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Still waiting - Oscar Pistorius is about to find out if he has been

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granted bail. The Chief Magistrate is about to give his ruling on the

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fourth day of legal argument in This is the South African court

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where he's hearing that ruling. We'll be live at the courthouse.

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After the inquiry, the BBC publishes evidence why it dropped

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its investigation into Jimmy Savile. The Trust chairman says it paints a

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very unhappy picture but some of the evidence remains unpublished.

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Birds Eye is the latest food company to withdraw products from

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its shelves after horsemeat was found in beef meals, as Scottish

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schools ban all frozen beefburgers. Failing to keep up - England's top

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pupils fall two years behind pupils in other countries by the time they

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take GCSEs. Do you like hospital food? The

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Government spends millions of pounds to make it better. Campaign

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groups say the money has been wasted.

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Later on BBC London, the mayor steps in to exempt plans to turn

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offices into housing. Accused of discrimination - why

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City University won't let Muslim Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News at One. The Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius will hear

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shortly if he's to be granted bail before going on trial for the

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murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The athlete says he shot

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Ms Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was an intruder at his home in

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Pretoria. He's denied premeditated murder, but the prosecutor has

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argued that Mr Pistorius was intent on killing and would pose a flight

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risk if freed. The decision on the bail hearing is being read to a

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court in Pretoria now. This report from Peter Biles.

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Oscar Pistorius returned to court for the fourth day of this bail

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hearing after another night in the police cells in Pretoria. His

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family supported him. They were hopeful that he would be released

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on bail. The athlete's coach was also in court. He too was

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optimistic in spite of the personal turmoil that Oscar Pistorius is

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clearly experiencing. I'm sure we can start training Monday if he's

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out on bail. I think just to get his mind cleared as soon as he can

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start with a bit of work, the better. On the streets outside the

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Magistrates Court, the Pistorius case is still the only talking

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point in town. In their closing arguments, prosecution and defence

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lawyers returned to the issue of whether Oscar Pistorius had shown

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intent when killing Reeva Steenkamp at his home last week. He'd said he

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got up to fetch a fan from a balcony. He heard a noise in the

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bathroom, grabbed his gun and shot four times through the door of the

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toilet. The prosecutor said the degree of violence was horrific and

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his actions had shown intent to murder. But Mr Pistorius' lawyer

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said he'd wanted to kill an unknown burglar, not his girlfriend Reeva.

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Oscar Pistorius has been at the centre of an emotional whirlwind

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this week. Whatever the outcome, when this case eventually comes to

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trial, his life has changed forever. Well, Peter joins me from the

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courthouse now. We're still waiting. Yes. The magistrate, Desmond Nair,

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began his ruling a little while ago. He's expecting to take at least an

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hour or more to deliver the ruling. There is immense interest in what

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he has to say. He's going to decide on whether or not Oscar Pistorius

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is granted bail. Don't forget that a trial is still many months away,

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perhaps even a year away. As far as the state is concerned, this was a

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case of premeditated murder. As far as the defence is concerned, it was

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a tragic accident in which Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his

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girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Back to you.

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Peter, thank you very much. Of course, as soon as that decision

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comes through, we'll bring it to you here on the BBC News at 1.00pm.

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Now, you're watching the News at One. Thousands of pages of evidence

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gathered during an inquiry into why Newsnight dropped its investigation

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into abuse by Jimmy Savile have been published by the BBC. In

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December, an independent review concluded that the decision had

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been seriously flawed. The material published this morning includes

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interviews with managers and journalists at the corporation as

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well as e-mails and texts. In one exchange, the Newsnight presenter

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Jeremy Paxman says it was common gossip that Jimmy Savile liked

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young girls. Our correspondent Nick Higham reports.

