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Superstorm Sandy's trail of devastation in the easten United

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States. 40 people are now known to have died in the biggest storm to

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hit America for decades. Fires are still burning in parts of New

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Jersey and more than eight million homes and businesses are without

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power. Within a matter of minutes I think we were completely flooded.

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It's completely destroyed. I'm in New York, where people are

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struggling to get back to normal in the aftermath of the epic storm.

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Lord Heseltine, a former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister,

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challenges the Government to take bolder action to stimulate the

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economy. A former porter claims Jimmy Savile was given keys to an

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accommodation block at Leeds infirmary where he took teenage

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girls. Another investigation into Barclays on the day the bank

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reports large pretax losses for the three months to accept. And why

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there's been a sharp fall in the amount of honey coming from behives

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in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. Later on BBC London - the

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plans to build hundreds more homes in central London for teachers,

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nurses and other key workers. And, we hear from the teenagers in the

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capital about how knife crime is Good afternoon. Welcome to the news.

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A clean-up operation's begun in the eastern United States following

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Sandy. At least 40 people have died and more than eight million

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households and businesses remain without electricity. Fires are

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still burning in parts of New York and the subway is closed. President

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Obama, who has suspended his election campaign, is due to visit

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affected areas in a few hours' time. The New York governor said we

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haven't seen damage like this in a generation. The cost has been

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estimated between $18 and $24 billion. The skyline of Lower

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Manhattan was not trinkling this morning. The city emerge D

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twinkling this morning. The city emerged without power. But at least

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here the buildings are still standing. In the boroughs the

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scenes are terrible. In Queens Hurricane Sandy destroyed a whole

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neighbourhood, with floods and fire. More than 100 homes in Breezy Point

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are scorched, a community destroyed. The worst fire in New York's

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history. I used to see a standing chimney. It looks like world wore

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two. The gas main continues to burn. Nearby New Jersey also endured

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Sandy's wrath. The storm made landfall on Monday evening. Here,

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too floods and fire. There's devastation all along the Jersey

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shore. Parts of Atlantic City have been destroyed. I can't believe

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this. I can't believe this. water has started to recede, but

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people were trapped by the floods for hours. Relief efforts continue.

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The National Guard de ployed to help with a rescue and deliver

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supplies. The water took many by surprise. The full extent of the

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damage is only now dawning on people. No, we have never seen

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anything like this in our lives. This is the worst I've ever seen.

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The east coast has seen the worst of the weather, but the superstorm

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is now reeking havoc further inland. The snow has come early in North

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Carolina and Kentucky. A blizzard has paralysed much of vest Virginia.

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The road to recovery will be daunting for the east coast and for

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New York City. The subway system here is still crippled. Debris and

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water need to be cleared before the repairs can even begin. It will

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take at least four days before New Yorkers can ride the subway again.

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On the streets of the city, the traffic is slowly picking up again.

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Some buses are running and after two days of closure, the New York

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Stock Exchange is open again. This vibrant and resilient city is

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trying to get back to business. We'll see if it is. Laura Trevelyan

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is in Brooklyn. It looks tranquil, but what is the situation there at

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the moment? Very oddly tranquil. You can see the Lower Manhattan

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skyline behind me. Completely without power. Almost two million

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people in New York State woke up without power this morning and in

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Manhattan they're told it could be up to four days before they have

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any. People are trying to get to work. They are walking over the

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bridges. People are driving, but there are no traffic light. There's

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a strange an narkic feel to the city. The subways, we don't know

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when they're going to be able to re-open. You see New York Harbour

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behind me. The storm surge was almost 14 feet. We have escalators

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that are just sitting in stagnant water in the subways, so the city's

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trying to get back to normal and in just under half an hour's time the

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Stock Exchange will open. Trading will begin on Wall Street. The

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Mayor will ring the opening bell and tell the world that the city is

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trying to be open once again for business. Laura, I heard you in an

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interview on the BBC News Channel earlier saying that people are

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starting to question the future of their city? Look at where we are.

