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could be wreckage from the missing plane. The objects, some big and

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brightly coloured, were spotted by French satellites 1,500 miles off

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the coast of Perth. We will report from Western Australia where they

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are coordinating the search. Also this lunchtime. The energy firm SSE

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becomes the first of the Big Six to freeze prices - but the move means

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job cuts. Thousands of children off school in England and Wales as

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teachers strike over pay and pensions.

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The publicist Max Clifford takes the stand at his trial for indecent

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assault against seven women and girls.

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And after ten years of marriage, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

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announce they've separated calling it a "conscious uncoupling".

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Later on BBC London: An inquest into the death of Russian billionaire

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Boris Berezovsky hears his legal battle left him a "broken man". And

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Thames Water are accused of not operating on a long term and

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sustainable basis. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News at One. French satellites have spotted 122 objects in the

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southern Indian Ocean. The images were taken three days ago and show

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brightly coloured objects, one measuring up to 23 metres long.

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Search planes have been back in the skies again today - after

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yesterday's bad weather. And ships continue to scour the seas. But the

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search area remains huge - more than 600,00 square miles. And time is

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running out to find the black box which could shed light on what

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happened to flight MH 370 and its 239 passengers and crew. Jonathan

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Head reports. It was a day last to bad weather yesterday at this

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airbase but today we have seen the operation in full swing. Six

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countries are contributing. They have been out over the ocean where

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pieces of the missing a learner -- a learner have been spotted.

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Photographs have been supplied by the French showing potentially 100

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objects. That will give them some hope of success identified items

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that can be picked up in the next few days. -- identifying. The skies

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over Western Australia clear today and planes were in the air once

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again, heading out over the Indian Ocean. Earlier in the week they did

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the possible debris but that whether prevented ships from reaching it.

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Now they have another lead. One area of the ocean measuring some 400

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square kilometres, we were able to identify 122 objects. Some objects

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were one metre in length, others as much as 23 metres in length. The

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area where these new images are taken is still large, around 200

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square miles. And they were taken on Sunday. But finding so many

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apparently man-made items in these desolate sees is unusual and pilots

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today are already reporting some sightings. We had some possible

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man-made objects to be verified. We passed on the position to a nearby

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warship and aircraft. These latest satellite images may be the best

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lead yet in this long and difficult search. But it will not be until

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these aircraft have pinpointed where those objects are and they can be

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collected by ships, that we will no whether or not they are indeed parts

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of the missing airliner. For Chinese ships are now in the search area.

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Spotting floating objects in these cities is very tough. We will make

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full use of different observing methods such as radar, sonar and

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night-vision devices and focus on floating object and people in the

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sea. It could still be days before a debris field is identified. That is

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when this American underwater locator which arrived today in Perth

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could be deployed to track the airliner was my flight recorders. It

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is state of the art. But it will be operating in the most challenging

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conditions imaginable. Our correspondent Paul Adams is in Kuala

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Lumpa, where the authorities have been giving updates about the search

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for the plane. And the most credible leads so far, they have been saying.

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What else have they said today was like the keyword is the word

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potential. You heard that used by the acting transport Minister.

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Clearly there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that all

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points in the same direction. Several sightings both from the air

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and satellite and of course the Inmarsat data which pointed to the

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plane disappearing more or less in that area. But no one has talked

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about a debris field. There is the hope here that we may be able to

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identify that soon. But we are not there yet. And in the meantime the

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Malaysians are still dealing with this torrent of criticism from the

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Chinese, from those relatives who are convinced that they are being

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lied to by the Malaysian authorities. The minister went out

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of his way today to say that in his words, history will judge as well.

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He said no other country could point to such success in gathering 26

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countries together to mount such a concerted search and rescue

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operation. The Malaysians feel they're all they can. They are

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somewhat bristling at the criticism coming from Beijing. And I think

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they feel, although there are too cautious to say so, that we could be

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on the verge of being able to say that is the plane, that is the

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wreckage. And there's plenty more information on the search for the

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plane on the BBC website where there's a special page with live

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updates. The address is bbc.co.uk/missingplane.

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One of the Big Six energy firms has announced it's freezing domestic gas

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and electricity prices until 2016. SSE says it hopes the move will

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offer their ten million customers "peace of mind". But the move comes

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at a cost. 500 jobs are expected to go. And the company is also shelving

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three planned offshore wind farm developments. Our Industry

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Correspondent John Moylan has more. It is written's second biggest

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supplier with around 8 million gas or electricity customers. Now it is

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promising them what it claims is the longest price guarantee ever

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offered. We are prepared to take a drop in profits especially in 2015,

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it could be up to ?100 million. And between all those things we can then

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give the customer what they want, a price freeze right through until

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2016. SSE increased its average prices back in the autumn by 8.2%.

