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Steadfast and united - the coalition Government's verdict on

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how well it's doing at the halfway point of their pact. The Prime

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Minister and his Deputy prepare to set out shared priorities on

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childcare, infrastructure and care for the elderly. Now I think the

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coalition is actually maturing and people can see that we have two

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parties which sometimes don't agree on things, which sometimes disagree

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in public, but that are agreed on the big fundamental things about

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the economy and schools and welfare. The broadcaster Stuart Hall appears

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in court charged with indecent assault on three girls in the '70s

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and '80s. More violence in Northern Ireland -

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the police there say children as young as ten have taken part.

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The seven-year-old killed for failing to learn passages from the

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Koran - his mother is jailed for life.

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And, the Big Bash that almost lived up to its name. The Australian

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Shane Warne is banned and fined for misconduct. On BBC London: A 13-

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year-old girl is killed after a police car chase in south London.

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And how illegal stun guns 20 times more powerful than those of the

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police are being used in attacks Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC news at One. David Cameron and Nick Clegg will set out their

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priorities for the coalition Government for the rest of the

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Parliament, in just over an hour. In what they call their mid-term

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review, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders will

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insist they are steadfast and united and that their shared

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purpose has grown. Labour has dismissed the review as another

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relaunch. Our political correspondent Louise Stewart

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reports. Since this historic moment at Downing Street back in 2010, the

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coalition's had its ups and downs but David Cameron and Nick Clegg

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are seizing the new term at Westminster as an opportunity to

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reinvigorate their partnership, presenting the coalition's mid-term

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review their message is the Government's making progress, but

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there's Mogg to do. Now -- more to do. Now I think the coalition is

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maturing and people can see we have two parties that sometimes don't

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agree on things, sometimes disagree in public, but that are agreed on

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the big fundamental things about the economy and schools and welfare

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and are still capable of working together while retaining our

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separate party identities. The mid- term report is light on detail but

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highlights some of what the coalition see as their achievements,

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including a 25% cut in the deficit, and education reforms in England as

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well as the creation of private sector jobs. Critics say the

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coalition hasn't delivered on House of Lords reform, has put services

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at risk by introducing top-down NHS reforms and failed to tackle weak

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economic growth. We really need from the Government is a strategy

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for jobs and growth to get the economy moving again, but we are

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not seeing that in the mid-term review, we haven't seen it in the

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last two-and-a-half years and that's why our economy is on its

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knees and families are having to pay the price. Gathering for the

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first cabinet meeting of the new year, ministers were signing off on

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a new wave of Government plans. Over the next few months, they'll

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flesh out pledges to help parents pay for the rise in cost of child

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care, cap care costs for the elderly, as well as increasing

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infrastructure investment. David Cameron and Nick Clegg want this

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review, the coalition agreement mark II, if you like, to

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demonstrate unity and show the Government still has plenty of

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ideas. But while those at the top of the parties are working well

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together, some Conservative backbenchers have dismissed this

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review as little more than a PR exercise and say the coalition

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can't last. This is just a sort of refresh, get the coalition going

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again but really I don't think that two parties that fundamentally

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disagree on so many things with push through new initiatives.

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maintain the coalition at mid-term remains steadfast and united but in

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the longer term it will be up to the voters to assess whether the

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coalition has actually delivered on its promises.

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Let's speak to our political correspondent Norman Smith at

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Westminster. This is the first Government to have something

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officially called a mid-term review, what do they want out of it?

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sense is this is meant to be the sort of political equivalent of

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Popeye's spinach, it's meant to give them get up and go, a bit of

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drive, by sketching out bold initiatives to show the Government

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hasn't run out of steam. It's the traditional problem of all

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governments that they sink into mid-term blues and sort of drift

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listlessly towards the next general election. The other part of this

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review to be a long list of the things that the Government has

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achieved, to say look, all these things we have managed to do in two

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and a half years. The difficulty with that side, let's be honest, is

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because it's a sort of self- appraisal form and when we get our

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own annual appraisal forms we all jot down the sorts of things we

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have done and think we have done well. We are always generous to

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ourselves. We have to be cautious about how much we read into the

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list of achievements. OK, but what will voters be expecting to see?

