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Andy Murray becomes the first British man to win a Grand Slam in

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76 years. History is made at the US Open!

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After nearly five hours on court, Murray beat Novak Djokovic in five

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sets to claim his first major singles title. It means the world

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to me. It is what I have been working towards for the last ten

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years of my life. I always wanted to win a Grand Slam.

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In Dunblane, they celebrated into the early hours.

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# Oh Andy Murray! # Fabulous. It is a night for

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Scotland. The UK did well in the Olympics, but this was Scotland!

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The head of the exam regulator Ofqual defends GCSE marking as

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Labour calls for an independent inquiry.

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Three people are killed in a coach crash in Surrey as they travelled

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home from a music festival on the Isle of Wight.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are shown an orchid named Princess

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Diana on their Diamond Jubilee visit to the Far East.

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Later on BBC London: British and French detectives continue their

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investigations into the unexplained murder of the family from Surrey.

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Exporting London's success to Rio - the companies in the capital

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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. It took him five sets

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and almost five hours, but Andy Murray has finally won his first

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Grand Slam title, becoming the first Briton to do so since Fred

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Perry in 1936. Murray beat Novak Djokovic in New York in a thrilling

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US Open final last night. Afterwards, Murray, who has lost

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his four previous Grand Slam finals, said relief was the best word to

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describe his feelings. Andy Swiss joins us from New York.

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Yes, people here in New York really just waking up after a night of

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quite extraordinary drama. A five- hour emotional rollercoaster, but

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what a result for Andy Murray. For so long, the nearly man of

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international tennis, could he finally win that elusive Grand Slam

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title? Last night he did in unforgettable style!

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It was the moment a sporting dream was finally fulfilled. History is

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made at the US Open! Andy Murray had waited his life for this,

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British tennis had waited 76 years. After coming so close so many times,

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the challenger was finally a champion. An emotional moment for

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him and for all who followed his career. Oh my goodness! He's done

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it! He's done it the hard way! He's beaten Novak Djokovic, the

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defending champion, the second best player in the world over five sets,

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over four hours and 54 minutes! my, what a battle it was. The first

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set lasted an hour-and-a-half. Murray clinching a marathon tie-

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break. Djokovic seemed to be wilting, Murray was soon two sets

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up. Victory within his grasp. But Djokovic had other ideas. Back came

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the defending champion. It was into a deciding set. An earlier Murray

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might have buckled, but not this one. Murray raced to victory. A

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stunning performance, at last he had done it! When I realised I had

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won I was obviously a bit shocked. I was very relieved and was very

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emotional for a few minutes afterwards. It was an incredible

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match. An unforgettable night here and an unforgettable night for Andy

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Murray. At last he is a Grand Slam Champion. What a moment for him and

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for British sport. It rounded off a remarkable summer

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for Murray in which he also won Olympic gold. A feat which perhaps

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gave him the belief he needed. Winning that gold medal at

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Wimbledon for the Olympics and reaching the final has been huge in

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the building of his confidence and success. He beat Roger Federer for

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the first time over a five-set final and the way he performed in

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the Wimbledon final, that really should have convinced him the way

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he needed to play if he was going to take home one of these Slams.

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one of sport's longest waits is finally over. For the first time

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since Fred Perry in 1936, a British man has lifted one of tennis's

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ultimate prizes, this unforgettable sporting summer now has the very

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happiest of endings. Yes, an incredible night for Andy

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Murray. A lot of people are asking could this be the first of many

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Grand Slam titles for him? Could he challenge the domination of Roger

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Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic? For now, those questions

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can wait because you suspect Andy Murray will want to soak up this

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extraordinary achievement. Thank you very much. Andy Murray

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grew up in Dunblane and last night thousands of people in his hometown

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stayed up into the early hours to watch him become the first Scot

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ever to win a Grand Slam. They celebrated long into the night.

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Lorna Gordon reports now from Dunblane.

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Oh! It was a night of tension. And in Dunblane, little sleep for those

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who stayed up to watch Andy Murray triumph. CHEERING Andy Murray is a

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great champion. Nobody deserves that more than he does. It is great

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for Dunblane and better for Scotland. This has been a long time

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coming and now we can all relax and just enjoy his tennis from now on.

