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Police arrest more than 600 suspected paedophiles

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Teachers, doctors and care workers were among those arrested

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and 400 children have been protected as a result.

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We will take action, we can take action and we will continue to take

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action. We'll be live at the

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National Crime Agency. Care homes will face

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the same inspection regime as hospitals - those that are

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failing could be closed down. Unemployment goes down to

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its lowest level in six years with Israel urges 100,000

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people in Gaza to leave their And we are alive at a transformed

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Impey War Museum in London which combines familiar exhibits and new

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technology to tell the story of conflict across the decades. Coming

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up in sport on BBC News, with Glasgow's Commonwealth Games just a

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week ago an outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting in the athletes

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village. Organisers say it is contagious but under control.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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Doctors, teachers, and former police officers are among 660 suspected

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paedophiles who've been arrested in what's being called the biggest

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The National Crime Agency spent six months pursuing people who were

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Most were largely unknown to police before the operation.

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Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds is at the NCA headquarters

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The National Crime Agency is a new body and has only been in existence

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for about a year. In that time it has been carefully gathering

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intelligence about paedophiles operating online, mainly those

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sharing and using images of child abuse. It has been passing that

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information to police forces who have been making arrests in huge

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numbers. Has there been a technical breakthrough that has led to this?

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Not so much. It is, they say, something of an intelligence

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breakthrough. 15 years ago police say there were around 10,000 images

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of child abuse. Now there are tens of millions. Senior officers say

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they are profoundly disappointed by the scale of it, appalled by what it

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says about human nature, but please with today's results. In total this

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operation resulted in 660 arrests in the UK, of which only 39 were

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previously known sex offenders. 431 children have either been protected

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from potential abuse, or what the NCA describes as safeguarded from

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actual harm. 833 buildings have been raided and searched. There is a role

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that law enforcement can play, but there is a bigger role for service

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providers, for the industry to play, working with us to try and

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disrupt, to try and prevent, and to try

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disrupt, to try and prevent, and to abused in a way that I don't ever,

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ever believed it abused in a way that I don't ever,

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would be used for. abused in a way that I don't ever,

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reluctant to discuss their methods abused in a way that I don't ever,

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increasingly able to abused in a way that I don't ever,

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criminals, not just on the open Internet but also the so-called dark

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web created by the use of special which hides the paths dated takes as

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it travels around the world. -- data. And yet again they talk of the

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Jimmy Savile effect, the way in which detecting abuse in the past

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has led to more recent victims coming forward and reporting what

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has been done to them right now. It was noticeable today how reluctant

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officials here were to give information, both about how

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paedophiles are currently operating online, and how they intend

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technically to try and track them down. A clear strategy of having a

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secret investigation, I think, so they say criminals really don't know

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how they might be caught, so that they start to feel the Internet is

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not a safe place for them to operate.

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Thank you for joining us. In the past half hour the Health

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Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a new rating system for care homes

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that could lead to the closure The so-called

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"special measures" system was introduced for struggling hospitals

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by the Care Quality Commission last Most of those have

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since made progress - but at least four

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remain in special measures. Our Health Correspondent Dominic

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Hughes reports. Another busy day at the Royal

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Hospital's emergency department. For the past year this hospital and the

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East Lancashire hospitals trust that runs it has been in what is called

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special measures but no more. Work has focused on improving the A

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department, staffing levels and the handling of complaints but a more

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fundamental change has also handling of complaints but a more

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place. We have changed, or started to change, the culture of the

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organisation so that when staff see that care being delivered is in

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safe, personal or effective they have the confidence to feel safe

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safe, personal or effective they raise concerns. A year ago in 11

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hospital trusts in England raise concerns. A year ago in 11

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hospital trusts in were placed in special measures, putting them under

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intense scrutiny from health service regulators. Since then five have

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been removed from the process, four remain

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been removed from the process, four for the time being, decisions on two

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are expected later this week. Ministers now want to extend the

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possibility of special measures to 25,000 care homes and companies

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providing home care services. Campaigners on standards in care

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homes say it is positive move. I think the measures could be a

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reinforcement where measures are seen to be inadequate we can text

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with action to protect families and people living in care homes. And

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ministers believe the inspection regime has helped drive up standards

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of care in those hospitals that were struggling. We have realised it is

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possible to make excellent progress in trusts where you have the right

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leadership but I think we have also realised that it is a very slow

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process where you don't have that leadership. But I think the most

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important changes are that we are not going to have a system where

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these problems are sat on for years and years. But improving the quality

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of care in hospitals, or care homes, is a conflict and continuing

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process. Not everyone is convinced inspections are the answer. The

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problem is, with inspection, if you turn up and the place is OK you have

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wasted your money and there was no point in going and if you turn up

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the place is a mess it is too late. So inspection doesn't work. You

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can't inspect quality into everything, you have to have quality

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in everything you do. The real test for this trust and others will be to

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maintain the improvements in care. Dominic Hughes, BBC News.

