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Tony Blair urges Britons to rise up against the decision to leave the EU

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- he says people voted without knowing the real terms.

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The former Prime Minister says it's his mission to encourage people

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to speak out against what he called the government's drive

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The people voted without knowledge of the terms of Brexit. As these

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terms become clear, it is their right to change their mind. We heard

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all these arguments last year. Not a thing has changed. I think it really

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is insulting the intelligence of the electorate to say that they got it

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wrong. We'll have the latest

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live from Westminster. President Trump's choice

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for his new national security Retail sales fall unexpectedly -

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some analysts say it's the beginning of a long-anticipated slowdown

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in the economy. Brain power required -

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scientists appeal for more people to donate their brain,

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so they can do more research And Arsene Wenger says

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he will still be a football manager next season -

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even if that isn't at Arsenal. And coming up in the sport on BBC

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News: Watford are commissioning a statue of Graham Taylor

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at Vicarage Road, to honour their most successful manager,

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who died last month. Good afternoon and welcome

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to the BBC News at One. Tony Blair has said it is his

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mission to persuade Britons to "rise up" and change their mind

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about leaving the European Union. Speaking in the City of London,

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the former Prime Minister claimed that people had voted in last year's

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referendum without knowing His comments have been described

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as arrogant and undemocratic by the Conservative MP Iain Duncan

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Smith. Meanwhile, Theresa May has written

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in a French newspaper that Britain won't try to cherry pick which parts

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of EU membership it wants to keep, The Prime Minister meets her French

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counterpart, Bernard Cazeneuve, A former Prime Minister putting

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himself back in the debate full stop yes, the people voted for Brexit,

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said Tony Blair, but... It's their right to change their mind. Our

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mission is to persuade them to do so. This was a rallying cry. Britain

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faced an economic cliff edge, he said, and those who oppose Brexit

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should speak up. They will say leaving is inevitable. It isn't.

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They will say, we don't represent the people. We do. Many millions of

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them. And with that did had -- and with determination, many millions

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more. This is not the time for retreat, indifference or despair.

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But the time to rise up in defence of what we believe. The former

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Labour Prime Minister had frank words for his party, seeing the bill

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through Parliament. The debilitation of the Labour Party is the

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facilitation of Brexit. I hate to say that, but it's true. His

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opponents are armed with an awesome political argument, that they are

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carried out what people voted for. Mainz can be changed, he said. He

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faces another obstacle that will be exploited by his critics, the person

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who is delivering its. This is the guy who dragooned the United Kingdom

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into the Iraq war on a completely false prospectus, so I respectfully

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say to Tony Blair, those who call the British people to rise up

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against Brexit, I urge the British people to rise up and turn off the

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TV next time Blair comes on with his condescending campaign. But it

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wasn't only Brexit campaigners who questioned Mr Blair's speech. One

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former boss of the official Remain campaign told me it might lead to

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more division. Tony Blair isn't speaking for the whole of those on

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the Remain side of the argument. There are lots of different views,

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lots of people disappointed by the outcome, but the idea you tell

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people you need re-educating and we are not listening is wrong and

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patronising. Theresa May told Britain wouldn't try to cherry pick

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the best parts of EU membership when outside. With only weeks until the

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likely start of the Brexit process, the debate is intensifying. The

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speech from Tony Blair, tough in tone and uncompromising, has raised

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the temperature once again. Tom Bateman, BBC News, Westminster.

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Our political correspondent Carole Walker is in Westminster.

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More than six months have passed. The result of the vote can't be

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changed. What is Tony Blair's thinking here? What Tony Blair has

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seen is the way the debate has gone, the way the government's policy has

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evolved. He says the government is vexed with Brexiters claims the

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whole process is being driven by ideologues, those strongly connected

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to the process of taking Britain out of EU, and doing so by leaving the

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single market, probably leaving the customs union as well. And he

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believes that the Labour Party is failing to provide any adequate

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opposition to the way the process is unfolding so how is he going to

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bring about this change of mood from the British people? Well, he

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wouldn't commit to a second referendum, though it seems that is

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the only way this could possibly be reversed. But what he's doing is

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setting up this institute to try to, as he puts it, reposition the whole

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debate. Now it's perhaps no surprise that there has been an absolutely

