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Delays discharging patients from NHS hospitals reach record levels.

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The latest figures show the NHS in England has missed key targets

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again amid warnings it will struggle this winter.

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We'll be asking what more can be done to take the pressure off

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Also this lunchtime: Flooded for the second time in just days -

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people in the Cumbrian of village of Glennridding had to be moved

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In the last four days we have tidied out of the whole shop, basically.

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Everything has been put outside for the insurance company,

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and then last night, it started to rain.

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Within a matter of minutes it was back inside the shop,

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The Government apologises after one of England's biggest health trusts

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failed to investigate the deaths of more than 1,000 patients.

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Our hearts go out to the families of those affected.

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More than anything, they want to know that the NHS

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learns from tragedies such as what happened

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to Connor Sparrowhawk, and that is something we patently

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failed to do on too many occasions at the moment.

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In a holding pattern over Heathrow - the Prime Minister will meet

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ministers this evening - but the decision's expected to be delayed.

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A Syrian mother and her seven children drown as they

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Her husband says they were fleeing Islamic State extremists.

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And how catch-up television is expected to dramatically change

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Later on BBC London: Most London hospitals are failing to meet A

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waiting times, according to new figures.

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We're on set with the man who brings droids to life.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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The NHS in England has missed targets in four key areas

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Targets for ambulance response times, A waiting, cancer care

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and diagnostic testing were all missed, and on many

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measures, the figures are worse than this time last year.

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The number of bed-days lost to delayed discharge has also

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In a moment we'll be speaking to our health editor,

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Hugh Pym, but first this report from our health correspondent,

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For many hospitals across the UK like the Queens Medical Centre

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in Nottingham, the pressure on A

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One big reason, the growing number of older, sicker patients

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being treated, and the difficulties in making sure

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they can be properly cared for back in the community.

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We have patients with much more complex patient care needs.

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We also have a huge demand for our services and obviously,

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once we have treated and made people well,

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we have also got to make sure we have got the right care and right

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services to discharge our patients back into the community.

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Even before winter kicked in, the NHS in England

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Figures in October show delays in discharging patients

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were at the highest level since monthly records began

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That in turn causes delays in A, where

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just over 92% of patients were dealt with within four hours,

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Other key targets, ambulance response times, cancer care

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and diagnostic tests were also missed.

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New research by the Nuffield Trust highlights why the system

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Last winter, a tiny proportion of mostly frail,

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elderly patients, just over 3.5%, accounted for more

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than a third of all NHS bed capacity in England.

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The system becomes blocked because wards are fuller

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There is an extra demand during winter, but the real issue

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is whether we can get patients out ay the back door.

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If we can't do that, there is no room for the ones coming

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in and you get this problem with the in performance.

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Surgery is cancelled, patients have to wait

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The NHS in Scotland is performing better.

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One reason, maybe schemes such as this one in Glasgow.

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Patients are discharged from hospital into care homes

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where they can complete their rehabilitation before going home.

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NHS England says the figures underline how much

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hospitals depend on well functioning social care services,

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particularly for older people living at home.

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The next few winter months will be a severe test for the NHS

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Our health editor, Hugh Pym, is with me.

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That is the big concern. Those figures were from October, before

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the busy winter months had even begun. Yes, six out of seven targets

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for NHS in England being missed. The four-hour wait for accident and

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emergency has been missed. And the winter months and cold weather is

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still to come. In Scotland, it is a slightly different story. More

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patients being seen within four hours, although England is ahead of

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Wales and Northern Ireland. The key issue is really being seen as the

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delayed transfers. You have to wait longer at the front end of the

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hospital coming in, partly because there are not enough beds. And that

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is because it is difficult to move people out of hospital and that

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sometimes down to the social care situation not being available. The

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government line is they have committed a lot more money to the

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NHS over the next four years. They say that shows the amount of

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resources available there. Actually, the targets for A are still pretty

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stretching and nine out of ten are being seen within four hours. Think

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tanks say that is for next year. This winter is still to come and

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real pressure there on the whole service. Thank you.

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Well, the BBC News website has more information about how the NHS

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You'll find more news, video and analysis

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Heavy rain overnight has caused yet more flooding in Cumbria.

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A river in the village of Glenridding near Ullswater

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burst its banks for a second time - forcing many people

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Judith Moritz is there. This is the case macro back. Where I

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am standing last night is underwater. It was so blocked tear

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from the floods at the weekend, that when the fresh rain came, add

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nowhere else to go, so for the second time in a week, the water

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went into shops, houses and hotels. It has caused a second round of

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devastation. This morning, they have been doing everything here, not just

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to clear up, but to prevent this sort of flooding.

