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The US and five Arab allies have launched the first strikes against

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Tomahawk cruise missiles, warplanes, and drones were used in the attacks,

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which targeted several areas - including IS strongholds.

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Reports of up to 50 killed in the attacks - Syria's foreign

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ministry said its UN envoy was given advance warning.

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A tide of refugees continues to flee the fighting - we'll have the

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latest from the border between Syria and Turkey.

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We'll be getting reaction to those air strikes - and assessing the

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likelihood of future British involvement.

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Ed Miliband's big day - as he prepares to outline his ten-year

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plan to save the NHS and to rebuild the UK economy.

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New warnings on ebola - the World Health Organisation warns that

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the number of cases could reach 20,000 by November.

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Tesco delivers a new financial director as figures show its

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And a seal of approval as thousands of sea animals return home to the

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aquatic centre damaged in last winter's storms.

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A woman and child have died after being hit by a train in Slough.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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For the first time, the United States - along with five

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Arab nations - has carried out air strikes against so-called Islamic

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The Pentagon said fighter planes, bombers

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and cruise missiles were all used to target several areas, including

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One report said that up 50 people had been killed.

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European states - including the UK - did NOT take part.

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Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, reports.

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Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from a US warship in the Red Sea

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targeting jihadist positions in Syria for the first time. This is a

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major escalation in the US-led campaign against the so-called

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Islamic State. This was the aftermath on one

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position in north-west Syria. The US says it's disrupted plans to attack

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Western interests, but at least 50 militants are reported to have been

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killed. There are unconfirmed reports of civilian casualties.

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Islamic State has been continuing its media campaign. It's put up

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another hostage video of a captive British journalist, speaking under

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duress. Senior US politicians seem to call the Islamic State nasty

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names, awful, vile, a cancer, an insult to our values. But such petty

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insults don't really do much harm to the most powerful jihadist movement

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seen in recent history. On the streets of the Iraqi capital,

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Baghdad, the air strikes drew a cautious welcome from some.

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TRANSLATION: Definitely, this pleases us. We want the US and

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Western countries to take part in striking strongholds of terrorists

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and criminals who are trying to destabilise the situation, whether

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they are in Syria or in Iraq. In Damascus, Syrian officials say

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they were informed hours in advance by US Secretary of State, John

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Kerry, that the air strikes were coming. Five Arab states also took

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part in some form, according to the US. It is not clear to what extent.

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The participation of Sunni Arab countries is significant, although

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no-one knows how long this coalition will hold. Everybody can agree on

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one thing. ISIS is a threat to every country in the region and from that

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perspective, they have decided this is the number one threat. We will

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get back to squabbling amongst ourselves after this has happened.

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For now, we need to deal with this. On the ground in northern Syria, the

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battles continue. These are Kurdish fighters. Islamic State forces are

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advancing. Kurdish refugees are fleeing. Air power alone will not

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end this conflict. Our political correspondent,

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Ross Hawkins, is in Westminster. No British involvement yet? No

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British involvement yet, but a statement from Downing Street within

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the last ten minutes or so saying the Prime Minister supports these

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air strikes. He is going to hold meetings at the United Nations in

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New York to see what more the UK could do to tackle the threat from

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ISIS. That doesn't necessarily mean extra military action. We know that

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Labour want a UN Security Council Resolution. We are told they are

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seeking to bring together widespread international support for action

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against the Islamic State, but it is not clear what position they would

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take if they sought a resolution and failed to get it. There are plenty

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unanswered questions. Will Parliament be recalled? You would

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assume it would be if military action did go ahead and there was

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that plan. How far will David Cameron go in his support for the

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American campaign? And to what extent Ed Miliband is prepared to

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give him political backing? Thank you.

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The UN Refugee Agency says Turkey urgently needs help to care for

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130,000 Syrian refugees who have crossed the border in recent days.

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It says this is the largest influx in such

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a short period since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011.

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It says it needs a contingency to deal with more than 400,000.

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The refugees are fleeing an advance by Islamic State

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militants, who have seized parts of Iraq and Syria in recent months.

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Our correspondent Mark Lowen is on the Turkish-Syria border.

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How are they coping with this? Well, with great difficulty. Turkey had

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over a million Syrian refugees on its territory before this recent

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wave. It is now very overstretched. Many of the Syrian Kurdish refugees

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had long called for air strikes to stop Islamic State advance and to

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help them back to their homes. Most of them do not want to be here in

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Turkey. Now, they wait to see the fruits of that military campaign.

