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Britain is officially out of recession - the latest figures show

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the economy grew by 1% in the three months to September. The figures

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are better than expected. The Prime Minister David Cameron gave the

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news a cautious welcome. We still have a long way to go and there are

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still difficulties ahead but I think these figures do show that we

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are on the right track. We have got the right approach. We have had a

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difficult two years with the recession. Borrowing is rising.

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There are risks with our economy. A complacent thing to do is for the

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government to cross its fingers and hope for the best. Ticket sales for

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the Olympic and Paralympic Games helped boost the economy. After

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nine months of recession, and now appears to be growing at its

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fastest rate for five years. It is not all good news. Ford is to close

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its Transit van factory in Southampton and a plant in Dagenham

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with the loss of up to 1300 jobs. Scotland Yard says the number of

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possible sexual abuse victims of Jimmy Savile could be as high as

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300. It says other high-profile figures are being investigated.

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And 40 years after Dutch elm disease, a fungus that has the

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potential to devastate the ash tree population has been discovered in

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Later on BBC London: Compensation for the residents having to move

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for high-speed rail, but is it enough?

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And plans for a network of cycle paths above the capital's streets,

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The UK economy has

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come out of recession and grew by one per cent in the three months

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from July, more than was widely expected. The Olympics and

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Paralympics provided a boost through ticket sales and jobs in

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London and the south-east. But after nine months of recession, the

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economy now appears to be growing at its fastest rate for five years.

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David Cameron said the figures showed the country was on the right

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track, but Labour insisted the government still had to do more.

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Our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym reports.

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The British economy is growing again. GDP, that is the value of

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all goods and services, fell back last autumn and the UK went into

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recession. But between July and September it bounced back with

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growth of 1%. The Prime Minister gave a cautious welcome to news

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that the UK had come back out of recession. We still have a long way

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to go. There are still difficulties ahead but I think these figures do

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show that we are on the right track. We have got the right approach. We

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can see that with unemployment falling. With a quarter of the

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deficit paid down in the last two years, there is more to do but

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these figures are good progress. Labour welcomed the return to

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growth but it said the economy was some way from a full and

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sustainable recovery. I do not think today is a day for

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complacency. Borrowing is rising. Going forward, there are real risks

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in our economy. I think the complacent thing to do as for the

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government to cross it fingers and hope for the Bathurst. I have

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wished they would act to get jobs moving. Kick manufacturing saw

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solid growth. This company has ambitious expansion plans and

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covered by a government grant. It is about to start making washing

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machines and taking on a lot more staff. It will probably take us 18

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months to two years but it should double our number of staff here. We

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currently employed 200 people. Over the next 20 years, we want to start

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making all appliances so that will be massive. The Olympics gilded the

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latest growth estimate. Ticket sales were included in these

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figures and there was always going to be some recovery because of the

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Jubilee celebrations. But there was nothing to cheer about in the

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construction industry. Once again, output fell back. Public sector

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cuts have affected the mood. One barometer of the state of the

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construction industry is brick production. The number of bricks

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leaving sites like this gives an indication about how active the

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building trade is. Brick production is down 8% year-on-year. This

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company has seen it all does hold up but bosses acknowledge that is

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partly because other brickworks have closed and they have picked up

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business. Overall, they say, at the climate has worsened since the

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spring. Housing numbers have gone back, both in terms of private

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housing but also public housing. There has been a general loss of

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confidence. This is just one corner of the economy. Other sectors may

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be based on firmer foundations. Today's news is looking back. As

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for the future, there are many uncertainties, not least in the

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eurozone. Any downturn there could pull back activity here.

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Our economics editor of Stephanie Flanders joins me now. How

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significant are these figures? think they are significant because

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they do show in effect, if it had not been for that extra gene bank

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holiday for the Jubilee in June, we may have seen the economy growing

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since the spring. It is hard to reap the underlying picture. We

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knew the extra gene bank holiday would have pushed down the figures

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by or half a % in the second quarter and then pushed them up

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again as people made up the lost output in this quarter. We also

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knew we had the Olympics which may have added another 0.2 to the

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figures. Despite that, we can see some growth leftover, some

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underlying momentum. We have probably been growing by 0.3 %

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every three months. That is much slower than the long-term average.

