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Hello, it is Tuesday, it is 9am, I am Joanna Gosling.

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In his first BBC interview we hear from Phil Green,

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the agent who was managing model Chloe Ayling when she was lured

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to Milan for a photo shoot and then kidnapped and held at a remote

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He was the one who received the ransom demands -

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which included a photo of Chloe which he describes as

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It frightened the life out of me, I did not want to look at it any

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further. It turns out, are not photograph, it was Chloe and she had

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been photographed while unconscious. You can hear our full

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interview with Phil Green Taylor Swift has won a case

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against a former radio DJ David Mueller had originally

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sued her, claiming that her But she counter-sued,

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and yesterday a jury We hear from an American

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journalist who was in court I would get people who would say I

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am not even a fan of Taylor Swift but I believe in her cause and what

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she is doing. It transcended her as a star, and it came down to the fact

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that a woman has the right to go after someone who was sexually

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assaulted and she was sexually assaulted.

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We'll be speaking to a journalist who was in court

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Also one of Australia's leading cosmetic surgeons tells this

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programme that the link between textured breast implants

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and cancer is more common that doctors originally thought -

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We speak to him, and a woman who developed the disease.

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Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning.

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Also there have been two incidents involving trains at London

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stations this morning - a train has derailed just outside

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Waterloo Station after hitting a freight train at low speed -

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no-one was injured in the incident, though passengers have been advised

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That was at 5.40 this morning, and in the last hour a train

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is reported to have hit the buffers at Kings Cross.

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We will have latest on both incidents throughout the programme.

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Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning -

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use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text, you will be charged

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The Government is to outline plans to negotiate a temporary customs

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relationship with the EU, immediately after Brexit.

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Ministers want to ensure that an arrangement,

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similar to the current customs union, will remain in place

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until a final trade settlement takes effect.

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The Brexit Secretary - David Davis - says it will mean businesses avoid

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Our political correspondent Leila Nathoo joins me

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What is the shape of what they're talking about? Awana, this is

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designed to represent a plan, to show there is something the

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government is united around, Cabinet is united around, something in place

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to go to Brussels and take to Brussels when it comes to ensuring

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goods move freely between the UK and the EU after Brexit. The government

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is putting forward this idea of a temporary arrangement saying there

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should be a similar arrangement of what there is now, a temporary

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customs union designed to reassure businesses there will be no change

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in rules and then further down the line, after that temporary period of

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perhaps 2-3 years is over, there will be new customs arrangements in

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place. But I think what the government is trying to do is

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present this as an achievable, practical way for what they are

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confident will be, then Brussels agrees to these proposals but it

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depends very much on what Brussels thinks and the indication we had so

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far is that Brussels is not prepared to entertain any talk of future

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arrangements until there is progress on the divorce Bill, on issues like

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the said Assen is so I think this is the government trying to be on the

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front foot really and push the negotiations towards where they want

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to go. Thank you very much. We will talk more about that later in the

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programme and will also hear from the Brexit secretary David Davis.

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Rachel is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

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A train has partially derailed at Waterloo station in London,

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The South West Trains service struck a freight service at low speed at

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Boxall and Waterloo stations, three people checker injuries but did not

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need further treatment. 13 platforms out of use and disruption expected

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to last until the end of today. In a separate incident a train

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appears to have hit the buffers This image posted in social media

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appears to show a train being examined by workers at the end of a

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platform. Mudslides and floods in Sierra Leone

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are now known to have killed more than 300 people on the outskirts

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of the capital, Freetown. Thousands more have been forced

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to flee from their homes. Government officials have warned

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the number of casualties is expected to rise,

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with hundreds of bodies thought to be still trapped under

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the debris, as Greg Dawson reports. While some stare in stunned silence

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at what is left of their home, others, with their bare hands,

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are still searching and hoping. But the grim reality is that

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beneath the tons of mud, This man says he has lost all eight

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members of his family. Then I started hearing

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other people crying. This is an overpopulated city,

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with many living on the hillside in flimsy and unprotected shacks

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that were crushed by the mud. The Red Cross estimates up to 3000

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people have lost their homes. Those that aren't completely

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destroyed are caked This is a city well used to heavy

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rains, but the scale of the damage Many roads and towns are either

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cut off or transformed The challenge for rescuers is simply

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trying to reach those who are still trapped,

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awaiting supplies of food North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,

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has been briefed by the country's military leaders on how

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they could fulfil his threat to fire missiles near the American island

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of Guam in the Pacific. According to North Korea state media

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the report said he would watch US actions before making a decision.

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Last week tensions escalated when Pyongyang threatened to fire four

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missiles into the sea off Guam. The pop star Taylor Swift has won

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a sexual assault case against ex-radio DJ David Mueller,

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who she said had groped His claim for damages,

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on the grounds that his reputation had been destroyed by false

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allegations, was thrown out. He's been ordered to pay a token

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one-dollar in damages. Taylor Swift said she took

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the action against him to give other victims of sexual assault

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the confidence to A pensioner who was stabbed while

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trying to save the life of labour in June Cox has died. 79-year-old

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Bernard Kenny was awarded the George medal for his bravery after he

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intervenes when a right-wing extremist attack the MP in the

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run-up to last your's EU referendum. Mr Kenny was seriously injured in

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the attack but because of his death not believed to be related to the

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incident. Rail passengers will learn this

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morning how much more they'll be paying for some of their journeys

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from January next year. Regulated fares which account for

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almost half ticket will go up by the rate of inflation, the exact figure

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will be published this morning. It is expected to be around three and a

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half percent, well above average pay rises.

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A girl has died after a man drove a car into a pizza restaurant

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Twelve other people were injured in the attack,

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Police said they're treating the incident as deliberate,

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The driver of the car, a 32-year-old man, has been arrested.

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The fat but fit the theory that overweight people can still be

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healthy is nothing but a myth, according to researchers from two

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top UK universities. Scientists found carrying extra weight can

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increase the risk of heart disease by more than a quarter, even in

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people who are otherwise healthy. Our health correspondence will be

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and has more. Suggests even a blood test are

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within the normal range excess weight is still a normal helpless.

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The rink -- linked people with BMI is over 35 who are healthy but

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overweight to an estimated increased risk of coronary heart disease of 26

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and 28% respectively. And third to those with a healthy body weight. At

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the beginning of the study they were classified as healthy and then they

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probably went on, and became unhealthy and then eventually some

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of them developed heart disease, heart attack. The researchers

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believe excess fat may well store up health problems for the future and

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getting down to a healthy weight for whatever your sport is vitally

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important. Sophie Hutchinson, BBC News.

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A stuntwoman has been killed in a motorcycle accident in Canada

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while making the sequel to the superhero film, Deadpool.

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Witnesses described how the woman lost control of the bike,

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jumped a kerb and crashed into a building.

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The film's lead actor, Ryan Reynolds, said the cast

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and crew were "heartbroken, shocked and devastated"

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Iran says it could abandon its nuclear deal with world

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powers "within hours", if the United States continues

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President Hassan Rouhani told the country's parliament.

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The deal which was struck in 2015 saw the lifting of most

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international sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear programme.

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A box filled with essentials for newborn babies will be arriving

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at the homes of new parents in Scotland from today.

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The 'baby boxes' are inspired by a scheme in Finland to give

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all new mums a starter pack of things like clothes,

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But the box also doubles up as a cot, as the Scottish Government

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wants to promote safe sleeping in a bid to reduce

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And how do you say the name of this budget retailer, Primark? The budget

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retailer has said the pronunciation straight, and said it liked to use a

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particular pronunciation. Many users took to social media to express

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their preference. That's a summary of the latest BBC

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News - more at 9.30. A great way to get us talking about

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their brand. The latest inflation figures due out at 9:30am, experts

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predict inflation will outstrip growth in pay packets.

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Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

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use the hashtag Victoria live and If you text, you will be charged

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has a lot on his plate so early

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Liverpool hoping to rid the group stages of the Champions League, they

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are in Germany tonight. Plenty for manager Jurgen Klopp to ponder and

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he made it clear that night's matches the only thing on his mind

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of the future of midfielder Philippe Coutinho. The Brazilian is a target

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for Barcelona but Liverpool rejected two bids for other highly

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influential playmaker before continues admitted a transfer

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request last week which the club dismissed. He did not feature in the

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draw at Watford because of a back injury, Jurgen Klopp admitting why

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he no speculation surrounding continual is rife, his sole focus is

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on the game ahead. I really understand everybody is interested

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in this but I can say in this moment I am really inking about it. -- I

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can't say. I am here and I will answer questions but in the car, on

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the way to this Conference, I did not think what can I say because I

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have to think of other things. Honest and animated as ever. Chelsea

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have a battle on the hands trying to get Diego Costa to report for

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training, he is still in Brazil? The Chelsea striker rarely far from the

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headlines. His -- he is more notable because of his absence, understood

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he has been ordered to return to the Premier League champions up to being

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fined for failing to report for pre-season training. He was told by

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the manager Antonio Costa bath-macro Antonio Conte back in a text message

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that he was not part of his plans for the season. The striker is

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currently in Brazil, threatening to set out the remaining two years of

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his contract if he is not allowed to leave. It's been mooted he has his

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heart set on legal action as he wants to return to Atletico Madrid.

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Andy Murray losing his number one slot to Rafael Nadal. He has been

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blighted by injury, knocked out in struggling all season and Andy

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Murray set to lose his number one status in the world, taken by Rafael

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Nadal who will take the mantle for the first time since 2014. It would

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have been Wimbledon champion Roger Federer but the Swiss has pulled out

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of the Cincinnati Masters, no Andy Murray there either, Rafael Nadal

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who reached round to their with these claimed the spot almost by

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default, being as humble as he is, says he is sorry it comes at the

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expense of his top rivals. Thank you so much.

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Now let's go back to the extraordinary story of Chloe Ayling.

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for what she thought was a photoshoot, but instead says

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she ended up being drugged and kidnapped and held for six days

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by Lukasz Herba, a Polish national from Birmingham.

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She claims he told her she was going to be sold into sex slavery then

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issued a ransom note to a number of people in the UK for her release.

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One of those was Phil Green, her agent at the time -

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who had initially booked her on the job with Lukasz,

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who was posing as a photographer named Andre.

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In his only BBC interview, Phil Green - that former agent -

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He praises Chloe's bravery throughout this ordeal

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and claims she has been offered counselling but has refused,

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despite her now being afraid to go anywhere alone.

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I began by asking Phil what the arrangements

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First of all, from my point of view, the photographer,

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a man called Andre Lazio - he called himself -

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specifically asked for Chloe to do

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With all clients, particularly new clients, I carry out

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I asked him who he was, where he was, does he have a website,

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had he done work previously, what this particular job was for,

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where the studio is, check it out on Google maps,

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Then we start talking about arrangements for the shoot,

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which would include fees, expenses, and then the travel

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arrangements for the shoot, would she be required to arrive

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the day before, would the photographer pay for the flight

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So all that information came together and it ticked

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There were no alarm bells ringing at any point?

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Nothing flagged up whatsoever to make me suspicious that this man

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What checks had you carried out to make sure that this

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Because she's been speaking and says you didn't carry out

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She wouldn't necessarily know the checks that go on in the agency.

