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The biggest ever Paralympic Games is underway. Nearly 4,500

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competitors from more than 160 countries are taking part and there

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are high hopes for Paralympics GB. In the heats, Jonathan Fox in the

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pool and Sarah Storey in cycling have already set new world records.

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And in the velodrome, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were there to

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watch records beong broken, joined by millions of spectators around

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the world. A London university is banned from

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teaching overseas students after an investigation found evidence that

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some non-EU students had no right to be in the country. We are just

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concerned that these are valid students and that they are here for

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a legitimate purpose, and it is for that reason that I say we would be

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horrified if we thought it could be sustained that we were harbouring

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illegal immigrants. A new boss at Barclays Bank -

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Antony Jenkins has worked there for 30 years. His appointment comes as

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the bank faces a criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud

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Office. The United Nations accuses the

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world of failing to respond to a humanitarian crisis in Mali.

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Later on BBC London, will the capital's academic reputation be

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seriously damaged by a ban on foreign students?

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And the three households fighting to stay on a huge empty council

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The biggest ever

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Paralympic Games in history is underway. Nearly 4,500 competitors

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from more than 160 countries are taking part, with high hopes that

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ParalympicsGB will beat its medal tally from four years ago. They've

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had a good start, with two British competitors breaking world records

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this morning. In a moment, we'll have the best of the morning's

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action, but first, Robert Hall reports on the opening of the Games.

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A cause for celebration. Despite the grey clouds and the drizzle,

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there was something magic in the air as the pace of life in this

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huge sporting community slowly gained momentum. Through gates, on

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bridges and terraces, the first of the 2.5 million ticket-holders

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gazed around them and studied them maps, finally at journey's end. The

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Forsyth family had travelled the long road from Wolverhampton.

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this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, especially having our

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son here. Hopefully, the weather will hold out. It is great to see

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all the buildings and what it is like now. And think what it will be

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like in a few years' time. It is good for vision impaired and blind

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people and people with all disabilities. The talking point of

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the morning was last night's spectacular. The fiery fly-past,

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the umbrella theme, which today seemed thoroughly appropriate. The

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thousands of performance who entranced us with music and dance.

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And most of all, the athletes who will thrill and provide column

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inches in the coming days. Games here will be the biggest ever.

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We have 164 nations taking part and have a 4,200 athletes. Three

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nations - China, GB and the USA - have over 200 athletes, while 45

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only have one are competing at the Games. The pieces are in place.

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More than 4,000 Paralympic athletes from around the world on a hunt for

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medals and a venue, once again, packed with those who will be

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willing them on. All everyone needs now is a little blue sky.

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Now to the action, and ParalympicsGB has had a good start

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to its Games. The swimmer Jonathan Fox smashed his own world record in

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the 100-metre backstroke, while the cyclist Sarah Storey set a new

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world record in the individual cycling pursuit. But there was

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disappointment for another gold medal hopeful, Di Coates. She

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failed to reach the final in the air rifle shooting. Here's our

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sports correspondent, Andy Swiss. Under grey skies they came with

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golden hope so. Once again, the fans flocked to the velodrome,

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hoping to see Britain's Paralympics cyclists pick up where the

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Olympians left off. In particular, one of the biggest names of these

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Games - Sarah Storey. Storey has already won seven Olympic golds. It

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could soon be eight. She was qualifying for the individual

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pursuit. The aim was not just to beat her opponent but the times of

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the previous competitors. Ward on by the fans, she was simply

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unstoppable. -- roared on by the fans. She soon lapped her rival and

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raced to a world record. Once again, the velodrome echoed with British

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cheering, including those of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

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Storey was 16 seconds quicker than her opponent. The decibel level was

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once again through the roof. The velodrome has always been a popular

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place for Britain's cyclists. Could they get these Games off to a

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glittering start following the 17 medals in the Olympics? And also