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It is lower than many people would like to see after the deep

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recession which started in 2008 but it is more than the city was

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expecting to see. They thought we might see no growth at all. I think

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ministers might be profoundly cheered but there is some sign of

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forward momentum. We are moving forwards, not backwards. They know,

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looking at the head wins facing the recovery, that this number will be

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a hard act to follow. Thank you. Let's get some more reaction to the

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GDP figures and joined our correspondent Dave Harvey at a

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factory in Gloucestershire. Good afternoon. 1%, try 108 %. That

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is what happened to company profits here. They make precision measuring

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equipment and they are printing their own circuit boards. 36,000

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components come of this expensive machines. Wide as a profit in a

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company like this matter? You need this kit if you run a factory. Are

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all their kit is sold to other factories. If they are doing well,

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it suggests everyone is doing well. Is that true? It is in

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manufacturing. We support things like aero-engine production and air

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freight production. That has helped us. We are trying to find 120

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people to work here in the UK. are recruiting and that this end of

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the economic pipe, things are good. But it does not mean they are

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cracking open the champagne here. You are one of the guys who works

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here. The bills are still tough, aren't they? Yes, the cost of fuel,

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food, gas and electric, they are continually rising. Obviously, the

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wages do not go up as much. I think we are in a good position. Lots of

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people will say to you it is still tight. It is, and I do not think it

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gets any better in the near future but hopefully, the way that the

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company is going, we are doing well and I hope it continues that way.

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And you keep on plugging away. It is a hi-tech firm. It started when

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they were producing Concorde down the road in Bristol 40 years ago.

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Now they use their equipment to make the latest mobile phones. Hi-

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tech is certainly high growth. Thank you. Our political

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correspondent Norman Smith is in Downing Street. Hard as this effect

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the argument over the economy? There has been no attempt in

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government to present today's figures as some sort of turning

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point. I think if any minister had dared to utter the dead -- dread

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phrase green shoots, they would have been taken out by a Treasury

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sniper. Instead, there has been an attempt to warn of difficult days

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ahead. We do not know what will happen with the eurozone. But

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politically, these figures are important. To help the government

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in terms of its core political narrative on the economy. They

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enable them to nail down another key plank in terms of plan A. Last

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week we had unemployment down. That was one plant meltdown. Then we had

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inflation down. That was another plank. And now GDP up, another

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plank meltdown. It helps to can since -- create another convincing

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argument to present to the electorate. For more on what these

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figures might mean to you, you can visit our website,

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bbc.co.uk/economy. Ford is to close its Transit van

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factory in Southampton and one of its plant in Dagenham in Essex,

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with the loss of around 1,300 jobs. Union officials have described the

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news as devastating. John Moylan is at the Southampton factory for us.

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Staff were due to knock off work at 2 o'clock this afternoon. In fact,

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they have all been sent home early. They have received the devastating

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news that this plant is to close. They will lose their jobs. It will

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close next summer. That is a move which will end more than 100 years

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of vehicle production by Ford here in Britain.

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It is the news that workers he had dreaded. For decades, this plant

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has been home to a, a Transit van. In meetings held this morning,

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staff were told production would end and the plant would shut.

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gutted. I have worked there for 25 years. It seems like the hard work

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we have put in has been a waste of time. When people in a few years'

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time by a Transit van which you think will be a British icon, they

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are buying a Turkish Van. Transits have been built here since the

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early 1970s. In its heyday, the plant employed 4,000 people. Those

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who spent much of their working life here said it is a key plant of

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the -- a key part of the local economy. It is very sad for those

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who have young families and all of us who have gone through Ford with

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our families hold it very deeply that these people are losing their

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jobs. How will they manage? How will they pay their mortgages?