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sense is what voters really want is delivery, delivery, it's all fine

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coming up with reviews and reports, and future plans and

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recommendations. The real business of Government is making things

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happen on the ground, changing things for the better in people's

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lives. There, there was a warning for Mr Cameron today from the head

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of the National Association of Voluntary Os who said Mr --

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organisations who said Mr Cameron's idea of the big society was dead

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because the pace of reform was slow and that's the real challenge

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facing Mr Cameron, how can he make reform happen on the ground?

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All this comes on the day that the leader of the Lords has announced

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his resignation. Do you know why he is going? Else's - he's been in

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frontline politics for 25 years now. He's been involved in the brutal

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business of House of Lords reform which has involved marching troops

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up to the top of the hill and down again. I think, frankly, he is just

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tired. He himself says he wants a new chapter and wants to do

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something different. It will be a big loss to the Government because

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he is the sort of man who knows his way around the House of Lords, who

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can cut the deals needed there. Thank you. You can see the press

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conference with David Cameron and Nick Clegg on the BBC News channel

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at 2.Topm -- 2.30pm this afternoon. One of the coalition Government's

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policies which has come under criticism has been its decision to

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take child benefit from more than a million families from today.

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Ministers say the change affects only the top 15% of earners. Our

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correspondent Simon Gompertz has the details.

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These babies at a group for stimulates the senses were born

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into a world where all could collect child benefit. What's

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getting their parents going is that they'll now be means tested for it.

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In Dorking, several are waving bye to the money. It's going to

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obviously mean we are going to have less disposable income. We do use

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it all for him. It's just going to mean we are going to be slightly

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more broke. It's a loss, but many, including baby Georgia's parents,

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accept that they're an obvious target. If it's still given to

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people that really need it, with lower salaries, then that's not too

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bad. What do you think?! Education, health, everyone is having to take

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a cut somewhere. I think if some people can afford more than others,

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then sad as it is for those of us affected, it might be necessary.

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Child benefit is �20.30 a week for the first child and �13.40 for the

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others. 320,000 families are losing some of it because one partner

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earns �50,000 or more. 820,000 with a partner on over �60,000 won't

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qualify for any benefit. It is a complex change because the child

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benefit is withdrawn gradually between incomes of �50,000 and

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�60,000 a year. If you are on more than 60 a year you lose it all.

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Until now these children received a universal benefit, with everyone

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getting it to make sure that no one missed out. But now they're going

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to be divided with the wealthiest children getting nothing. Thousands

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of parents, like this one, have simply opted out of child benefit.

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She's got the confirmation to avoid having to fill in a tax return and

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then pay the money back. Only 15% of claimants are the

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higher earnings having their child benefit eaten into. So most will

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carry on receiving their money as before.

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The broadcaster Stuart Hall has appeared in court charged with

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three counts of indecent assault, involving three girls, aged between

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nine and 17. The offences are alleged to have been committed in

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the '70s and '80s. Mr Hall denies all charges. Our correspondent

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Judith Moritz is at Preston Magistrates' Court.

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What happened in in in -- in court today? Well, this was the first

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appearance at court for Stuart Hall since the charges were brought

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against him in December. We have some pictures of him arriving this

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morning. There is flash photography in them. He came here for the

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hearing which was only a short hearing, less than quarter of an

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hour. He was charged under his full name of James Stuart Hall and the

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broadcaster, who is 83, sat in the courtroom and listened intently

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throughout the proceedings. He confirmed his full name and his

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address and then he pleaded not guilty to the three charges of

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indecent assault which have been brought against him. The detail of

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the charges is that in 1974 it's said that he touched

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inappropriately a girl who was then 16 or 17, that happened in

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Blackpool. In 1983, in Cheshire, that he touched a nine-year-old

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girl, and at the following year, 1984, also in Cheshire, that he

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kissed a girl who was then 13. He pleaded not guilty. But the

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district judge here said he agreed with the prosecution's assessment

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this case cannot be dealt with by magistrates, it must go to trial,

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he said it must go to Crown Court. Stuart Hall was released on bail

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from here and told to appear next at Preston Crown Court and that

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will be on April 16th. Thank you.

