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its Spending Review. �100 billion will be made available to modernise

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UK infrastructure. Projects include homes, road repairs and improved

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flood protection. With work not beginning until 2015, Labour says it

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is too little too late. The package is aimed to boost new

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sources of energy like shale gas. Reports suggesting that UK resources

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could be greater than thought. We are looking at the Government's

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spending plans, asking if the suls add up. Also: The mother of Stephen

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Lawrence calls for a public inquiry in claims of a police smear

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campaign, saying that the Home Secretary said that all options are

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open. The fact that our family had to go

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through another revelation, how many more are there? We have no idea.

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Unless we get to the bottom of this, unless we have a public inquiry that

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tells us to go through the whole thing, we will never get to the

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bottom of it. I'm at Wimbledon in the after math

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of one of the biggest upsets at tennis. Where the ground staff are

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standing by their slippery courts. A pay rise for the Queen. Receiving

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nearly �38 million in the next financial year.

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Later on BBC London: The head of the Met expresses confidence in the

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inquiry into whether when the Force spied on the Lawrence family. Plans

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for so-called mega basements in West Good afternoon.

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Welcome to the BBC News at One. A �100 billion investment in

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infrastructure projects has been announced by the goth. The Chief

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Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, said it was a plan to

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build an infrastructure that Britain can be proud of. The money to be

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spent on housebuilding, road maintenance and energy projects. The

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Government was giving the details of the Spending Review announced

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yesterday. Labour dismissed the promises as hot air saying capital

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spending would drop in 2015. We have this report.

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Should people who have lost their job have to wait a week before they

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can sign on for benefits? This was one of the Chancellor's big ideas

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yesterday. Some say that they don't like it but Labour says it is worth

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looking at. The job for the Chancellor is now selling his plan.

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He says that it is more than just cuts.

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We are also repairing the roads as well as building new ones. We are

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repairing the railways, laying down new railways. Doing what we need to

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do if this country is serious about winning the global race.

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The Government does not have new money for the projects but spelled

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out where the investments will go. Including improving this road, the A

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14 between Huntingdon and Cambridge. Also announced was �500 million to

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support investment in the Mersey gate Weybridge. A multibillion pound

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guarantee for Hinkley Point in Somerset for a nuclear power station

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and investment in superfast broadband to ensure it reaches 95%

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of the population by 201. Investing in stronger communities,

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infrastructure, new sources of energy, that is how to build a

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stronger economy in a fairer society, enabling everyone to get on

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in life. Long-term infrastructure projects

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are seen as putting rocket boosters under the economy. The building

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projects create jobs and at least in theory, creating a country where it

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is easier to do business. But long-term projects like the

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proposed High Speed Two between London and Yorkshire via Birmingham,

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take a long time to build and can cost a lot more than expected.

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Is it not the truth that there is no new money for infrastructure here?

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That he is spinning a line rolling multiple years together to make it

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sound like a big figure, re-heating old announcements, that should have

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turned into action long ago. But ministers insist that the money,

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including extending help with insurance premiums for those in

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places prone to flooding will make a real difference.

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Our Political Correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. Norman,

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this is a wish list that depends on the election results in 2015, it is

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all about politics? You could be forgiven for thinking that Christmas

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comes early. Yesterday the spending squeeze, today a programme with mega

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infrastructure projects announced for five years. 165,000 new able.

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800 miles of railways. 1 million new school places and a �6 billion

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pothole fund to mend the craters in your road, but no new money. What we

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got were the of where money is pencilled in will be spent. So it is

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if you like a big Government to-do list if I get a yellow post-it and

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scribble in my DIY commitments for five months it looks impressive but

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Mrs S may say that you always say that but when do you find time to do

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half of the stuff, I don't think you have the money, but the ministers

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say that they will begin many of the schools before the next election,

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but there are bigger politics here that is this: They hope that their

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post-it provides the reposte to the critics that say where is your plan

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for growth? They say that the big infrastructure project, that is

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their plan for growth. Thank you very much.

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One of the projects to receive investment is looking at sources of

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energy, including shale gas A report has found that there could be twice

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as much shale gas in the UK as previously thought with reserves in

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the north of England. The gas can be extracted through the process of

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fracking. Critics believe it can cause earthquakes and pollute water

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supplies. The Government is to offer incentives to communities willing to

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allow fracking in their area. We have this report from Lancashire.

