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about the way staff are treating residents. You are such a nasty old

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lady. One staff member has been sacked and seven are suspended from

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the Old Deanery care home in Essex after a Panorama investigation. I

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feel like I have let everybody down that trusted me. I fought like a

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tiger to get the funding to get her in there. We'll be asking what this

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says about the state of care in the UK. Also this lunchtime... UKIP

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leader UK. Also this lunchtime... UKIP

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opportunity to stand in the forthcoming Newark by-election.

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Controlling the number of betting shops on the high street. Police

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stop-and-search powers are to be overhauled. And when Harry said

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goodbye to Cressida - the couple have split up, but are said to

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remain the best of friends. On BBC London, the second day

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remain the best of friends. On BBC strikes, London Underground says

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remain the best of friends. On BBC put an end to strikes which have

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been voted for on a low turnout. put an end to strikes which have

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Secret filming by

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BBC Panorama has uncovered evidence of abuse at one of the largest care

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homes in England - showing some residents being pulled about,

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goaded, and even on one occasion, slapped. One care worker has been

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sacked and seven others suspended from the Old Deanery residential

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home in Essex. The care home says it apologises unreservedly and is

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carrying out an independent investigation. Our social affairs

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correspondent, Alison Holt, reports. A care worker at the Old Deanery

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residential home in Essex dresses and elderly woman with early-stage

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dementia, but seems to Shola to understanding. An undercover

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Panorama reporter, working as a care assistant, did see good care and

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smart facilities, but also witnessed the upset of some residents who

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waited too long for help, or who had been treated roughly. A different

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care assistant's handling of the same elderly woman just escalates

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the situation. Then, she slaps her. Consultant nurse Lynne Phair is an

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expert at protecting vulnerable older people. Until we have every

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single care home and care setting working to the standard of a zero

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tolerance of abuse, and that is what this is, we have to keep saying,

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this is not acceptable. The woman who was slapped is called Joan. She

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is paralysed down her right side. Her daughter is shocked by what the

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secret filming shows. I feel like I have let everybody down that trusted

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me. I begged, I pleaded, I fought like a tiger to get her in there.

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The Old Deanery says it is shocked and saddened by the allegations

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against some staff. At another care home, a secret camera put in by a

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family shows just how much distress poor care caused their late

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grandmother. She called nurse 321 times before anyone came. Unable to

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walk, she was desperate for somebody to help her to get to the toilet,

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but it was 2.5 hours before she was taken. She said, I just do not want

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to be here any more. I knew that something was not quite, but exactly

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what, I did not know, until I put in the camera. Two care assistants were

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convicted of common assault for their treatment of Yvonne. Her care

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were described as totally unacceptable. The home has since

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increased training and staffing, and now meets all essential standards.

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In England, the regulator says most homes to meet necessary standards,

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but in the past three years, 1200 homes have been issued warning

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notices for serious failures in care. We are expecting people who

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are managing these services to deliver. People should not be

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getting into this business if they do not care. With an ageing

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population, the pressures on the care system will increase. And we

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can speak to Alison now. First off, we need to say that there is very

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good care, and some very good carers, care workers, who do a good

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job, day in, day out, and it is challenging but also rewarding. But

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as the regulator highlighted, there is a hard-core, if you like, of

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homes where they want to see improvement, so they all measure up

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to the best standards. In the last three years, they have issued more

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than 1200 care homes with warning notices. This is a major step, it is

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a serious step to take because it is the starting point of legal action,

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and it is saying there are failings there. Some of those homes have

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closed as a result. Of those that remain open, 406, more than a third,

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still do not meet all standards. When you look at the effect this has

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on people, in terms of bed numbers, that is 15,500 beds, so, we are

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talking about a substantial number of people in those homes. Now, one

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person who is not getting the care that they are entitled to is one

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person to many. You can see the full report in Panorama. That's Behind

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Closed Doors: Elderly Care Exposed, tonight at nine o'clock on BBC One.

