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Voting is underway in the referendum on whether Scotland should become

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A record turnout is expected as senior figures from the Yes and

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No campaigns head to the polling stations to cast their ballots.

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Police reveal that a Latvian man wanted in connection with the

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disappearance of 14-year-old Alice Gross is a convicted murderer.

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Police in Thailand admit they're struggling

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to find suspects in the hunt for the killers of two British tourists.

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A woman dies in the back of an ambulance while waiting in a queue

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of around 15 emergency vehicles outside a hospital in Wales.

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And on course for change, one of the world's oldest golf clubs

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considers allowing women members for the first time in 260 years.

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Plans to axe almost 60% of staff at some tube stations.

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Their Champions League campaign begins with a draw to Schalke.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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The campaigning is over and the people

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Across the nation, more than 4 million people are

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voting in this historic referendum with just a single question

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on the ballot paper - should Scotland be an independent country?

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Polling stations opened at seven o'clock this morning and

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will close at ten o'clock tonight, after a day which is expected to see

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We should know the result early tomorrow morning.

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Here's our political correspondent, Iain Watson.

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Good morning. In Newtown. It is Scotland's biggest ever election,

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with record numbers of people registering to vote. The doors have

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been open since seven o'clock this morning. Prominent politicians were

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quick to cast their vote this morning. Gordon Brown cast his

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ballot in Fife. Alex Salmond was stricken in north-east Scotland. But

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this referendum is not about the famous faces. There are no

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constituencies to be won or lost, it is a straight yes or no to the

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question of if Scotland should be an independent country. The referendum

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has already made history. For the first time anywhere in the UK,

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16-year-olds get to have their say. More than 4.25 million people are

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registered to vote, 97% of those eligible to do so. 100,000 of them

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are 16 and 17. With so many first-time voters, Scotland's most

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senior election official is giving strong advice to make sure every

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vote counts. The best way to ensure their vote counts is to put one

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cross in the box next to the answer that they choose. If the voter signs

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the ballot paper and can be identified, their vote cannot count.

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If they put a cross in one box and a tick in the other it would be

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rejected. Here, turnout tends to be low in elections. But in the

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referendum there has been a steady stream of voters. More than 750,000

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people have already voted by post. Signatures are verified by officials

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and these will be the first votes to be counted tonight. Each of the 32

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local authority areas will be counting results. There are 2600

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different voting places across the country. Ballot boxes will travel by

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boat and helicopter from remote areas. The final declaration will be

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made tomorrow in Edinburgh. Not just the future of Scotland, but the

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future of the UK will be decided. Voting is taking place

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at more than 5500 polling stations The results will then be counted

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in each of Scotland's 32 local authority areas,

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from the smaller island councils to the bigger urban authorities,

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whose larger populations will probably decide the result -

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as Jeremy Vine now explains. Well, the voting takes place

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across 32 areas of Scotland, Later, when we show the results,

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it's green for yes and red for no. Here they all are,

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from Aberdeen City down to the West But what if I order them in terms

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of size? We see immediately Glasgow,

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with 500,000 people, Then Edinburgh, then Fife,

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then North and South Lanarkshire Going all the way over here, we get

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to the island councils, Orkney, It will be these really huge

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councils, Glasgow, Edinburgh and so on, that are watched

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particularly keenly on the night. Well, the bulk of the results

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are expected to come through in the early hours of tomorrow

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morning, between 2am and 5am. The final result will be announced

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by the Chief Counting Officer for Scotland at the national count

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centre at Ingliston here in Edinburgh, and our correspondent,

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James Robbins, is there. Welcome to the Highland All, just

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outside Edinburgh, which serves two purpose tonight. It is both the

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counting centre for the Edinburgh local authority, people will be

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counting the votes just behind me, on these tables, as they will be on

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31 other centres across Scotland. Crucially, this is also the National

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Council And The, where the Chief Counting Officer will supervise the

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process and declare the final result of the referendum. She has made

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clear that she thinks, hopes, that she might be able to declare the

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final result around breakfast time tomorrow. She is unclear about the

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timing because of the complexity of this election. She recognises that

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it could be difficult to bring in ballot boxes from outlying islands,

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dependent on helicopters and the weather to get them quickly to local

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authority counting centres. But she says she has done everything

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possible, taking all precautions to make sure that this poll can be

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conducted fairly and scrupulously. 120% of other papers that might be

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required have been printed to make sure there is no shortage. We Chief

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Counting Officer has said people in the queue by 10pm tonight will

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certainly be able to vote. It will be tomorrow morning when she

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announces the definitive, final result of this referendum.