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Get ready for the rush for shale gas. For the first time we are told

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there is more in Lancashire than ever thought before. Today,

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Government scientists estimated that there is 1300 trillion cubic feet of

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shale gas in the north of England. The industry saying up to 10% can be

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used. Around 130 trillion cubic feet. The UK consumes 3 trillion a

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year it could supply the country for decades, but fast-tracking is

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controversial. Wells are drilled into the rock. Thousands of feet

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under the ground. Then sand, water chemicals are forced in to release

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the shale gas. Today, the Government promised cash and a slice of the

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profits for the local communities. Here in Lancashire, some say it is

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what the economy needs. Jobs, business supply chains,

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training, attracting people to the area. Higher salaries, lifting the

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area out of a low income bracket. But fracking has caused two earth

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tremors in Lancashire. These say it is is a risk to the environment that

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is not worth taking. To pay off the community would

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alleviate our fears for health, safety, water pollution? All of the

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concerns we have been addressing, that all would go away if they pay

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us? That will divide the community. There may be trillions of cubic feet

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of shale gas under the ground here in Lancashire but the industry is

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not certain how much can be brought to the surface to power the country.

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That means that the industry cannot be certain of the impact it will

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have on the economy. In America, a shale gas revolution

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has led to jobs and cheaper energy bills. The Government s is that the

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same could happen here. Well, Mr Moylan has been at a

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briefing for -- at the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The hope

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is that the shale gas is the new North Sea if you like? Yes, this is

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for the north of England, there could be more across the UK. The

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Government wants to crack on with this. The Business Minister was here

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this morning, saying that today is the day that Britain gets serious on

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shale. So, there was news about tax

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incentives to get people exploring. Cash for communities who put up with

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fracking on the doorstep, but the big caveat, there may be a lot in

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the ground but how much of that will come out.

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You mentioned many years of this but Ofgem reporting that we could be a

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few years away from black outs? the Ofgem have warned that we are

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moing towards low margins in the power supply system. Saying that it

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could fall to as low as 2%. That means that there is a chance of a

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blackout from a one in 47 chance o a one in four chance. Today we learned

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that National Grid, the National Grid in control of the power system

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is to be given powers to step in to pay large users of energy to reduce

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the demand, to get mothballed plants put online. The Government says that

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the measures are normal, that it is what you expect. It is prudent, but

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many say it is evidence that the new power plants are not being built.

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The investors are not there. That the Government's energy policy is

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failing. Thank you very much Doreen Lawrence,

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the mother of Stephen Lawrence has called for a public inquiry into

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claims that undercover police officers tried to find information

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to discredit her family. She said after meeting the Home Secretary,

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Theresa May, that the allegations made her sick to the stomach. The

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, has expressed

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confidence in two separate police enquiries underway. Mother, brother

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and lawyer, living through yet another chapter in the long story of

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Stephen Lawrence. The Home Secretary told them this morning that two

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enquiries are under way, one of which is police-led. Doreen Lawrence

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says she does not trust the police. The fact that our family has had to

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go through another revelation, how many are there? We have no idea.

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Unless we get to the bottom of this, unless we have a public inquiry that

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tells us, to go through the whole thing, we never will get to the

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bottom of this. The Home Secretary has to consider

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that. What the family hope is that she agreeable to holding the public

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inquiry. Theresa May said she would find the best and quickest way to

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get to the heart of the outstanding questions.

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The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, told members of the

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London Assembly, that he was confident that the inquiry by an

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external force, overseen by the Independent Police Complaints

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Commission would do the job. He said this about the public enquire yiz.

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They are long. -- public enquiries. They are not long. Public inquiries

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don't vet individuals or organisations to the point of

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misconduct that is always handled by someone else.

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Providing intelligence to tackle this sort of protest has been the

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job of the national and domestic extremism unit but it no longer

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sends officers under cover. That is now the job of the kriment command.

