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Shipbuilding at Portsmouth, home of the British Royal Navy, is to end

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after more than five centuries as BAE cuts almost 1,800 jobs at

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shipyards across the UK. More than half of the cuts will be in

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Portsmouth. The rest will go at yards in Glasgow, Rosyth and Filton,

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near Bristol. We'll be live in Portsmouth and here in Glasgow with

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all the reaction to today's announcement. Also this lunchtime:

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Brought to court from prison. The veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall

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appears to face fresh allegations of sex offences, including rape.

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Victory for disability campaigners after a court battle against

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government plans to scrap a scheme they say helps them live a full

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life. The four year-old killed by a pet

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dog. Her family says she was a shining star who will never be

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forgotten. Not doing enough to find a job says

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the government. Almost half a million people have lost their

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Jobseeker's Allowance in less than a year.

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And, bulging Britain. How the UK's population is set to grow to 70

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million by 2027, thanks to immigration and an ageing

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population. Later on BBC London: The first

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segregated cycle superhighway opens in Stratford.

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And an inquest hears how an eight year-old girl died in a playground

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accident. Good afternoon, and welcome to the

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BBC News at One. Almost 1,800 jobs are being lost at shipyards across

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the UK. The defence giant, BAE Systems, is ending its shipbuilding

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operations in Portsmouth altogether next year with the loss of more than

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900 jobs. Another 800 jobs look set to go at two sites in Scotland,

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Govan and Rosyth, as well as Filton, near Bristol. The cuts are being

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made because of a drop in work once the Royal Navy's two new aircraft

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carriers have been completed. One union leader called it a

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"devastating day" for the UK shipbuilding industry. Let's go to

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Portsmouth first and our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy.

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Sophie, today's news means an end of five centuries of naval shipbuilding

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at Portsmouth. As you said, 1000 or so jobs to go. Many we spoke to as

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they came out of the gate behind me were extremely angry and frustrated

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at the news, saying their jobs were being shipped up to Scotland for

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political reasons. Another man came out and could not speak. He was in

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tears at the news he would lose his job. In the words of one local MP

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here, this has been a disastrous day for the city. The employees filed in

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at 11am to be told they were no longer wanted. More than 900 jobs

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were to go, and an end to 500 years of shipbuilding in this historic

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dockyard. As they emerged, many were angry as to why their jobs had to go

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but other shipyards in Scotland are to be kept open. We build a better

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product than Govan. We have been told hands down we are better than

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them but they have pulled us out. But most of the managing directors

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are Scottish, so what can you do? I think it is mostly political. Most

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of the Scottish workers will be happy, but everything has been taken

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away from this yard. The city was built on shipbuilding, ship repair,

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basically. The future of Portsmouth's naval shipbuilding has

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been in discussion for a year. BAE Systems say there is not enough

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demand for new vessels. The decision to cut so many jobs has been

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described as devastating to the city with some saying it has become a

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victim of Scottish independence politics. Portsmouth is the last

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place in England where we can build advanced surface warships and now

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that won't exist. All of the advance warships will have to be built in

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Scotland. If Scotland becomes independent after the referendum in

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ten months time, the UK will have nowhere to be able to build advanced

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surface warships. Naval ships have been built in Portsmouth since the

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time of Henry VIII. Today's redundancies affect the

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shipbuilding, not the dockyard which stays open. The Prime Minister told

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the Commons that the decision was necessary for the future of

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Britain's naval needs. Under this government we will have aircraft

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carriers, type 45 destroyers, and submarines. If there was an

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independent Scotland we would not have any warships at all. BAE

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Systems says it will continue to invest in Portsmouth but the

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tradition and culture that stretches back to the Tudor times will now

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come to an end. The timescale on all of this is that the jobs at the base

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behind me will go towards the end of next year, and that will bring an

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end to the shipbuilding here. BAE Systems say there will be other jobs

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required for maintenance and repairs, not least for the two

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aircraft carriers at the centre of the story. They will come here when

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they are operational and will need workers to repair and maintain them.