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The 25-year-old's family are close. And the five-set final was nerve-

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wracking for his grandparents. couldn't believe it for a bit. It

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didn't quite - to me, I kept saying, "He's done it!" It was the same at

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the Olympics. I was in floods of tears at the Olympics. I was so

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proud of him. Dunblane has a gold postbox marking that success. This

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usually understated town and its people today found other ways to

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celebrate. On the courts where Andy Murray started playing tennis, he

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has proved an inspiration. It's really good because we obviously

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want him to win and he will win a lot more. Would you like to be a

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professional tennis player? Definitely. What does Andy Murray

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mean to you then? He is a big inspiration. Through the years of

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toiling and the occasional tears, Dunblane's always been proud of

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their tennis sensation. And they are convinced this is the start of

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even more success to come. Stay with us because later we will

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be talking to Tim Henman about Andy Murray's success and what it means

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for British tennis. The rest of the news. Labour has

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demanded an independent inquiry to look at the marking of this

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summer's GCSEs and the exam regulator Ofqual. Leaked letters

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show the regulator ordered an exam board to make changes so that it

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was harder to earn a C grade in English. Ofqual said it acted

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properly and has a duty to maintain standards.

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Exams are stressful enough, but this year's GCSE English results

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caused a storm. Furious head teachers said the exam boards

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raised the bar half-way through the year making it harder for pupils

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taking the exam in June than for those who had sat it in January.

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MPs today questioned the head of the exams watchdog, wanting to know

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how it could defend the marking of one set of pupils more harshly.

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This is about the future of young people who sat that particular exam

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this year who might not have achieved the A they need for their

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future university prospects and they haven't achieved the C they

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needed. So you are acknowledging it is not fair that some people got

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lucky and it was tough on the rest? We have had a careful look at June

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awarding. One exam board initially resisted attempts by Ofqual to

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downgrade the June papers. Ofqual said it wanted Edexcel to produce

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outcomes that are closer to predictions. Edexcel replied, "Our

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award is is a fair award and we do not believe a further revision is

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justified." Edexcel did comply and today the head of Ofqual said their

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results had been significantly out of line with other exam boards.

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None of this is of comfort to this man, head of a Leeds school which

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saw its English results drop. He said the letters show how changes

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were made just two weeks before the results came out. We can clearly

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see now that Ofqual itself as late as August 9th was pressurising, I

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would say bullying, awarding bodies into changing the grade boundaries

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right at the last minute to achieve a particular forecast target,

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despite the fact that senior examiners were saying, "We must not

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do this." Ofqual stands by its actions but Labour wants an inquiry.

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While there is to be no regrading of papers in England, the Welsh

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Government has ordered the Welsh exam board to remark the English

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language paper. That could mean several hundred Welsh candidates

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getting higher grades than English candidates who took the same exam.

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Three people have died in a coach crash in Surrey as they travelled

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back last night from a music festival on the Isle of Wight. A

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number of others have been seriously injured. The coach

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crashed into a tree near the Hindhead Tunnel on the A3. No other

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vehicles are thought to have been involved. Daniela Relph is at the

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scene for us now. The coach now sits on the other

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side of that red-and-white tent that is behind me here. The police

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officer leading the investigation has described it as a harrowing

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scene and says it is one that will have had a devastating impact on

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all of those on board last night. From above, the back end of the

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white coach can be seen. Its front section is embedded in the oak tree

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it hit. The police will only say the coach was travelling at speed

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on a clear carriageway. Of the three people killed, the bodies of

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two remain inside. One of them is the driver. And removing them is

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now the police priority. As you can imagine, the extraction of the

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bodies from the coach is a very delicate operation and something we

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should take a lot of care over to preserve their dignity and also to

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make sure that we do not compromise the investigation. The important

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thing is the dignity of the people that are involved. The coach

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crashed just before midnight close to the Hindhead Tunnel. Those on

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board had spent the weekend at a music festival on the Isle of Wight.

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The police say conditions on the road were good and the weather

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would not have been a factor. Those injured partyed were taken to a

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number of local hospitals. The most seriously hurt came here to

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Southampton General and to London. The emergency services say a number

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of people have lost limbs. The coach belonged to Merseypride. The

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company said it is shocked at what has happened and is helping Surrey

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and Merseyside Police. The police expect to be at the scene on the A3

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for the rest of the day. Such was the force of the impact, they say

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moving the coach is going to be a difficult and challenging job.