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This was Glenridding last night, underwater for the second time in a

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week. This was the village minimarket which had only just been

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cleaned up when the river came right back in again. This morning, the

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shop was still under water. The Brown family have owned it for 30

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years. Although this is now their fourth flood, it does not get any

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easier. What do you do? There is nothing you can do. It was up to our

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waste again. We could not do anything. So much of the

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mountainside collapsed in the weekend floods, the river here was

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blocked when the rain came here again yesterday. A call went out for

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big diggers. Local volunteers responded, working through the night

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and the morning to dredge the back. I know everyone around here, so I

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just needed to do my bit to help out. When you see the massive team

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effort from everybody, you have to try and do your bit, haven't you?

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Paul Edgar's own home flooded. Once he bailed that outcome he came to

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pitch in with the river dig. Do you think enough has been done by

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agencies? No, they have done nothing here, the Environment Agency. How

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good has the effort been by the locals? Tremendous, out of this

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world. The Environment Agency are on-site working with local people

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and volunteers. Are they doing the right job, volunteering, that should

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have been done by other agencies like the Environment Agency?

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Resources are stretched. This is a community out doing it itself which

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is brilliant. We will support them to do what they can to make things

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right again. Those who live here no flooding is a risk, but they say

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they have never seen it this bad, and to be hit twice in a week feels

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doubly cruel. The scenery here, the mountains and

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rivers have brought great pleasure. The tourist drive keep somewhere

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like this going, but they also know the very difficult, harsh flip side

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of that is this can be a very cruel place to live and work, when this

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sort of devastation happens. There is still a massive job ahead of

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these people. You can see the are still out. They are still clearing

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this rubble. There is so much of it. They know it will take some time.

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There is also, as well as the volunteers, huge number of different

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organisations. The police, the bar at agency, mountain rescue and

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others who are all trying to coordinate the effort. It has just

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started raining again. They are not expecting another deluge but they

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say before -- until they clear this river fully and it has been properly

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diverted, they will not rest easy. Even when they have done that, there

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is the clean-up to begin. How difficult that is, to begin it for a

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second time. Thank you.

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The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has described the failure of an NHS

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trust to investigate the unexpected deaths of more than a thousand

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people as "totally and utterly unacceptable".

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He was speaking to the Commons following the publication

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of a report which investigated deaths at Southern Health NHS

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Let's speak to social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan

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who's outside the Trust headquarters in Southampton.

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Jeremy Hunt was hauled to the Commons this morning, to explain the

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problems at Southern Health, mental health and learning disability NHS

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trust here in Hampshire. He paid tribute to the family of Connor

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Sparrowhawk, a teenager who died in 2013 at a hospital run by Southern

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Health in Oxford, and whose death led to NHS England commissioning

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this report into how Southern Health investigated all unexpected deaths

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over a four-year period. He all issued an apology to all families

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affected by the trust's failings. Our hearts go out to

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the families of those affected. More than anything,

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they want to know that the NHS learns from tragedies

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such as what happened to Connor Sparrowhawk,

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and that is something we patently failed to do on too many

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occasions at the moment. Nor should we pretend this

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is the result of the wrong There is an urgent need to improve

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the investigation and learning from an estimated 200 avoidable

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deaths, we have every week Mr Hunt said he was particularly

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appalled by the low level of learning disability deaths that

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Southern Health had investigated, just 1% of deaths in that capacity

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were looked into over the period of this report. He said because of

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that, next June the government would introduce ratings for quality of

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care for people with learning disabilities, as well as asking

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Bristol University to conduct a study of mortality rates across the

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whole of England. Southern Health have still not commented on what

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Jeremy Hunt had to say this morning. Thank you.

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The Prime Minister and the Chancellor will meet ministers

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later to discuss the timetable for any proposed expansion at Heathrow.

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A Government-appointed commission has recommended a third runway

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as the best option, but it looks like a decision could be postponed

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Our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott, reports.

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The aircraft might have changed a bit. But the issue has been the same

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for decades. Where should Britain build a major new runway? There is a

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chance the government will finally name a favourite scheme today, or

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they may delay it yet again. Business leaders say a lack of

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flights to new markets is already costing us billions in lost trade.

