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Crisis in England's home care. With a low-wage system encouraging

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neglect. No-one's here. They forgot me,

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haven't they? The Government warning comes as the BBC is shown CCTV

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footage of the neglect experienced by one 83-year-old woman.

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Also: Shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland, fall sharply, amid rumours

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that the chief executive, Stephen Hester, was forced out of his job.

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The death toll in Syria is now thought to be more than 93,000. A

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report by the United Nations says that 6,500 of them are children.

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England's cleverest children are being let down by a mediocre

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approach in state secondary schools. Google's tax affairs, high pressure

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MPs are not convinced by the explanation for the low tax bill.

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And about to. Be launched on the voyage of moth arehood, the Duchess

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of Cambridge, makes her last solo public appearance before becoming a

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parent. On BBC London: Essex Police is told

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to do more to protect domestic violence victims. Land owners call

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for new laws to stop people dumping Good afternoon.

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Welcome to the BBC News at One. There is is a crisis in the home

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care system for the elderly and the disabled in England. The warning

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comes from the social Care Minister, Norman Lamb, who fears there could

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be an abuse scandal as the -- as serious as the problems at staffed

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hospital. The BBC was given access to CCTV footage, filmed by the

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family of one 83-year-old woman, showing the treatment she received

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at the hands of her home care company over a month. You may find

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this report distressing. No-one is here. They forgot me,

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haven't they? The career should have been here 45 minutes ago. Muirial is

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incontinent. She has been in bed for 13 hours.

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Now look at me. Lying in bed at 4.00pm in the afternoon. It is not

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good enough. They have to sort out the home careers. I will have to do

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something. I can't put up with it much longer. It is awful... Yeah, we

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used to walk here a lot, your dad and I at one time. Your granddad and

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I, yeah. Muriel, in happier times with her

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grandson. The son installed the cameras incase she fell. He did not

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expect to see his mother in such distress. Over the months of the

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footage that we have seen, the careers turned up late, not at all,

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on at least a dozen separate occasions.

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You ring them up. They say they are sending someone along but they never

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did. It was terrible. The way that they treat old people.

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I'm lucky I have a family to look after me. Those that haven't got a

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family, God help them, the poor devils.

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While some careers were professional, the footage shows

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others who were not. This career uses her fingers to test the

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temperature of the food. Another change changes pads in full view of

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the street, they are incontinence pads.

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To see someone in your family treated with no respect, no

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dignity... It is, you question yourself. You think in a way you

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feel guilty. I showed the footage to the Care

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Minister. He was holding a summit with care providers today, to

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discuss concerns in the industry as a whole.

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It is shocking and depressing, really. This is neglect in your own

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home. We know that this is not an isolated case.

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There is also very good care, we should celebrate that but where poor

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care exists, we should not tolerate This is the company that was paid to

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look after Muriel. The community care is based in Preston. The family

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say that they complained to them repeatedly about the service that

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they were providing, but in a statement, the company said: At no

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time were issues raised by the family. Any concerns would have been

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dealt with via the appropriate channels. We go bo and beyond the

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legal requirements when employing careers. The care of patients is

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important to us. Despite the shocking level of care

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provided, the company insisted that the family owe them more than �4,000

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in fees. They started court proceedings against them, but on the

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day that the case was due to be heard, the company never showed up.

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The case was dismissed. The house is now for sale to help

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pay for Muriel's care costs. She is happy now but the memory of what

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happened behind this door will long linger.

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Michael is with me now. Michael, Norman Lamb spoke about this being a

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scandal on the scale of the Staffordshire hospital but this is

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happening behind homes behind their closed doors? That is the concern.

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Trying to get a grip on what is happening here. We know that

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hundreds of thousands of people in England are getting domiciliary care

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and that figure is set to rise as the population is ageing. There are

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reports indicating that there are problems in the industry over the

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last couple of years. The Care Quality Commission looked at it,

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saying that the care does not support the dignity of those

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receiving the care or their autonomy. Which? Looked into the

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industry, they described some of the care as disgraceful. The CQC said

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that most cases good cases were provided but 25% were failing to

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meet standards. So there is clearly an issue here.

