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Crunch day for millions on benefits as MPs vote on controversial plans

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to cap payments. It would mean working age benefits and tax

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credits would rise by 1% a year rather than the rate of inflation.

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If they stop it already is it any more, one of us will have to go on

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the dull and that is it. That is reality. Fires rage in South

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Eastern Australia. They are the worst conditions ever seen there.

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A British soldier is killed and six others are injured after a man in

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an Afghan army uniform opens fire in Helmand.

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Northern Ireland is being held by ransom by protesters in the Union

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flag dispute says the secretary of state.

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And is this what we will all be wearing one day? I say to my

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glasses, which way to my hotel? Later on BBC London, a retrial has

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begun of a man accused of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan who was shot

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dead by police. And a promise for 20% more seats on rail routes into

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Welcome to the BBC News at One. Millions of people on benefits will

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find out today if increases to their payments will be capped to 1%

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over the next few years. MPs will vote on the plans later which will

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amount to real-terms cuts for working aid claimants. Labour says

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it would hit working families hard, but the Government says it is

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unfair for payments to go up by a higher percentage than wages.

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This is the argument at the very heart of the benefits question, how

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to share the pain of austerity between those in work and those on

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benefits. The Government says it has no choice but to cut the

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welfare bill in order to deal with the deficit. What we have seen his

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many people in work paying tax for all the welfare benefits. The

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reality is their money and their pay has not risen by anything like

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what welfare has done, in fact less than half. We have to save the

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money and the fairest way to do this is to save for that money from

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welfare payments. The Government aims to save around �4 billion by

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capping and not increasing as benefits by 1%. With inflation over

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2%, that is effectively cutting the value of benefits such as

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jobseeker's allowance. It is also being planned to affect tax credits.

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This couple both work part-time and receive child tax credits. She says

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the benefits cat will make their situation harder. It means one of

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us will have to stop working and go on benefits which is what the

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Tories do not want people to do, particularly women. Labour says it

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is precisely because they want to protect families like this that

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they are opposing the bill. We are going to be voting against a tax on

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strivers, a tax that will hit people who are working hard,

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getting up early, staying up late and you are going to see their help

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reduced as a result of this Bill. In the House of Commons Nick Clegg

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challenged Labour's deputy leader over where she would make the cuts.

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Would she take it on the NHS? I know her health spokesperson things

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increasing spending under the NHS is not good. But not all Liberal

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Democrats agree with him. A handful of others may abstain from the vote.

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The majority of MPs will back the bill, so the Government is expected

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to succeed in limiting the rise in benefits, but the arguments over

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spending cuts and who should bear the brunt of them is expected to

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continue right up until the next general election.

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Let's get more from our political correspondent Norman Smith who is

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in Westminster. There is a lot at stake for people on benefits and

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for the politicians. This is all about appealing to so-called

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strivers and I am reminded of the film Spartacus where once Labour

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gets up and says, I am Spartacus and another says, no, I am

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Spartacus. We have got pretty much the same going on here at

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Westminster where they are saying they are on the side of the

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striders. Both the coalition and Labour want to use the vote to

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demonstrate how they represent the interests of the low and middle

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income earners. The coalition say by imposing a benefit cap they are

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standing up for the interests of strivers to have seen benefits

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going up faster than paid. Labour say by opposing that cap they are

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the ones standing up for striders because they are resisting cuts To

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Working tax credits which many of them received. This matters

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politically because both sides are trying to push the other into an

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awkward corner. The Government are trying to say Labour by opposing

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the benefit cap, that shows they are on the side of claimants.

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Labour are saying the Government by hitting tax credits, that shows

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they are out of touch with the concerns of ordinary families.

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Politically this is hugely significant because it is about

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identity, though you stand for and how you are perceived by the

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electorate. Our economics editor Stephanie Flanders is here. This

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serves to remind us how much money is at stake. It was always

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inevitable when you look at what the Government was trying to do, to

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bring down the deficit, that we would have rowers of this kind. You

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cannot squeeze public spending without squeezing welfare. He

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cannot squeeze welfare without affecting a lot of people. Nearly

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10 million households will be affected by this change, more than

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half of working age households. Some of them will not lose very

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much, but rightly or wrongly they feel they have paid a lot into the

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system and they deserve to get it back. There is an element of

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uncertainty because a lot depends on the economy. If inflation

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behaves as forecasters expect it to do, and it is not very high, the

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real level of benefits will be cut by about 4% over the next few years.

