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north-west of England as the Met Office warns of even higher

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temperatures to come. Temperatures could reach the mid-30s by next week

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in the longest heatwave for seven years.

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On a day like today, the UV index will hit six in many parts. That

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will mean that many people will be at risk of getting sunburnt.

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We will have the latest. Also, big tax breaks planned for companies

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involved in the UK shale gas industry. We want to make it clear

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that Britain is going to be at the forefront of the shale gas

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revolution. This is a potentially enormous supply of energy for

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Britain. The Olympics paid off, says the government as a report claims

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the UK economy was boosted by �10 billion.

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Detroit becomes the largest US city ever to file for bankruptcy with

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debts of at least �12 billion. NASA scientists say there could have

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been life on Mars, 4 billion years ago.

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Here at Lord's, the Ashes continues, with tail end resistance helping

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England feel satisfied at lunch. Later on BBC London, police have

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broken up a camp in marble arch set up by Roma gypsies. And Stansted

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airport unveils plans to expand into a four runway help.

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Good afternoon. The heatwave health warnings have been extended to

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north-west England at the longest hotspot for 11 years continues.

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There are warnings about the risk of grass and wildfires and parents are

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being urged to protect their children from sunburn after one

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hospital admitted ten youngsters, six of whom had such severe burns

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that they needed specialist treatment. The Met Office says there

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is no end in sight to the heatwave and temperatures could go even

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higher next week. After sweltering for days, the

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mercury in the south-east is dropping. The West of England, from

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Cornwall away up to Cumbria, is now being given a level three heatwave

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warning by the Met Office. That is one below national emergency status.

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Temperatures over the weekend will not be as high. We will not reach 32

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degrees, but there are strong signals that we could be back up to

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30 degrees next week, and even a few degrees higher by the middle of the

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week. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are not included in the system

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but almost everywhere now the emergency services, local

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authorities and the NHS are taking action. Hospitals across the UK are

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putting their heatwave action plans into place. Controlling temperatures

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within hospital buildings, but also keeping an especially close eye on

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the most vulnerable patients. Part of the daily running of the health

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service now includes steps to help patients keep cool, including

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switching off unnecessary lights and machines. Potential blood donors

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being taken to the beach or park as meant in a drop of some types. There

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is an urgent need for all negative and be negative.

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Those able and anxious to make the most of the sun and heat have

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warnings not to overdo it. important thing is to avoid sunburn

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because it is a clear sign that your skin has been damaged. That damage

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can build up over time and eventually turn into skin cancer.

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The desire to cool off in quarries and rivers has, it is believed,

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claimed several lives. Rescue services say that while swimming can

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be fraught with danger. Muscles cooldown quickly. They work with

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chemical reactions and like any chemical reaction, they are less

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efficient when it is cold. You can start to struggle to coordinate your

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arms and legs, and can make it difficult to stay up at the surface.

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For many of us, a proper summer for once is long overdue. Particularly

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for coastal businesses. It was touch and go this last year.

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It has rained every day for a year. If you asked me three months ago, I

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would have considered selling the restaurant. Running a beach-front

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restaurant in the UK is tricky. Families will be flocking to beaches

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this weekend. A holiday for some but hot and hard work for others,

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especially those charged with keeping us safe in the summer sun.

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Judith Mauritz is in the north-west of England were heatwave alerts has

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been raised to level three. Far be it from me to say it often rains

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here but I am surprised as anyone to be able to welcome you to what feels

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like the Costa Del Salford. You can see the ice cream hut has appeared

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behind me. People are coming out in great numbers. Tourism is doing well

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on this heatwave. The beaches are busy and I'm told that Mersey

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ferries are doing 40% better trade now than they were at this time last

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year. Blackpool zoo, they tell us that things are going very well but

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they have to be particularly careful with the animals. The llamas this

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lunchtime are having iced fruit and the aardvarks have suncream on them.

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As does my balding cameraman, who will not be pleased that I'm telling

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you that. Everybody is having a good time. There is a flip side in that

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report, a concern in the North West that there are increased admissions

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to accident and emergency departments, seeing higher

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incidences of people with some related problems, such as the

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hydration and sunburn. So a warning to be careful while you are out

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enjoying this. And here is one unusual fact. You will know that I

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have reported time and again from snow drifts in the North of England

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and I was looked at the critters on the roads. -- I always look at the

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critters. In Warrington, they have been out again, trying to stop the

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roads bricking up. There you go. They are out in the summer and the

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depths of winter. -- raking up. And we will have a full weather

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forecast that the end of the programme.

