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drop to the lowest level since 1981. Ministers praised officers, but the

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police watchdog warns that five forces are struggling with the

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budget cuts. We will be looking at what is behind the fall in crime in

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England and Wales. Also this lunchtime, grass fires break out in

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south-east England as heatwave alerts are raised in more parts of

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Britain. Raising an army of doctors, nurses and patients to report back

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on hospitals. The new Chief Inspector calls for radical

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overhaul. Nelson Mandela spends his 95th birthday in hospital, where his

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health is said to be improving. A man has been found guilty of

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manslaughter of a killing lay preacher Alan Greaves as he walked

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to play the organ at midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. It is a lovely day

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and Lord's foreign Ashes test match. The Queen has been watching but so

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far, England are wilting. Later on the programme London's Fire

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Authority meets to decide if ten stations across the capital should

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close. And how to revive our high streets. We speak to form a dragon

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BBC News at One. There has been a sharp fall in the level of crime in

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England and Wales, with the figure is now at their lowest level since

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1981. Recorded crime has fallen in almost every category with the

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exception of fraud and sexual offences, but the news comes on the

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day the police watchdog is warning that five police forces will

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struggle to cope with future budget cuts and neighbourhood policing in

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England and Wales risks being eroded. Our home affairs

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correspondent Matt Prodger has the details.

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Police numbers in England and Wales are down, but so are the crime

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figures. Recorded crime fell by 7% last year and an annual review says

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most forces are on track to make the necessary budget cuts of 2015. By

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then there is expected to be 6600 fewer front-line police officers

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banned there was in 2010. But it is predicted a greater proportion of

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officers will be working in front-line roles. And there is a

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warning that five police forces will struggle to cope with further cuts

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beyond them. They are Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and

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west and south Yorkshire. Victim satisfaction is continuing to rise.

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Crime is coming down and overall, although forces are losing a number

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of people from their workforce, they are looking to protect their

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crime-fighting capability. Crime has been dropping since the mid-19 90s,

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though theft, sexual offences and fraud did rise in the last year.

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think we should congratulate the police. As a government we have

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asked them to do more but with less resources and they have performed I

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think magnificently and all the work that has gone into crime prevention

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has made a difference. Many forces are closing smaller police stations

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to stave money. In West Mercia, for example, 23 to close including this

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one Kidderminster, much valued by local residents. I think it is a bad

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thing really. It is there to be a deterrent. We have only been here

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two years, other residents have been here longer and we use it ourselves.

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Disgusting. It is a handy thing to have. I have used it a few times.

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The people have used it. Today's anti-war review warns that crime

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prevention work of the type praised by the Prime Minister this morning

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is in fact at risk from the budget cuts. That is because neighbourhood

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policing teams increasingly have to react to crime rather than prevent

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Let's speak to our political correspondent Norman Smith, who is

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in Westminster. Not surprisingly the government is heaping praise on

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police officers given these latest figures. That is true but what

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strikes me is that the government could today have said we did it, it

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was us, it was our policies, our crime legislation, our handling of

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the economy which is now improving which has led to the falling crime.

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They haven't, as you say. They have been out and about distributing

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large of blowing praise on the police are becoming better and

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smarter for tackling crime and that tells us two things, one is a clear

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desire in government to rebuild their rather fractured relations

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with the police but second, a desire to hold the police and other public

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sector workers and say to them, look, you too can do more, can do

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better with less money. As the MPs leave for their summer break, what

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impact does this news have on the government, on spirits? It is not

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just the glorious weather which has changed. You sense in government

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circles they feel the political weather is also beginning to change

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because we have these crime figures on top of the fall in unemployment,

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the falling immigration, slightly better news on the economy. We have

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the sporting success with Andy Murray and the Lions. We have the

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sunshine. You just sense in government they are beginning to

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wonder if amidst the dark clouds of Ulster read to there may just be the

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odd, odd glimmer of possible feel-good. -- the dark clouds of

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austerity. He raised -- heatwave alerts have been raised in more

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parts of Britain. South-west England and the West Midlands have been

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elevated from level 2 to level 3, the same level was the south-east

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and London. Yesterday was the hottest days so far this year with

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temperatures reaching 32.2 Celsius, 90 Fahrenheit. Jon Kay is that

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Burnham on Sea. Yes, it came as no surprise to

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people here an hour or so ago when the Met office said that this part

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of the south-west of England is now also in this category three heatwave

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part of the UK. It is another baking day here and while some people are

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out and about enjoying it, for others it is a real ordeal.

