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Trouble at the White House, as President Trump's national

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Michael Flynn quits over his contacts with Russia -

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We'll be getting reaction in Washington, and in Moscow.

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The rising cost of fuel helps to push inflation to its highest

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rate for two-and-a-half years, to 1.8%.

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A bribery settlement and the fall in the pound push engineering giant

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An investigation is underway at a Topshop store where

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a ten-year-old boy was fatally injured by store furniture.

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Full-steam ahead - for the first timetabled

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train service featuring a traditional locomotive.

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News:

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Leicester sign England fly-half George Ford for next season,

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after agreeing a deal to buy him out the final year of his

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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It's got to be some kind of record, with Donald Trump facing his first

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scandal and a top-level resignation just 24 days after his inauguration.

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His national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has resigned

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He's alleged to have discussed US sanctions with the Russian

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ambassador before Mr Trump took office, then misled officials -

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including the vice-president - about the conversation.

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The Kremlin has refused to comment on the resignation, saying

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it was an internal matter for the United States.

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Our correspondent Andy Moore reports.

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Just over three weeks into his presidency,

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and Donald Trump has already lost one of his closest advisers.

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This was Mike Flynn at the White House just

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A lonely figure on the front row of a press conference.

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Then a cool handshake from Vice President Mike Pence -

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the man he's been accused of misleading.

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It was Flynn's close links with the Kremlin

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Here he is in 2015, at a dinner in Moscow

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with President Putin, but

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it's illegal for a private citizen to conduct US diplomacy.

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Mr Flynn denied he had spoken to the Russian ambassador about sanctions

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before Mr Trump became president, and on that basis Mr Pence went on

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national television to defend him. I can confirm, having spoken to him

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about it, that those conversations that happened to a car around the

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time that the United States took action to expel diplomats, that they

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had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. In his resignation

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letter, Mr Flynn said he had held numerous conversations with foreign

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counterparts. It went on, "Because of the fast pace of events, I

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inadvertently briefed the vice president and others with incomplete

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information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador." Those

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phone calls had been monitored by US security officials and some of the

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details had been leaked to the press. Within the intelligence

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community, this is how they fight back. They leaked material to the

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press and that compromises Donald Trump's ambitions are around foreign

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policy. Mr Flynn's resignation came after a series of contradictory

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statements from the White House. Yes, General Flynn does enjoy the

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full confidence of the President... Do you have full confidence in? But

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soon after the White House spokesman said the president was evaluating

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the situation. He is speaking to vice president Pence relative to the

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conversation the vice president had with general Flynn. Since news of

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the resignation broke, the official reaction from the Kremlin has been

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muted. President Putin's spokesman said the affair had nothing to do

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with Russia and was an internal matter for the Trump administration.

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But chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the upper house said...

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Well, in a moment we'll speak to our correspondent in Moscow,

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but first Gary O'Donoghue in Washington.

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Trouble for the White House. Anything worse than that? Well, it

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is clearly a huge blow. This man was loyal to Donald Trump, through the

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campaign, he was at his right hand in national security matters,

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clearly discussing matters day in day out multiple times a day, so it

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is a huge blow to Donald Trump, but I think it became a choice between

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honouring that loyalty and effectively humiliating the vice

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president, and it looks like the vice president won that. The White

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House is very keen to limit this to the issue of the vice president

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being misled, and you can understand that for good political reasons,

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because there are still wider questions about what make Flynn

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actually said to the Russians, what promises he made to them, what he

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said to them during the campaign and those are the sorts of areas where

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the White House wants to be careful. Let's go to Steve Rosenberg in

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Moscow. Not much comment there, but what about privately? You know, we

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often refer to these as extraordinary times, but this is

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quite extraordinary. Look at what happened today - the resignation of

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an American national security adviser has got politicians here in

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Moscow reacting furiously, actually, and jumping to Michael Flynn's

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defence, so for example in the upper house of the Russian parliament one

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senator this morning tweeted that Flynn was the victim of paranoia and

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a witchhunt. At the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, a message

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was posted saying that either Donald Trump had been driven into a corner

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or his administration has been permeated with Russiphobia from top

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to bottom. The language is angry and colourful. They saw Mike Flynn as

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someone who champion closer ties between Washington and Moscow. He

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attended a gala dinner here a couple of years ago and sat at the same

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table as Vladimir Putin, but I protect not only disappointment from

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Moscow but also a little embarrassment, because as late as

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yesterday the Kremlin was continuing to insist that before Donald Trump

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stepped into the White House there had been no discussions, no

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conversations between Moscow and Washington, about sanctions, and

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today the Kremlin's comment on all of this was "No comment." Steve

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Rosenberg from Moscow, thank you very much.