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That is roughly what has happened to average earnings, but if

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inflation picks up, this policy would leave some of the poorest

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households quite exposed to that shock. You can find out how the

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benefit changes may affect you by going to the BBC News website.

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Firefighters in the Australian state of New South Wales are

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battling some of the worst fires they have ever faced. More than 130

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are burning and the risk is at its highest level because of the

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combination of higher winds, extremely dry vegetation and

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temperatures above 40 Celsius. Bath in scale, frightening in

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intensity, the New South Wales bush fires are being fanned by ferocious

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winds and some of the highest temperatures the state has ever

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witnessed. Four large regions are at the highest state of alert, a

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catastrophic. The bushfires are uncontrollable and fast moving and

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residents are being urged to escape their path. At ground level we saw

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for ourselves how terrifying and unpredictable they can be. They

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look like the mouth of hell. This is one of the main roads, the

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Princes Highway, to dangers for all but the emergency services to

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travel. Dust off his our country homes and property is most at risk.

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Close to the front you get a sense of the conditions the firefighters

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are dealing with. These swirling, vicious winds, the soaring

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temperatures, 45 degrees. There has been a sudden change in the wind

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and that is what makes these fires so unpredictable. In this small

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town, Barbara Bennett had decided to stay and protect her home, a

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garden hose is her main defence. am only going if necessary. So,

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let's hope it does not come to that. With roads at Shap and communities

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isolated, many locals faced a different kind of agony, Standard

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from family members. Two of them cannot get out and I cannot get

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into them. I told them to pick up every available bucket and Bath.

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is not just New South Wales, Victoria, the state which suffered

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the Black Saturday Disaster in 2009, is being hit again. Australia has

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rarely witnessed a heat wave quite like this. Nor fires that have

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devastated such a large area of the country.

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Tributes have been paid to a British soldier from 28 Engineer

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Regiment who has been shot dead in southern Afghanistan by a man

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wearing Afghan army uniform. Six British soldiers were injured in

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the attack. The dead soldier's family has been informed. More than

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60 foreign troops were killed by their Afghan colleagues last year.

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The latest attack happened in Patrol Base Hazrat. Later today,

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Hamid Karzai is due in Washington to discuss American withdrawal from

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his country and a strategy for tackling the Taliban. Quentin

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Somerville is in Kabul now. This attack happened late last

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night in a very small patrol base near Nahr-e Saraj in Helmand. It

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seemed the gunman got into an argument with his Afghan colleagues

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and firstly fired on them before turning his weapons on the British

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engineers who were working at the base, tried to prepare it for

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handover to Afghan security forces. One British soldier was killed and

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six were injured. We do not know if the dead British soldier was armed

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at the time he was attacked. This is one of the growing tensions we

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have seen in Afghanistan's relationships with its foreign

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allies. There has been a huge rise in these attacks and it will be one

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of the issues President Karzai will discuss when he meets President

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Obama later today. They are cleaning up and clearing

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out. US Marines and their armoured vehicles are leaving Afghanistan

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behind and heading back to the States. 30,000 foreign troops left

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the country last year. This compound holes only a tiny fraction

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of what is to be returned. But it is all going to be sent back home.

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We are not leaving anything behind. We have a history of bringing

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everything out with us and unless it is totally broken and cannot be

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used again, it will be coming back with us. Far from Afghanistan, the

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President's will discuss who will replace these soldiers and the kind

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of support they give Afghan troops. Hamid Karzai wants US soldiers out

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of his country's towns and villages and Afghans have taken over

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security from a nearly 90% of the population, but some places are

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still far from ready. This was the last time they sat down together in

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May. On their agenda this week will be progress on talks with the

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Taliban and in advance the insurgents sent a warning. If they

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leave a single soldier, they will be responsible for all future

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casualties. Some hope the meeting will mean troops will pack up and

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head home sooner. That might help the peace process. If the

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international troops withdraw from the country, the jihad or holy war

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against international invaders will be, if not totally, but more than

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90% stopped. This meeting will influence the number of American

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soldiers President Obama is prepared to send here and the

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number that President Karzai is willing to tolerate, but it could

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also changed the nature of the war. Will this change into a war of

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counter-terrorism where the main enemy is Al-Qaeda? The interests of

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Afghanistan and America will not easily be disentangled. Across the

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country US bases are disappearing and troops are leaving. This week's

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meeting of the leaders will in part help determine the direction it

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will take and the speed at which they will go.