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It was the scandal that brought down a Director-General and ended

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up revealing chaos and confusion at the top of the BBC and a lack of

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leadership and control. A Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile had

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been dropped by the programme's editor just over a month after his

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death. A decision condemned as flawed in a report commissioned by

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the BBC. That report by Nick Pollard, former head of Sky News

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was published in December. Now the BBC has given the affair a new

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lease of life by publishing thousands of pages of evidence

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submitted to Pollard. In it exam makers and executives speak frankly

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about what happened. Controversially, some of the

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material has been blacked out, but, says the BBC, there is nothing

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sinister in that. Everything we have redacted is purely driven by

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external legal advice, and in this big pack of supporting material,

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there are thousands of pages that, frankly, are uncomfortable reading

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for the BBC. I think people when they read it will not look at, say,

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management the BBC have been deliberately trying to stop

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embarrassment. Frankly, that doesn't stack up. The chair of the

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The material released today adds little that's new but it will

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further embarrass the BBC, and it won't silence those who think the

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corporation wrong not to have published every scrap of evidence.

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Nick is with me now. What have we learnt that is new? I think one

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thing we have learnt that we didn't know before is that when Jimmy

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Savile died, the BBC's online story about his death attracted a lot of

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comments, some of which were taken down by moderators, which did

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identify Jimmy Savile as a paedophile. One person said, "One

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of my best friends in 1972 was molested by this creep Savile. He

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was never the same again." Another commenter referred to a blog

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written by a former pupil at dun Croft, which was the approved

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school, which sparked the original Newsnight investigation. She goes

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into great detail, this person says, about the acts this gentleman

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forced the girls to perform. As I say, those comments were taken down

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by moderators, but it does show there were people trying to alert

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the BBC immediately after his death to his real character. What else

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has emerged from these documents? whole scatter gun of things, which

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it's very difficult really to make sense of. We know a lot more about

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what various people in the BBC think about various other people in

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the BBC - Jeremy Paxman, for instance, very disparaging what

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about he saw as a cadry of young people from radio taking over at

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news - one of those people, Helen Bowden, the Director of News

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talking about first being told about the Newsnight investigation,

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saying it doesn't sound like core Newsnight territory." She thought

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it was a rather tabloidesque story involving groupies, but then she

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was told it was about sexual abuse of teenage girl, she then thought

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in that case it was critical. We have then heard the BBC Trust

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chairman Lord Patten was angry he wasn't fully informed of what was

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going on. We know the director general of the BBC, who departed -

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he was tipped off at an industry function by Helen Bowden about this

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potential Jimmy Savile investigation and Newsnight, and he

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apparently said, "I remember saying thanks, and I think I may have said

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it in an ironical way because I wanted to reflect the view that

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television might generally have of news's capacity for creating

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problems." Nick, thank you very much.

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Don't forget, the BBC News website is publishing key quotes from the

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inquiry. It's at bbc.co.uk/news. Birds Eye is withdrawing three beef

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ready meals after traces of horse were found in its ready-made chilli

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con carne. And all Scottish schools have been told not to serve frozen

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beefburgers after a burger in a Lanarkshire school kitchen was

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found to contain traces of horse DNA. The results of the Food

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Standards Agency tests into other beef products are to be published

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this afternoon. Sophie Hutchinson reports.

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Three more products removed from the shelves as part of the

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horsemeat scandal - Birds Eye says it's a precautionary measure. The

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ready meals are all made by a Belgium supplier, whose chili con

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carne not sold in the UK has tested positive for horsemeat. Today Birds

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A the association for the UK's cattle producersas has stretched

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it's better to buy beef reared at home with shorter supply chains.

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Having convoluted supply chains - it allows mistakes and hampering to

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happen with the supply. That's been apparent with the horsemeat

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situation. The more traders involved, the higher the chance of

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a risk of tampering with that product. Concern about

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contamination has now led local authorities in Scotland to tell

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schools to take beefburgers cooked from frozen off the menu. It

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follows the discovery of horsemeat in a burger from an unnamed North

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Lanarkshire school kitchen. Other council-run services are being told

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to put services on hold. Last week tests carried out by the Food

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Standards Agency on 2,500 beef products found almost 30 contained

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horsemeat. A second set of results for horse and pig DNA is expected

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today from 140 beef-based ready meals. These include lasagna,

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cottage pie and spaghetti bolognese. Some of the biggest brands have

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been dragged into this scandal. Next week the food watchdog will

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broaden its scope and examine food where beef is a major ingredient.