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A police inspectorate has published a review. The report says that there

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is no clear definition of what counts as domestic extremism, no

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strengthening of the system for approving undercover operations and

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a recommendation that psychologists be brought in when an officer leaves

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the undercover life has not been implemented, but the calls for an

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inquiry into this are growing. Perhaps even the second to be held

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in the name of this young man. President Jacob Zuma has been

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visiting Nelson Mandela in hospital after cancelling his planned trip

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abroad. Earlier, the South African Government said that the condition

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of the former President had . Nelson Mandela's family have been at the

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hospital in Pretoria. Our African correspondent and roux harding is

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there for us now. Busy scenes here. Big crowds coming

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to show their respect for Nelson Mandela. Inside, a frail

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94-year-old, Nelson Mandela is in a critical condition. He has been

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visited by President Jacob Zuma and by close members of his family.

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MacPherson Inquiry said that his health does not look gook.

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We have also seen -- Nelson Mandela's daughter said it does not

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look good. We have also seen his granddaughter coming out to give a

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message to the public. We thank all for giving us their

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support. For praying with us. We are anxious as we, you know that he is

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critical but he is in a state of stability right now.

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All of this happening when Barack Obama has arrived in Africa. He is

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in West Africa at the moment. He is due here tomorrow evening to spend a

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couple of days in South Africa. He is not expected to see Nelson

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Mandela. Speaking in Senegal, President Obama spoke of the legacy

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that Nelson Mandela would leave behind. He called him a hero to the

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entire world. Andrew, thank you very much.

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Spanish police are investigating the deaths of a family. A British man

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and two Irish women on the Costa del Sol. The bodies were found yesterday

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in Mijas. The couping and their daughter, all died of gunshot

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wounds. The police believe it could have been a murder-suicide. There

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are reports of a note being left at the home.

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In a quiet popular spot for British tourists and ex-patriots, what looks

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like a tragedy at this villa. A shopping trolley is abandoned by the

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front door. The bodies of a man, his wife and her daughter were

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discovered inside. The Spanish police are investigating

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but they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.

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In an affluent neighbourhood, people here say that they heard more than

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one gunshot several days ago. Pauline and Kevin have had a house

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here in this resort for eight years. We heard two booms over the weekend.

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They were really loud banks. Not cracks, more booms like a bomb going

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off, really. Very, very quiet. Never saw the wife at all. Only

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occasionally saw the man and the daughter in the garden, but they

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kept themselves to themselves. The Foreign Office described what

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happened here as a tragic event. It is providing assistance to the

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Spanish authorities and to the friends and families of those

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involved. The two women who died were Irish. Reported to be

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28-year-old Sophie Wood and her mother, Sheila. Philip Wood was

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British. Neighbours have said that the family had financial problems.

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The owner of the villa had not been paying the rent for some time.

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Reports say that the man's wife had recent health problems, that her

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daughter was mentally disabled. The authorities are carrying out a

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postmortem to establish how the three people died.

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Revised figures released today show that the UK did not suffer a

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double-dip recession last year, but double-dip recession last year, but

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Revised economic figures released double-dip recession last year, but

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double-dip recession last year, but the figures from the

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Revised economic figures released today show that the

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double-dip recession last year, but the figures from the Office

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Revised economic figures released today show that the UK

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double-dip recession last year, but the figures from the Office of

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Revised economic figures released today show that the UK did

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the figures from the Office of National

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Revised economic figures released today show that the UK did not,

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the figures from the Office of National Statistics

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today show that the UK did not, after

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the figures from the Office of National Statistics also

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today show that the UK did not, after all,

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the figures from the Office of National Statistics also show

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today show that the UK did not, after all, suffer

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the figures from the Office of National Statistics also show that

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today show that the UK did not, after all, suffer a

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after all, suffer a double-dip

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after all, suffer a double-dip recession

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recession in

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recession in the

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recession in the first

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recession in the first quarter of Let's remind ourselves of what

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those figures were or what it seemed they were like at that time,

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and what it suggested was that there was growth in 2011, the third

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quarter, then activity started falling back for three consecutive

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quarters before bouncing back, but this is the way it now looks as a

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result of latest revisions, and you can see that actually that negative

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quarter of 2012 has been revised away, so it was flat, so there are

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no two consecutive quarters of falling out, so therefore

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technically no recession at that time.

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Yet that first recession was deeper than anybody thought. Yes, indeed.

