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The Oscar Pistorius bail hearing continues, with reports that

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steroids, needles and unlicensed ammunition were found at his home.

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The court is told screams were heard from the athlete's home on

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the night he killed his girlfriend. His defence says a witness was too

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far away to have heard. UK unemployment falls again. The

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number of people claiming job seeker's allowance is now at its

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lowest level for two years. Five mobile phone companies win the

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rights for 4G but the auction raises �1 billion less than the

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Treasury had hoped. Paying his respects in India. David

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Cameron visits Amritsar, the scene of one of the bloodiest massacres

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in British colonial history. This was a deeply shameful event in

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British history. One that Winston Churchill, at the time, quite

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rightly said was "monsterous." driving test examiner has been

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arrested after allegations that thousands of pounds changed hands

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in exchange for passes. And the race for Rio starts here -

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the first major Championship since the Olympics looks set to test new

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faces in the British track cycling On BBC London: Passengers stranded

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overnight at King's Cross, after damaged power cables bring services

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to a halt. And a new study suggests air pollution is killing those who

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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at one.

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A court in South Africa has been told that a witness heard screams,

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followed by gunfire at the home of Oscar Pistorius on the night he

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killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. A senior detective said

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unlicensed ammunition, needles and testosterone were also found at the

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athlete's home. The defence said the witness lived too far away to

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have heard an argument and the substance found was a herbal remedy.

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The athlete denies deliberately killing his girlfriend.

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Andrew Harding is at the court in Pretoria for us.

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It was a day of high drama in the courtroom here. First, as the

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detective, the lead detective investigating the killing at Oscar

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Pistorius's house laid out his case and said he believed the athlete

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was guilty of murder. But then under a withering cross-examination

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he was forced to concede that he had no evidence to that effect. My

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colleague Peter Biles now has more. It's nearly a week now since Oscar

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Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The

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public interest is more intense than ever. The Paralympic champion

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came back to court this morning. He has consistently appeared

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emotionally fragile, despite the efforts of his family to support

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him. The prosecution and defence have presented conflicking accounts

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of what happened last week. -- conflicting. The state said it was

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premeditated murder. Oscar Pistorius said nothing could be

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further from the truth. Today the senior police investigating officer

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described how he arrived at Oscar Pistorius's house at 4.15 last

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Thursday morning. He found Reeva Steenkamp dead. Her body was

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covered in towels. The police officer said four shots had been

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fired through a toilet door. Three of them had struck Miss Steenkamp,

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one in the head. A gun was recovered from the bathroom as well

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as a cricket bat. Yesterday, Oscar Pistorius said in an affidavit,

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that he used the bat it break down the locked bathroom door when his

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girlfriend had been inside. The investigating officer also said two

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botyefls testosterone and needles had been found in the house. --

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bottles of. The defence said it was not

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testosterone but a herbal remedy used by athletes and it is not

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banned. This is only a bail hearing but it is taking on the appearance

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of a full-blown trial with a torrent of evidence being laid

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before the court it. May not be until the end of the week that

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Oscar Pistorius learns whether he is granted bail.

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The court session has just ended. Oscar Pistorius went back down to

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his cells. He will be back here tomorrow where it is very likely,

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according to many experts, that the magistrate will make a decision.

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Judging from the magistrate's tone in court today where he scoffed or

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appeared to scoff at the idea that an Olympic athlete would flee the

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country and risk tarnishing his reputation, it seems possible that

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Oscar Pistorius just might be granted bail.

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Almost 30 million people were in work at the end of 2012, the

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highest total since records began in 1971. Figures from the stat stt

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stat also showed the number of people out of work fell by 14,000.

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Office for National Statistics. That's between October to December

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2012. Youth unemployment increased by 11,000. The highest rise for a

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year. The jobs market is still growing.

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Total numbers in work are increasing and a whole range of

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employers are taking on staff. This restaurant in Salford is no

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exception. It's only been open two weeks. 60 post have been created.

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Katie a student has one a part-time job to pay for her studies.

