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The veteran broadcaster, Stuart Hall, appears in court

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charged with rape and sexual assault involving young girls.

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He pleads guilty to one count of indecent assault against a young

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girl in 1978, but denies all other charges including 15 counts of rape.

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Also this lunchtime: Spotted in south west London - the

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Spotted in south west London - the armed robber known

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as "Skull Cracker", who's absconded from an open prison.

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Unnecessary deaths from asthma - the first national study in the UK

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says medical staff and patients have become complacent.

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MPs summon the bosses of the British firm Astrazeneca and the American

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company Pfizer amid concerns over the impact of a takeover.

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Ukraine's government claim that more than 30 pro-Russian fighters have

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been killed in the rebel stronghold of Sloviansk.

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Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls - Britain offers assistance to

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Nigeria in the search for around 300 pupils taken by Islamist militants.

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??PREVSUB ??NEWSUB on BBC London, strike action

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the Underground is suspended. But what next for London Underground and

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Where does this leave the threat of future action?

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The veteran

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broadcaster Stuart Hall has pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to one

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charge of indecent assault in 1978 against a girl under 16. But he

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denies all the other charges he is facing, including 15 counts of rape.

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But he denies all the other charges he is facing,

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Our correspondent Judith Moritz joins us from Preston now.

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??PREVSUB ??NEWSUB yes, the guilty plea came from Stuart Hall first

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thing. He has accepted the claim of indecent assault against a girl in

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1979. He made that admission standing here in the dock room of

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Court number one, wearing a dark so and striped tie and a pair of

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headphones so that he could hear the proceedings. The 84 you wrote was

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asked whether he could hear what was going on. He answered that he could

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and he confirmed his full name of James Stuart Hall before entering

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that plea. But the veteran broadcaster denies a further 20

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charges. They involve two girls. The first, the prosecution say, was

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under the age of 16, both -- between 19 76 and 1978. Stuart Hall is

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charged with raping her on five occasions, five of them when she was

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under 16, sometimes as young as 14. He is also accused of indecently

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assaulting her twice. And then a second girl who is involved in these

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charges, the prosecution say she was raped eight times, they allege

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between 1976 and 1981, and indecently assaulted three times by

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the broadcaster when she was as young as 11. The prosecution say

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that happened at various locations around Greater Manchester, Stockport

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and Cheshire. The broadcasters that through the rest of proceedings this

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morning. He is of course known for his time as a broadcaster presenting

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the irreverent game show it's a knockout and was also the face of

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regional television here in the north-west. He was a football

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summariser at BBC radio. When he reaches trial, it is expected that

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that case will last for around a week.

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The entertainer Freddie Starr will not be prosecuted for any offence

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following allegations of indecent assault.

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The Crown Prosecution Service said there is insufficient evidence to

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prosecute him in relation to allegations of sexual

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by 13 individuals. Mr Starr, who's 71, was first arrested in November

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Mr Starr, who's 71, was first arrested in November 2012

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another three times over additional claims unrelated to the late DJ.

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MPs are to launch an investigation into the planned takeover of the

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the planned takeover of the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca

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Pfizer. The bosses of both companies will appear in front of the Business

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Select Committee next week. There are concerns that if Pfizer's ?63

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billion pound bid went through, it could lead to a loss of jobs in the

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Our Business Correspondent John Moylan reports.

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It is an ambitious plan to create the world's biggest drug company.

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Pfizer has proposed a ?63 billion deal to take over one of our prized

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scientific firms, AstraZeneca. But now the plan looks to be examined in

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microscopic detail by Parliament. Here we have a situation by

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successful AstraZeneca is potentially being taken over in a

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hostile bid I accompanied has a long history of predatory merger

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behaviour and closing down companies in host countries. This is a really

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serious issue that the committee will be examining very closely.

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AstraZeneca is one of the world's leading pharmaceuticals firms. It

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employs around 50,000 staff worldwide, some 6700 are in the UK.