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We've got more data on how that original recession of 2008-09

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lookened. It shows from peak to trough, in other words, the full

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scale of the downturn before recovery began was a figure of 7.2%,

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a fall. We had thought it was a slightly smaller fall, a fall of

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6.3%, so the original recession, worse than we thought, but no

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technical double-dip. Thank you very much.

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The time is just after a quarter past 1.00pm. Our top story:

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The Government gives details of a �100 billion investment in

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infrastructure including road repairs and flood protection.

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Still to come: the insurance fraudster who was secretly filmed

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playing rugby when he was meant to be injured.

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Later, the garden to the former Beatle George Harrison at a temple

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and we speak to the musician Omar After a controversial day at

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Wimbledon yesterday, organisers will be hoping attention will turn

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towards those still in the tournament today. Two of the top-

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seeded players were among seven forced to pull out in what was the

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most injure-hit second round in the competition's history. On court,

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defending champion Roger Federer suffered his earliest exit at

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Wimbledon since 2002, going out in four sets to world number 116

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Sergiy Stakhovsky. Tournament favourite Novak Djokovic will play

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his second round match this afternoon. Women's number one

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Serena Williams has just started her game on court one. And the last

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British woman left in the singles competition Laura Robson will be in

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action on court number two. Katherine Downes is at Wimbledon

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for us now. Over to you.

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Well, Simon, ask Andy Murray about his prospects for Wimbledon, as we

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often, do and he always tells you there's no such thing as an easy

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match here. Look what happened to Roger Federer yesterday, proof that

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in today's game if an outsider can find his form, they're all capable

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Federer was dumped out of Wimbledon. What an end to the day here at

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Wimbledon! The defending champion was outwitted in four tight sets by

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the Serban volley of world number 116 Sergiy Stakhovsky. Just got to

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get over this one, you know. Sometimes I haven't heard this much

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- that's for sure. I can tell my grandson I kicked the butt of Roger

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Federer. LAUGHTER

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But Federer wasn't the only star to fall - a constellation had tumbled

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before him. Seven players withdrew injured, among them Jo-Wilfried

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Tsonga. And Caroline Wozniacki. And former

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champion Maria Sharapova slipped up and went out. This morning, mowing

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and mopping continued as usual amid criticism from some players that

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the surface this year is dangerous. We're a hundred percent, you know,

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happy with what we've produced, and, you know, myself and the team - we

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are fully backing our playing surfaces. If Laura Robson can keep

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her footing later, she stands a good chance of reaching a third

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round for the first time, while with Nadal, Federer and Tsonga now

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out, there's less to trip this man on his way to the final. But, as

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Andy Murray says, there is always one match at a time. One man who

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knows all about that is Tim Henman. Thank you very much for joining us

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this lunch time. The rest of us can dare to dream for Andy Murray,

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can't we? It's easy where we sit to see how the draw could unfold, but

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you have to look at what's happened in the last few days, incredible

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upsets, and Andy has to make sure he doesn't become one of those

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upsets, and he's done a great job so far. We were hearing about the

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slippery court. It's caused controversy over the past couple of

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days. Wimbledon said they have prepared them as normal, but they

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have been causing trouble. I think the first three or four days of any

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grass court tournament when they're new courts, they're always going to

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be a bit slippery. They have been that way over the last ten, 15,20

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years. When you look at the data I have seen - the firmness. Court and

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length of the grass is exactly as I have seen for the past seven or

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eight years. If the players are slipping a built more, you can't

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deny that but from the club's point of view and the groundsmen's point

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of view, they're exactly the same. Tim, thank you very much for

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sharing your thoughts with us. We'll see how Laura Robson fared.

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She's out on court number two later this afternoon. That's one of the

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courts that caused a lot of problems with slippage yesterday.

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She's last up bidding to join Andy Murray in the third round.