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It's expected to include beef dripping, gelatine and stock cubes,

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all this while police across Europe continue their criminal

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investigations into how horsemeat came to be sold as beef.

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A court has heard evidence from a teenager who says she was raped

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multiple times by a gang starting when she was 12 years old. Nine men

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deny 51 charges including rape and sex traing against girls. Our

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correspondent Mike Sergeant is at the Old Bailey. What was said in

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court this morning? The court has heard more harrowing evidence from

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the fourth of the alleged victims in this case, who, as you say, was

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just 12 when some of these incidents were said to have taken

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place. Appearing by video link and pausing frequently to compose

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herself, she described one incident when one of the defendants,

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Mohammed Karrar, took a hairpin and bent it into the shape of the

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letter M for "Mohammed". He then, she said, heated it up with a

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lighter and branded her on an intimate part of her body. "He was

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branding me so everyone would know I belonged to him" she told the

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court. She also described several occasion when she was raped by

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Mohammed Karrar and his brother Bassam Karrar and other men who

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were also invited to have sex with her. On one occasion she said she

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tried to resist by grabbing Mohammed Karrar's knife and

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threatening to staff him with it. He took the knife back off her and

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she said went mad and told everyone else to leave. Then she said he

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took a baseball bat and hit her over the head with it and sexually

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assaulted her as well. Her evidence will continue this afternoon, and

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the nine defendants deny all the charges. Mike Sergeant, thank you.

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At the age of ten, England's brightest pupils are a match for

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most foreign counterparts in maths. But by the time they take their

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GCSEs, they're up to two years behind equivalent pupils in Taiwan

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and Hong Kong. That's according to research from the University of

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London, which also found that English students are overtaken by

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those in Scotland by the time they're 16. Our education

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correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti explains.

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Let's roll numbers. Comparing how pupils from around the globe do in

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key subjects has become increasingly important in recent

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years. Now researchers have looked at data from two international

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league tables and found the gap between able children in England

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and other countries in maths widens in secondary school. Singapore,

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along with Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan consistently comes top of

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international school tables, including in maths. Today's

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research found English children some way behind those in Singapore

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at age ten, but almost as strong as their peers in Hong Kong and Taiwan,

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but by 16 they'd fallen behind, with pupils in Scotland slightly

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ahead of them. Why is this happening? One maths teacher at a

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London secondary school says it's due to environment and schooling.

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Education in Asian countries is much more respected than it is here.

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Unfortunately, there's a lot of distractions for our student, so

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therefore they're not as, if you like, they're not driven as much as

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our Asian counterparts and especially in maths. The brightest

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students aren't stretched as much as they should be. But say the

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authors, widespread tutoring in East Asia and higher teacher

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salaries also make a difference, and East Asian children who have

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been through the English system do very well in these tests too,

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suggesting the reasons may be partly cultural. There's things

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going on outside of the schooling system, and particularly outside

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secondary schools, that's driving these results. In other words, it

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could be, say, pushy parents, or it could be other cultural factors

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that's driving this. The Secretary of State... But these league tables

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are important to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove. Today

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Ministers said Government reforms including a harder curriculum and

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exams and better teaching will help drive up standards. The league

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table of the future will show if their prct predictions are correct.

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It's exactly 1.30pm. Our top story: The Paralympic champion Oscar

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Pistorius will hear shortly if he's to be granted bail before going on

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trial for the murder of his girlfriend.

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Coming up: The most unlikely League Cup final

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- giant killers Bradford City take on Swansea at Wembley.

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Later on BBC London, the new work of art that's appeared after a

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Banksy was removed in North London only to go on auction in Miami. Two

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London clubs remain on course for Campaigners what compulsory

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standards of nutrition and quality far hospital food to be introduced

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in England. The Campaign for Better Hospital Food says 20 years of

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voluntary guidelines have not worked. �54 million has been wasted

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on initiatives that have failed to improve food for patients. The

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government says that decision on what to serve should be taken

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locally, rather than at a national level. John Maguire is at North

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Tyneside General Hospital for us. It is worth remembering that there

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are many hospitals across England who produce very good, very

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nutritious food. Here for example in Northumbria, they have a scheme

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to ensure that the patient eats the food once it is brought to their

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bedside. They showed these picture menus, particularly appreciated by

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elderly patients. The problem is that certainly in England at the

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moment this sort of idea is not controlled, is not insisted upon by

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law, as it is in Scotland and Wales, so campaigners want hospital food

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in England to meet those same legal standards.