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Age is no barrier when the desperation to flee is so strong.

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More arrive today, Syrian Kurds escaping the trauma of the Islamic

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State advance on the city of Kobane. The youngest, terrified by the

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experience. Turkey is a safe haven under strain, struggling with over

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130,000 refugees since last Friday. The new arrivals settle where they

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can. Most border crossings have been closed as Turkey tries to stem the

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flow. Those who fled welcome news of the air strikes on IS, hoping it

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could allow them to return home at some point.

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TRANSLATION: The Americans must bomb because IS are killing us.

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This man was a teacher in Kobane, here since the weekend. He says

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military action is a rare piece of good news. I feel happy. I am

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grateful, I am joyful to America, to its partners. I am so happy. Could

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the US and its allies have been spurred into this action by this

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refugee influx and the advance of Islamic State towards Turkey? The

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militants are close to the Turkey border, a vital NATO member. With

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waves of people coming every day, perhaps that gave Washington the

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final push to strike. Humanitarian agencies have set up

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medical facilities to deal with the crisis. New arrivals are vaccinated,

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but many suffer from dehydration. Some have simply entered the world

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as refugees. TRANSLATION: Nobody was expecting

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the war in Syria to last for three years. Nobody predicted more than

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100,000 refugees would come here. If they keep coming, this crisis will

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get worse. Yesterday we had two doctors here. Now we have six.

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The political tension continues, a stand-off between Turks and Kurds,

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two people who fought a 30-year civil war here. The refugee wave has

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brought hostility back to the surface.

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The military action they wanted has finally come. Can it halt this

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crisis and the march of Islamic State?

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Simon, Turkey declined to be part of the military-led coalition. It said

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it would not allow its bases to be used for air strikes. It would

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support the operation in a humanitarian capacity, but when it

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made that pledge, it did not expect the sheer numbers to have come in

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the space of the last five days. Thank you.

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Our diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall, is here.

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Looking at these air strikes, how surprising is that? We knew that

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something like this was on the cards. The United States was

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bullying a coalition. It was clear there would have to be strikes in

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Iraq and Syria where IS strongholds are, if there was going to be any

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hope of degrading these extremists. What is interesting is that it is a

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whole array of Sunni-Arab allies who have joined the US in the strikes.

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We don't know how much they are involved in the military action. It

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has been an intensive night of strikes. Over 50 strikes across

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northern and eastern Syria, so it is very dramatic. What it does do is

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raise lots of questions. How effective is this going to be?

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Everyone was anticipating this, including the extremists, who it is

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thought dispersed some of their fighters and equipment from their

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strongholds in Raqqa, so how far has this night degraded them? How far

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have there been civilian casualties? That raises the question, are there

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going to be more? If this is going to be a sustained campaign, what

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about the non-allies? Syria, Russia and Iran? We know they were

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informed, all the foreign ministers at the United Nations. But if there

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is a sustained campaign, how will they react? Thank you.

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And you can keep fully up-to-date with all

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the developments throughout the afternoon on the BBC News Channel.

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Ed Miliband is putting health at the centre of a ten-year plan to

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reverse the damage he says has been done by the Conservatives.

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The Labour Leader is about to deliver his last big

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Labour Party Conference Speech ahead of next year's general election.

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Details are expected on a tax on expensive homes, a so-called mansion

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tax - to fund NHS spending - as our political correspondent, Chris

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There is no shortage of people here trying to drop ideas into Ed

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Miliband's head. Passage checked and security negotiated, those will on

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the front row will be smiling. He will be setting out Labour's vision

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for the future. It will be a great speech. Ed's speeches are always

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strong and powerful. It will be setting out - I can't tell you what

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is going to be in it. So, those in the know like to tease and trade

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union leaders chip in with what they would like to hear. He has to wear

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trousers! He will talk to a much wider audience. British people have

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to have a good look at him. He has to tell them I'm a decent, honest

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man. When he makes it to the stage, what will we hear? We have borrowed

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a pub campaign's bar game and added Ed Miliband's round of policies.