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We, as I said, carry out due diligence checks and we wouldn't

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expose anyone to a situation like that without fully

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How did the checks all pass, though, when he was not what he said he was?

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The photographer had a website which told me

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he'd done previous work, there were models

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I assumed he'd photographed previously.

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And every check regarding his studio and location, there was nothing

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being flagged up for me to think or even suggest that there

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was anything suspicious about him or what he was proposing.

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So you and she were very happy when she went off to Milan

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What was the first that you knew that there was a problem?

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Well, there was a meeting in Paris three or four months before

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the ordeal in Italy took place, so therefore the attacker,

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we'll now call him, actually saw face to face the model in Paris.

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On the eve of the shoot, there was a terrorist attack

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in Paris on the Champs-Elysees, a policeman got shot.

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There was a lot of police activity around that night.

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And I'd given each other their phone numbers.

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I said if there's a problem, phone each other and you

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And a call came through, I think it was a text to begin with,

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to Chloe, from the photographer, saying my studio's been ransacked

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while all this activity was going on last night.

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They've taken things from my studio and I'm not able

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The photographer, in inverted commas, met the model and they had

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a brief conversation and 100 euros were handed over to say, well,

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that will keep you going with food and taxi fares during the day.

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You know, to be honest, both Chloe and myself felt sorry for him.

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His studio had been ransacked, he'd already paid for the shoot and,

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you know, we thought he's getting nothing for his money.

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He said, well, look, I'll rearrange the shoot,

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How ironic that then he would set this up in Milan

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and the same situation, same kind of shoot,

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You received an e-mail from the kidnapper.

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The evening of the shoot I was contacted by Chloe's mother

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And I was saying to her, well, perhaps she's either missed

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the flight or the flight's delayed, or she had a shoot the next day

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in Ibiza, she might have thought I'm going to fly straight

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So I was trying to sort of play it down, there must be a reason why

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But then the next morning came and we checked,

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The phone was ringing still with an overseas ringing tone,

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and we kind of thought that, still, she could possibly be

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But I said to her mother, look, I think you'd actually

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In her area it's the Metropolitan Police.

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She went to Croydon police station and told everybody there.

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It wasn't until just after 10am on July the 12th,

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the day after the shoot, when I opened my e-mail inbox

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I found something incredibly sinister and worrying.

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It was the first e-mail contact from someone on behalf

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of the Black Death group saying to me, chillingly, that they'd taken

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Chloe and I was to find some ransom money for her.

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What detail was in the e-mail that you got?

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Who they were, the Black Death group, they gave me the names

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of three businessmen, UK businessmen, I think that Chloe

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And said I was to contact any one of these three or all three

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At that stage no figure was mentioned as to

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But there was a deadline, the deadline was four

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days later on the Sunday when they were going to say

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if you don't pay any money by then we're going to offer Chloe

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to auction, where she may be sold to Russian Mafia.

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How seriously did you take that e-mail?

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My first thought was to ring the police in Italy, and I did that.

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I then rang the British Consulate in Milan, because I knew

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They took it extremely seriously, rang the Foreign Office special

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crimes division who then contacted me to discuss the details

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And then I was contacted by my own force, special

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operations from East Midlands, where I'm based, who came

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to the office because this is the place where I'm receiving

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the e-mails and they then took over the case.

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More or less the same time, three e-mails came through simultaneously.

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And they were just sort of ratcheting up the pressure.

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One e-mail was from supposedly a different person saying

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The second e-mail then contained an attachment,

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In the attachment was a press release.

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It said this is Chloe Ayling, she's aged so-and-so,

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her measurements are blah blah blah and she will be offered

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More or less saying express your interest in this now.

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Then the other attachment, slightly more sinister,

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was a photograph that had been taken of Chloe.

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I must admit, I didn't identify her from the brief look

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In fact, it frightened the life out of me.

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I didn't want to look at it any further.

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It turns out on that photograph was Chloe.

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She'd been photographed while unconscious and...

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Well, I didn't know at the time, obviously, but I was told later

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it was at the studio where she was taken.

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How much time elapsed, then, between you getting these e-mails

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and what happened next in terms of her finally being released?

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Well, we've now reached day three following the kidnap and the police

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were keeping up this sort of dialogue with the kidnappers.

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Via e-mail, intercepting my e-mails and sending them e-mails

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And making some kind of offer just to keep this attacker interested

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And these kind of conversations, I mean, they were few

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There might be an e-mail sent in the morning and it might not be

:25:00.:25:04.

until the evening that a reply was given back.

:25:05.:25:09.

So it was tremendously frustrating for everyone involved.

:25:10.:25:12.

It was being treated with extreme seriousness and it

:25:13.:25:18.

wasn't until the Sunday, this is following the kidnapping

:25:19.:25:24.

on the Tuesday, the Sunday we heard there was some activity

:25:25.:25:27.

It turns out that the early hours of Monday morning,

:25:28.:25:33.

the attacker, this Lukasz Herba, walks into the consulate office

:25:34.:25:44.

with Chloe and says, "I'm her friend, she's the girl

:25:45.:25:46.

I've brought her through for safety."

:25:47.:25:55.

And you can watch the second part of our interview with kidnapped

:25:56.:25:57.

model Chloe Ayling's former agent Phil Green after ten

:25:58.:26:00.

on the programme today, where he tells us what happened

:26:01.:26:04.

after Chloe arrived at the consulate and says that after her

:26:05.:26:06.

ordeal she is now scared to go anywhere alone.

:26:07.:26:12.

We speak to one of Australia's leading breast surgeons

:26:13.:26:16.

about the link between implants and cancer, and a woman

:26:17.:26:18.

who developed a rare form of cancer from her breast implant.

:26:19.:26:22.

We pay tribute to Bernard Kenny, the pensioner who was stabbed trying

:26:23.:26:25.

Here's Rachel in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of todays news.

:26:26.:26:39.

The Government is to outline plans to negotiate a temporary customs

:26:40.:26:42.

relationship with the EU, immediately after Brexit.

:26:43.:26:45.

Ministers want to ensure that an arrangement,

:26:46.:26:47.

similar to the current customs union, will remain in place

:26:48.:26:50.

until a final trade settlement takes effect.

:26:51.:27:00.

The EU Commission said the move was a positive step towards phase one of

:27:01.:27:07.

the negotiations and will study the paper carefully.

:27:08.:27:08.

The Brexit Secretary - David Davis - says it will mean businesses avoid

:27:09.:27:11.

We sell about 230 billion euros of goods and services to the European

:27:12.:27:25.

Union each year. They sell 290 billion to us. I was in Bavaria two

:27:26.:27:31.

or three weeks ago. They sell BMWs, electronic goods, they have got an

:27:32.:27:35.

incredibly strong interest in something like this so there's an

:27:36.:27:38.

interest on both sides of not doing each of the harm if you like. Both

:27:39.:27:43.

to do with customs arrangements but also to do with having a free trade

:27:44.:27:45.

area in the first place. Thousands have been forced to flee

:27:46.:27:59.

from their homes in Freetown. Government officials said the amount

:28:00.:28:02.

of casualties is expected to rise with hundreds of bodies thought to

:28:03.:28:04.

be trapped under the debris. A train has partially derailed at

:28:05.:28:11.

Waterloo Station in London following an operational incident. The service

:28:12.:28:16.

struck a freight train at low speed between Waterloo and Vauxhall

:28:17.:28:21.

stations. Three people were checked for injuries but didn't need further

:28:22.:28:25.

treatment. Disruption is expected to last until the end of today.

:28:26.:28:30.

In a separate incident train appears to have hit the buffers at King's

:28:31.:28:37.

Cross station. This picture appears to show the train being examined by

:28:38.:28:43.

workers at the end of the platform. Taylor Swift has won sexual assault

:28:44.:28:45.

case against David Mueller. His claim for damages,

:28:46.:28:58.

on the grounds that his reputation had been destroyed by false

:28:59.:29:03.

allegations, was thrown out. He's been ordered to pay a token

:29:04.:29:05.

one-dollar in damages. Taylor Swift said she took

:29:06.:29:08.

the action against him to give other victims of sexual assault

:29:09.:29:11.

the confidence to That's a summary of the latest BBC

:29:12.:29:12.

News - more at 10am. Let's go straight to Joanna.

:29:13.:29:24.

We just want to bring you some breaking news on the London

:29:25.:29:27.

Underground, we are hearing that smoke has filled a train carriage at

:29:28.:29:38.

Holborn station. Some are saying there was a loud bang, then smoke

:29:39.:29:43.

and the station has been evacuated. We are also hearing that two fire

:29:44.:29:50.

engines have been sent to Holborn underground station. The Fire

:29:51.:29:58.

Service saying two fire engines have been sent. Reports on social media

:29:59.:30:06.

are potentially of a bang and then smoke filling the platform so we

:30:07.:30:08.

will of course keep you updated. Thank you. The Liverpool manager

:30:09.:30:22.

Jurgen Klopp insists the Champions League fixture tonight in Germany is

:30:23.:30:25.

the only thing on his mind and not the future of Philippe Coutinho. The

:30:26.:30:29.

Brazilian is eyeing a move to another club but Jurgen Klopp says

:30:30.:30:35.

his mind is firmly on the fixture. Diego Costa being ordered to return

:30:36.:30:41.

to Chelsea after failing to emerge for pre-season training. He's been

:30:42.:30:44.

to force a move back to Atletico Madrid after telling and being told

:30:45.:30:48.

by the Chelsea manager he's not part of plans for this season. Premier

:30:49.:30:55.

League clubs are to discuss closing the summer transfer window.

:30:56.:30:59.

Currently runs until August 31, they said to vote on the idea next month

:31:00.:31:03.

and Rafael Nadal will take the world number one ranking from Andy Murray

:31:04.:31:07.

this week. But after Roger Federer pulled out of the Cincinnati

:31:08.:31:13.

Masters. A quick update? Thank you. Just to let you know, we will keep

:31:14.:31:18.

you updated on what is happy make at Holborn station, the underground

:31:19.:31:24.

station evacuated after reports of a loud and, after which smoke filled

:31:25.:31:27.

the platform. British Transport Police have treated to say we are at

:31:28.:31:31.

the station after reports of smoke on a train line, the station closed

:31:32.:31:38.

while officers and London fire investigate and London Fire Brigade

:31:39.:31:41.

have separately said they are investigating reports of smoke on

:31:42.:31:45.

the platform, two fire engines have been sent to investigate. We will of

:31:46.:31:52.

course keep you updated. Let me also bring you the latest inflation

:31:53.:31:56.

figures. The Office for National Statistics just putting out the

:31:57.:31:58.

latest inflation figures, the rate of retail the retail price index

:31:59.:32:06.

inflation, the RPI, which is used to set real season-ticket prices rose

:32:07.:32:11.

to two points 6% in July, but according to the ONS. That's the

:32:12.:32:18.

first figure. We will get other figures around inflation. -- three

:32:19.:32:26.

points six. It had been anticipated inflation figures which show

:32:27.:32:28.

inflation outstripping wage growth. The RPI figure at the moment.

:32:29.:32:37.