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Our Social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan is here.

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Looking specifically at care homes what is likely to be the effect of

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introducing this rating system? The rating system will be introduced in

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October by the Care Quality Commission, similar to those

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agencies. They could be outstanding, good, needs improvement or

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inadequate. Focus will be on those agencies that are inadequate. They

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will be given six months to improve from April next year and if that

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doesn't happen the CQC will go back in and provide intensive support and

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it may lead to them being closed. But care homes are not like

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hospitals and this is already leading to questions being asked

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about these proposals. For instance, will councils who paid for a lot of

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care still put residents into care homes under special measures? Would

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family members leave an elderly elective in a care home under

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special measures? Both of those things could lead to care homes

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closing even though they are trying to improve the care. Perhaps most

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importantly care homes in the main are private businesses and there is

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no automatic transfer of residents between them should one of them

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close. The key question is what happens to residents in a care home

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that is earmarked to close all stop when I spoke to the CQC a few

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minutes ago they did not know the answer to that so there are clearly

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a lot of details that need to be worked out. Thank you for joining

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us. There's been another fall

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in unemployment - but earnings are

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struggling to keep pace with The number of people out

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of work fell by 121,000 between March and May, and the number of

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people in work is at record levels. But average earnings, excluding

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bonuses, increased by just 0.7%, the Our Economics Correspondent Simon

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Jack has more details. Many hands make light work, and

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there are now a record number of human hands at work in the UK

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economy. This robotics company is based in the north-east, an area of

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high unemployment, but jobs are being created here at one of the

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fastest rates in the country. In the north-east we have very successful

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sectors which are growing 20, 30% per year. People with the right

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skills are able to participate in that. Between March and May

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unemployment fell to 2.1 million, the lowest level in nearly six

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years, equal to 6.5% of the workforce. In three months 254,000

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new jobs were created. High-end manufacturing has helped create jobs

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in cities like Newcastle, but what about rural communities? Where are

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the jobs opposed to come from here? This community centre in the

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Northumberland village of Waller is trying to provide a home for new

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small businesses like Sarah Bell's. Without plates like this my options

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would be limited, up to Edinburgh or down to Newcastle again, which is a

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three hour commute either way each day. Or I would have to look at more

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drastic options if I want to continue my career, probably move.

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Self-employment typically pays less and it is wages across-the-board

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that are a concern. We have seen incredibly good increases in

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employment and falls in unemployment but underneath the surface wage

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inflation is nonexistent, it is low. People are getting jobs that are not

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well paid. Prices are rising much faster than wages which means that

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although more of us may be working many may not feel better off. Simon

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Jack, ABC News in Newcastle. Our political correspondent is in

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Westminster. The economy is a top Westminster. The economy is a

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subject in the PMQ 's today. The Prime Minister faced the Commons

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armed with those positive figures on unemployment, with more people in

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jobs, almost 2 million more in jobs than when he took power. And of

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course with his newly reshuffled team lined up on the front bench

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alongside him. Ed Miliband's main attack was to say "OK, these may be

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improving statistics but many people are not feeling better off because

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there is still a cost of living crisis". Many people find their

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wages are not keeping up with the rising costs they are facing. The

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Prime Minister threw back at him a comment made by Ed Miliband's Deputy

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Harriet Harman on the radio yesterday. She said she thought

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people on middle incomes should contribute more through their taxes.

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The Prime Minister wanted to know how that was going to help. Not

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surprisingly Ed Miliband was not giving any specific cancers on that.

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There were questions too about the reshuffle. David Cameron said he was

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very happy with his new team -- specific answers. Some of the

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members opposite on the Labour benches might want to reshuffle

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their leader. This was an occasion really where both leaders recognised

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that what voters care about is the economy and their jobs, rather than

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who sits where around the Cabinet table. Thank you very much.

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Israel has warned tens of thousands of residents in north and eastern

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Gaza to leave their homes, as it continues its airstrikes.

