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unlawful killing. Mark Duggan's death sparked the summer riots in

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2011. His aunt calls for no more violence but says she will continue

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fight for peaceful answers. The not so merry Christmas for some

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Britain's biggest retailers as figures reveal a large fall in

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sales. The bodies of four US servicemen are removed from a crush

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sit-in Norfolk after their helicopter came down on Tuesday

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night. A major incident is declared at an AMD unit in Belfast because of

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the huge backlog of patients. Staff described horrendous scenes. Nearly

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300 flood warnings and alerts still in place across the UK as the water

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just keeps on rising. Later on BBC London, emotional scenes as ten fire

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stations across London close for good and the Met's efforts to build

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trust with London's vacuum unit is following the inquest into Mark

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Duggan's death. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News At One. The ant of Mark Duggan, the man whose fatal shooting

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by police two and a half years ago sparked the summer riots, says she

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doesn't want any more violence, but Carole Duggan says a peaceful fight

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for answers will continue. An inquest into his death concluded

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yesterday that it was a lawful killing. This morning the Prime

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Minister said he respected Carole Duggan for pursuing the case through

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the courts rather than on the streets. The header of the

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Metropolitan Police Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe set has been meeting

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community leaders to discuss ways of rebuilding confidence in the police.

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Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger reports.

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After the verdict the social should -- the soul-searching has begun. The

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inquest into Mark Duggan's killing may have indicated the Metropolitan

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Police but it hasn't helped improve its relations with many black

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Londoners. Today, the capital's Mayor urged people to put matters in

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perspective. Well, I hope that underscores for us in London is the

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massive restraint of our police in the way that they handle the use of

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force. 10,000 times in the last four years they have been out on armed

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deployments. Only on six occasions have they fired their weapons.

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Split-second decisions are called for by our police and of course they

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are much more difficult if somebody is carrying a lethal weapon. There

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have been a total of 25 fatal police shooting is in a decade. 19 of them

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found by inquests like Mark Duggan's to be lawful. Police can

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fire at someone if they have and honestly held and reasonable belief

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that they are a threat to life. And they are instructed to shoot to

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stop, that means firing into the upper body. This police exercise

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shows a hard stop as it should be carried out. According to officers

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they follow the same correct procedures in the case of Mark

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Duggan. When police shot down the killers of Drummer Lee Rigby in

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Woolwich last year, a camera caught the split-second decisions in play.

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And more and more forces are planning to fit video cameras to

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officers, so there is an accurate record. I will not be able to roll

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out cameras to all firearms officers overnight but by the 1st of April we

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want to test body cameras are not some of our firearms operations

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because we have nothing to hide, we want to be transparent and if we can

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help everyone have greater confidence by having those video

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cameras there, that can only help, can't it? In Tottenham, scene of the

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riots, a vigil for Mark Duggan is to be held this weekend. Community

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leaders have had talks with the Met's commissioner. We have just

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looked at the best way forward to ensure that the concerns that the

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family genuinely have about the verdict can be expressed in an

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effective fashion at the vigil this weekend. In the short-term police

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hope things will stay calm. Building trust among many black Londoners

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will take much longer. Our legal correspondent Clive

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Coleman is here with me now. Mark Duggan's and saying she is going to

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continue a peaceful fight for answers. What options are open to

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her? The difficult and complex because there is no right to appeal

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the conclusion of an inquest jury. You can't do that on the basis that

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the decision was irrational. What you can do is seek to appeal the

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conclusion of an inquest jury. You can't do that on the basis that the

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decision was irrational. What you can do with Sita judicially review

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the inquest. Now, under our system what you would have to argue is that

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the coroner, because the judicial review was a mechanism for

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challenging the decisions of public bodies, a jury is not a public body,

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it is a collection of citizens doing their civic duty. You can challenge

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the way in which he handled the inquest, the way in which he

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directed the duty -- the jury, arguing that there was an extent

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that no reasonable jury properly directed could have reached that

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decision. Now, that has happened in the past. It is unusual, it is

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difficult, but there have been successful challenges. If fresh

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evidence were to come to light than the attorney general can go back to

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the High Court and seek to have the jury conclusion quashed. We saw that

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in relation to the independent panel that looked at the Hillsborough

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disaster. The attorney went back and got not achieved. Clive, thank you

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very much. Some of Britain's biggest retailers have seen a sharp fall in

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sales after what has been described as a very challenging Christmas.