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Half a dozen big themes form what Labour calls its plan for the next

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ten years. The Conservatives say none of this would be possible if

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the economy is on its knees, as happened when Labour was last in

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Government. This is what the Conference Hall looks like before

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the big speech. Ed Miliband will tell us you have made the

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sacrifices, you know this country doesn't work for you. He know this

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is is his last big speech before the general election. One thing looms

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rather large here - next year. Come polling day, the power is in your

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hands. Our health editor, Hugh Pym,

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is here. We keep hearing from Labour about

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the NHS deficit. These proposals they are putting forward, are they

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enough to plug that gap? Simon, many health experts have warned of a

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looming funding gap in the next Parliament, after the general

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election. In this Parliament, health spending on the NHS in England has

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gone up above inflation, but it has not kept up with rising demand. The

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NHS has had to make efficiency savings which have been achieved and

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money put back into frontline services. Insiders around the NHS

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are saying that can't continue for another five years. It does need

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more public money. There has been some welcome for Ed Miliband, the

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political leaders saying this is what we do, we would raise tax here

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on the mansion tax and maybe elsewhere and spend it on the NHS.

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To give you some idea of the scale of the challenge. The NHS spends

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?113 billion a year at the moment in England. Some are saying there could

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be a ?30 billion funding gap by 2020 if health spending is not increased

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significantly above inflation. Those are the sort of big numbers that are

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still being talked about. Thank you. Our assistant political editor,

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Norman Smith, is in Manchester. This is Ed Miliband's big moment, he

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needs to galvanise the troops? It is a big moment, Simon. The clear hope

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of those around Mr Miliband is that by pledging more cash for the NHS,

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creating tens of thousands of new jobs, that will prove as iconic and

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as popular a policy as his pledge last year to freeze energy prices.

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The hope will be that it will motivate Labour supporters and it is

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evident that Mr Miliband is determined to put the NHS at the

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centre of their election campaign. Why? They believe the Government is

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vulnerable on the NHS, because of anxiety over waiting times, the

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pressure on A and lingering unhappiness over the NHS reforms.

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They also point to the Scottish independence referendum where they

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say the SNP managed to garner a lot of support by saying only they could

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protect the NHS. It's a stance that has risks and the risk is that this

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will be seen as a defensive move, Labour back in its comfort zone

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playing on home territory. The NHS has always been Labour and a Labour

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issue. And the hope of the Conservatives is that this will be

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seen as a reluctance in Labour circles to take them on over the

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economy. Thank you. The US and five Arab allies have

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launched strikes against the Islamic State in Syria. Still to come... A

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total revamp, see animals return home after the storms damaged the

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home. How a victim

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of female genital mutilation is training other teachers to help

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prevent the controversial practise. And from omnibus to battle bus -

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how London buses did their bit There've been more stark warnings

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today about the dangers posed by the Ebola virus with specialists

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at the World Health Organisation claiming the number

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of people with the disease could reach 20,000 by November

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if swift action isn't taken now. Here, it's been revealed that 164

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NHS staff have volunteered to be part of the UK's efforts to contain

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the Ebola crisis in West Africa which has already killed

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around 2800 people there. Here's our health correspondent,

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Branwen Jeffreys. Empty roads, deserted streets. For

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three days, everybody in Sierra Leone stayed at home. The quarantine

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was imposed by government to fight Ebola. Volunteers went from home to

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home and handed out advice on how to control the infection. In the

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climate of fear, rumours have spread as fast as the virus. The lockdown

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uncovered more than 90 dead bodies, themselves a potentially deadly

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source of infection. There was lots of criticism about this at the

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start, but in the end, the government has been able to reach

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70% of households with important messages about Ebola. Clinics in the

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worst affected countries are overwhelmed and desperately trying

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to care for the infected. In the next few weeks, there could be

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thousands more cases. More help is on the way, including from the UK.

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In the last few days, 164 NHS staff have been volunteering. It is tiring

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work. Working in that humidity, working in those suits is buried the

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Hill debating stop when people are tired, people might take short cuts

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are not realise they're not adhering to the protocol. We are conscious of

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that. In Oxford, healthy volunteers are helping with trials of the

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vaccine. The first were injected last week. The race is on to find

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out if it is safe and effective, but that could take months to establish.

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In west Africa, British research money will pay for more trials. They

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hope to test for potential treatments. It won't save lives now

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but it could reduce the terrible death toll in future.

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The mother-in-law of the main suspect in the disappearance

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of 14-year-old schoolgirl Alice Gross has told the BBC she hopes

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Zalkalns was jailed for murdering his wife in Latvia in 1998.

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Forensic tests are being carried out on a knife found in a river close to

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where Alice was last seen - and police continue the search.

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In Latvia, and mother shares the anguish over Alice's disappearance.