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After the collapse of the proposed ceasefire, overnight

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strikes have killed at least ten people, bringing the Palestinian

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Israel says 155 rockets were fired from Gaza -

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A cease-fire now seems a long way off. Israel's air raids on Gaza have

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intensified since initial truce efforts failed. And political

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targets have been in the frame. Warplanes attacked the homes of top

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leaders of the Islamist movement Hamas. This is what is left of the

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home of one of the founders of Hamas, Mahmoud Saha. He was not

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indoors when it was hit by an Israeli air strike last night. It is

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thought he is in hiding. Israel had warned Hamas it would pay a high

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price for rejecting the cease-fire proposal of Israel. And yet locals

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here agree Hamas should attach strict conditions to any truce. They

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want an end to the tight border restrictions on Gaza imposed by

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Israel and Egypt. TRANSLATION: The main priority of Hamas is protecting

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the people. We are supporting them. A solution must be found for us. We

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have had enough of living under a blockade. But for now the

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humanitarian situation is worsening. Today, leaflets also dropped from

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the sky, thousands of people he did Israel's warning to leave Gaza's

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border areas. Many are taking shelter in schools. On the Israeli

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side more sirens shake the nerves of Tel Aviv residents. Overhead

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Palestinian rockets are intercepted by the Iron Dome defence system.

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Israeli officials maintain that their military operation is

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weakening Hamas. I think Hamas itself will meet its end, because

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nobody in the world is going to pay for killing for their support.

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Israeli troops remain along Gaza's borders. With no progress on

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diplomatic efforts to secure a cease-fire there is growing concern

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they could soon be engaged in an even wider military offensive.

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Yolande Knell, BBC News, Gaza city. Our Middle East correspondent James

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Reynolds is in Ashkelon in Israel for us. Picking up on what Yolande

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Knell was saying, 24 hours ago the talk was of ACs five but now it

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looks like escalation. It does. Israel's prime Mr Benyamin Netanyahu

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said last night in a statement that Israel would continue and intensify

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its operations in Gaza a few miles to the south of meat. -- a

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cease-fire. It said it had conducted strikes against at least 39

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locations in Gaza, but still there are Israelis The Foreign Minister

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came here, he said the country needed a ground incursion. There was

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ever raids and rocket warnings, we took shelter and some people said

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they had been living with this the 15 years, they wanted it to stop and

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they wanted the government to continue -- aerate. In the end it is

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the government, the president and the security cabinet that will make

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out the decision on whether to carry out a ground incursion into Gaza.

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The time is 1:16pm. More than 600 suspected paedophiles

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are arrested in an unprecedented operation - teachers, doctors and

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care workers are among the suspects. A head teacher's tender letter

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of support to pupils receiving The government is told that 133,000

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new school places are needed Coming soon to a street corner

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near you - the famous artists hoping The Imperial War Museum in London

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tells the story of conflicts Hundreds of artefacts,

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including tanks and planes, were taken away to be restored

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during a ?40 million facelift. The museum reopens this weekend to

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unveil a series of galleries marking the centenary

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of the First World War. visited the Imperial War Museum

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since it was established in 1917, the First World War was still

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underway at the time. Visitors in a new century will have a very

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different new century will have a very

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technology runs like a thread through every gallery here.

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technology runs like a thread does, it brings the stories of

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conflict alive, this does, it brings the stories of

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shows the events leading up to the outbreak of the war, 1914. I have

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been talking to the team and finding out how they have achieved this

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trans-formation. It stands reassuring close to the Oval cricket

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ground, but behind the imposing entrance, trans-formation. Over the

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last 12 months hundreds of items from tanks, two tunics, have been

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removed and restored. As the construction team tore the heart out

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of the old agent to create area spaces, and large galleries. Bashley

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atrium. Laura helped to choose items that

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will bring the First World War to tomorrow's generations. There has

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been 25 years since we last open First World War galleries, there are

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1300 objects in the exhibition and each one has had to go through with

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huge process of conservation before they have gone on display. Some

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items, like this giant artillery piece, had galleries built around

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them. Others symbolised the savagery and the suffering of war. All our

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precious. This is General Haig's jacket. We have his medal ribbons,

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they are quite damaged by the light, they are starting to fray. We have

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got some special netting. Folding it over. By the time we are finished

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and stitched it down, you should not be able to see it when it is on

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display. In 1920, when the Imperial War Museum first opened at the

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Crystal Palace, it displayed the spoils of victory. Now the museum

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has been born again. Taking us forward to more recent conflicts.