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scathing reaction from pro-Brexit campaigners, accusing him of being

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arrogant, of being undemocratic, of treating the British people as mugs,

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dismissing them and saying they didn't understand what they were

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voting for, but what's interesting is as you heard in that report

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there, even some of those who wanted to remain inside the EU now say

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look, we've had that did vote in the referendum, we now need to accent it

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and move on. I think Tony Blair is hoping that his intervention will

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mobilise a very different tide of public opinion, but of course too

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many people he is quite a toxic figure and many doubt that he will

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make a huge difference to the course of our process out of the European

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Union. Carole Walker, thank you. The former naval Admiral

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chosen by President Trump to be his national security advisor

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has turned down the job, in another Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward

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was widely tipped for the post, after Donald Trump fired

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Michael Flynn on Monday. But Harward decided to reject one

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of the most important positions in the Cabinet,

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just hours after Mr Trump denied his At a news conference, the President

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said his team is operating Donald Trump is a president

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like no other. Critics say he governs

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and goes about his business like he's tearing up the rule book,

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lurching from crisis to crisis. But barely a month into his

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presidency, the billionaire businessman turned reality TV star,

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turned leader of the free world, insists things couldn't be

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going any better. I turn on the TV, open

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the newspapers, and I see This administration is running

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like a fine-tuned machine. But even as the president spoke,

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Vice Admiral Robert Harward, his preferred pick as the new national

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security adviser, was turning down The former Navy SEAL reportedly

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dissuaded by the power struggles and demands of the President's

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inner circle. Evidence, say Mr Trump's opponents,

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that he's struggling to keep the ship steady in the face

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of a raging storm. Every new administration has

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its growing pains, but consider his. He had to dismiss his

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acting Attorney General. He faced an executive order

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which was rejected by three different federal courts,

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and then he had to take the resignation of his

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national security adviser. That's never happened to any

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president in history. Fine-tuned machine, off

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to a pretty rough start. It's not hard to decipher

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who the president blames for creating an atmosphere of chaos

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that he says doesn't actually exist. The press has become so dishonest,

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that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a tremendous

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disservice to the American people, His principal targets

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are the established giants of the US media, the New York Times,

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CNN, but even some commentators on the normally supportive Fox News

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channel have their issues This president keeps telling untrue

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things and he does it every single time he's in front

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of the microphone. It's demonstrable, I can

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rewind the tape for you. Some of them are not really big,

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but they are coming from But Mr Trump is on a mission

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to rebuild America. His supporters say no amount

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of misplaced criticism from the established media

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will derail them. We are going to continue to do

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what we did so very, very successfully and the thing that

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put the former real estate billionaire into the White House,

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which is to break your sense The mainstream media no longer

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gets to monopolise news, and we are going to go straight

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to the audiences, whether it's through Twitter, whether it's

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through YouTube, it doesn't matter. Indeed, as he signed away

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environmental regulations, keeping a campaign promise

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to support coal-mining to appoint a new hard-line head

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of environmental protection, Mr Trump says he is getting

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on with the business of government. Not to the liking of liberal

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and media elites perhaps, Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue

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is in Washington. He says it's business as usual. We

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are certainly hearing more about some other appointments, Gary? We're

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hearing as replacement for national security adviser that he was hoping

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to announce, Bob Harward, doesn't want the job. So we still don't have

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a national security adviser, after losing Michael Flynn at the

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beginning of the week. We are expecting later today for Scott

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Pruitt to be confirmed as the head of the environmental protection in

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the. That's the sort of Cabinet level job and an incredibly

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controversial job in this country. There's a lot of lobbying against

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the environmental protection agency, a lot of concern amongst Democrats

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that he is not a friend of the environment and has taken that a lot

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of cases as Attorney General in Oklahoma against the environmental

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protection agency, but that should go through. But still, we don't have

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a full cabinet. This is weak four, just ending today, of the

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presidency. He doesn't have a full cabinet, and he doesn't have a lot

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of those posts in place at the second tier in the various

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departments, deputy secretaries and assistant secretaries. So it's an

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administration that is running on half a tank at the moment, despite

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the president saying it's finely tuned. Gary O'Donoghue in

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Washington, thank you. The pound has fallen further