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It is nearly a decade since we have had a prolonged heatwave like this.

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In south London this lunchtime another grassland fire. In some

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areas temperatures have been above 30 Celsius for a week now and the

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Mercury just keeps rising. From Dover to Dudley, much of England is

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now on a level 3 warning. The hot weather we recognised brings

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challenges to some people, particularly the old and young. The

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level 3 warning reflects the fact that temperatures are rising to

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quite high levels for a couple of days with quite high night-time

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temperatures and in this sort of situation some people find it quite

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challenging. How different things were a year ago. Much of last summer

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was a washout. In fact the last few years have been pretty grim. So this

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month's sunshine is at least welcome by Britain's tourism industry. This

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holiday Park in Somerset have suddenly seen record bookings.

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weekend was the busiest weekend we have had out of school holidays for

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six years. Six years? And that is weather-related? Weather related,

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yes, so we are very pleased with that. The phones are still ringing

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for this weekend. Many holiday-makers here have abandoned

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plans for last-minute foreign getaways and are staying in the UK

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instead. Why miss all this beautiful countryside and whatnot and lovely

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sunshine? What more do you want? I am stopping in this country. When

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the weather is great this country has a lot to offer for summer

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holidays. So I am not surprised that people are not taking last-minute

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bookings. Chloe Rae is off to Greece next week and she is starting to

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wonder why. Della Bobby looking forward to going away because you

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think you will get away from the cold weather but what is the point?

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Do you wish you were staying put now? Sort of! Yes.Right now some

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parts of Britain are hotter than Greece. And there are no signs of it

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changing any time soon. The warm weather is due to continue through

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the weekend with temperatures rising again next week.

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In the last few minutes I have heard from the coastguard agency that last

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night they had to rescue a man who was trying to fail a dinghy from the

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south coast of England from Dorset to Ireland. This is an inflatable

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6-foot dinghy. They say he did not have enough food or drink, that he

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should never have tried to attempt a journey like that. They are saved as

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another example of the way our behaviour changes when the sun comes

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out and they say it is another warning that has to be issued today,

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to warn people not to try anything similar.

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The new Chief Inspector of Hospitals in England has announced a retro

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radical overhaul of the way they are assessed. Professor Sir Mike

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Richards wants to recruit a small army of doctors, nurses, patients

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and carers who will carry out both planned and random inspections.

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Ratings ranging from outstanding to inadequate would be awarded and

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trusts found to be failing could be put into special measures. Sir Mike

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said the system would be transparent, with reports being made

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public. Our health correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports.

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Salford Royal Hospital takes infection control very seriously and

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prides itself on its record for hygiene on the wards. You're feeling

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better? It will be one of the first NHS trusts to be assessed by

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radically overhauled inspection system according to the new Chief

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Inspector of Hospitals. The new inspections will last longer and

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probe deeper. The teams will be led by experts but will be larger. They

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will include health care professionals and embers of the

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public. In my army I want a whole range of people. I want patients, I

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want Cerys, I want doctors, whether recent release retired or not. I

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want nurses and allied health professionals. All of these people

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are going to be necessary to help us to deliver really good inspections.

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Here in Salford where they have an excellent record they welcomed the

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idea of tougher inspections. I think the public want to have confidence

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in the National Health Service and they rightly should have and these

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inspections are part of building that confidence and providing open

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information back to the public about the state of our hospitals in this

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country. The new regime follows a report into hospitals with high

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death rates which this week saw 11 out of 14 placed in special

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measures. Patient safety campaigners say they are hopeful there will now

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be real improvement. I think in the past inspections have been more of a

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tick box exercise. They have lacked the expertise, the real clout, to

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get below the surface to do a real reality check on how hospitals are

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performing. That is why we are optimistic that Professor Richards'

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new regime of inspecting hospitals will get closer to the mark. Part of

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that reality check will be the public involvement and people we

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spoke to had plenty of ideas about what the focus should be. We need to

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see if it's clean or not and see what needs are being met and what is

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not being met. The first thing that crosses my mind is cleanliness and

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then I guess friendly staff. A total of 18 NHS Trusts will be inspected

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in the first round of what the chief inspector has called a journey

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towards safer care. 22-year-old man has been convicted

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the manslaughter of lay preacher Alan Greaves, who was battered to

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death as he walked to play the organ at midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.

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Ashley Foster was cleared of murder by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court.