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It finally reduced prices by 3.5% this week at becoming the last of

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the friends to pass on the government's ?50 cut in green

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levies. That left the dual fuel Bill at around ?1186 per year. That is

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still a big chunk of most family budgets. But today in Glasgow the

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price freeze was broadly welcomed. Anything that can save money at this

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point is a good thing. The energy costs have gone through the roof in

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the last few years. Everyone wants the best value for money. We would

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have to look at the best deal for us as a family. I wish they would all

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do it. I wish ScottishPower and Scottish gas would do it as well.

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The move comes at a crucial time for the industry. Tomorrow is Bob at the

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energy regulator and competition authorities will published their

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review of the energy market. It is widely anticipated that will trigger

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a broader full-scale investigation would could take up to two years. --

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which could. SSE appear to be that enquiry today, saying it would

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legally separated wholesale and retail arms. They will also shelled

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three out of four of its proposed offshore wind farms. But does the

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price freeze suggest that the energy market is finally working? This move

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by SSE chose it is possible for companies to reform and split up

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their retail and wholesale businesses. But we cannot rely on

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them doing that voluntarily. This has echoes of Labour's flagship

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energy policy. Now embraced by one the biggest suppliers.

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Our Chief Political Correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. The

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price freeze has dominated PMQs this lunchtime, both Labour and the

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Conservatives claiming credit for it. There has been an unseemly

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scramble, Mr Cameron claiming that it was the coalition by encouraging

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us to shop around but led to the price freeze. But my sense is that

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the price freeze decision today was an absolute gift from the gods for

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Ed Miliband. Because if you had to think of just one keynote Labour

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policy, it would be the price freeze. So the decision by SSE

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enabled Ed Miliband to say today that that policy had credibility,

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had been vindicated. It enabled him to throw back some of Mr Cameron's

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quotes about the idea of a freeze being unworkable. Perhaps a

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Communist plot. But he needed this gift today because Mr Miliband is

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going through a few difficult days. The gift could also be short lived

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up SSE was the first energy company to put up bills and now is the first

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to freeze them. If others follow then what is the point in Ed

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Miliband having a standout policy pledging to freeze energy bills went

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all the energy companies have already done it? The government says

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it has reduced the national debt by almost ?800 million through the sale

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of the second tranche of Lloyds shares. The sale cuts the

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government's holding in the Lloyds Banking Group to just under 25%,

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down from an original 39%. The Chancellor said the sale represented

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good value for the taxpayer and was another step toward repairing the

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banks. Thousands of pupils across England

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and Wales are off school today because of a teachers' strike by one

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of the main unions. Members of the NUT have walked out as part of the

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continuing dispute about pay, pensions and workload. Unions say

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the strike is a "last resort" but the Department for Education said it

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was disrupting parents' lives and holding back children's education.

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Here's Sarah Campbell. For parents this is the third

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national walk-out since June 2011 that they have had to deal with.

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They have been separate regional strikes in between. Today some

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schools have closed, others remained open but only partially. We had

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quite short notice and I had to rearrange my days at work. My

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employer locally is flexible. Not good. I was struggling this morning.

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They have to do what they have to do. If they're not happy with

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conditions they have to see what happens. This industrial action is

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part of a long-running battle between teachers and the government

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over pay, pensions and conditions. Negotiations between the two sides

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are ongoing and one of the two main teaching unions decided not to take

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part in the strike today while talks continue. This walk-out involves

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members from just one teaching union, the NUT. But with more than

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300,000 members, collectively they are able to cause widespread

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disruption in schools across England and Wales. I am sorry that we are

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inconveniencing parents today but actually there is a big problem in

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teaching and there are problems in government policy for parents and

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their children. Like the fact that teachers will not have to be

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qualified and the changes in the curriculum. As part of the BBC's

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global board project the schools that Mr was interviewed in advance

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of the strike today. What are you going to do to persuade teachers not

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to strike so I can be at school? Lot of things that have been

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controversial with teachers about pension reforms and pay, I believe

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strongly that they are necessary. We have been protected in schools and

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the school budget much more than most other areas of government

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funding. The Department for education estimates that less than a

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quarter of the 24,000 schools in England are closed today but many

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more will have been disrupted putting pupils and parents at the

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centre of this dispute. The publicist Max Clifford has begun

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giving evidence at his trial. He has contradicted allegations from one