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We are at sea level. The financial capital of America is behind me at

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sea level. Extensive flooding has knocked out the city's ability to

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function and this very nearly happened just last year with

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Hurricane Irene, so people are asking, do we need coastal defences

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now? Do we need flood barriers? Do we need something to protect us

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from this storm surge? This is something that the governor,

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Kristinaity has said he'll raise with President Obama. He's the

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governor of neighbouring New Jersey, where there's been devastation

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along the shore. Far worse than what has happened here in the city.

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And he has said he wants to talk to the President about how to protect

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the beeches and protect communities from this devastating flooding.

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Laura, thank you very much. You can get more information and live

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updates online. Lord Heseltine, the former

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Conservative Deputy Prime Minister has challenged the Government to

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take bolder action to stimulate the economy, saying people think the UK

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doesn't have a strategy for growth and wealth creation. In a report

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commissioned by Downing Street, he says more investment should be

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distributed in the regions rather than becentral Government. Hugh Pym

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has more. -- by central government. Hugh Pym has more. He's back and

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firing off big ideas again. Lord Heseltine, a former Defence

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Secretary, as well as being a business tycoon in his own right,

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never pulled his punches when he was part of the last Conservative

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government. He certainly isn't now. The report calls for radical new

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policies to boost growth. I think the essence of my report is that

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you can't just point to the good bits and ignore the bits that are

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not so good. This needs a national response and at every level.

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the Chancellor has set out a growth strategy before. You are more or

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less suggesting a completely different approach on a much bigger

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scale? Certainly I'm recommending an extension of the Chancellor's

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strategy to cover a wider field and involve more people. Let's not

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forget it was the Chancellor who helped set up my inquiry and who

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has been immensely supportive. There were some in the business and

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political worlds that saw the report as a swipe at Downing Street.

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Lord Heseltine today says, "The message I keep hearing is the UK

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doesn't have a strategy for growth and wealth creation." Who does the

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Prime Minister blame for that? Michael Hesletine says is the

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coalition is fundamentally on the right track. He said, "I praise its

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work for pioneering city devolution and for the revolutions in

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education and tackling unemployment ." Shifting a big chunk of money

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out of Whitehall and into the hands of local employers and politicians

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is Lord Heseltine's big idea. He thinks that grants to support jobs,

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skills and a whole range of business services are better

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allocated by local communities than by Civil Servants and ministers

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incentral government. -- in central government. He believes billions of

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pounds could be moved. He wants to create more local power and funding

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and simplify local authorities and he calls for a national growth

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council headed by the Prime Minister. Less central control and

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more local control is a good thing. I also think that providing an

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enterprise and friendly environment across the country as a whole will

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enable the great businesses to prosper and grow. Ministers say

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they'll study the report carefully. It's certainly fuelled the crucial

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debate on how to get the UK economy firing up again.

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More now from Ross Hawkins. The report commissioned by Downing

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Street says Lord Heseltine is supportive of the Government?

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things are more important to the current politics than whether

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there's growth in the economy or not. Labour looked to the fact that

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this Government has asked the old warrior of Conservative battles

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past, to come back and recommend a growth strategy as proof that the

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Treasury does not have a growth strategy of its own. On the

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Government side, sources are saying if there's a criticism here it's of

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decades of government policy that has left regions falling behind.

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There is a broader, more philosophical debate, about whether

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we are talking about a fundamental change in industrial strategy that

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would see governments getting more involved in big business and

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spending more money locally. Sources say this is all an

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extension of the sort of things the Government is doing at the moment,

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but the real test of the report, of the ideas we have been hearing

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about there, won't be whether somebody was embarrassed or won a

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political point at Prime Minister's questions today. It will be whether

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any of the ideas are turned into reality and for all our sakes,

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whether they turn out to be effective. How likely is that,

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then? The Treasury isn't giving too much away today. They say they're

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going to consider what is a long and complex report. Where this may

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have changed things, though, not in one news cycle or one session of

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Prime Minister's questions, is that in the months to come of this

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Government, people keep on looking back to this report and they'll say

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has the Treasury adapted the ideas? Does it agree with the philosophy?