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Tesco and Marks and Spencer both struggled but it was Morrison's that

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fared the worst as difficult market conditions pushed sales down by

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5.6%. There is our business correspondent Emma Simpson.

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They are free of Britain's biggest retailers and today they are all

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reporting poor Christmas sales. At Marks and Spencer it -- its food did

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very well but there was another slump in women's clothing, despite a

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revamp and a new much talked about autumn winter collection. Sales in

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general merchandise were down just over 2% in the last three months.

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Food is delivering and closing isn't and the furniture is doing quite

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well so clothing must be doing even worse. Very, very disappointing. M

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is a great brand, still a very strong company, still plenty of

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scope to turn it around but there is no sign it is happening yet. M say

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sales in women's clothing improved in the run-up to Christmas and that

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will give the boss Mark Bonner and some breathing space. He insisted

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again today that turning things around at this high-street giant

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will take time. It's also taking time at Tesco. Britain's biggest

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supermarket is battling to revive its fortunes, with new stores like

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this want try to woo shoppers. It's Christmas figures to our

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disappointing. With sales down 2.4%. Tesco's online business did far

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better, with double-digit growth. Christmas has proved that having a

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strong digital services key for most retailers. Morrison's aren't online

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yet. It's had a miserable Christmas. A time when the

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supermarkets should be doing a roaring trade, in an unscheduled

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update today it reveals its sales had fallen by more than 5%, a real

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festive shop. Morrisons' numbers are dire and they will use part of the

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excuses them not being online and that is certainly some of the story,

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not being online erodes your growth but this is a more fundamental

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problem of a company that essentially has lost its way in

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terms of positioning. Three Christmas losers. It shows that

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household budgets are still being squeezed and that the high street is

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more crowded and competitive than ever.

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Well, it's a very different story for the luxury car-maker

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Rolls-Royce. It set a new sales record for the fourth year in a

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row. 3630 cars were bought in 2013. Sales were up 17% in the Middle East

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and 11% in China, 100 new jobs are being created by the company at its

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factory in Goodwood in West Sussex. Well, this morning the chance to --

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the Chancellor George Osborne repeated his view that Britain's

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economic recovery is not yet secure and there was still more to do. I am

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the first to say this economic recovery is not yet secure. We have

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to work through the long-term economic plan that is turning

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Britain around and we need to make sure that we get balanced growth

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across the whole country and we get investment and exports alongside

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consumer spending and that is exactly what our economic plan is

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designed to deliver. The Chancellor speaking earlier this morning. Our

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chief economic correspondent Hugh Pym is here. It is a very mixed

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picture, isn't it? Indeed I don't think these retail numbers today

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tell us the recovery of slowing down. I think it reinforces the

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point that there is a battle going on on the high streets for the

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shoppers' pound and online as well and although Tesco and Morrison had

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a very challenging Christmas, we earned yesterday that Waitrose had

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sealed sales grow, Aldi and Lidl say they have had a record Christmas and

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although M faced certain challenges we learned last week John

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Lewis has -- House of Fraser and next all saw sales growth although

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high-street spending may not have grown overall very much it probably

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did grow although consumers are little bit cautious. They are still

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spending their money. Remember, retail money accounts for about one

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third of overall household spending. We learn from Rolls-Royce,

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Rolls-Royce cars, they are booming, they are creating jobs through

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exports, just the sort of recovery that many economists say we want, a

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more balanced recovery, and although the Chancellor was sounding a note

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of caution it looks as if the fourth quarter of last year did see pretty

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robust growth and that looks likely to continue in 2014.