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the 500 jobs going here are part of wider cuts being made by Ford. A

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plant in Dagenham which makes parts for the Transit will also close. A

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total of 1,300 jobs are expected to go in Britain. Unions fear the

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number could be even higher. Ford is cutting capacity in Europe to

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stem mounting losses. Yesterday, it announced plans to close a major

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car plant in Belgium. Having cut back operations in the US, the car

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giant is now targeting Europe where sales have plummeted in the wake of

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the financial crisis. The European market is having a tough time

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because the European economy is going back a. It is affecting

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northern Europe. Event well one companies like Ford are being

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sucked in. Everyone will have to cut costs and restructured. There

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is some good news. Ford makes 2 million engines a year in Britain.

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Today, it has confirmed that the next generation Pamper model will

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be billed here as well, safeguarding hundreds of jobs.

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A head is worth saying other parts of the auto industry in the UK are

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doing better than here. Jaguar Land Rover continues to expand. There

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has been investments in Nissan and BMW. The news we are hearing today

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is worse than expected. It does look as if the UK and Belgium are

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bearing the brunt of the restructuring that Ford is doing in

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Europe. Today, the main union that covers car plants is describing

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this as a betrayal. It is talking about 1,500 jobs and says Winnie

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bring in the wider impact on the supply chain, there could be

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thousands of workers affected by this news today.

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The number of possible sexual abuse victims of Jimmy Savile is

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understood to be fast approaching 300. Sources close to the

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investigation say police are also investigating other high-profile

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figures. Danny Shaw is at Scotland Yard for us. How do we think this

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investigation is progressing at the moment? Earlier this month we were

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told the number of potential victims would be around the 30 mark.

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That was revised by Scotland Yard to 60. Last week we were told it

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was 200. Now we are looking at 300 potential victims over 50 year

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period. There are also other individuals who may be implicated.

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People who may have assisted Jimmy Savile, facilitated the abuse,

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organised children to come to his dressing room or covered it up or

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people who took part in the bees themselves. I am told we are

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looking at figures of high standing. Clearly, those figures are at an

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early stage. No one has been arrested so far. It is likely in

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the days and weeks ahead, police will be knocking on the doors of

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suspects to make arrests. Thank you. Two British service personnel have

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been killed on patrol and Afghanistan. A Royal Marine from 40

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Commando and a female soldier from 3 Medical Regiment died after being

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injured in Helmand Province yesterday. The Ministry of Defence

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has just said there was an exchange of fire between Japan and an Afghan

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man who was believed to be a member of the Afghan police but not

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wearing uniform at the time. The Royal Marine and female army

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medic were hit by gunfire and fatally wounded with a least one

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other injured. Afghan sources say an Afghan policeman was also killed.

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But it is not yet clear what actually happened or Ewshot first.

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Different sources have given compact -- conflicting accounts and

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the MoD says the investigation is continuing -- who shot first. The

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bleak picture of what has been achieved in Afghanistan, despite

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the sacrifice is made, was painted today by the British Government's

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parliamentary aide watchdog. It said that creating a viable state

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in Afghanistan is probably not achievable. MPs on the

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international development committee said years of intervention had

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failed to create a working, transparent Afghan government, and

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that Britain should reconsider its ambitions in favour of more

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traditional aid targets. A huge amount of life has been lost in

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Afghanistan. Gains have been made since the Taliban were in charge,

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but the thing we have to focus is on securing those rather than the

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more ambitious objectives of building a viable state,

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particularly in the interests of women. They have been the worst

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victims in the past and made the most gains, but those are the ones

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we are most seen under pressure. But they also stress it is vitally

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important not to abandon the people of Afghanistan, especially the

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country's women. Here in couple -- Kabul, there have been gains, but

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they are fragile and a threatened by corruption. This is one of the

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worst and biggest problems, corruption is everywhere. It is

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such a corrupted system. Women are the first victim of this corruption.

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The focus is now very much on what the West can realistically achieved

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as international combat forces prepare to leave by the under 2014.