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The outgoing chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Stephen

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Hester, has denied being forced from his job by the Treasury. Shares in

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the bank fell by 6% in early trading. The bank confirmed this

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morning it is cutting 2,000 jobs worldwide in the investment

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division. Hugh Pym has this report.

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Did he go willingly or was he pushed because of a clash with the

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Treasury? Speculation about Stephen Hester, impending departure from

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Royal Bank of Scotland has intensified. The line is that the

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bank needs a new boss for the process of privatisation but Stephen

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Hester hint #d he would have liked to have stayed.

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I am torn. On the one hand I feel a huge loyalty to the company, the

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people who have been with me in the trenches for years. Of course I want

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to see it through for them. For my own pride, I guess, but on the other

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hand, for me that would be the ending of a job. I think that there

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is an argument to say that in a perfect world it should be the

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beginning of a future for Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Today in the Commons, a Treasury Minister paid tribute to Stephen

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Hester's work, saying it was time for a new chapter at Royal Bank of

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Scotland. Having brought Royal Bank of

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Scotland back from the brink, now is the time to move on from the rescue

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phase to the focus on Royal Bank of Scotland being a UK bank to provide

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support to the British economy. But Labour said many questions

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needed to be answered. Did Stephen Hester go voluntarily, or was he

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push?ed what role did the Chancellor have in prompting this departure?

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With a fall in the Royal Bank of Scotland share price this morning,

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there was criticism in the City of the Government's handling of the

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issue, with so much taxpayer money on the line.

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I think it has been messy. It is a surprise to see someone who led a

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successful repair job removed at the behest of the Treasury. Secondly, do

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so without having a clear plan for succession is negligent.

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The debate on Stephen Hester's at departure is continuing on a day

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when Royal Bank of Scotland announces cutbacks in the investment

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banking operations. Including here in the City of London. It is seeking

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to focus more on the UK-based corporate and household lending.

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Roiks say that there will be 2,000 job losses a % cut in investment

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bank staff. Across the bank there have been 41,000 job losses since

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2008. With the chairman's side-stepping questions about his

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future this morning, there is uncertainty hanging over Royal Bank

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of Scotland, bust on the question of who will be running it and when the

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taxpayers may get some money back. Let's speak to Norman Smith at

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Westminster for us. I guess it is the perennial political question,

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did he jump or was he pushed? the Treasury say that their hands

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were clean. It was not them that done in the nice Mr Hester. They say

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that the decision was taken by the Royal Bank of Scotland board with no

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involvement from the Chancellor. Yet if this were a game of political

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Cleudo, I suspect that many will suspect that Stephen Hester had

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indeed been done in. We learn that the two men have not met each other

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for three months, that suggests a certain coolness that their

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relationship. Also no replacement has been pencilled in. The Number

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Ten spokesperson when asked, if the Treasury pressurised Stephen Hester

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to go, said that they would not put it in those terms. That the

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Chancellor could want to pave the way for the RBS sell-off, the

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Treasury deny that, saying there is no fixed price, nothing's been

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pencilled in. Yet, you can see how attractive it would be for the

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Chancellor to go into the next election with an eye-catching policy

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like an RBS share give away. Interesting stuff. Thank you very

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much. The school's watchdog is warning

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that the brightest children are being let down by many of England's

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state secondary schools. In a report, Ofsted is blaming a culture

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of low expectations. Head teachers have disputed some of the evidence,

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while arguing that league tables push schools into focussing on the

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middle ground. We have more on this. At Forefoot School in York, they do

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their best to stretch the brightest pupils, identifying the able

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children as soon as they arrive from primary school. Those who cope get

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tougher assignments to push themselves further.

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I am happy to be pushed. In some subjects it is challenging. It a is

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a good helping hand to say to you can do well, to try thinking about

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it for the future it is good. But Ofsted says in England's

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non-selective secondary schools, this is not the norm. Looking at

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pupils getting above the expected standards in English and maths test.

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Last year two thirds of the pupils, 65,000, failed to get an A* or A at

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GCSE maths and English. Over a quarter, 27,000, failed to get a B.