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Ed Thomas was in court. The camera crews and reporters here

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behind me are waiting for Alan Greaves' widow to come out and give

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her reaction to today's's verdicts but what she had previously heard in

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court was that Alan Greaves was a man who devoted his life to helping

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others. He played the organ at his local parish church. He helps out

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with local charities and was a social worker before he retired. As

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a devoted Christian, his life was in total contrast to his death. Police

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said it was a senseless and motiveless killing. On the 24th of

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December last year, Ashley Foster and Jonathan Bowling had left their

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home after drinking Bacardi and cocoa lager and went out looking for

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someone, anyone, to attack and they found Alan Greaves. The assault last

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-- lasted four minutes and a pickaxe handle was used and he died three

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days later. Speaking after their deaths, Maureen Greaves has said

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that she said it was an evil act but speaking just a week ago she said

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that she now forgave her killers. The killers who in court had denied

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murder. Ashley Foster said he took no part in the killing. Today, the

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jury found him guilty of manslaughter but not guilty of

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murder. Jonathan Bowling had previously admitted killing Alan

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Greaves and both men will be sentenced tomorrow.

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Police searching for an actor who went missing a week ago have found

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his body near cliffs that Seaford in East Sussex. Paul Bhattacharjee, 53,

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starred in the James Bond film Casino Royale and was also in

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Eastenders. He was last seen leaving rehearsals at the Royal Court

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Theatre in London, where he was due to perform this week.

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Nelson Mandela is spending his 95th birthday in hospital, where his

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condition is said to be improving. The former South African president

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has been having treatment in Pretoria are recovering their

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infection since he was admitted a month ago. -- a recurring lung

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infection. 95 today and you have to keep

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reminding yourself that Nelson Mandela remains critically ill in

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hospital behind me as people have come here in huge numbers to markets

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birthday. They have had to close the gate to the hospital in the past few

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minutes, where people have been handing out slabs of birthday cake

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to the large numbers of people that are thronged outside. Throughout the

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morning we have heard people bringing tributes, flowers and

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balloons and we have had people singing struggle songs, freedom

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songs, as a lot of -- was a mark of respect for the man they consider

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the father of the nation. Outside the hospital where Nelson Mandela

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lays, celebrations as he turns 95. Not just from a generation who

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remember his fight for freedom but youngsters. The so-called born

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frees. For weeks Nelson Mandela has been critically ill. Few dared to

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dream this day would come so today was about honouring his life as well

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as his work, many making personal pledges to emulate him. To update --

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to uphold Wattie lived by, to continue what he has started for us,

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to never discriminate and to live by the rights. A guard of honour

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saluted South Africa's first black president as the country's current

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leader Jacob Zuma prepared to visit the ailing statesman. We are told

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that Mr Mandela is aware of the thousands thronged outside. Once

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again Nelson Mandela has confounded expectations as he marked his 95th

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year. Still critically ill but still the fighter that the world so

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reveals. Away from the crowds extra volunteers are helping to serve free

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meals to these pensioners today as people are encouraged to do good

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deeds as a tribute to Nelson Mandela. This is a generation which

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cares deeply about the Mandela legacy, keen for it not to be

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squandered. I want to fight corruption. There is too much

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corruption. Our children are not getting any jobs. Because the

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others, they give the jobs to their friends, their relatives, you see.

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Nelson Mandela's birthday has struck a chord with people around the world

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with US President Obama and the Dalai Lama adding by well-wishers on

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President Jacob Zuma, we've also seen members of Nelson Mandela's

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family visiting here. His wife was it earlier and his ex-wife, Winnie

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Mandela. The family are expected to gather later for a private lunch to

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mark is 95th birthday. Meanwhile, outside, the crowd are not abating.

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We've had politicians, footballers, members of the local business

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community here, and the atmosphere is hard to describe. One woman said

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it reminds her of the kind of feeling and sense of national pride

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we had during the 1994 elections when Nelson Mandela was voted South

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Africa's first black president and millions of black voters were able

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to vote for the Barry first time. There's a sense of celebration here,

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not out of disrespect, but out of a sense of homage to a man considered

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the father of the nation. One gets a sense that the kind of celebrations

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which are happening here, sang happy birthday to the man they love, is

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likely to go well into the night. Karen, in South Africa, thank you

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very much. Our top story this lunchtime. Crime figures in England

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and Wales drop by 7% to their lowest levels since 1981. But police warn

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they are struggling with budgets cuts. As the open gets underway,

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some of the top names are finding it tough going. Later on BBC London,

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Weavers at the Buckinghamshire golf course as it prepares to stage one

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a holiday home within the ruins of a 12th century castle. They are just

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some of the finalists for the UK's best known prize for architecture.