We will bring you more on that, and we'll be talking to our business

:32:38.:32:41.

correspondent for further analysis. One of Australia's leading cosmetic

:32:42.:32:46.

surgeons has told this programme the link between breast implants

:32:47.:32:48.

and cancer is more common than doctors initially thought -

:32:49.:32:51.

but stresses the condition Women who have breast implants run

:32:52.:32:53.

the risk of developing a type of blood cancer called Anaplastic

:32:54.:32:57.

large-cell lymphoma - or ALCL. Most surgeons believe the disease

:32:58.:33:02.

affects around 1 in 300,000 patients with breast implants -

:33:03.:33:05.

however, health authorities in Australia estimate it

:33:06.:33:07.

affects around 1 in 5,000. The MHRA - which is responsible

:33:08.:33:13.

for ensuring medicines and medical devices work in the UK -

:33:14.:33:16.

says its investigation Well joining us

:33:17.:33:18.

is one of Australia's leading breast surgeons -

:33:19.:33:29.

DR DANIEL FLEMING - who played a key role

:33:30.:33:31.

in the country's health authorities increasing their official

:33:32.:33:33.

advice on this issue. SANDI CURRIE - who developed

:33:34.:33:35.

a rare form of cancer And - MR KEVIN HANCOCK -

:33:36.:33:37.

a consultant plastic surgeon and a member

:33:38.:33:42.

of the British Association Welcome, all of you and thank you

:33:43.:33:57.

for joining us. Daniel, tell us more about the analysis you carried out

:33:58.:34:02.

and what it indicates on the risk of this particular form of cancer from

:34:03.:34:06.

breast implants? As you said it was initially thought this was extremely

:34:07.:34:11.

rare in the order of one in hundreds of thousands of patients, then it

:34:12.:34:14.

was one intensive thousands but the latest evidence from Australia shows

:34:15.:34:19.

it may be as common as one in 1000 patients with textured breast

:34:20.:34:21.

implants but it's important to keep that in context. Compare it to the

:34:22.:34:26.

risk of any woman with or without implants of developing breast cancer

:34:27.:34:30.

in her lifetime is one in eight, another way of thinking about one in

:34:31.:34:34.

1000 is no denying .9% of these implants not getting the condition.

:34:35.:34:39.

It's rare and yet when the stats go from one in 300,000 to one in 1000

:34:40.:34:44.

that is a dramatic shift, why? We are looking for it. It usually

:34:45.:34:48.

presents with swelling around the breast, less swelling with -- less

:34:49.:34:54.

commonly with a mass. Around 2008-9, when patients presented with that

:34:55.:34:59.

took the fluid off and didn't look for the condition but since then we

:35:00.:35:02.

are looking for it and we are finding it often. Tell us about the

:35:03.:35:06.

condition, what is the prognosis? The other thing women want to know

:35:07.:35:10.

is what's going to happen to me if I am one in 1000 to get it. Some good

:35:11.:35:16.

news. For the vast majority of women who get this condition they will get

:35:17.:35:19.

a non-aggressive version of it, it's not going to threaten their lives

:35:20.:35:24.

and it will be cured by the removal of the implants and the membrane

:35:25.:35:27.

surrounding them. Let's bring in Sandy, you developed this condition

:35:28.:35:31.

from a textured implant, tell us what happened. Pretty much I woke up

:35:32.:35:40.

one morning and my right breast had swollen about two cup sizes bigger

:35:41.:35:48.

than the other so I rang my surgeon, concerned with what was happening, I

:35:49.:35:53.

didn't know if I had a rupture so he sent me to get a needle aspiration

:35:54.:36:00.

and some ultrasound is done and he rang me five days later to say I did

:36:01.:36:06.

in fact have a LCL, this particular cancer. What happened then? Were the

:36:07.:36:17.

implants taken up? It was out of his field, he wasn't confident, he was a

:36:18.:36:24.

cosmetic surgeon and I would suggest struggling to go to a plastic

:36:25.:36:29.

surgeon, when he rang me he said he had forwarded all my files onto an

:36:30.:36:36.

oncologist in Brisbane and I would then be dealing with the oncologist

:36:37.:36:43.

so I went to see her, she ran more tests to verify I did have ALCL and

:36:44.:36:52.

the surgeons at the hospital removed both my implants. Was that it, did

:36:53.:36:59.

that fix it? Pretty much, I've had to go back every three months and

:37:00.:37:03.

have tests done to make sure it hasn't returned. And they will keep

:37:04.:37:10.

doing that probably until next year. Just checking on me to see what in

:37:11.:37:21.

fact is happening and it's, I suppose I am a bit of a guinea pig,

:37:22.:37:25.

if you want to look at it like that. Daniel, the fact that taking up the

:37:26.:37:30.

implants can immediately fix this issue makes us, obviously, there is

:37:31.:37:33.

the direct correlation which makes you wonder whether they should be

:37:34.:37:37.

used and there are some calls to ban them, you have one of the implants

:37:38.:37:40.

here, it is the texture type. That's right. You think they should be

:37:41.:37:46.

banned? Very interesting question, three types of implant, a rough and

:37:47.:37:52.

service, smooth plastic bag type service and another type of the

:37:53.:37:58.

polyurethanes foam. The question is why doesn't everybody has moved

:37:59.:38:01.

implants, the reason for that is the texture and the polyurethanes exists

:38:02.:38:06.

to reduce the risk of complications which can shorten the length of time

:38:07.:38:11.

the implant blasts, visibly hardening of the implants in a

:38:12.:38:15.

condition called contracture. What we believe is that patients have two

:38:16.:38:20.

logical choice is, if you want minimum risk of ALCL chooses move

:38:21.:38:24.

implant at except you have a higher risk of other convocations, if you

:38:25.:38:29.

want to reduce that risk of complications choose the

:38:30.:38:31.

polyurethanes implant which reduces the risk of complications but has a

:38:32.:38:35.

similar risk of ALCL as these implants. We would Saber probably

:38:36.:38:39.

isn't a logical choice to choose a textured implant has little or no

:38:40.:38:43.

benefit the other complications and still has this risk of ALCL, albeit

:38:44.:38:49.

a lower risk. Kevin Hancock, an expert in this country says ALCL

:38:50.:38:53.

linked to breast implants is a potential bombshell that husband

:38:54.:38:55.

swept under the carpet for five years. This is of course going to be

:38:56.:39:02.

worrying for anybody with textured breast implants. How do you see it?

:39:03.:39:07.

I think it's very difficult. This is something that was only first

:39:08.:39:13.

reported at the end of the 19 97, was the first case and as Doctor

:39:14.:39:19.

Fleming has said, we are really not sure yet about the significance of

:39:20.:39:23.

this disease. What we do know and what we should stress to patients is

:39:24.:39:30.

this is breast cancer, this is a cancer that arises in the fluid and

:39:31.:39:37.

the tissue surrounding the implant. And is thought to arise because of

:39:38.:39:42.

inflammation in that layer Doctor Fleming spoke about. He spoke about

:39:43.:39:47.

the texturing to reduce the risk of capital sat hard on the implant. Why

:39:48.:39:56.

is it Daniel that the textured implant that is causing this

:39:57.:39:59.

problem... There are a couple of theories. We know that patients who

:40:00.:40:06.

develop ALCL is the result of some sort of long-term inflammatory

:40:07.:40:09.

process and it also seems to be a genetic component in that, that's

:40:10.:40:13.

why some people get it, some don't, they process the inflammation

:40:14.:40:17.

differently and the idea is that they textured implant, the Robins

:40:18.:40:21.

service me a retreat and cause long-term inflammation. The other

:40:22.:40:23.

theory is these microscopic eggs and crannies on the texturing might

:40:24.:40:28.

harbour small numbers of bacteria which could set up a long-term

:40:29.:40:32.

inflammatory process. Kevin, what would you say to patients in this

:40:33.:40:35.

country, if you have the choice between an implant that will not

:40:36.:40:40.

cause you, not likely to cause you this particular issue, does it make

:40:41.:40:46.

sense to avoid it? I think at the moment we don't really know enough

:40:47.:40:49.

about this to make sweeping statements like that. All the

:40:50.:40:57.

professional associations have advised their members to discuss

:40:58.:40:59.

this with all patients having breast implants. And now we are very aware

:41:00.:41:05.

of the way this disease presents which is usually 7-8 years after the

:41:06.:41:13.

implants have been putting and as your other speaker said, presents as

:41:14.:41:18.

a swelling of the breast so now we are very tuned into this and we are

:41:19.:41:22.

very aware that anybody in that situation needs to be investigated

:41:23.:41:26.

further. When you say we are very tuned into it, it's not something

:41:27.:41:31.

that has been widely known about. Is it certain that if someone has an

:41:32.:41:36.

issue and they go to their GP or surgeon and point it out but it will

:41:37.:41:40.

immediately be recognised? How much awareness is there? There is

:41:41.:41:45.

certainly awareness in the popular press. This is again, it's important

:41:46.:41:52.

that patients have long-term contact with the surgeons that carried out

:41:53.:41:56.

the surgery so they are able to return to them if there are any

:41:57.:42:01.

concerns and we have seen in the past with the PIP scandal that

:42:02.:42:06.

getting back to clinics and surgeons can be difficult for patients. How

:42:07.:42:12.

do you feel now about it? Sandy, after everything that happened to

:42:13.:42:15.

you, do you wish you'd never gone down that path of having those

:42:16.:42:23.

implants? Well, no, I mean, I never, when you first go to consult and

:42:24.:42:29.

explain all the pros and cons, anything is a risk, any surgery. And

:42:30.:42:37.

I did not expect to have this outcome so at that point in my life,

:42:38.:42:43.

I got my implants when I was 45, quite late and the ALCL appeared six

:42:44.:42:52.

years after the implantation. Sorry to interrupt but was too mentioned

:42:53.:42:58.

to you as one of the potential cons? Yes and you also get literature from

:42:59.:43:04.

your surgeon, they do go through every thing, the pros and cons what

:43:05.:43:09.

can happen to you, the H and, mind did capture late and mine was

:43:10.:43:21.