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Big tax breaks could be offered to companies which exploit the UK's

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deposits of shale gas. The incentive would mean the tax payable on some

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income from the gas would be halved. Opponents warn that the extraction

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process could cause earthquakes and would be played on the countryside.

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-- would be a blight. It is early days for the shale gas industry in

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Britain. Two years ago, Cuadrilla began drilling in Lancashire for

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gas. Two years on, there was a lot of talk about the potential for

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shale gas but very little action, something the government is seeking

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to change. This is a potentially enormous new supply of energy. We

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need to make sure we make the best use of it so that energy bills for

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families or lower. We need to create jobs that benefit the communities

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where this new source of energy exists. The tax cut is in line with

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what happens in some offshore fields. The normal 62% rate on

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profits is reduced to just 30% for an agreed period. But many oppose it

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shale gas extraction. Environmentalists fear that the

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controversial fracking process could pollute water supplies and even

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cause earth tremors. Today, one group branded the tax breaks a

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disgrace. Communities are concerned about the impact it will have on the

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existing economy. Areas like Lancashire, to risen and farming is

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a really important part of the community. Shale gas will have a

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negative impact on those existing industries. But how much shale gas

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might we have? Scientists spent two years looking at this area in the

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north of England. A studied seismic data in places like Blackpool, which

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sit on shale deposits several kilometres down. The industry wants

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to start drilling but it insists that these tax breaks are necessary.

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It is likely to be higher at the early stages as we build up the

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supply chain. The industry hopes to drill 50 wells in the next three

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years. Only then will we know whether shale gas will live up to

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the hype. The London Olympic and Paralympic

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games have provided a boost of nearly �10 billion to the UK economy

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according to a government report. Ministers say the money has come

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from additional sales related to the games and new contracts secured by

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businesses and foreign investment. Some analysts remain sceptical.

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The Olympic legacy was always one of the top priorities behind London's

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bid. Too many host cities have lost millions in the past. So far, if the

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report is to believed, London's effort to make true that did not

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happen is paying off. The games were credited with lifting the spirits of

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a nation and now it appears that Britain's bank balance may also have

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been boosted. Costing �9 billion to host, according to a report, the

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payback so far is almost �10 billion. Undoubtedly, the Olympics

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boosted the economy. It was a big party at the time and the country

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enjoyed it. As a result of the work put in to attract inward investment,

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by British punk knees -- it allowed British companies to do better off

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the back of it. It is not the total the back of it. It is not the total

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benefit could reach �41 billion by 2020. The report claims that the

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London legacy is making strong progress in other areas. 1.4 million

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progress in other areas. 1.4 million people are playing sport once a week

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than in 2005 when the bid was one. And 70,000 out of work Londoners

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And 70,000 out of work Londoners were helped into employment through

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And 70,000 out of work Londoners were helped Work is continuing to

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transform this part of east London. Already, there is a huge shopping

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complex employing 10,000 people and there is the Queen Elizabeth Park,

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which will reuse those iconic venues from the gales -- from the games

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themselves. All eight vermin and structures have now had their future

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secured. Away from here, the economic benefits are less clear.

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the regions, we found that the effects of the Olympics and the

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Paralympics and the contracts we were expecting did not materialise

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as much as many people hoped for. Work went into it at the beginning

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when it was announced, and ogle some businesses certainly got good

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contracts, the vast majority did not see that. Of course, the games

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should have been about more than economics. It is hoped the rise in

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people playing sport regularly will have provided a much-needed boost to

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the help of the nation. -- the health of the nation. We take part

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in lots of festivals and tournaments. It is a key element of

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what we are about as a school. Realising the Olympics legacy is

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more a marathon than a sprint. Almost a year on, the feel-good

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factor continues. One of the other legacies are

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according to the report, is the boost in the number of volunteers,

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--. The Games Makers were such an important part of the event. It is

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appropriate that the first event in the Olympic Park is a celebration of

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volunteering. That will be attended by the Prime Minister and Emir of

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London. -- the mayor of London. Stephanie Flanders is with me. You