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The government is holding another meeting of its emergency committee

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COBRA this afternoon as floodwaters continued to rise. The number of

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people who have died during the storms and floods over Christmas and

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New Year has now risen to eight. Nearly 300 flood warnings or alerts

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are still in place across Britain. Our correspondent Sarah Campbell is

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in Sunbury-on-Thames in Surrey. Sarah.

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Yes, the majority of those flood warnings suddenly the southern

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England are along the banks of the River Thames and if you look behind

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me you can certainly see why. To give you an idea of the depth, that

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is the top of a park bench that you can see there and across the water

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on the other side, there are no longer pathways because they are all

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under three feet of water. A shopping expedition to buy

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Sunbury's must have clothing, a pair of waders. I take it and go. The

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houses here are inches away from the water which now surrounds them. Two

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women in their 90s were taken from the island by the Fire and rescue

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services. Those that remain can only watch and wait. We are upstairs, so

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not life-threatening danger but I don't know what will happen in the

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future. That is it, really, it is frightening for anyone who lives on

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the river. Across the swollen river some properties are now under water.

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So when did this war to start coming into your kitchen? This started

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coming in at the beginning of the week and we can't see it ending at

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the moment as the river is rising and we have been told to expect

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about another six inches but as you can see the pump is on most of the

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day and the night. Elsewhere the floodwaters have again proved fatal.

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In with them in Oxfordshire the police say a 73-year-old cyclist

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fell from his bike on this road and was later pronounced dead in

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hospital. With water levels still rising in many areas I would ask the

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public to continue to take heed of the Environment Agency is warnings.

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We must remain vigilant and I will recharge -- I will be chairing a

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further COBRA meeting this afternoon. The waters have provided

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some unusual photo opportunities. Wake boarding in Downing Street. But

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for those living in places like Ray Zebre in Berkshire, properties and

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safety remain at risk. These are worrying times. Worrying times here

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in southern England but also elsewhere. There four flood warnings

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in Scotland and one in Wales. 140 properties have flooded there since

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before Christmas and my colleague reports now from Newgale on the

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Pembrokeshire coast. Blue skies and a stiff breeze,

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today, Newgale could hardly be more different to the explosive seas of

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Monday. Force ten wins, high tide and torrential rain huddled the

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coastline. It meant this serve shop got an awful lot closer to the surf.

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The biggest worry is when the shingle bank is gone, the protection

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is gone, the waves can strike the front of the Chopin as you can

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imagine a wave hitting lowdown on the front of shop can knock the

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front off and that is what happened 24 years ago. That is what I was

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expecting. When that didn't happen and we only got a little bit of

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flooding in the shop, I felt quite lucky. The clean-up is under way.

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Machine take days to undo the damage done by mother nature in days. The

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urgent review of flood defences announced by the Welsh government on

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Sunday is yet to get under way. No further information is expected this

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afternoon. Repairing the damage she is fairly straightforward, just put

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the stones back to where they used to be but other parts of the Welsh

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coastline have seen some serious structural damage and councils here

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say they can't afford to fix it. The Welsh government says it can't write

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a blank cheque. The worst of the weather has certainly passed here

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but the effects of these storms will be felt for a long time to come.

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If there is a positive here in Sunbury-on-Thames, what people are

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saying to me is the sense of community spirit. Everyone really

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rallying around to help each other. But I have heard fierce criticisms

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of the Environment Agency, saying people have had people have had

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information too little too late and they all want to know when the

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waters are going to subside. There is much more on the weather in

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your area on our website. You can get detailed forecasts by entering

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your [email protected] /weather. A senior U.S. Air Force officer has

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paid tribute to the four American servicemen who died in Norfolk on

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Tuesday night when their helicopter came down during a training

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exercise. The men's bodies are being recovered from the site today.