Brazilian textured implant and I... Obviously... Breasts are important

:43:22.:43:29.

to us otherwise we wouldn't be lining up to get them done. So, I

:43:30.:43:36.

have done it again, I have been reimplanted and I'm probably one of

:43:37.:43:40.

the few that have and I was lucky enough to find Doctor Fleming who is

:43:41.:43:49.

an expert with ALCL. So with the new implants, sorry, did you go for

:43:50.:43:56.

smoother texture? I rang Doctor Fleming, he graciously rang me back

:43:57.:44:03.

after hours and talked to the about it and then I had my consult with

:44:04.:44:07.

him I said to him, at the end of the day I will be guided by what you

:44:08.:44:12.

tell me, if you are saying no, this isn't a good idea I will go with

:44:13.:44:16.

that because my options of how I was left was totally disfigured so my

:44:17.:44:24.

options were like, just do a complete hysterectomy or get

:44:25.:44:29.

reimplanted. Because I am having to look every day at my breasts which

:44:30.:44:34.

were disfigured, wasn't going to be much of a life for me. So I have

:44:35.:44:41.

taken the course of being reimplanted and I am watching even

:44:42.:44:46.

more closely to see what progress that has. Daniel, when Sandy

:44:47.:44:52.

described she knew there was an issue, it was obvious, the breast

:44:53.:44:56.

has fallen dramatically, what should people look out for as a potential

:44:57.:45:02.

symptom? This disorder most commonly presents as swelling, an

:45:03.:45:04.

accumulation of fluid around the breast, most people with an

:45:05.:45:08.

accumulation will not have ALCL but they should have checked, go see

:45:09.:45:12.

your doctor. Does that emerge quite quickly? Once the cancer is there

:45:13.:45:16.

are, it's not that it's been there and other symptoms won't have you

:45:17.:45:20.

noticed? We don't know the answer to that but when the swelling appears

:45:21.:45:25.

it is dramatic, or for a day or two, it can't morally present with a long

:45:26.:45:29.

switch if the patient presents with, they need to have that investigator

:45:30.:45:32.

but the other thing that is important, viewers who are watching

:45:33.:45:35.

and may have textured implants and are worrying... The recommendation

:45:36.:45:41.

is there is no need for any special investigation or screening for

:45:42.:45:44.

patients who don't have symptoms, they should do the normal monthly

:45:45.:45:48.

checks for lumps and have a mammogram when they reach the aged

:45:49.:45:50.

necessary to have one. Thank you all.

:45:51.:45:54.

The MHRA - which is responsible for ensuring medicines and medical

:45:55.:45:56.

devices work in the UK gave us this statement:

:45:57.:45:59.

Research into this area is yet to provide a definitive answer

:46:00.:46:01.

as to how ALCL develops although there are several

:46:02.:46:03.

ALCL is very rare but it is important healthcare professionals

:46:04.:46:07.

and women who have implants know about it.

:46:08.:46:09.

If you develop a breast lump or swelling around your implant more

:46:10.:46:12.

than six months after having the breast implant you should seek

:46:13.:46:14.

We hear from a journalist who was in court throughout

:46:15.:46:32.

the Taylor Swift sexual assault case.

:46:33.:46:34.

I hear people say I'm not even a fan of Taylor Swift but I believe in her

:46:35.:46:42.

cause, so it transcended her as a star and came down to the issue of a

:46:43.:46:46.

woman has a right to go after someone who sexually assaulted her,

:46:47.:46:51.

and she was assaulted. And the latest inflation figures have come

:46:52.:47:01.

out, showing living costs which are used to set rail season ticket

:47:02.:47:09.

prices rose to 3.6% in July outstripping growth in pay packets.

:47:10.:47:16.

Ben Thompson is here. Yes, it is more than average earnings. We are

:47:17.:47:22.

told rail fares will rise by more than 3.6% and it is more than double

:47:23.:47:26.

the increase we had last year, so again the pressure is on real

:47:27.:47:30.

commuters who will feel this more than most. We should be clear that

:47:31.:47:35.

this is what's known as regulated fares, the ones which are limited.

:47:36.:47:40.

The rail companies have a cap on how much they can charge. The

:47:41.:47:46.

unregulated fares will be determined in September, but 3.6% increase from

:47:47.:48:00.

January. It is known as the RPI measure, used to determine the train

:48:01.:48:04.

fares. The CPR measure, which we pay attention to to get a better view of

:48:05.:48:09.

what's happening in the economy, that rose by 2.6%, still well above

:48:10.:48:15.

what we are earning so we will feel worse off in our pockets and our

:48:16.:48:20.

money is going less far. Rail lobby groups are now saying you should be

:48:21.:48:25.

using the lower one, not the higher one. That is not fair to rail

:48:26.:48:32.

commuters. But nonetheless, as it stands at 3.6% rise in rail fares

:48:33.:48:36.

for passengers from January. Thank you.

:48:37.:48:39.

The government has been setting out its plans for the future

:48:40.:48:41.

It's been focusing on a temporary customs union which could be put

:48:42.:48:45.

in place to help prevent chaos at Britain's borders

:48:46.:48:48.

My colleague Adam Fleming explains how the customs union

:48:49.:48:51.

works at the moment and how that might change.

:48:52.:48:57.

Under the customs union, the EU has won external border for the import

:48:58.:49:01.

of goods from abroad. If import taxes - known as tariffs -

:49:02.:49:14.

are paid, they're paid when that It can then move around

:49:15.:49:17.

between countries with no further The British Government wants

:49:18.:49:20.

something as similar as possible to this arrangement for a temporary

:49:21.:49:24.

period after Brexit in March 2019. So how could a future customs union

:49:25.:49:27.

between the UK and Europe look and how does the government

:49:28.:49:30.

see it working? Our political correspondent

:49:31.:49:32.

Emma Vardy has more. David Davis has been speaking,

:49:33.:49:41.

hasn't he? That's right, David Davis will be sitting down in Brussels to

:49:42.:49:44.

negotiate this at the end of this month and he has talked about the

:49:45.:49:48.

option of this interim customs union being as close as possible to the

:49:49.:49:53.

current arrangements. He says that is to prevent this cliff edge for

:49:54.:49:58.

business, to allow them to adjust to any new regulations. So how long

:49:59.:50:02.

might it take he was asked this morning, said it was hard to say,

:50:03.:50:07.

maybe around two years, may be shorter. But that's all very well,

:50:08.:50:18.

this is the UK setting out what it once, how are we going to persuade

:50:19.:50:21.

the EU to agree to it? David Davis said it is as much in their interest

:50:22.:50:22.

as it is in ours. We sell about 230 billion euros

:50:23.:50:32.

of goods and services I was in Bavaria two

:50:33.:50:34.

or three weeks ago. They sell BMWs, electronic goods,

:50:35.:50:39.

they have got an incredibly strong interest in something like this

:50:40.:50:42.

so there's an interest on both sides of not doing each

:50:43.:50:45.

other harm, if you like. Both to do with customs arrangements

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but also to do with having a free So you see his argument that if

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there is an interruption in trade, it hurts everyone. He will have to

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negotiate this, but this is one set of papers, proposals we will be

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getting, many more to come but it's taken a year since the referendum to

:51:10.:51:13.

start to get a clearer picture of what the UK foresees in Brexit in

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2019, and what we are getting today is a real strong indication of the

:51:20.:51:25.

size of the challenge ahead. Thank you, Emma.

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We can speak now to Stephen Booth, who's the director of policy

:51:27.:51:29.

and research at thinktank, Open Europe, Dr Swati Dhingra, from

:51:30.:51:32.

the London School of Economics - both of whom have carried out

:51:33.:51:34.

Welcome, both of you. Is this as much in their interests as ours,

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Stephen? Yes, I think so. The question is on what terms do we

:51:45.:51:50.

reach a new agreement. I think the Government acknowledges that at

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least in the short-term period we are going to want to keep things are

:51:54.:51:58.

similar to the status quo as possible. That helps business,

:51:59.:52:02.

business only has two are just once to a new regime at the end of the

:52:03.:52:06.

transition period, and the EU would rather have one negotiation about a

:52:07.:52:11.

new arrangement as opposed to two negotiations about what we do for

:52:12.:52:17.

the next three years and what we do after that. But is it delaying the

:52:18.:52:25.

inevitable, Swati? What it doesn't do is ask the real question, which

:52:26.:52:31.

is after those few years what is the new arrangement going to look like.

:52:32.:52:36.

There's a big concern that customs union or no customs union is going

:52:37.:52:41.

to make no difference to things like services, telecoms, and tariffs

:52:42.:52:49.

don't matter there. It is very little in today's's report about

:52:50.:52:54.

that. What David Davis has said this morning about what would come after

:52:55.:52:58.

a transition period is either a highly streamlined border with the

:52:59.:53:02.

EU or a new partnership with no customs border at all, which sounds

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like having your cake and eating it, doesn't it? I think the first option

:53:09.:53:12.

sounds more achievable and practical. The second one is

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unprecedented and untested, and I think it is complicated to

:53:19.:53:20.

administer because businesses will have to work out whether their

:53:21.:53:28.

growth are destined for the UK or EU market. So describe away a

:53:29.:53:35.

streamlined border can work, because obviously for there to be easy

:53:36.:53:39.

transactions between the EU and the UK, products have to comply with

:53:40.:53:44.

regulations across different boundaries and that then takes you

:53:45.:53:48.

into the territory of things being enforced by the ECJ so it's quite

:53:49.:53:57.

difficult to unpick one part. There are examples of this around the

:53:58.:54:04.

world. It's about reducing technology, the amount of paperwork

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needed, moving away from physical tracks at the border to electronic

:54:08.:54:12.

checks so things can be preapproved. 99% of goods that come to the UK

:54:13.:54:18.

from outside the EU are already preapproved in seconds so a lot of

:54:19.:54:21.

this is possible but it requires both sides to negotiate this. The UK

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cannot do this unilaterally. At the moment we don't know what the EU

:54:27.:54:30.

side of the table once from the border, what do they want to

:54:31.:54:35.

enforce? How do you see it working, Swati? I think it will be

:54:36.:54:42.

cumbersome. When we look at the Norway example, we know that Norway

:54:43.:54:47.

still faces about 8% of its import value going into paperwork to be

:54:48.:54:51.

able to comply with rules and regulations to enter the UK market

:54:52.:54:54.

so it won't be very different from that. If anything Norway is in the

:54:55.:54:59.

single market so it probably has better access than what we can

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expect to have. Those who want the UK out of the customs union say the

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downside is that we cannot have trade deals with the rest of the

:55:10.:55:13.

world while we are in it. Is there enough of an upside to mitigate the

:55:14.:55:18.

downside of leaving? That is the question that only really time will

:55:19.:55:21.

tell but politically once you've taken the decision to leave the

:55:22.:55:25.

European Union and have an independent trade policy, because we

:55:26.:55:29.

will be out of the EU common trade policy, we will have the flexibility

:55:30.:55:33.

to negotiate our own deals and whatever you think about the Brexit

:55:34.:55:37.

decision, the logic of it is you have to boost the trade with the

:55:38.:55:40.

rest of the world and increase and diversify away from the EU which

:55:41.:55:44.

means the UK will have to have as many tools in its tool box in order

:55:45.:55:48.

to negotiate with other partners and that means having more flexibility.

:55:49.:55:53.

We won't have all of that for the first three years but the Government

:55:54.:55:58.

needs to make sure we have it after 2022. How do you see the position?

:55:59.:56:06.

It is unlikely we will be able to make up the losses from other

:56:07.:56:11.

countries. China and India, the rules and regulations are very

:56:12.:56:14.

different. Opening our markets to them will be very big in terms of

:56:15.:56:19.

what happens to consumer safety, product safety. Dealing with the US,

:56:20.:56:24.

the same kind of concerns come up as we saw in the chlorine chicken

:56:25.:56:29.

debate. This is a good idea to have, but there are games we will get from

:56:30.:56:33.

these new trade deals which will be small compared to what we lose from

:56:34.:56:38.

the EU if we don't get a good trade deal there. To have the sort of

:56:39.:56:44.

freedom of movement that there is within the European Union, we still

:56:45.:56:49.

have to be bound by the health and safety regulations that we are

:56:50.:56:54.

currently bound by, don't we? Largely, we would probably have to

:56:55.:56:58.

comply with those. If you look at what Canada did with the European

:56:59.:57:02.