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have been looking at the figures. Does it add up? If I was being nicer

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would say they are speculative. You can understand why the government

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wants this report, because we are remembering how nice it was one year

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ago. It is nice to think there is a lasting benefit to the economy of

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having the games, not just to British sport. The problem with

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something like this is that even though we know there is lots of

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business that will come to UK firms, and jobs created and sales as

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a result of the Olympics, in order to know what the extra benefit is,

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you need to have an idea of what would have happened otherwise, and

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there's not much effort to do that in this report. They do not talk

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about the government might have spent the �9 billion on, or what

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these businesses who got all the big contracts might have been doing

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otherwise. There are quite a few investments included in this report

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has benefits that look like they would have happened otherwise.

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Without that sense of what might have happened otherwise, it is hard

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to put a lot of weight on these numbers. But we spent the money on

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the Olympics, and most people now seem to think it was worthwhile.

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Given we are not facing another all the Olympics, and most people now

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seem to think it was worthwhile. Given we are not facing another

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organ picks any time soon, you wonder why the government did not

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leave it at that. It was once the home of the thriving American car

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industry and the base of Motown records, but note to write has

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declared itself bankrupt. -- but now Detroit. Years of economic problems

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have led to more than half of the body Laois and moving away and

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thousands of properties lying empty. They call this urban prairie. Only

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weeds and wildlife grow in Detroit's city centre. All

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neighbourhoods have emptied, leaving derelict houses, abandoned offices

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and dangerous streets. The remaining residents complain of a chronic lack

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of basic services like police and rubbish collection. Detroit is a

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dump. It is a dump now. It cannot even have its own business. That is

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sad. The city has racked up $18 billion in debt. One in five

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residents are an implied, and there are 78,000 abandoned buildings. It

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was not always like this. Once the country's fourth-largest city,

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Detroit made the car is that powered the American economy. This was the

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home of Ford and Chrysler. The city and its people became rich. But he

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began the seeds of decline. Wealthy, white families left the

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city centre for the suburbs. The inner city became a deprived, black

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ghetto, with an ever tricking tax base. -- ever shrinking. Then the

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once thriving car industry ground to a halt. Bankruptcy is an attempt to

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draw a line under the mountain of public debt. It is business as

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usual. Many people will say, well, you have to improve upon that, but

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that will take time. He did say that they pay cheques for our city

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employees will continue and services will continue. Over the

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medium-range, hopefully we will see things start to improve, especially

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the services that our citizens require and deserve. Detroit has

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suffered a vicious cycle of decay and mismanagement and population

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decline. The hope now is that bankruptcy will mark a new start to

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finally help industry and the people come back. There has been welcome

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news for the Chancellor on government ruling. New figures

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suggest it was lower last year and had been thought. Our business

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correspondent is with me now. So, the deficit has continued to fall

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after all? Yes, in contrast to when they did the calculation about one

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month ago, when it appeared that borrowing last year had gone up

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compared to the previous year, which was embarrassing for the Chancellor,

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whose aim is to get it down, this time, the figure is �2 billion less

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than the previous year, because income tax was higher. It looks

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better, however, it is still a colossal amount of money, and it is

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what the country is having to borrow because there is not enough tax

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coming in to pay for schools, hospitals, defence, benefits, all of

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those things. The monthly figure for June this year is itself slightly up

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on last year, so it is still a major cause for concern.

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There has been a worrying increase in alcohol related deaths among

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women in their 30s and 40s, according to new research. Experts

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looked at deaths in men and women in three cities over two decades, and

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said the results for women born in the 1970s raised real concerns. When

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it comes to alcohol, one group stands out - women born in the

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1970s. More and more are dying because of drink. This lady is one

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of those at risk. She was born in 1972. She has three children but is

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addicted to cheap alcohol. If she does not stop, she could die in

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weeks. I went from enjoying a glass of wine to wiring a bottle of vodka.

