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The BBC's Director-General faces hostile questions from MPs over the

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Corporation's handling of Jimmy Savile's years of sexual abuse.

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George Entwistle denied a cover-up, at the BBC had seemed to allow the

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presenter to get away with it. is a gravely serious matter and one

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cannot look back at it with anything other than horror that his

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activities went on as long as they did undetected and of course, that

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is a matter of grave regret to me. Mr Entwistle said he regretted the

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tribute programmes to Savile and said the Newsnight investigation

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into his paedophile activities should have gone ahead.

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There was clearly some good journalistic material here and even

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if there wasn't a prospect of a media transmission a continueal

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investigation. As Savile's victims consider legal

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action, frustration that their accusations were never heard.

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all that stress, that's what made me angry, the fact that that I had

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gone through that stress when I needed to concentrate on getting

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well and then they never used it. The other headlines:

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A court hears more details of an alleged plot to carry out a bombing

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campaign on a scale greater than the 2005 London bombings.

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Claims of a U-turn as a controversial Government plan to

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cull thousands of badgers in England is postponed for a year.

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And destination Derry, 20 years after the Troubles a new tourist

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guide says it's now one of the top Rft A court hears gang violence led

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to the Boxing Day death of a Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News at One. The Director-General of the BBC,

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George Entwistle, has defended the Corporation's response to the Jimmy

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Savile sex abuse scandal, but accepted it had raised questions of

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trust. Describing Savile's behaviour as "very, very grave", he

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told the Commons Media Select Committee there had been no cover-

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up at the BBC, but said the Culture and Practices at the time had

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seemed to allow the presenter to get away with it. When asked if it

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had been a failure by him to ask further questions about a Newsnight

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investigation into Savile, Mr Entwistle said he didn't want to

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show "undue interest" and affect editorial decisions. David Sillito

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After weeks of what the BBC has accepted are horrific revelations

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of sexual abuse by one of its stars, there were to be many difficult

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questions for the BBC's Director- General about what it had done or

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failed to do over Jimmy Savile. BBC's reputation for trust and

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integrity is one of the most precious assets and yet, do you not

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accept that that is in jeopardy as a result of some of the suggestions

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that have been made in the last few weeks? There is no question what

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Jimmy Savile did and the way the BBC behaved in the years that, the

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culture and the practises of the BBC seems to allow Jimmy Savile to

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do what he did will raise questions of trust to us and reputation for

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us. There is no question about that. This is a gravely serious matter

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and one cannot look back at it with anything other than horror frankly.

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So what did he know about the wider allegations of sexual harassment

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that had come to light in the wake of the scandal? How many are there?

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How many are you looking at? We're looking at between five and ten

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serious allegations relating to activities, but over the whole

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period in question, the Savile period.

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But what about people employed by the BBC? Well, I believe they are

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included in them. Following last night's Panorama

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investigation into the BBC and and Savile, could he say anything about

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allegations there may have been a paedophile ring operating in the

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BBC? There was an allegation there was a sort of a paedophile ring at

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the BBC. Do you have the BBC taken any steps to identify who was

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involved in that paedophile ring? That's an allegation I have seen

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made in the last few days and it is something that we are putting our

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resources at the disposal of the police in. A paedophile ring would

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be a matter for a police investigation and we are making -

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we are taking every step we can to support the police in investigating

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that. And then the crux of last night's

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programme, the decision by Newsnight's editor last year to not

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broadcast allegations about Jimmy Savile.

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Mr Entwistle, do you now accept in the light of last night's Panorama

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that the decision to drop the Newsnight investigation was a

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catastrophic mistake I came away from the Panorama firlly of the

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view -- firmy of the view that that investigation, even if it wasn't

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ready for transmission should have been allowed to continue.

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A clear statement then about Newsnight's editorial decision and

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he was clearer about the justification for that decision.

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The Director-General has in the past said Newsnight's investigation

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wasn't focused on the allegations, but the police investigation, but

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that and other parts of the explanation, it seems, are now

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wrong. There is no doubt here in my mind

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that for us to have published a blog with these inaccurate details

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is regrettable. But the key point was to establish what the

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inaccuracies were and publish that account which is what we've done.

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And was there pressure from above when he was told about the

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investigation by the Head of News, Helen boden just at a time when he

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was planning two tributes to Jimmy Savile. But you are told that one

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of the flagship investigative programmes on the BBC is looking

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into one of the most iconic figures who you are about to commission

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huge tributes to and you don't want to know what it is? It wasn't

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because I didn't want to know. Halfs in my mind was the

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determination not to show undue interest.