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The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, has confirmed he will not be standing in

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the Newark by-election next month. The contest was triggered by the

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resignation of the former Conservative MP Patrick Mercer over

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a cash-for-questions scandal. Mr Farage says he wants to concentrate

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on the upcoming European elections. Our political correspondent Carole

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Walker reports. Coffee required, after a night of deliberation. Nigel

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Farage she had not bottled out of standing in shelf read, but you can

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pick your battles. If I had stood for the by-election, we could have

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kissed goodbye to our European campaign. You guys would have been

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hassling me, to talk about Newark. And that would have been a massive

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destruction. Last night, Patrick Mercer resigned his seat after he

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was suspended from the Commons for six months. What has happened has

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happened, I am ashamed of it. He was caught by BBC Panorama, apparently

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accepting money. Newark should be a safe seat for the Conservatives, who

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had a majority of more than 16,000 at the last election. It was frankly

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too much of a if he were to stand in Newark and lose, then the damage to

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his own personal credibility, and that of his party, would be

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critical. The truth is, Newark did not look a really attractive

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prospect. Some say he would have been risking a litigant suicide if

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he had decided to stand. Firstly it reveals what a one-man band the

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party is. It is really just froth on the surface of politics. He prefers

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to keep parading around the media. UKIP say they still intend to throw

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the kitchen sink at the by-election campaign, but it is now less likely

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to bring them that coveted seat in Parliament. Our chief political

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correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. It would have been a

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high risk, potentially high reward gamble, but Mr Farage has chosen not

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to take it? Yes, and he reminded me that he used to be a City broker,

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where it was all about risk. He said the risks of potentially losing in

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Newark outweighed the potential of winning. If he had lost, he feared

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it would be good night for him and UKIP, politically speaking. You

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listen to ministers, they say he bottled it. But here is a revealing

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thing. At Prime Minister's Questions just now, during the whole half an

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hour, there was not a single mention of Mr Farage. That is because they

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know, even though he is not standing, he is still a serious

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threat. Two polls this lunchtime suggest UKIP is actually increasing

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its lead ahead of the European elections.

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The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has announced she is to revise

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guidelines covering the way police officers in England and Wales use

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stop-and-search powers. She told the Commons that an inquiry had found

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that more than a quarter of searches may have been illegal and more than

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a half of all forces were ignoring some rules. Our home affairs

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correspondent Matt Prodger is here. How significant is it, what Theresa

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May has said? Perhaps what is most significant is that we have got this

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announcement at all. It has taken nine months to get to this stage.

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There have been a lot of talks about how far to go with reform on

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stop-and-search. Now, she has announced it, she says there will be

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no change in the law, but she says she wants to continue to improve the

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arrest rate, which is very poor, about 10%, in England and Wales. It

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falls disproportionately on young black males, and she says that

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undermines confidence in the police. She says she wants to

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improve the code of practice. Police officers must have good grounds. In

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searching people. But this is essentially a voluntary code, in

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terms of the police forces which will sign up to it. The Labour Party

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is saying, it does not go far enough. What we will see is whether

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that arrest rate continues to improve, that would show that they

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were doing it properly. So, we have to wait and see whether the results

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justify these reforms. There could possibly be primary legislation

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further down the line, we will see. Police have been given extra time to

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question a 15-year-old school boy over the fatal stabbing of a teacher

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in Leeds. Anne Maguire, who was 61 and due to retire in September, had

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served 40 years on the staff at Corpus Christi Catholic College. Our

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correspondent Danny Savage is at the school. West Yorkshire Police were

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granted that extension to question that 15-year-old boy by magistrates

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here in Leeds yesterday evening. So, that process continues. Meanwhile,

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here at the school, people are dropping by all of the time to have

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a look at the messages and to read the tributes left for Anne Maguire.

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Behind closed doors and drawn curtains, there are traumatised

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children in Leeds who witnessed what happened to Anne Maguire. Until

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Monday morning she was the firm but fair teacher, adored by many of her

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pupils. But since then, she is the woman who was killed in their

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school. Close to here lives the child who was standing shoulder to

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shoulder with Mrs Maguire when she was stabbed to death in her

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classroom. I have been speaking to her mother today, who herself was

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taught by Anne Maguire when she was in school. Both of them have been

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left deeply upset by what has happened. And that child's clothes

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have been taken away for forensic examination. Most pupils were back

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in class this morning. The police guard the number of tributes outside

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continues to grow. She was so beautiful, a wonderful smile, a

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wonderful personality. She just radiated this love for everybody.