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President Karzai arrives in Washington later today. He will not

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see President Obama until Friday. But if we return to the insider

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attacks, it is worth pointing out that of the six British soldiers

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who have been killed in this current six-month tour of duty

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every single one of them has died at the hands of the Afghan security

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forces. Forensic experts searching for the

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body of a schoolgirl who went missing more than 50 years ago have

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opened a grave in North Lanarkshire. Moira Anderson was 11 when she was

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last seen getting on a bus in Coatbridge in 1957. The bus driver,

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a convicted rapist, who has since died, has been linked to her murder.

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What happened to this little girl? For more than half a century the

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question has haunted whereat Anderson's family. But now the

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inquiry into her disappearance is under way again. Forensic

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scientists are exhuming a great where her body may have been hidden.

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We cannot lose sight of the real human story behind this. Moira

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Anderson went missing in 1957 and she left behind a family and we

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have a responsibility not only to her, but to her family to bring the

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inquiry to a conclusion. More it was last seen at this. Just a

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couple of miles from the cemetery. A few weeks later, the bus driver,

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Alex Gartshore, was jailed for raping another schoolgirl and

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before he died his own daughter accused him of murdering Moira and

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hiding her body. My dad said to me, I was the last person to see her,

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she got on my bus. He would say his own father had blamed him for all

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sorts of things including the Moira Anderson thing. But finding the

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truth after all these years is not easy. These are challenging

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conditions for the forensic scientists, the ground is

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waterlogged and the grade is old and the work is difficult. It could

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be many days before they find out exactly what is contained in his

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The Northern Ireland secretary's called for an end to demonstrations

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over the Union Flag in Belfast are holding nielgd to ransom. Last

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night, police officers were attacked with sledge hammers and

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hatchets by loyalists angry at a decision to stop flying the Union

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Flag every day above city hall. Mark Simpson is in Belfast for us

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now. One of the most remarkable things

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about Belfast is this City's ability to quickly recover from a

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very bad night. I can tell you all the roads are open, all the shops

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are open, there's peace and calm. I'm tempted to ask riot, what riot?

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But last night in East Belfast, things were pretty bad.

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Police officers came under sustained attack. Caught in the

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middle trying to keep the peace. In a part of East Belfast where

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largely loyalist district meets a mainly nationalist area. The

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troubles started as loyalist flag protesters returned from a

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demonstration in the city centre. A group of nationalists threw stones

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at them. When the police intervened, they were attacked.

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As the clear-up began today, the blame game continued.

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Police have accused some loyalist paramilitaries of organising

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 78 seconds

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trouble. Others blame social media. It is crunch day for millions on

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benefits as MPs vote on controversial plans to cap payments.

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Working age benefits would rise by just 1% a year. Coming up: Where

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Are We Now?? David Barrie's first new material for a decade is

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released today. Later on BBC London, the family is trying to stop a

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severely disabled man from being returned to present. And a

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recommendation for Lewisham's Hospital A&E to close. Thousands of

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staff and patients are unhappy. High street stores up only a slight

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boost in sales over Christmas. The British Retail Consortium says

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total sales were up by just 1.5% last month compared with a year

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before, but there was a big jump on how much consumers spent online.

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Christmas, it seems a long time ago now. Today we got a snapshot of how

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retailers fared in this crucial month. Total sales were up in

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December, but not by much, 1.5%, a flat end to a flat year. It was

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neither a bumper Christmas or a complete disaster. We had modest

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growth in December. We as consumers have remained cautious threat the

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lot of 2012 and Christmas was no different. What little growth there

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was over Christmas was not generated by sales on the High

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Street. It was online with internet spending up by nearly 18% on the

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year. And this retailer did even better with online growth of more

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than 40% in its recent trading update. The boss of John Lewis told

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me their investment into making shopping easier was paying off.

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great result online, but the exciting thing is we had growth in

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our shops as well. If there was one thing that stood out, it was the

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making of the online collection service more convenient and working

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with Waitrose. Online goods on the move. It is the only part of this

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industry that is growing right now. But for some retailers sales have

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simply moved from the High Street to online. Online has opened a

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Pandora's box to their retail economic model. It has added cost,

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it has not added sales, and it has really left most retailers in the

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industry with far too many stores. The sales may have got off to a

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flying start, but with consumers still strapped for cash, 2013 looks

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set to be just as challenging for Britain's retailers.

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Network Rail has given details of how it plans to spend more than �37

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billion on running and improving services over the next five years.