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Her daughter married the man who is now a suspect in the case. Arnis

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Zalkalns, who adopted his wife's Sir nine, lured her to a forest two

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years after the wedding and use an iron bar and a knife to murder her.

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TRANSLATION: He is a threat to society. If he has done this to one

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person he could do it to another as well. Alice Gross was last seen at

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the end of August, captured by CCTV, walking across a bridge. The same

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camera filmed Arnis Zalkalns crossing a bridge on a bike 15

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minutes after Alice. He went missing six days later. The search for clues

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has concentrated on the canal and the overgrown tanks of the River

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Brent in London. Yesterday, officers found a 6 inch knife which is being

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examined by forensic experts. The police say they have no evidence at

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the moment to indicate that Alice has come to any harm, but the

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disappearance of Arnis Zalkalns has filled his mother-in-law with

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foreboding. TRANSLATION: A person like that is sick. He should be put

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into a hospital. If someone does something like that, completely

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drunk or so jealous that he cannot control his feelings, then you could

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almost forgive him, but doing it consciously, with a clear mind,

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waiting for the moment to do your dirty work, that I cannot

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understand. The family of Alice Gross continued to wait and hope for

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news of her safe return. A woman and a young child have died after being

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hit by a train at Slough in Berkshire in what police say are

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suspicious circumstances. The train station has been closed while

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officers examine the scene. Troubled retailer Tesco has

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announced that its new chief financial officer,

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Alan Stewart, is to start work today, more than two months earlier

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than originally planned. His first job will be to deal with

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the disclosure yesterday that the company had overstated its latest

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profit estimate by ?250 million. Our business correspondent

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Emma Simpson reports. The turmoil for Tesco is on the

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front page. Amid the headlines, there have been questions about the

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gap at the top of the financial team. Today it parachuted in a new

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financial officer from Marks and Spencers. He is and has started in

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his job after a personal appeal from the new Tesco job to let him start

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two months earlier than planned. -- new Tesco boss. There have been

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profit warnings without the CEO on board. So, this is an embarrassing

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situation. It is resolved now and as soon as he can start the accounts,

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then as soon as Tesco can focus on the important job of fixing its UK

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trading. Tesco's blooms are laid bare in new industry figures. In

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2007, Tesco had a 32% share of the grocery market in the UK. That is

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down to just under 29%. Each percentage point lost represents ?1

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billion of sales. What has changed in the marketplace is that we are no

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longer seeing the growth in the market. Tesco have previously lost

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share but they have not gross sales. With the market static, Tesco have

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not even managed gross sales and we are seeing their sales declining. If

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that was not enough, Tesco's business in South Korea is under

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investigation over allegations that customer information was sold to

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insurance companies. Tesco is cooperating, saying it takes data

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protection very seriously. This retail juggernaut has been one of

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Great Britain's great corporate success stories but right now, it's

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problems seem to be piling up as the share price continues to fall.

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Members of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly will get

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their first chance to debate last week's 'No' result in the referendum

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Scotland's outgoing First Minister, Alex Salmond and the Welsh First

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Minister, Carwyn Jones will both give statements this afternoon.

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In a moment we'll get the latest from our correspondent in Cardiff

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Alex Salmond leaving, membership of the SNP rising, whether Scotland go?

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Scottish politics is moving into a new phase. An extraordinary rise in

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membership of the Scottish National party, nearly doubling to 50,000

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members, making it a bigger political party by membership than

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the Liberal Democrats. Membership of the Scottish Green Party is also

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doubling since the referendum on Thursday. The trick for the

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pro-independence parties is to harness the energy and turn it into

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an argument about these extra powers that should be coming to this

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Parliament, according to all the political parties. There will be a

:24:40.:24:42.

commission that will take shape and discuss these powers. Lord Smith has

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been here this morning and he has been saying that it will be

:24:47.:24:50.

difficult to secure agreement but Scotland expect a deal will be done.

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An interesting period coming up and questions in this for the Labour

:24:58.:25:04.

Party on how they respond. Matthew, what challenge does the assembly

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face there after the last week? For the First Minister, his main concern

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is that Wales's voice is heard as loudly as Scotland and it is

:25:17.:25:19.

involved in discussions about future powers. He made his comments at the

:25:20.:25:23.

Labour conference yesterday, saying there should be home rule for all

:25:24.:25:27.

the four Nations. He has been talking about a constitutional

:25:28.:25:32.

agreement for the past two years. He says the conversation has taken

:25:33.:25:38.

place in three separate rooms, between Scotland, England and Wales.

:25:39.:25:41.