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She was just such a wonderful, wonderful, special person. Today, a

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police patrol guards the house where the 15-year-old boy, under arrest on

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suspicion of killing Mrs Maguire, lives with his mother. Neighbours

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cannot believe what has happened. He was as quiet as a mouse. You see him

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in the street walking home from school and that is it. You do not

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see him anywhere else. To, here's a lovely kid. The death of Mrs Maguire

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was also what has happened to her has reached far beyond Leeds. And

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inside the school they have been getting messages from all over the

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country, retired staff have been coming in to help with the process

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of getting the school going again. It is a really big community effort.

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Our top story this lunchtime... One staff member has been sacked and

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seven suspended from a care home in Essex after a Panorama investigation

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into the way that staff treat residents. Still to come,

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zero-hours, more than a million people do not know if they have a

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job from one week to the next. Later on BBC London News - how a British

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military dock two from Afghanistan is now using his skills in London's

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hospitals. -- doctor. And we have a special report on stars and shows in

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London. The proliferation of betting shops

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on our high streets could soon be curbed as a result of new powers

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being given to local authorities. Councils will be able to refuse a

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planning application if they're worried about the number of shops in

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their area. There are also set to be restrictions on fixed odds betting

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machines where you can bet up to as much as ?100 every 20 seconds. Our

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correspondent Duncan Kennedy is in Southampton.

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Well this is one of those machines. A fixed odds betting machine. You

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can win hundreds of pounds but also lose hundreds. It is easy to put

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hundreds of pounds into these machines in just the space of a few

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minutes and that is why the government said it had to act to

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protect vulnerable people who might be losing too much money on these

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machines. I odds, high-stakes. The gambling machines where you can win

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and lose large sums of money. Some allow you to bet ?100 every 20

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seconds. They can pay out ?500. The government fears that some punters

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will be sucked in over their limits. So today it has come up with

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new proposals to tighten controls. It wants to stop betting chains

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opening lots of new premises on high streets. It wants a ?50 limit on

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those fixed odds betting terminals and it calls for a mandatory player

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protection code. Not everyone is convinced that they will work. They

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are the most differential forms of gambling. They are called the crack

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cocaine of gambling. I do not think these proposals will help. We need

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to see the maximum stake come down to about ?2 per stake. We have to

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ask if the industry are responsible offering this product and the answer

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is no. Bookies like Sean Gallagher also have their doubts. They already

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operate an industrywide voluntary system limiting time and money spent

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on next odds machines. They feared that they will now have to control

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people 's Mike private lives. It makes us a bit like policemen in a

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way. If they do what to continue gambling they could move on to

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another machine or another bookies or casino. The big betting chains

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say most punters only put on around ?7 steaks at a time and all these

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changes could cause a loss of jobs. We're heavy -- heavily regulated and

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jobs are on the line and for me it is a big worry that a lot of us

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could be out of jobs. But the government thinks this is about

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protecting vulnerable people and the majority would be left to gamble

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responsibly. The industry also points out that it is not just these

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machines but people are also gambling on phones and tablets which

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do not come under the new controls. But the government says it has to

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act when it comes to these sheens to protect the vulnerable minority. --

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these machines. A report into a baby ashes scandal

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at a crematorium in Edinburgh says many parents will be left with a

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"lifetime of uncertainty" about their child's final resting place.

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The inquiry into Mortonhall crematorium followed the discovery

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that staff had been scattering the ashes for decades without telling

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the families. Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon is in

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Edinburgh. What more can you tell us? These parents face the almost

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unimaginable pain of having to cremate their stillborn or very

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young babies at the time. They were told that there had been no ashes

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left to scatter at the time of the cremations. Now after an

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investigation it was confirmed that they were like two by staff at the

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crematorium. Bosses there are thought it would be too distressing

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to tell the parents that they are aware remains after all and not only

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that but in many incidences the ashes of their babies were in all

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likelihood mixed up with the remains of a noble cremation which followed

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and for many families it would be impossible to say where the remains

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of their babies ended up. It is a damning report, critical of

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practices and senior staff at the crematorium and the council. It is

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there was a long-term failure to provide an acceptable service to

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most -- to some of the most vulnerable next of kin. The report

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makes 22 recommendations to change practices. Some of the families

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involved have been speaking this morning. One woman told us she was

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very angry. She said she would now never find out where her daughter's

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remains were laid to rest. Another said it was a roller-coaster of

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emotions and the staff had no right to play God with their rabies. --

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babies. Labour is calling for a more

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"coherent" way of running the different types of state-funded

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schools in England. The Government argues that free schools and

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academies are already held to account more rigorously than

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council-run schools. The former Education Secretary David Blunkett