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Ofsted says that last year a fifth of all schools teaching A-levels

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failed to produce a single pupil with the top grades expected by

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leading universities, why is this happening? Low expectations of what

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the youngsters can do and achieve. That is critical. We have to improve

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by ensuring that teachers and leaders of the schools have higher

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expectations. But teaching unions say that you

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cannot assume that pupils scoring above expectations get top marks in

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GCSE. Students students with a level five

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have often been taught to pass that test. A child just past that test by

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being taught precisely what they need to do is the not the same as a

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child with top marks in the test and is one of the brightest.

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This is a confusing time for parents. Today they are told not

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enough bright pupils are getting high grades. Ministers took actions

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to toughen up exams because of too many high grades, but the Department

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for Education is agreeing that measuring the progress of pupils at

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school is essential. A group of MP is accusing guying of

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aggressive tax avoidance as it conducts its UK business from

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Ireland. The Public Accounts Committee is calling on the company

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to pay its fair share of tax. Google say it is complies with all tax

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rules in the UK. The biggest search engine is facing

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searching questions about tax. MPs say that the way that Google

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gets advertisers to send payments to Ireland is a ruse to avoid UK

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Corporation Tax. We looked at how they have this very

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complex web of companies over all sorts of countries where the sole

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purpose appears to be to avoid paying their fair share of tax on

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the profits that they make from the business that they do in the UK.

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The Public Accounts Committee says that Google had UK sales of �11. 5

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billion between 2006 and 2011. It claims that the profits on that

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would have been enormous. Though there is no figure but it says that

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Google paid just �10 million in UK Corporation Tax over that period.

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I want to start by reminding you that it is a serious offence to

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mislead a parliamentary select committee... Last month, MPs grilled

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Google for a second time after a whistleblower told them that UK

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sales were completed in the UK. We hire people with sales skills,

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they are encouraging people to spend money but what is clear is that

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no-one in the UK team can execute a transaction, no money changes hands.

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The whistleblower, Barney Jones, worked for Google and believed that

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they should have paid more tax. Matt Brittin wanted to defend the

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tax that they were paying by saying that they did not sale, but I worked

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for the sales team, selling is what we did.

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Google issued a statement, saying it complies with the tax rules in the

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UK, that it is the politicians who make the rules, but the Public

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Accounts Committee wants HM Revenue & Customs to launch an

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investigation. We investigate multinationals,

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recovering �23 billion from large businesses over three years,

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including multinationals but we can only enforce the rules. We cannot

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collect tax that is not due. The Prime Minister's promised to

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give top billing to tax avoidance when leaders meet for the G 8

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summit, but MPs want him to push for multinationals to pay a fair share

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of tax in the companies countries where they do business.

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The top story: A crisis in England's home care system with a low-wage

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system that encourages poor care and neglect.

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Later on BBC London: A famous drama school fears for funding after the

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council demands that they take down advertising boards.

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And back from the nine tis, we speak to one of the boyband's Mark Easton,

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on going solo. -- East 17. There are six

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candidates, all bar one is from a conservative background. Whoever

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wins faces huge challenges. The country is feeling effects of

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sanctions because of a nuclear programme the West fears is more

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about developing nuclear weapon, something which Tehran denies.

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On the eve of this election, Iran faces an acute economic crisis.

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International sanctions imposed because of its nuclear programme,

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leading to a collapse in the currency, with prices of food and

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other essential goods shooting up. And this has been a big issue in the

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election campaign. Some candidates have been questioning the cost to

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the country of the Government's uncompromising approach in

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negotiations with the international community. In the run-up to this

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election, the ultraconservative establishment has stopped hundreds

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of candidates from running, leaving just six still in the race, all

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regarded as loyalists. Amongst the frontrunner frontrunners Hassan

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Rowhani has turned out to be more of a moderate N the recent Presidential

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debates Mr Row row has talked about changing ir-- Rowhani has called for

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press freedom at home. Reformist groups are rallying around him.

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the last eight years we've had Mr Ahmadinejad, who has been denying

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the Holocaust and speaking about eliminating Israel from the face of

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the world. If a moderate candidate wins then you will see a change of

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attitudes towards the outside world. After the last election, four years

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ago, there were huge demonstrations. Many voters believing the

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authorities had rigged the vote to ensure a reformist candidate did not

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win. In the crackdown by the authorities, dozens were killed.