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really, really pleased that I have got something that I don't think

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I'm going to have to leave in a few months' time. I feel secure in my

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job. The latest figures show that between October and December, total

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employment was up 154,000 on the previous three months. Long-term

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unemployment, those out of work mother than a year, was down 15,000

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over the same period. Youth unemployment, though, was up,

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11,000. Darren is one young person who hasn't yet had any luck finding

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work. He is on a training course run by salfrd City College learning

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skills for home insulation projects. Db Salford.

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He said he was determined to find a job. I'm not a loser. I'm not like

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that. I have always wanted to do something. I'm not happy with being

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unemployed. It is hard. Ministers argue that although youth

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unemployment has gone up, it's underlying picture is more healthy

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and on a downward trend. It is high, but if you look around the rest of

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Europe, it is even higher. What we are seeing now is the trend

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downwards for youth unemployment which is a positive feature. Yes,

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we want to do more but we are beginning to do a lot. Labour said

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there was nothing to celebrate in the figures and the Government

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wasn't doing enough to help. It is a mixed Piccadilly tour. We are not

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out of the woods. People are -- picture: people are doing their bit

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we. Need to do our bit to get people back to work faster. Where

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does the employment market go from here? Most forecasters expect

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growth to pick up in 2013 a bit after a flat picture last year. It

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is hard to tell what that might mean for job creation. And news

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today that HMV, whichp went into administration last month is to

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close more stores with the loss of nearly 500 jobs, is a reminder that

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the outlook for employment in the economy is far from certain. Some

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further analysis with Hugh who is with us. Unemployment falling but

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so too is everall economic output. What is going on? Well, Kate, it is

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a puzzle to experts how you can have falling output and actually

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job creation carrying on rising it. Could be the jobs figures are a

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more accurate guide to what is going on and the output figures may

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have to be revised it. Could be that employers have been hanging on,

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hoping for an upturn feign that doesn't materialise this year, then

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actually the trend will go in a different direction. It is

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difficult to read. Maybe employers are taking advantage of the fact

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that wage rises are lagging well behind in inflation. Average

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earnings figures rising faster than they were and people in work being

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squeezed. The Bank of England we learned this mornings actively

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considering pump morgue money into the economy. Yes the Bank of

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England has held off on quantitative easing, creating more

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money but we heard today in minutes of the latest meeting three of the

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nine members voted for more money creation including the governor. He

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was outvoted but it shows it is back on the agenda. Maybe they are

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worried about lack of growth in the months ahead. Thank you very much

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Broadband-like speeds on your smart phone should soon be available to

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customers on five networks. The companies behind EE, O2, Vodafone,

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Three and BT have been awarded licences for 4G mobile phone

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networks. They'll pay a total of �2.3 billion but the spectrum

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auction raised around �1 billion less than the Government had

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expected. Here's our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.

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It's supposed to be the future of communication. Fast new mobile

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phone networks that will allow us all to do much more on the move.

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Now the companies who have won the right to roll out 4G are

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celebrating You can watch a TV programme. You cannot watch a TV

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programme on a 3G network on your Smartphone. You can't stream a

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video or do video conferenceing. All those things are possible with

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a 4G network. The 4G auction raised less than expected. The Government

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thought the bids would reach at least �3.5 billion. In the end the

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total bid was �3.2 billion. 13 years ago the 3G auction raised

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over �22 billion. One company, EE had already got permission to

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launch its 4G service early in some places, but so far customers

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haven't exactly rushed to transfer to the faster service. I think

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consumers arguably have a difficult decision to make. They probably in

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many cases don't know what 4G is and haven't had experience and it

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is more expensive, at least on EE than what they are used to paying.

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The operators have a difficult job. Today is the beginning for them

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stkpwhrs. Pure speed that 4G offers. The mobile phone companies will be

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happy that they paid less than expected to launch fast new

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services. But for the Government there is now a hole in the public

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finances. In his Autumn Statement the Chancellor included an estimate

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for the proceeds of the 4G auction in his sums. Labour says it's now

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clear he was too optimistic. No-one doubts - and a lib Government would

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have also been auctions the 4G licences. -- a Labour Government.