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Inflation has risen to its highest level since June 2014.

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The rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index,

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The Office for National Statistics says the increase was driven

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by higher global oil prices and the fall in the

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Our economics correspondent Andy Verity reports.

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Prices may be up, but it is not yet the consumer who is being squeezed

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hardest. It is the company that sells you the goods and even more so

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the companies that produce them. Following the devaluation caused by

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the Brexit fort, this east London brewery is being much more for the

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same raw materials imported from abroad. It has boosted prices by 5%

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but the costs have risen twice as fast. For all businesses but equally

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so for us, we have pensions coming in this year, huge business rate

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increase this year, we have leader are a London living wage employer so

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that is significant -- we are a London living wage employer. We also

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have the raw material prices going up and up for raw materials imported

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so it is a real crunch point for us. Today's inflation rate is still

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below the Bank of England target at 2% with prices rising 1.8% in the

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shops, but pressure is coming through the pipeline. Prices at the

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factory gate are up 3.5% and producers passing on the much higher

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cost of raw materials, up by more than a fifth. Also driving prices up

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is a 17% rise in the cost of petrol and diesel. With that come higher

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transport costs, but the Government point out that inflation is still

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comfortably within the target range. I would remind you that the

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inflation figure announced this morning, 1.8%, is still below the

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Bank of England's target. The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee

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is seeking to manage inflation to maintain itself at or around 2%.

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When inflation is at this level, the economy should be working well. The

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economy is growing much more strongly than opponents of Brexit

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predicted, and on financial markets in the City, the next move in

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interest rates is expected to be up. The market sees a real possibility

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rates may have to increase before the end of this year. Very much a

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reflection of the fact that economic activity has been so strong coming

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into 2017 and the consumer has held up relatively well. Until recently,

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price rises for consumers were tamer than they had been since the 1960s.

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The price of fish, for example, is only back to where it was three

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years ago. So far consumers have been shielded from higher costs, but

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inflation above the 2% target now looks inevitable. Andy Verity, BBC

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News. Rolls-Royce has posted one

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of the biggest corporate The British aircraft

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engine manufacturer, which employs 23,000 people

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in the UK, lost ?4.6 billion last year because of the instability

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of the pound and penalties it had to pay UK and US authorities

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for bribery and corruption. Well, with me is our

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business editor Simon Jack. These figures look terrible. Yes, on

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paper they are horrendous, the worst figures in the company's 133 year

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history, but they are distorted by a couple of things. Rolls-Royce sells

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its engines and crucially the service contract on those for 20

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years at the time and always or usually in dollars. The company's

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big risk is that the dollar falls in value and that those revenues when

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translated into sterling dwindle as the dollar falls. If the opposite

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happens, because they insure themselves against that, those

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insurance policies, and the pound has fallen sharply against the

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dollar, there is a big charge on paper which is called a loss, but it

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is not actually cash they are handing out. To strip that and look

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at the underlying earnings, they are not great. Profits have halved, old

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engines being phased out quicker than they are selling new ones to

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aliens and they have had real problems with their North Sea

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business and offshore oil, so looking at it it looks horrendous,

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but in detail not quite so bad and the future looks a little brighter.

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This could have a big impact on the British car industry? A real game

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changing story. The company that owns usual and Citroen are in talks,

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they have said in the last hour, to acquire the owners of Vauxhall. This

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is General Motors's entire European business. They say they are pushing

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ahead with that and if that goes ahead it will mean this company will

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leapfrog Renault and go into second place in Britain behind Foakes

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wagon, so a lot of interest their for the 4500 people who work for

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foxhole in Luton and the other side -- work for As many as are of the

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opinion, say 'aye'. To the contrary, 'no'.. Simon Jack, thank you very

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much -- that work for Vauxhall. The chairman of Toshiba has resigned

