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after possible debris from the missing plane is spotted. The

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satellite images show two objects in the sea around 1,500 miles off the

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Australian coast - officials says it's probably the best lead so far.

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The largest image I have seen is assessed as being 24 metres. There

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is another that is smaller than that. We'll hear from a reporter on

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board the first plane to search the remote area. We'll have the latest

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as the hunt for MH370 intensifies. Also this lunchtime:

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The Chancellor dismisses fears pensioners could blow their pension

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pot under reforms he unveiled. The death of a deportee - three

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security guards face manslaughter charges after Jimmy Mubenga died on

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a flight to Angola. The fashion retailer Next looks set

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to overtake M for the first time in its history - as it announces

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bumper profits. And the royal protection officer

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shot three times - 40 years ago today - during an attempt to abduct

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Princess Anne. Later on BBC London:

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Fragmented and unravelling - the verdict of a report into the NHS in

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London. And 44,000 mobiles a year are stolen

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in London. The Met joins forces with Europe to target thieves.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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Aircraft and ships are scouring a remote part of the Indian Ocean

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after Australian satellite images appear to show two large objects

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floating in the sea. The location is more than 1,500 miles south-west of

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Perth in remote waters that often are stormy. The largest item is

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thought to be 24 metres in size but authorities are warning it may be

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unrelated to the missing plane. Australian officials say the first

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plane to reach the area this morning was unable to locate the debris

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through clouds and rain, but other planes will continue the hunt for

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MH370, which went missing almost two weeks ago with 239 people on board.

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Our first report is from Nick Higham - who has the latest on the search.

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To the untrained eye they could be anything. Two objects, one is 24

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metres long, one is five metres, floating in the ocean. In Australia

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they were taking these latest satellite pictures seriously.

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Following specialist analysis of this imagery, two possible objects

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related to the search have been identified. Four Australian military

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aircraft are now searching for the debris in one of the remotest spots

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on earth, where winter is approaching and the waves are up to

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17 metres high. The first plane on the scene could see nothing through

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the clouds and rain. Unfortunately with the weather conditions, we are

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unable to locate any wreckage or debris. Other aircraft are

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continuing the search. Today's search area is in the southern

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Indian Ocean, more than 2000, to south-west of Perth. Yesterday they

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searched a wider area at the extreme end of the missing plane Rose

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wrench, but the debris will have drifted hundreds of calamitous since

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the pictures were taken. Australian officials are cautious. This is a

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lead, probably the best lead we have right now but we need to get there,

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find them, see them, assess them, to know whether it is meaningful or

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not. I caution again, they will be difficult to find. They may not be

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associated with the aircraft, and we have plenty of experience of that

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is. This Norwegian container ship is the first vessel to reach the search

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area. An Australian Navy ship is two days away. A British survey ship is

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also on its way. What if it is the plane? You're talking about the

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great Southern Ocean, very wild seas. You are talking about a depth

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of about 10,000 feet. It will probably be the most difficult

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recovery of an aeroplane ever, if that is what it turns out that is

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where it is. It is now 13 days since flight MH370 went missing on its

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fight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. We know it turned west back over the

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Malaysian peninsular after most comedic case and systems were

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switched off. After that -- communication systems were switched

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off. Why it travelled where it did still remains a total mystery. 29

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aircraft and 18 ships are involved in the wider search area, stretching

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from the shores of Burma to the far south. Since the plane went missing,

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oil slicks and debris have been spotted several times but

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discounted. These latest images may also be a full salaam. -- false

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alarm. The search area is a three hour

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flight away from Perth - on board the first plane to get there today

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was a reporter from ABC News, David Wright. We are on board a US Navy

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search and rescue vessel. The callsign for this flight is rescue

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74. We are headed towards the South Pole, almost juice out of Kuala

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Lumpur. What we are being told by the flight crew is they have some

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intelligence that there is some sort of debris in the water. They are not

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clear what. We will be the first plane on site. We are descending

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through the clouds right now. This plane has some of the highest

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technology available, much of it classified. If anybody is likely to

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find something down there, this plane has a very good opportunity to

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do so. It is a serious enough sighting of debris that not only is

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this plane heading into the area, but two Australian planes are also

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heading this way. They will be combing the waters for several

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hours, looking visually from the plane and also with all of the

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high-tech that they have on-board, to see what this might be in the

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water. It may be a false alarm but they seem to be treating it as a

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very promising sign. David Wright on board a search plane. Desperate

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relatives are still having to wait for information, almost two weeks

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after the plane went missing. Jonah Fisher reports from Kuala Lumpa.