Union, they went through a lot of regulations they were happy to

:57:03.:57:06.

harmonise or mutually recognise, but then many others would have to be

:57:07.:57:10.

designed for the European market. When we sell to the US we would have

:57:11.:57:18.

a different set of regulations. So all of these things will still be

:57:19.:57:23.

applicable to UK businesses. Thank you. I just want to bring you an

:57:24.:57:29.

update on what is happening at Hogan Tube station. The press office for

:57:30.:57:34.

Transport for London has said the fire at Holborn Tube station is

:57:35.:57:43.

Julie to a fault on the train. They have ruled out terrorism as a cause.

:57:44.:57:49.

It is worth noting that last week there was a small fire on an

:57:50.:57:54.

underground train at Oxford Circus station that was on the Bakerloo

:57:55.:57:59.

line train. That was caused by an electrical fault under the train.

:58:00.:58:05.

The pictures at the time looks pretty dramatic of smoke in a train

:58:06.:58:09.

carriage. Four people treated for smoke inhalation and we don't have

:58:10.:58:13.

details of whether anyone has been affected by smoke inhalation in this

:58:14.:58:17.

latest incident at Holborn but we will keep you up-to-date. The

:58:18.:58:21.

important thing to note is it is not being treated as suspicious.

:58:22.:58:27.

Denzil Lush says people should be far more aware of the risks

:58:28.:58:33.

of a power of attorney, which is a legal document allowing

:58:34.:58:36.

someone to make welfare or financial decisions on your behalf,

:58:37.:58:38.

Right now let's catch up with the latest weather update.

:58:39.:58:47.

It's going to be a lovely day if you like sunshine and showers. If we

:58:48.:58:54.

take a look around the country, you will see some of the weather

:58:55.:59:00.

watchers' pictures from earlier. This is Kent, Ramsgate. As we move

:59:01.:59:04.

across the country, we can see showers. We have the rainbow in

:59:05.:59:09.

Hertfordshire, and a more current picture, this one sent in from

:59:10.:59:13.

Durham with lovely blue skies. We are looking at a day of sunshine and

:59:14.:59:18.

showers, we will lose the rain from Kent this morning. We could see 26

:59:19.:59:29.

Celsius here through the day, but you can also see a lot of dry and

:59:30.:59:32.

sunny weather as we sweep into south-west England. For Wales, again

:59:33.:59:35.

some showers, they will be fewer and further between but more frequent

:59:36.:59:39.

across Northern Ireland and possibly more heavy here as well, but

:59:40.:59:42.

nonetheless still a lot of dry weather. A lot of dry weather across

:59:43.:59:47.

Scotland but you will have more frequent showers, some will be heavy

:59:48.:59:53.

and thundery. In north-east England, heading down the eastern side of the

:59:54.:59:57.

Pennines you can see a mixture of sunshine and showers but some of

:59:58.:00:00.

those showers could be heavy. Through the evening and overnight

:00:01.:00:05.

the showers tend to fade and we are looking at clearing skies, a cooler

:00:06.:00:08.

night than the one just gone but by the end of the night we will have

:00:09.:00:11.

stronger winds and rain arriving into the west of Northern Ireland.

:00:12.:00:17.

That's courtesy of this area of low pressure with its weather front. The

:00:18.:00:20.

squeeze on the isobars is telling you it will be windy. Gale is

:00:21.:00:25.

possible through the Irish Sea and with exposure in the west. The rain

:00:26.:00:30.

is coming in smartly across Northern Ireland and also Scotland, but not

:00:31.:00:34.

as quickly across north-west England, Wales and into south-west

:00:35.:00:38.

England. Where we have this combination with lower temperatures,

:00:39.:00:42.

it will feel cooler, the coolness exacerbated by the rain and wind,

:00:43.:00:46.

but as we drift east, increasing amounts of cloud ahead of this

:00:47.:00:52.

weather front. The further east you travel, the more likely you are to

:00:53.:00:56.

see some sunshine with temperatures up to 23. As we move into Thursday,

:00:57.:01:01.

that rain crosses us overnight. We have the remnants during Thursday,

:01:02.:01:08.

then it's replaced once again by sunshine and showers. Showers fairly

:01:09.:01:11.

hit and miss, not everyone will catch one. If you are in the

:01:12.:01:16.

sunshine, high temperatures up to 24 in London, will feel quite pleasant,

:01:17.:01:20.

as in Newcastle with high temperatures of 21.

:01:21.:01:36.

as in Newcastle with high temperatures of 21. Member jurors

:01:37.:01:44.

temperatures down a touch, it will feel that much cooler. As for the

:01:45.:01:49.

weekend, mixed fortunes, as you come further south, looking at sunshine

:01:50.:01:52.

and showers, a bit more rain showers in the north of the country, if you

:01:53.:01:57.

are wondering about Sunday, the forecast changing but at the moment

:01:58.:02:00.

looks like for Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England and North

:02:01.:02:04.

Wales, we will see some rain but try as we push further south!

:02:05.:02:10.

Hello, it's Tuesday, it's ten o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling

:02:11.:02:12.

We hear more from the man who was Chloe Ayling's agent

:02:13.:02:17.

when the model was drugged and kidnapped in Milan.

:02:18.:02:19.

Phil Green says she is coping well after her traumatic ordeal.

:02:20.:02:25.

She clearly had gone through a tremendous amount of suffering and

:02:26.:02:31.

had an horrific ordeal and I know that if that had happened to 95% of

:02:32.:02:36.

the other models in my agency they would have crumbled.

:02:37.:02:38.

You can hear the second part of our interview later this hour.

:02:39.:02:43.

Also we speak to a retired judge who says it's too risky just giving one

:02:44.:02:50.

person power of attorney which allows them to make welfare or

:02:51.:02:52.

financial decisions on your behalf. Taylor Swift has won her

:02:53.:02:54.

case against the former We hear from an American journalist

:02:55.:02:56.

who sat through the court case and says this is a win

:02:57.:03:00.

for all women. She stood up for herself, not just

:03:01.:03:11.

for herself and women in general and that is what she spoke to, she

:03:12.:03:15.

maintained that stands and you could tell she was up there not just

:03:16.:03:18.

speaking for herself but to show women out there it's OK to stand up

:03:19.:03:25.

for what you believe in. We've also hear from a lawyer in this country

:03:26.:03:29.

who hopes it will empower more women in this country to speak out.

:03:30.:03:37.

Here's Rachel in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of todays news.

:03:38.:03:44.

The government is to outline plans to negotiate a temporary customs

:03:45.:03:49.

relationship with the EU after Brexit. The mistress want to ensure

:03:50.:03:54.

an arrangement similar to the current customs union will remain in

:03:55.:03:57.

place until a final trade settlement takes effect. Be you commission says

:03:58.:04:01.

the move is a positive step towards a starting phase one of the

:04:02.:04:05.

negotiations. And they will study the position paper carefully. The

:04:06.:04:10.

Brexit secretary David Davis says it means businesses will avoid

:04:11.:04:11.

unnecessary disruption. We sell about 230 billion euros of

:04:12.:04:19.

goods and services to the European Union each year, they sell 290

:04:20.:04:28.

billion to us. I was in Bavaria 200 -- I was in Bavaria a couple of

:04:29.:04:33.

weeks ago, they sell Alex on goods and they have an incredibly strong

:04:34.:04:36.

interest in something like this, there is an interest in both sides

:04:37.:04:40.

on not doing it the hard, both to do with customs arrangements and to do

:04:41.:04:43.

with having a free trade area in the first place.

:04:44.:04:44.

Mudslides and floods in Sierra Leone are now known to have killed more

:04:45.:04:47.

than 300 people on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown.

:04:48.:04:49.

Thousands more have been forced to flee from their homes.

:04:50.:04:52.

Government officials have warned the number of casualties

:04:53.:04:54.

is expected to rise, with hundreds of bodies thought to

:04:55.:04:56.

The mayor of Freetown says at least 270 bodies have

:04:57.:05:00.

Millions of rail users will see a 3.6% increase in many rail

:05:01.:05:10.

Train operators are allowed to raise regulated fares -

:05:11.:05:19.

which account for nearly half of all tickets - by as much

:05:20.:05:22.

as the Retail Prices Index figure for July, which rose by 3.6%.

:05:23.:05:25.

The headline Consumer Price Index inflation was 2.6% in

:05:26.:05:27.

A train has partially derailed at Waterloo station in London,

:05:28.:05:35.

The South West Trains service struck a freight train at low

:05:36.:05:40.

speed between Waterloo and Vauxhall stations.

:05:41.:05:42.

Three people were checked for injuries, but did not

:05:43.:05:44.

Thirteen platforms are out of use, with disruption excepted to last

:05:45.:05:48.

In a separate incident a train has hit the buffers

:05:49.:05:58.

A spokesperson from Great Northern said the train came into contact

:05:59.:06:02.

with the buffers at low speed at twenty past six this morning.

:06:03.:06:05.

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has been informed.

:06:06.:06:18.

London's Holborn Underground station has been closed as emergency

:06:19.:06:23.

services respond to a fire alert and reports of smoke. Ten firefighters

:06:24.:06:28.

and two engines presented to the station, an eyewitness on a train at

:06:29.:06:32.

the station said smoke-filled one of the characters. Transport for London

:06:33.:06:36.

said the problem was caused by a defective train. -- smoke-filled one

:06:37.:06:42.

of the carriages. A pensioner who was stabbed

:06:43.:06:43.

while trying to save the life of the Labour MP,

:06:44.:06:46.

Jo Cox, has died. Bernard Kenny, who was 79,

:06:47.:06:48.

was awarded the George Medal for his bravery -

:06:49.:06:50.

after he intervened when a right-wing extremist attacked

:06:51.:06:52.

the MP in the run-up to last Mr Kenny was seriously

:06:53.:06:55.

injured in the attack, but the cause of his death is not

:06:56.:06:58.

believed to be related A girl has died after a man drove

:06:59.:07:01.

a car into a pizza restaurant Twelve other people

:07:02.:07:05.

were injured in the attack, Police said they're treating

:07:06.:07:08.

the incident as deliberate, The driver of the car, a 32-year-old

:07:09.:07:11.

man, has been arrested. Iran says it could abandon

:07:12.:07:16.

its nuclear deal with world powers "within hours",

:07:17.:07:19.

if the United States continues President Hassan Rouhani told

:07:20.:07:21.

the country's parliament. The deal which was struck in 2015

:07:22.:07:24.

saw the lifting of most international sanctions in return

:07:25.:07:27.

for curbs on its nuclear programme. The pop star Taylor Swift has won

:07:28.:07:41.

a sexual assault case against ex-radio DJ David Mueller,

:07:42.:07:44.

who she said had groped His claim for damages,

:07:45.:07:46.

on the grounds that his reputation had been destroyed by false

:07:47.:07:53.

allegations, was thrown out. He's been ordered to pay a token

:07:54.:07:56.

one-dollar in damages. Taylor Swift said she took

:07:57.:07:59.

the action against him to give other victims of sexual assault

:08:00.:08:03.

the confidence to The fat outfit theory that

:08:04.:08:18.

overweight people can still be healthy is nothing but is according

:08:19.:08:24.

to researchers from two top UK universities. Scientists from

:08:25.:08:28.