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Many lives have been lost over the past 11 years and nobody wants

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sacrifices to have been in vain. But it is clear that while the

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international community wants to continue to help, much of what

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happens next is up to the Afghan Our top story this lunchtime:

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Britain is officially out of recession. The economy grew by 1%

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in the three months to September and appears to be growing at its

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fastest rate for five years. Coming up: We'll be looking through

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Microsoft's latest Windows, as the computer giant challenges its

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Later on BBC London: The Olympic athletes who had their medals were

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stolen as they celebrated in the West End. And former Crystal Palace

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manager Dougie Freedman is A disease that's killed a huge

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number of ash trees in Denmark and central Europe has been found in

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the East Anglian countryside. The Forestry Commission says that up

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until now, the deadly fungus had only been found in Britain in

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nurseries and new woodlands. Ben Ando is in one of the two areas

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where the disease has been found at Lower Wood reserve in Norfolk.

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Good afternoon. This is Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk, dedicated

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ancient, which means in recorded history it has only ever been a

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woodland. But now the ash trees are facing a potentially deadly new

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threat. In woodlands, parks and forests, native ash trees make up

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nearly a third of the last -- landscape. They provide an

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important habitat for nesting birds and other wildlife, but in this

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area in Norfolk and another in Suffolk, significant numbers of

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trees have fallen victim to ash dieback, a deadly fungus which has

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the potential to devastate the population. The my hope is that the

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trees are slightly more resilient than they have been on the

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Continent. My fear is we will lose the ash trees from the woodland. It

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will mean a significant reduction in habitat for nesting birds and it

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will change the light levels to the woodland floor. Of course, any

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species last is terrible. In the 1970s, Dutch elm disease killed 20

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million trees in Britain and effectively destroyed the native

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In Denmark, ash dieback has wiped out 90% of the ash trees in the

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last seven years and is spreading across continental Europe. In a

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typical coppice there will be standard ash trees with a single,

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big trunk, as well as cut trees with multiple trunks, and often

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these are all there. However the experts say that both types are

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equally at risk from the fungus -- these are all there. For now the

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outbreak in East Anglia is isolated, but woodland workers are observing

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strict a buyer of security and the government is being urged to create

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a emergency task force to tackle the disease. A measure of the

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urgency is that this morning the government announced a ban on

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imported ash and severe restrictions on the movement of

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cash within the UK to be enforced from Monday. -- ash trees. But will

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that be enough to save Britain's estimated 80 million ash trees from

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Child-related benefits for families may be capped at two children.

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That's the plan from Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan-

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Smith who says it's "madness" that taxpayers are supporting families

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with large numbers of children to live on benefits. Our political

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correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is at Welfare is one of the budgets and a

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huge financial pressure. Already �18 billion has been saved in this

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Parliament and they are looking at a further �10 billion of savings,

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but they say in this case this is not really about the money in terms

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of capping the help people get at two children. They argue the

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average family in the country has 1.8 children, so why should people

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on benefits not make the same kind of calculations as those in work

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when it comes to how many children you can afford? This is an idea for

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after each the next election. It will not say that much money. There

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are two Major problems. Firstly the Liberal Democrats are not signed up

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to this what some of it. One of their spokes people said earlier

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that this was Tory kite-flying, same at the Conservative Party

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conference. The second problem, how do you make the moral case for

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withdrawing support for children who may be born in the future who

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do not have a choice in coming into the world, just because of what

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their parents have chosen? mortgage rules are being applied by

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the financial services regulator. From 2014, lenders will have to

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consider the borrower's income and outgoings and interest-only

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mortgages will be hard to obtain. The measures are designed to make

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sure that people only get loans they can afford to pay back.