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The Chief Constable of Northern Ireland has accused members of the

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loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force of being

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involved in the recent violent demonstrations in Belfast. Mark

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Baggott said 52 of his officers had been injured in the protests which

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erupted after the City Council voted to restrict the flying of the

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Union flag. Our Ireland Correspondent Mark Simpson reports.

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A new year in Northern Ireland, but the same old story. Police on the

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streets of East Belfast trying to keep the peace. For five weeks

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loyalists have been protesting at the decision by Belfast City

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Council to stop flying the Union flag every day. In this part of the

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city there's been violence four nights in a row. I have seen over

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the weekend youngsters, ten, 11, 14, 15-year-olds, in large numbers

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without parental control, without any direction, and I am deeply

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saddened by that. I think we all are. Police say some senior members

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of the UVF in East Belfast have been orchestrating the trouble. The

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MP for the area says violence will not bring back the Union flag.

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is not some kind of people's revolution. People have the right

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to go to the ballot box if they don't like what they get when they

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elect leaders and they have the right to change that. But this is

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not the way to bring about change in a democracy. Belfast City

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Council meets tonight for the first time since the flag decision was

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made. There's little prospect of the flag policy here changing. But

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there's no sign of the protests ending. Politicians are trying to

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find a solution, and police hope they find it quickly.

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Further protests are planned in the city this evening.

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The body has been recovered of a British man, who died after falling

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from a waterfall near Sydney. The 20-year-old was with a group of

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other tourists when he apparently lost his footing and fell around

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300 feet at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains.

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Morrisons says its sales over Christmas were disappointing in the

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six weeks to the 30th December, like-for-like sales were 2.5% lower

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than the same period in the previous year.

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There've been chaotic scenes inside a court in Delhi where five men

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have appeared charged with the gang rape and murder of a medical

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student on a bus in the city last month. The case has caused outrage

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across India. Two of the defendants have agreed to testify against the

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other suspects in an attempt to avoid the death penalty. Our

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correspondent Mike Wooldridge reports.

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On their way to court from the Dellly jail where -- Delhi jail

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where they're being held. Five accused over the death of the

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student. This was a preliminary hearing taking place in the highly

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charged atmosphere the case has provoked in India. Security had

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been stepped up for the men's appearance in court and outside

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demonstraters had gathered once again.

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Inside the building there was such a scrum with dozens of lawyers and

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journalists and onlookers that the magistrate ordered the hearing take

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place behind closed doors. The protesters outside say say they

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will not allow any lawyer to defend the accused. This lawyer, though,

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says they do have the right to be defended, hang them by all means,

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he says, if they're proved guilty, but they should at least be given a

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fair chance. The student was attacked on this

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bus on December 16th. She died later from massive internal

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injuries she suffered during her ordeal.

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The eruption of public anger over the case and over the treatment of

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women led to clashes during this protest in the heart of Delhi.

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Today's events at the court show that the sense of outrage and the

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profile of the case have hardly Over now to Andrew North in Delhi.

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Huge outcry and we have been hearing about another suspected

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rape and murder. What can you tell us about that? That's right. As

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Mike was saying there in his report, questions about the judicial

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process there is getting under way in the first test of what the

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Government is promising will be a new fast-track process to deal with

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this and others. However, over the weekend I've been talking to the

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father of the victim of the latest suspected gang rape to have

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happened in Delhi, and this man told me that when he initially

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tried to report his daughter had gone missing, the police showed no

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interest. They simply said they thought she had probably gone off

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with someone. If this is happening in Delhi it shows you that there's

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still a long way to go before the authorities really change their

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attitude towards this crime. Thank you.

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Our top story - David Cameron and Nick Clegg are preparing to set out

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the priorities for the second half of the coalition's term. They'll

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insist their steadfast and united and coming up - a big boost for UK

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car industry as sales hit a four year high. Could the capital's road

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become safer? We look at new plans for London's superhighways. For the

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first time in more than 25 years, two British women enter the top 50

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world tennis ranking, including Wimbledon's Laura Robson. A senior

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police officer has gone on trial, accused of offering information to

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the News of the World in return for money more than two years ago.