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Nobody batted an eyelid. It became an addiction for me and a way of

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life. It is a sentence hanging over my head. Today's report looked at

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the patterns of drink related deaths in Glasgow, Manchester and

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Liverpool. Although overall, deaths were levelling off, there was a

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worrying increase among women born in the 1970s, and their deaths are

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narrowing Big Apple with men of the same age. This report looks at three

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cities - Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow. Researchers said what they

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found was a warning to others, that the relationship between women and

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alcohol needs to change. Those who treat patients here at the Royal

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Liverpool hospital believe one problem is the easy availability of

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cheap alcohol. Anybody who argues that the market forces of less

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expensive items does not affect it really do not know what they are

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talking about. If you ask any patient what would help them not to

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drink, it is the price of alcohol. That is what encourages their

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behaviour. In England and Wales, plans for a minimum price for

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alcohol have been put on hold. The Scottish government still intends to

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go ahead with a minimum pricing, but some believe it is down to the

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individual. Everywhere, people need to be concerned about alcohol.

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want to keep your senses if action is not taken, the report warns that

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generations of women could be damaged by alcohol for decades to

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come. Our top story this lunchtime -

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heatwave health warnings are extended to the north-west of

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England, as the Met Office predicts higher tempo just for next week.

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Still to come, Canon Rory McIlory make the cut on the second day of

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the Open? Later, I will have the Mars. The most detailed data

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collected so far from NASA's Curiosity Rover suggests that 4

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billion years ago, Mars had a thick atmosphere like Earth. It would've

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been warm, with running water on its surface, and it could have supported

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life. But as yet, there is no hard evidence. Pallab Ghosh has more. It

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is now nearly a year since Durie city arrived on Mars in such

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spectacular style. Since then it has been trying to find out whether the

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planet could once have supported life. Curiosity is the most

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well-equipped rover ever sent to another planet. Its laser zaps rocks

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to find out what they are made from, and its robotic arm is packed full

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of instruments. In this experiment, it is analysing the Martian

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atmosphere in order to discover what it was like in the distant past.

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Scientists have learnt a lot about the history of Mars from meteorites

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from the Red Planet. Now, they have direct evidence from Curiosity Rover

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is helping them answer the biggest question of all. One of the

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fascinating things about Mars is the prospect that it might once have

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harboured life. To harbour life, we believe you have two have had water.

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To have had water, you have two have had a thicker atmosphere, much

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thicker than Mars has at the moment. The latest results indicate

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that Mars may indeed have had a much thicker atmosphere. 4 billion years

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ago, it might have looked like this. It was a warm, wet place, with

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running water, protected from the harsh solar wind by the planet's

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magnetic field. But the magnetic field collapsed and the atmosphere

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was gradually ripped away, to leave the dry, desolate planet we see

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today. If there was once life on the planet, which remains will be buried

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under the surface, and probably will not be found by Curiosity Rover salt

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now, we see that there could have been a habitable atmosphere, with

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water on the surface. That is a time when early life could have

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developed, at the same time when it was developing on earth. It makes it

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all the more important to go with future missions, to look underneath

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the surface, which we will be doing in 2014. This is what the next rover

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will look like. There is strong British involvement. In five years

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time, this mission will drill deep to begin the search for life on

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Mars. England frustrated Australia in the second Ashes Test this

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morning, as they batted themselves past 350 in the first innings at

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Lord's. The hosts had their bowlers to thank, as they added 72 to their

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overnight score. They were eventually all out for 361. Yes, it

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does not really matter who gets the runs or how you get them, it is just

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important that they get on the scoreboard. England had a last

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wicket stand of 58 between Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann. I think it

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is a workable total they have now got. Already, things are moving. Old

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Father Time, the famous weathervane at Lord's. Sometimes, things move

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faster than you would like. When Tim Bresnan strode out just before 11

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o'clock, he would have imagined a morning of batting. Instead, he was

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out first ball of the day. Getting past 300 was England's minimum

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requirement, and they managed that thanks to a couple of boundaries

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from Stuart Broad. James Anderson got 12 before becoming a fifth

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victim for Ryan Harris. Harris is so injury prone, that his ambition was

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simply not to fly home early from this tour. He is a man with a

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British born father, as the Prime Minister may have been aware. David

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Cameron then watched Stuart Broad at his belligerent best, throwing the

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bat, teasing Australia, hitting a six. England went past 350. Graeme

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Swann was doing his bit as well. For the fielding side, late runs are the

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most frustrating. 361 all out when Stuart Broad finally went. Australia

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batted, and Anderson was revved up and ready to go. This one was close

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but not quite. Australia are determined not to be intimidated,

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and so the battle resumed. I can tell you, on the stroke of lunch,