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But there is no mistake that this is the end of a long line of not just

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many thousands of people employed in the dockyard, but a long line of

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maritime heritage here in Britain. Shipbuilding will continue at Govan

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in Glasgow, but 8,000 jobs will be lost from there and from Rosyth. Our

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Scotland correspondent James Cook is at Govan for us now. -- hundreds of

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jobs will be lost from there. Yes, that is right. Another famous

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shipbuilding River, another place with a proud history in this

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industry, and it has to be said that amongst the workers there is a great

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deal of sympathy for what is happening to their colleagues in

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Portsmouth. But they have their own troubles here as well. This is not a

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day of unbridled celebration, it is a day which has been very difficult

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for them here as well. The men and women of the Clyde arrived at work

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after a sleepless night. They were summoned to meetings to hear their

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fate. It did not take long. The workers came out after a few minutes

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having been told that around 800 jobs were going here and on the

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Firth of Forth. Not good news, obviously. Job losses are never good

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news, but I think we knew it was coming. There was a downturn in the

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work, so we will have to see what comes out in the next few weeks. We

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have had this before and we will come out the other side. We will try

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to retain the jobs that we can. We will not get off lightly, it will

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affect us badly, but it does mean there is a future of the two yards,

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so that is the good thing. The problem here is a gap in orders.

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They are building to aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy but that

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will end in 2015, then there is a pause before the type 26 global

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combat ship our build but that gap will be partly filled. On one hand

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it is good news for the Clyde. We have now secured a contract for the

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manufacture of three ocean patrol vessels for the Royal Navy which

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will take work through in this area, in these yards, two 2016. The

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company insists that this was a business decision but it is not

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stopped suspicion that it was influenced by next year's referendum

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on Scottish independence. Either way, everybody on this famous River

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hopes that the Clyde can survive this below and thrive again. There

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will now be a big row about independence. We heard it from

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Portsmouth and a little from here in Glasgow today as well. Many

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questions remain unanswered. Will this work continue if Scotland votes

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for independence? Would the UK Government be happy for that to

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happen? And would there be future work for the yards? The Scottish

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Government says it is nonsense to suggest there would never be a ship

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built again on this river, but as I say, many more questions than

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answers this lunchtime. Our chief political correspondent Norman Smith

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is in Westminster. A lot of questions over whether these cuts

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are being made with one eye on Scotland's referendum next year?

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And the most brutal question is whether English jobs have been

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sacrificed to appease Scotland, or put another way, whether it was

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decided ahead of the independence referendum that it would just be too

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politically explosive to close Govan, or load most of the pain on

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the Clyde. Ministers insist that the decision today was a commercial

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decision taken by the company because they believed that the Clyde

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shipyards are better equipped and placed to build new warships.

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Significantly, the Labour Party have not attacked this decision on those

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grounds, and there is a suspicion that today's decision would not have

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been that different if there had been a Labour government. However,

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when pressed this morning, the Prime Minister's spokesman was repeatedly

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unable to deny that the independence referendum had been a factor, and

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that will fuel the suspicions of those in Portsmouth that they have

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indeed paid a very heavy political price. There is one of the way in

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which the whole independence question is enmeshed in the

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decision, and that is, if Scotland votes yes to become an independent

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nation, that opens at the prospect that a Royal Navy warships, the very

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first time, will be built in a foreign country namely Scotland.

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However you try to hand pick it, it is almost impossible to disentangle

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the questions around independence in today's decision. -- unpick it. The

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veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall has appeared in court to face 15 charges

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of rape, and one of indecent assault, against two girls who were

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both under the age of 17 at the time. The 83-year-old was brought to

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court from prison where he is currently serving a 30-month

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sentence after admitting 14 charges of indecent assault earlier this

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year. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is outside Preston Crown

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Court. Yes, and this is the second set of

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legal proceedings brought against Stuart Hall. The first time around

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you might remember that he pleaded guilty to indecent assault, but in

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the wake of that case, fresh allegations of rape have been made.