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So even with two independent inquiries inquiries yet to report,

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there is discomfort within the BBC. Both about what has happened and

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Since Jimmy Savile's death last year, scores of women and several

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men have come forward to say that he abused them when they were

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children or teenagers. Police have identified more than 200 potential

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victims. Some are now considering legal action. Richard Lister has

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He was, it seems, a paedophile, hiding in plain sight, the police

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say there are now 400 lines of inquiry into sexual abuse by Jimmy

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Savile. And they have identified over 200 possible victims. That's

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Among them Karin Ward who almost a year ago told the BBC she had been

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abused by Savile, but Newsnight dropped the story for what were

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described as editorial reasonsment her interview ran for the first

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time on last night's Panorama. I can't believe that I allowed such

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things to happen. That I didn't immediately rush and scream it from

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the roof tops. Make this stop. Just make it stop. But I didn't. None of

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us did. Karin says she feels let down for

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the decision not to tell her story. That's what made me angry, the fact

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that I had gone through that stress when I should have been getting

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well and they never used it. Panorama spoke to other victims too.

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As a nine-year-old Kevin was in a Cub Scout troop invited on to the

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Jim'll Fix It programme. He said Savile singled him out.

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REPORTER: Did you think about telling somebody then? No. Why not?

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I was petrified. The BBC is one of the several organisations

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scrambling to uncover who knew what about Savile, once lauded for the

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millions he raised for good causes, the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust

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and his Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust have been forced to closed.

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We felt the harm has been done. We can't see a future for fund-raising

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given the association with Jimmy Savile.

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The scale of his decades of abuse is becoming clear. How and why he

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wasn't stopped will take sometime Let's speak to Norman Smith who is

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in Westminster. It was a tough session for the Director-General.

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How did he deal with it? If the Director-General's aim was to ease

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the pressure on the BBC, he had the opposite effect and compounded it.

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You sense the incredulity among the MPs on the committee, the material

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they uncovered and why it had been dropped. They were amazed about the

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lack of information he had sought about Savile, about whether there

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was a paedophile ring at the BBC, about why young girls were bussed

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into Top of the Pops and how many might have been abused and MPs

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spoke of a lack of knowledge and a lack of curiosity. Mr Entwistle

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sought to apportion some of the blame on the editor of Newsnight,

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Peter Rippon, saying that he, George Entwistle, thought it was a

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mistake to have not proceeded with the Newsnight investigation and he

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said he could not comment on Peter Rippon's state of minute when he

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decided not to continue with the inquiry. Mr Entwistle's argument

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was that his lack of knowledge was due to the desire to keep editorial

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distance between himself and Newsnight. For all the blame that

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maybe attached to Pete Pete, at the -- Peter Rippon at the end of the

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day, Mr Entwistle is the man where the buck will stop. He said, "I

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take full responsibility for all BBC jurnism." Journalism.". If the

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committee has more questions, will there be more witness as soon as.

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They will consider that, but that's certain. I am struck, Simon, about

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the similarities between what we saw today and James Murdoch when he

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appeared before the hacking inquiry. Again and again when Mr Murdoch

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appear, he he said, I can't remember and I can't recollect and

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it was similar with Mr Entwistle. It is likely the committee will

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want to speak to Peter Rippon, Helen Boaden, the head Head of News,

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where it will end, if you follow through the Murdoch analogy, that

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ended in the really desmation of the reputation of the Murdochs and

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there has to be serious concern within the BBC that they do not go

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down the same road. Norman Smith, thank you very much.

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Let's talk to David Sillito. What have we learned? When the

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Pollard Inquiry was announced, it was clearly about managerial

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control of it. Effectively, had the boss, the man at the top, squashed

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this report? It is clear from what we have heard today that they will

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be looking closely at the editorial Line of Control. It was obvious

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that Peter Rippon was obviously the figure that was, had caused

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embarrassment to the Director- General by publishing a blog and

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that's the argument the Director- General has been using over the

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past two weeks. All of that seems to have been blown out of water now

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which brought embarrassment about the way the BBC has been defending

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this decision to drop the Newsnight report. The question about it is

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two-fold, one is he today said that that report should have carried on.

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The investigation should have continued. Whose responsibility was

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that given how many people did know the investigation was underway?

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Secondly, how was it that they were allowed to go on for two weeks or

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so saying that for instance it was an investigation into allegations

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by the investigation into the police investigation and not into

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the allegations themselves and only last night, at the last moment, you

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saw in the last minute or two of Panorama, we realised there was

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another BBC statement that said, "We have changed our minds about

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that.". What next? We have been told in the inquiry

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today that the Pollard Review will be a matter of weeks, rather than

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months, I think, there will be a desire to get this out as quickly

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and dealt with as quickly as possible.

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The wider allegations, they can't begin to start that inquiry until

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the police made its report and given they are following more than

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400 lines of inquiry, the potential of 200 potential victims, that may

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take sometime if there is going to be criminal charges brought.