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They include 1000 miles of electrified lines with faster and

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greener trains. But savings will need to be made and fares will keep

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on rising. It has been hailed as part of the

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biggest investment in our trains since the Victorian era. Billions

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of pounds to guarantee a better, more reliable service. Network Rail

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is setting out how it will deliver dozens of projects ours or by the

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Government. The plan includes a promise to add 170,000 more peak-

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time commuter seeds and a plan to spend �600 million protecting

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against flooding and to add 1000 miles of electrified line. The

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company boss says it is making up for decades of neglect. We have not

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invested to meet up with demand and playing catch-up is always more

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expensive. But there are warnings as well. These ambitious plans are

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only affordable if Network Rail manages to save more than �3

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billion over five years. They also say fares will keep going up above

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inflation to help pay for it all. Passengers want to see the

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investment is handled very carefully. The quality of

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information has got to be good so Five more years of inflation-

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busting fare rises. Nobody will welcome that. It will be a long

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time before commuters see a difference. Many of the big

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projects will take years to complete.

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From driverless cars to checking the Internet through a pair of

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glasses, this year's newest and cleverest gadgets are on display at

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one of the largest technology shows in the world in Las Vegas. So what

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does the future look like? Our technology correspondent, Rory

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Cellan-Jones, is there to take a It's the brashest, most colourful

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city on earth, the place where America comes to party, but for one

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week in January, Las Vegas is also the world's technology hotspot. And

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the Consumer Electronics Show is in town. We get a glimpse of how

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technology could change the way we work, relax and this year how we

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drive. From satnav to parking sensors, all

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sorts of new technology's entered cars recently, but none of it has

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transformed the basic driving experience. Now though, that could

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be about to change. Lexus, owned by Toyota, has been

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testing this vehicle packed with sensors which of feblgtively allow

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it to drive itself. -- effectively. Google has been testing its own

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driverless car. Lexus still thinks we'd want to be behind the wheel.

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REPORTER: You won't see a day when I'll let the car do the work?

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would prefer that you drove and the car made you a better driver.

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At a preview event, plenty more new ideas fighting for attention. Here

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is what could be the future of television. Ultra HD, amazing

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pictures at an equally amazing price.

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Wearable technology is a big thing here, like these new glasses.

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I'm obviously eating too fast. Some of the gadgets will take off.

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Others will not. Technology continues to invade every area of

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our lives. David Bowie is 66 today and to

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celebrate, he's releasing his first new material in a decade. He hasn't

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performed since 2006 and has rarely been seen in public since then. But

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now he's back and his new album will be out in March. Our

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entertainment correspondent, Liza Mzimba, reports.

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He's always been a musician famous for the unexpected, but this

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morning's news took David Bowie's fans around the world totally by

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surprise. # Where are we now... # After years

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of silence, a new single, his first in a decade, with an album to

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follow. It's a wonderful, heart felt, poignant song. We know he's

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had times of ill-health recently and I detect a bit of fragility in

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the voice, even though it's croony, which is a really endearing thing.

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# There's a starman waiting in the sky... #

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He's one of the most influential artists of the last 40 years.

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Ashes to ashes... # As well known for his ability to reinvent himself

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as his string of hits. Now a surprising birthday present

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for his fans. When he was 64, he kept quiet. Maybe he was doubting

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being a pensioner, et cetera, but I think in a way,, this is his last

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shot and he's having fun and dog it for himself with nothing to prove.

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He hasn't toured in years, but today's announcement has

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electrified fans who're now hoping that as well as his new album, they

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tour a legendary performer whom they feared turned his back on

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music for ever. music for ever.

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Let's have a look at the weather now.

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A bit of a temperature oddity over the past few days! It's been a mild

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 78 seconds

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The winds are starting to pick up across the far north of Scotland

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and it is quite gusty tonight. There will be some fog patches

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forming. It will be a misty and damp day in the southern half of

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England. It will be another mild night in the far south, but

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elsewhere there as temperatures will drop. Towns and cities will

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stay above freezing, but in rural areas there will be frost. The rain

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and strong winds will linger in the northern isles. For many it will

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brighten up tomorrow and there will be some sunshine. In the sunshine

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the temperatures are about average for this time of the year. But

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whether fog lingers we are going to struggle at about one or two

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Celsius. As temperatures drop again we are going to seize some pockets

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of frost as we head into Thursday morning. More rain will be heading

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in by then as well. Remember that cloud I showed you earlier? That is

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this weather front approaching on Thursday. Rain is coming in and

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many eastern areas will stay dry until late in the day, but there

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will be fought with the cloud increasing. There may be summer

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falls of snow on top of the hills. Temperatures are back closer to

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average and that is how we go into the weekend. There is more details

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online and also an update on the Australian heat wave. Our top

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