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Today he came to court to answer those charges for the first time.

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Stuart Hall was led into court today in handcuffs, brought from prison,

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where he is serving a sentence of 30 months. In separate legal

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proceedings in May, he admitted 14 accounts -- counts of indecent

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assault and he was charged last month with a further 16 sex offences

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against two girls in the 1970s and 1980s. Today he stood in the dock as

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the list was read to him. He is accused of 15 counts of rape and one

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of indecent assault. The alleged victims were then aged between 11

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and 16. He craned forward to hear and ask the clerk to repeat herself,

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then spoke to give his personal details, including his full name of

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Stuart James Hall. Stuart Hall is best known for hosting the game show

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it's a knockout in the 1970s. He was later given an OBE for services to

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broadcasting and charity but was stripped of the honour last month

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for bringing the system into disrepute. Stuart Paul did not enter

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a plea today -- Stuart Hall. He was taken back 15 minutes later into

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custody and will appear in court again on November 29. You can see

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that behind me Stuart Hall has just left the court and has been taken

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into a prison van. He was told in court this morning that the charges

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he faces are too serious to be dealt with by magistrates, so when he next

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appears at court it will be at the Crown Court later this month.

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The family of a four-year-old girl who was mauled to death by a pet dog

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has been described as a shining star. The girl's mother fought to

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save her. They say Lexi Branson was attacked by the dog "for no apparent

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reason". The family had got the animal from a rescue centre two

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months ago, and had been assured it was safe around children.

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Lexi Branson, described as a bright, bubbly little girl. Her mother said

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she had fought for life after being bought -- born prematurely. She is

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said to be distraught after seeing her daughter being attacked by the

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family's pet dog. Police are continuing their investigations at

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the flat where the attack took place yesterday afternoon. Lexi Branson's

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mother fought to free her daughter from the grasp of the dog, but the

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four-year-old died in hospital. Glenys God saw the police arrived,

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and like other neighbours, she is deeply shocked. I said it was an

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enormous dog, and they'd only just got it from rescue. She said that

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they loved him to bits, and he looked so placid. Police have been

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talking to staff that this animal rescue centre a few miles away from

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the family home. They have not confirmed how the dog died but say

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they are carrying out tests to establish its exact breed. The

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manager of these kennels in Loughborough confirmed that the dog

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did come from here. But while the police investigation continues, he

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said, he's not able to comment further. There are thought to be 9

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million dogs in the UK. Each year around 6000 people needed hospital

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treatment after dog attacks. Since 2005, 17 people have been killed,

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ten of them children, including Lexi Branson. Four types of dogs are

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banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act. It is not thought that this dog is

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included on the list. It is not a good law and it does not work. We

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are no better off because of the Dangerous Dogs Act. It has not

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stopped this happening. On this estate, all thoughts are with the

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family of Lexi Branson. A decision by the government to

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close a scheme which prides -- supplies support and funding to

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disabled people has been quashed by the Court of Appeal. The Independent

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Living Fund, which is claimed by around 20,000 people, was due to be

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scrapped in 2015. Our Legal Correspondent Clive Coleman is at

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the Royal Courts of Justice for us. The fund does what it says on the

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tin, it's a fund of money for disabled people with very high

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support needs, so needing care pretty much around the clock. It

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enables them to do the initial all things in life that are so

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important, for instance, transportation costs to get to work

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-- additional things. In 2012 the government of the decision to close

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down the fund and evolve the money to local authorities. Claimants here

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and the supporters here felt that the money would no longer be ring

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fenced and subject to normal budgetary cuts and they simply would

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not get it. I spoke to one of the campaigners, Jenny Hurst, earlier,

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and she explained how the fund helped with her carers. I work

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full-time, so they take me to work, stay with me in case I need

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assistance, and they take me home. They accompany me to meetings, so I

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can be a trustee. And they help with the day-to-day things that most

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people take for granted. Getting up, washing and dressing, helped to use

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the toilet, down to feeding my cats for me. This morning, the Court of

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Appeal quashed that decision to close this fund and to devolve the

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money back to local authorities. It did so because it said the minister

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had not taken into account, in making the decision, some of the

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duties under the equality act, in particular the duty to encourage the

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full participation of disabled people in a full and public life.