Cambridge and Imperial College London found being obese or

:08:29.:08:31.

overweight increases your risk of coronary heart disease by 28% even

:08:32.:08:34.

if you are otherwise healthy and act.

:08:35.:08:40.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

:08:41.:08:52.

Still to come, we will hear from Phil Green, the agent of the model

:08:53.:09:00.

Chloe Aileen who was kidnapped and taken to Italy.

:09:01.:09:05.

Liverpool are hoping to rip reach the group stages of the Champions

:09:06.:09:15.

League for the first time in three years. They are in Germany this

:09:16.:09:19.

evening and Jurgen Klopp has made it clear the match tonight is the only

:09:20.:09:23.

thing on his mind and not the future of the leak could you. They've

:09:24.:09:28.

bazillion is a target for Barcelona but Liverpool have rejected two bids

:09:29.:09:34.

for him before Coutinho submitted a transfer request which was

:09:35.:09:37.

dismissed. He didn't play at the weekend because of a back injury and

:09:38.:09:40.

the manager says he knows speculation is rife but his sole

:09:41.:09:45.

focus is on the game ahead. I really understand everybody is interested

:09:46.:09:50.

in this but I can't say I am really thinking about it. It's just, I am

:09:51.:09:57.

here, but I am not in the car, on the way to the Conference, I did not

:09:58.:10:00.

think what could I say if they ask or whatever because I have to think

:10:01.:10:05.

about other things. It's understood Diego Costa has been ordered to

:10:06.:10:08.

return to the Premier League champions after being fined for

:10:09.:10:11.

failing to report for pre-season training. He was told by the

:10:12.:10:16.

miniature fire text in June that he wasn't part of his plans this

:10:17.:10:18.

season, the striker currently in Brazil, threatening to sit out the

:10:19.:10:22.

remaining two years of his contract if he is not allowed to leave. The

:10:23.:10:27.

Spanish international is considering legal action and has his heart set

:10:28.:10:31.

on returning to Atletico Madrid although Chelsea are demanding his

:10:32.:10:34.

return before any decision on his future is made. Premier League clubs

:10:35.:10:39.

are to take a vote on the idea of closing the transfer window before

:10:40.:10:41.

the start of the season. The window runs until August 31, it's been a

:10:42.:10:47.

problem this season with the future of several high-profile players on

:10:48.:10:50.

results. Under the proposals are new league sides would not be able to

:10:51.:10:54.

add to their squads once the season kicks off but it wouldn't apply to

:10:55.:10:57.

clubs from Europe signing players from England. If it is past it would

:10:58.:11:02.

come into effect next season. Kyle Edmund continues to struggle in the

:11:03.:11:06.

build-up to the US Open, beaten in the first round of the Cincinnati

:11:07.:11:11.

Masters by a Portuguese opponent in three sets. He was knocked out of

:11:12.:11:14.

the first-round of the Montreal Masters last week. The final Grand

:11:15.:11:17.

Slam of the year begins at the end the month. Andy Murray will be

:11:18.:11:23.

replaced as the World War I by Rafael Nadal at the end of the

:11:24.:11:27.

tournament this week. Andy Murray is not playing because of an ongoing

:11:28.:11:30.

problem, the Spaniard will top the world rankings for the first time in

:11:31.:11:34.

three years. England cricketers stepped into the unknown this week

:11:35.:11:37.

when they play their first day night Test match, the first played in this

:11:38.:11:43.

country. The opening series against the West Indies. The 2pm on

:11:44.:11:47.

Thursday, lunch at 4pm, plate finishing at 9pm. The game will be

:11:48.:11:51.

played with a pink box showing up at under the lights, a new experience

:11:52.:11:58.

for bowler Stuart broad. The pink ball county round, the guys said the

:11:59.:12:02.

ball went quite soft quite quickly, we are just going to have to be so

:12:03.:12:07.

adaptable on the day. We are going in with a completely clear mind,

:12:08.:12:11.

completely learning on the job, almost. The team that will, more

:12:12.:12:16.

successful this week is the team that reacts quicker. And that is all

:12:17.:12:23.

your support for now. I will be back with more later. Thank you so much.

:12:24.:12:26.

Power of attorney is a legal document that allows someone else

:12:27.:12:29.

to look after your property and financial affairs.

:12:30.:12:30.

It's increasingly common - used especially by older

:12:31.:12:32.

people who can no longer manage their everyday lives.

:12:33.:12:34.

Nearly 650,000 applications were made last year in England

:12:35.:12:37.

and Wales to register powers of attorney ...

:12:38.:12:38.

But the judge who wrote the legal guidebook to powers of attorney,

:12:39.:12:43.

who was the head of the court of protection for 20 years,

:12:44.:12:47.

has told the BBC he would never sign one himself, they have few

:12:48.:12:50.

safeguards, and the ministry of justice is "disingenuous"

:12:51.:12:52.

Let's speak now to Today Programme correspondent Sanchia Berg who's

:12:53.:13:01.

Tell us more about this, it is extraordinary when the judge Europe

:13:02.:13:20.

and says he wouldn't have won. He says there are a few safeguards,

:13:21.:13:27.

although there is the office of the public partying, part of the

:13:28.:13:29.

Ministry of Justice which investigates complaints they will

:13:30.:13:32.

only investigate once someone alerts on to something. Dental luxury for

:13:33.:13:39.

20 years presided over more than 6000 of these ensuring our lasting

:13:40.:13:43.

power of attorney cases, he has seen many examples where problems arose

:13:44.:13:48.

and they just weren't caught in time and you will hear from a viewer

:13:49.:13:53.

about a problem that went on for years, her father's estate

:13:54.:13:58.

effectively looted and nothing they could do because the complaint were

:13:59.:14:01.

not investigated. Now complaints are more likely to be investigated but

:14:02.:14:05.

nonetheless, the judge believes people should be far more aware of

:14:06.:14:07.

the risks. OK, thank you. Joining us now, Lesley Willetts

:14:08.:14:13.

and her husband Brian Felton have experienced the problems

:14:14.:14:16.

of the Power of Attorney themselves. Lesley's father, a Dunkirk veteran

:14:17.:14:18.

with dementia was left destitute after he gave his neighbours

:14:19.:14:20.

power of attorney. Denzil Lush is a senior judge

:14:21.:14:22.

who headed the Court of Protection for 20 years and adjudicated 6,000

:14:23.:14:25.

power of attorney cases. He says the power of

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attorney has few safeguards Thank you both for joining us.

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Leslie, it sounds like you had a turbo situation, talk us through

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what happened to your father and power of attorney was given to a

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neighbour. -- a terrible situation. Basically when the neighbour to

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guard a power of attorney in 2003 and he had a will made out at the

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same time it was effectively, we were just literally hard from any

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protest, any insight into the financial affairs of my father, even

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his day-to-day care seemed to be lost to us in a sense. And the

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attorney was able to try and isolate him from our family and also

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effectively take his money and concealed the fact he had taken the

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money. He had complete power and there was no further week ago, no

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one we could ask what do we do about this and was only when he registered

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the power of attorney in 2004, this was 18 months later, when in effect

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he had used all my father's savings and in effect he had to sell my

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father's house, so he had to register the power of attorney for

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that, our family objected but the registration went through

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nonetheless but the cause was Yorkshire County Council came on

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board at the time, they'd had letters of concern by other

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neighbours that we decided to go for an appeal hearing in 2005. Sorry to

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interrupt, it's absolutely extraordinary to hear you describe

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what happened and to hear you say your father's house was being sold

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under him and up until that point none of you knew what was going on

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and you were powerless to do anything?

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And it wasn't until the appeal hearing that we suspected there was

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financial abuse. We had to prove the unsuitability of the attorney which

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is incredibly difficult to do. We didn't have any evidence, all we

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could do was protect ourselves and question why someone can get the

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power of attorney so easily. Can I just say, at the appeal hearing the

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attorney was required to submit annual accounts which we were really

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relieved about, so at least we knew there was some accountability for

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his finances going on. When you say it was hard to question, well you

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question why it is that someone can get power of attorney so easily.

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This was a neighbour. How did it happen? It was literally groom,

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isolate, abuse. I was groomed, my father was groomed, I think social

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services were groomed. Once that happened, he was supposed to come

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down to us in 2003 but he was registered, who was in a

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psychogeriatric ward at the time. We had arranged to have him discharged

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to our care but for some reason social services allowed him to be

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discharged to the neighbour's care, registered them as his carer and

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within days were taken to a solicitor, had a power of attorney

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made out and will to his benefit. So this was someone you had all trusted

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absolutely? Yes, well I so. Will bring in Denzel. You adjudicated

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over 6000 cases in that period where there have been issues and you now

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say you would not use one yourself. Tell us more about your concerns.

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Yes, I would prefer not to use one myself because I would rather go for

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the default position, which is where the court appoints somebody to look

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after a deputy to look after your property, and you are required to

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account annually. You have to give a security bond which is a sort of

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insurance policy that covers only default, and usually get a visit and

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support from the office of the Public Guardian. Servers that

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effectively how it used to work and how you would prefer for it to

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continue working in your case? What's happened in Frank Willet's

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case would not happen to quite the same extent now. This was an

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enduring power of attorney, they have since been replaced in effect

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by things called lasting powers of attorney. The office of the public

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Guardian tends to initiate applications to the Court of

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Protection rather than relatives to where they are concerned that has

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been some misappropriation. In your experience of looking at these, have

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you seen many instances of where it has worked really well? Because

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obviously there are people who are vulnerable, they cannot manage their

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affairs, family and loved ones need to work out a way of doing it in the

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best way they can. Of course. I sort your liver pathology, if you are

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with me. I saw the cases where they all went pear shaped which is

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possibly why I wouldn't make one myself. I'm sure there are many

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cases, the majority of cases where these do work satisfactorily. Is

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there a way the system could be made better? Because you are saying you

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would opt out of this particular way of handling affairs. Is it time for

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everybody to actually look to another direction? Or can this

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system be improved? Because as it stands it has to be a case of where

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not only something has gone wrong but it has been discovered and you

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can prove what's happened and that takes a lot of time, expense and

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heartbreak. I think things can be improved. I think the office of the

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Public Guardian is looking into the possibility of possibly a security

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bond to cover attorney ships where there is a default position. Also,

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in the Republic of Ireland they have a state-of-the-art piece of

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legislation which requires attorneys to produce accounts to their

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equivalent of the Public Guardian each year. When you hear Leslie

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describing what happened, that the neighbour could get power of

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attorney so easily, what do you think? It is surely not beyond the

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realms of possibility is to stop that happening? Just make it harder?

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This is one of the big concerns, that the Public Guardian is keen to

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get as many possible lasting power of attorney applications done online

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and digitally and there are concerns that what existing safeguards there

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are are being dampened down all the time.

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So it could easily be the case that anyone watching this programme with

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a vulnerable relative could give power of attorney to somebody who

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may not do the right thing by them or their family, there's nothing to

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stop that happening? Yes, that is possible. One of the interesting

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things as well is Leslie's Father's case was a little unusual insofar as

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in my experience it is family members that are usually the

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abusers. I remember going to a conference in Melbourne, Australia.