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No-one doubts there is economic benefits from it. What we doubt is

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the credibility of the Chancellor's economic mathematics. Of course we

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would have liked more money. In the forecasts were by independent

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experts. And they have to carry a health warning with them. You don't

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know until you see the receipts, what you will get. Among today's

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auction winners, BT, which will use 4G to boost its public Wi-Fi

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hotspots and the four big mobile networks. They must now convince

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consumers that it is worth signing up to a faster future.

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Let's look at the political aspects of this with Iain Watson at

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Westminster. In terms of the money raised, how much of a political

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blow is this for the Chancellor? think it is quite clear that �1

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billion sounds like an awful lot of money, but compared to aroundeds

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700 billion of Government spending, it is relatively small change --

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around �700 billion. I don't think economically it is disaster for the

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Government. The cost will be political. Reason for that is that

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as we heard back in December the Chancellor was able it stand up in

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the House of Commons and say borrowing was going down and not up

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but wrong-footed the Opposition and indeed many independent

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commentators. That was in part, due to the fact that he was factoring

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in raising �3.5 billion from the sale of the 4G spectrum. He has

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obviously got less than that. Labour are creating a political row

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at Westminster saying he has been involved in financial trickery and

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smog and mirrors. The Government's de-- smoke and mirrors. The

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Government's defence is to say the figure was independently verified

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by the Office of Budget Responsibility at arm's length from

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the Government. They in turn, however rmaking it quite clear that

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the figure of �3.5 billion emanated from the Government itself. That's

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a political row. But where the Government wants the focus to be

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now is into the longer-term economic benefits of 4G. They say

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that could bring a bst to the economy of not �1 billion but �50

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billion. -- a boost. Now former police inspector has

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been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission over

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claims he acted on behalf of Jimmy Savile. The officer from West

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Yorkshire is accused of contacting Surrey Police before they

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questioned Savile about alleged sex offences four years ago. Seven

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police forces are being asked to consider if any other officers

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should be investigated over the way they handled the complaints against

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Savile. The judge in the trial of Vicky

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Pryce, the formerer wife of Chris Huhne has told the jury at

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Southwark Crown Court that they can reach a majority verdict after

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almost 14 hours of deliberation. Vicky Pryce admits taking speeding

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points for her former husband but says she was forced to do so and

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has pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice on

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the grounds of marital coercion. Our Home Affairs correspondent Tom

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sigh smonds at Southwark Crown Court for us. Tell us more of what

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has been happening in court this which the jury had written notes to

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him to ask over the last few days. This does happen from time to time,

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the odd note to clarify something. In this case, there were 10

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questions, and in each case the judge went through each question

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and gave an answer. The jury asked whether it could come too late

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verdict based on a reason not given in court, sorry, not given in court

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that has no facts or evidence to support it. The judge said no, they

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could not. The jury said, could we speculate? The judge said no, they

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could draw inferences, common sense conclusions on facts which were

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true. They asked for a further definition about marital coercion.

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He said it would not need to involve of violence and there would

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be no marital coercion proven if she had been persuaded out of

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argument, art of love or loyalty, if she had a choice. One final

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question, a juror asked whether religious conviction would be a

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good enough reason for a wife feeling that she had no choice.

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This she promised to obey her husband in her wedding vows and he

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ordered her to do something. The judge said the answer to that

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question would not help them reach A driving test examiner has been

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arrested as part of an investigation into allegations of

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bribery. It is part of a crackdown by the Driving Standards Agency,

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which has been looking at allegations that the examiner was

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charging thousands of pounds for guaranteed passes. Two instructors

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and four candidates have also been After months of investigation,

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these police officers are about to make an arrest. The man they are

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looking for is an examiner, in the purple jacket at his north London

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driving test centre. His fellow examiners are not suspected of

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wrongdoing. I am arresting you on suspicion of conspiracy to commit

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fraud. He is accused of taking bribes from some test candidates,

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�3,000 for every guaranteed pass. As police gather evidence, their

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colleagues elsewhere are arresting two driving instructors and four

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candidates. We believe that the candidates have approached their

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driving instructor, they have had a conversation to say, for an amount

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of money we can guarantee you a Pass, the candidate agrees to that.