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The previous government did not take a decision, this government is

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gearing up not to take a decision. We need a decision for the benefit

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of jobs, which is why businesses and unions together are saying, please

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just take a decision. Three years ago, the coalition government set

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this issue into the long grass by setting up an independent

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commission. Last summer, it finally chose Heathrow over its rival

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Gatwick. What is the hold-up? It is physically straightforward laying a

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new runway, but the reason why these projects keep being delayed, is

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because of the problems they create on the other side of the perimeter

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fence. These tiny plastic tubes could stop expansion in its tracks.

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They measure pollution, not so much from the airport, but from all the

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cars, lorries, buses and trains that people use to get there. Areas

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around Heathrow already break European air quality limits.

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Campaigners could use the issue to delay any new scheme in the courts.

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We may delay a judicial review. That could start off six months for an

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initial ruling, but it is very likely it will be appealed and go up

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to the Supreme Court. That could be two or three years. Picking Heathrow

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could come at a personal price for the Prime Minister. Look at this

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poster before the 2010 election. No ifs, no buts, no third runway.

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Heathrow is full, Gatwick is filling up. The government is under pressure

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to say once and for all what it plans to do.

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Let's speak to our Assistant Political Editor, Norman Smith.

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A bit like a heathrow holding pattern - no idea when a decision

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This is the longest-running saga in British politics. They have been

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discussing it since the 1960s, since England last won the World Cup. All

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the signs are they will keep discussing it for some time to come,

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because although the business community is screaming at Mr Cameron

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to decide in favour of Heathrow, there is the politics. The fear of a

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near Tory civil war, if he gives he threw the go-ahead, because Boris

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Johnson, the Mayor of London, has said he will lie down in

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front of the Cabinet. Walking. We could be heading for more fudge and

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delay. Maybe Mr Cameron will say Heathrow has made a terrifically

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good case, but perhaps we should give them a bit more time, another

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six months, just to meet all the environmental criteria. Some fear Mr

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Cameron may even seek to eke out that delay until he is no longer

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even Prime Minister. Norman Smith, thank you.

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The NHS in England misses key targets again -

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amid warnings it will struggle this winter.

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And coming up, we'll have the latest on the emissions scandal at VW.

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In football, a great night for Arsenal and Chelsea,

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we'll have a full sports round-up along with a look ahead at the rest

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of the week's weather - that's coming up in 15 minutes.

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Thousands of migrants and refugees are still trying to get across the

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street to cross the Europe despite the winter weather and as the flow

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of people continues, so do the tragedies. This week a mother and

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her seven children, the youngest just weeks old, drowned while trying

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to cross the Aegean Sea. Only the father survived. Mark Lowen has been

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speaking to him. Somewhere in the vastness

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of the Aegean he lost them. Ali Alsaho scours the spot

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where he and his family took their boat bound

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for Europe, a new life. It flooded and Ali's wife

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and his seven children drowned. The smugglers told them

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they wouldn't need life jackets, How to comprehend such a tragedy -

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it is too much to bear. They had fled Islamic State

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hoping for sanctuary, believing the worst

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horrors were behind them. TRANSLATION: I had the most

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affectionate wife. I took my family out of Syria

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to escape the killing. My children could have

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had a future in Europe. What is your message to other

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Syrians who want to make TRANSLATION: I would say

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don't take this risk, They said we would reach

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Greece within 15 minutes. Stay in Syria, however

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difficult it is. The bodies of some of his

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children have been found. The others and his wife

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are still missing, but hope The Greek island

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of Chios is so close. This week, six other children -

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Afghans - died here, Turkey is under pressure

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to stop the boats. Shortly after Ali and his family set

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off from here the waves rose up Over 3500 people have died this year

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trying to make the trip to Europe. The EU is giving Turkey money

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and resources to patrol the border But still, even in winter,

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the desperate ones are making His dreams of Europe now

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just wretched memories. How many more will follow

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in his wake? Let's speak to our correspondent,

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Chris Morris, who's on the island of Lesbos - still one of the main

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destinations for people crossing Has the winter weather had any

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effect at all on the numbers who are taking, risking, this perilous

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journey? Very little. I think a lot of policymakers thought if we get

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through to roughly November or so, then we have a few months, a window,

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when the whip -- when the numbers will fall off dramatically, but that

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hasn't happened. Behind me, we have seen 15 boats coming full of

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migrants. All told on average during the first few days of December, 4000

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people a day are arriving on the Greek island, 2000 of them here in

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Lesbos. When you look back through the year the numbers are simply

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astounding. More than 920,000 people, according to the UN, have

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now crossed by sea to Europe during the course of 2015. Some of them

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have come across from Libya to Italy. Most of them, the vast

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majority, from Turkey to the grill islands full -- the Greek islands.