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The focus now is of course on working out why that coach crashed

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so dramatically. The police will be looking at traffic cameras and they

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have already spoken to a couple of witnesses. Crucially, they will be

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speaking to the survivors to see if they can help establish what

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happened here. On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11

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attacks in the United States, it's been announced that survivors will

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be entitled to free monitoring and treatment for around 50 types of

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cancer. The decision also covers members of the emergency services

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who responded to the plane crashes in New York and at the Pentagon,

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and people who were nearby at the time.

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The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, is setting out plans for a

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Government-backed "business bank" to boost lending to UK companies.

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But his latest attempt to promote economic growth has been undermined

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by a report from MPs who described an existing business support scheme

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as a "scandalous failure". Our political correspondent, Norman

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More attempts to boost growth. how would this plan work? We have had

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announcements setting out various initiatives to boost business with

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Vince Cable outlining plans for a bank run by the taxpayer to provide

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funds to small business. But the question mark has always been with

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these announcements how far they trickle down to small business.

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That is why today's report from MPs is so important. They say this fund,

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which was set up to help business in deprived areas, has only managed

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to allocate 5% of its money and create around 5,000 jobs at a cost

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of �60,000 per job. The fund has improved, say Ministers, and half

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of those bidding for money are now eligible for it. It raises the

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question about whether the Government's rhetoric on growth is

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matched by the reality facing businesses on the ground.

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Shadow Chancellor has been speaking today, none too impressed by the

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plans? Yeah. He also got some glancing cries of "rubbish" and

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"shame on you" from delegates at the TUC after he said under a

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Labour Government there would have to be cuts and difficult decisions

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over pay and pensions. I think it underlines the fact that all the

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argument and political fighting we get between the parties over the

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economy, the difference between them is primarily one of pace and

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degree, rather than direction. Our top story this lunchtime:

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Andy Murray becomes the first British man to win a Grand Slam in

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76 years, beating Novak Djokovic in five sets to claim his first major

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singles title. Coming up: unveiled - the state-of-

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the-art mobile technology which will allow 20 million people super-

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fast access to the web by the end of the year.

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On BBC London: Reaping the benefits of the

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Olympics - the Lee Valley White Water rafting centre reopens so the

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public. And the Victorian rebels from

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London - a new exhibition opens on Not so long ago, China's booming

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economy had been the envy of the world. But recently, it has lost

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momentum. Now the Chinese premier has promised tax cuts and other

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measures to encourage consumers to spend more, in a bid to reverse an

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economic slowdown. Wen Jiabao told business leaders at the World

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Economic Forum that China could still achieve robust growth.

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Of all China's giant new cities, Tianjin was last year the fastest

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growing of all. Fields of skyscrapers rising to create a new

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financial district modelled on Manhattan. But like the rest of

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China, the economy is now slowing, and fast. Today the key City paid

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her to China's premier, here to give his swansong speech to 2000

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business leaders. Wen Jiabao is preparing to step down after ten

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years in power, a decade during which China's economy has faltered

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others to become the second-biggest. TRANSLATION: The giant ship of the

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Chinese economy will sail ahead fast, yet steadily, and reached the

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shore of a brighter future. But the premier warned that this year,

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China may turn in its worst performance for 20 years.

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TRANSLATION: The international financial crisis has entered its

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fifth year, yet its underlying impact this still with us. Advanced

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and emerging economies are all experiencing an economic slowdown.

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Tianjin and other cities are now deeply in debt. They can't spend

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their way out of this downturn the way they did three years ago.

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China's exporters have seen sales to Europe slump. Its factories

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employ 200 million people, and they are struggling. Meanwhile, China's

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own consumers are facing rising prices and are reluctant to spend

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their cash, so they have not picked up the slack. And there are other

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worries. This is the man expected to take over the leadership of the

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Communist Party this autumn. He has not been seen in public for days.