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after the electronics giant announced it expected to post a full

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year loss of ?2.7 billion. The company was forced to write

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off around ?5 billion following problems with its

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American nuclear business. Shares in the company

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have fallen sharply. Let's speak to our correspondent

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in Tokyo, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. What doesn't mean for their

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ambitions in this country? It has serious implications for Toshiba's

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project in the United Kingdom. The nuclear power station which Toshiba

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is a major shareholder in, the company or consortium planning to

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build the new power plant in Cumbria is 60% owned by Toshiba, and also

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the nuclear reactors, the three nuclear reactors they are supposed

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to build in Cumbria, are Toshiba designed. In a statement today the

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company said it will not consider participating in the project

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carrying out actual construction work any more, and it will seek to

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sell its shares to interested parties. The consortium itself in

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the UK has released a statement saying that Toshiba remains

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committed to the project, but that seems to be contradicted by the

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statement here released by Toshiba in Tokyo and puts in doubt that'll

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contract if Toshiba pulls out. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, thank you

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very much. Police are investigating the death

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of a ten-year-old boy at a branch He suffered serious head

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injuries in an incident involving store furniture -

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and died later in hospital. The death is being treated

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as unexplained but not suspicious. Our correspondent Duncan

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Kennedy is in Reading. Yes, Topshop has been closed all

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morning, understandably. The shutters are down. In the past hour

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or so Reading Borough Council extended a statement saying they

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offer their sympathies to the family of the ten-year-old boy involved and

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say its own inquiry is now underway along with that of the police

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investigation. This was the scene at Topshop this morning. These pictures

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show it shattered and security guards outside. Inside the lights

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were on and it was not clear if any staff or investigators were there.

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Police were called there after reports of a ten-year-old boy being

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injured. They say it involved what they called shop furniture. They

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were not any more specific and say it involved shop furniture. All they

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see is the boy was taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital and later

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died from serious head injuries. The reaction of local people who use the

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shopping centre was universally one of sadness. It is just horrible. You

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just feel for his family. I really do. Yes, my thoughts go out to them,

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really. Very sad. Very sad. For the mother, the parents. I feel quite

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bad for the parents because they are... It is my daughter's age, so I

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think it is very sad. In a statement Reading Borough Council said...

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Police say the boy's death is being treated as unexplained but not

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suspicious. Their inquiry into how a child could die in a shop involving

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shop furniture is continuing. Well, that shop is expected to

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remain closed for the rest of today. We've just noticed in the past few

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minutes that a bouquet of flowers has been put outside in the shopping

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centre here. The council themselves are sending a safety expert at some

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point today to start their investigation into just how this

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ten-year-old boy could die under these extraordinary circumstances.

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President Trump's National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, resigns

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over his contacts with Russia, just weeks after taking office.

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And still to come, I will be reporting from the Carlisle line

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here in Cumbria with some wonderful pictures of the first steam train in

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England for nearly 50 is. Coming up in the sport at 1:30pm, Great

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Britain's Fed cup team have been drawn away to Remainiac, the wait

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for a home tie goes on, 1993 the last time that they played on home

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soil. The Queen has opened a new national

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centre designed to improve Britain's The Government says

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hackers are increasing in their frequency, their severity

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and their sophistication, and the National Cyber Security Centre

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will make the UK the safest place Our Security Correspondent

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Gordon Corera reports. A high-tech tour for the Queen

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today, as she formally launched the country's

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new National Cyber Security Centre. She was shown round the new centre

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in London, whose mission is to protect the country

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against a growing tide Cyber attacks, it

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seems, are everywhere. Russian involvement in efforts

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to hack information... The worst case is that

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all of our customers' China's activities in cyberspace

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is a significant source of concern. Hacking that could

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hamper vote counting. Hackers targeting governments,

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businesses, ordinary people. The head of the new centre

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told me the threat is real. The head of the new centre told me

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the threats are real. We've had significant

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losses of personal data, significant intrusions by hostile

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state actors, significant reconnaissance against critical

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national infrastructure. And our job is to make sure we deal

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with that in the most So, what we've done here is create

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a room of the near future and we've got some devices that

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are all connected to the internet. The new centre is not just

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there to protect government, Its technical director showed me how

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internet-connected items like lamps and coffee makers could be