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For more information on this story, you can go to the BBC website.

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In other news, a court has heard more details about how three men

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allegedly planned to carry out a bombing campaign on a scale greater

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than the London bombings. They deny the charges. Our Home Affairs

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correspondent his at court. When Muslims on the streets of

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Birmingham were approached by men with charity collection boxes in

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August it was during Ramadan, a time of giving for Muslims. But the

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trial heard the donations were made innocently, but were actually

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funding an alleged terrorist plot. The men accused of being behind the

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plot have heard a second day of evidence against them. Three men

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from the Midlands accused of planning a spectacular terror

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 60 seconds

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attack on British soil. Irfan This This man was in charge of the

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�14,000. He try to bet it, but was cast adrift by the group after his

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scheme lost them �9,000. The defendants cars were bugged by the

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Security Services. It is claimed they settled on a plan to fill

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eight rucksacks with improvised explosives. The three men deny

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In the past hour the court has been hearing that four other men who

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pleaded separately guilty to travelling to Pakistan for

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terrorism, for training in terrorism, were also allegedly

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helped in their purposes by the three defendants here. In total,

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six people have now pleaded guilty to offences related to this trial.

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Simon. Four people are taking legal action

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against the publishers of the Daily Mirror of alleged phone hacking.

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They include Sven-Goran Eriksson and the Coronation Street actress.

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It is the first legal action over hacking against the newspaper group

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other than News International. The proposed cull of thousands of

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badgers in England to control the spread of Bovine TB is being

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postpone. The Government had given approval for a cull in the West

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Labour says the Government's handling of the kill has been

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incompetent and shambolic. Jeremy Cook is in Gloucestershire.

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For over a decade it has been the most bitterly contested issue in

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the countryside. We were within hours, perhaps within a night-time

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of this cull actually happening. But today, we have had the dramatic

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news that the cull of badgers both here in Gloucestershire and down in

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They are secretive creatures, much loved, and iconic British species.

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But they have been blamed for spreading bovine TB. Many farmers

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argued they should be killed and the Government agreed. The shooting

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was about to start. Now, it is all change. It has been postponed at

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least until next year. For farmers like this one it will be a bitter

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disappointment. Three of his cows have tested positive for UCI -- TB.

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It is a sentence with no appeal. They are already on their way to

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abattoir. I do not understand animal lovers will sit by and watch

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this disease spread across the countryside. We need people with

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courage to say let's get this horrible thing done. Let's get back

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to healthy cows. This is a last- minute reprieve for badgers in two

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pilot zones in Somerset and Gloucestershire. Around 5500 would

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have been shot. Add to delays in paperwork and calculation was made

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them was not enough time to achieve that number before the winter close

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to season. And so this morning the Environment Secretary was preparing

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to announce it had been put back. The Government insists that it is

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not a U-turn. By starting the pilot next summer we can build on the

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work that has been done and ensure it will conform to the scientific

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criteria and evidence-based. I know this will be disappointing for many,

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particularly farmers in the two pilot areas. That is not the view

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of those who campaign against. They are claiming victory and believe it

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will now never happen. I am overjoyed. I hope the Government

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have the guts to climb down completely, instead of dragging it

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out, to say it was a terrible idea and they should not have done it.

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The guns might be silent but the bitter debate will go on. Farmers

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continuing to press for the badger cull. They are in no doubt of the

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scale of opposition against it. We should stress that both the farmers

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and the Government are saying it is not a U-turn and it will happen,

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but it will happen next year. The top story. The BBC director-

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general denies a cover-up as he faces hostile questions from MPs

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over the BBC handling of Jimmy Savile's years of sexual abuse. And

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the latest list of mussy places includes Londonderry. We find out

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why it is trot -- top of the travel tips.

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In London, the charity that says it is shocked at the rapid increase in

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the number of people going hungry in the capital. And ahead of the

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premiere of Skyfall, we catch up with Dame Judi Dench.

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It is two weeks until the US presidential election and for

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President Obama and Mitt Romney have been trying to win over voters

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in their final TV debate. The theme was foreign affairs with Iran's

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nuclear policy and Afghanistan top of the agenda. President Obama

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dismissed his challenger as wronged and reckless on major issues while

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Mitt Romney has accused the President of weakening their global

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leadership. A final head-to-head, this time on

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foreign affairs. They would go around the world in 90 minutes,

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devoting a large chunk of time to the threat of a nuclear Iran.

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have the challenges we have had with Iran is they have looked at

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the administration and felt it is not as strong as it needed to be. I

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think they saw weakness. The clock is ticking. We will not allow Iran

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to perpetually engaged in negotiations that lead nowhere. I

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have been clear to them. President denied a report his

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administration would soon enter one-on-one negotiations with Iran.