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If it hasn't, would Michael Hesletine like to come out and

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publicly damn it for not doing so. This would have shifted the weather

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in terms of how we take economics and politics together. Thank you

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very much. A former hospital porter if Leeds has told the BBC that

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Jimmy Savile was regularly handed a key to a building there when he

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turned up with teenage girls. He said the broadcaster, who died last

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year, would often arrive in the early hours of the morning, take

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the girls to a nurses' accommodation block and leave

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before dawn. Jimmy Savile playing the porter at Leeds General

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Infirmary. He was well known as a volunteer, a fundraiser and now an

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alleged sexual predator. Today, the BBC's been told more about what

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allegedly went on behind closed, hospital doors in the middle of the

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night. He was going into a property which he had no right to go into.

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He wasn't a doctor and he wasn't a nurse. He had no right going there

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in the first place. Former night porter at the hospital, Terry, said

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he became suspicious when Jimmy Savile started paying regular night

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visits with teenage girls. He said had would arrive at 1 or 2am and

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ask for the keys to an accommodation block and takes the

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girls there. Shs how he described the girls. She were star struck.

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They didn't say a Dickie Bird. They arrived. You see the eyes watching

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him and everything he did. Their eyes followed him. Just disappear

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with him. Mr Pratt said Jimmy Savile would spend several hours

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with them and return at 5am to drop the keys back. The former porter

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says he never reported his behaviour. We looked at him in a

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film star, cult figure, because he'd been on television and Top of

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the Pops and he did a lot for children and Stoke Mandeville. He

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did a hell of a lot of charity, so it wasn't thought of. Today in a

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statement the hospital says: The hop says other porters have

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disputed Mr Pratt's account and the accommodation block didn't need

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keys because it had a warden. Police are now investigating

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allegations of abuse by Jimmy Savile at three hospitals. The

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hospital says it's waiting for police to give them the go-ahead

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before it begins its own investigation. The father of a 12-

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year-old British boy who went missing from a small area in the

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south of France says he believes his son will never be found. French

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police have called off the search for Pierre Barns who disappeared

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during a storm on Saturday. Barclays has reported a pretax loss

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of �47 million for the three months to September. That's compared with

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a profit of more than �2 billion for the same period last year. It

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said profits have been hit by mis- selling insurance and it has

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revealed the business practises are being investigated in the United

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$:/STARTFEED. One of the scandals is the selling of payment

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protection insurance to people who should never have had it. The bill

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for dealing with that is affecting its performance. Those figures you

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mentioned, there was a loss from July to September of �47 million,

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at a time when they would normally make billions. The significant

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reason for that was the cost of adding an extra �700 million to

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their fund for paying compensation to the victims of PPI mis-selling.

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All the banks badly underestimated the extent to which this is going

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to hit them. Claims management companies, consumer groups, are

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encouraging people to complain and much more money will be paid out.

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The potential problems do not end there. Tell us about the

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investigation in the US. It is being investigated by the US

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authorities under the Foreign corrupt practices Act. My

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understanding is this is in connection with payments that were

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made during the financial crisis to help raise billions of pounds worth

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of money to tide Barclays over. That meant we as taxpayers did not

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have to rescue Barclays. But now these payments, which not a lot of

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people knew about, are being invested -- investigated in the

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United Kingdom and the United States. It is a serious problem and

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we do not know where it is going to end. In a couple of days they will

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be notified of a fine by the US Energy Commission which has been

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investigating trading of contracts to supply electricity, a business

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Barclays has been in in the US. Another questionable issue to add

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to PPI, the interest-rate fixing scandal, which is weighing down on

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its reputation. Our top story: Superstorm Sandy's trail of

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devastation in the Eastern United States leaves at least 40 people

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dead. It is the biggest storm to hit America for decades.

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Coming up: 35 years on, Star Wars passes to a new generation of film-

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makers. Later on BBC London: Their latest

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hit fell to make its stage debut as it celebrates its worldwide

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premiere at Wembley. And the 12 golf there are at the

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Next week the Communist Party in China begins a once in a decade

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handover of power which will see a new President and Prime Minister

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leading one of the world's most powerful countries. What challenges

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will they face? John Sudworth has been to Shanghai whose rapid growth

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is now slowing down. If China's leaders could choose one

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image to symbolise their decade in power, this might be it. Shanghai's

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rise as an important engine of growth has been dazzling. The

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City's own building boom has provided jobs for millions of

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workers, pushing per-capita income well above 12,000 US dollars a year.

