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Thousands of Olympians leave London after the finale of the 2012 Games.

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More than 26 million people tuned in to watch the three-hour Closing

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Ceremony last night, as 16 days of sporting drama came to an end.

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said at the beginning of this these would be a Games for everyone. I

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think by the end of last night, we were able to say these were Games

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by everyone. The Olympic flame is now out and the Games have been

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passed on to Rio for 2016. Now, the clear-up begins. In just over two

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weeks' time the Paralympics get under way. In other news; Stuart

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Hazell, the man accused of murdering 12-year-old Tia Sharp is

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remanded in custody after appearing in court. Exercising his power -

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Egypt's new President orders two generals to retire, saying it is

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for the benefit of the nation. And Rory McIlroy has become the

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youngest player since Seve Ballesteros to win two of golf's

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Majors. This afternoon on BBC London: A

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sporting legacy - the Mayor says more than 3,000 people have come

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forward to get involved with sport Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC

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News at 1pm. The exodus has begun as thousands of athletes begin to

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leave the Olympic Park. More than 26 million people watched the

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Closing Ceremony on television, as the Olympic flame was finally

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extinguished this morning Lord Coe thanked the athletes for creating

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moments of heroism and heartbreak. He thanked the spectators for their

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moments of generousty and the volunteers for being the best ever.

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James is in a rather empty Olympic Park for us. Two things London had

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to get right - security and transport. Two big challenges which

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could have threatened the success of the Games. They were one of the

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biggest strengths came through - that is its people, both the

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volunteers and the spectators. They ended with a good old sing

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along, a festival of music, which brought to a close a festival of

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sport, has left its mark on this nation in a way few had predicted.

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If there was a nervousness about what was in store for London, this

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was a celebration, a realisation that the Olympics could have hardly

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gone any better. The morning after the night before - checkout time at

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the athlete's villages. Some of Britain's winners were taking more

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than medals home. Why not? These are memorys that need to last a

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lifetime. I would like to thank, finally, everybody in the UK that

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has made, what we have witnessed over the last two weeks and what we

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will witness in a fortnight's time, possible. I said last night that we

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said at the beginning of this, these would be a Games for everyone.

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I think by the end of last night, we were able to say these were a

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Games by everyone. There was a very London feel at Heathrow. This is

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the airport as you have not seen it before. A special terminal was

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built to ease the athletes' departures. As they go it will be

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just the British left behind. A Team GB basking in the glory of 29

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gold medals. We have done it and done it in

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style! Mo Farah, for Great Britain... It's gold! Oh, my

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goodness! The final Team GB gold came

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yesterday afternoon in the boxing ring. Anthony Joshua won the su

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heavyweight title. Aged just 22, his future is likely to be as a

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professional rather than an Olympian. I am still a raw talent.

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To be an Olympic champion on a raw talent, hopefully when everyone

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starts to fall into place I will be dominating the heavyweights easier.

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Team GB's 49 medals in Beijing was exceptional.

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I am so happy that I have the last Olympic medal for Great Britain. It

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will be with me for the rest of my life. It's a great achievement. I

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just hope that I have fulfiled the Moto of the Olympics and that is

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inspire the next generation. I hope someone somewhere is hoping to give

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pentathlon a go. So London's Games are over. The flame is extinguished.

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Those who spent seven years planning all this will work hard to

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make sure the legacy lives on. 16 days until the start of the

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Paralympics. Tickets are selling fast. It looks like the Games could

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be a sell out. There has been one reminder of the challenges still

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facing the Olympic movement - the women's winner of the shot put from

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Belarus has been stripped of her gold medal today after being --

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testing positive for drugs. temporary terminal has been set up

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at Heathrow. How busy has it been today? It has

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been pretty busy. The party is over. It is time to go home, whether you

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want to or not. We have seen quite a few athletes passing through here,

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looking bleerry eyed and decidedly worse for wear after last night's

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celebrations. That is to be expected, I suppose. This is

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usually a car park. They have created a London Green Park, with

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artificial grass, park benches, all to make the athletes feel

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comfortable as they come through. They are being checked in here and

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bused to their terminals, where regular passengers may get a chance

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to meet some of their heroes later on. Heathrow is expecting it to be