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success in the pool, especially for this man, Jonathan Fox. He made

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tonight's final of the 100 metres backstroke. He won silver in

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Beijing and this time, it should be gold in London. But some

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disappointment. Di Coates failed to make her final in the shooting. But

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there was a rare setback on a bright first morning for

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ParalympicsGB. A London University has been banned

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from teaching students from outside Europe following an investigation

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by the UK Borders Agency. It found evidence that some students at

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London Metropolitan University had no right to be in the UK, while the

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university did just not know whether others were turning up for

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courses. However, the National Union of Students at the ruling was

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unfair and could mean up to 2000 students now face deportation.

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Anxious times at London Metropolitan University. More than

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2000 students have just learned they risk being deported within 60

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days unless they can find a university place elsewhere. Among

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them, Emmanuel Egwu, who says he spent �40,000 on his education here

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so far. It is outrageous. I am totally disturbed. I am worried. My

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parents are worried. I have been here since 2009. My parents have

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spent a lot of money paying tuition fees for me and my living expenses.

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They sold properties back home to make sure they take care of me here

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and this is happening to me. How do you expect me to feel? So how has

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the University ended up in this situation? The Government is

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committed to reducing immigration but it has very few mechanisms at

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his disposal to do that. So it is focusing on foreign students, more

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specifically, bogus students. Those who are not here to study but to

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get a visa. As university administrators took phone calls

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from bewildered students, the Home Office claimed more than a quarter

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of students sample at the university had no reason to remain.

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There on rumours of inadequate levels of English and the

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university did not know whether half of them were turning up for

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lectures. -- there were rumours. could not be allowed to continue.

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The public demands quite rightly proper immigration controls and

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forcing the Immigration Rules is important for universities just as

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it is for employers. London Metropolitan says it will challenge

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the Government's decision. We would be horrified if we thought it could

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be sustained that we were harbouring illegal immigrants.

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Under the guise of being students. So we are investigating the

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accusations that have been made. Students from the University

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gathered outside Downing Street to protest. A task force has been set

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up to help genuine students find places at other universities before

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the 60-day deadline expires. The clock is ticking.

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Meanwhile, latest figures show net migration fell last year by 36,000.

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The figure, which those the number of people entering the UK compared

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with those leaving, is well above the Government's target but

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ministers say it is a sign its policies are working. -- the figure,

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which shows the number of people. Is the Government getting to its

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target? The target is tough. It wants to get the figure back down

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to the 10s rather than the hundreds of thousands. They want to reduce

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the number coming to this country for good as opposed to those

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leaving. It is still over 200,000, down by 30,000. Labour are pointing

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out that the experts at the Office for National Statistics have not

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been very helpful. They say the drop is not statistically

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significant because of the way the numbers are collected but ministers

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are pretty positive and they are positive because of recent figures

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about visas that show the numbers being issued a down pretty sharply.

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Interestingly, in light of the story we heard at the University,

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particularly in the number of student visa has been issued. Given

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where the figures are now, and where they have to be for them to

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hit their target, they have got a long way to go.

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Barclays has chosen somebody from inside the bank to be its new chief

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executive. Antony Jenkins began his career there 30 years ago and said

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he was very proud to be taking the helm. But his appointment comes at

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a difficult time. He replaces Bob Diamond, who resigned amid the

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scandal of the interest-rate fixing scandal. And yesterday, the banks

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said they were being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office.

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It is one of the toughest jobs in banking. A storm over the interest-

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rate fixing scandal sore Diamond quit the top job and out there is a

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newcomer in the seat. It is and -- Antony Jenkins who has been run of

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the retail and business banking operations. So, what do we know

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about the new chief executive, seen here meeting Berkeley's

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apprentices? He did a BBC interview talking about how he met challenges.