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Coverage of the results begins at 10:25 tonight

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For the rest of the UK, Huw Edwards will host a night of live commentary

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and analysis from 10:40 this evening

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And of course the BBC News Channel will keep you up to date throughout

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the night until tomorrow morning, when the final result is expected.

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Police say they're now treating a Latvian man, Arnis Zalkalns,

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as a suspect in the disappearance of 14-year-old Alice Gross, who

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Police have revealed that the 41-year-old,

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who vanished a week after Alice disappeared, has a murder conviction

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in Latvia and in 2009 was arrested for indecent assault against

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This is the home of 41-year-old Arnis Zalkalns.

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Since Monday, police have been carrying out

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In the garden, their tents cover items taken from the building.

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Now this man, a Latvian builder, is their chief suspect in

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She left home three weeks ago for a walk, saying she would be back

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She was captured on CCTV striding purposefully,

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At 3:45 that afternoon,

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Police now say the same camera picked up Arnis

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Zalkalns, riding a red mountain bike across the same bridge, in the same

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It is highly likely that the came past her or into contact with her.

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What happened at that point is a focus of our investigation.

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In the direction they were heading, the canal meets this secluded path

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where Alice's rucksack was eventually found.

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Her white iPhone was not inside and has not been recovered.

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Arnis Zalkalns has a conviction for murder in his native Latvia,

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though police have been unable to give more details today.

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In 2009 he was accused of indecently assaulting

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a 14-year-old girl in West London, though charges were never pressed.

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He left home without his bank cards, his mobile phone or his passport.

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In an attempt to trace him, police are offering a reward of ?20,000.

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Latvia is in the European Union and Zalkalns's seven-year prison

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sentence, completed a decade ago, is not an immediate bar to entry to

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Police have no evidence Alice is dead.

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This remains a missing persons inquiry, but it is one of The Met's

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It goes on day and night, as Alice's family and friends wait and hope.

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Police in Thailand say they still haven't identified any suspects

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in the hunt for the killer - or killers - of British tourists,

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Their bodies were found on a beach on the island of Koh Tao on Monday.

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Relatives of 23 year old Hannah have travelled to Thailand and appeared

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at a police press conference this morning in Bangkok, from where

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This is an island in shock. Two brutal murders, right on the very

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beaches which have drawn so many visitors here. Today, they

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commemorated Hannah Witheridge and David Millar in their own way.

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People have told us they are living in fear, fear that the perpetrator

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is still out there and that their tourist industry has suffered

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irreparable damage. Like the families of the victims, local

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people here desperately want this crime to be sold and a cloud to be

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lifted from their island. After four days of false leads and, frankly,

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lacks investigation, police admit they are nowhere near naming a

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suspect, never mind finding the culprit. They have appointed this

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general to lead the investigation. He flew into Koh Tao to see what has

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went wrong, but he had little to say. And no wonder. They now admit

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there is nothing to link anybody they have interviewed so far with

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the crime. The family of Hannah Witheridge arrived in Bangkok

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today, prompting an appeal from the British Embassy to spare them

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further anguish. The family are deeply distressed at this time, and

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my role is to support them at this very, very difficult time. And

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obtaining information directly and very helpfully from the police has

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been good for them and they are very distressed by what they are seeing

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in the media. A comment from Thailand's Prime Minister that good

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looking women in bikinis are not safe on the country's beaches has

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provoked outrage. General Prayuth Chan-ocha has now apologised,

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saying: this horrific crime has presented a

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law enforcement agencies with a difficult challenge. They have yet

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to show that they can meet it. More than 100 British Muslim leaders have

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signed a letter pleading for the release of British hostage Alan

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Henning. The letter in the Independent newspaper calls on

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Islamic State militants to release him immediately and tells those

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responsible but what they are doing constitutes the worst sin. The

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47-year-old was eight warranty on an aid convoy when he was seized just

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after crossing into Syria. An investigation has been launched

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after a woman died in an ambulance which was queuing outside a hospital

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yesterday. It's thought Sonia Powell, who was in her 70s, may have

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been outside the Morriston Hospital in Swansea for up to 40 minutes.