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The instructor then tells the examiner which tests to pass.

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Investigators have identified 100 people who allegedly bribed this

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particular examiner for driving licences, and those licences,

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gained as a result of the alleged fraud, are now being revoked.

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Across the country, investigators are also examining 900 cases of

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alleged identity fraud, where a candidate pays somebody else to

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take a test for them. It is a growing problem, but not yet

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widespread. Of the 1.5 million driving test every year, the vast

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majority, like this successful Our top story this lunchtime: A

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court in South Africa has been told they witness heard screams at the

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home of Oscar Pistorius the night he shot his girlfriend.

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Coming up, Team GB's cyclists return to the track with a new

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Later on BBC London, the house- boaters campaigning against

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proposals to change the rules on mooring. And she became only the

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fourth actress to play the role of Miss Moneypenny, we catch up with

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Londoner Naomie Harris aboard the Eight new guideline for England and

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Wales say the age limit for women to qualify for IBF on the NHS

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should rise from 39 up to 42. In -- updated guidance says couples

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should be allowed treatment after two years of trying that the

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guidelines are not mandatory as Dominic Hughes reports. Caroline

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and her husband had to pay for it out of their own pockets as their

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local trust did not funded for women over the age of 35 and she

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may not have been able to get it on the health service even under new

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guidelines, as they are not legally If the new guidelines are

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implemented, which I doubt, I would have qualified for some treatment

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on the NHS, which I think would have only been fair. I have been a

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taxpayer all my working life, and it is a medical condition. The new

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guidelines aim to help the one in seven couples who find they have a

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problem with fertility. They include extending IVF do some women

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up to the age of 42, and younger couples will have to wait just two

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years before waiting instead of three. These new guidelines tell us

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which treatments and investigations are affected and which are

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ineffective, and it will help people work their way through and

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hopefully gain what they want, which is a family. The changes

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reflect improvements in fertility treatment. For example, success

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rates among older women are much better than a few years ago. These

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new guidelines mean more people should be able to access IVF on the

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National Health Service, but the big question is, who is going to

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pay for it? It is still a postcode lottery when it comes to fertility

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treatment. It is all well and good to have good practice out there for

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the medical profession and patients, but if the NHS cannot funded, they

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are just words and guidelines which will never be adhered to, as we

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have had in the past. We need three cycles for couples under 40, are we

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going to get them? These guidelines apply in England and Wales. The

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health service in Northern Ireland provides IVF up to the age of 39,

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and in Scotland the age limit is 38. Only around one in four primary

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care trust in England meet the existing guidelines, so many

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couples may find they still struggled to access IVF through the

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One in five children is living below the poverty line according to

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new research by campaigners. A map using data compiled by the Campaign

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to End Child Poverty highlights areas around the country where

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children are poorest. In some areas, more than four and 10 children are

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living in poverty, including West Belfast, from where Chris Butler

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now reports. Every parent wants to give their

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child the best start in life, but in the current economy there are

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many families is it is becoming more and more difficult to pay

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their bills. I do not pay them when you are paid the following week,

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things like that. It is hard for everybody at the moment, trying to

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work. If anybody is seeking a family, it is even tougher. Like

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his most difficult for the very poorest. New research compiled by

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dozens of charities has found that in West Belfast more than four in

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every 10 children are said to be living in poverty. According to the

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most commonly-used definition, any child brought up in a household

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with less than 60% of the median income is regarded as being in

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relative poverty. Because that income has fallen, technically

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300,000 children have moved out of poverty, according to the latest

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figures, but the government accepts that it has made no real change to

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their lives. The charities behind the campaign have used existing

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research to estimate the scale of the problem in areas right across

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the UK. In terms of local authorities, Belfast sat alongside

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Tower Hamlets in London and Manchester as among the areas with

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the highest levels of poverty. is a wake-up call, really, and

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there is a great concern that these figures are going to deteriorate,

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not improve, with all the welfare reforms, because a lot of those

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changes are not just going to impact on people who are out of

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work, but they also impact on people who are working.