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woman who says he indecently assaulted her in his car in 1966. Mr

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Clifford told the court he couldn't drive and didn't have a car at the

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time. The 70-year-old is facing 11 counts of indecent assault against

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seven women and girls. He denies all the charges. Our Correspondent

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Richard Lister is at Southwark Crown Court. Max Clifford took the stand

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an hour ago. What else has he been saying? That is right. He has been

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speaking for little more than an hour, mostly about his early life

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and career. He has been giving an account of how he set up Max

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Clifford associates and came to be involved in show business. His

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barrister said he intends to spend more time on that before getting to

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the substance of questions. But he said the jury should bear in mind

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that up until now they have only heard one side of the story. The

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struggle well says he will show evidence that all the allegations

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against Mr Clifford of force. If there is one of the reasons he can

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say this so precisely is that he believes that once the Civic set of

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allegations are completely contradictory. Namely the size of

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Max Clifford's genitalia. He said all the witnesses so far have

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provided contradict the accounts of that. He says he will produce

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evidence that they are all wrong and will produce diaries written by Max

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Clifford and put into storage. He says he did not have access to them

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while he was being spoken to by police. And he was not aware of them

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until relatively recently. He said he will -- these will shed new light

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on these allegations. Mr Clifford denies all 11 of the allegations

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against him. Our top story this lunchtime. French satellite pictures

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show 122 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean - the

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authorities call it the strongest lead yet in the search for the

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missing plane. And still to come. An extraordinary escape for a

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construction worker trapped on the top floor of a blazing building.

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Later on BBC London: The multi-million pound rebuild of

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London Bridge Station - we get a look at how it is being transformed.

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And from TV talent show to West End musical - the new show having fun at

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the X Factor's expense. The painstaking search for victims

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of a massive landslide in the north-west of America is continuing.

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The mud is 20 feet deep in places, and hope of finding anyone alive in

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the small town of Oso is fading. At least 24 people are believed to have

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died on Saturday, but around 170 are still unaccounted for. Our North

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America correspondent, David Willis, reports.

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Little by little, officials are getting a sense of what lies beneath

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the thick layer of mud that enveloped this picturesque corner of

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the American north-west on Saturday. It is not a pretty

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picture. Such was the speed and ferocity of the mudslide that it

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appears many in Oso were unable to escape, and ended up being buried

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alive. We are finding that these vehicles are twisted into pieces. I

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saw a car out there and I saw one piece of a car, and it was just all

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twisted. It is amazing, the magnitude and the force that this

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slide has created and what it has done. Almost as troubling as the

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rising death toll, the revelation that a government scientist warned

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of the catastrophe of precisely this kind as long ago as 1999. Yet still,

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people were allowed to build homes here. Officials insist that the

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mudslide was completely unforeseen, and are suggesting that a small

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earthquake in the area if you days earlier could have been to blame. As

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the death toll rises here, officials are warning that the rescue and

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recovery operation could be a long one. They vow to find all the

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victims, but concede that that could take weeks, if not months. David

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Willis, BBC News, in Washington state.

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When Richard Durkin signed a credit agreement for a laptop in 1998,

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little did he know it would result in a 16 year legal battle. Despite

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returning the computer the next day, he was told to continue making

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payments and was placed on a credit blacklist. Today, the Supreme Court

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ruled in his favour. Our legal correspondent, Clive Coleman, is

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here to explain more. Let's start with why he returned the computer?

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He returned it because it did not have an in-built modem, which was

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what he wanted. So he took it back to the store and terminated the

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contract of sale. However, HFC bank said he had to continue making his

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payments under the credit agreement. They also ended up

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putting a default notice on his credit files. He said that

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annihilated his credit rating. He could not buy a house and was very

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upset. He sued and won ?116,000 in damages, but he did not think that

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was enough. So he appealed that decision and lost, so the ?116,000

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but dramatically reduced. So he took his case the whole way to the

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Supreme Court and in a judgement which is great victory for consumers

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but a hollow one for him, he won a ruling which says in effect that if

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you reject goods in a valid way, by implication you are also terminating

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the credit agreement. That is potentially very good for consumers.

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Also, if a credit company, a bank or other organisation offering credit,

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if they want to blacklist you, they have to be certain that you are

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genuinely in default. They owe you a duty to carry out investigations.