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The wait has been frustrating, the news is likely to be devastating. In

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Beijing, meetings between airline officials and the relatives of the

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Chinese officials on board have turned into daily shouting matches

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-- Chinese passengers on board. Some greeted the satellite images with

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disbelief. This man's son was on the plane. He said he won't believe the

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plane crashed until it has been officially confirmed. Why should I

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believe my family is gone, he says? Why should I believe they are under

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the sea? In these desperate times, many had been holding out hope that

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MH370 had been hijacked. And just might have landed somewhere. These

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were the sad scenes yesterday here in Kuala Lumpur, when a Chinese

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family demanded some answers. It looked bad, but with few facts to go

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on, the Malaysians have been in and -- and almost impossible situation.

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The one piece of information that we want most, that they want most, is

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the information that we do not have, the location of MH370. The

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Malaysians are now constantly briefing the families, in Kuala

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Lumpur and also Beijing. The next update may mark the start of some

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sort of closure. After almost 13 days of anguish and uncertainty.

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You can keep up to the date with all of the latest developments on our

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website. The Chancellor - George Osborne -

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has dismissed fears that pensioners could "blow" their pension pots

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under reforms announced in the Budget. The Shadow chancellor, Ed

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Balls, has questioned whether there'd be proper protections and

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financial education so pensioners don't make the wrong choices.

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Radical pension changes were among a series of measures that Mr Osborne

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has unveiled. Here's our political correspondent, Chris Mason.

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Move over, Bob the builder, George is here. The Chancellor is rather

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partial to a spot of bricklaying and wandering around building sites.

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They are fluorescent yellow backdrops that scream the economy is

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growing again. What is Mr Osborne talking up from the Budget? An

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extension of the Help to Buy scheme to boost the construction industry,

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being able to save ?15,000 a year tax-free, and pensioners will have

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far greater control over their pension pot. I want to do help

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people who have worked hard and save time. These pension changes and the

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support for savers throughout their lives, they are all about building a

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stronger, more resilient economy. As you would expect, the Budget was

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laden with economics but also groaning with politics with local

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and European elections coming up, the general election just over a

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year away. There was a captivated pitch from George Osborne to try to

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woo back people who may have drifted to Labour or the UK Independence

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Party. But enter Grant Shapps and a tweet from the Conservative Party

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chairman about the halving of bingo tax and the penny off a pint of

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beer. He uses the word "they" to describe hard-working people,

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something that George Osborne's Lib Dem deputy among others said was

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patronising. How has this gone down with workers at this types factory

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in Dub ship? People don't play bingo all day and single day. There are a

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lot more things they could have looked down. I smack in Derbyshire.

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Labour were criticised for having nothing to say on the Budget. The

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Shadow Chancellor was not tongue tied this morning. The idea working

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people can be fobbed off and patronised because they like things

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like bingo and beer, the Conservative Party, it is of the

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past, it shows how out of touch they are. Of the past budgets George

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Osborne has needed a political hard hat to survive the issues. If this

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is as bad as it gets this year, you will be able to live with that. The

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Institute for fiscal studies has been crunching the numbers since the

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Chancellor unveiled his budget yesterday. And they're giving their

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assessment now on what it all means. Our Chief Economics Correspondent,

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Hugh Pym is there now. What is their verdict? The briefing has just

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begun. We have got the headline from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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They emphasise what others have been saying, that these changes are

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radical and dramatic and because of that alone, the budget will reveal

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remembered almost more than any other -- will be membered almost

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more than any other of George Osborne's Budgets. People who want

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to continue with annuities will find the whole thing more expensive. On

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the broad thrust of the budget they say we don't learn much more about

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the extent of the austerity that will be required. It is not always

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totally clear where the money is coming from. This is where the --

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what the IFS director Paul Johnson had to say. The Chancellor has tried

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to pay for some permanent tax cuts, Herman and spending increases, by --

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permanent spending increases by one or two small things that are

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bringing money forward a bit, or look a bit less permanent. The

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long-running effect of yesterday's budget will be to have a small but

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negative impact on the public finances.

