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A major U-turn as the government scraps its plans to raise

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National Insurance payments for millions of

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The Chancellor announced the tax rise in last week's Budget

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but he now accepts it breached a Conservative election

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We will consider the government's overall approach to employment

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status and rights to tax and entitlements.

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We will bring forward further proposals but we will not bring

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forward increases to NICs later in this parliament.

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We have a government U-turn, we have no apology and we have a Budget that

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falls most heavily on those with the least broad shoulders.

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We'll be asking how embarrassing this is for the government and how

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much of a hole it will leave in their finances.

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A Royal Marine jailed for killing an injured Taliban fighter

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in Afghanistan has his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter -

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We are delighted at the judge's decision to substitute manslaughter

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This is a crucial decision and one that much better reflects

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the circumstances that my husband found himself in during that

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Three animal charities win an appeal against the estranged daughter

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of a woman who left them half a million pounds in her will.

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Identity theft reaches record levels and it's young people

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News, can Manchester City join

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Leicester in the last eight of the Champions League?

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City travel to Monaco tonight, while the Foxes

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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The Chancellor has scrapped his plans,

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announced in last week's Budget, to raise National Insurance

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payments for millions of self-employed workers.

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The tax rise was due to come into effect next year.

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But, in a major U-turn this morning, Phillip Hammond admitted

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that the move would have broken an election manifesto pledge.

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Our Political Correspondent, Ben Wright, reports.

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Less than a week after Philip Hammond paraded his first Budget, he

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has scrapped one of its central planks, Insurance rise for 1.6

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million self-employed workers. The measure broke a 2015 Conservative

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Party manifesto promise but the Chancellor insisted the measure was

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there but the backlash from some Tory MPs, Labour and swathes of the

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press was fierce. And this morning the Treasury made a dramatic

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retreat, revealing in a letter to Tory MPs the tax rise would be

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ditched. In the Commons this lunchtime, Tory MPs showed that

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support for the government U-turn. I welcome the announcement from this

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government that we will abide by the letter of our manifesto and also be

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spirit. Would the Prime Minister agree with me that, as we move

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towards balancing the books, we must ensure we have a fair and

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sustainable tax system in place? We made a commitment not to raise taxes

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and we put our commitment into the tax lock. The measures we put

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forward in the budget last week were consistent with those locks. But

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Labour MPs shouted down the Prime Minister as she confirmed the

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National Insurance rise would not go ahead but a consultation would. On

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the future of employment we will consider the government's overall

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approach to employment status and rights to tax and entitlements, we

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will bring forward further proposals but we will not bring forward

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increases to NICs later in this Parliament. The Labour leader said

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the government was in chaos. A budget that unravelled in seven

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days, a Conservative manifesto with a very pensive Prime Minister on the

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front page saying there would be no increase. A week ago and increase

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was announced. And the SNP's Angus Robertson did not pull his punches.

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We once had a Prime Minister who said the lady was not for turning.

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My goodness, isn't it welcome that the Prime Minister today had

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admitted she is for turning with her screeching, embarrassing U-turn on

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national insurance? This national Insurance rise was due to raise ?1

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billion by the next election and some believe the U-turn is a

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mistake. I think it is at its abutment that the Chancellor has

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rowed back on that policy because it is about fairness, about closing

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some of the tax discrepancies between employees and the

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self-employed and it was about the public finances. The fact is this

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tax rise proved unpopular, angered many Tory MPs and broke a manifesto

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promise. The government has a very small majority and does not have the

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political capital for a fight, despite the damage this will do to

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be Chancellor's credibility. Ben Wright, BBC News, Westminster.

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Our Assistant Political Editor, Norman Smith, is in Westminster.

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It is quite some U-turn and difficult could this be for the

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government? Let's get this in perspective a grand government

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U-turn is, it is a full-blown howling, screeching the Italian

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Riviera hairpin bend slope bleeding from the tyres U-turn. In terms of

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the speed, just seven days ago Philip Hammond announced this tax

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rise and the scale of it, it is the complete abandonment of the tax

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rise, not a nudge or a rebuke is out of the window. Why? Mr Hammond says

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because it was not compliant with the party manifesto and more

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accurately, the reality cloud broke over him. This is blindingly

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obviously a breach of their manifesto, never mind the

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technicalities of the legal opt outs, reality cloud number two was

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that he was facing an almighty Tory backbench revolt which could have

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made it extremely difficult to get this through Parliament anyway. And

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perhaps most damaging of all with the impact it was having on brand

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may also Theresa May has made much of being different to David Cameron

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can not going for spin politics but straightforward and honest talking

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politics. This tax rise, preaching a manifesto, risked profoundly

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damaging her own pitch as Prime Minister but it also leads two key

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questions. Who is to blame? Many fingers will be pointed at Phillip

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Hammond but is it really credible that Theresa May, who has an iron

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grip on the government, was unaware? Secondly, where is the money going

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to come from? Philip Hammond said that the up to ?2 billion raised

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would largely go towards social care so where is the money for social

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care going to come from? Thank you. With me is our Economics

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Editor, Kamal Ahmed. It does leave quite a hole. It does,

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and at the budget, the government announced to make a big spending

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commitments one on social care that Norman has spoken about and also on