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They did not do so in this case. So credit companies will have to be a

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lot more careful now in carrying out due diligence. If they don't get it

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right, they can be sued for negligence and damages. Sadly for Mr

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Durkin, the technical legal reasons, the Supreme Court cannot we

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assess damages, though he is now left with just ?8,000. He did have

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116,000! President Obama is meeting leaders

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of the European Union and NATO in Brussels this lunchtime to discuss,

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amongst other topics, the Ukraine crisis. Our correspondent, Matthew

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Price, is in Brussels. This is about renewing ties, but it is also about

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discussing article issues like reducing your's dependence on Russia

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for energy? Very much so full of when this summit was first conceived

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of over a year ago and spoken about several months ago, they did not

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know Ukraine would be an issue. So we will not get major decisions made

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her about what to do about Russia. We will not get more announcements

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of EU or US sanctions. We may well have a restatement of some of the

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sorts of things which are at the and others have been saying in recent

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days about Russia, but nothing new in practical terms. However, it is

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important to look out for, amongst talks about closer ties between

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Europe and the United States, most specifically regarding a trade

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agreement which would form the world's largest trading block if it

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comes into existence, which they have been negotiating for several

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months now - as part of that, there are talks about energy. Energy is

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crucial in the way the European Union deals with Russia, because it

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gets so much of its gas from Russia. So are there going to be new

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deals spoken of here for the United States to supply the European Union

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with gas? Are they going to talk about the practical ways of building

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infrastructure to do that? A second quick thought on NATO - Barack

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Obama, after he had met European Union leaders here, will head off to

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see the NATO secretary general. There has been a lot of talk from

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the White House about the need to show Eastern European countries who

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feel threatened by Russia that NATO has their back. I am sure there will

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be trying to add to some of the practical measures they have in

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place to do that. MPs are about to vote on plans to

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introduce an overall cap on the amount the UK spends on welfare each

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year. Welfare spending, excluding the state pension and some

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unemployment benefits, would be capped next year at just over ?119

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billion, under proposals set out in the Budget. The Labour leader Ed

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Miliband supports the cap, but some party backbenchers are expected to

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vote against the plan. A construction worker in Texas has

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had a very lucky escape after he was rescued from a burning building just

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before the roof collapsed. Dramatic pictures show how the man became

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stuck on a ledge of the apartment complex, which was being built in

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Houston. Amateur video footage filmed by witnesses in neighbouring

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buildings captured the drama as it unfolded. Lisa Hampele reports.

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He has escaped to the top ledge and in the building opposite, they can't

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believe what they are seeing. Oh, God, oh, God. The winds fanned the

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rooftop fire, which was getting closer. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Rescue

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workers brought the ladder towards him. The fire started as workmen had

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been welding on the roof. They need to get him! A glass window pane just

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misses him. Oh, Jesus. The high-rise building was under construction in

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the Montrose district of Houston, Texas. All this began with a small

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blaze. Hell, he could jump on there. It was another difficult

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decision. They need to move that truck up. Oh, my God. The heat was

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intense, the danger palpable. We should be going. The winds were

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gusting at 20 mph. Hell, yes. Oh, thank Jesus. 200 firefighters fought

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the blaze. People in neighbouring buildings were evacuated, and for

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this man, there was more to come. Oh, my God. Oh, no! He was carried

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away over the tops of the trees to safety. Everyone was amazed. Oh,

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Jesus. I think it is time for us to go. They were thankful that the

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drama had ended with no one even injured. Lisa Hampele, BBC News.

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The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, and Nigel Farage, leader of

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the UK Independence Party, are going head to head in a live broadcast

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about Britain's membership of the EU tonight. They will try to win over

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the public in the first of two debates between "the party of in and

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the party of out". The debates are being staged in the run-up to the

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European Parliament elections in May. Our political correspondent,

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Chris Mason, reports. It all started with this. I will

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challenge Nigel Farage to a public, open debate about whether we should

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be in or out of the European Union. That is now the choice facing this

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country, and he is the leader of the party of out. I am the leader of the

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party of in. Nigel Farage said, about time! It is a good platform

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for the majority of British people, who want our relationship to be

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based on trade, but wants no part of a political union. Those who have

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felt like this have had their views brushed under the carpet. It is not

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under the carpet now. The debate is on. Looking forward to it

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enormously. I have waited 20 years to have a proper debate on national

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media about whether we should be a member of the European Union, so I

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am delighted. Tonight will be like a mini version of this, one of the

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leaders' debates before the last general election. Each leader will

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make an opening statement. They will debate with one another and take

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distance from the audience. You might think it is a bit odd that the

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two big parties in there, the Conservatives and Labour, are not

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taking part tonight. In its own way, Europe is a bit awkward for them

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both . But for pro-European Nick Lake and Eurosceptic Nigel Farage,

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they will hope to capitalise on the clarity of their own views -- Nick

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Clegg. The topic later boils down to this. Are these institutions a good

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thing for the UK or not? It is over to Messrs Clegg and forage to slug

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it out, and over to you to decide. -- Messrs Clegg and Nigel Farage.