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their busiest day. The exodus will continue for the next couple of

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days won't it? That is right. Probably the busiest day in their

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history, with up to 6,000 athletes today. This will continue for a

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couple more days. It has been interesting speaking to the

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athletes, all very positive impressions of London 2012. They

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are being asked to put their favourite memory on that tree over

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there. I don't know if you can see it behind me. Many saying their

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favourite memory was winning a medal. Others talk about the

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volunteers, talk about the crowds. All the messages will be collated

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into a book and presented to the volunteers who have made these

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Games so special. Thank you very much. As soon as the Closing

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Ceremony finished last night, the organisers of London 2012 began to

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prepare for the Paralympics which start in just over a fortnight. The

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Olympic Park is closed, while the transformation takes place.

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For two weeks this place was the centre of the world. Now, gone are

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all the crowds and the attention. This morning n the athletes'

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village, perhaps a few hangovers needed to be worked off, after last

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night's Closing Ceremony. Even a chance to smoke - a guilty pleasure

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denied for weeks. 20,000 journalists told the stories of

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these Games. Today, some were packing up. They fed the appetite

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of billions around the globe. Now their cameras and equipment sit

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idle. And the hundreds of people running food and gift stores - they

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too have shut up shop, for now. The end of one Games has heralded the

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start of another. This was the warm-up pitch for the Olympic

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hockey. It will turn into the five- aside Paralympic football venue. We

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have a field all in this blue area. All you see now we will transform

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into a football stadium. We have about a week to do it. That is just

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one of the venues that must be adapted. Obviously one of the

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things you have to bear in mind for the Paralympics is the individual

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athletes and their impairment and what accessibility they need. LOCOG

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have done a great job in making sure this is an accessible park and

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village. I am sure it will be fine. When all the sport is over, what

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then? Some venues will go like the basketball and water polo pool. In

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will come more housing. In a sense, the real work begins now. The

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Olympics and Paralympics are the start of a long process of

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regeneration. The challenge, once the cameras and superstars have all

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gone, will be to maintain this park, as a place the pb lick still want

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to come to -- the public still want to come to after the euphoria of

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the Games. All eyes will now be on the Paralympians, as their emblem

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replaces the five rings. The rest of the news now and the

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man accused of murdering 12-year- old Tia Sharp in London has been

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remanded in custody. Stuart Hazell, who is 37, was charged after a body

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was found in the house in New Addington that he shares with the

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schoolgirl's grandmother. Stuart Hazell, minutes before he was

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recognised by on-lookers and arrested by police. They had found

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the body of Tia Sharp in the loft of the house he shared with her

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grandmother. It was in a black bag, wrapped in a sheet. Stuart Hazell n

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a blue T-shirt, appeared from a police station via a video link.

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That is unusual at this stage of a case. It may reflect concerns that

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the hearing might be disrupted by members of the public. He confirmed

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he understood the charge and was told his case will be passed to the

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Old Bailey. Though Stuart Hazell has been charged with Tia Sharp's

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murder, the body has not been yet formally identified. The postmortem

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has begun, but it will take some days and a result is not expected

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until later on this week. The police have been carrying out a

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forensic examination of the house. After admitting at the weekend that

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two separate searches and a visit by a police body recovery dog did

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not find Tia for a week, even though the location where she was

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finally found had been checked. Tia's mother visited the memorial

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yesterday. Her grandmother, who had been arrested has now been released

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on bail, along with a neighbour, who is under suspicion of helping a

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suspect. Stuart Hazell has protested his innocence in a TV

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interview, saying Tia was like his own daughter and he loved her to

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bits. Thousands of Jobcentre staff are on strike today over what they

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are calling oppressive working conditions and unrealistic targets.

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More than 6,000 call-centre employees across England, Scotland

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and Wales are repeating industrial action taken in May this year. The

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Department for Work and Pensions says it has gone to great lengths

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to resolve the issues raised. The Foreign Office has urged British

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nationals in the Canary Islands to stay in touch, as wildfires

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continue to burn out of control on two islands, Tenerife and La Gomera.

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The travel association ABTA said the fires had not affected holiday

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resorts, but some excursions in Tenerife had been suspended.