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The government has said they will look at this judgement carefully.

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They may seek to appeal it. We will find that out in the next couple of

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days. Our top story this lunchtime:

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Shipbuilding at Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy, is to end after more

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than five centuries as job losses are announced at shipyards across

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the UK. And still to come: Saved for the

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nation - the paintings that gave the British public their first glimpse

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of a kangaroo and a dingo almost 250 years ago.

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On BBC London: Turning sewage into fertiliser - how a new Slough

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treatment plant hopes to help guarantee global food supplies.

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And a new adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster hits the West End.

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In just 14 years' time, there will be around seven million more people

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living in the United Kingdom, according to the Office for National

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Statistics. It says the UK population will reach 70 million by

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2027. Most of that rise will be down to people simply living longer. The

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number of people aged 80 and over is expected to increase dramatically.

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But the rapid population growth is also expected to be driven by

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immigration. The population projections are an

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estimate of how the UK will go over the next 25 years. Its future size

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and its age structure. The figures show a continuing growth in

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population. By 2027, it is expected that 17 million people will be

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living in the UK. These figures tell us that the population of the UK is

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projected to grow from its current level of 63.7 million up to 73 point

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3 million by the end of 2037. A fair amount of growth. Migration into the

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UK will grow by about 165,000 a year, many of whom will have babies,

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adding to the birth rate. But we are also an ageing population. There are

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currently around 3 million people over the age of 80 in the UK. By

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2037, that figure is projected to have doubled to around 6 million.

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This is a dramatic change, one that we can celebrate - we have all got

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more potential years to live - but which puts stresses on society.

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These are just projections and not forecasts, but the figure is

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expected to be used by government departments and other organisations

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planning policies and services. Expect these figures to be most

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useful to those planning benefits, pensions and the number of school

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places needed. More than 400,000 people lost their

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job-seeker's allowance in less than a year because of new penalties

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introduced by the government. Ministers say the penalties are used

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only as a deterrent, and people who lose the allowance are not doing

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enough to find a job. Mark has been unemployed for four

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years. Two weeks ago, his job-seeker's allowance was cut after

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his job centre claimed he had failed to attend a mandatory course. He

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says he did go on the course, and the dispute will leave him with

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little money for a month. I am behind on rent and bill payments. I

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have to borrow money from friends and family to bridge the gap between

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the sanction starting and ending. Many others are in a similar

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position. Figures out today show that 580,000 penalties were handed

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out between October of last year and June this year. That is a 6%

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increase from the same period last year. In total, 397,000 people lost

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their benefit, most for four weeks. It is in your best interest to get a

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job. The people who get sanctions are wilfully reject tin support for

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no good reason. This is where an increasing number of those who lose

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their benefit are turning. Food banks are seeing soaring demand, and

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the country's biggest provider says the new sanction system has

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contributed. Historically, we have seen around a third of our client

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who have suffered welfare related issues. That has risen dramatically

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post-April to just over 50% of our clients. So clearly, more people are

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being sanctioned and are finding themselves in a short-term crisis,

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unable to put food on the table. With the economy now growing and

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jobs being created, the government is determined that people should

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move quickly off benefits and into work. If some need to be penalised

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to get that message, so be it, say ministers.