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Mitt Romney said more alone would not end violent extremism. Week

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cannot kill our way out of this mess. He promised economic

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development and deterrent through strength. You mentioned the Navy.

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We have fewer ships the 1916. We also have fewer horses and bayonets

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because the nature of the military has changed. We have aircraft

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carriers. We had ships that go under water. The dividing lines

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were thin on policy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria.

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Mitt Romney seized every chance to turn the debate towards home.

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fulfil our role in the world, America must be strong. America

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must eat. For that to happen we have to strengthen the economy. --

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must lead. You cannot have people struggling to get a job. They

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remained mostly composed, unlike last week. The president more

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fluent on the issues he deals with day-to-day. The challenge are

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trying hard to sound like a Commander In Chief. We have been

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through tough times but we always bounce back because of our

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character. Because we pulled together. If I have the privilege

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of being President for another four years, I will listen to your voices

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and fight for your family is and I will work every day to make sure

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America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.

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Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back

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and we will work with good democrats and Republicans to do

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that. And it was the last chance for America to weigh up the two

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men's side by side. We will learn the verdict in two weeks.

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Lawyers for a Pakistani man whose father was killed in an alleged CIA

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eight drone strike up a High Court to challenge Britain's role in

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drone attacks. They challenge the lawfulness of the listening centre

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at GCHQ to pass on what they call locational intelligence to the

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United States. The claimant in this case is a man

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called Noor Khan, a Pakistani who lives in the tribal areas of that

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country. He said his father was killed in a suspected CIA a train

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strike last year. He is not in court -- and drone strike. His

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lawyers argue for a judicial review to look at whether any British

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intelligence co-operation is legal. The basis of the claim is a

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newspaper report that said GCHQ passes on what is called locational

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intelligence, information about suspects and their movements to the

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Americans and that this could be used in these strikes. The

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Government in Britain will not comment on whether there is such

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intelligence co-operation. They have a policy of not confirming or

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denying the passing of such information. Their lawyers are

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expected to argue this is not a matter of the court can offer a

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judgment on. It is a two-day hearing expected to close tomorrow

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and after that we will learn if there will be a hearing on this

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matter. A driver appeared in court accused

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of murdering a mother-of-three and attempting to murder 13 pedestrians,

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including seven children in hit and run incident in Cardiff. Matthew

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Tvrdon is accused of deliberately driving into parents and young

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children on Friday. He appeared at court via video link and was

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remanded in custody. Are you wondering where to visit on

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 60 seconds

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It is a city steeped in history. So much so that some people now call

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The oldest surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, William Walker,

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has died. He survived being shot down in his

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Spitfire over the English Channel. Let's catch up with the weather

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forecast. It is grey and dull out there again.

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It is like yesterday. We have had It is like yesterday. We have had

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the mist and fog. It lifted into cloud. If we look at the satellite

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picture, it looks similar to yesterday's. Underneath this wave

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of cloud is much of the country, but there is a hold across the

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north-west corner of Scotland and here we have got some of the best

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sunshine. But it was chilly this morning. That sunshine has been

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getting to work and temperatures should lift to 10 Celsius. We could

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see a few breaks in the cloud developing.

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Move further iland and that's where we have the grey skies.

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Temperatures rise nothing the mid- teens and still mild. It is thick

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cloud sitting across the Midlands and parts of Northern England. We

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will see the rain coming and going. Later, the chance of sunshine

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developing along the South Coast of Kent. For tonight, it is the cloud

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that will dominate. We will see mist here. Not as much fog as

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recent nights and still some clear skies holding on through Central

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Scotland. For our towns and cities through Scotland 5 or 6 Celsius.

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Nor Nor Northern Ireland and England and Wales, we are staying

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in double figures. A mild start on Wednesday. It is another cloudy day,

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I am hoping with the breeze picking up, we could start start to see

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brightness. Temperatures for Scotland 10 Celsius to 11 Celsius.

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Very Very little change on Thursday with the cloudy skies. Perhaps more

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rain develop as we move across Scotland. Elsewhere, it is grey,

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dull and damp with temperatures in the mid-teens. It is not until

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Friday that we see a change. The wind change is driving down colder

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air. Sunshine across Scotland along with wintry showers. You will start

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to see temperatures drop down a bit, but really significant across parts

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of Scotland. In the south, by the time we get to Saturday, the

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northerly wind has set in. You can see the temperatures at 6 or 7

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Celsius. At least, there will be sunshine across parts of the

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country. There will be showers in the north and the east and they

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could be wintry at times and you will feel chilly if you are

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stepping out on Saturday. We have more details online. Matt Taylor

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has more details on the cold The BBC's Director-General

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expresses regret, but denies a cover-up as he faces questions from

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MPs over the Corporation's handling of Jimmy Savile's years of sexual

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abuse. This is a gravely serious matters.

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