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Now there are just hours to go before the people of Iran vote once

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again for a new President. What had seemed a very predictable election,

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with an easy victory for the ultraconservatives has become much

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more uncertain. Just to say, there's much more on

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the Iranian elections, including profiles of the candidates on the

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BBC website. Some breaking news coming into us

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now and verdicts are being returned in the case of the man who murdered

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two women police officers, Dale Cregan admitted murdering Fiona Bone

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and Nicola Hughes, as well as a father and son in Manchester. He has

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been found not guilty of attempting to murder another woman in the city.

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Let's go to Ed Thomas with all the details at Preston Crown Court for

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us. Ed? Yes, the final verdict on Dale

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Cregan is now in. The full story of his four murders and three attempted

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murders can be told. The last bit of business for the jury concerning

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Dale Cregan was an attempted murder charge on shah ran Hart. The jury

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found him not guilty of that. He admitted the murders of Mark and

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David Short and PC Nicola Hughes huge and PC Fiona Bone.

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Ef every police officer in the -- every police officer in the city was

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on the look-out for him, but Cregan stayed hidden, until he created a

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trap to lure the police to him. He dialled 999 and pretended his house

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officers were asked to drive over to look at the reported burglary.

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32-year-old PC Fiona Bone was sent out with her shift partner that day,

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23-year-old Nicola Hughes. They knocked on the door and met a hail

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of bullets. Then Cregan threw a grenade at them. PCs Nicola Hughes

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and Fiona Bone were sent out from their base here to respond to

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Cregan's 999 call. Within an hour both women had been shot dead and

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the man who murdered them was on his way here to their police station to

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hand himself in. He walked inside and approached the counter. He said

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"I am wanted by the police. I have just done two coppers." The officer

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leapt over the desk to arrest him. In May, last year, Mark Short was

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assassinated when Cregan ran into a pub in East Manchester and shot him

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at the pool table. In June, he was arrested on suspicion of murder and

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then released. In August, Mark Short's father was shot dead by

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Cregan, who also threw a grenade at him. He threw a grenade at another

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house nearby. He went on the round. A reward was offered for his

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capture, but he evaded police for five weeks until the murder. He said

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he shot the officers because the police had hounded his family.

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fact is he was a very wanted man. We were very, very concerned, sadly as

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it turned out, he would kill other people. We were constantly visiting

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his family, his girlfriend, his relatives, absolutely, to discover

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where he was and encourage them to give up information. The impact of

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the shooting was enormous and mediate. Officers who had worked

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alongside PC -- PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes found themselves

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investigate investigating their murders. To go, I am going to kill a

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police officer today because I don't like them seems unreal. It is a

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level of callousness and no empathy with anybody - is beyond really my

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comprehension. Their funerals drew large crowds.

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Police officers from around the country came to pay their respects.

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I think, as a parent, you have that expectation that your children will

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be there for when you die. So, you couldn't... It is really difficult

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to imagine it and it's even more difficult to describe it. Dale

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Cregan's trial was conducted amongst high security. He and his

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codefendants brought to court each day by armed convoy. Now he faces

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life in prison for a crime the Prime Minister described as, "Pure evil."

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Yes, Dale Cregan was not alone in the dock. There were nine other

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codefendants. Four of those men will walk free from this court. They were

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found not guilty of all the charges they were facing. When those

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verdicts were read out, there were grasps in the courtroom. And sat

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yards away from Dale Cregan was the father and family of PC Fiona Bone

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and PC Nicola Hughes. We expect them to make a statement once they leave

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this courtroom. As for Dale Cregan, we can tell you, he was seen

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laughing and joking in a break between proceedings when the

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verdicts were being read out. His own barrister has admitted he will

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die in jail for what he's done. We expect him to be sentenced later

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today. OK, thanks very much for that. Thank you. More than two years

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after the start of the conflict in Syria, a new UN report says the full

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scale of the deaths is likely to be far higher than previously thought.