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Let's speak to our correspondent, We know that Sonia Powell was being

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treated at another hospital some 20 minutes away. I was told she was

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there from the start of the week. Yesterday, things became complicated

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with her health. In the afternoon, an ambulance was sent on a 20 minute

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journey to bring her here, to Morriston Hospital. Her family

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expected her to be taken to the cardiac unit. She suffered a

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suspected heart attack with water on the lungs. But there was a huge

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delay, the ambulance was one of at least 11 at the time. Having spoken

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to a paramedic, they felt hugely frustrated they were unable to

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transfer their patients over to the hospital's care because there was

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not enough room to admit them. A doctor was put into the back of the

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ambulance to treat the patient, but sadly they were unable to help her

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and she died, having waited, we are told, at least 35 minutes. Has there

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been any reaction from her family? I have just now been speaking to her

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nephew. He says the family are clearly very upset and very

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concerned. They will want answers, first wall as to why she was

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transferred from hospital to another when it would have been clear,

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perhaps, to hospital managers, that this hospital was very, very busy

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and there would have been difficulties in terms of admitting

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her. They want to know what was done in terms of warning doctors. They

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have had praise for the ambulance staff concerned, but clearly, at

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this very difficult time, they will want answers both from the Welsh

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ambulance trust and health board, who have launched an investigation.

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Voting is underway in the referendum on Scottish independence.

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Polling closes at ten o'clock tonight.

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The result should be known early tomorrow morning.

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Still to come, will the Royal and ancient golf club finally allow

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women to become members? On BBC London: From The Office to

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the West End Stage - Martin Freeman tells us about playing the villain

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in Richard III. And and the East Londoners

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revisiting the hop-picking tradition Police

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in Australia say they've foiled a plan to kidnap and behead members

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of the public - by supporters Hundreds of police in Sydney

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and Brisbane raided properties and arrested 15 suspects

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in the country's largest-ever raid Australia's prime minister,

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Tony Abbott, said the groups were being encouraged to carry out

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the attacks by an Australian who's Our correspondent in Sydney,

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Jon Donnison, reports. Australian police are calling this

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the biggest anti-terrorism operation In the early hours of the morning,

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nearly 800 officers raided dozens The police believe this group that

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we have executed this operation on today have the intention

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and had started to carry out planning to commit violent acts here

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in Australia. One man, Omarjan Azari has appeared

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in court charged with conspiracy to It is believed it involved

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a plot to behead a member of the public, drape them in an Islamic

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State flag and video the attack. The prosecutor said it was clearly

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designed to shock, It comes less than a week

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after Australia raised its terrorism threat level from medium

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to high, meaning intelligence officials believed an attack was not

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just possible, but likely. Quite direct exhortations were

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coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to

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networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration

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killings here in this country. The government is worried about

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the number of Australians fighting with extremist groups such as

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Islamic State in the Middle East. It estimates there are

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around 60 there already with around 100 more offering support

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from within Australia. The BBC has lodged

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a formal complaint with the Russian authorities after

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a news team was attacked in southern Russia while working on a story

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linked to the fighting in Ukraine. The BBC team is now safe and back

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in Moscow, from where our correspondent,

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Steve Rosenberg, now reports. Oksana tells me about the brother

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she calls a Russian hero. Konstantin fought in Chechnya

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and Georgia and this summer He called to say he was going away

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and he sounded kind of scared. He called to say he was going away

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He called to say he was going away, He said, I will be

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heading south-west. I thought perhaps he meant

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the Ukrainian border. Three weeks later her

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brother was dead. Killed by an artillery shell

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from Ukraine, one official said. Another claimed he had died

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during military exercises. TRANSLATION:

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I asked the official, "Do you believe the words you are

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telling me?" I just want to understand how my

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brother was killed. Perhaps not everyone here is

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so keen on the truth. Later that day we were attacked

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by at least three men They hit our cameraman, smashed

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the camera and drove off with it. We didn't expect

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our day to end here in the hospital but we are here because our

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cameraman is having x-rays and is Someone clearly didn't want