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government insists its reforms are aimed at improving the lives of the

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poorest families, but today's figures suggest that in parts of

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Manchester close to half of all children are disadvantaged. I think

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people get stuck in a rat, and they do not know how to get out of it.

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Because like I am on benefits now, and the Jobcentre tried to help you,

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but they do not help you at the same time, even though you have got

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qualifications. There is no jobs out there. The Government is

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committed to ending child poverty, but campaigners say with some

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families the poorest needs to be made a main priority.

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A huge explosion and fire in a shopping district in Kansas City in

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the United States has injured at least 14 people. Police suspect the

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blaze which completely destroyed a restaurant was sparked by a gas

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explosion. Work was being carried out on a network nearby after

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people reported a strong smell of gas in the area before the fire.

:23:32.:23:35.

Thousands of workers are protesting in Athens as part of a general

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strike against the austerity measures being pursued by the Greek

:23:38.:23:42.

government. Unions say the industrial action is a response to

:23:42.:23:45.

dead-end policies that have squeezed the life out of workers

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and plunged the economy into crisis. The 24 hour protest is expected to

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David Cameron has described one of the bloodiest massacres in British

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colonial history has been deeply shameful on the last day of his

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visits to India. He became the first serving prime minister,

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British prime minister, to visit Amritsar, where hundreds of unarmed

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Indian protesters were killed by British soldiers in 1919. James

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Landale has been travelling with David Cameron and sent this report.

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The Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest of holies for seats around

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the world. David Cameron came to this corner of the Punjab on the

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border with Pakistan not just to see the epicentre of one of the

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world's great faiths, but also to visit a place where hundreds of

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thousands of British voters can trace their roots. Every Sikh is

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expected to give up a week of their lives to volunteer here, and every

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day they feed 100,000 pilgrims and visitors. But if Amritsar as many

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ties to Britain today, it also has echoes of Britain's less glorious

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past. Just a few steps from the temple, these gardens, where on

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April 13th, 1919, thousands gathered for a festival. A British

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general was sent in to disperse the crowd. He blocked all the exits, he

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lined up his Riflemen and ordered them to fire. They did not stop

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until they ran out of ammunition. Hundreds lay dead, more than 1,000

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injured. Past prime ministers have expressed regret, the Queen has

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spoken of a distressing episode, but David Cameron is the first

:25:25.:25:28.

serving British Prime Minister to come here in person to pay his

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There was no formal apology, but his words in the book of

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remembrance and to the camera were uncompromising and clearly

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heartfelt. This was a deeply shameful event in British history,

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one that Winston Churchill at the time quite rightly said was

:25:47.:25:51.

monstrous. We should never forget what happened here, and in

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remembering I think it is very important we always make sure that

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Britain stands up for the right to protest peacefully all over the

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world. He is was David Cameron's last stay

:26:02.:26:12.
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looking to the future but not just Now, sport, and it was Team GB's

:26:16.:26:20.

most successful sport at the London Olympics, the track cyclists won

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seven gold medals in the velodrome. Today they are back in action for

:26:25.:26:28.

the first major championship since the Games, but as Andy Swiss

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reports from Minsk in Belarus, there are some new faces in the

:26:31.:26:35.

line-up. They were Britain's brightest stars

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of a golden games, the track cyclists, an astounding seven

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titles in London, where you go from there? The answer, frozen Minsk.

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The next Olympics in Rio may feel one million miles away, but this is

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where the journey starts for the likes of Laura Trott, rested,

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recuperated and ready once again to take on the world. I just want to

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win! Like that is my motivation, winning, the feeling you get when

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you do win, making people happy. I just love getting up on my bike.