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Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, who's 53, denies one

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charge of misconduct in public office. Our Home Affairs

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Correspondent, June Kelly, reports. She is the first person to go on

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trial in the fallout from the phone hacking affair. Detective Chief

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Inspector April Casburn stands accused of offering to supply

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information to the News of the World for money. She is pleading

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not guilty. Today, the senior Scotland Yard officer went into the

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dock as the prosecution outlined the case against her. The jury

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heard that in September 2010 the focus was back on alleged phone

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hacking at the News of the World. This followed the publication of an

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article in the New York Times claiming it was more widespread

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than had previously been acknowledged. Detective Chief

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Inspector April Casburn phoned the News of the World news desk and is

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said to have offered the paper information for money about the

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resumed police investigation. The The police investigation was being

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overseen by John Yates, who also had responsibility for counter-

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terrorism. Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn was in

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charge of a team investigating the financial side of terrorism. Her

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call to the newspaper followed a decision to move resources from her

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team to phone hacking. Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn

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admits calling the paper, but denies she asked for money. When

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she called the newspaper she left her number with the news desk and

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it was through this she was traced and arrested. She denies the

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offence of misconduct in public office. It's the latest phase of

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the Government-backed change4life campaign. They hope the light-

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hearted animated advert will help raise awareness of obesity and diet

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related illness. Critics say it doesn't go far enough. Behind the

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scenes at a world-famous animation studios. These tiny figures aren't

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the star of the new movie. This is all about making us think about

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what we eat. A big nudge is the new year, so check the ingredients of

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our meals. This is the amount of fat in that whole pizza. Many

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people don't know what's in processed foods. It's telling the

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viewers about the hidden nasties about everyday junk food pizzas and

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fizzy drinks and fries and chips. Kind of just showing them that

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there's just that amount of fat and oil and sugar that actually in

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these things. The Department of Health says it's struck a voluntary

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deal with supermarkets, with special offers on some products to

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help families eat better. But food campaigners say the Government is

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too close to industry, that while sales of fresh fruit and vegetables

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have fallen, less healthy foods are escaping regulation. One of the

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things that the Department of Health says it's doing is showing

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up the hidden nasties. Well, frankly, why are they hidden and if

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they're nasty what are they doing in the food? Many sign up for

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healthier living in the new year. The real test will be the official

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statistics measuring the weight of the nation. A mother who beat her

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seven-year-old son when he failed to memorise passages from the Koran

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has been given a life sentence for his murder. Sara Ege killed Yaseen

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Ali Ege in July 2010 and then set fire to his body. Our reporter is

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at Cardiff Crown Court for us now. Sara Ege collapsed to the ground as

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she was being led away from the dock to begin her life prison

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sentence. The judge had told her that she had abused the special

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precious relationship between a parent and the son, having

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subjected her son to cruelty for several months. The judge said he

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was satisfied that it was his failure to memorise passages of the

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Koran that led to the fatal beating. The seven-year-old boy, deafless

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against his mother's rage. Yaseen Ali Ege's body was discovered by

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fire crews called to the family's home in Cardiff in July 2010. The

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local community mourned what seemed to be a tragic, accidental death.

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But the postmortem revealed he had been beaten before his body was set

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alight. Sara Ege's trial lasted five weeks. The jury heard she had

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admitted beating her son with a stick like a dog. She claimed to be

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driven by voices in her head. The attacks became worse when he failed

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to memorise large sections of the Koran, learning chapters of the

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text at a Madras sa like this one is part of norm A instruction for

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thousands of children, but Sara Ege had pushed her son to an extreme

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level. It is tragic that the pressure that the mother has put on

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the son, which has taken his life to be honest, you know, is really

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sad. It's not a reflection on the community or the children and

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parents and all the other mothers. Yousuf Ege was cleared by the jury

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of allowing his son's death. They decided unanimously that Sara Ege

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was solely responsible for his murder. As he passed the sentence,

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the judge said he accepted that Sara Ege had been a devoted mother

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who had done many good things to raise her son and also been the

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victim of domestic abuse, but he reiterated this had been a dreadful

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crime and she would have to serve a minimum of 17 years in jail. Thank

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you. More than two million new cars were

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bought in Britain last year - an increase of 5.3% and the highest

:23:32.:23:34.

number since 2008. Ford's Fiesta and Focus and Vauxhall's Corsa and

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Astra were the four best-selling models. More details from our

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:23:47.:23:48.

industry correspondent, John Moylan. 2012 was a good jeer for Jaguar

:23:48.:23:52.