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The report details a raft of initiatives and launches to improve

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food. 21, in fact. One for every year since 1992. But campaigners

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say it is a list of failure. Too many hospitals produce food that is

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cheap, of little nutritional value and sometimes is inedible.

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What do you think it is? What is it? It is supposed to be shepherd's

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pie. Michael Sears has been in and out of hospitals for 30 years with

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Crohn's disease. He has had a bowel transplant and now campaigns and

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lochs about patients' food, based on his experiences. I have been in

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three major -- major hospitals where it is not just myself and

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family who bring in, between patients and the nurses we co-

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ordinate rotors. So the staff bring in takeaway food? Yes. A report by

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the Campaign for Better Hospital Food says there has been 20 years

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of failure, broken pledges and promises. Here in Scotland and in

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Wales, where health is devolved, there are mandatory standards but

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not in England. What is even more shocking is this Government has

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introduced food standards another part of the public sector including

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government departments, food served to government ministers and also

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presents, so it is even more staggering that the same rules have

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not been applied to a hospital food as well. It is a mixed bag. Here in

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Nottingham for example, the Trust puts food at the very heart of its

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treatment. England is about to introduce a system of checks by

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volunteers, representing patients, and Westminster rejects the setting

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of national standards. There is no reason whatsoever why food can't be

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delivered to a good standard but also in a nutritious way involving

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chefs and other people to help us and make sure we can improve the

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quality and nutritional food and in particular we are asking patients

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to give the back. That has got to be the way forward. Ben Page --

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campaigners and patients will watch carefully if this latest scheme is

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judged yet another failure, it will be hard to swallow.

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It is worth mentioning also that as well as those patient lead groups

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there are inspections taking place at the moment by the Care Quality

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Commission at around 50 hospitals across England. That report will be

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published in the next couple of weeks, the next couple of months.

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It will give us a much clearer idea of exactly what is on the menu in

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hospitals across England. There is a warning from motoring

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organisations and retailers that petrol prices could reach a record

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high at Easter. One reason is that the pound has fallen to a two-and-

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a-half-year low against the US dollar. Our chief economics

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correspondent Hugh Pym is here. What is behind a two-and-a-half-

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year low? It hit a low a couple of days ago. It has come back a bit

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since but pretty low relatively speaking. It seems there is a

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different view of the UK economy, they are worried about news that

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inflation is predicted to stay high for longer than it was revealed the

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other day that the members of the MUC Monetary Policy Committee

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wanted to do more to stimulate the economy, so the pound weakened.

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Very good news for exporters selling goods abroad. Not so good

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for anybody who wants to travel to the United States, for example, and

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not so good for people in -- people we have been hearing? A very good

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illustration of what a weaker pound means. Into now off --

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international fuel supplies are priced in dollars, therefore

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British royal companies putting oil on the forecourts have to pay more

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because of a weaker pound and the price at the pumps of unleaded is

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now �1.39 a litre, up from �1.32 at the beginning of this year. Still

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below the record level we saw last April in 2012 of �1.42, but

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motoring organisations are saying it could hit that record level. We

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have learned that the volume of fuel sold in the UK in January was

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the lowest it has ever been for that month since 1990.

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More than 40 tanker drivers at Grangemouth refinery on the Firth

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of Forth are beginning a three-day strike. The drivers have walked out

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over a dispute with BP about pay and pensions. The Unite union says

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the action will affect supplies of aviation fuel and deliveries to be

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before courts in Scotland and north-east England. The company

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says its operations will be unaffected.

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The senior Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard has strongly denied

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allegations of sexual harassment made against him by a number of

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women. He is standing aside from the Lib Dems group in the House of

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Lords while the matter is resolved. The party has begun an inquiry into

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the way it handles harassment claims. Al political correspondent

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Ross Hawkins is in Westminster. Who is he and how damaging could this

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be? Chris Lemar has been a hugely important figure for the Lib Dems.