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A Conservative MP has denied allegations that he used his

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Parliamentary contacts for financial gain. The Daily Telegraph has

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accused Mark Pritchard of offering to set up business deals in return

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for hundreds of thousands of pounds. Mr Pritchard has referred himself to

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Parliament's Commissioner for Standards, saying he wants to clear

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his name. The Formula One boss, Bernie

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Ecclestone, has taken the stand at the High Court to defend himself

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against allegations that he made a "corrupt agreement" to protect his

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position running the sport. He and three other defendants are being

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sued by a German media group, which claims that Formula One was

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deliberately undervalued when a German bank sold its 47% stake in

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2005. Mr Ecclestone is accused of paying ?27 million to a banker to

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ensure that the stake was sold to a buyer of his choosing. He denies any

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wrongdoing. Our chief sports correspondent is at the High Court

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for us. The future of one of the most powerful men in sport,

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certainly the most powerful men in Formula One, is at stake here.

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Bernie Ecclestone arrived here at the Royal Courts of Justice this

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morning. It is a complex case and there were confusing scenes.

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Ecclestone was flummoxed by the revolving door, performing a 360

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degrees spin and stalling before he got his entry into the building. He

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faces accusations that he made a corrupt bar over the sale of Formula

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One in 2006. A German media group say they should have been owed

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around ?100 million worth of damages because Ecclestone deliberately

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undervalued the company when it was bought in order to remain in

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control. This is just one of a number of challenges that Ecclestone

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faces connected to that sale. A German court will soon decide

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whether he should stand trial on bribery charges over a payment he

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made to a jailed German banker. Ecclestone and mitts paying him, but

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said he only did so under coercion, because he was threatening to report

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him to the tax authorities. Much of the questioning today in court

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concerned that payment. There was a moment of humour, Ecclestone trying

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to explain how we will is particularly susceptible to

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blackmailers, and presented a scenario where he said someone may

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have falsely accused him of having an extramarital affair and that he

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would have a him off to buy his silence. The lit martial QC, acting

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on the half of the German company, said, why on earth would you pay off

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this hypothetical blackmailer if it was not true? Ecclestone simply

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said, you did not know my ex-wife. Ecclestone denies any wrongdoing and

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is expected to give evidence for the next two days, but if the challenges

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go against him, it could be the beginning of the end of his long

:23:53.:23:56.

tenure at the helm of Formula One. A BBC investigation has found that

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the number of catalytic converters being stolen from cars and vans has

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more than doubled in the last three years. Almost 25,000 have been taken

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by criminals after the metal they're made of. But the thefts can leave

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drivers with repair bills running into thousands.

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Midnight on an industrial estate in Nottinghamshire, and criminals are

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at work. In less than four minutes, the sleeves hack the catalytic

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converter of this van and walk off. They would have sold it for around

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?50, but the cost to the motorist would have been far higher. Jonathan

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Eldredge runs a business in Hull. His vans were targeted, and it cost

:24:40.:24:44.

him ?100,000 in lost sales and repairs. We had 15 vans, already for

:24:45.:24:52.

being loaded for delivering that evening. And the thief, within 45

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minutes, managed to hack Saudi catalytic converters off the

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vehicles. This is what criminal 's are after. Catalytic converters help

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clean the poisonous gases that come from a vehicle's exhaust. They are

:25:09.:25:13.

being cut out because this part here contains Russia's metals such as

:25:14.:25:16.

platinum and palladium. These vehicles have all been targeted

:25:17.:25:21.

before. They are most at risk because 4x4s and vans are easy to

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crawl under. The devices are being marked in acid with a unique serial

:25:27.:25:29.

number. If they are stolen again, the converter can be easily

:25:30.:25:34.

identified to their owner. A Freedom of Information request by the BBC

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has revealed that this sort of crime is on the increase. Thefts of

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catalytic converters have more than doubled over the past three years,

:25:45.:25:48.

and since 2010, there have been almost 25,000 thefts across the UK.

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It is a problem the police say they want to crack down on. We know

:25:54.:25:58.

people are involved in organised crime, because we have had depots

:25:59.:26:03.

and fleets being hit, which suggests a level of preplanning that is not

:26:04.:26:06.

involved in your spontaneous type of offending. For businesses like

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Jonathan's the cost of repairs and lost revenue can be significant.