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has published a report proposing the appointment of local Directors of

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School Standards to monitor schools. An execution in America has gone

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wrong and had to be stopped half-way through because the injection of a

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new combination of drugs was botched. Clayton Lockett, a

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convicted murderer, was still shaking uncontrollably when the

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procedure was halted. He later died of a heart attack. A second

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execution has been postponed and a review of procedures ordered, as

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Richard Lister reports. Clayton Lockett was convicted of

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shooting a 19-year-old woman and watching as his friends buried

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alive. Last night he suffered his own gruesome death. His was to have

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been the first of two executions by lethal injection on the same evening

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at this Oklahoma prison. But something went badly wrong. After

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being strapped to the Gurney, a doctor injected him with a

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sensitive. At six 30 3pm he was declared unconscious and injected

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with two more drugs to end his life. But at 6:36pm he began writing,

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breathing heavily and trying to speak. At 6:39pm he was still

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lifting his shoulders and head, grimacing. And appeared to be in

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distress. The prison official had been expected to confirm his

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execution to waiting journalists but as the time passed, it became clear

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there was a problem. I notified the office of the Attorney General and

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Governor of my intent to stop the execution and requested a state for

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the second execution. But minutes later Clayton Lockett died from a

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massive heart attack. Lethal injection is now the most commonly

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used execution method in America but sourcing the drugs has become

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difficult. The European Union banned their export and American drugs

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companies demand anonymity. Moore lost a legal battle with the state

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to deal with drug supplier. But Clayton Lockett's slow death has put

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the executioner -- the execution of Charles Warner on hold and could

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trigger more lawsuits as to whether lethal injections are humane.

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Iraqis are going to the polls today in the first national election since

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US troops left the country in 2011, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki

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seeking a third term. There is heavy security across the country. Iraq is

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experiencing its worst unrest since 2008, with 160 people killed in the

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past week alone. Our correspondent Quentin Somerville is in Baghdad.

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What is the mood there? Let me just give you a sense of what it is like

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to vote here, it is an act of courage in itself. 12 people were

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killed today as they try to exercise their democratic right. At that

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violence is nothing especially unusual. 1000 people are dying here

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every month as sectarian and ethnic divisions just grow. About an hour

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from where I am in Fallujah, the city has fallen to Al-Qaeda inspired

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militants. The Sunni opposition there have left in their droves. And

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the majority Shia population are suffering also attacks. So many save

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his country could be on the brink of civil war. Today Iraq is a

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democracy, something unusual here in the Middle East. Whether this boat

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will resolve its problems is far from certain. -- this boat.

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-- vote. The SNP European elections campaign has begun today in a bid to

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increase their number of MEPs. Alex Salmond and SNP candidates have

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visited the Pentlands Science Park near Edinburgh to launch their

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campaign. Mr Salmond has said that Scotland needs to have its "own

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voice in Europe" and that being an active part of the EU has helped to

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create thousands of jobs in Scotland. Meanwhile the English

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Democrats have launched their election campaign with a pledge to

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promote English identity. It is fielding candidates under the

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slogan, led the English revolt begin.

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Officials statistics show that nearly 1.5 million people in the UK

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are on so-called "zero-hours" contracts. The estimate suggests

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more people are on the agreements, under which people are not

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guaranteed work from one week to the next, than previously thought. Our

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industry correspondent John Moylan reports.

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Dale King from Surrey wanted more flexibility about how he worked so

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he chose to give up full-time employment and now he has two jobs

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on contracts that are not guarantee him a minimum number of hours. I'm

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not guaranteed any employment but I get to take the time off when I need

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to so I can be there for my children at school plays or sports days or

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whatever, hospital appointments. New figures suggest there are 1.4

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million of these contracts in use across written now at some people

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have than one, it it is still not clear exactly how many people are on

:25:57.:26:01.

them. Several big high-street names including McDonald's made no secret

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of the fact that they use zero hours contracts. McDonald's for example

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says it allows the company to offer staff flexible working arrangements.