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against other currencies, including the dollar and the euro,

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after official figures showed the UK's retail sales took

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an unexpected tumble last month. Some analysts think the figures

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suggest that the slowdown predicted in the wake of a vote to leave

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the EU has now begun. Simon Gompertz has been taking

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a look at what's put the squeeze Despite the early sales, the January

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sales and now the late sales, have people become tired of shopping

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and wary about the future? I'm a self-employed carpenter

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and I think people are closing I'm not getting the work

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I was getting before Brexit as people don't

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know what's happening. I think people are expecting

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the worst so they're holding back until they know a bit more

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about the future. So maybe they've got the money,

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they're just not spending it. Personally I've spent more

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after Christmas, I think! I probably shouldn't but I think

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most of my mates are still shopping. The drop in retail sales in January

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sounds small, at 0.3%, but a rise was expected,

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and it comes after a 2.1% decline Officials say higher prices for food

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and fuel are partly to blame. If people really have

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closed their wallets, zipped up their purses,

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that could be crucial for the coming year because it's the British

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shopper keeping spending who's kept the economy growing

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despite the uncertainties The drop in the value of the pound

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after the referendum means imports like technology and cars

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as well as food are more expensive. That's off-putting and if people do

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buy, it means they have Only a week or so ago the Bank

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of England told us they expect the economy to grow by 2% this year,

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the same as last year, but this is an abrupt wake-up call

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that the economy could be slowing down and we may not achieve

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that sort of growth. The pound faltered again today,

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because of these worries The retail sales figures

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are highly volatile, like the pound itself,

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so it is possible that The US food giant Kraft has said

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Unilever, which makes goods from Marmite to PG Tips,

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has turned down a takeover offer. Although Unilever has rejected the

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initial approach, Kraft Heinz says it looks forward to working to reach

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an agreement. Let's find out more from our business correspondent,

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Jonty Bloom. How significant is all of this? Let's put this in context.

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Unilever is the company in the UK overall. It has 400 brands around

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the world, 13 of which, brands like Magnum and Lipton, sell more than ?1

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billion worth every year, and it employs about 170,000 people. It's

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one of the most important companies in the world. Heinz Kraft are trying

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to buy it for something like ?112 billion. What happens next? Unilever

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have rejected this original offer but that's the start of the dance,

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so to speak. Heinz could come back with a bigger offer, we probably

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expect them to do that. It will depend on whether you decides that's

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a good enough deal to recommend to shareholders and accept the

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takeover, or whether to fight it. Then there's the issue of

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regulation. You are talking about two of the largest food and

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household products companies in the world potentially merging. They

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spend a lot on TV and control a lot of products. Would governments

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around the world be happy, having all that spending power and products

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in one company? Jonty Bloom, thank you.

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Malaysia says it will not release the body of the half-brother

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of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, until it receives DNA

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Malaysia says it will not release the body of the half-brother

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of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, until it receives DNA

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samples from his family to confirm his identity.

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Kim Jong-nam died at Kaula Lumpur airport on Monday.

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Malaysia says it will not release the body of the half-brother

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of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, until it receives DNA

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samples from his family to confirm his identity.

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Pakistan's security forces have carried out raids

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across the country, killing and arresting dozens

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of suspected militants, following yesterday's suicide attack

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at a famous Sufi shrine in the south of the country.

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The attack was claimed by so-called Islamic State.

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Our Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani reports.

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The shrine was packed with men, women and children for the special

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devotional services that take place here on Thursday nights.

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Jihadists believe Muslims who attend shines like this are heretics

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Today the families of the dead began to bury their loved ones.

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This woman's 13-year-old son was among those killed.

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His uncle expressed the family's sorrow.

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TRANSLATION: He only wanted to pay his respects at the shrine.

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I raised him like my own child as I don't have any children.

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He was my own child and they took him from me.

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There have also been angry scenes close to the shrine where locals

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have clashed with police, who they blame for not having done

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We have been telling the police and other officials

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that there was no security and that anything could happen any time

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Security has been stepped up at religious sites considered

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possible targets like this Sufi shrine.