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It says at least 93,000 people have been killed since the conflict

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began. That is 30,000 more than the UN's last estimate around the end of

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last year. 5,000 deaths have been documented each month since last

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July. The UN says the real number is likely to be much higher. Some 6,

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500 children have died since March, 2011. A quarter of those were under

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the age of 10. Our Middle East correspondent has

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recently returned from Syria and joins me now. And Paul, when you

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look at these figures, do they surprise you? No, if you visits

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Syria it is obvious it has fallen into an abyss of violence. What is

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interesting about these figures is the UN's analysts were careful only

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to count those they were certain of. It may be 40,000 on top of that.

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What they do not say is how many are combatants and how many are

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civilians. One of the groups contributing came up with a

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surprising idea, which was the largest single group may be the

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regime's soldiers and the militias attached to it, with the civilians

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coming second. That is a controversial finding which may give

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western Governments a pause while they debate about what to do. The

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scale of it, 5,000 people a month are now being killed. That is worse

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than say Iraq at the height of the sectarian violence there in 2006.

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Thank you. The Australian cricketer David

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Warner has been suspended from the side until the first Ashes next

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month. He is alleged to have attacked Joe Root in a bar in

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Birmingham on Saturday night. He has been fined �7,000 and will miss the

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remainder of his country's champion's trophy campaign.

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The Duchess of Cambridge has named a new cruise liner - her last soe lo

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engagement before the birth of her baby. Royal Princess will carry 3,

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500 passengers and will set sail ??FORCEWHITE In about a month's time

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the Duchess of Cambridge will become a mother, but this lunch time she

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has become a godmother - a godmother to this huge cruise liner,

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appropriately named Royal Princess. She came here to name it in her last

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solo engagement as a member of the Royal Family, before she gives

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birth. She looked calm, well, relaxed. If a little chilly at times

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in the Southampton summer breeze. Several ladies in the audience

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remarked to me she looked very elegant - eight months' pregnant, in

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high-heeled shoes as she climbed on to the podium for her big moment.

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name this ship Royal Princess. May God bless her and all who sail in

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Of course Kate was in hospital with acute morning sickness during the

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early stages of her pregnancy. Since then, she has kept a full diary of

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engagements. She has one more official function - that is this

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weekend at Trooping the Colour in London. After that her maternity

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leave, as you might call it, will begin. She will begin a Vogue into

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motherhood, which will involve naming her own Royal Princess or

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Prince. Thank you very much for that. Now

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time for the weather. Cold in An unsettled picture out there. The

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wettest place so far today has been Wales - a clump of hef -- heavy

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downpours there. It is heavy, gusty winds with these

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as well. All that moving east. It is pretty windy just about wherever you

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are. Let's look at 4pm this afternoon and we have heavy downpour

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possibly in excess of 50 miles per hour in the worst of these. You will

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know about it if you catch one of these. Fewer further south. It is

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windy, mind you. It is brightening up. One or two showers passing

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through on the strength of that wind. Also some sunshine coming

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through, increasingly so now into south-west England. And the clump of

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the heaviest downpours working from Wales. Here actually brightening up

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a bit. Some showers around. In Northern Ireland this afternoon, it

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is sunshine and showers. We are dodging the downpours, blue sky one

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minute, a heavy shower the next. In Scotland the odd show tore the south

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and west. Most of us with a fine afternoon. A bit of rain in the

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Northern Isles. This evening the showers clear from eastern England.

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A spell of fine weather overnight. It is a shame it is not happening

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during the day. When we are asleep, largely dry and the temperatures

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dipping down into single figures A touch cooler than recent nights.

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Into Friday and the sign of things, already in western areas, as more

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rain comes in, with a strengthening wind. All that spreading

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north-eastwards. Turning more showery in the afternoon, the

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Midlands. Missing most of the rain in south-east England, with some

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sunshine. Gales on western coasts. Warmth in the south-east.

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More rain to Northern Ireland by the end of the afternoon. That rain

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Friday night will push across all areas. On Saturday we have low

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pressure close by. It will be the future for showers, but sunshine

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between the showers on Saturday. Not a washout, but there'll be

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persistent rain at times to Northern Ireland and Scotland in particular.

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It is still windy. For part two of the weekend, on Sunday, actually

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many of us escape with a fine day. Rain into the south-west.

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Uncertainty about timing. Keep checking the forecast and you can do

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that any time on BBC weather online. The wind will stay up. More bad hair

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weather on the way over the next couple of days. Thank you for that.

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