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Its sales topped 15 billion pounds last year. Little wonder some are

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seeking cast-iron guarantees that these high skilled jobs and

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investment and research will be protected if the takeover goes

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ahead. Many recall craft's takeover of Cadbury in 2010, when assurances

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not to close a plant near Bristol came to nothing when the deal

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finally went through. The government can't just the cheerleading for this

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takeover. We need a proper, independent assessment of whether

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this is in our national interest. David Cameron should stop being a

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cheerleader for this takeover and start being a champion for British

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business. Today, AstraZeneca stepped up its defence, outlining its

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strategy to grow revenue in the years ahead. Major shareholders say

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the firm is well placed to go it alone. The present management have

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turned it round. And I think they have a lot of good drugs in the

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pipeline. If Pfizer are serious, they do have to look at increasing

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things significantly because of the significant tax breaks they get from

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relocating to the UK. The government insists that the proposed takeover

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is a matter for the company 's honour their boards and

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shareholders, but says it is is a matter for the company 's

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honour their boards continuing to engage with both the companies to

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protect British jobs and skills. Our chief political correspondent is

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in Westminster for us now. This is a business deal. How unusual is it for

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politicians to get involved? The truth is that in other EU

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countries, it is not at all unusual. They tend to be more proactive in

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defending key industries. Here, it is unusual. As lunchtime, and the

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ten worst receive that a final decision is entirely a matter for

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the companies. But I do detect a hardening of opinion at Westminster

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against the planned buyout. We now have two separate all-party select

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committee enquiries into the proposed deal. We have a

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conservative mayor of London, Boris Johnson, warning politicians against

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standing aloof from the deal. We have an urgent question in the

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Commons from Vince Cable this afternoon on the deal, and talking

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to senior Conservative MPs, I detect a real resistance to this going

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ahead. One said to me that keeping AstraZeneca was in our national

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economic interest. The question is, what actually can be done? In terms

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of specific levers to halt the deal, it is hard to see what the

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government can do. But if there is sufficient political disquiet, would

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that be sufficient to force Pfizer to back off or to encourage

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AstraZeneca's shareholders to stand firm, or to force the prime minister

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to intervene more directly? Scotland Yard says the missing armed

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robber known as the "Skull Cracker" has been spotted in London. Michael

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Wheatley, who's serving 13 life sentences, went on the run after

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being given day release from an open prison on the Isle of Sheppey in

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Kent on Saturday. Police say Police say Wheatley was seen

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in Twickenham last night. Michael Wheatley, a career criminal

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who is violent robberies of tanks and building societies earned him

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the nickname "Skull Cracker". His spree in 2001 began weeks after

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completing another print and sentence for robbery and he had

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absconded before. This time, he failed to return to some band that

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Hill open prison in Kent after being allowed out at the weekend. Although

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given 13 life sentences, he had served his minimum tariff and was

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being prepared for release. His escape has prompted an urgent review

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in the justice department. I am asking serious questions internally

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about whether we got this right. We are in the middle of changing the

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system so that in future, people who are in the middle of changing the

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system so that in released on temporary licence will be tagged and

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there will be a tighter risk assessment to ensure they are fit to

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be out there. Until now, GPS tags have not been thought necessary for

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prisoners so close to release, but a series of escapes has caused a

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rethink. In her garden, Claire Townsend worries about the threat

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posed by Wheatley, as she recalls how he put a gun to her head during

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a raid in south London. At two points, I thought he was going to

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kill me, at the beginning and when my mobile phone went off. I do have

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to say that as his raids went on, because there were several more

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after that, he was becoming more and more violent. Last night, police

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went to a house in Twickenham after reports that Wheatley had been seen

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there, but they found nothing. Rest assured, the Metropolitan Police,

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the Kent police and other officers who get intelligence and information

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around the country will work tirelessly to bring this man back

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into custody. I guess the citizen will be raising an eyebrow at a man

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who received 13 life sentences being prepared for release 12 years on.

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Michael Wheatley is still on the run. Police have warned the public

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not to approach him, but to dial 99 with any information. Richard

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Lister, BBC News. Asthma sufferers are dying

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unnecessarily, first national study of asthma

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deaths in the UK. The Royal College of Physicians found that complacency

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from patients and medical staff was often to blame. There were more than

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1200 deaths in the UK linked to There were more than 1200 deaths in

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the UK linked to asthma in 2012 - Correspondent Dominic Hughes

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reports. The family of 12-year-old Holly

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knows how deadly asthma can be. Last October should, she died after

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suffering a severe asthma attack. Now her mum wants people to wake up

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to the dangers. I never thought you could buy of it. I suffered asthma,

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and so does my sister. If you go about your daily life, you don't

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thing you are going to die of it. It is something quite shocking. Nearly

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five and a half million people in the UK live with asthma. But while

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it is a potentially life-threatening condition, a new study of as the

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deaths says it is not being taken seriously enough. Too few patients

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are receiving the right specialist care or taking their medication