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But with Victoria Pendleton retired and no Sir Chris Hoy, there are big

:27:13.:27:18.

shoes to fill. There is already the sense of a new era for British

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cycling. The average age is just 21, and it seems the next generation of

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Olympic stars are making their move. Like 18-year-old Elinor Barker, go

:27:28.:27:33.

in forecourt alongside Laura Trott, while still studying for her A-

:27:33.:27:39.

levels. -- go in 4 gold. It is quite difficult trying to teach

:27:39.:27:44.

myself everything, but then I have got about six weeks of no racing so

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that I can cram some studies in and get some results. So a learning

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experience for some, but the early signs are encouraging. The men's

:27:53.:27:57.

pursuits D-Mark through to tonight's final. For Britain's

:27:57.:28:01.

youngsters, it could beat a golden opportunity. -- the men's pursuit

:28:01.:28:07.

team are through to tonight's final. More on the BBC News Channel, and

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some other stars from London 2012 making the headlines at Buckingham

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Palace. Anthony Joshua, who won Boxing gold, received an MBE. As

:28:18.:28:21.

did Peter Wilson, who won gold in the double trap shooting

:28:21.:28:27.

competition. Britain's Paralympic Rollers, the mixed coxed fours,

:28:27.:28:37.
:28:37.:28:37.

were awarded MBEs for services to Tomasz Shafenaker, how is the

:28:37.:28:44.

Cold and cloudy, the weather is not great, a big change from yesterday,

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and winter is back, it is going to be back over the next few days and

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is here to stay through the weekend. This is the view from space. We had

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sunshine yesterday, you might have been out in town, enjoying the sun

:28:57.:29:02.

with your travelling copy, but now the clouds are right across the UK,

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coming in from eastern Europe, where it is very cold right now.

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Here it is again, the cloud clawing its way across the UK. It is not

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cloudy everywhere, there is a bit of sunshine, but over the next few

:29:15.:29:18.

days there is this process of cold air from central and eastern parts

:29:18.:29:23.

of Europe filtering our way, cold winds as well, so wind-chill is

:29:23.:29:27.

going to be a real factor over the next couple of days. For the moment,

:29:27.:29:32.

still some sunshine across north- western Scotland, not that bad, and

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the main focus for the cloud and any little dribs and drabs of rain

:29:36.:29:39.

is across eastern areas from Newcastle down into southeastern

:29:39.:29:44.

parts of the UK. But for example in London and the south coast, bits of

:29:44.:29:48.

sunshine coming and going. But look at western parts, quite a bright

:29:48.:29:52.

start to the day, you might have been enjoying the sunshine, but now

:29:52.:29:56.

that cloud has filtered in, come in all the way from the east, so the

:29:56.:30:00.

second half of the afternoon in Cardiff all the way up to the clean

:30:00.:30:05.

peninsula is looking cloudy. For the moment, Northern Ireland fairly

:30:05.:30:08.

bright, but then that cloud is going to be clawing its way back

:30:08.:30:14.

towards the east. The wind arrows show a breezy night, but also quite

:30:14.:30:18.

chilly. Often in this part of the world, when it is windy and cloudy

:30:18.:30:22.

we do not get a frost, but tonight is going to be different. We will

:30:22.:30:27.

see frosts developing under clear skies, so temperatures in leads

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down to minus one degrees, but where we have got clearer skies in

:30:31.:30:35.

western areas, that is where it could drop sharpest. Breezy

:30:35.:30:38.

tomorrow across the south-west in the morning, then more cloud

:30:38.:30:42.

filtering in from the east. Eastern areas getting more cloud than the

:30:42.:30:47.

West. This is what your garden thermometers will say, but with the

:30:47.:30:54.

wind coming in it will be minus and two or minus 3. This is the end of

:30:54.:30:58.

the week, then, it looks like it will stay cold into the weekend, a

:30:58.:31:02.

bitter wind, even a chance of, guess what, a bit of snow coming

:31:02.:31:07.

your way, affecting eastern areas of the UK. So the wind certainly

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not over yet, and after yesterday's sunshine, it feels like a bit of a

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A reminder of our main story again, a bail hearing in South Africa has

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