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vulnerable, even a child's toy doll. More and more of our

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life is moving online. The UK is one of the most

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digitally-dependent A strength, but also

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a vulnerability. And protecting it online

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in the future will be vital for economic as well as national

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security. It's called the gig economy -

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the growing number of people who Well, today an inquiry's been

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launched into how they're treated by employers,

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and who should pay their tax. And with one in seven people saying

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they work for themselves, the potential loss to the Treasury

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could be worth millions. Our Economics Editor,

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Kamal Ahmed, reports. They are the poster children

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of the new economy. The companies that drive

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us where we want to go Zero hours contracts attacked

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for exploiting workers who have I think if we strengthen

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the voice of employees, Matthew Taylor has been tasked

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by the Prime Minister to come up with a plan

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for the new world of work. He says that the amount of tax

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raised by the Government has fallen because of

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the rise in self-employment. It is it's clear that to a certain

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extent what is actually going on is that people are creating

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forms of work for themselves, or businesses are creating forms

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of work, to try to avoid tax. Now, I think what should drive

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businesses is efficiency, So if we can make the system one

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where those incentives are slightly less strong than I think that

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would be an improvement. A new study by the union says

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the Government could be losing up to ?4 billion a year

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in lower tax payments. That is made up of ?2.1

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billion lost from the rise in the self-employed,

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who pay less tax. And then there is the ?1.9 billion

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lost from those on zero hours contracts, who tend

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to be lower paid. Workers are losing out on basic

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rights, the taxpayer is losing out on funding for the Exchequer,

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to fund our schools and hospitals. But of course the taxpayer is also

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having to fund a higher in work benefits bill because very often

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the self-employment, Theresa May has pledged not only

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to protect the rights of people often with multiple jobs

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but to enhance them. When Matthew Taylor's report

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comes out in the summer, expect new rights to decent

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employment and a duty put on businesses to

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treat people fairly. The Chancellor has already

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said he is looking at In the Budget next month,

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expect changes, as the old world of how much we are taxed tries

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to catch up with the The father of a British soldier

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killed in Iraq in 2007 has criticised proposals

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by the Government to scrap the legal duty of care to service

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personnel in combat. It means they'll no

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longer be able to sue The Ministry of Defence says

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the new scheme will mean more generous payments to anyone injured,

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or the families of those Our legal correspondent

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Clive Coleman reports. How old was he when he first

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started playing the drums? In 2007, Colin Redpath's son,

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Lance Corporal Kirk Redpath, a keen drummer in the Irish Guards,

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died when a roadside bomb exploded next to his lightly-armoured

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Snatch Land Rover in Iraq. Colin fought a six-year legal battle

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against the Ministry of Defence, eventually winning the right

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at the Supreme Court to bring an action against the Government

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under human rights law. The MoD's new proposals cover battle

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and the preparations for it. They include stopping legal

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claims for negligence against the MOD in the courts,

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a no-fault compensation scheme for injured service personnel

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and families of those killed, assessors to value injuries

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and loss based on expert Nobody disputes that it's a really

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good idea for service personnel injured in the course of combat,

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and the families of those who been killed, to be spared long

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and frustrating legal battles through the courts,

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but there are real concerns about the Ministry of Defence

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scrapping the duty of care The Fire Brigade, the Police,

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the Ambulance Service, they all have to go out

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with equipment that works, And that should be

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the same for a soldier. And lawyers worry that bypassing

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the courts creates unfairness. You've suffered injury,

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you think that the lawyer, the organisation, the MoD,

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is at fault, and yet you are asked to rely upon the MoD

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to assess the compensation that it should pay you for the damage

:23:32.:23:34.

that it has caused you. But the MoD and Defence Secretary

:23:35.:23:46.

remain convinced of the need for change. What we are working on is a

:23:47.:23:50.

way of getting them faster and better compensation so that if the

:23:51.:23:55.

ministry has done something wrong with a piece of equipment they don't

:23:56.:23:58.

have to spend years suing us through the courts. The MoD's consultation

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on its proposals ends in just over a week.

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Colin Redpath hopes that for the injured,

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and families of the fallen, the new system ensures maximum

:24:09.:24:10.