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Thank you very much. A man has been jailed for eight

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months after he was caught playing rugby, while making an insurance

:23:08.:23:17.

claim for wrist injuries of more David Ribchester, who is 31,

:23:17.:23:20.

claimed to have been injured in a work accident in 2006. He pleaded

:23:20.:23:22.

guilty to fraud by false representation. Emily Unia is at

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the Old Bailey for us now. Absolutely. David Ribchester said

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in his compensation claim that the injuries he sustained to his wrists

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meant he couldn't do basic tasks such as drive his car, pick up his

:23:36.:23:41.

young daughter or even play rugby, but the insurance company got

:23:41.:23:45.

suspicious and put surveillance on him. Today they released film

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footage. It shows him back in 2009 playing rugby in a local park. He

:23:50.:23:56.

passes and throws the ball. He's seen in a half tackle, clearly

:23:56.:24:01.

contradicting the claims he made about injuries to his wrists when

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he pleaded guilty to fraud in May. He was sentenced to eight months in

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prison. The judge told Ribchester, "It is greed that brought you to

:24:09.:24:13.

this, and unfortunately there is a lot of greed out there." In

:24:13.:24:16.

explaining giving a custodial sentence, the judge said, "Anyone

:24:16.:24:20.

who is tempted to pave in a dishonest way in the way you did by

:24:20.:24:24.

attempting to exploit a system which exists to compensate the

:24:24.:24:30.

genuinely injured will end up going to prison." Thank you very much.

:24:30.:24:32.

Payday lenders are to be investigated by the Competition

:24:33.:24:35.

Commission. The watchdog, the Office for Fair Trading, referred

:24:35.:24:37.

the lenders after they found evidence of "widespread

:24:37.:24:41.

irresponsible lending". The industry is worth �2 billion a year.

:24:41.:24:45.

Our correspondent Simon Gompertz has more. En the Office for Fair

:24:45.:24:50.

Trading has decided that hard-up couples like Mark and Sheila from

:24:50.:24:54.

Huddersfield are sitting ducks for these lenders, so desperate for

:24:54.:24:58.

funds they'll borrow even if the interest is thousands of per cent.

:24:58.:25:03.

Mark has been unemployed for two- and-a-half years, yet they have

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been able to borrow �3,000. He says lenders should make more checks

:25:08.:25:11.

before offering cash. When you're struggling to put a meal on the

:25:12.:25:17.

table, and somebody sends you a text saying they have �300 waiting

:25:17.:25:23.

for you, can be in your account in are 15 minutes, it's difficult to

:25:23.:25:29.

say no. Payday lenders have mushroomed. The OFT has accused

:25:29.:25:32.

them of irresponsible widespread lending, failing to check whether

:25:32.:25:36.

people can afford to borrow and causing misery and hardship by

:25:36.:25:40.

tempting them with easy money. all about speed, and far too many

:25:40.:25:45.

lenders do not do the affordability checks the OFT requires of them, so

:25:45.:25:47.

they're making loans to people who cannot afford to repay them.

:25:47.:25:50.

Competition is a problem in the industry because the cost of the

:25:50.:25:56.

loans has spiralled out of control, and firms which follow the rulings

:25:56.:26:00.

can't compete with the rogue operators. That's why payday

:26:00.:26:02.

lenders are being referred to the coveragetition commission. The

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biggest players have signed up to voluntary codes of practise

:26:06.:26:10.

designed to prevent irresponsible lending. There is no reputable

:26:10.:26:13.

lender that's lending to somebody who can't afford to pay back. It's

:26:13.:26:16.

not good business sense, and it's not good for consumers. We have

:26:16.:26:21.

capped the number of times that you can extend the loan. We freeze fees

:26:21.:26:25.

and interest when we find people have got into hardship as a result

:26:25.:26:29.

of taking out a loan, and we act responsibly. But the Competition

:26:29.:26:34.

Commission when it's investigated high-cost loans has the power to

:26:34.:26:39.

impose new rules and reshape the entire ministry. Ministers have

:26:39.:26:44.

called a summit of key players next week to see what more can be done.

:26:44.:26:47.

The Queen is getting a 5% pay rise. Her income will rise to nearly �38

:26:48.:26:50.

million next year. Her finances are to be reorganised, and today's

:26:50.:26:53.

figures also reveal that an extra million pounds was allocated to

:26:53.:26:55.

cover the Diamond Jubilee last year. Our royal correspondent Nicholas

:26:56.:27:04.