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He was for decades in effect there campaigner in chief responsible for

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many of their victories. Last night, Channel Four News published a

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report in which women alleged that he had been appropriately touched

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them or propositioned them and went on to say that these reports had

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been put to senior figures in that -- these reports had been put to

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senior figures in the party but had not been properly dealt with. Lord

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Rennard disputed the report, which he said was a distortion of his

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character. He said in 27 years he was not aware of any allegation of

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misconduct against him. As you mentioned, the party is not looking

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just at what he may or may not have done but also into how it handled

:22:33.:22:36.

the allegations. The crucial questions there will be who knew

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what and when, how senior what those people who may have received

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allegations against Lord Rennard and what on earth did they do about

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it at the time? The home team's a reaction of the

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Six Nations Championship this weekend. Wales will have a tough

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fight against Italy in Rome tomorrow, and the home team could

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struggle without their captain. Scotland take on Ireland and

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changed England team take on France at Twickenham. Our sports

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correspondent Joe Wilson is there and for England, three changes at

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the moment? Absolutely, there is a saying in sport that you should

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never change a winning team. England have done that for the game

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against France. I think chiefly to make sure their team is as big and

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physical and -- as possible, because France come here already

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with a sense of desperation after two defeats. For them it is almost

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unheard of. They have made it clear they are targeting one Englishman

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in particular, the young fly half, when Farrell, 21 years of age. He

:23:36.:23:40.

has shown remarkable calmness and composure during the victories so

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far, kicking a points. France have made it clear they will make it as

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difficult as they can for him. Let's be clear, that does not mean

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they are going to ask him tricky questions about French grammar, but

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it is going to be very physical him at Twickenham tomorrow early

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evening. Scotland and Wales both leading momentum? Yes, absolutely.

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They will be trying to build on those victories for them a

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fortnight ago. Wales ended a long run of defeats by beating France.

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As you said, it is a tricky in Rome but Italy are missing their

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inspirational captain, who is so Urdd -- serving a ban after being

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rude to a referee. It is like a pizza without a base. Scotland

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versus Italy on Sunday, sorry, Scotland versus Ireland. Ireland

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are looking in experienced with a lot of injuries. It could be the

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close -- closest game of the lot, on Sunday afternoon. The Six

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Nations, it is what February weekends were made for. Stay warm,

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listen or watch on the BBC. Bradford City and Swansea will meet

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in the most unlikely of League Cup finals at Wembley on Sunday.

:24:48.:24:51.

Bradford play in the 4th to of English football. They have not

:24:51.:24:56.

reached a major final for 102 years. The day will be bittersweet as the

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club remembers its supporters who lost their lives in a fire at its

:24:59.:25:06.

ground in 1985. Bradford's journey to Wembley has

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been a remarkable one and as the squad left for London this morning

:25:09.:25:12.

they knew that win or lose on Sunday they had already made

:25:12.:25:16.

history. Bradford are the first club ever from the bottom Tim Roth

:25:16.:25:19.

the Football League to reach Wembley in a major cup final and

:25:19.:25:23.

having some how overcome three Premier League teams along the way.

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COMMENTATOR: The greatest night in the history of Bradford City.

:25:27.:25:31.

would like all the fans to enjoy the day because it is a miracle. We

:25:31.:25:36.

were going through a bad time and this has given some hope. It gives

:25:36.:25:42.

us more -- it tells small people but the underdog, the idea they can

:25:42.:25:46.

succeed. 12 years ago this was a Premier League club but since then

:25:46.:25:50.

Bradford City have fallen down the divisions and come close to going

:25:50.:25:54.

out of business. But he met Valley Parade, there were other reasons to

:25:54.:25:56.

savour one of the more remarkable cup runs in English football

:25:56.:26:04.

history. The club still defined by football's less remembered tragedy

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in 1985, the stadium fire which claimed 56 lives. 12 years ago race

:26:09.:26:13.

riots cast another shadow of the city, highlighting divisions in the

:26:13.:26:16.

community. Today, racial tensions have these stand the unlikely

:26:16.:26:20.

success of the football club is playing its part in healing old

:26:20.:26:25.

wounds and uniting the city. Were the what old, young, black, white,

:26:25.:26:29.

it doesn't matter. You either support the team were you do not.