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But Shanghai is a symbol of modern China in another important way.

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Those who are growing rich, those who pay $2.5 million for apartments

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like this one are acutely aware the growing wealth gap is leading to

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resentment and anger. The gap is getting bigger and some poor people

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are trying to make something out of it. Fortunately, we have a very

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strict and powerful Government and they are trying to control

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everything and calm of these people down. But some economists argue

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that strong Government is now part of China's problem. The over-

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reliance on big infrastructure spending is stifling innovation and

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distorting the economy, they say. The economy is becoming the problem,

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not the solution. The Government is too powerful and creating a lot of

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distortion. People are getting a smaller piece of the cake, the GDP.

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That is why it is difficult to transform the Chinese economy

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because the people do not have enough income to consume. The it is

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not hard to find people with in-out -- without enough income to consume

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in Shanghai. This lady lives in a one-room apartment and shares a

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bathroom and kitchen with her neighbours. This city might be a

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success story, but it is a reminder of the challenges that lie ahead

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for the next generation of leaders. The Government has insisted there

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has been no change in policy on wind farms despite the Conservative

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energy minister John Hayes suggesting the UK is now peppered

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with them and enough is enough. The Department for energy said his

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remarks do not represent Government policy. Our political correspondent

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Chris Mason is at Westminster for us. Tell us exactly what he had to

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say. The problem is... We will wait and see if the sound is going to

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come in. We will have to leave that. Millions of people are at risk of

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carbon monoxide poisoning at home because they mistakenly think a

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smoke alarm will alert them to a gas leak. That is the conclusion of

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research which coincides with Northern Ireland becoming the first

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place in the UK to make carbon monoxide detectors compulsory in

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new homes. Last Christmas, this nurse woke

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early with a headache, dizziness and nausea. Her boiler had not been

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working properly, so she went to attack on her flatmate who was

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vomiting in the kitchen. I really felt like I was at death's door.

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The pain in my head was so excruciating, I thought I was

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having a haemorrhage. I thought I would be on my own. Northern

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Ireland is the first part of the UK to introduce a new building

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controls. From today on new houses must be equipped with a carbon

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monoxide alarms. 50 people are killed in the UK by carbon monoxide

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poisoning every year and a further 4000 are treated in hospital.

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Campaigners say most people mistakenly believe their smoke

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detectors will pick up this gas. It will not. Homes require a dedicated

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device costing just �15. Northern Ireland is leading the way largely

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because of a campaign that followed the death of two young men at a

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holiday home on the County Antrim coast. Both were 15 and they also

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died as they slept. The effects of this gas is you might confuse them

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with something very common like flu or food poisoning that starts with

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headaches and dizziness and nausea. You would not instantly know you

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are suffering from that and that is why the audible alarm that makes

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the noise when it detects this gas is the best way to make sure you

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are protected. The rising cost of oil and gas means more people are

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turning to solid feel. Anyone buying a new stove, fire or even a

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boiler for an existing home must install a dedicated carbon monoxide

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detector as well. Beekeepers say a cool, wet summer

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has led to a sharp drop in the amount of honey produced by hives

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in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The British Beekeepers'

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Association says the average output was down by 72% on last year.

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appalling weather in the summer has meant the bees cannot get out to

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fly and even when they do they are getting hit by rain and cold

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weather. There is no pollen. Everything is against them.