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And for the first time in its history, the Royal Institute of

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British Architects' Stirling award has women featured in three of the

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final six nominations. Our Arts Correspondent David Sillito has been

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to Sheffield to look at one of the finalists.

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The tower block once described by some as the ugliest building in

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Europe. In the 60s, it was declared a masterpiece. High-tech streets in

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the sky. It's like being in heaven, up here, because we've always been

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poor people. We've made some good friends up here and these places are

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lovely for us. 40 years on, it made it onto a shortlist of buildings

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people wanted knocked down. It'd become this, a semi-direct eyesore

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but now, it's looking rather different. These new residents have

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just moved in. The overbearing mess and the iconic and less of it, it

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looks fabulous, and stood out. It was a clear sign I was in an

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industrial city, and I loved about. Up on the roof, you can see for

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yourself, the old, the new, the redeveloped, and get a sense of just

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how big this places. It absolutely dominate the Sheffield skyline.

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have tried to learn from the good and bad points of the place, and

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take all of those points, tried to design something we think engages

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with people who want to live here, and tried to build a sustainable

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community. It's one of the few survivors of the 60s love affair

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with high-rise concrete. And it's now on a shortlist for building of

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the year alongside an Oxford Chapel, the Giants Causeway visitor Centre,

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houses in Harlow, a medical school, and a remodelled 12th century manor

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house. Quite a journey for a place that was a few years ago, a

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candidate for the wrecking ball. The parents of Trayvon Martin have

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spoken for the first time since the man who shot their son was acquitted

:20:40.:20:44.

of his murder. The teenager shot dead by neighbourhood watch

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volunteer George Zimmerman in February 2012. He was cleared on of

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the 17-year-old's death last Saturday. His parents told Good

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Morning America that they were shocked and disgusted by the

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verdict. My first thought was shock. Discussed. We feel that the

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verdict, we didn't feel it was fair. Last discussed. And of course,

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killed, an RAF bomber crew have been buried at a special ceremony in

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Italy. The four men were all given full military honours. The plane's

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pilot, Sergeant David Raikes, was just 20 years old when the aircraft

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crashed near the city of Ferrara. He was an aspiring poet who had used

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his writing to reflect on the dangers he faced. Our Rome

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correspondent Alan Johnston sent this report.

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Just one cough for their few remains. They flew together, they

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died together, and now, in this foreign field, they will live

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together. -- life together. David Raikes, the pilot, David Perkins,

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Aleksander Bostock, and the oldest ending. German resistance

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collapsing, and the RAF crew was part of the final assault. But, in a

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bomb at like this, they were shot down and their remains were only

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recently found in the buried wreckage. Now, at last, their

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relatives have a chance to ladies meant arrest at peace and calm in a

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Commonwealth War Cemetery. Seeing the crew and the gravestones

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altogether, somewhere someone can come and know that's where they

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live, for 70 years, we haven't known that, so it means a lot. If the crew

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could have just survived ten more days, that we would have celebrated

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victory here in Italy and with the coming of peace, their lives would

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have stretched out before them, full of promise. The pilot, David Raikes,

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was a poet, and in one piece he wrote about the loss of RAF

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comrades. These men knew moments you have never known, nor ever will, we

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knew those moments, too. Then a few lines later, we share their targets,

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too, but we came back. Soon, though, the young poet didn't return. And

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now he will live forever in this place. The Russian opposition

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activist, Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty of embezzlement and

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sentenced to five years in prison. He has strongly denied stealing from

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a state-owned timber company and says the charges are politically

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motivated. Mr Navalny, who is currently standing as a candidate

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for mayor of Moscow, says he will appeal against the sentence. The

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second Test is under way at Lord's as England look to build on last

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weekend's nail-biting opening Ashes victory. Fans saw a stuttering start

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from England's batsmen, losing three wickets. Play was delayed a while

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this morning for a Royal visit. The Queen was introduced to the teams

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and taken on on a tour. At lunch, England were 80-3. We our sports

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correspondent Joe Wilson is at at Lord's now. Are they wilting?

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bed like their lunchtime salad, inevitably today, sense of occasion,

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ground where cricket has been paid for nearly 200 years. Perfect

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weather, the Queen has been in attendance, but sometimes, a Lord's

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test can inspire visiting players even more than England and this

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morning, I think we've had another example. Members of the Marylebone

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Cricket club got a seat at Lord's but only if they can find one.