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Korea, the Falklands, Iraq. Within the walls of what was once an

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asylum, reminders of what many feel is the madness of war. There are

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familiar exhibits, these are the uniforms of the nations that faced

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each other in the First World War but they do not stand alone.

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Alongside them, I mentioned the digital technology, displays which

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show conflict, what war meant to the men that wore the uniforms. Equally

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importantly to the civilians that suffered as a result of conflict

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around the globe. To do that the war museum have used their own archive

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footage, photographs, documents, for example you can go through a First

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World War trench in this gallery, you can listen to a description of

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the D-Day beaches, you can hear the voices of those who were there. And

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the sounds which helped to bring it to life. All of these physical

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objects have some sort of context. The galleries, if you look at the

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atrium, it begins with World War I, moving up towards modern conflicts,

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and there is an empty floor which will exhibit materials from

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conflicts yet to come. Thank you for joining us.

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A court in the Netherlands has ruled that the Dutch government was liable

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for the deaths of more than 300 Bosnian Muslims

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Relatives of the victims had sued over the failure of Dutch

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peacekeeping troops to prevent the killings by Bosnian Serb forces.

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Relatives of the Bosnian Muslims in and boys slaughtered at Srebrenica

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have waged a lengthy legal campaign to have the Dutch government held

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responsible for the killings on the grounds that the Dutch peacekeepers

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failed to protect them from Serbian forces. The mothers of Srebrenica as

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they call themselves, won a partial victory today with the ruling that

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the government could be held liable in the deaths of 300 Muslims, but

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not all of them. Their leader says this could leave them having to tell

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a mother that for one of her sons there was Dutch responsibility but

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for another, there was not. So she said the battle for justice and

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truth would continue. A few month before the end of the Bosnian war

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thousands of Muslims from surrounding villages had gathered in

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Srebrenica, to escape the Serbian forces. The Muslim enclave was under

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the protection of Dutch troops of the United Nations. But then it was

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overrun by paramilitary units. Their general is now on trial, accused of

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war crimes. Terrified civilians were removed from the camp without the

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Dutch intervening. The massacre of men and boys that followed is

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considered Europe's worst since World War II. Some experts say

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today's judgement will mean countries thinking more carefully

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about deploying peacekeeping troops to conflict areas. It is unfortunate

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because peacekeeping is a long established tradition. It is

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important there be a certain amount of protection for individuals that

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are involved in the process. I think in trees need to be held accountable

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for public policy decisions and mistake -- countries need to be held

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responsible. Since the massacre, further remains of those killed has

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brought continued grieving, and today a significant new court ruling

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for the relatives to consider. David Cameron heads to Brussels

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later to try to secure a key role for Britain's next

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European Commissioner. Questions have been raised

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as to whether Lord Hill - who was previously Leader

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of the House of Lords - Our Europe Correspondent Chris

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Morris is in Brussels. And Chris, is there still a bit of a

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scratching heads over the of Lord Hill? Well, some people are

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scratching their heads, others are already sticking the boot in. The

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president of the European Parliament said on German radio today what he

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described as Lord Hill's radically anti-European views could prevent

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him from being confirmed in the European Parliament. I am not aware

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Lord Hill has anti-European views, yesterday, he said Britain's best

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interest lies in playing a leading role in the reformed European Union.

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But I think these comments demonstrate various considerable bad

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blood after David Cameron's unsuccessful attempt to block

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Jean-Claude Juncker from becoming president of the commission. I think

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this could, locate what role that Lord Hill is to obtain. -- it could

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complicate it. Written once one of the leading economic portfolios but

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it's not clear if they can get one -- Britain is looking for one of the

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leading economic portfolios. Thank you for joining us.

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The singer and former X-Factor judge, Tulisa Contostavlos has gone

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on trial, accused of helping to arrange the sale of half an ounce of

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Southwark Crown Court in London heard that she wanted to get

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into the reporter's "good books" after he claimed he

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Now, how do you break perhaps poor exam results to a child without

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One primary school head in Lancashire seems to have found

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the answer, by writing to pupils to tell them

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that tests can't necessarily measure what makes them special and unique.

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The letter has now gone viral on the internet - prompting messages

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of support from across the world as Richard Lister reports.