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properly. The report's authors say complacency is costing lives. Many

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people think that asthma does not need further intervention. But we

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have seen from this report, with a high number of preventable deaths,

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that action does need to be taken. The National review of asthma deaths

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is the largest study of its kind ever undertaken. It involved a

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detailed examination of nearly 200 asthma deaths in the UK. It found

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nearly half of those who died received no medical help during

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their fatal asthma attack. Eight of the ten cases involving children

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were dead before they reached hospital. The number of asthma

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deaths has been falling, but there were still more than 1220 12,

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meaning the UK has one of the highest asthma death rates in

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Europe. Today's report calls for better monitoring and training for

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both doctors and nurses as well as patients and their carers. Dominic

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Hughes, BBC News. Fighting has intensified in parts

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of the Ukraine, with the Ukrainian government claiming that more than

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30 pro-Russian fighters have been killed during an assault on the

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eastern city of Sloviansk. Meanwhile, the separatists say they

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shot down a Ukrainian helicopter the same area on Monday. It's also

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emerged that the airport in nearby Donetsk has been closed. Our World

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Affairs Correspondent Mike Yesterday, these pro-Russian

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separatist were in a tough firefight with Ukrainian government troops.

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Today, guarding this railway crossing in Sloviansk ma they were

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braced for any further government action to seize back control of this

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key town, the stronghold of the rebels. Although the government says

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the latest fighting was costly for the separatists, they are defiant.

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We will fight to the very end, this man says. None of us in the militia

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planned to leave, and we will not leave. The very name of the town of

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Sloviansk speaks for itself. Slavs, and they do not surrender. Civilian

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life goes on among the makeshift barricades in Sloviansk, but the

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government says it now has the town of 120,000 surrounded. This man

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says, we hope the authorities in Kiev will hear the people and stop

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attacking and there will be no casualties and at last, there will

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be a referendum. The whole country in the world will know what we want.

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In Vienna, where the Council of Europe has met to discuss the

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crisis, one of the main issues was Ukraine's intention of holding

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presidential elections on May the 25th. Britain is among dishes that

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believe Russia is trying to thwart these elections. Borussia Park my

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Foreign Minister argued that constitutional reforms must come

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first. Holding presidential elections would be unusual, Sergei

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Lavrov said, while the government is trying to deploy the army against

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some of its people. He also said progress at talks would be possible

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only if representatives of Russian speaking areas of Ukraine were

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involved. And for now, events on the ground. This unverified video is

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apparently showing pro-Russian activist on the move, overshadowed

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the diplomacy. This seems to be increasingly what passes for normal

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life in the contested regions of eastern Ukraine.

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Mike Wooldridge, BBC News. Our top story this lunchtime: the veterinary

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broadcaster Stuart Hall has pleaded guilty in court to one charge of

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indecent assault against a girl aged under 16.

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He denies a further 20 charges, including 15 counts of rape.

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Coming up, I will be live here at the famous stadium in Oxford, where

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60 years ago today, Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile.

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Later on BBC London, stopping the spread of disease - copper pyjamas

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go on trial at a south London hospital.

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Plus: After forming squeeze in the 70s, Glenn Tilbrook is going back,

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going solo on tour. Britain has joined the United States

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in offering assistance to Nigeria in trying to find as many as 300

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schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram three

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weeks ago. The leader of the extremist group

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released a video yesterday in which The White House has described the

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kidnappings as an "outrage". Tomi Oladipo has the latest from the

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Nigerian capital Abuja. A chilling video released three

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weeks after the schoolgirls went missing. The man in the centre

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standing in front of the armoured vehicle is this man. "I abducted

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your girls. I will sell the women in the market. There is a market for

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selling humans. Allah commands me to sell." He is the leader of Boko

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Haram, an extremist group whose name means "Western education is

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forbidden". The sect has used violence in its campaign to

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establish an Islamist state. The girls' families are in agony and the

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government seems unable to ease their pain. This has prompted public

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outrage and now daily demonstrations calling for more action. Nigeria's

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Finance Minister has defended the government's efforts. For the past

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three weeks, the government has been following up every lead using aerial

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surveys, using all the things at its disposal. The problem was that we

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never communicated it well. The shortcomings within the Nigerian

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government are increasingly evident and now the international community

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is offering help. We view what has happened there as an outrage. The

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President has been briefed. His national security team continues to

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monitor the situation there closely. The State Department has been in

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regular touch with the Nigerian government about what we might do to

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help support its efforts to find and free these young women. The Foreign

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Secretary also condemned the kidnapping. We are offering

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practical help. What has happened here that the actions of Boko Haram

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in using girls as the spoils of war, the spoils of terrorism, is

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disgusting, it is immoral. It should show everybody across the world they

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should not give any support to such a vile organisation. It's been three

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weeks since the girls were taken from their school and the priority

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for now must be to return them to their families.