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Paramilitary forces say they have killed dozens of suspected militants

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in raids carried out across the country today

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but Pakistan has now suffered five attacks in five days carried out

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One faction of the Pakistani Taliban has vowed to unleash

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It's not known whether this latest attack by IS is linked to that

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but many here now fear that after a recent significant

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reduction in violence, the security situation

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair urges Britons to rise up

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against the decision to leave the EU.

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He says people voted without knowing the real terms.

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How a man's search for food in rubbish bins has led to wedding

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Arsene Wenger will make a decision on his Arsenal future in March

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or April but won't be retiring this summer.

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The Frenchman says, "I will manage next season whether it is here

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Scientists are appealing for more people to donate their brain

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In particular, they need to carry out research on the brains of people

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who suffered illnesses such as depression and post-traumatic

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stress disorder, in order to develop new treatments.

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Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports from one

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of the largest brain banks in the world, in Boston,

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Inside it is as beautiful as it is complex.

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It is the wiring that changes and grows as we do.

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It is a physical embodiment of our behaviour and who we are.

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That is why they are stored in brain banks like this one.

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They are donated so that scientists can study them

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to discover what happens when our brains go wrong.

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3,000 brains are stored here at one of the world's largest brain banks.

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Most of them are from people with some form of mental

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They are now used by researchers to try and find new treatments

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for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and a whole host of

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Researchers here at McLean Hospital, just outside Boston,

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and in brain banks across the world, do not have enough specimens

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In particular, they are lacking donations from people who had

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depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, because they are thought

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of as being psychological and not due to changes in the brain.

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If people think there are no changes in the brain of someone suffering

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major depression or post-traumatic stress disorders,

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-- major depression or post-traumatic stress

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reason to donate their brain for research because there

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This conception is radically wrong from a biological point of view.

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I was so glad to donate my mother's brain.

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Caroline has decided to donate her brain for medical research,

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She hopes her donation will help researchers find a cure.

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And she is urging others to do the same.

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And how are we going to find out if we don't do the research

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on the brain which is where it is starting,

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Scientists say that new treatments for many mental and neurological

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diseases are within their grasp but it is a lack of brain tissue

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Princess Cristina of Spain has been cleared of tax fraud.

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If found guilty, she could have been jailed for up to eight years.

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The 51-year-old sister of the Spanish king was the first

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royal in Spain to face criminal charges since the restoration

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But her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, has been sentenced to six years

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Events are being held to mark the centenary of the sinking

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of a troop ship in the Channel during the First World War, with

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Most of those who died were black labourers from South Africa who'd

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been conscripted to help British forces during the conflict.

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The disaster is little known, as Tim Muffett reports.

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Private Daniel Mafika, Private Daniel Nkonyama.

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The names of more than 600 killed in one of the UK's

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Yet, most have never heard of the sinking of the SS Mendi.

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They have become the unremembered men of the First World War.

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The SS Mendi was sailing from Cape Town to northern France when,

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in thick fog, near the Isle of Wight, she accidentally

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More than 800 members of the South African Native Labour

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They were labourers needed to support the British Army

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They built railway lines, they built roads.

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The discrimination experienced by many members

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of the South African Labour Corps in life continued in death.

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The sinking of the SS Mendi was barely mentioned in official

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The few that were are now buried in Portsmouth.

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Tennyson, Sibonisa and Natalia are direct descendants of men

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who died on the Mendi and they have travelled from South Africa

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They did get on-board that ship because they were patriotic.

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They were seving both the union of South Africa and the King.

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It is an emotional event coming here.

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It is only now, after the new tone of South Africa, that SS

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The South African Navy band have also travelled

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Victims of a largely forgotten tragedy at sea

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English football's current longest-serving manager,

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Arsene Wenger, says he will definitely still be

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a manager next season, whether at Arsenal or elsewhere.

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It's the first time the 67-year-old has hinted that he may be prepared

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to leave the Gunners after 21 years in charge, and comes after his team

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Our reporter David Ornstein was at Arsene Wenger's news

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Arsenal have lost 5-1 in Munich, this type over before the second

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leg. -- this tie. Is this the lowest moment for one

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of English football's After 21 years in charge,

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is Arsene Wenger preparing to bid Today, for the first time, he hinted

:25:34.:25:37.

that the end could be nigh. No matter what happens, you do not

:25:38.:25:44.

stay somewhere the 20 years and walk out of a defeat like that... I have

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the strength and experience to respond to that.