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Investigators say it will be awhile before they can establish exactly

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what happened. Black reports. They died in an exercise training how to

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save others. Today, at the scene, there is increased activity. But the

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bodies of the four men remain on site. Police say removing the bodies

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will take several hours, and could take the rest of the day. The

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problem is they want to make the process as dignified as possible for

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the crew members who lost their lives. They also need to preserve

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vital evidence. Here, senior officers said their colleagues had

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paid the ultimate sacrifice. A lot of people who owe their lives to

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them probably will have no idea. Families around the world this

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morning, having breakfast with their sons, daughters and their family,

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their motto is, these things we do that others may live. Investigators

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say it is to way to speculate on the cause of the crash. Historically,

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this is an aircraft with an excellent safety record, but it

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could be many months before we know the real reason as to what went so

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tragically wrong. The time is just after a quarter

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past one. The top story: At the family of Mark Duggan call for no

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more violence and say they will take -- peacefully fight the inquest

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verdict of a lawful killing. And what happens when Hell freezes over.

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Later on BBC London News: The rain keeps coming. 40 flood warnings or

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-- along the Thames. And as London's air ambulance celebrates

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its 25th anniversary, we spend a day with its life-saving crew.

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For almost 75 years it lay undisturbed at the bottom of the sea

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off the coast in Kent. But then, in June, what's thought to be the last

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remaining German Dornier bomber from World War II was finally brought to

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the surface. The aircraft, which was one of the mainstays of the German

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bomber fleet during the Battle of Britain, is now being restored at an

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RAF Museum in Shropshire. Sian Lloyd is there.

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It looks like a crumpled wreck, but gradually every part of the last

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remaining Dornier 17 bomber is being brought back to life. 73 years on

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the sea bed have taken their toll. By the engine is beginning to look

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recognisable again. The barnacles and seaweed have been washed away by

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citric acid... Simple lemon juice. Cleaning the aircraft is an

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intensive job. Direct had been covered in 3.5 tonnes of sand and

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marine debris. Conservationists are making progress on the fusillade

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chip, but it will be at least two macro years before they can begin to

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rebuild it. We are trying to get this citric acid onto the metal. The

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problem is all of these accretions. It is like us are left by the sea

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life. -- a cement. We are trying to remove it with a tool softer than

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metal. It was lifted out of the English channel six months ago,

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virtually intact. The wings were later removed for the journey by

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road to the RAF Museum's conservation centre. It is thought

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the plane was shot down on the 26th of August, 1940. When it's wing tip

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hit the water, the bomber spun and tipped onto its back before sinking

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on the Goodwin Sands. Two of the crew survived, two died. The Dornier

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17 was a mainstay of the German fleet, attacking British cities in

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the battle of written. They went out of service in the mid-1940s, and it

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was thought that none have survived. The Dornier was nicknamed the flying

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pencil because of its narrow fusilade should. When you are

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crouching inside, you can see why. There would have been four

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crewmembers cramped inside this narrow space. Eventually it will be

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rebuilt here inside the museum's workshop. But for the moment, only a

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few pieces are ready to be worked on. Beth is one of the six

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apprentices who were involved in the intricate task of restoring each

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item once they are clean. This small strip of aluminium was found near

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the release system. The German instructions can still be seen. The

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idea would literally be to pick and flick the corrosion rather than

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against the artefact underneath. This oxygen cylinder is one of nine

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recovered from the plane, and looks as good as new. This has had about

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12 hours work on it. But there is plenty of work ahead, and funding to

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be found, before the plane will be ready to go on show at the RAF

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Museum in London. A hospital in Belfast declared a

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major incident last night because too many people were waiting to be

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seen in A At one stage, 42 patients were waiting on trolleys at

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the Royal Victoria after a big increase in the number of sick

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people attending the hospital. Staff described what they called