Around 200,000 people living close to America's tallest dam have been

:24:11.:24:24.

told it's still not safe for them to return home. The area around the dam

:24:25.:24:31.

in Northern California was evacuated, after fears that it could

:24:32.:24:39.

collapse. They still don't know how long it could be before residents

:24:40.:24:41.

are allowed back. Rising damp, holes in the front door

:24:42.:24:46.

and water coming through the roof - just a few of the problems that

:24:47.:24:50.

an investigation by BBC Yorkshire has found in some social

:24:51.:24:53.

housing in England. Councils have paid out

:24:54.:24:56.

more than ?35 million in compensation and legal fees over

:24:57.:24:58.

the last five years. It's completely mouldy and the wall

:24:59.:25:00.

underneath is completely wet. And even our shoes

:25:01.:25:04.

are mouldy as well. Katrina pays Leeds City Council

:25:05.:25:06.

around ?270 a month to live in Although she hasn't taken

:25:07.:25:13.

the council to court, She says he and his brother sound

:25:14.:25:18.

like this all the time, She claims it is because their

:25:19.:25:29.

rented house in Leeds is so damp. Social housing in Leeds has such

:25:30.:25:37.

a bad reputation that claims management companies are now

:25:38.:25:40.

targeting the city, encouraging tenants to take

:25:41.:25:42.

the council to court. These firms identify

:25:43.:25:54.

properties which are in a poor state of repair, and then,

:25:55.:25:56.

for a finder's fee, pass on the tenant's details

:25:57.:26:00.

to a solicitor, who takes In a statement, Leeds

:26:01.:26:02.

City Council said... At a time when services

:26:03.:26:27.

are being cut, many will question why councils are spending millions

:26:28.:26:29.

on compensation instead of fixing The half brother of the North Korean

:26:30.:26:43.

leader Kim John and has been killed in Malaysia. The BBC understands

:26:44.:26:48.

that the man, who was 45, is said to have been targeted at the airport in

:26:49.:26:52.

the capital, Kuala Lumpur. He was the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, who

:26:53.:26:59.

ruled North Korea until his death in 2011.

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Steam power returned to the railways this morning for the first time

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A timetabled steam train service will run between Appleby in Cumbria

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and Skipton in North Yorkshire for the next three days -

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and the first one left a few hours ago, with our correspondent

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Danny, how was it? Simon, it was great to be on the train this

:27:15.:27:23.

morning with about 500 other people, they had all made a special day out

:27:24.:27:28.

to join this service. I would say that the scene behind us probably

:27:29.:27:32.

hasn't changed much since the 19th century when this line was built.

:27:33.:27:36.

There was that other traditional site on this line today and the

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response from people has been phenomenal.

:27:40.:27:46.

At Skipton Station this morning, the sights and sounds of yesteryear

:27:47.:27:48.

It's a long time since the mid-morning service on a weekday

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People turned out in their hordes to see the first timetabled steam

:27:55.:28:00.

train in England for nearly half a century.

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Standard fares and discounts applied.

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You would normally pay a hefty premium for a steam trip but not

:28:08.:28:10.

I think it's wonderful, I've just been watching

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all the steam and smoke going past the window and it's just fantastic.

:28:19.:28:21.

I thought I would treat my wife for Valentine's Day,

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What do you make of the Valentine's present?

:28:27.:28:31.

Mark Rand was one of the on-board guides.

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I know a lot of this has been done within

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the railway industry by a huge lot of goodwill and a huge lot

:28:49.:28:51.

of mates' rates for things that are normally very, very expensive.

:28:52.:28:54.

What price can you put on a day like this?

:28:55.:28:56.

But we might have to wait another 50 years for the next one!

:28:57.:29:00.

This is not just about a trip on a steam train.

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For lots of people, it is a ride through the Yorkshire Dales

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countryside as well, and crossing the Ribblehead Viaduct.

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It was the picture opportunity of the day.

:29:09.:29:14.

Yes, you see this occasionally with special charter trains,

:29:15.:29:17.

but this was really special, because it was not

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Talking to some customers on the train who had

:29:20.:29:30.

travelled from Essex, Norfolk, just for the whole sort of romance

:29:31.:29:34.

of this, Valentine's Day, Settle and Carlisle railway

:29:35.:29:35.

on a steam train, how much better does it get?

:29:36.:29:40.

Many people lined the route to see the train pass through.