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One final headline from the IFS, they say the number of higher rate

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taxpayers will rise above 5 million next year, up from just over 3

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million in the year after the general election.

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European leaders are meeting in Brussels to discuss new sanctions

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against Russia following its seizure of Crimea. The German Chancellor,

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Angela Merkel, told the German parliament that Russia's actions in

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Ukraine meant the G8 group of nations - of which Russia currently

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holds the presidency - no longer existed. Our Europe correspondent,

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Matthew Price, reports from Brussels: this is the worst crisis

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Europe has faced since the end of the Cold War.

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A crisis that is shaking the very foundations of the international

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order. In Berlin today, Germany's leader suggested her initial

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reluctance to punish Russia is weakening. That leading

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industrialised countries will shut Russia out of their club of eight.

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TRANSLATION: It is obvious, as long as the boat or context for such an

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important format like the G8 does not apply, as political context.

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-- the G8 does not exist any more. So to Brussels, where the EU will

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likely put in place more sanctions against EU officials -- against

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Russian officials. It will also likely consider more serious

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long-term economic and trade measures against Moscow. The most

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important of those is in the energy sector. Russia supplies a third of

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Europe's gas needs. What we are likely to see today is the first

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phase of what some believe will be a seismic shift in EU - Russian

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relations. It is going to take years, not days, and yet if the

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leaders are serious, they will start to wean the Europe of its reliance

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on Russian energy, they will start to reassess its whole partnership

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with Moscow. They have been here before. After the brief Russian -

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Georgian war in 2008, the EU toyed with similar ideas. They never

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followed through. Will they this time? Yet in parts of the U, with

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large ethnic Russian populations, there is concerned this is all too

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late. -- in parts of the EU. In the Baltic states especially, they fear

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if Russia is not punished properly now, they could be picked off next.

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Our correspondent is in Moscow. Be you is probably bad top trading

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partner. How worried are they about the impact of possible sanctions?

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We've just had a speech from the Russian Foreign Minister in which he

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has referred to the sanctions. He is trying to say sanctions imposed by

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the West are illegal because they can only be imposed by the UN

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Security Council. What he is saying is fairly legally dubious but it may

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point to the fact that Russia is getting worried about these

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sanctions. It is not so much the current sanctions targeting

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individuals. They are being described as an inconvenience. What

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they are worried about are the trade and financial sanctions which could

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have a devastating impact on the economy. One analyst said it could

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tip the Russian economy, which is already weak, into recession.

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Three men who worked as custody officers for the security firm G4S

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will face charges following the death of a man being deported. This

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was not just the tragic death of a father of five. An inquest found he

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had been unlawfully killed when he was forcibly restrained on that

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British Airways plane by three security guards working for G4S,

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which was contracted by the Home Office. There had already been

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long-running criticism at the time by campaigners about the way force

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was being used. Jimmy Mubenga had spent years living legally but

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because he was convicted of assault the decision was being made to

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deport him. His widow says she welcomes the decision to charge

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these men with manslaughter. Those security guards will appear in court

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on April the 7th. Their lawyer says they will vigorously defend

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themselves against the Chargers. There is insufficient evidence to

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prosecute their employer, G4S. That employer today released a statement

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saying they believed they had acted appropriately at all times.

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Our top story this lunchtime: Search planes and ships are scouring a

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remote part of the Indian Ocean after possible debris from the

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missing Malaysia Airlines plane is spotted - around 1,500 miles off the

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Australian coast. And still to come... A rare

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interview with the bodyguard who was shot three times while preventing

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the abduction of Princess Anne 40 years ago. She was called, calm and

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collected. In fact, she did everything we would tell people to

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do. She didn't panic. And London's first community land

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trust development brings affordable homes to the east of the capital.

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And on show to the world. We join the Household Cavalry as it builds

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up for one of its busiest years ever.

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For the first time in its history, Next looks set to overtake its

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high-street rival Marks Spencer - after reporting a big increase in

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its annual profits. They're up by 12% to nearly ?700 million. It's now

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firmly on course to make more money than M for the first time since

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its launch in 1982. Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.