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In 1996, Arsene Wenger arrived to headlines

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Soon he silenced the critics by collecting trophies.

:25:54.:25:58.

A pioneer on and off the pitch, he turned the likes of Thierry Henry

:25:59.:26:01.

invincibles, going an entire league season unbeaten.

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Among his achievements, three Premiership titles and six FA Cups.

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Arsene Wenger hasn't just managed this club but transformed it.

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The team, their new stadium and even this state of the art training

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Defeat in the 2006 Champions League final to Barcelona a particular

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blow, while an increase in supporter unrest this season has

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What is important is the club makes the right decisions for the future.

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I do not work here the 20 years not to care about this club. I have had

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many opportunities to go somewhere in that period. It is very important

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the club is always in safe hands. Arsenal are still in 3Com petitions.

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If his comments are anything to go by, this could well be his last

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crack at each. He will hope a final piece of glory is not out of reach.

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A couple who have been nicknamed The Lady and The Tramp are making

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the final preparations for their wedding this weekend.

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Joan Neininger met Ken Selway more than 40 years ago

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when he was sleeping rough on the streets of Gloucester.

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Our correspondent Jon Kay takes up their story.

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Back on the street where they first met.

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Appropriate that it began here in a bookshop.

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Joan ran the little shop in the centre of Gloucester

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with her husband, and one day in 1975 she saw Ken

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That's the bin where I used to go and look for food.

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So Joan gave Ken a cup of tea that day and sketched

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He was a shy man who'd suffered a head injury

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He developed schizophrenia and ended up sleeping rough.

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He always looked as if he didn't belong on the streets.

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Joan invited Ken to move into her family home, and she helped him

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Over the years, he became part of the household,

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Although Joan's relationship with Ken was purely platonic, her

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But, as the decades passed, the three of them

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Then, in 1983, Joan's husband Norman died.

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Ken and Joan are back to marry, 42 years after that first cup of tea.

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How much of a difference has Joan made to your life?

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I was on the street, it was terrible.

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At times, Ken's mental health problems have been severe.

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But Joan has helped him, and together they have tried

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There were voices in my head which would have

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It was Joan who proposed to Ken with the full support

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What about the future, what does it have in store for you?

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Well, there won't be babies and there won't be

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A lot of cloud and mild weather or cold? It is February. It will be

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mild for the next few days. Potentially very mild next week. It

:31:02.:31:06.

will come with a lot of cloud. You can see a lot of cloud across the

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country, the best of the sunshine in eastern areas and southern parts as

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well. We have a weak weather front juicing

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thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain, mostly confined to western areas.

:31:20.:31:23.

Central and eastern parts turning dry.

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Temperatures are up to 30 degrees across central and southern England.

:31:31.:31:36.

This evening, staying damp across western areas, and north-west

:31:37.:31:41.

England, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Drive for Wales

:31:42.:31:45.

and the South of England. In the cities, it will be mild with

:31:46.:31:50.

that blanket cover. Quite breezy for the North west

:31:51.:31:54.

corner of the UK at the start of the weekend. A weather front will move

:31:55.:32:00.

southwards. Wetter weather in parts of Wales in the afternoon. Blustery

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showers behind in Scotland. Some sunshine. Stained bright in the

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south-east and mild. Up to 14 Celsius.

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-- Staying bright. That wet weather clears away on Saturday night.

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Continuing with winds feeding in moist air from the tropics which is

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why it is so mild. Again, a lot of cloud on Sunday.

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Eastern Wales and Central and eastern arts of England mild.

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Double-figure values. Notice the deep orange colours from the

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Atlantic on Monday. It is not expected to be wall-to-wall

:32:49.:32:51.

sunshine. A lot of cloud around, still some rain and breezy.

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In the sunshine, highs of 17 Celsius. Still way off the February

:32:57.:33:03.

record of 20. Outbreaks of rain on Monday, the

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rain heavily in north-west Scotland. This is what textures will be like

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on Monday, mid teens. You can keep abreast of all the

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weekend whether online. A reminder of our main

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story this lunchtime. Tony Blair has urged Britons to rise

:33:22.:33:43.

up and speak out against the except of the

:33:44.:33:44.

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