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Some victims say they are reluctant to make insurance claims because of

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the effect on their premiums, so end up bearing the loss comic climate,

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it is a cost they claim they cannot afford.

:26:28.:26:33.

Nearly 250 years ago, the British public got their first glimpse of a

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kangaroo and dingo, thanks to two paintings by George Stubbs. They

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were based on specimens and sketches brought back from Captain Cook's

:26:40.:26:49.

first voyage to the Pacific. And now they've been saved for the nation -

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thanks to a donation of ?1.5 million.

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A kangaroo, looking back over its shoulder, and a dingo walking in the

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Australian landscape. Two animals previously unfamiliar to those

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living in the UK, including George Stubbs, a celebrated artist who

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painted them stop he worked from skins and information brought back

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on Captain Cook's Endeavour from his voyage of discovery. They were

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collected by the scientist Sir Joseph Banks. Stubbs, who was a very

:27:16.:27:19.

good and that missed, was presented with this dried, shrivelled skin of

:27:20.:27:24.

a kangaroo. And he simply could not make head or tail of it. So he sewed

:27:25.:27:31.

it up. He moistened it, so it was pliable, blew it up and then saw

:27:32.:27:35.

that it really did have these tiny, small arms and this huge tail and

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these whopping great legs. They were in a private collection, but have

:27:41.:27:43.

now been acquired by the National Maritime Museum in London, much to

:27:44.:27:46.

the annoyance of the National Gallery of Australia, who had been

:27:47.:27:50.

negotiating to buy the paintings for their sick litigant -- symbolic

:27:51.:27:57.

significance. But the British government placed an export stop on

:27:58.:28:02.

the pictures in January, giving the National Maritime Museum Time to

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raise the ?5.5 million needed to buy them. It will now put them on

:28:06.:28:09.

display along with the rest of its public collection relating to that

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uncooked's voyages. Now the weather.

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Our weather is staying in an unsettled mood at the moment. Today

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is no exception. Across England and Wales in particular, it will stay

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cloudy. Some fairly damp conditions. That streak of cloud is responsible

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for the damp weather, but it is also the dividing line between

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for the damp weather, but it is also and west of the British Isles and

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the very mild air further south. Temperatures are five degrees above

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normal for that half year in parts of the South. The weather front will

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get more active over the next couple of hours across southern and western

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areas of Wales. There could be unpleasant conditions for the

:29:07.:29:11.

commute home. For Northern Ireland, the weather brightens up this

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afternoon. But plenty of blustery showers running into the western

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side of Scotland. Some of them could be heavy. Maybe a bit of thunder and

:29:21.:29:30.

hail, too. Overnight, we are left with dull and damp conditions across

:29:31.:29:33.

the south-east of England. Not too cold for most of us, but

:29:34.:29:37.

temperatures will be low enough for a nipple frost across parts of

:29:38.:29:42.

sheltered Scotland. -- a nip of frost. The weather front finally

:29:43.:29:46.

clears away from the south-east in the morning. Then a better day for

:29:47.:29:53.

England and Wales, with just a few isolated showers in the north and

:29:54.:30:00.

west. There will be a fresher feel to the weather in England and Wales.

:30:01.:30:05.

On Friday, it is another unsettled and breezy day. Inland, some bright

:30:06.:30:12.

sunny spells after a chilly start the day. Temperatures will be

:30:13.:30:18.

similar to what we have seen over recent days across more northern

:30:19.:30:23.

parts. For the weekend, low pressure is still close by, so there will be

:30:24.:30:27.

blustery winds, bringing further showers. It will stay on the

:30:28.:30:33.

unsettled side. On Saturday, quite a few showers pushing from West to

:30:34.:30:38.

East across the country. In between those showers, there will be drier

:30:39.:30:42.

and brighter spells, whereas on Sunday, it is set to turn cloudy.

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A reminder of our main story: Shipbuilding at Portsmouth, home of

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the Royal Navy, is to end after more than five centuries as the defence

:31:01.:31:04.

giant BAe announces job losses at shipyards across the UK. That is all

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