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It used to be king of the high street. It still is -- sells more

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clothes than anyone else. But when it comes to making more money, Next

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is emerging as the winner. What is it cigarette? One fashion editor

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told me it is simple. They absolutely know their customer. They

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produce the clothes that they will love and they will buy.

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Interestingly, this is the area Marks Spencer have been struggling

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in recently. It may not be cutting edge, but it is popular. It's good

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quality and they have things the children. M is classed as

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old-fashioned, though it's not. The business only started in the early

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1980s but managed to tap into a new generation of aspirational shoppers,

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adapting to their every need. Here is what has been preventable --

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pivotal, the directory. It was ground-breaking and it meant that

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when the business moved online, that know-how came in handy. Next has

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powered ahead. All did tonight, get it delivered tomorrow. Logistics

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certainly gave Next an edge over Christmas. That sort of investment

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takes a lot of forward thinking and planning. That is the beautiful

:20:45.:20:49.

thing about Next. The forward-thinking from management

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really stands them in good stead. So, what next for Next? It doesn't

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like to shout about its success. It doesn't have too, especially as it

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is making so much money it is handing millions of pounds to

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shareholders this year. A man who claims he was raped by the

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former Commons Speaker Nigel Evans has been cross-examined. He's told

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the jury that he woke up to find the MP on top of him. But Mr Evan's

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barrister alleged that the incident - said to have taken place last year

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after a dinner party at Mr Evan's home - had been consensual. Nigel

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Evans denies all the charges. Danny Savage reports from Preston Crown

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Court. He came to court to listen to the

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man who claims the MP braked him. The witness, who are legal reasons

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cannot be seen, has already described how he was allegedly

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sexually assaulted at the bed of the MP, and later woke up with the

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former deputy speaker on top of them. The 22-year-old had been

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drinking champagne, wine and Jane in the MP's local pub and home in his

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constituency, before getting into bed with him. The openly gay man

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said he left the bedroom and number of times during the night, but

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returned each time. This morning, he was cross-examined by the defence

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barrister. He said, you made a conscious decision to get into bed

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with him. Yes, the man admitted. Having got into bed, it became clear

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to you that there were sexual overtures being made towards you.

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You have not said no, you have not said leave me alone, you have not

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said, I don't want to do this. The witness agreed that was the case but

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said he had rolled away from the MP. He also admits he missed an

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opportunity to go and sleep in a different room when they retired to

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bed that night. Nigel Evans sat in the dock making notes and listening

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to be evidence. He denies all the charges. But the witness said he did

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not willingly engage in sexual activity with Mr Evans.

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Police in Greater Manchester are hunting thieves who dug a 50-foot

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tunnel under a Tesco store to steal a substantial sum from a cash

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machine. Officers say the gang may have spent months digging the

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"complex structure". They're appealing for witnesses who may have

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seen anyone "covered in soil" in Salford between midnight and 6am on

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Friday. The Japanese firm Hitachi is moving

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the headquarters of its global rail business to Britain. The company won

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a multi-billion pound contract last year to build new intercity trains

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and will open a plant at Newton Aycliffe in County Durham next year,

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employing 750 workers. The government called the move a huge

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vote of confidence in Britain. Here's our industry correspondent,

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John Moylan. It is the company that brought the

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bullet train to Britain. Shipped from Japan, they run on the

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high-speed link in Kent. Now, Hitachi is going further and moving

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its headquarters here. Europe is the biggest market in the world. So we

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want to move our decision-making closer to the marketplace. Clearly,

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the UK is important to us. We are investing a huge amount of money in

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County Durham to in -- to build trains not just for Britain but

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Europe. Construction started last year. The first locomotives will

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leave the planned in 2016. This building in central London is where

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Hitachi runs its European operations and will now become its global

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headquarters. From here, the company will go after lucrative contracts

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for trains and rolling stock right across Europe, but particularly in

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Britain. Hitachi is already advising on the HS2 project. It wants to take

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on Europe's big rail giants. In the wake of the row about bombarding a

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witch faces closure after losing out on a major contract, it knows moving

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its headquarters will boost its British credentials. We like to see

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companies producing here. They used to be imported, we are changing

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that. I want to see more British procurement. Hitachi is creating 750

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jobs to build these new trains. More are expected to follow. An industry

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which almost fell off the rails looks like it is back on track.

