

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Leicester's FraWhere did it all go wrong? I have come to the University

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of Leicester to meet the man who project managed the Richard III dig

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and whose name is on the licence that started this whole thing off,

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and who, since January, is now an OBE. Your words say a research

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excavation is under way to investigate the remains of

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Leicester's Franciscan Friary and also potentially locate the burial

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place of Richard III whose remains were interred here in 1485. At this

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stage within the application you are making it clear to the Ministry of

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Justice it could be his remains that we find, but we are not sure? Yes,

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absolutely. Ultimately, a project like this you can't just sort of

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dive in, in the hope you can find a burial straightaway. But at no stage

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do the Ministry of Justice come back to you and say, hold on, you are

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talking about Richard III here, we have to do this differently? No, not

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at all. Before every dig where human remains are likely to be found

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archaeologists have to apply to the Ministry of Justice for a licence to

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exhume any that might be unearthed along the way. I do feel quite

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unhappy that people think the University did something incorrectly

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because we followed normal practice on the exhumation of many, many

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burials over the years. For example, at the High Cross Leicester

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development we excavated over 1,300 burials and followed due process. Of

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course, at the time we applied we didn't know whether we were actually

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going to find Richard III or not but the application reflects the fact

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that if we did find him this will be the process we would follow

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subsequently, i.e. That they'd be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral.

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Under the terms of the current licence, the University are still

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the custodians of the King's remains. It's a big responsibility

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with 24`hour security at a secret location on campus. There's lots of

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research in the University that needs to be done in high`security

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areas for various reasons. Of course, in the interests of making

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sure that the bones are safe and secure, we have kept him in this

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facility because it's a particularly safe one. No one really knows that

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this is where he is, apart from you? No, there's only two of us who have

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access to it. Is this the room? This is the room. Because there are

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people who feel so strongly about it what we don't want is to risk

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somebody taking action on those emotional feelings or souvenir

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hunting or whatever. It's our duty to make sure that they are safely

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kept until the re`interment. Archaeologists at the University of

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Leicester believe it's best practice to rebury remains as close to where

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they were found as possible. But not everyone agrees. So who are the

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Plantagenet Alliance? What exactly do they want? I have come to York to

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try to find out. York. Historic city and seen as

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Leicester's biggest rival to rebury the King. It's had a Richard III

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Museum since the 1990s and it's here that I have arranged to meet a

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Yorkist on a mission. What are we looking at here? This is the Roe

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family tree, my father's family tree, goes back to about 1645. What

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descendant are you? 19 generations, so I am actually the 16th

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great`niece of Richard III. As 16th great`niece, Vanessa Roe believes

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she and other relatives should have been consulted when it became clear

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the remains were the King's. Once somebody becomes named, it doesn't

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matter how old they are or whatever, but if they do have descendants

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there should be some consultation in their final resting place. If

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Leicester was that bothered about him they would have dug him up years

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ago. They knew where he was. They had a very good idea where he was.

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Back in Leicester, a stone's throw from the dig site, more digging.

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Building work to transform the grounds around the cathedral is well

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under way. While inside... Today a cathedral website about Leicester's

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links to Richard and why his remains should stay here went live.

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Richard's story is completely embedded in Leicester's story.

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Whatever the court decides, that does not change. He will be

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remembered here. His remains are in the soil of Leicester. We look

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forward to his bones also being back in the soil of Leicester. It matters

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hugely to us all and to the people around us. I think it matters to the

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people of England that we do the right thing and that means he needs

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to be buried here. With delays caused by the judicial review, a

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spring reburial has already been abandoned. Now there are real

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concerns it might not happen this year. Taking this to the court at

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all seems to me to be not the best way to deal with the remains of a

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human being. I know it happens all the time but I think everyone

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regrets that that's where we have got to with this. The judicial

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review will be heard in London on March 13th. Only then will we know

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what's next for Richard III. That's it from me. If any of

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should know about you can drop me an e`mail. From Ludlow, bye for now.

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See you next time. A longer day, more exams and tougher

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