Everybody should be under the same roof, he says. Wales is in line to

:25:42.:25:48.

get more powers. Wales Reel is going through and that could give more tax

:25:49.:25:52.

raising ability. Another commission has suggested that some powers, like

:25:53.:25:58.

policing, could be devolved here. There is a feeling this may have

:25:59.:26:01.

been overtaken by events in Scotland, but all the parties want

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to make sure we do not get left behind.

:26:08.:26:12.

out of their home after a tidal-surge swept

:26:13.:26:16.

into their sanctuary during the floods last December.

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But today, turtles, seals and penguins are among 2,500 creatures

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who are making the delicate journey home to the Hunstanton Sea

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They were sent to temporary homes after floodwater knocked out

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the power system, cracked windows and left the

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It was an early start and Ernie the green turtle was

:26:34.:26:50.

reluctant to leave his temporary aquarium in Great Yarmouth.

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After some assistance, eight-year-old Ernie was

:26:53.:26:54.

on his way back to Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary.

:26:55.:26:56.

When the tidal surge hit the Norfolk coast last winter,

:26:57.:26:59.

10 months on it is almost ready to reopen.

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Ernie was the first resident to be welcomed back.

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Weighing 80 kilos, lifting him was no easy task.

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It was carried out under the watchful eye

:27:09.:27:10.

It did not take him long to reacquaint himself with

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It is absolutely fantastic to start seeing the first

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of our creatures returning this morning.

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Over the last few years, Ernie has been one of the most popular

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It was a race against time to evacuate

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the building last December when floodwater reached three feet high.

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The power to the temperature control tanks had been cut

:27:40.:27:42.

Ernie seems happy enough but he will be monitored closely

:27:43.:27:49.

He has got some time to settle in now before he is joined

:27:50.:27:55.

The penguins were the next to come back.

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They will be joined later today by seals

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and otters who are also returning from their temporary homes.

:28:05.:28:08.

Some seemed apprehensive of their new enclosure

:28:09.:28:09.

but one brave fellow couldn't resist taking a look around.

:28:10.:28:23.

A lot of people are glad to see the water, and a lot of people are

:28:24.:28:31.

because it has been dry. A week ago we had some statistics for the first

:28:32.:28:35.

half of the month which indicated it was below average. Then we had a

:28:36.:28:41.

week where we had a few episodes where it absolutely hammered down

:28:42.:28:47.

for a time. In the coming week, we are expecting to see some rain in

:28:48.:28:54.

the high lands, but we are expecting a great swathe and little or any

:28:55.:29:00.

meaningful rain. The reason some rain this week because we have two

:29:01.:29:05.

fronts manifesting themselves towards the North West corner of

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Scotland. Not a cheery forecast for many as it has been but you will

:29:13.:29:16.

notice that there are many parts of southern England and Wales that will

:29:17.:29:18.

be dry for a good part of the afternoon. A moderate burst creeping

:29:19.:29:26.

into Scotland late in the day. Make the most of the dry weather in

:29:27.:29:29.

Northern Ireland because it won't be like that to dusk. The odd moderate

:29:30.:29:34.

burst running through to the Pennines and perhaps later, across

:29:35.:29:40.

North Wales. Generally, you get the sense that the raw many locations

:29:41.:29:44.

which will be in for a dry and fine afternoon. Those two zones of

:29:45.:29:51.

relatively wet weather will ease their way further south and we can.

:29:52.:29:57.

The consequence of all that cloud is that it will not be as cold as last

:29:58.:30:01.

night, and we will not have the fog that we had in southern England that

:30:02.:30:06.

you saw today. There they are, the two fronts. They will take their

:30:07.:30:12.

cloud and rain further south and east, across England. Following on

:30:13.:30:21.

behind, we all join in the fun with mine, dry weather. One or two

:30:22.:30:27.

passing showers on a north-westerly breeze. Temperatures around the mid

:30:28.:30:33.

teens or 20 degrees, exactly where it should be for this time of year.

:30:34.:30:38.

Thursday, the fronts will tend to be away from the UK. A lot of isobars

:30:39.:30:47.

on the chart, though. One of the themes for the tail end of the week

:30:48.:30:51.

is that we will be breezy but that is coming from one direction and by

:30:52.:30:56.

day and night, it will be relatively warm. For the most part, it will be

:30:57.:31:02.

predominantly dry. Thank you. A reminder of the top story: The US

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Islamic State militants in Syria. There are reports that 50 people

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