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horrendous scenes. The Belfast Trust said the situation was brought under

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control just before midnight. Andy Martin has more. Patients had to be

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redirected to three other hospitals last night. Staff at the Royal said

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they were at breaking point. 42 people were left on trolleys, and

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patients spilled over into other areas. It was pure Hell. It was

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something you would only see in poor countries. By 9pm, and major

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incident had been declared and staff answered calls to come in and help

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their colleagues. The Royal Victoria Hospital is Northern Ireland but

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that primary care centre. What is worrying staff is that what happened

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last night was not prompted by any sort of flu bug or virus. We know

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there are problems around staffing levels. There were problems with the

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yearling -- dealing with, for instance, a car crash. But Northern

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Ireland does has at -- have a greater number of emergency

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departments. So what caused this incident? The Belfast health trust

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says that on a normal night, 28% of those attending will be admitted.

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Last night the figure was over 40%. The Health Minister described it as

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a one off. We had an unreachable -- unusual number coming through. The

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situation was responded to. It is unfortunate for those who needed

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care and were in the Department. Two units shortened opening hours last

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weekend. Health officials will be keen to establish whether it

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contributed to last night's problems.

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Thousands of people are fleeing a city in South Sudan as government

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forces advance on the rebel-held town of Bentiu. The city, in an area

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which is rich in oil, has been held for the past couple of weeks by

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forces loyal to the country's former Deputy Prime Minister. Alastair

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Leithead reports. We are in the sense of Bentiu, a

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town controlled by rebel forces for two macro weeks. That could be

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changing. A lot of people have been racing to get out of here. The

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rebels have come back into town. Now we are here in a UN compound.

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Basically, hundreds of people overnight came to this compound to

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try to get help. We came down with the UN humanitarian coordinator. He

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brought these trucks. The idea was to pick up food in a warehouse on

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the far side of town and then to take it back to their camp. When

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they discovered all these people were here, they discovered they were

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the priority. Now women and children first are being loaded onto trucks,

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and then the men will come. They only have the possessions they have

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on them. Now they have to be taken back to the UN can. That is not as

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easy as it sounds. The rebels have drawn a line in town. The rebels are

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approaching up that road. This entire Convoy has to get up there

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quickly, before fighting starts between the sides. That is why I

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speed is very much of the evidence -- essence.

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At least 13 army recruits have been killed and more than 30 injured by a

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suicide bomber at a military compound in the Iraqi capital,

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Baghdad. They're thought to have been signing up for an operation to

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retake the city of Fallujah and other parts of Anbar province, which

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were overrun last week by insurgents with links to Al-Qaeda.

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At least five people have been killed in an explosion at a chemical

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factory in Japan. Police in the city of Yokaichi say 12 others have been

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injured. The plant, owned by Mitsubishi Materials, makes silicone

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products and car parts. The blast is said to have taken place during

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maintenance work. Electric buses that can drive or

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would they are set to begin service for the first time in the UK today.

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They will operate on a busy route it Milton Keynes. They can remain in

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service longer by virtue of wireless booster charge they receive at the

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start and end of the route. Morning in Milton Keynes, and the

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number seven is ready for a test run after a night of charging. It is one

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of eight new buses along the 15 mile route used by 800,000 passengers per

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year. Ordinarily such a legendary vehicles wouldn't last a day and

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would have to return to the depot for a lengthy charge. But these

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buses can keep on going, thanks to a booster charge they receive

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wirelessly at the start and end of their route from a device buried

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beneath the road. We have reached the end of the line. This is where

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the bus recharges. It all by means of an -- electric plate. This goes

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down to within four centimetres off the ground. A quick charge and we

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can hop back onto the bus and continue the service. Milton Keynes

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shopping Centre, please. This is the first of our exciting new electric

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buses. This is going to be an electric bus that recharges with no

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contact charging. The advantage of using an electric bus is that we can

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improve the carbon footprint of Milton Keynes. We wanted to be the

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first use of power in Milton Keynes. -- we want it. The new buses will be

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rolled out at the end of January. All anybody should notice is that

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the buses are a bit quieter than they used to be. We have seen plenty

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of extraordinary scenes like this in the past few days.