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Rumours are swirling about his health, even that there may be a

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power struggle, unlikely as that is. China's leaders are used to being

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fated to presiding over economic growth and appearing to be masters

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of their own universe. They are now preparing to step aside just at a

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time when they have been buffeted by rumours and scandals, and most

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serious of all, when China's incredible growth story may be

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running out of steam. The health service watchdog,

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Monitor, has ordered a rescue plan for a hospital trust that was at

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the centre of one of the biggest scandals in NHS history. Our health

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correspondent is in our central London studios. What is it that

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Monitor are saying? It is three- and-a-half-year since the health

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service regulator went into mid- Staffordshire NHS Trust and

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produced a damning report, describing appalling standards of

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care. That had a huge impact. People said this must never be

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allowed to happen again. Concerted efforts were put in place to turn

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this just round. But since then, there have been continuing problems

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with clinical care, for instance with recruiting enough staff to

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keep the accident and emergency unit open day and night. There were

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also problems at the breast cancer surgery unit, described recently as

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deeply dysfunctional. And alongside this, there have been continuing

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financial problems. The trust has been running a big deficit year

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after year, and Monitor, the NHS financial watchdog in England, is

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sending in a rescue team to ensure that local services there are

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sustainable for the longer term. That could mean changes to services

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in that area. For patient groups in that area, they say they are

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dismayed. They were hoping the trust was beginning to get its act

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together. Now they are worried that that is not the case.

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By the end of this year, 20 million people in the UK will have access

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to state-of-the-art mobile technology, allowing you to

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download high-definition films in just minutes and giving you

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uninterrupted access to the web while on the move. The UK's first

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fourth generation mobile service is being launched in 16 cities,

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providing speeds up to five times faster than the current 3G phones

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and devices. Our technology correspondent has been finding out

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more at the launch. Here at the Science Museum, we have

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just seen the launch of Britain's first 4G network by Everything

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Everywhere, probably better known to most of you by -- as T-Mobile

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and Orange. So why does 4G matter? Stuart Miles from the gadget to

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blog pocketlint.com is with me. He has a 4G phone, I have a 3G phone.

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Let's start at the test. There is my speed test going up on the 3G

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phone. It is going to go up to four or five megabits per second, nearly

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six. Here is the 4G foam, and that has gone all the way up to 33

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megabits per second. If fit is five or six or seven times faster. Why

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is this important? Of more of us are using data online on our mobile

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phones. That means we are downloading apps and surfing

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websites like the BBC. Well everybody be able to get this in a

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hurry? You will need a new phone. You will need a new phone. You also

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need to be on the Everything Everywhere network, and you will

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only be able to get it in 16 cities before Christmas initially.

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rival networks are cross about this launch. Why is that? They have not

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been able to get a 4G network up and running, because they have

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still got to buy the network, and that will not happen for another

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six months. So Vodafone and CO2 will be playing catch-up. Is this

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an important day for British technology? Of it is exciting,

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because now we will be able to surf the internet quicker on the gold.

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That means new things we can explore. Doing everything faster

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can only be better for everybody. That is supposed to be our 4G

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future. But it may take time for people to get the handsets they

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need to make it work. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

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have arrived in Singapore at the start of a nine-day visit to South

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East Asia and the South Pacific to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

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Prince William and Katherine started their tour at Singapore's

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Botanic Gardens, where they were shown an orchid named after Diana,

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Princess of Wales. It is only their second official

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tour to gather outside Britain, and at the Queen's request, William and

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Kate have come to south-east Asia to mark the Diamond Jubilee. Their

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first engagement was a poignant one. They came to Singapore's Botanical

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Gardens to see an awkward named in honour of William's mother, Diana.

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She never saw it, de Gea, said William. And indeed that was so.

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Diana was killed two weeks before a planned visit to Singapore in the

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quarter of 1997. For William, a moment of reflection. And then

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another orchid, and something to celebrate. This one is called

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William Catherine. It has been bred specially to mark their visit. It

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looks like Royal tourism, and of course to an extent, it is. The

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orchids have been done in little more than ten minutes. But

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alongside the super-fast site seeing, there is a serious purpose

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to royal tours like this. Over the next eight days, first here in

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Singapore and then in Malaysia and finally in some of the islands of

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the South Pacific, the couple will promote British interests and

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pursue issues which matter to them personally. Kate will make a speech

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in Kuala Lumpur about the importance of the hospice movement.