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What we are seeing here in Lesbos over the last few days is the

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direction of the journey has changed. They used to come to the

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northern coast of the island, the shortest sea route from Turkey, but

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in the last week or so, we believe this may be because the Turkish

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authorities are starting to crack down on smugglers in certain places,

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they have been at sea for much longer, up to three or four hours,

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really dangerous journeys. Chris Morris on the Greek island of

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Lesbos, thank you. David Cameron has failed to win

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Poland's support for his plans to change the benefits rules

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for European Union migrants coming The Prime Minister visited Warsaw

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as part of his effort to negotiate a new relationship with the EU

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before the in/out referendum. The Polish prime minster confirmed

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she did not see "eye-to-eye" He said curbing "excessive

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migration" was a difficult goal, but was key to his EU

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renegotiations. The number of people arrested

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on terrorism charges has reached a record level, driven by rises

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in the number of women Arrests of women more than doubled

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to 50, while the number of under-18s Overall, there were 315 arrests

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in the year up to September - an increase of a third

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on the previous year. One of the men who killed

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Fusilier Lee Rigby is trying to sue the Prison Service for compensation

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after two of his front teeth Michael Adebolajo claims

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he was assaulted by officers They were investigated but told

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there was no case to answer. The Ministry of Justice says it

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will "robustly defend" the claim. Volkswagen says it believes only

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a small number of people were involved in the car

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maker's emissions scandal. The firm's new chairman,

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Hans Dieter Poetsch, says the beginnings of the crisis

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stretched back ten years - and that winning back trust

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was the firm's "top priority Let's speak to our Berlin

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correspondent, Jenny Hill, who's at the firm's

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headquarters at Wolfsburg. Wingback trust is hard thing for

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them to do? It certainly is. Today, the two men at the top of the W

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stood together for the first time since the scandal broke and promised

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to do just that -- at the top of VW. They promised to be relentless in

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their pursuit of what they say is a small number of individuals

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responsible for Reading those emissions tests. Interestingly, they

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say those individuals got away with it at the time because of a culture

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if you like in some parts of BW, that culture they pledged today will

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now change. They made promises today the customers, particularly those in

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Europe. They have said all affected vehicles will be recalled and

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repaired by the end of 2016. It will be a staggered recall. They will be

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no cost, they say, the customers and car owners. I asked the Chief

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Executive of Volkswagen, Mateus Muller, whether customers would be

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compensated for what they might perceive to be a loss of -- loss of

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residual value following this scandal. He replied yes, BW are

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trying to come up with some kind of package, but he said there will be

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some form of compensation -- VW. They are still working but they are

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determined to win back trust which they considered vital. In the words

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of the chief Executive, we are fighting for every customer and

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every car. Not so long ago millions of us

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would sit down at the same time on Christmas Day to watch

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programmes like EastEnders Catch-up television now means more

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and more of us won't sit down to watch programmes

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live as they go out - Our technology correspondent

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Rory Cellan-Jones is with me. Television is changing rapidly.

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There are lots of new gadgets. Research shows UK viewers are ahead

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of the game in adapting to the New World. 80% of adults who are

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connected to the Internet are using an online service, such as the BBC

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iPlayer, Netflix, Amazon Prime, or so on, compared with 65% in the US,

:25:18.:25:24.

and 54% in the Japan. When it comes to using tablet computers like this

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to catch up on TV, again we are ahead of the pack. 16% of the people

:25:29.:25:34.

in the UK compared with 6% in the USA and 5% in Japan, way behind.

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It's worth remembering most of us are still watching most of our TV

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live, three hours and 40 minutes a day is the average that we spend

:25:44.:25:48.

watching live traditional TV, although that's falling faster in

:25:49.:25:51.

the UK than in those of the countries we have mentioned. There

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is always this question, is it going to see the end of appointment to

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view television? We have been seeing that predicted for years but it has

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stubbornly refused to happen. We are still watching a lot of live TV. A

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lot of people are looking at the behaviour of 16-24 -year-olds,

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watching YouTube and other forms of tea the com on mobile phones, they

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are not really sitting down to watch appointment to view TV Wash there

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watching other forms of TV on mobile phones. The question is is this

:26:23.:26:28.

change permanent? Who knows? Thank you. American scientists have

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announced as the Robert Dodd has given birth to the world's first

:26:35.:26:38.

test-tube puppies. They were born in July. The sperm and eggs were

:26:39.:26:43.

fertilised in vitro into the host mother.