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Tim Bresnan, recalled to the side, got rid of Shane Watson. 42-1. That

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will certainly have reinvigorated England. We will resume in the next

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Muirfield, and Rory McIlory will be hoping to find the missing spark

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from his game. The world number two said he felt brain-dead after his

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first round. This morning, it was the turn of the world number one,

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Tiger Woods. Andy Swiss reports. Yet more scorching temperatures and

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scorched conditions at you feel. After so many struggles yesterday,

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the search was on for some British success. The home challenge,

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particularly that of Rory McIlory, had failed to materialise, but at

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had failed to materialise, but at last, there was something Lee

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Westwood went soaring up the leaderboard with a string of early

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birdies. Not everyone found it quite so easy. Darren Clarke had to try

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once, then twice, and then finally, a third time, to escape a bunker.

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Muirfield was showing once again that it can be a cruel place. As for

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that it can be a cruel place. As for Tiger Woods, he began the day just

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that it can be a cruel place. As for Tiger Woods, he began the day of the

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lead, and soon set about closing the gap. For his rivals, the signs were

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ominous. He has since blended the brilliant with the average, but is

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still in contention. But it was Lee Westwood who showed the way. This

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took him into a share of the lead. After coming so close so many times,

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could this finally be his chance? This afternoon, the focus will turn

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to Rory McIlory. After struggling all year, yesterday's dismal round

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was a new low. The question now is whether British golf's brightest

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whether British golf's brightest star can somehow bounceback. One of

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the UK's much loved birds is making a comeback in the North of England,

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despite thousands having perished in severe storms recently. The latest

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survey has revealed that there are now almost 40,000 nesting pairs of

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puffins. Resisting the rain high on the rocks. It looks like winter, but

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this was spring on the Farnes this year. Similar weird weather has

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caused many puffins to perish. There are boroughs have been flooded and

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they started breeding late. That is why this year's count has been

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crucial. It is hard work. For three months, National Trust ranges delved

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deep into the boroughs to try to find a nest. Every nest meant there

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was a pair. Now, after checking almost 70,000, their work has paid

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off. The results show that there are nearly 40,000 breeding pairs on the

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Farnes, an increase of 8% since the last count in 2008. It is well below

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the 2003 count, when there were more than 55,000 breeding pairs. But for

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the pairs who have survived, this is the rangers' reward. This egg was

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laid in May, and four weeks ago, it touched. In five years time, this

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puffin chick could return to the Farnes, when conservationists hope

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the numbers will be higher. Some news just in -1 of Manchester

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City's most colourful former players has died at the age of 89. The

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former German paratrooper Bert Trautman will be best remembered for

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breaking his neck in the 1956 FA Cup final. Time for the weather, with

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Tomasz Schafernaker. The heat in the last few days has been drifting

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last few days has been drifting around a bit. Today, it is actually

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in other parts of the country, a bit more towards the west. Lots of

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sunshine, wherever you are, even if you are not getting the really high

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temperatures. So far, the highest temp which is today have been

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recorded in the north-west of Wales. We do not often get that near the

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coast in Wales. -- the highest temperatures. In Scotland as well,

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the temperatures have really been shooting up. By the time we get to

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four o'clock in the afternoon, it will be towards the high 20s in the

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central lowlands. On the North Sea coast, quite a bit cooler. But as

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soon you get inland, 29 degrees. The south-west of England, also hot. The

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further towards the south-east we go, temperatures, even around Kent,

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down to 20 Celsius, because there is more of a breeze coming in off the

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North Sea. Tonight, the extensive cloud from the North Sea will be

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rolling in across the UK, which means, by the time we get to the

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early hours of Saturday morning, it will be reaching as far west as

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Birmingham. These eastern areas tomorrow morning will be waking up

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and it will be quite cloudy, even with bits of drizzle, and it will

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take time for some of that to move away. The sun will eventually break

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the clouds up, but not everywhere. Remember, if you are in the west,

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you might think it is quite a disappointing start to the day. This

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is still four o'clock, quite cloudy. With the wind, coming off the sea,

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these will be the impetus. In contrast, on the other side of the

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UK, it should be lovely. Sunday, I think a similar day, the further

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west you are, the better the weather will be. The further east you are,

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the cooler it will be. Next week, there is a change on the way. Hot

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