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More in 30 minutes. It is time for We get a rare report from a tent

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city in Syria. It exposes the ugly side of the cotton industry. Ten-

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year-old children work in India. Man's gaze of the light, we view

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the latest work of a British artist as a major exhibition opens in

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London. Welcome To Reporters. It is ten

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months since demonstration in the Syrian city sparked an uprising

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against President Assad. Since then, thousands have been killed and the

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protest spread through the country. We have gained rare access into the

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regime of. The regime does not like unexpected visitors. We went in on

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a government trip. This is the town where the uprising started last

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March. He mastered Syria with a rule of iron. His son, the current

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President, still promises reform. He is using his father's methods.

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The Governor remained a foreign conspiracy, like his son. Why would

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it be necessary to have all these Czech wines, sandbags, guns and

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soldiers? -- checkpoints. TRANSLATION: There are protesters

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and there are armed people. There are also those who kill for money

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and they use drugs. People using drugs were involved in the

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demonstrators there? I will not talk about Gaddafi. On the streets,

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people were well aware of the cameras and the government as gods.

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No problems here, said the owner. Syria is in their worst crisis

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since their independence in 1946. This city is still troubled. Almost

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one year after the arrest of children. There were after prayers

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of this task. It is the symbol of the uprising which is why the army

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is in control of it now. A group of men called to ask when they saw us.

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Then they saw we were with a group of secret policemen. They

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disappeared. Then a man reappeared further up. He gestured towards us.

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He said his position was used by its divers. Our escorts state-

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backed. TRANSLATION: This is a straightforward martyrs. Come See

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for yourself. He says there are security man and army all over the

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place. The Assad gangs are killing people. They break into our houses

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and arrest us after we are gone, he said. He said 18 had been killed in

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their street in ten months. This is a portrait of her 13-year-old boy

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who says they were shot by security forces. Nine decide had been beaten

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and neither can win. Unless there is a political deal, Syria will

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continue to -- its slide into civil war.

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Major clothing stores across the UK are being urged to do more to stop

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child labour in their supply chains. The BBC has seen evidence that in

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India, children as an as 10 are working in bandage -- dangerous

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conditions for little pay. On a transport system from another age,

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the cotton harvest is taken to market. Here in rural India is the

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bottom end of a global supply changed. -- chain. This auction is

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an early stage in an industry which generates billions. But local

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activists showed us how little of that wealth comebacks here. It

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begins with child workers in the cotton fields. This girl is not at

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school sheeting she is ten years old but she is not sure. She picks

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cotton for long hours with her older sister. Their arms are

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covered in scratches. TRANSLATION: We came up for all five months ago.

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The work is hard. The next step is processing the cotton. We found

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children reading end of thick with cotton dust which can cause chronic

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lung disease at an early age. No sign of protective clothing or

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masks. Local activists call it the horror of the White cloud. It is

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impossible to say but the kids look at no more or older than 11 or 12.

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Many come from far away, send in bulk by Labour agents. Trade

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unionists say they had been campaigning for change for years.

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The government is getting richer and richer and the lack of the

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worker is getting worse. -- the life. We visited three factories,

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all were pretty much the same. Despite us openly filming, the

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manager said everything was in order. Further on in the supply

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chain, working conditions improve dramatically. Here, big British

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retailers by Dexter's the directly from this company. The workers are

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well looked after, masks are routine. Most big high-street

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stores cannot trace their cotton to their souls. Nine a week, -- nine

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we conducted would be issued. They said they do not tolerate bad

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labour practices. But does this Prom has extended his factory? We

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found two children far away from home. A worker would be as they

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were sent here from a distant village by their parents. They

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never get paid. They are only 11. Their work is in a well the

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industry that does not know how or where much of its cotton is made.

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Staying with the theme of Child exploitation, the Swiss government

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has been asked to apologise to thousands of the country's children

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who were taken away from their families and sent to work at farms

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in a scheme that ensued -- ended more than 50 years ago. Many say

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they were abused and treated as slave labour. It is only now that

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the story of these children have emerged. This man is remembering

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his childhood. This is the only picture of himself he has. Behind

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it lies a story of exploitation and abuse. TRANSLATION: One morning,

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when I was four, my mother took me on a train to the country. He said

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I had -- she said I had his day there. That is when I lost my faith

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in people. I had to work on the start and they hit me every day.

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was an indentured child. A common practice in Switzerland until the

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1950s. Children were taken away from parents authorities deemed

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unfit and sends -- was sent to work on farms. Today, Switzerland is a

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wealthy country but until the mid- 20th century they were poor and

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rural. Tens of thousands of children were sent away to farms

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where they had to work for nothing. Many were beaten and abused. But

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until now, it was not something the After decades of silence, a feature

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film about this has become a box- office hit. They've got letters

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e were confiscated. And an exhibition

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of with detailed accounts. It is forcing Switzerland to face up to

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the past. It is time to talk about it. We tell our friends. Every

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third person says, my mother and my grandfather was a victim.