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our material broadcast. After four hours of questioning

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at the police station, back in the car we realised our

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equipment had been tampered with. Somebody cleaned the hard drive

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on my computer. Luckily,

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we had made copies of the material. State-controlled media admits that

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Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine, but Russian TV portrays

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them as volunteers who have taken Independent Russian journalists

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brave enough to conduct their own investigations face

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threats and intimidation. TRANSLATION:

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They say there is no war. They say

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our soldiers are not involved. The Chinese e-commerce website

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Alibaba is about to sell part of its business on the New York

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Stock Exchange in a flotation that Last year the company sold more

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goods than Amazon and eBay combined, and tomorrow's sale could make it

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the third most valuable technology firm in the world behind Google

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and Facebook. Let's get more from

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our business editor, Kamal Ahmed. Just how big a deal is this? This is

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one of those classic Internet stories. Alibaba was launched by the

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Chinese entrepreneur in 1999, in his apartment in a city just north of

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Beijing. Very similar to Google, launched in the garage Facebook,

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launched in university dormitory. It has grown from there to be one of

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the world's biggest businesses. Basically doing the same job as an

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Amazon or an eBay. People buy and sell on the side. It gives access

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for tens of thousands of businesses around the world to Chinese

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manufacturers. Through that business, he has built this Alibaba

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organisation, which is now worth $165 billion. He himself is worth

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small change, $13.5 billion. He is a charismatic man. He sings, he puts

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on wigs at company meetings, and he loves the Lion King. He wears dark

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glasses. Charismatic entrepreneur, huge Chinese business, big day

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tomorrow, when it sells a big chunk of itself onto the New York Stock

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Exchange. Now, that is significant, is it, selling in New York? Does it

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reflect a bigger trend of China looking west to sell things? China

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used to be famous for copying what was happening in the West. Now it is

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actually moving back into the West and fighting in the Western market.

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A big Chinese PC maker, for example, also Chinese banks, are very big in

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the West. Alibaba is beating Amazon and eBay at its own game and is

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launching in New York just to prove that point.

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Six women who masterminded and promoted a pyramid scheme and

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duped thousands of investors into parting with their money have been

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The Give and Take scheme operated in south-west England and

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If you thought pyramid schemes disappeared in the 1970s, think

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again. This one attracted 10,000 people, who together invested ?20

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million, but virtually all of them left with nothing. The idea of the

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pyramid is very simple. You pay in at the beginning, by your time, and

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wait for a pay-out. 90% got nothing back.

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Back in 2008, some members of the Give and Take scheme were

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Members joined at meetings like this, in south Wales

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It is all local, it is invite-only, people introducing friends

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They were told that the scheme was safe and legal and could make them

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There was no way I was going to lose.

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Dave Gough was one of those who joined.

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He paid in ?3,000 but he lost every penny.

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A few people at the top made a lot of money.

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The majority of the people at the bottom of the pile lost everything.

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It makes you really angry that there are people who

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After years of legal restrictions we can finally report that six women

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have been convicted of operating and promoting the scheme.

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Hazel Cameron, on the phone here, pleaded guilty at

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Along with Susan Crane, and Mary Nash.

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You have pleaded guilty, what do you say to the people who invested

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Two years ago, Laura Fox, Jennifer Smith-Hayes and Carol Chalmers, all

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in their 60s and from the Bristol area, were also convicted of

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They were sentenced to nine months in jail.

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Three more women, Sally Phillips, Jane Smith

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and Rita Lomas pleaded guilty to promoting the scheme and were given

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A 10th woman, Rhalina Yuill, was found not guilty.

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It started with one person at the top who brought in two friends.

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They each recruited two friends and they

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At this point, the eight at the bottom each paid ?3,000 to

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the person at the top, who walked away with more than 20 grand.

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If the ones at the top now are going to get their money,

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more members need to be recruited, and more and more, and very soon

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you need millions of new members or the whole thing will collapse.

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If something looks too good to be true then it probably is.

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There is no way you are going to make a lot of money out

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of a pyramid scheme unless you are one of a very few people.

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These were the first pyramid scheme prosecutions

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Investigators say that at least 10,000 people joined

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the Give and Take scheme, and 90% of them lost their money.