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Hurricane Sandy is passing through Cuba, causing flooding after 30-

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foot storm surges. Thousands of homes have been evacuated. Earlier,

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the storm hit Jamaica with 100 mile an hour winds. 70% of the island

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was left without power, residents were advised to stay indoors, and

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airports remained closed. It's now been 24 days since five-

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year-old April Jones went missing. Although a man has been charged

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with her murder no trace of her has been found. Police are continuing

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to search the mid-Wales area where the community is still coming to

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terms with the disappearance of the young schoolgirl. Hywel Griffith

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At first light, they start again. After more than 44,000 hours of

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searching, there is still no end date to the biggest police

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operation in a quarter of a century. What is remarkable is the officers

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from all over the country who come here and share the desire and will

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to find April. We share a common goal. And you know that her family

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are watching and waiting? Absolutely, yes. April Jones went

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missing on the 1st October. She had been playing with friends outside

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her home. A 46-year-old man has been charged with the abduction and

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murder. Here at April's School, they have tried to find ways for

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the children to express some of the difficult emotions they have felt

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over the last three and a half weeks. This area has been set aside

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for them to come and sit quietly and reflect. Some children are just

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three-and a-half, not even writing yet. Every pupil has made a message

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for April. The head teacher has been trying to slowly bring back

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some kind of normality to school life. Outside in the town it is not

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normal. It is getting harder and harder as the weeks go on. The

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children are asking things, and they know Christmas is coming, so

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the questions are getting harder. Throughout the town pink ribbons

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decorate every corner, showing the hope that many cling to.

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thoughts are still with the family. We still want able to come home. We

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have hope she is out there and she will be brought home to us -- we

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want people to come home. Beano's how or when the search will

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end. -- nobody knows how. 24 days in, nobody is prepared to give up

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The computer giant Microsoft is unveiling the latest version of its

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Windows operating system today in an attempt to catch up with rivals

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such as Apple and Google. The company's chief Executive Steve

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Ballmer, has acknowledged it's a 'pivotal time' for the company. Our

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technology correspondent Rory This is what computing has looked

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like for 30 years, the age of the Windows PC. Now we are moving into

:25:37.:25:41.

a different era of touch-screen mobile computing where Microsoft

:25:41.:25:48.

risks being left behind. We have re-imagined Windows in Windows 8.

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The new system is supposed to take the company into this brave new

:25:52.:26:00.

world. The boss knows what is at stake. The launch of Windows 8 is

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really an epic thing for Microsoft. It is right up there in the top two

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or three big moment, including Windows 95, and the launch of the

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IBM PC. Apple is bigger and Google has caught your up. Do you lie

:26:15.:26:24.

Tried don't worry about the valuation of our company -- I don't

:26:24.:26:29.

worry. It is a topic on which I'm very very proud. My go soft remains

:26:29.:26:36.

a giant -- Microsoft remains a giant, employing 40,000 people in

:26:36.:26:40.

Seattle alone and in generating big profits. But what the clever people

:26:40.:26:44.

in the buildings have undone in the last 10 years is produce anything

:26:44.:26:50.

that has changed the world war made consumers shock. Unlike Apple which

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launched another iPad and has outpaced its rival in delivering

:26:54.:27:00.

smart, new products. But this, the Surface tablet computer is the

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answer from Microsoft. Analysts say it is about time. They have not

:27:06.:27:11.

really been at the forefront of looking at what the next phase of

:27:11.:27:15.

the computing industry was going to be and how consumers were going to

:27:16.:27:22.

interact with their devices. Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, at

:27:22.:27:26.

a charity event, handed over the reins more than a decade ago. Now

:27:26.:27:30.

his successor needs to show that Windows 8 can deliver a smarter

:27:30.:27:36.

future. And Rory is here with me now. It's important for the

:27:36.:27:42.

business, so what is it like? ways dangerous to do a live

:27:42.:27:44.

technology demonstration, but this is the first computer Microsoft has

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ever made. This is intended to showcase it. It has a keyboard.

:27:51.:27:55.

That is the look of it. The important thing is that the same

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look will exist across phones, computers and tablet computers.