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This may be the start of something special on Britain's railways,

:29:45.:29:48.

the possibility of other timetabled steam services elsewhere.

:29:49.:29:55.

At the moment, the train is up the line at Appleby and it will be

:29:56.:30:00.

passing back through here at about 3:15pm. There were some disappointed

:30:01.:30:04.

people at Skipton who just couldn't get on. There are something like

:30:05.:30:10.

6000 seats available on this steam service over the next couple of

:30:11.:30:14.

days, so the hope is that anyone who wants to get on it will get on it.

:30:15.:30:16.

Danny, thanks very much. Aberdeenshire Council has

:30:17.:30:23.

apologised, after trees were planted Unsurprisingly the new trees sparked

:30:24.:30:25.

a huge reaction on social media. One person wrote: "Are

:30:26.:30:30.

they playing tree-a-side?" A council spokeswoman said they'd

:30:31.:30:32.

been planted to boost biodiversity in the area,

:30:33.:30:41.

but they have admitted they were, and they did say this,

:30:42.:30:44.

"barking up the wrong tree with Changes for today, the cloud is in a

:30:45.:31:01.

different position as well. This was a snapshot of lunchtime yesterday.

:31:02.:31:06.

Move things on 24 hours and the cloud is moving up across the UK

:31:07.:31:10.

from the south-west. Still some sunshine ahead of that and some

:31:11.:31:14.

areas of low cloud too. With the sunshine and it being less windy,

:31:15.:31:18.

you shouldn't feel too bad here in North West Lincolnshire but not too

:31:19.:31:22.

bad if you are here in Gloucestershire. Not too much rain,

:31:23.:31:27.

mind you. That cloud is moving away from the south-west of England, so

:31:28.:31:32.

Cornwall getting more sunshine and possibly eventually into Devon as

:31:33.:31:36.

well. Not quite so good through the West Country and Wales, a few bursts

:31:37.:31:40.

of showery rain here and there but hit and miss. Limiting the sunshine

:31:41.:31:44.

across eastern and northern England and a lot of cloud for Northern

:31:45.:31:51.

Ireland. Dry for Scotland, the best of the sunshine in the West. Still

:31:52.:31:56.

rather grey cloudy the Grampians. As we run through this evening and

:31:57.:31:59.

overnight, we will find what is left of this showery band of rain pushing

:32:00.:32:03.

into Scotland and eastern England for a while and then it turns misty

:32:04.:32:06.

with some low cloud and another band of rain arriving in Wales and the

:32:07.:32:11.

south-west later on. A much milder night to night under the cloud

:32:12.:32:15.

except in Gotland where there could be clearer skies and a touch of

:32:16.:32:17.

Frost. Generally the team through the rest of the week is milder, but

:32:18.:32:23.

there will be a little rain from time to time. We've got some rain to

:32:24.:32:27.

come as we head into tomorrow, initially across Wales and the

:32:28.:32:33.

south-west. Further north in the rain is not amounting to very much.

:32:34.:32:37.

After a dull start, there may not be a huge the best of that comes after

:32:38.:32:42.

the rain in Wales and the south-west, where we will see the

:32:43.:32:45.

highest temperatures. It will be a warmer feel for most of us,

:32:46.:32:48.

temperatures widely into double figures. Here is the bigger picture

:32:49.:32:51.

as we head towards the latter part of the week. Everything coming in

:32:52.:32:55.

from the Atlantic, hence it being milder. This area of low pressure

:32:56.:33:02.

will bring some wetter weather into Northern Ireland. A bit of a chilly

:33:03.:33:06.

start and some mist and fog patches, but a largely dry day. We may see

:33:07.:33:11.

some improvements in Scotland and Northern Ireland and those

:33:12.:33:15.

temperatures are ten or 11 degrees. No weather warnings at the moment.

:33:16.:33:20.

How long is this mild weather going to last? Go online for our ten day

:33:21.:33:22.

weather forecast. A reminder of our main

:33:23.:33:24.

story this lunchtime... President Trump's National Security

:33:25.:33:31.

Advisor Michael Flynn resigns over his contacts with Russia,

:33:32.:33:33.

just weeks after taking office. That's all from the BBC News at One,

:33:34.:33:35.

so it's goodbye from me.

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