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I will put on some rock music if I need to prepare for something

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difficult or I will listen to some classical music if I need to be

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calm. Music can help focus you to the task at hand. The Serious Fraud

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Office said last night it was looking at fees paid by Barclays in

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2008 when it raised funds from shareholders. It was also

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investigating the interest-rate fixing saga at Barclays and other

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banks. So what will be in his pay packet? His basic salary will be

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�1.1 million. His potential maximum bonus will be 2.75 million. Under

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the long-term incentive plan, another 4.4 million a year could

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come his way. Analysts say anybody in the top job deserves that sort

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of pay. I have seen what it has done to executives and how tough it

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is. Every Sunday when he is having his cup of coffee, you will get a

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phone call from Hong Kong about a deal that has gone wrong. It is a

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pupil stop the new Barclays boss is very much a retail banker.

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responsibilities include running be network brunch. Will there be a

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back-to-basics focus on the high Street and the consumer and his

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separation of retail banking? Misty Jenkins said Barclays had made

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serious mistakes. -- Mr Jenkins. He said he would try to repair the

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Bank's reputation but that the journey would take some time.

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We are now going to speak to our love affairs correspondent about

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Tom Crone, who has been arrested. He is a man who has been at lock

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and James Murdoch in terms of the recollection of events that took

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place. -- he has been at loggerheads. He told a committee of

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MPs that he had told James Murdoch as early as 2008 about the famous

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email from Neville Thurlbeck, which suggested a wider problem at News

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of the World rather than one reporter. There was a straight

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contradiction and of their evidence on that point. Also, when Rupert

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Murdoch gave evidence, he said he had been kept in the dark by staff

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at the paper who had covered up the phone-hacking scandal. Tom Crone

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described that as a shameful Life. We -- a shameful lie. We should

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mention that this was part of the Leveson Inquiry.

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Our top story this lunchtime, the Paralympic Games have begun. Two

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Britons have already broken world records in cycling and swimming.

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And coming up, Astra was prepare for a space walk but more than a

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decade on and at a cost of $100 billion, we ask, is the space

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station worth the money? -- astronauts.

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Later on BBC London, offering future athletes do what disabled

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and the prospect. And Laura Robson beads a three-time

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champion at the Open. As nearly 5 million people face

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food shortages in Mali, the UN has accused the world of failing to

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respond to a growing humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands

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of people fleeing their homes because of fighting in the North of

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the country. Baroness Amos has been visiting camps where many of the

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Their lives of this three-year-old and thousands of children in Marley

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hang in the balance. Even the that conflict, drought make them

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vulnerable. War has pushed them to the brink. This child should be far

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taller than she is. She suffers from an advanced form of

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malnutrition. It is a country where there is a chronic malnutrition

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problem. The combination of the drought last year has pushed the

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country into an acute crisis. There are millions of people across the

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country who need help. We do not have the money to help them all.

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The UN humanitarian co-ordinator wants the world to do more. She

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spoke to me on a mobile phone as she toured the country. A want the

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world to remember there is a crisis here. A want people to seek this is

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a crisis that has the face of a child to it. -- I want people to

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see. I would like the international community to give and support.

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I share refer is vulnerable to attack. -- the Niger river. The

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Government fell in a military coup. Islamist rebels allied to Al-Qaeda

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and sees much of the Sahara desert region in the north, destroying

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ancient shrines in Timbuktu. Half a million people displaced by the

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wall in camps inside and outside of the country now face a bleak future.

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In America, the Republican candidate for Vice President, Paul

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Ryan, has promised a turnaround for America if he and Mitt Romney win

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the race for the White House. He told the party's convention in

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Florida that a new administration would create 12 million new jobs in

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four years and hold down public spending - something he accused

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President Obama of not doing enough Businessman, Governor,

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troubleshooter, has burnt. The CV is well known. -- husband. Who is

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Mitt Romney and what does he stand for? On the second night of this

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convention, it fell to his youthful running mate to provide an answer.