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Our top story: Thousands of Olympians fly out of London after

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the finale of the 2012 Games. More than 26 million people tuned in to

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watch the Closing Ceremony last night. Coming up: Rory McIlroy's

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big win. He has become the youngest player since Seve Ballesteros to

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Thousands of supporters of Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, have

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been celebrating in Tahrir Square in Cairo after he sacked two

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generals. The removal of the defence minister and his chief of

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staff is being seen as a sign that the civilian president intends to

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take powers from the military. James Robbins reports.

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This is a huge moment for Egypt and the wider world as the country's

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elected President moves to end the army's dominant role and to push

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forward Egypt's unfinished revolution. The man chosen only

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seven weeks ago to lead the country, President Mohammad Morsi, has taken

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two risks. Sacking the Armed Forces chief who hoped to protect military

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power and privilege. And, at the same time, the President has

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cancelled the service chiefs' decree giving them veto powers over

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change. To go back 18 months and protesters in Tahrir Square were

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demanding the downfall of President Mubarak's regime. They got that

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victory but could not be sure of the army's position. Always central

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to the regime but also holding on to power with him gone. The nations

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that in the new president and Egypt Field-Marshal were bound to be

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tense. He decreed ultimate power should stay with them. Now the

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President has reversed that decree and forced the top two men into the

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time it but Mohammed Morsi was very careful to keep the rest of the

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army on side and the people behind him.

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TRANSLATION: To the Honourable Egyptian people, the decisions I

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took today were not meant ever to target certain persons or in Paris

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institutions. Or could my aim ever to be too narrow freedoms for those

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whom God created free. The sackings made more headlines

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for each its people to digest. Is this a President securing democracy

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and civilian rule or and Islamic leader taking too much power for

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himself? The countries no longer under military rule, says this man

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on his way to work. Egypt will become a civil state in which

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everyone will be entitled to their rights. But another man worries the

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generals were treated harshly. These people lead the country, he

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says, through difficult times and should not be put on retirement or

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the sudden. -- all of a sudden. President Morsi

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decided to act now, perhaps because Egypt's military chiefs were

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damaged by last week's failure to prevent the killing of 16 border

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guards by Islamist militants in Sinai last week. But still it's a

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risk. And Egypt's revolution may still not be complete. James, thank

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you very much. The Vatican has announced that the

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Pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, will stand trial on

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charges of stealing and leaking secret Vatican documents to

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journalists. Mr Gabriele, who's 46, was arrested in May. A second

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Vatican employee, accused of being his accomplice, faces similar

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charges. An official day of mourning has

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begun in north-western Iran where 300 people were killed by two

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earthquakes on Saturday. Thousands of people whose homes have

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collapsed are living in temporary shelters.

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The trial has started today of a man accused of murdering six people,

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including three children, in a knife attack on the island of

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Jersey last year. Polish citizen Damian Rrzeszowski has admitted to

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manslaughter due to diminished resonsibility. Our correspondent

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Robert Hall reports from the Royal court in St Hellier. Viewers may

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find some of the details in his report distressing.

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He arrived to face trial of 12 months after the deaths which shook

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his peaceful island. Damian Rrzeszowski, the man who killed his

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family after a summer barbecue at his flat less than a mile from the

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courtroom. The court heard that Damian Rrzeszowski had experienced

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difficulties with his marriage and had returned from Poland with his

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wife and their two children. At around 2:45pm, that afternoon, he

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launched an attack. His father-in- law was stabbed as he watched TV in

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his bedroom. His two-and-a-half year-old died as he painted

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pictures at the dining room table with 13 stab wounds. His five-year-

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old sister was attacked alongside him. Her friend also five, died in

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the hallway of the ground floor flat. Her mother, badly injured,

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managed to escape to the front door but died in the street. Damian

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Rrzeszowski produced -- just his wife from room to room following it

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through a window, the front door, and onto the pavement where he

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attacked her in front of neighbours. By the time emergency services

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arrived, he had used the knife on himself. He told police he could

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remember little of his actions. The prosecution counsel told the court

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that Damian Rrzeszowski had been stressed over the potential

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breakdown of his marriage and had been unable to control his emotions.