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And they came up with... The university did some research saying

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you are twice as likely to be ripped off by your son as your daughter and

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I thought that was fascinating, and I came back and looked at my own

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statistics which run into many hundreds and more than that. And I

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worked out that 68% of the abusers of lasting Powers of attorney are

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the child, the donor, the person who created the power, of those 36% are

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sons, 22% are daughters, and the Remainer are sons and daughters

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together. Leslie, a final for from you because people watching will be

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horrified to find out what happened to you and if they have vulnerable

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relatives they are concerned about, they could be worried about what

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might potentially happen to them. After what you have been through,

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what advice would you give? To be honest, I don't know. There's no

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where people can go to get independent advice. Once you get

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entangled with the Court of Protection, it is very hard to

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manoeuvre your way around it and it can become extremely expensive. Can

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I mention one thing that judge Lush is bringing up, about juicing

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accounts. My father 's attorney was ordered to produce accounts on an

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annual basis and he duly did in 2005 and 2006, but when I became court

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deputy in 2008 when the attorney ship was finally revoked, it was

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obvious within days that the Court accounts review team had ignored

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gross breaches of their own rules and regulations. I mean my father's

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proceeds from his house sales... Lots of complex things were

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happening, how much was lost in the end and how much has it cost you?

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Everything was lost. We have actually High Court orders, one

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overturned the will and the other was a High Court order that was

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380,000, now stands at more because there's an 8% interest rate added to

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it, but do we get anything back? So far not and I'm not terribly

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helpful. The Court of Protection we are still fighting because they

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refuse to accept accountability. Thank you, Leslie, very much for

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joining us and is talking about your family's situation.

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In a statement a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said:

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"Safeguarding vulnerable people is our priority.

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We take swift action if any abuse is reported and have a zero

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tolerance approach to any attorney or deputy who breaks the law.

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If there is evidence that someone has abused their position,

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we can refer cases to the Court of Protection to urgently revoke

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a lasting power of attorney or deputyship order."

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Let us know if you have had any experience of this, good or bad.

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We hear the second part of our exclusive interview

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Phil Green the agent of Chloe Ayling the model kidnapped

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He talks about how she reacted to the ordeal.

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Taylor Swift has won a sexual assault case

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against a former radio DJ, who she said had groped her

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David Mueller from Colorado had originally tried to sue the American

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singer-songwriter saying her claims had cost him his

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David Mueller from Colorado had originally tried to sue the American

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singer-songwriter saying her claims had cost him his

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Taylor was awarded a symbolic one dollar in damages,

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because she wanted to highlight the issue women are

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interactive show 'Daily Blast Live' was in court.

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When the verdict came, she was very happy. What had she been like

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throughout the hearings? She testified last Thursday and she was

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very fierce, that's the way I would describe her. She was very

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confident, unwavering in her stance, and I know the attorney of David

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Mueller was trying to get her to appear weak. It is her job to make

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her get flustered or say things differently to try to prove her case

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but she maintained her stance. I don't know what I can say on this

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programme, but she did not use the word rear end and she made sure to

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use profanity each time because she wanted it to be vulgar. She didn't

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want it to be polite. She maintained that what happened to her was not

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polite and she needed to stand up for herself, not just for herself

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but for women in general and that's what she spoke to and she maintained

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that stance. You could tell she was up there not just speaking for

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herself but to show women out there that it is OK to stand up for what

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you believe in and not have anyone tried to waver and say you were

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smiling in this photo in question. Because that did come up. Why are

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you smiling, acting a certain way? She doesn't have to defend herself

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and she wasn't going to let anyone tear her down. Did she get emotional

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at all? On the stands she did not, she did get emotional when she heard

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her mother speak or when David Mueller's attorney was speaking

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saying this photo doesn't show her looking like she has just been

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groped. Even though she is fierce and confident on the stand, it was

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still something that was very emotional to her. She did not report

:29:22.:29:27.

this to police when it happened, it ended up in court with her suing him

:29:28.:29:35.

for a symbolic $1 because he was suing her. Through the process

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though, in the eyes of her fans and other members of the public, has she

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effectively become a campaigner on this issue? She really has. I have

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been live tweeting this quite a bit and you usually hear from both sides

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of someone defending Mueller, someone defending Swift, but you

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have people saying I believe in her cause even though I am not a fan, so

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it transcended her as a staff and came down to the issue that a woman

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has a right to go after someone who sexually assaulted her, and she was

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assaulted. And she is an influential woman. What reaction has there been?

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After the jury went out and there was people leaving, and ran into one

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of her young fans who was there with her mother and had been going to

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court every day. She was so excited, she felt justice had been served. I

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noticed the best quality about this little interaction was that this

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little girl felt empowered. She wasn't afraid of Mueller and she was

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so happy Swift stood up to that man. You could tell she was taking that

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in and if, God forbid she is ever in that situation, she felt ready and

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inspired by the actions of one woman that happened to be Taylor Swift.

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She has now said she will be donating to organisations in the

:31:13.:31:19.

future to help sexual assault and is defend themselves because she

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ignored she has -- she acknowledged she has the resources to do that.

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What else has she said? She hasn't been publicly speaking either in the

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media or on social media but I believe she intends to go into what

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organisations she intends to donate to in time, I think she will slowly

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roll this out at ink she needs to decompress, it was a highly

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emotional case for her and I know it means a lot to her and I know she

:31:51.:31:55.

wants to formulate a plan, she comes across to me as someone who wants a

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detailed plan of action and we will know it soon, I don't know whether

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it's within the next week but it will happen. I mentioned it she did

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not go to police when this happened four years ago, it was what's been

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talked about as a low-level sexual assault, someone dropping her under

:32:13.:32:18.

her skirt, what has she said about the impact on her that? The only

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time she has ever mentioned it, but I have heard, is in Court, when her

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mother said when she found out, she felt like vomiting and crying at the

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same time, Taylor Swift has not been the same, the recent she doesn't go

:32:38.:32:40.

into crowds any more and when you see her and

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you see her at need and greed is, she is there close to her fans. When

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I was in Court, she looked up and acknowledged me and I am sure she

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did that to all the people, even if they were media or suppose that

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fans. They are curious to watch the case. She seemed like a very warm

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person and to show that she did not want to go out into the crowds, so

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she would impact one person can have, it's the only time she said

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she has ever been groped and it still sticks with her to this day.

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Why didn't she go to the police? The way she described it, it was very

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quick and there is a meet and greet, fans shuffling in and out within a

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second, if she would have stopped for one moment to say what happened,

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that would have destroyed the experience for all those fans, for

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her, she went and finished what she had to do, a dozen people left and

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as soon as the line finished she told everyone that was in the room,

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that crack -- guy totally grabbed my, she used the profanity and they

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said I know. The photographer looked and saw the photo and her management

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went and they considered calling the police but they considered the best

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course of action was to just alert his bosses at the radio station.

:34:10.:34:15.

Thank you. In the last 15 minutes,

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the government has announced some of the key details about the public

:34:27.:34:29.

inquiry into Grenfell Tower fire. It will look at not just the fire

:34:30.:34:31.

itself but the actions of the local How wide-ranging will it be? We have

:34:32.:34:45.

something from the chairman of the inquiry and the Prime Minister,

:34:46.:34:48.

setting out the terms of reference, we happen waiting for these, the

:34:49.:34:52.

areas they will look into. It includes six, reading through, the

:34:53.:34:55.

cause and spread of the fire, we knew that, we expected that, the

:34:56.:35:00.

design construction and refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, the

:35:01.:35:03.

scope and adequacy of the relevant regulations relating to high-rise

:35:04.:35:08.

buildings across the country, whether relevant legislation and

:35:09.:35:10.

guidance was complied with in the case of Grenfell Tower that will be

:35:11.:35:14.

key. And also, we were not quite sure about this, to Max -- two extra

:35:15.:35:21.

things they have added, the response of the London Fire Brigade and local

:35:22.:35:29.

government and amongst others, and the last elements could be key. Will

:35:30.:35:33.

it satisfy residents who are concerned about what the inquiry

:35:34.:35:37.

will cover? These letters have only been released, campaigners keen this

:35:38.:35:41.

inquiry is as broad as possible, not just looking at the immediate

:35:42.:35:46.

causes, we know if rich freezer caught fire, the cladding, but looks

:35:47.:35:50.

at the wider causes and on the face of it, the statement goes some way

:35:51.:35:55.

towards addressing that. -- a fridge freezer caught fire. The Prime

:35:56.:35:59.

Minister says she is adamant that the wider causes around this will be

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addressed, she will meet social housing tenants to see what further

:36:05.:36:10.

proposals can be made in due course. -- the Housing Minister will meet

:36:11.:36:14.

local residents. On a first reading this seems to address some of the

:36:15.:36:18.

questions about the fire, not just the immediate cause but the actions

:36:19.:36:20.

crucially of the Council before the blaze. Thank you.

:36:21.:36:32.

Now we return to the extraordinary story of model Chloe Ayling,

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who jetted off to Milan for what she thought

:36:36.:36:37.

was a photoshoot, but instead was kidnapped and held for six days

:36:38.:36:40.

by Lukasz Herba, a Polish national from Birmingham.

:36:41.:36:42.

She says he told her she was going to be sold into sex slavery then

:36:43.:36:45.

issued a ransom note to a number of people in the UK for her release.

:36:46.:36:49.

One of those was Phil Green, her agent at the time -

:36:50.:36:52.

who had initially booked her on the job with Lukasz -

:36:53.:36:54.

who was posing as a photographer named Andre.

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In his only BBC interview, Phil Green - that former agent -

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He praises Chloe's bravery throughout this ordeal

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and claims she has been offered counselling but has refused

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despite her now being afraid to go anywhere alone.

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In the second part of this interview I began by asking Phil what happened

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It wasn't until the Sunday, this is following the kidnapping

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on the Tuesday, the Sunday we heard there were some

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It turns out that in the early hours of Monday morning,

:37:17.:37:20.

the attacker, this Lukasz Herba, walks into the consulate office

:37:21.:37:22.

with Chloe and says I'm her friend, she's the girl who's been kidnapped,

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Well, the consulate staff immediately rang the police,

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he was arrested and then Chloe had to face 16 hours...

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16 hours of questioning by the police, who were

:37:43.:37:46.

I had to say they were insensitive and didn't show much compassion

:37:47.:37:56.

during the time of the interviewing and, in fact, one of the magistrates

:37:57.:38:02.

in Italy who she had to face doubted some of the elements of the story.

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And openly said to her you're lying, you know?

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And, of course, it is an amazing story.

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In fact, when the British police heard that this man had walked

:38:14.:38:20.

into the consulate with the model they thought, hang on a second,

:38:21.:38:24.

it looks like the photographer was kidnapped as well.

:38:25.:38:27.

When she gave me the whole version of events, from being attacked

:38:28.:38:37.

to being released, it did sound amazingly fantastic to be true.

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Equally so, I always kept staunchly loyal to Chloe, who I represented.

:38:41.:38:52.

She clearly had gone through a tremendous amount

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of suffering and horrific ordeal, and I know that if that had happened

:38:59.:39:03.

to 95% of the other models in my agency they would have

:39:04.:39:07.

crumbled and not reached a conclusion in this.