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After days of record breaking temperatures in the United States,

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forecasters say an end is in sight for many parts of the country, where

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temperatures have plunged well below zero for several days, including a

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town in Michigan called Hell, proving that Hell really can freeze

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over. From there here's Rajini Vaidyanathan.

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The road to Hell. This quaint hamlet in America's midwest has become an

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empty expanse after days of snow, wind and subzero conditions. It

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might look nice but it doesn't feel so good here in Hell. Temperatures

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are teeth chattering. At 12 degrees Fahrenheit, that is -11 Celsius. A

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few hours ago, it was even colder. This small town is covered in a

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blanket of snow. Helen is quite literally frozen over! -- Hell.

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Hardly anybody is willing to brave the weather. Nobody has got a taste

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for the cold right now so John has been forced to close his ice cream

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shop. When we hit 19 below zero, it has been 100 years since anything

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like that has happened here. We get some cold days, but not like we have

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had. Weather forecasters here in the US are blaming this bitterly cold

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spell on what is known as a polar vortex. Severe gusts of Arctic winds

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are bringing with them frighteningly cold temperatures. It will take some

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time for the piles of snow disappear. For now, many residents

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will continue to stay indoors. Others simply don't have a choice.

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Nothing like that coming our way, just a touch of Frost. Isn't that

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right, Peter? The weather is settling down nicely. This is the

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first day since the start of December with no weather warnings

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anywhere in the UK. Temperatures will fall away tonight. We may have

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some icy patches by the end of the night. Still lots of flood warnings

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in force as a result of all the wet weather over the last few weeks. But

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we are in a window of something more settled at the moment. For the rest

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of today and overnight, apart from a few showers and western areas, most

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places will stay dry. The cloud will continue to come and go. The

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temperatures will go up and down and to some extent. A touch of Frost

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almost anywhere in the latter part of the night. The lowest

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temperatures are likely in the North East of Scotland. Let's take a

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closer look around at 8am tomorrow. Still the odd shower drifting into

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the southwestern parts of England, but no great amount of rain coming

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out of them. Temperatures are still fairly close to freezing. The odd

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patch of Mr Rand is well over the hills. Watch out for some icy peak

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-- patches. Some patchy rain moving in, just fringing on to the western

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parts of Scotland. The north-east of Scotland has a sharp frost,

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potentially. Through tomorrow we see the area of rain creeping its way

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further east. It is going to be quite patchy. One or two heavy

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bursts in western Scotland, the hills of Wales, but the further east

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you are, the better your chance of staying dry. Relatively mild in the

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South still. Then the rain gradually pushes through Friday night into the

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early part of Saturday. A bit of Frost behind it as skies start to

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clear. Cold enough for some snow showers. Saturday is a lovely day,

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bright, crisp and blue skies for most of us. It is going to feel

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chilly but nothing out of the ordinary for the first part of

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January. Look out for a sharp frost on Saturday, though. Even in towns

:30:25.:30:29.

and cities, it will be below freezing. Much lower in rural spots.

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But the second half of the weekend, it starts fine, but you can see

:30:34.:30:37.

another weather system pushing our way. We will gradually find the wind

:30:38.:30:41.

increasing in western areas after chilly start on Sunday. Outbreaks of

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rain as well but most places get away with a try and find day, albeit

:30:46.:30:49.

on the chilly side. The rain, we need to watch. It is still rather

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soggy at the moment. need to watch. It is still

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At half past one, reminder of our main story: The aunt of Mark Duggan

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has urged no more violence and says there should be a peaceful fight for

:31:05.:31:09.

answers to his death. That is all from the News

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