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The man is prayerful and a face full and honourable. Not only a

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defender of marriage, he offers an example of marriage at its best. A

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fine businessman and a fine man. After four years of getting a

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runaround, America needs a turnaround. The man for the job is

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Mitt Romney. Tampa this week is a curious mix. The convention and the

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less conventional. We canvassed voters in Ybor City. What comes

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into your mind when I say Mitt Romney? I am unsure. Why are you

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unsure? Nobody gives me information I want. The stuff I'm hearing his

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rhetoric. I do not think he is very genuine. If he were more genuine...

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He is saying what the people want him to say. I do not think he is

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for the common people. So out the summer, Mitt Romney has been

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defined by his opponents. He is painted as a heartless, out of

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touch tycoon. -- Obama is painted. On that stage, Mitt Romney will

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have his best chance - perhaps his last chance - to define himself on

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his own terms. He will be speaking to the partisan audience in this

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court and millions of Americans back home. In two months' time,

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they will decide his fate. The people of New Orleans are breathing

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a sigh of relief as Hurricane Isaac was downgraded to a tropical storm.

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One person has been killed and some parts of the state are suffering

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Hurricane Isaac battered New Orleans. Seven years to the days

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since could -- Hurricane Katrina had devastated the city. It didn't

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have the same power but dumped a lot more rain. This time the

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defences held. This time the city centre was not badly hit. It was

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different outside the protective walls. Dozens of people were

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trapped, after water float and quickly inundated homes. Many had

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to be rescued from their attics, or plucked from the rooftops. It went

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through the ceiling and through the attic. We went into the boat. It is

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very bad. Conditions are still appalling. We have driven half an

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hour from the centre of New Orleans to the community which has been

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worst affected. It has 2000 people. It fell the wrong side of the flood

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defence wall. When the storm hit, the water flooded over the top. The

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level is the level of people's houses. They had to be rescued. The

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force of the hurricane was felt all the way along this section of the

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Gold Coast. Winds battered the shore. With the rain is still

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falling and a high winds rattling the region for a second night, the

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full extent of the impact is still not certain. A gunman dressed in

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Afghan Army uniform has shot dead three Australian members of the

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NATO-led force in Afghanistan. Two other soldiers were wounded. The

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Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said it was the country's

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single worst day in Afghanistan and the news would feel like a physical

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A US astronaut is due to carry out a space walk on the International

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Space Station in the next few minutes - the first by an American

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since the end of the shuttle programme last summer. As these

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things go, it is a relatively routine job. But, with the death of

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Neil Armstrong reminding the world of past space triumphs, and with a

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NASA robot currently roaming around Mars, some in the scientific

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community are questioning whether more than a decade of research on

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the international space station has been worth the $100 billion price

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Big hacks for the new crew of the International Space Station. They

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are ready to get on with the job it was designed for. A project

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involving 15 countries. Its launch was supposed to mark a new

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collaborative era in human spaceflight. Within a few years,

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the brighter start ever will appear in the sky. It will be a sign of

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hope. All these nations are coming together to utilise technology.

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Here is the result. An orbiting laboratory the size of a football

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pitch. What has it been for? On board our experiments to test how

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materials and living organisms behave when that is no gravity. A

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particle detector analyses cosmic rays, to discover mysterious dark

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matter particles. The engineering expertise gained will enable

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astronauts to build space craft and hotels in space. The floating

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around, the view, it is wonderful. On the downside, it is tough to

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sleep. You cannot taste much. Your taste buds get affected by the

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fluid in your logic -- in your body which moves north. Everything

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tastes like blotting paper or cardboard. One small step for man...