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The Government has said jobseekers could lose their benefits

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temporarily, if they turn down certain "zero-hour contracts"

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Until now, people on Jobseeker's Allowance could say no to such

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But under the new universal credit, job seekers may have to

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take certain zero-hour jobs, or risk losing their benefits.

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Our Political Correspondent Iain Watson is in Westminster for us now.

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Yes, the rules are set to change. At the moment, if you are in job

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keekers allowance and you refuse to take a zero hours contract job, you

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wouldn't lose your benefits because those contracts offer no guarantee

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of regular work. In 2017, the Government wants to introduce a more

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sophisticated way of paying benefits. If you are to be offered a

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zero hours contract, then your local Jobcentre may insist that you take

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that job and that's because if an employer were to offer you little or

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no work in any given week, the new benefits system would top up your

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income. Labour say this is unfair. These contracts are unsuitable for

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some people, people with childcare responsibilities. What the

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Government are saying is there will be exemptions, if there are problems

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with childcare, you wouldn't necessarily lose your benefit. If an

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employer were to insist on exclusivity, that you have to work

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for them and no-one else, then you could turn that down, too without

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any loss of benefit. A lack of psychiatric beds in

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England is leading to some mental health patients being forced to seek

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emergency care hundreds of miles An investigation by BBC News and the

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online journal, Community Care, has found that the number of patients

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travelling long distances for treatment has more than doubled over

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the past two years. The Care Minister Norman Lamb says

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the situation is "unacceptable". Here's our Social Affairs

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Correspondent, Michael Buchanan. We seem to have a few problems

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bringing you that report. The Economic forecasting group, the

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OECD says action should be taken to In its latest report, it suggests

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limiting access to the Government's Help to Buy scheme by asking buyers

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for larger deposits The bodies of five British

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servicemen killed in a Lynx helicopter crash in southern

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Afghanistan, last month, are being The Ministry of Defence says the

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crash was a tragic accident and not It's the worst incident involving a

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British military helicopter in Afghanistan since the war began

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there in 2001. Jon Kay joins us from RAF Brize

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Norton in Oxfordshire. Yes, this will be the largest

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repatriation the base has seen in a couple of years. In the next few

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minutes, the plane carrying the bodies of the five servicemen will

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fly into RAF Brize Norton and one by one, the coffins will be carried

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from the plane by fellow members of the Armed Services. Then, later this

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afternoon, families of the dead men, their friends, colleagues and

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strangers, members of the public, will gather here to hold a

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two-minute silence. I can tell you more about the five men who died

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when that Lynx helicopter crashed ten days ago. They were from left to

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right Captain Thomas Clarke, he was 30. Flight Lieutenant Rakesh

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Chauhan, who was based at RAF Odiham. Warrant Officer Spencer

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Faulkner, he was 38, married with two young children. Corporal James

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Walters, 36, described by his colleagues as a consummate

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professional. Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas, he was 26. The deaths of

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those five servicemen in Kandahar takes the total number of British

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servicemen to be killed in Afghanistan to 453. Thank you.

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60 years ago, on a cold windy day in Oxford, Roger Bannister

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became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes.

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Sir Roger went on to become a neurosurgeon and now aged 85, he's

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revealed that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease.

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His remarkable feat of athletics remains vivid to him and he's been

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sharing his memories of that day with Duncan Kennedy,

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It is hard to believe that it was 60 years ago today that that famous

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race took place here and not much has changed since then. They rebuilt

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the stadium and replaced the cinders that Roger Bannister ran on.

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NEWREEL: 25-year-old Roger Bannister, third from the left, gets

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under way at the Iffley Ground, Oxford, for the race of his life.

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May 6th, 1954, Roger Bannister is less than four minutes

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He's decided this is the right moment.

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Now 85, we asked Sir Roger to relive that remarkable race 60 years on.

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At this point it becomes quite painful.

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He recalls every step in the running spikes he had sharpened himself.

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Despite the slight wind, he is clocking a great time.

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He was now less than a minute from victory.

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I overtake Chris Chataway and begin the finish.