Land Rover. Sales jumpped 25%, boosted by the success of the new

:23:52.:23:58.

mode el, but across the industry the picture was more subdued. In

:23:58.:24:03.

past 20 years, new car sales topped two million. That's up 5.3% on last

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year, but it's a world away from the 2.5 million sales which the

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industry enjoyed in the last decade. Why are sales up when the economy

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has been flat? The industry says those who used to change their car

:24:17.:24:21.

regularly before the downturn are now coming back into showrooms.

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They are running five, six, seven- year-old cars and seeing the

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maintenance cost of the vehicles begin to increase and very clearly

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the fuel economy of a new car is up to 15% to 25% better, so from a

:24:37.:24:41.

day-to-day running cost view, a new car starts to look like sound,

:24:41.:24:45.

economic and financial sense. this is what we're buying - the

:24:45.:24:51.

Ford fest that was the best-selling car in 2012. Ford has had the top

:24:51.:24:56.

spot for the past four decades. The Vauxhall Corsa was in second and

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then the Ford Focus in third. They say what drives sales here is new

:25:02.:25:10.

products like this B mf Max with no -- B-Max, with no central pillar

:25:10.:25:13.

and the fuel hch efficient vehicles, but having the right finance

:25:13.:25:18.

available is also crucial. But if sales are up, is it at the cost of

:25:18.:25:23.

profits? The last few months has shown an upturn in UK sales, which

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is encouraging. The question is how that's achieved? There has been a

:25:26.:25:31.

lot of discounting, especially from the manufacturers with European

:25:31.:25:33.

plants who have no hope of selling their cars in southern Europe, so

:25:33.:25:38.

they're shifting them over and discounting heavily. 2012 was a

:25:38.:25:43.

better year, but it follows 2011, what was the worst since the mid-

:25:43.:25:46.

90s. If the car sales of a barometer for the wider economy,

:25:46.:25:52.

the figures suggest there could be tough times ahead. Now, it's not a

:25:52.:25:55.

sight you often see on a cricket pitch, but Australian cricketer

:25:55.:25:58.

Shane Warne and the West Indian Marlon Samuels almost came to blows

:25:58.:26:00.

during a Twenty20 competition. During the incident the pair were

:26:00.:26:03.

seen hurling bats and balls at each other and tugging on shirts. Our

:26:03.:26:12.

sports correspondent, Alex South, has more. Cricket is supposed to be

:26:12.:26:17.

a civilised game. No temper tan rums allowed, but that was ignored

:26:17.:26:22.

as the big tournaments in Melbourne took itself a little too literally.

:26:22.:26:26.

One of Australia's most celebrated cricketers, Shane Warne, in a

:26:26.:26:34.

moment he would like to forget. conscious of the image of the game.

:26:34.:26:39.

I'm disappointed in some of my actions last night, but also I'm

:26:39.:26:41.

pretty disappointed with the severity of the penalties. I

:26:41.:26:47.

thought it was harsh. Coming to his defence was his famous girlfriend,

:26:47.:26:52.

the actress and model Elizabeth Hurley. She hit out saying he had

:26:52.:26:59.

been harshly treated. That's debatable, as their actions have

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damaged the sport which prides itself on an image as a gentleman's

:27:03.:27:09.

game. Australian police are continuing to search burned-out

:27:09.:27:12.

vehicles and homes in towns hit by bushfires, which have swept across

:27:12.:27:15.

the island state of Tasmania. There are still about 100 people who

:27:15.:27:17.

haven't been accounted for. Our correspondent, Nick Bryant, sent

:27:17.:27:27.
:27:27.:27:28.

this report. The fires are still burning in Tasmania, though the

:27:28.:27:31.

winds and record-breaking temperatures have dropped. The fire

:27:31.:27:36.

fronts are no longer posing such an extreme threat to communities.

:27:36.:27:42.