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publicity cannot give back the lost years and it damaged lives. Peter

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had little education and now cannot work. TRANSLATION: My child would

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was stolen from me. One icy little children I feel like saying,

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imagine if someone took your child away and sent him off to strangers.

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She cannot imagine that. I can scarcely imagine it now. But as

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awareness grows, pressure is growing as well for more support

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for surviving contract children for financial compensation, perhaps. Or

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an official apology at least from Darfur is no longer be headline for

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humanitarian crisis. The repercussions of the confits is

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still being felt by refugees. The aid official who tried to raise the

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alarm of many years ago has now been expelled from Chad. Our

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correspondent has been talking to him.

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Aisha was just a baby when war and disease took away both her parents

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in a Darfur. She is one of 200,000 refugees from the conflicts in

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camps in eastern Chad. It was the first genocide of the 21st century.

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Ten years after the dreadful events in Darfur began, the survivors are

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still unable to return it to their homes. The world was powerless to

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prevent the campaign of murder against the people of Darfur. Now,

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the man who first revealed what was going on, the former I UN chief in

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a Darfur, has been banned from visiting the camps. These are

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reminders of the genocidal war 10 he is ago, which continues to this

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day. -- ten years ago. It is getting worse, not better. Broken

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families still come across the border, leaving behind the chaos of

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Darfur, to live in the refugee camps.

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Staying in Africa, two well-known aid agencies say thousands of lives

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lost because of warnings about a family in East Africa were not

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taken seriously. -- a famine. They say it agencies took months to

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respond and there are now worries as a new threats in West Africa. --

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worries about a new threat. The mothers are waiting for this

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health clinic to open. Their children need treatment for

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malnutrition. It is this baby's third visit and she is showing

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progress. Many more children are at risk of severe malnutrition across

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this area of Africa. The last rain stops early in many places and

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pests it damages to crops. This is supposed to be one of the bread

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baskets of the country. The water seems more precious than usual. The

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harbours only gave us 10% of the food we need, this woman says. A

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husband went to Nigeria to find work. She has to fetch wood and

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water. This -- there is crane on sale in the markets but the poor

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cannot afford the prices. -- is grain. There is still a shortage of

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500,000 tonnes. This places more importance on the way in which

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sensors like this show mothers have they can reduce the chances their

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children will become malnourished - - centres. There is a window of a

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couple of months to get help to the most vulnerable. There is every

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likelihood the world will have another humanitarian crisis on its

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hand. Ostrich meat has been growing in

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popularity in Europe. Supplies from the biggest farming industry in

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South Africa currently banned from the EU because of but a break of

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avian flu, which has led to thousands of the birds being

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slaughtered. Farmers are starting to worry the industry may never

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recover. The Western Cape it is home to the

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largest population of four hostages in the world but that is now under

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threat. -- these birds. It is costing the industry $80 million a

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month. Zackie Jonker is one of the leading exporters in this area. He

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has lost more than 6,000 birds in the last two months. Here, he

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priest hundreds of birds under strict EU regulations. Austerities

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are culling birds on all properties where even just one animal

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contracted the disease -- he breeds. The farmers want new rules to be

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introduced, different from the current protocol. Unlike paltry

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which is rich in confined places, these birds have asked areas. More

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than 40,000 birds have been killed in this region alone. On this farm,

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39 people have lost their jobs. Normally used -- you would see many

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of people in this area. This is Highgate Ostrich Show Farm, popular

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with local and international tourists. Hundreds come here to

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ride and buying the products. -- and buy the products. Arenhold

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Hooper owns the farm. For the first time in 80 years, the farm is

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without birds. We have had to switch off lights and try to save

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wherever we can. Our resources are running out. There is not much time.

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While he carefully nurtures his baby birds, he does everything he

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A major exhibition of the landscape work of the British artist David

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Hockney has opened at the Royal Academy of Arts. It is a show that

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includes enormous canvases drawing form films, displaying up on video

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screens. It is inspired by the landscapes of his native Yorkshire

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in northern England. We went to me saying and heard his views on art,

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and life. -- we went to meet him. As his pictures get bigger, he has

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bigger queues, and he wants us to step back and think about the

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bigger picture. The majority of the exhibition is about his recent work,

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which is the landscape of his home county of Yorkshire.

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Why Yorkshire? It was not plan. I told my friends in Los Angeles, I

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am on a location, as they say in Hollywood. How much of the

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Hollywood hills are in these paintings? California has amazing

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light. The light is not as intense in Yorkshire but there is more

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variety. What do you think about wind farms? There is PC in

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everything. Even in a wind farm. -- beauty. Sometimes they dump rubbish,

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old refrigerators. Sometimes I think, how can they do it, but

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other times, I think that looks quite nice next to that tree.

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of the things you have to live with is the moniker of being written's

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best artist. -- Britain's. I am not to social, I am to death. Deafness

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plays a part in all of this. -- I am a too deaf. First there was

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