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SINGING It is nice to be given the rock star

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treatment, and this week the kids in year six at Barrow Fred primary

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School have been cheered around the world. Their exam results were the

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best ever -- Barrow Ford. It is how they were told about them that has

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been the talk of the Internet. The school 's letter praised their

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efforts but reminded them exams do not always assess all of what it is

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that make each of you special and unique. Your laughter can brighten

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the dreariest day, it said, the scores that you get will tell you

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something but they will were not tell you everything. The family like

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the letter so much, they put it on Facebook where it attracted

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thousands of comments and it began to trend on Twitter. I am proud of

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the school that it said those things. It does not just mean, it

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does not just mean about your results. It tells

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does not just mean about your person you are. The school found the

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text on an American education blog, and they are surprised about the

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attention. It is an usual, the children and the parents were not

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shocked. It seems the rest of the country and the world have been and

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we are shocked at the reaction because it is normal for us. The

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letter was not a protest at today's test culture, said the school, more

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a reminder that what kids learn outside the classroom is important,

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too, from dealing with friendships and exploring the world to enjoying

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sports and singing. There are it says, many ways of being smart.

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England fast bowler James Anderson could be banned

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for up to four test matches after being charged with misconduct by

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Anderson is accused of verbally abusing and pushing India

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all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja during the first test at Trent Bridge.

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In turn, England say they will lodge their own complaint against Jadeja.

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The second test starts at Lords tomorrow.

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The second test, due to start. An atmosphere of mutual suspicion?

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Yeah, you have summed it up. I have been speaking to Alastair Cook

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within the last ten minutes, officially he said he was surprised

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India have brought the officially he said he was surprised

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the reaction has been a lot officially he said he was surprised

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stronger. -- behind-the-scenes. This is a level three breach of the ICC

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code, I can remember perhaps one example of a level three breach in

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my history of covering cricket. Cook will not comment specifically on the

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issue itself. When I put it to him that India had brought the

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accusation is a tactic to try to make sure Anderson would be banned

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for some of the series he said, that is what England think is going on.

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Within this context this Test match will begin, this series will

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recommence with James Anderson for now in the England team. Any hearing

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will not be heard with a fortnight, plenty of time for tempers to go in

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the meantime. Thank you for joining us. Time for a look at the weather

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now. The weather will be making the headlines with heat and humidity

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ultimately culminating in some violent thunderstorms you would

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think, potentially at the weekend. Today it is relatively quiet. A

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refreshing breeze across the north and west, this weather front is

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moving through the country with patchy rain. Across Northern Ireland

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and Scotland it is scattered showers, sunshine in between and

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temperatures in the high teens. This weather front is stretching from

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northern England, Midlands, and Wales and into the South West. Hit

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and miss rain, sharp bursts, showers ahead of it as well. Across East

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Anglia and the south-east it will turn cloudy, it will be warm and

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sunny. Already 26 degrees. Through this evening and overnight, this

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front is attempting to reach the south-east and does not make it,

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increasing cloud, quite humid in the south coast. Wind will be lighter

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and it will be fresh across northern areas, temperatures, 12-13. The

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cloud will linger across southern coastal areas, keep an eye on the

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mist as well. For most of us, it will be a fine day, plain and simple

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with sunshine. Some patchy cloud, the winds will be light in the north

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and we will see showers across the West of Scotland. It will be warmer

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than today, it could get into the high 20s. 20 degrees across the

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south-east. Plenty of sport, the cricket at Lords should be fine, a

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full day 's play, and the first day of the Open, it should be sunny.

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Light winds for the first round. There is a risk tomorrow night, and

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into Friday morning, of this weather system giving a glancing blow across

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England and Wales. Bursts of rain, lightning possible across Northern

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Ireland and South Scotland. For most of us the headline will be the heat,

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into the low 30s across the south-east, cooler along the coast

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of Scotland and North East England. Heat and humidity will build

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throughout Friday, even hotter across southern and western parts,

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into the high 30s... This humidity will spark more meaningful

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thunderstorms we think, real potential for nasty storms across

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the UK as we go into Saturday, we could see flash flooding and gusty

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winds, nasty weather to come. Saturday could be a red letter day,

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high humidity, thunderstorms as well. We will keep you posted at the

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BBC weather Centre, it does not look clever at all. Quite a mixture.

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Thank you very much indeed. A reminder of our top story. 660

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suspected paedophiles among them, doctors, and teachers, have been

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arrested in a major investigation.

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