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Violence had been bottled up inside him like a pressure cooker. It was

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a potent mix of characteristics, he said, and but it was not diminished

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responsibility. Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy has

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become the youngest player since Seve Ballesteros to win two Major

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golf championships. The 23-year-old from County Down won the US PGA

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Championship by a record eight shots. He's younger than Tiger

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Woods was when he won his second Major. And as Mark Simpson reports,

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the first thing McIlroy did after winning last night was thank his

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mum and dad. He won it in style. A quite

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extraordinary performance. By winning the US PGA Tour by eight

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shots, Rory McIlroy tore up the record books. He is one of the

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youngest men to win two major championships. It's been a

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remarkable journey from Northern Ireland. Your father is with you.

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What does it mean to share this with your father? It's great.

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Wherever he is, thanks, mum and dad. She's watching at home, I'm sure.

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Before his latest victory, Rory McIlroy had had a disappointing

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season by his own high standards. Some claimed he was spending too

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much time with his girlfriend. The Danish tennis player, Caroline was

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any ackee, but in Hollywood, County Down, no one ever doubted him.

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Everyone has an opinion. He just showed on the golf course what is

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capable of and to have two majors by the age of 23 is obviously

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fantastic. A club is trying to find the next Rory McIlroy. With summer

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camps for the local children. Rory McIlroy now spends more time closer

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to Hollywood USA than Hollywood, County Down. But here on the

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streets of his home town, he's not forgotten. Every time he wins a big

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tournament, that a cream makes special biscuits. And, in recent

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years, I have had plenty of practice. As for the man himself,

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he's hungry for more major victories and with Gulf included at

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the next Olympic Games, he could turn his silverware into gold --

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golf. Let's return to the Olympics now.

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Greg Searle won an Olympic Bronze for Team GB in rowing as part of

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the Men's Eight. But 20 years after he won a gold medal in Barcelona.

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Lovely to see you. How was last night? A great night. Fantastic

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that we have put on such a good show. I think we are so proud. We

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do music quite well for quite a while, and we are doing sport as

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well at a high level now, so it was a good event. What, for you, was

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the highlight of the Games? There's so many. I know everybody says that.

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For me, just walking into the venue before the race. The home crowd

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cheering and clapping and chanting our names. As we came into the

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venue, the hairs on my arms stood up and I had shivers down my spine.

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It was special to have that support behind us. The question is, Team GB

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has this extraordinary haul of medals, a huge number of gold

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medals, so how do you keep the momentum going now? That's the

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challenge now. Back in 1996, when we did very badly at the Olympics,

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we had a National Lottery backing and we now see success 16 years

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later. This time around, we have to make sure we capitalise when we are

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at the top and don't get complacent. I think people will get involved in

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sport that maybe they have seen in the last few weeks but never really

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tried. That's going to be the crucial thing, isn't it? The whole

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point of these games was to inspire a generation. That is going to be

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the real test, isn't it? Yes, whether people get into the sport

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and go and try them and have some fun. I do know there are programme

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is going on, so many little programmes and charities, but ideas

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of clubs are opening their doors and say, bring down the people if

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you are a beginning. Come down and try it. Do the same if it is Water

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Polo, hockey, netball. It's a great sport. Get down there for that I

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think the most important thing, we need to recognise what Rory McIlroy

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just spoke about, his parents. And the role they played in his career.

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If my parents had not made the effort, taking me a long and

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putting sport in front of me, I wouldn't have had a chance to do it,

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so I think we can't just expected to happen but, as parents, we have

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got to get involved. We rely on a coat is and volunteers to give

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their time but we need people to do that, and maybe we will get some

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more backing for it, as well. have got three Olympic medals now,

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including your gold 20 years ago. What has it been for Team GB who

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have these medals in front of the home crowd? It's very hard to

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describe. It's an immense pride to be part of this team, not just Team

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GB but part of London, and the whole thing has gone so well. If I

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wanted to describe it as a feeling, I guess it's a bit like, as a team,

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we have delivered. And anybody has opened up at present and are

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looking at it and saying, this is just what I always wanted for the

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it's a pretty good feeling to be on the giving side of that. Lovely.