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First-come, first-served. The queue started at 3am. An Ashes test at

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Lord's is the pinnacle as this MCC member told me. People feel

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involved, their minds, they are fascinated, interested, and the

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games are played with a lot of integrity on the whole. But with a

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lot of fierceness as well. The Queen met both sides with an equal

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interest. She could have congratulated Alistair Cooke on his

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fortune with a possible coin, the Queen 's head had fallen his way,

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and England would bat. Alistair Cooke was on its way from the second

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ball of the day, formalities finished. Australia's captain

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insisted he doesn't have a feud with team-mate Shane Watson. He even

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brought onto bollar good decision. LBW. It took 39 minutes for

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technology to take centre stage. Joe Root wasn't sure. LBW. Here comes

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the review. The ball did head his bat but before or after the pad?

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Another challenge for the thermal imaging. Eventually went, 26-2 and

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it got worse. Kevin Peterson, and for two. A second ball for Ryan

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Harris. Everything working for them. Kevin Peterson walks back to the

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muted MCC members. Perhaps the Queen had come to see Kevin Peterson that.

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Payroll was no complete but England where rebuilding. Jonathan Trott

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doesn't often get carried away whatever the circumstances. But on a

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sweltering day at the home of cricket, it was the Australians who

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looked like they belong to. lunch, England are 80-3. A lot

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relies on Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell. Tim Bresnan came in fourth

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winner. They were worried about their bowling. Right now, Sophie, I

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think they are more concerned about their batting. I bet they are.

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you very much. The Open has got under way this morning with

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controversy continuing over the men-only membership policy at the

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host club, Muirfield. Some ministers and Scotland's First Minister, Alex

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Salmond, have refused to attend the event. But as our sports

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correspondent Andy Swiss reports, it's also been a tough start for

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some of the top British names on the golf course.

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Sunny skies and a cooling breeze at Muirfield. A perfect place to watch

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golf, a slightly tricky one to play it. The undergrowth claimed its

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first victim. A TV camera. A repair bill to Thomas Bjorn. The British

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challenge also struggled at first. Rory McIlroy still searching for his

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elusive form while U.S. Open champion Justin Rose's hopes of a

:27:50.:27:55.

decent start scuttled into the long grass. Others, though, showed the

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way. Not least, Phil Mickelson. He just might have the touch here, and

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so might as fellow American, Zach Johnson, a flurry of birdies taking

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him into an early lead. Pick of the completed rounds, me go and Gail

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Jiminez, three under. He can now relax for the day while others

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sweated out -- among them, five written Tiger Woods who will begin

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this afternoon, and like the rest, hoping to tame this testing course.

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Time for a look at the weather. You can't win this year, can you? It's

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because it's down to mother nature. It is the 13th consecutive day with

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a temperature in the UK has reached 28 degrees, nothing special about

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that, but just to illustrate the point, just how hard it is. The high

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pressure is giving us settled weather which means the cloud, the

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wind and rain is out in the Atlantic, not moving our direction,

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so the atmosphere has stalled at the moment. That's why the heatwave has

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been prolonged. The weather really isn't going to change an awful lot

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and we're not anticipating the area of high pressure to move an awful

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lot in the next few days. On the edges of the high pressure, we have

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cloud affecting parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland so let's head

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somewhere fresher. Further south, it's hotter but for the Western

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Isles, we are expecting 17 degrees. By the time you get to the central

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parts of Scotland, 24 degrees. The high 20s in northern England and

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what's actually happening today, there is a bit of a light breeze

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blowing out to the east in a westerly direction so that means all

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that hot air that we have had across the south-east has shifted a little

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bit towards the west of the UK, so somewhere around the Salisbury

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plain, we could get temperatures up to 30 degrees, maybe a smidgen

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higher. This evening, the odd thunderstorm in the south-west of

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the country but essentially, more or less what we have had in the last

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few days. An oppressive night. We look at the tempered as at five

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o'clock in the morning, remember at midnight, when most of us go to bed,

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the temperature is still well in excess of 20 Celsius, so don't

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concentrate on the 15-16. It's actually much higher for most of the

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night. Tomorrow, a bit of a breeze in the east so once again

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temperatures will drop a little bit down to 26 in London, generally the

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high 20s across the UK but in some areas, it might rise a little bit.

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By the time we get to the weekend, it could be cloudy for a time across

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the eastern coasts, Skegness into Norwich. The cloud will fizzle away

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but it will be quite cool again. Western areas will hold onto the

:30:54.:31:00.

heatwave. Over the weekend, it will be less hot, temporary lowering of

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the temperature, but the current indication is, by next week, the

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temperatures will go right up again and there could be some

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our top story this lunchtime. Crime figures in England and Wales drop by

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