Witchell is at Buckingham Palace for us now. A lot of figures. Talk

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us through them. This is the money that the Queen receives to fund her

:27:09.:27:14.

role as head of state and monarch. It used to be called the Civil List,

:27:14.:27:19.

of course, it's now called the Sovereign Grant, calculated on the

:27:19.:27:24.

basis it's 15% of the surplus of the crown estates which owns land

:27:24.:27:26.

in London and elsewhere in the country. It started in spring of

:27:26.:27:31.

last year when the Sovereign Grant to Buckingham Palace was �3 million,

:27:31.:27:35.

expenditure last year, of course, busy with the Jubilee was 33

:27:35.:27:39.

million. This year it has gone up to �36 million. In the next

:27:39.:27:43.

financial million, it will be �38 million, so significant increases.

:27:43.:27:48.

Now, Republic, the anti-monarchist group, has said the Queen should

:27:48.:27:54.

give this money back. They say it's unbelievable at a time of austerity

:27:54.:27:57.

the head of state should receive such increases. Buckingham Palace

:27:57.:28:00.

says there is no question of relinquishing any part of this.

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They it's essentially to put this money towards the massive backlog,

:28:05.:28:09.

as they put it, of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and

:28:09.:28:12.

elsewhere. One other building- related the tail from today's

:28:12.:28:18.

figures - it's so far cost more than �1 million on the

:28:18.:28:21.

refurbishment of that part of Kensington Palace which William and

:28:21.:28:26.

Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are hoping to move into,

:28:26.:28:29.

with, of course, their baby in the autumn.

:28:29.:28:32.

Thank you very much. Tourists have been enjoying warm

:28:32.:28:40.

That is now being interrupted by some rain, which is pushing its way

:28:40.:28:48.

in from the north and west. You can see it on the radar. We have had

:28:48.:28:52.

heavy rain in Northern Ireland, Southern Scotland. We're going to

:28:52.:28:55.

have a lot of cloud left behind across Northern Ireland and the

:28:55.:29:00.

west of Scotland, mist, murk and drizzle. It will start to feel mug

:29:00.:29:03.

gaind humid here. For the north- east of Scotland, a lovely day with

:29:03.:29:06.

plenty of sunshine. For north-west England we see rain. The rain

:29:06.:29:11.

arriving across Wales, the Midlands and south-west England, so a dose

:29:11.:29:15.

of rain for Glastonbury a few hours this afternoon and evening. Towards

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south-east evening, we're holding on to a lot of dry weather through

:29:19.:29:22.

the afternoon. Easily temperatures into the high teens, some spots the

:29:22.:29:25.

low 20s. We will get a fair amount of play at Wimbledon this afternoon,

:29:25.:29:30.

but during this evening, there is the increasing chance of some

:29:30.:29:34.

sporadic outbreaks of rain turning up as our area of welt weather

:29:34.:29:38.

continues to work its way further south-east. Behind that, some very

:29:38.:29:43.

humid, muggy air working its way in on a lot of murk, cloud and drizzle,

:29:43.:29:48.

particularly over the hills. More persistent rain in the north

:29:48.:29:51.

through the night. Temperatures no more than 9-14 Celsius most places

:29:51.:29:55.

that humid air is going to be a feature of our weather tomorrow,

:29:56.:29:58.

pumping its way in from the Atlantic around the north of an

:29:58.:30:01.

area of high pressure. Also toppling around this high we have a

:30:01.:30:05.

series of weather fronts, and these are going to provide some outbreaks

:30:05.:30:12.

of rain through tomorrow. A band of heavy rain working its way to

:30:12.:30:17.

eastern areas. A band of patchy rain working southwards. Things

:30:17.:30:20.

will eventually brighten for Scotland and Northern Ireland. To

:30:20.:30:25.

the south, that humid air holds on. Anywhere we get a bit of shelter

:30:25.:30:29.

and sunshine, temperatures getting higher than we may suggest, maybe

:30:29.:30:34.

the low 20s. Then we get to the weekend. Warm, humid werplt will be

:30:34.:30:37.

a feature for many of us, some sunny spells, but in northern parts

:30:37.:30:41.

always the threat of rain at times, particularly the further north and

:30:41.:30:46.

west you are - Glasgow and Enniskillen, outbreaks of rain at

:30:46.:30:56.
:30:56.:30:57.

times. Glasgow staying dry. After a little bit of rain taped and

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tomorrow, the fels value should be largely dry. If you're off to

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