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But some say the sheer number of these contracts now in operation

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around Britain is leading to a growing insecure workforce. The

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problem with these contracts is that individuals often have no idea how

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many hours they will get per week and how much pay they will take home

:26:29.:26:31.

at the end of the week. They often do not know if they will be able to

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pay their household bills and they find difficult to organise

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childcare. Workers in bars and hotels, catering and tourism are

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more likely to be on these contracts, as are women and the

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under 25 's. Business groups insist they have helped boost employment by

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giving firms the confidence to take on staff. Employers value them and

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employees value them. Two thirds of people on them say they do not

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require any more hours. Just 11% of people on the contract said they

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would like another job. Critics warn that people can remain on zero hours

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contracts for years and can be prevented from working elsewhere. It

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is clear they are becoming an increasing part of working life.

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Prince Harry and his girlfriend Cressida Bonas have split up, but

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are said to remain "the best of friends". The couple had been dating

:27:23.:27:26.

for two years and were widely tipped to be on the verge of an engagement.

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Rumours that Cressida and Harry would get married gathered pace in

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March when she joined the Prince at one of his official engagements for

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the first time. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell

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reports. They had been together almost two years and there was

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commitment on both sides although perhaps rather more from him. In

:27:45.:27:48.

recent months they had looked relaxed together in public. But when

:27:49.:27:52.

it came to it are realised they were not ready to take it to the next

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step. A public can wind and an engagement. And the principal

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reason, a the bonus has never had any particular ambition to marry a

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prince. Or to be a member of the British Royal Family. Right now the

:28:08.:28:11.

midget priorities are to further her creative ambitions in dance and

:28:12.:28:15.

musical theatre. Of the two of them Harry was the one who was more ready

:28:16.:28:20.

to settle down. He will be 30 later this year. He is no longer able to

:28:21.:28:24.

pursue the job he loved in the Army Air Corps. He now effectively have a

:28:25.:28:29.

desk job in the military. It is a moment in his life when he had hoped

:28:30.:28:35.

to be able to settle down. Yet Harry is only too aware of the

:28:36.:28:37.

difficulties of finding a partner able to withstand the particular

:28:38.:28:42.

pressures of being a member of his family. He talked of those pressures

:28:43.:28:47.

during his deployment in Afghanistan. If you find the right

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person and it feels right it takes time. Especially for myself and my

:28:52.:28:56.

brother. You will never find someone to jump into the position that they

:28:57.:29:00.

would hold. Harry had undoubtedly hoped that Cressida Bonas was the

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right person. Her aristocratic background was impeccable, her sense

:29:04.:29:08.

of fun complement lamented his. Yet she is only 25 and teens it is too

:29:09.:29:12.

soon for her to give up her relatively carefree way of life for

:29:13.:29:18.

marriage to the fourth in line to the throne. The realisation of the

:29:19.:29:22.

time was not right was arrived at jointly by Harry and Cressida, we

:29:23.:29:26.

are told. The decision to part was mutual and amicable. They remain

:29:27.:29:30.

friends but now with more space to consider the future. And in the past

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few months it has been announced that actor Bob Hoskins has died

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following -- following pneumonia. He enjoyed a career spanning four

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decades. Time for a look at the weather. Here's Phil Avery.

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It has been a week of mixed fortunes across the British Isles. There is

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some sunshine around and temperatures are really responding

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to that. But for a good part of Scotland, temperatures just around

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to that. But for a good part of seven or nine degrees. Some

:30:18.:30:22.

thunderstorms around through the afternoon. Further south there is

:30:23.:30:27.

still some sunshine with the odd rogue shower. For Wales and the

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South West of England we have a band of rain coming in. That

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South West of England we have a band set out the stall for the mid-to

:30:43.:30:45.

late afternoon. Some of those showers could be quite torrential.

:30:46.:30:53.

Through the night we have a band of cloud and rain and even some snow

:30:54.:30:56.

further north over the higher ground in Scotland. We have cooler and

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fresher weather waiting in the wings. Then we're off and running

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into Thursday and it looks like hefty showers developing as the day

:31:11.:31:17.

gets going. Some sunshine coming through in the afternoon. Then a

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swathe of cloud and rain further north. Brighter skies in the far

:31:22.:31:30.

north. And it is that cold air that through the course of Friday, behind

:31:31.:31:35.

the weather front, gradually comes further south. Not especially

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right. But the change is the feel and you will certainly noticed that

:31:43.:31:45.

come Friday night. Southwest Scotland to south-west England,

:31:46.:31:50.

widespread ground frost. Some error frost for some. And on into the bank

:31:51.:31:57.

holiday weekend, both overnight frosts will be quite prevalent

:31:58.:32:03.

especially in England and Wales. For the north and West, some cloud and

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rain.

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