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Thank you very much. The Olympic flame is due to arrive

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later today in Rio de Janeiro, host city of the 2016 Games. Brazil is

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the world's sixth biggest economy and organisers there say the Games

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will mark a great transformation for the country. From Rio, Quentin

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Sommerville sent this report. Brazil on the Olympic stage. South

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America gets ready for its first ever Olympic Games. As London said

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goodbye, the mayor of Rio to possession of the Olympic flag.

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put a lot of weight on our shoulders because it was so good so

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we have to do it better but it all to do with passion and a

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transformation. It's going to be great games. In an apartment in

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Brazil, some friends gathered to watch the ceremony for the the

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London spectacular will be hard to top, they agreed, but Rio can

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deliver a great Olympics. We have lots of problems. TWI have an

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expertise to make, for a month, everything working very well. Maybe

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after that, we will have the same problems. A more stunning backdrop,

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it would be hard to find but the coastal roads make the city

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difficult to get around. A huge transport upgrade is under way. Rio

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says it will be ready but not since Athens have so many questions been

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raised about the readiness of an Olympic host. Of staging the Games

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is a source of pride for people here. They say the Olympics will be

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good for Brazil's self-respect as well as its international

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reputation. It is still four years until the first events take place

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on the beaches here in the Rio but Brazil's Olympic journey is well

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and truly under way. The flag is coming from London and it will

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arrive here later today. After their triumphs at the

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Olympics, some of Team GB's athletes have been turning their

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:25:49.:25:55.

# Don't stop me now... #. Jessica Ennis, Sir Chris Hoy and

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Victoria Pendleton were among some of Britain's top Olympians

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performing a version of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. The clip was

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filmed above the Westfield shopping centre's car park, near the Olympic

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Park. It shows the athletes strumming air guitars and lip-

:26:06.:26:16.
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A little bit of sunshine in that. After these wonderful Olympics,

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wonderful weather? I think it's Isn't it ironic now the Olympics

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have closed, the final ceremony is over and the weather is going to

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Turner. Yes, very grey skies around me at the moment with a band of

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rain from the West. A real contrast in temperatures. Yesterday, up to

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27 degrees across the board. Today, seven degrees less for some areas

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but in Belfast, actually, it will be warmer today. At the moment, the

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radar shows it has been raining in Northern Ireland, western Scotland,

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Wales and south-west England and heading eastwards. The same for

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central and eastern areas. If it is dry and bright, it won't last but

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it will turn grey with outbreaks of rain. It is heaviest through

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western Scotland in the afternoon. Fragmenting as it moves its way

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through England and Wales. Worth pointing out for south-west England

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and Wales, yes, the sunshine will return, but then it showers will

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develop and some of those will be heavy falls of Northern Ireland,

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yes, you will also season sunshine but watch out for showers which are

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heavy with the risk of thunder. Fairly grey and damp for much of

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the day across much of Scotland. Cooler than yesterday with

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outbreaks of rain and for Northern England, the Midlands, expect grey

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skies to lurk as we go through the coming hours were outbreaks of rain.

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In the Far East of England, Norfolk and Suffolk and Kent, the brightest

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weather and here, the best of the temperatures, as well. This evening

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and overnight, the rain were edged eastwards. The last of the showers

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will fade away but it will be a mild night. 16-17 degrees across

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the board with some mist and fog patches developing, as well.

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Tomorrow, looking very different from today. It is a story of

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sunshine and showers. The sunshine first ball and then the showers

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will develop through the day. Fairly widespread, heavy and

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certainly thundery. But still, in the sunshine, temperatures in the

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high teens and low twenties, feeling humid. The weather, though,

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takes it down will turn as we head through to Wednesday. A deep area

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of low pressure driving in from the West. The isobars will come closer

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together and it will turn windy and then the rain will move and as well

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so, by Wednesday, it will turn a very wet and very windy. Gales in

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the south-west and the north, as well. Outbreaks of rain it for that

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it could be heavy and we could see an inshore more and as we head

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towards the weekend, things remain Typical. Thank you. That's it.

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After 17 days of sporting drama, London's golden Games came to an

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end with a spectacular closing ceremony. Lord Coe said it had been

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a wonderful Games in a wonderful city. We'll leave you with some

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