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And Bannister has done it. The mile in three minutes 59.4 seconds.

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For a country ready for post-war success, this was a tonic to

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Did you do it for yourself or your country? I think I did it for both.

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I don't think I could distinguish. There was certainly a feeling of it

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being a national event and something of a landmark for the country. But

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it had to be me attempting it, so it was entangled with my own effort.

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Peeking over the shoulder of Roger Bannister that day was a 15-year-old

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boy in his school cap. That boy was Robin Winstone.

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He was one of just 1,500 people to witness the mile milestone.

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It probably took almost as long as the race to come up with the

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timekeepers. The announcer - and he announced the result - very formal

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in those days, he said, "Here's the result of the one mile. First, RG

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Bannister. In a time of three..." And nothing was heard after that!

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The record that Sir Roger Bannister set here on May 6th, 1954, did not

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last long. In fact it was beaten just 46 days later by his great

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Australian rival John Landy. But like Everest before him, and the

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moon landings after, Bannister was one of those greats who did it

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first, and because of that he'll always be remembered.

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You once said that a man who can drive himself further once the

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effort gets painful is the man who will win.

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Roger Bannister, the man who created a brief time in history. I must tell

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you about that flag pole. It played a very important part on that day 60

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years ago. It is on the Church of account Steven's House. -- Church of

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St Steven's House. He was able to judge from the flag the speed of the

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wind. When he came down that back straight, he saw the flag drop and

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he knew that the record was on. He came round the he corner and came

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in. It is one of the things that's marking this day today. The college

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has put a flag back up today to mark the 60th anniversary. A number of

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events taking place here in Oxford. This morning, we had a team of

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schoolchildren who ran a relay around this track to go sub-four

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minutes. They did it in four minutes and two seconds. An idea of how hard

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it is and quite what an achievement it was for Roger Bannister to go

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sub-four minutes 60 years ago today. Indeed. Thank you. Disqualified

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drivers who kill or seriously injure people are to be given longer prison

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sentences. Banned drivers in Scotland, England and Wales could

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face up to ten years in prison. Ministers say the longer sentences

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reflect the devastating impact on victims and their families. It is

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appropriate the most significant sentences are available for those

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people and I think - and I know many other will think - two years isn't

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enough for people who do that. That is why we are making this

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significant increase. I hope people who are considering getting in their

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car when they are disqualified will think carefully indeed.

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Manchester City is facing a fine of around ?50 million for breaching

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UEFA's financial fair play rules.

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The club - one of nine across Europe being investigated for spending more

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than it earns - could also face a wage cap and a limit on the size of

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Let's have a look at the weather. Many places will probably dodge the

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showers altogether. It was certainly a sunny start. Notice the way the

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clouds have been building up. Large clumps of cloud heading towards

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northern ire lanld. This area is starting to see some of the showers.

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We are expecting to see showers popping up across the South West of

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England and Wales. One or two heavy ones developing over the next couple

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of hours. To the south of that, probably

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staying dry and to the east staying dry for a good few hours yet. Decent

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temperatures, up into the high teens. Similar temperatures across

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the North East of England. It will turn wetter here later on. For

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Scotland, the showers are a bit hit-and-miss. Across Northern

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Ireland, already the showers are getting going. They will turn

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heavier as the afternoon goes on. We have to talk about the increasing

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risk of heavy showers across Wales. Those showers will push eastwards.

:29:46.:29:50.

In fact, we will see a spell of wetter weather running in across

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Northern England, Scotland, clearing from Northern Ireland. But further

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showers coming along on those brisk south-west early winds. --

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south-westerly winds. Wednesday - let's talk sunshine and showers.

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Actually, some more persistent rain is in the frame for Northern

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Ireland, southern Scotland and Northern England. Brighter skies to

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the south of that. For northern Scotland, too, but through that

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central belt of Scotland, it could be quite a cool afternoon.

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If we look further ahead through into Thursday, this developing

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weather system means potential for a fairly unpleasant day for many of us

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on Thursday. Some more general rain across a good part of Northern

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Ireland, England and Wales. That will keep temperatures down a little

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bit. Brighter skies for Scotland. A mix of sunshine and showers almost

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anywhere for Friday. All the signs are that that unsettled weather is

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set to continue into the weekend. The veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall

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has pleaded guilty in court to one charge of indecent assault against a

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girl aged under 16. Police say the armed robber, known

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as the Skull Cracker, who absconded from prison, has been spotted in

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London.

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