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40 years ago today, there was a failed attempt to kidnap Princess

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Anne. In a rare interview, the former royal protection officer

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Inspector Jim Beaton has spoken about what happened that day as she

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was being driven along the Mall. Here's our Royal correspondent,

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Nicholas Witchell. It was one of the most audacious

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threats to a member of the Royal family. The night an armed man

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attempted to kidnap the princess from her royal limousine, if you

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hundreds meters from Buckingham Palace. A threat ported notably by

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the courage of this man, inspected Jim Beaton. He was the Princess's

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police God -- bodyguard. He was shot three times. The whole thing was

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very quick. I didn't have time to think, which is just as well,

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because thinking is not one of my specialities. In the 40 years since

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the incident here, Jim Beaton has seldom spoken publicly about what

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happened. He became the only royal protection officer in recent memory

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to be forced to draw his firearm, to try to protect a member of the Royal

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family from an armed attack. The royal limousine had been driving up

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the mole -- the Mall. Jim Beaton thought it was an angry motorist and

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got out to investigate. Just as I came out, he shot at me. Until then,

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nothing had been further from my mind. Even then, I had to think

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twice about what had happened. I went back behind the car and took my

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gun out. I was authorised to carry a gun on duty and I tried to shoot at

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him but because I'd already been hit in the chest, which was not very

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painful but obviously made my arm flopped a bit, I wasn't able to hit

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him. I thought, well, there is a proper method, using two hands. I

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tried to lands, but the gun jammed. He was shot twice more as he tried

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to protect the Princess. The attacker attempted to drag her out

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of the vehicle. His plan was to hold the Princess for ransom. One of the

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things she was saying was, why do you want me? And he said something

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to the effect of two or ?3 million. Her actions were very good. She was

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cool, calm and collected and she did everything we would tell people to

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do now. She spoke to him, she didn't panic or scream wash-out. Other

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police arrived at the scene and he was overpowered. At his trial, you

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was ordered to be in danger -- he was ordered to be detained

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indefinitely. For those actions that night, Jim Beaton received the

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highest civilian award for bravery, George Cross.

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Dame Vera Lynn - "the forces' sweetheart" - is to release a new

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album at the age of 97. Dame Vera, who celebrates her birthday today,

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already holds the record as the only artist over the age of 90 to top the

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UK album charts. The new collection will contain unreleased songs which

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have recently been discovered. Now, a look at the weather. It

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depends where you are in relation to this weather front. We have quite a

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number of ice bars on the charts, there have been gusts of up to 70

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miles an hour. We're looking at easily ten or 20 millimetres of rain

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higher ground. It is on the move though, so if you had it first

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thing, as you did in Northern Ireland and Scotland, it will be

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brighter in the afternoon. Look at those temperatures though. A cooler,

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fresh appeal across the northern end of the British Isles with a mixture

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of showers. Increasingly across Wales and the South West of England,

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a wet spell of weather here. Difficult driving conditions given

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the strength of the wind as well. So the roads through Devon and Cornwall

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will be quite tricky. Fine weather towards the south-east and East

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Anglia. Make the most of the temperatures here as they will not

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last. The cold air already lurking across Scotland and Northern Ireland

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eventually head south across the rest of the British Isles. There is

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the mechanism for change. In the small hours it does push onto the

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continent. The hind, look at the wintry showers in Scotland. Some ice

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on higher roots and there are some weather warnings about that. A cold

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night, less perhaps in the south-east who just hold onto McLeod

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and rain for a bit longer. Some quite heavy showers on Friday with a

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rumble of Bunder. -- thunder. Only the favoured few will see

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temperatures into double figures, let alone teens. On Saturday,

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showers for the western portion of the British Isles and on Sunday it

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is the ease that sees the bulk of the rainy activity. So the weekend

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will be chilly in the day with wintry showers, and some frosty

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nights to come as well. That goes on into the start of next week.

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A remote part of the Indian Ocean is being searched for the missing plane

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after new satellite

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