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The women who run this scheme argued in court it was not a classic

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pyramid, because they said there was an element of skill involved. You

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had to answer a general knowledge question correctly, before you got

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your pay-out. But the prosecution argued that the questions being

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asked were so simple it was a nonsense. For example, who lives at

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number Ten Downing Street, and can you name a piece of cutlery? If you

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are struggling you could have helped from the people there as well. The

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judge said this had not just ruined individuals' lives, who had handed

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over cash, but they said it had torn apart families, friends, neighbours,

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colleagues, who had encouraged one another to join, thinking that it

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was all legitimate but who ended up like so many losing absolutely

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everything. The Duchess of Cambridge will no

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longer visit Malta this weekend on the advice of doctors. The Duchess,

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who was pregnant with her second child, is still suffering from acute

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morning sickness. It was due to be her first official trip overseas on

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her own, but now the Duke of Cambridge will go instead.

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In another landmark Scottish vote today, one of the oldest golf clubs

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in the world, the Royal Ancient in St Andrews, is expected to vote

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Women are already allowed to play on the course, but currently only

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men can join the club - and it's been that way for 260 years.

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Golf is a sport steeped in tradition, but today,

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centuries of male-only domination looks likely to come to an end.

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The Royal Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews is the spiritual home

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Thousands of members of the exclusive club have been urged to

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Professionals like former British Open winner Catriona Matthew

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The fact they take ladies in will encourage some of

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the other men-only clubs in Britain to perhaps look at their policies.

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I think just generally make golf more inclusive

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Of course, this is not the only vote in Scotland today, but

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If women are allowed to become members it could encourage more

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females to the game and at least stop those awkward

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The would-be thief who went into an art gallery without

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The footage was taken at the Castle Fine Art Gallery.

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It clearly shows the man removing the painting, worth several

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hundred pounds, from the wall and trying to hide it in his jacket..

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The man in the frame was stopped by staff outside the gallery.

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But they didn't detain him and police are asking for help

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Not a very picky picture behind me. It is a bit of a mess. Cloud in some

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places, others have woken up to sunshine. For a few of us, we have

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seen lumpy cloud coming up to southern areas. Those clouds have

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produced one of two quite potent thunderstorms this morning. Some

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bangs and crashes, heavy downpours across parts of Hampshire and

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Sussex. They have been moving north-west woods. They are ready

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isolated and most of us have stayed dry. The risk is there in the

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afternoon, a few pushing up into the South Midlands and parts of males.

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Very hit and miss. Warm, muddy and humid. Alonso North Sea coast is the

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cloud come back and keep things cool, 14 - 15 Celsius. Brightness

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further west across Scotland and Northern Ireland. A mixed bag up and

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down the UK through the rest of today. As we go into tonight, most

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of the stay dry. A few more showers across the South, which will ease

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off, but only briefly. Another clutch of storms coming out of

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France as we head towards tomorrow morning and they could be nasty. I

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humid, muggy night in southern areas. 16 - 17 Celsius. Mist and fog

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further north. Let's concentrate on the southern areas tomorrow morning.

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Potentially we could see as much as an inch of rain in a short space of

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time, so warnings have been issued. Be aware of potential disruption

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locally. They move northwards and start to ease off would touch on the

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afternoon. Patchy rain putting down through Northern Ireland and

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Scotland. A lot of dry weather in between. The Crouch-macro could be

:30:38.:30:41.

persistent, keeping it cool. Warm in the sunshine further now -- warm in

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the south. The cloud will start to lift at the weekend, it will

:30:49.:30:52.

brighten up for a time and we will lose the humidity. It will start to

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feel fresher. A cold front will push through Northern Ireland and

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Scotland and by Saturday it will cross England and Wales. Some sharp

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showers on the front for a time. To the south, still some humidity on

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Saturday. Behind that, in the brighter conditions, it will turn

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fresher. Mid to high teens. As we go through Saturday night and into

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Sunday, the French clears south eastwards. High pressure builds in.

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I reckon Sunday is going to be a lovely day. Low humidity, plenty of

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sunshine and temperatures back to normal, the mid to high teens.

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the southern areas tomorrow morning. Potentially

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Voting is under way in the referendum on Scottish independence.

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It closes at 10pm tonight. The results should be known early

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tomorrow morning.

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