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temperature in these working hives in south Gloucestershire is

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normally well above 30 degrees, so it is hardly surprising they have

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been reluctant to leave the warmth of their home this summer. That has

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met their honey production has plummeted. The British beekeepers

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Associations says the weather has contributed to a 72% drop in the

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harvest. That means this Hythe last year which have produced around 30

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jars of honey, but this year has only produced eight. I have got a

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beekeeper who has been keeping bees for 53 years and he says he has

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never seen anything like it. The British Beekeepers' Association

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issued a starvation warning in June. They said lookout, they will not

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have as much honey as you think. the other end of the supply chain

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stores are having to adapt to a shortage of supplies. At this

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community shop locally produced honey is the latest example. Lots

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of people come in for the local produce and very often it is an

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ageing population and they love the local produce. It is a blow. Bees

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produce honey as a food store and the shortages mean it's sweet

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substitutes are being provided early to keep them going in the

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winter. As a Christmas present I would give them a bag of fondant.

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That means at the end of the year they have got some stores if they

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have run out. Christmas may have come already for these hives, but

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for the rest of us our Christmas hampers maybe one ingredient short

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this year. Now, the return of Star Wars and a

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new film is going to be back on the big screen in 2015. Disney studio

:25:45.:25:53.

is buying the company behind Star Wars, Lucasfilm, for more than �2.5

:25:53.:26:03.
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billion and plans to release three It is one of the best known and

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most popular film series of all time and now fans know more Star

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Wars movies are on the way. George Lucas will remain involved, but the

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films will now be produced by Disney, who paid him �2.5 billion

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for Lucasfilm, which owns the rights. It will give it a chance to

:26:34.:26:38.

explore my own interests at the same time. I am completely

:26:38.:26:44.

confident Disney will take good care of the franchise I have built.

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The last movie was released in 2005 and after the next film is released

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Disney hopes to bring out a new movie every three years. And here

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at Elstree Studios just outside London is where it all began back

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in 1976 when George Lucas made his first Star Wars film, little

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knowing that it would give rise to a franchise that would make

:27:13.:27:18.

billions at the box office and even more in spin-offs and franchising.

:27:18.:27:22.

Busy believes there is more money to be made. In the past Disney has

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had huge success by purchasing companies like Pixar and they

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expect to do the same with Star Wars. We understand the

:27:32.:27:37.

responsibility that comes with being deter caters -- caretakers of

:27:37.:27:46.

such iconic films. The next film will be a huge, commercial hit, but

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after that its continuing success will depend on whether the audience

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sees it as a return to the spirit of the originals.

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Now it is time to find out what the It is a wet and windy spell for

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Hallowe'en, certainly in large parts of England and Wales. If you

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are going out, expect it to be blustery this evening. This is the

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culprit on the satellite picture. There are some bright skies in

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eastern England. But it is a very wet afternoon in southern Scotland,

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north-west England, Wales and the south-west of England. Temperatures

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are seven up to 13, but it feels cooler when you add on the winds.

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Strong and gusty, squally winds, picking up as the rain sets in. It

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will be blustery in the south-west. Not very pleasant for the evening

:28:52.:28:58.

rush hour. Lots of spray on the roads. That rain gradually heads

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across to the Midlands. The London area and East Anglia may stay dry

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in the evening, but the rain will arrive overnight. Some clearer

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spells in Northern Ireland and turning dry in eastern Scotland.

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But it will turn quite cold here and there will be a touch of frost.

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For England and Wales this band of rain is going to be very heady as

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it goes across to the Eastern areas and it will be a company by a

:29:29.:29:35.

strong wind. It will be colder than last night, particularly across

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Northern Ireland and Scotland. There will also be some mist and

:29:38.:29:43.

fog which will clear tomorrow. The rain will clear across the extreme

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east, but it may linger in Shetland. Then we are into a mixture of

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sunshine and showers. There will be some sunshine as well as the

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showers, but the temperatures are only in single figures. It will

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feel cooler because of the breeze. That will be a feature over the

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next few days. Plenty of isobars on the chart, and spiralling bans of

:30:11.:30:18.

showers across the UK. Friday is a day of sunshine and showers.

:30:18.:30:23.

Wherever you are, even in the sunny spells, temperatures are only eight

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or nine, but feeling colder because of the wind. That will be a feature

:30:29.:30:35.

over the next few days and into the weekend.

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A reminder of our main story: Superstorm Sandy's trail of

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devastation in the eastern United States leaves at least 40 people

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