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What is important for Microsoft is that it does transition into this

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new world where people are using computers in different ways. It

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does look very slick, but what everybody will be saying is, how

:28:11.:28:15.

does it compare with the existing things, the iPad? Other devices on

:28:15.:28:21.

the market. Aren't the competitors already a long way ahead? Microsoft

:28:21.:28:26.

has to prove in a hurry that it is smarter than its rivals. An Army

:28:26.:28:29.

sniffer dog who died hours after his handler was killed in

:28:29.:28:35.

Afghanistan was given a posthumous award today. Lance Corporal Liam

:28:35.:28:38.

Tasker was shot by insurgents last year while on patrol in Helmand

:28:38.:28:41.

with his springer spaniel Theo, who died of a seizure shortly

:28:41.:28:43.

afterwards. The pair, who were inseparable, detected 14 Taliban

:28:43.:28:50.

roadside bombs and weapons hoards. Theo's been awarded the animal

:28:51.:28:58.

equivalent of the Victoria Cross by Keith let's have a look at the

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Gray, cloudy and mild in the last couple of days but all change for

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the weekend. A lot brighter but also a lot colder as we get a blast

:29:10.:29:14.

of air coming in from the Arctic. It is already pushing into Scotland,

:29:14.:29:17.

northern England and Ireland and it is here we will get the best

:29:17.:29:22.

sunshine. Further south, more cloud and grey and murky with drizzly

:29:22.:29:28.

rain. Very mild with temperatures at 13 or 14. Overnight we will see

:29:28.:29:32.

the cloud confined to southern England with outbreaks of rain.

:29:32.:29:39.

Further north as the sky clears, it will be colder. Lowe's eight or

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nine and further north, the colder it gets and widespread frost or

:29:42.:29:45.

Scotland and parts of northern England by the end of the night.

:29:45.:29:48.

With some showers across the North Sea for Scotland we could have some

:29:48.:29:53.

issues on the road -- the north- east of Scotland. We will pick up

:29:53.:29:57.

some wintry showers early on across Shetland, Orkney and into

:29:57.:30:00.

Aberdeenshire. Actually start for northern England but the sunshine

:30:00.:30:05.

spreads into the Midlands. Still crate across East Anglia and the

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south-east. A lot of drizzly rain, but a mile start. Contrast the

:30:11.:30:15.

temperatures of eight or 9:00am to those hovering around freezing to

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the north of the UK. Wales probably on the boundary with the cold

:30:19.:30:23.

weather pushing him by this stage. We will see temperatures to the

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north already on the way down, but further south a little milder. The

:30:27.:30:31.

sunshine extends into Wales and Northern Ireland and heralds the

:30:31.:30:35.

arrival of colder weather. To hammering home, let's add on a

:30:35.:30:42.

northerly breeze. --, it home. It will make it feel very cold.

:30:42.:30:46.

Temperatures scrabbling around single figures in Scotland. The far

:30:46.:30:50.

south-east keeping some cloud and outbreaks of rain, but that what

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clear into Saturday and watch the icy blue come trickling down the

:30:54.:30:58.

map first thing on Saturday. A much colder night that we have had in

:30:58.:31:02.

some time. A widespread frost and temperatures below freezing first

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thing on Saturday. Abbey to start but a sparkling day of sunshine. --

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a better start. Saturday, a uniform start, blue sky and sunshine but

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highs of just eight or nine. Sunday, the cloud piling back in, the

:31:19.:31:23.

breeze picks up and the chance of outbreaks of rain and temperatures

:31:23.:31:27.

lift again as well. A real mixture for the next few days and hopefully

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there is something in there to your taste. More details can be found by

:31:33.:31:36.

taking a look on the website. And there is a promo which shows you

:31:36.:31:43.

what is happening with the cold Thanks, Susan. At 1:30pm, a

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reminder of our top story: Britain is officially out of recession. The

:31:46.:31:49.

economy grew by 1% in the three months to September, and appears to

:31:49.:31:53.

be growing at its fastest rate for five years. Still to come on the

:31:53.:31:59.

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