Still, they are causing chaos, with roads closed and the peninsula

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still only reachable by boat and air. In the worst-affected

:27:48.:27:51.

community, Dunalley, where over 60 homes and businesses were destroyed,

:27:51.:27:54.

police have been going from one property to the next. Investigating

:27:54.:27:59.

whether anyone lost their lives. Across Tasmania, 100 people are

:28:00.:28:03.

still unaccounted for, but that's thought to be mainly because of the

:28:03.:28:09.

confused situation. So far, after going through over 250 properties,

:28:09.:28:15.

no fatalities have been confirmed. Today, the Prime Minister, Julia

:28:15.:28:19.

Gillard, surveyed the worst fire damage seen in Australia since the

:28:19.:28:24.

Black Saturday disaster in 2009. Even the local school burnt to the

:28:24.:28:30.

ground. For a number of people they know their home has been destroyed,

:28:30.:28:33.

but as yet, forivity reasons, they haven't been able to return to

:28:33.:28:37.

their home to see the damage themselves, so a really stressing

:28:37.:28:41.

position to be in. Knowing that you have lost so much, but not being

:28:41.:28:47.

able to see it for yourself. With much of Australia in the grip of a

:28:47.:28:51.

heatwave, with temperatures in the 40s, attention over the next few

:28:51.:28:56.

days is expected to shift to the mainland. The New South Wales

:28:56.:28:59.

authorities are warning of perhaps the worst fire day they've ever

:28:59.:29:06.

faced. Now the weather. Alex joins faced. Now the weather. Alex joins

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us. Some gradual changes with the weather this week. It is slowly

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going to turn a little colder, but for today it's more of the same.

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Mild out there and it is grey. There are some big contrasts with

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the rainfall. This is the radar. It shows it's quite soggy across

:29:23.:29:29.

Northern Ireland and a good part of Scotland. For England and Wales

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it's dry. There may be some brightness and sunny spells in

:29:33.:29:37.

Devon and east Wales and parts of north-east England. The far north-

:29:37.:29:42.

east of Scotland seize some sunshine. -- sees some sunshine.

:29:42.:29:45.

But for the rest of the country it's dull and soggy for the rest of

:29:45.:29:50.

the day. Similar story for Northern Ireland too. It's damp, but mild.

:29:50.:29:53.

Some of the rain across northern England and North Wales, but for

:29:53.:29:57.

most of England and Wales it's fine. A hint of brightness here and there.

:29:57.:30:00.

Gloomy across East Anglia and the south-east. A little drizzle

:30:00.:30:03.

possible here and there. Some sunny spells continuing across parts of

:30:03.:30:10.

Devon and Cornwall. It's going to stay mild overnight, because it

:30:10.:30:14.

stays cloudy. The rain may ease, but another pulse of rain pushes

:30:14.:30:17.

into Northern Ireland and southern and western Scotland. That rain

:30:17.:30:24.

trickles into Wales too. But for many areas a dry night. It is still

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mild. 8 to 10 degrees. It's mild and grey on Tuesday morning, but

:30:29.:30:31.

changes tomorrow. We'll see sunshine developing in Northern

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Ireland and after a wet start, it will brighten up in Scotland. This

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area of rain will push across England and Wales, but the south-

:30:39.:30:44.

east and East Anglia will stay dry until late on. It is mild again.

:30:44.:30:48.

Actually, despite sun, temperatures are dropping across Scotland and

:30:48.:30:51.

Northern Ireland. That's because this line of rain is from a cold

:30:51.:30:55.

front. That cold front will continue to push the rain across

:30:55.:30:59.

England and Wales during Tuesday night. Behind it, as the name

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suggest, we have some colder air, so we'll see a big contrast in

:31:03.:31:08.

temperatures compared with tonight. 9 or 10, but tomorrow night in the

:31:08.:31:13.

north much closer to freezing. Maybe closer to what you might

:31:13.:31:16.

imagine in January. A cold day, except maybe in the south-east.

:31:16.:31:19.

Here, we'll have the residue of the weather front, so grey. Elsewhere,

:31:19.:31:25.

a big change. Much colder, but brighter. We'll finally get some

:31:25.:31:28.

sun returning. Colder and brighter is the theme for the week, with the

:31:28.:31:36.

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