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And the BBC News Channel will have live coverage of that debate between

:26:42.:26:44.

Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage from 7pm.

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One of the world's most famous celebrity couples has announced that

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they are splitting up. The actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer

:26:49.:26:51.

Chris Martin are separating after ten years of marriage. In a post

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titled "conscious uncoupling" on her blog, the actress said they had made

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the decision "with hearts full of sadness". Here is Lizo Mzimba.

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Chris Martin and Quinn Paltrow have long been seen as one of the

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world's was high-profile couples -- winner Paltrow. Now after ten years

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of marriage, they are separating. The joint announcement, made on

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Gwyneth Paltrow's blog, said the decision was made with hearts full

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of sadness, but we are closer than we have ever been, but that they had

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decided to split. The web post was titled "conscious uncoupling" . The

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same title was referred to in an accompanying 2000 word essay. What

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does it actually mean? It is taking a life that to this point has been

:27:41.:27:43.

lived together on the same path, and separating it in such a way that you

:27:44.:27:47.

are valuing yourself, valuing the other, honouring your life together

:27:48.:27:51.

and your future life, and you are being accountable for your own

:27:52.:27:55.

emotional reality and whatever it is that is fuelling you to move forward

:27:56.:28:03.

so that you can both evolve. They both enjoyed huge success in their

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careers. Martin's band Coldplay has won eight Brit awards, seven Grammys

:28:10.:28:18.

and sold 70 million records. Her acting career has ranged from her

:28:19.:28:21.

Oscar-winning 1998 the drama Shakespearean love... To last

:28:22.:28:27.

year's biggest box office hit, Ironman three. Six months ago, ship

:28:28.:28:34.

managed on American TV that there are difficulties in long-term

:28:35.:28:37.

relationships. It is not easy to be married for ten years. We definitely

:28:38.:28:41.

have big ups and downs. In their separation statement, they said that

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as they consciously uncouple and co-parent, they still saw their role

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first and foremost to be father and mother to their two children.

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Now the weather. The weather will feel a bit on the

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cult site of the next couple of days. It is a triple whammy of below

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average temperatures. Not a great deal of sunshine, and there will be

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a cold easterly breeze. But that combination of weather is not set to

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last and it will turn warm as we head into this weekend. This

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afternoon's weather comes all the way from the Baltic as it moves

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across Denmark. Then it moves towards the British Isles. This is

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rain bearing cloud. We have also got a strip of cloud affecting Northern

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Ireland and bringing spots of rain. This afternoon, we are looking at

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bursts of rain, continuing to move in. It could be a lengthy spell of

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rain, with heavy downpours here and there. The South West England and

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Wales, not too many showers. Not feeling too bad. Across the

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Midlands, temperatures are on the way down. Feeling chilly. Northern

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Ireland will brighten up a bit of a bit the County Antrim and County

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Down. Scotland has a glorious afternoon, the warmest place in the

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country in the Highlands of Scotland. Overnight, the showers

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will continue to feed in and as the air gets colder, we will start to

:30:10.:30:13.

see some snow falling on some of the hillier areas. We could see a few

:30:14.:30:22.

flakes of snow, and the potential for some frost patches. Thursday

:30:23.:30:29.

starts off on a cloudy note, showers from the word go, particularly

:30:30.:30:33.

across the south-west of the British Isles. As the heat builds, the

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showers become more widespread as we head into the afternoon. Again, the

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showers could be heavy, with some hail mixed in. Temperatures are

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still disappointing. Those cold winds will still be with us on

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Friday, but there are signs that the temperatures are beginning to edge

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up. As we look towards the weekend, this area of pressure in the

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Atlantic will dive southwards towards Portugal, bringing somewhat

:30:59.:31:04.

weather towards us. But at the same time, there will be milder

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southeasterly winds across the British Isles. Look at how the

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temperature map lights up as we go towards Sunday. Warmer weather comes

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from France and Belgium. But for many of us, temperatures will be

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rising. It is just across north-eastern coast is that we could

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be stuck with some chilly weather, but it is not looking too bad.

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A reminder of our top story this lunchtime: a further 122 objects,

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potentially from the missing Malaysian plane, have been

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identified by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean.

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That's all from us. Now on BBC One, time for

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