:39:08.:39:14.

I feel that she has been incredibly strong -

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strong willed and strong minded - to try to get through this.

:39:18.:39:21.

She doesn't seem to have been fazed by the ordeal.

:39:22.:39:24.

When it first emerged, we saw pictures quite quickly

:39:25.:39:27.

of her in front of the media with the puppy, looking

:39:28.:39:30.

Well, I know her, I've known her for a year.

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I don't think I've ever seen her fazed through any situation.

:39:41.:39:44.

But this was a traumatic ordeal, was she not traumatised?

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My worry was that maybe she was psychologically

:39:49.:39:51.

scarred from this and, indeed, the police in this

:39:52.:39:53.

country said we're going to get her counselling.

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And I think, you know, it might be a delayed reaction.

:39:57.:40:02.

But certainly right now there is no sign of any

:40:03.:40:04.

The detail of what she went through is distressing,

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it's shocking, and yet she doesn't seem to have much public sympathy.

:40:13.:40:15.

I understand that, and it really is because of this lapse of time

:40:16.:40:20.

And thank you very much, the Italian police,

:40:21.:40:26.

Certainly Chloe wouldn't have wanted that.

:40:27.:40:32.

When she spoke to me from her hotel room in Milan

:40:33.:40:35.

after the ordeal she said, well, I don't want

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She said, I'm actually humiliated by it, I don't want people to know

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I want to just come back to the country and get back

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to my mum and my dog and just carry on my life.

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But the Italian police have a strange way of

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So she never wanted any publicity around this?

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She gave her evidence at a pre-trial review ten days ago and straight

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after the pre-trial review the prosecutor then called a meeting

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with the press in Italy, first of all, and that meeting

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and that press release brought about attention

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But she, of course, didn't have to respond to that.

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She could have stayed quiet about it.

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She didn't have to respond, but you mention the stories

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Those stories have come about because the press didn't

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Even the Italian police were doubting her, don't

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And it's only now through confirmation from her lawyer that

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people are now starting to believe that she actually went through this.

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She doesn't get upset when we talk about it.

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The only thing we've talked about, and she's said,

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I'm afraid to go out alone, which she never was.

:42:09.:42:11.

I mean, she used to come up to see me at the agency and travel

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But now she's said I really don't want to get on a train or any public

:42:16.:42:24.

So that, for me, is the only outward sign I've seen of it

:42:25.:42:28.

She is now making money out of what she went through.

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That was never the intention and, as I said, she's been called

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to the press to give her version of events.

:42:44.:42:45.

OK, she's been paid for it, you know...

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But not just through the press, through public speaking,

:42:48.:42:51.

People will presumably book her now because she is known

:42:52.:42:55.

Well, all her modelling has been cancelled.

:42:56.:43:01.

There hasn't been any topless photo shoots since she got back,

:43:02.:43:03.

She's with an agency now who specialise in public speaking.

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You know, after all we've been through, a successful year and then

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the time she spent in Milan, myself paying for her accommodation,

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her food and expenses, paying for her return flight ticket

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back, 24 hours after getting back to go and walk into another agent's

:43:23.:43:25.

Do you feel any guilt around the fact that this all happens,

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She was on your books, she was sent off on this photo shoot

:43:39.:43:44.

You have to feel a little amount of guilt.

:43:45.:43:50.

Would I have done anything different?

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Again, if the same situation arose, probably not.

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The same checks have been carried out by my agency

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on countless hundreds, maybe thousands, of jobs

:44:00.:44:01.

over the last 30 years I've had my agency.

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And we've never had an incident, we've never had to challenge

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a client or a photographer who we've sent a model to saying

:44:10.:44:12.

that was inappropriate or, you know, they've never been in danger

:44:13.:44:15.

I think possibly, possibly on future jobs, certainly abroad,

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I might say to the model if you prefer, maybe think

:44:27.:44:31.

It isn't something the agency offers, it's something we don't

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have, but if a model wants to take someone with her, maybe

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And that was to ailing's agent Phil Green talking to me about her

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ordeal. It has been 70 years since partition

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between India and Pakistan came into effect. It was the largest mass

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migration ever recorded, 12 million people on the move across the newly

:45:19.:45:21.

formed borders. Muslim is journeyed to West and East, but and that now

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forms Pakistan, Hindus and Sikhs headed in the opposite direction,

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hundreds of thousand of duck did or killed. -- Abdul did.

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Let's talk now to Vinod Chhabra who fled what is now Pakistan

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for India when he was nine years old,

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his cousin Ajay Chhabra and his son Diren.

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Ajay says partition has lived with his family for decades,

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Gurinder Chadha who directed films Bend it like Beckham and this year's

:45:45.:45:47.

Viceroys House amongst other joins us from the Wagah border

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which separates India and Pakistan and has played host to events

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marking the 70th anniversary, and in Leicester in Professor

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Gurharpal Singh who has speciliasded in the history of Partition.

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Thank you for joining us, it's great to have three generations of your

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family here to talk about what you went through. You were nine when

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partition happened, what happened? Firstly I want to say happy

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Independence Day to all of those watching this programme. Luckily it

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is 50 years today, it is the 15th of August I landed here in England on

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the 15th and that was one of those days when my uncle brought me from

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the Heathrow Airport, and from onwards I have been here and in

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Germany and all around Europe and have been working here. These are

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the memories I will have to go back, I mean long dark about 60 years. And

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that is in my childhood. Those are the memories which I personally

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think are still haunting, sometimes when I think about them. So what do

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you remember of that time? Precisely I will tell you, because I was

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around eight or nine. I was not in a school because there were disturbed

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areas all around and actually we were not regularly going to school.

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Unfortunately that was... We work in one of the major cities in Pakistan.

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Sorry to interrupt, literally in an instant your life changed from the

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ordered life you had known up until that point and suddenly it was gone,

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how did you cope with that? It changed to some extent that I would

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say at that time I didn't understand, but then when I grew up,

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I said how did that happen to our family? The factory and we were

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living there and asked to leave that place immediately. So you lost

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everything overnight? At the age I'm talking about, we did not know what

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was happening tomorrow because we were shifting from that area to a

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place with military and rifles and everything. They said, don't go up,

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don't show your faces. That's why it was so scary, we were so small and

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we didn't know what was happening all around. We have Diren next to

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you. What do you think when you hear Vinod talking about what he went

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through at the age you are? It must have been horrible time for him.

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Since he's my grandfather I know how it feels and I know him. When he

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left his home, he left everything, he only took the things he really

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needed. For example, some bedding, the low and some clothes. You

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wouldn't need your bed frame, your fridge. You would just move and rush

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out. You would turn on your radio in the morning and here all of a

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sudden, "Get out of India". You obviously know a lot about it, does

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your family talk openly about it? Yes, my dad told me when I was eight

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or nine, and I intend now. I went online and looked at it, how some

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people still have grandads still living now.

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Gurinder, this is not something on curriculum is in a commonplace way,

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how do you see partition? You're absolutely right, the British Empire

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is rarely taught now in schools and I think the real question is, yes,

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there were terrible things that happen during partition but what my

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studio house looks at is the reasons these things happened. I don't think

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enough people are focusing on the fact it was British policy at that

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time to have the divide, to make partition happened. People like the

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family of the guests in the studio and my own family, their concerns

:51:18.:51:21.

didn't really matter at the time when this policy to divide India was

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being planned by the British, way before 1947. What was your family's

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situation? My grandmother was in a place, which is now Pakistan, with

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her five young children, and very similar. One day trucks and there's

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too much violence and you have to leave so she was put on the trot

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with her children. They were on a train for three days with no food

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and water, and couldn't get off the train because there was cholera

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everywhere. Eventually her milk dried up and her youngest child

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starved to death and they ended up in a refugee camp for months on end.

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It is a tragedy for my family, as it is for many people. But I want

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people to ask questions why it happened, and people are too busy

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focusing on the trauma of partition and not asking why it happened,

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because it's a lot to do with the geopolitics at the time between

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Britain and America, much like we see happening in the world today

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where suffering is happening with refugees. How do you explain how it

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happened, professor? I would differ, in that I don't think you can

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entirely placed the blame on British Raj. The situation in India after

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the Second World War had become quite ungovernable and from almost a

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year before the events happened, there was widespread communal

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rioting. Even in March 1947, many months before the partition actually

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occurred, Indian politicians and politicians in Punjab were

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clamouring for the division of the province. So I think in a sense

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there is a shared blame, and it's not something most academic

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historians take seriously, but it was solely the responsibility of

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British government and the colonial administration in India, in

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particular Mountbatten's decision to advance the transfer of power by

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several months. Vinod... Sorry to interrupt you but I want to go back

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to Vinod because I was struck at the beginning by your immediate reaction

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to say happy Independence Day. When Independence Day came, we didn't

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know it was happy. One thing I tell you that we went through the trucks,

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we went through the road, we have seen a train full of dead bodies

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that we were not allowed to go there. Actually our factory was

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nearby and I was not allowed to go to the station, which was almost

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walking distance, and they said no, you shouldn't go there. I could see

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the blood coming out of those compartments. The people were inside

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that we didn't know, and we were asking what's happening here. Then

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we were put into the trucks with my grandmother, grandfather, brother,

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sister, everybody, into the trucks, and the trucks kept on going, going,

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going. People walking on the road, people not only walking, they were

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crying, feeling, there was no water given. Also it was believe you me a

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terrible experience as a child. The events you are describing are

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unimaginable. Ajay, its understanding bitterness would

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trickle through the generations of a family, how do you see it? I don't

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think... I have grown up in a family where bitterness did not exist, and

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in fact compassion and the things that hold us together, our cultural

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values, is the environment in which I grew up in. I speak to other

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colleagues or friends or family who have had similar experiences. I

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think that metaphor repeats itself again and again and I think that's

:56:30.:56:34.

the incredible power of that place, of that community. I think our

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families didn't look back, they looked forward, they had to. As

:56:39.:56:45.

Vinod described, the brutal images that he lives with. For us, for

:56:46.:56:53.

myself it was important to convey some of that to my son because these

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are the missing pieces of jigsaw in family narratives, you know, history

:56:59.:57:03.

repeats itself and these borders are artificial and it's important we

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reflect on all of these corners of history in order for our next

:57:08.:57:11.

generation, I suppose, to understand the world a better. So I'm really

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pleased that Diren has understood this but also that the communities

:57:24.:57:28.

have looked forward and not back. Gurinder, you have been attending

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events, what has the mood been there? Last night I attended a

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candlelit vigil at the Wagah border. Normally people come from Pakistan

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with candles and also from India but sadly last night the Pakistanis

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weren't allowed permission so just the Indians were there, so that was

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quite sad. I think one of the things you will find in India, where I am

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now in Punjab, is there are not a lot of initiatives between people

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and cultural groups to keep those ties strong, particularly through

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artists and poets, literature. There are great moves to say that yes, the

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land might be divided but actually our hearts are not and our culture.

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Thank you, that is a good point to end the programme on. Thank you,

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all, for your company. I will see 70 years after the

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Partition of India, Anita Rani and three other

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Britons discover how

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