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And in the remote rainforests of Malaysian Borneo, they will have a

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chance to see the work being done to protect the forests and the

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around the towns which live in them. So for William and Kate, a romantic

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setting and intense scrutiny. Pretty much every step of the way,

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every change of average by her and every gesture by both of them will

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be closely examined as one of the world's Highers profile couples

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resume their international travels. Let's go back to our main story,

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Andy Murray's triumph in the US Open, making him the first British

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player to win a Grand Slam for 76 years. We can talk to a man who

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knows what it is like to have the weight of a nation's tennis hopes

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on his shoulders. Tim Henman joins us from Wimbledon. You have watched

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Andy Murray closely over the years. What did you make of the match?

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was fantastic. It was certainly a late night for everyone. The whole

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nature of the match and the circumstances were incredible. It

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showed his real mental fortitude, that he could be up for 2-0 and be

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so close to winning his first Grand Slam, but then Djokovic was able to

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win the third and fourth sets. One of the best aspects was how

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physically strong Murray was. It was Djokovic that was struggling in

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the fifth set. He was struggling to find their way to get across the

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finishing line and get the first -- to get the first of hopefully many

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Grand Slams was a great achievement. He said one of his first emotions

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was pure relief. He has come so close so many times. Absolutely. He

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has been in four Grand Slam finals before and lost on every occasion.

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That is where Ivan Lendl probably had a big part to play. He lost his

:25:52.:25:56.

first four Grand Slam finals. In the past, when Murray has dealt

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with adversity, sometimes he has got frustrated and has not dealt

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with it so well. But in the third and fourth sets, he never really

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panicked. It was not going the way he wanted after a promising start,

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but he was able to turn this around and finish the fifth set in

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emphatic fashion. And they would like this, plus his Olympic gold,

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must give him a huge confidence going into the future. Will this be

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a turning point for him? To win gold at Wimbledon in the Olympics

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was a big turning point. He beat Federer in a best-of-five sets

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match. The gold medal gave him a massive amount of confidence. I

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have said for some time that I thought he would win many Grand

:26:39.:26:43.

Slams, but the first would be the hardest. It was an incredible

:26:43.:26:47.

effort to beat Djokovic, the defending champion and the best in

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the world for a long time. It is a huge achievement. I expect him to

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kick on, because there are still areas where he can improve in his

:26:55.:27:05.
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game. He is very motivated, and it The wind has blown in a cooler and

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fresher feel for all of us today. But it is quite pleasant when the

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sunshine comes through. But there is a scattering of showers in the

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afternoon. Today, we are between two large areas of cloud. One of

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them is coming in tomorrow. This band of cloud gave us some rain

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overnight. But this curl of cloud is keeping a lot of showers going

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in the north and west of Scotland. Most of them are light. A bit drier

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in the east of Scotland. There will be showers in England as well, and

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not just in the north-west. Some of them may sneak into the Midlands.

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Much of southern England will be dry. Despite the sunshine, there is

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a much colder feel that we had yesterday. In the south-west of

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England, the sunshine will be turning hazy as that cloud arrives

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from the West. There is sunshine across Wales. Quite a lot of

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showers to come in Northern Ireland for the rest of today. As the winds

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ease this evening, the showers will retreat to western coasts. But

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later in the night, it turns wetter again in north and Ireland --

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Northern Ireland. Much of Scotland will have a chilly start to

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Wednesday, but a sunny one. A wet start for Northern Ireland,

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improving here. An untidy day on Wednesday. Showery bursts of rain

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push eastwards across England and Wales. But then conditions improve

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for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Feeling much like today, although

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the winds will be lighter. Wednesday night will be the coldest

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night of the week. Temperatures hold up in towns and cities, but in

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rural areas, we will not be far off freezing by Thursday morning. That

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is because we have a bump of high pressure, keeping things strife.

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Storm Lesley is a long way from us, but it will influence our weather

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through Thursday and into Thursday night. There will be gusts of 60

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mph in Scotland. But for most of England and Wales, Thursday will be

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a dry day, with a good deal of sunshine. Temperatures will be

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about average for this time of year. Towards the end of the week and

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over the weekend, with the winds ease in, it should begin to turn

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A reminder of our top story: Andy Murray becomes the first British

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