:26:44.:26:46.

We have seven normal happy, healthy puppies. You will see this one here

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is a cross between a cocker spaniel and a beagle. Where is this one over

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here is a beagle eagle, and they all came from the same litter but they

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had different mums and dads, but were born at the same time and raced

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together. Yes, I like you to! In vitro fertilisation is a really

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powerful tool to help preserve endangered species of dog. If we

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want to breed them in captivity and collect the eggs and sperm we have

:27:19.:27:23.

to be able to do IVF to create new members of that species. IVF is also

:27:24.:27:30.

important for the health of our pets because it opens up the possibility

:27:31.:27:34.

that we could identify certain genes that cause disease and fix those,

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replace them with a good copy of the gene, before those dogs are even

:27:40.:27:42.

born. So instead of trying to cure disease we can help prevent it from

:27:43.:27:45.

happening in the first place. Very sweet, the professor from

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Cornell University there. Today, the North of the UK are

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seeing the bright, sunny skies. That is snow, it is cold, there are

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plenty of snow showers across northern areas. To compensate, the

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skies are bright and sunny. The cold heirlooms across northern areas. The

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dividing line, a band of rain across central areas. To the south, Miles,

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cloudy and white. The rain will fragment as it moves south this

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afternoon. Some sunshine following behind. Across Northern Ireland and

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Scotland, a scattering of showers, some of them heavy and with thunder

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and lightning mixed in, snowdrop -- not just falling over the higher

:28:36.:28:41.

ground, but at lower levels. Quite a wintry feel. Sunshine in between the

:28:42.:28:45.

showers, as they will be for Northern Ireland and the extreme

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north of England. The showers clearing away from Cumbria as the

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afternoon wears on. Some sunshine the northern parts of Wales, the

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North Midlands, but for much of southern England drab conditions,

:28:57.:29:00.

fairly mild but grey skies, outbreaks of patchy light rain. The

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rain will move southwards clearing southern areas, a cluster of showers

:29:05.:29:08.

following behind but as we head into the latter part of the night, most

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showers, find the Northern Ireland and Scotland. These will be wintry

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to all levels. Cold in the north, a bit milder across the South. The

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pressure chart for Friday shows the weather from looming in the English

:29:21.:29:23.

Channel, affecting southern areas and another weather front and

:29:24.:29:27.

tightly packed isobars affecting the northern half of the UK. Quite a

:29:28.:29:32.

wintry feel. Bands of showers moving in, wintry down the lower levels in

:29:33.:29:37.

Scotland. In the centre of the country, dry and bright with some

:29:38.:29:41.

sunshine. Southern counties having the cloud and outbreaks of rain.

:29:42.:29:44.

Temperatures into double figures. For much of the UK, in the cold air.

:29:45.:29:49.

Saturday, the rain band starts to move northwards again. It will push

:29:50.:29:54.

into the cold air across the North. We could see transient snow on the

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leading edge for a time across Wales and parts of northern England. Some

:29:58.:30:01.

heavy rain here. Southern areas will be cloudy and mild again. The North

:30:02.:30:06.

is cold but bright with some sunshine. Cumbria could see some

:30:07.:30:09.

heavy rain for Saturday so weather warnings have been issued for that.

:30:10.:30:13.

As we move into Sunday the rain band through central areas fizzles out

:30:14.:30:18.

and we see is a marked contrast with the milder air across the South,

:30:19.:30:23.

northern areas bright but cold with some sunshine. Keep tuned to the

:30:24.:30:30.

weather forecast until -- or the website online for the weather

:30:31.:30:31.

warnings for Saturday. Now a reminder of our top

:30:32.:30:35.

story this lunchtime. The NHS in England has

:30:36.:30:37.

missed key targets again - amid warnings it will

:30:38.:30:39.

struggle this winter. Flooded for the second time, people

:30:40.:30:49.

in the Cumbrian village of Glennridding had to be moved to

:30:50.:30:53.

safety overnight. We have tied a doubt the shop, everything put aside

:30:54.:30:57.

for the insurance company, then the rain started again and in a matter

:30:58.:31:02.

of minutes it was back in the shop, the deeper than before. George Alec

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