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Of ever since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, many thought

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humanity would one day learn to live and work in space. The space

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station was supposed to be a staging post, from which we would

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build bases on the moon and maybe push on to Mars. Since the heady

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days of the Apollo missions, things have been scaled back. The Space

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Station is a hugely significant enterprise. I would like to think

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it is still the staging post to further exploration of the solar

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system. The Curiosity rover and memories of Neil Armstrong have

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revived interest at exploring the red planet. It is hoped that one

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day and asked a novel set foot on Mars. -- an astronaut. More now on

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the Paralympics. And one of the differences in this Games is that

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people with learning difficulties will be taking part for the first

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time in 12 years. The category was banned after the Games in Sydney

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when it emerged that the Spanish basketball team had lied about

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their disabilities. This time, 120 athletes with learning disabilities

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from 34 countries will be taking part. Victoria Bromley, table

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tennis Paralympian. She has a learning disability. She is

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classified to compete in London because of that. For the

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Paralympics, it is a big step. For her, it is a huge opportunity.

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have to do reading and writing, I struggle. I sit there and go, I

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cannot do it. This sport means a lot to me. It is something I know I

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am good at. This is where Victoria Bromley will compete in the table

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tennis. There will be a few learning disabled and athletes in

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swimming and athletics as well. 12 years ago, the Spanish basketball

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team won the learning disability competition. Most of their players

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were not disabled at all. They were stripped of the gold and the policy

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changed. Since then there has been a fight for recognition. They are

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represented by the Special Olympics. There was a World Games last year.

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No lottery funding. Being part of the Paralympics is progress. There

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are 1.2 million people in this country with a learning disability.

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We cater for 8000 of those. Even if another 1000 learning disabled

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athletes come on board, with the aim of taking part in sport and

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perhaps, when they get into the Paralympics, that will be fantastic.

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For many were such disabilities, the goal is just to participate in

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sport. At the Paralympics, Victoria Bromley can show the world she is

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an elite athlete. Finding a message in a bottle is one of the great sea

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faring stories. And now it has a new twist, after the skipper of a

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Scottish fishing boat found one, 98 years after it was released. It is

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a new world record and here is Andrew Leaper with his discovery -

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one of nearly 2,000 released in 1914 as part of an experiment to

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map the currents around Scotland. What is more amazing is that the

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bottle which held the previous record was found by the same

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Now for the weather. It is hit and mess. The heavy showers are

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gradually fading away. They started across the north-west. Some

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torrential downpours this morning. They are heading their way into

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East Anglia. Away from here, it will be cool. The winds are north-

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westerly. That brings in cooler conditions. Winds could gust up to

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gale force later this afternoon. For the rest of the day, in

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Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, the skies will be brighter but it will

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be disappointingly cool. Temperatures around 15 degrees.

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Through the Midlands and central southern England, we could see some

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scattered showers in the afternoon. In south-west England and Wales,

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bright and dry this afternoon. The north-westerly wind is being - as a

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be feeding in the cooler air. Largely dry in Northern Ireland. --

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is feeding in the cooler air. It will be largely dry in Scotland. It

:29:27.:29:33.

will feel caught in the winds. The showers will go this evening and

:29:33.:29:40.

the winds will ease off. Overnight, just look at the temperatures.

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Maybe nine degrees. In the more rural areas, there could be a touch

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of frost. A chilly start for some tomorrow morning. There will be

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sunshine first thing. From the West, a weather system will bring more

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cloud. Damp and drizzly through wires and the south-west. As we

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head into the weekend, we are hoping that high pressure will

:30:09.:30:15.

build. It is not very successful. In the North on Saturday, this

:30:15.:30:21.

weather front will move in. It to be cloudy, wet and windy. Further

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south, not too bad when the sunshine comes out. On Saturday

:30:26.:30:31.

night, we will see the weather systems slowly sinking southwards.

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It will introduce a lot more cloud in southern areas of England. More

:30:37.:30:43.

patchy rain. Towards the end of the weekend there will be more sunshine.

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Temperatures into the low twenties. It is hit and miss for many areas

:30:48.:30:54.

at the weekend. It is the end of summer and the end of August. If

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you would like more information come at you can find out more

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