:26:29.:26:34.

Fortunately for us, most of us guys support Bradford City. When I was

:26:34.:26:37.

at the semi-final I have never seen so many people come together in one

:26:37.:26:41.

place, supporting the same thing. It has never happened before.

:26:41.:26:46.

years ago it was Bradford's opponents, Swansea, who came close

:26:46.:26:49.

to dropping of the footballing map but now the club could Capper

:26:49.:26:53.

dramatic revival by winning their first major trophy. It is the

:26:53.:26:58.

people's Cup final. Look at Swansea, not a big city. The two teams have

:26:58.:27:04.

been brought together and it is fate. The Bradford fire, you know,

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horrendous, absolutely horrendous. Perhaps this is payback time.

:27:08.:27:12.

Whichever way you look at it, this is a fairy-tale final but it is

:27:12.:27:15.

Bradford's story that has given this West Yorkshire city a much-

:27:16.:27:21.

needed lift and transport. An awful lot of sport this weekend

:27:21.:27:24.

but if you have a scarf with you, it is probably best around your

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Absolutely. The wind is going to be bitter. Especially across the south

:27:33.:27:36.

of the country. That is where the wind has been most bitter for the

:27:36.:27:40.

last couple of days. These are the temperatures today. Two or three

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degrees. With the wind, it feels below freezing. It feels like how

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quickly you lose the heat from the skin and the perception of cold is

:27:50.:27:53.

greatest. As far as the wind goes that we have been having for the

:27:53.:27:58.

last couple of days, it is not just cold wind, it is dry air. There is

:27:58.:28:03.

not a lot of frost in the grass or the car window. The water freezes

:28:03.:28:08.

in the ground. Was moist air, that is when you get frosty conditions.

:28:08.:28:13.

We are not getting that, it is to guide to produce the frost on the

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ground, such is the dry air coming in from Eastern Europe. It is quite

:28:16.:28:19.

moist in the upper levels of the atmosphere. That is why we have

:28:19.:28:24.

quite a lot of cloud across the UK. The cloud has been breaking up

:28:24.:28:28.

across western parts of the UK and the south-west, for example. Let's

:28:28.:28:33.

look at the scene and three a clock in the afternoon. A bit of since

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Chang -- sunshine for the West. Reports of snow across parts of

:28:36.:28:40.

Devon, into East Anglia as well, northern parts of England. The

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thickest of the cloud and snow flurries all its further East

:28:44.:28:49.

across the UK. In Scotland, some breaks in the cloud. Last night

:28:49.:28:53.

breaks were quite prolonged, so temperatures down to minus ten

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degrees Celsius. Similarly tonight, it will be cold across the north-

:28:57.:29:03.

west of the UK. One thing to point out, in the North York Moors,

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particularly northern Kent and the North Downs, we could see a

:29:06.:29:10.

covering of snow first thing in the morning. There will be a light

:29:10.:29:15.

dusting of snow. Where you want across the UK tonight, it will be

:29:15.:29:19.

below zero. The Prost will be penetrating given the strength of

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the wind. Tomorrow, fleeting flurries of snow almost anywhere

:29:23.:29:26.

across England, in fact as far west as the Midlands, I think. There

:29:26.:29:31.

will be sunshine coming through as well. Copycat conditions,

:29:31.:29:36.

temperatures feel like three, but feels like minus three degrees

:29:36.:29:41.

Celsius. Here is Sunday, temperatures hovering around two to

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five degrees. Flurries of snow possibly across the south-east as

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well. He is the weekend summary. The bitter wind is not in a hurry

:29:49.:29:53.

to go. It will stay through into next week. Snow flurries, not heavy,

:29:53.:29:58.

but some snow flurries and not a lot of frost on the ground. It is a

:29:58.:30:07.

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