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business rate relief is. They are expensive. To pay for it they

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announced two big tax increases. One was on dividend tax, the taxes

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people pay on their shares, and the other was the rise in taxes on the

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self-employed, is NICs issue. That was going to raise over ?2 billion

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by 2022. The fact is it has been scrubbed out and the government has

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made a pledge they will not return to it at all so by the time of the

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autumn budget in November, the government will have to say, how it

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will raise that money. The problem they have is the manifesto

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commitment which says no increases in income tax, no increases in VAT,

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no increases in national insurance contributions. Those three taxes

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raised over 60% of all government income. They are in a position where

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they don't have much room to manoeuvre. I would suggest all

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rolled viewers, when it comes to the autumn budget, look at the small

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print because they were to nickel and dime in small areas of tax pot

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like the dividend tax, maybe on probate or other areas, to raise

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money otherwise there is this black hole in the budget which is U-turn

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has only exacerbated. Thank you. And the statement from

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the Chancellor will be live on the BBC News Channel along

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with continued coverage A Royal Marine who shot dead

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an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan six years ago has

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had his murder conviction quashed. Judges at the Court Martial

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Appeal Court ruled that Sergeant Alexander Blackman

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was instead guilty of manslaughter on the grounds

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of diminished responsibility. The 42-year-old was originally

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sentenced to life in 2013. He'll now face another hearing

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to determine his sentence. Our Defence Correspondent, Jonathan

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Beale, is outside the court. At his original conviction,

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Alexander Buttner's defence was that he thought the insurgent was already

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dead when he shot him -- Blackman. For manslaughter to be considered he

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has had to change the story and except he was alive and that an

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important new medical evidence about Alexander Blackman's mental health

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at the time have paved the way for this conviction to be overturned.

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This morning, Claire Blackman, who's led the fight for her husband's

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murder conviction to be quashed, arrived at court

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It's a campaign that's had the backing of former Marines.

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In 2013, a military court found Alexander Blackman,

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better known as Marine A, guilty of murdering a wounded

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But today, the Appeal Court concluded it wasn't murder.

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In court, Claire Blackman greeted the news with a tear in her eye.

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Outside, clearly relieved, this was a moment to savour.

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We are delighted at the judge's decision to substitute manslaughter

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This is a crucial decision and one that much better reflects

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the circumstances that my husband found himself in during that

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We must now wait for the sentencing hearing and hope to secure

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a significant reduction in Al's sentence.

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The incident in Helmand in 2011 was all filmed on a helmet camera.

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This, the moment the Royal Marine patrol called in a helicopter

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to target two Taliban insurgents, one of whom was wounded.

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We are not allowed to show the moment Blackman shoots

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the injured insurgent, the court has only

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released this audio as Blackman fires the fatal shot.

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But three leading psychiatrists told the court that tough tour in Helmand

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had taken its toll on Alexander Blackman.

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They agreed he'd been suffering a severe form of combat stress.

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Sergeant Blackman was suffering from a mental disorder at

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the time, which impaired his ability to make rational judgments.

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And in my view, the court have taken the

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right view in accepting that he had the disorder and that disorder

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affected the way he thought and affected his actions.

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While his murder conviction has been quashed,

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his wife will still have to wait for his release and to be reunited.

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And Alexander Blackman, in the eyes of

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Alexander Blackman has served more than three years of an eight year

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minimum sentence for murder and the expectation is the sentence will be

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reduced for manslaughter but we will have to wait for a few more weeks to

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find out when he will be freed. You can see more on that story

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tonight on BBC One in a special Panorama in which some of the men

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who served with Alexander Blackman It's called Marine A:

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The Inside Story, and it's on at When Melita Jackson died, she left

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most of her half-a-million-pound fortune to three animal charities,

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and not to her estranged daughter. Her daughter contested

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the will and eventually was awarded more than ?150,000 of it,

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despite her mother's wishes. Today that was reduced to ?50,000

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when the three animal charities, who rely on wills for around 50%

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of their income, took the case to the country's

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highest court and won. Here's our Legal Correspondent,

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Clive Coleman. For generations, families have been

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falling out over wills. When Heather Ilott's mother died in 2004, she

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made it crystal clear that she did not want her daughter to get a

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penny. The pair had become estranged when, aged 17, Heather ran off with

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a man her mother disapproved of. But nearly 30 years later she remained

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married to him and the couple have five children. Animals cannot sell

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anyone about the cruelty they suffer... Melita Jackson left her

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entire half million pound fortune to three animal charities which she had

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no direction to also Heather Ilott challenged the will and was

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initially awarded ?50,000, but that was raised by the Court of Appeal to

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?160,000 on the basis that her mother had not made reasonable

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provision for her daughter. For the charities involved, that represented

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a potential serious loss of income. They appealed to the Supreme Court.

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In a really powerful judgment, seven justices here at the highest court

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in the land have reaffirmed a fundamental principle of English

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law, that anyone, you or I, can leave our money to whoever we want

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them even if that means our children getting little or nothing at all.

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The Supreme Court acknowledged that charities do an enormous amount of

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good work and a lot of that is funded by the generosity of people

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like Melita Jackson choosing to leave them money in her will. That

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key point, the right to choose, I want to leave my money to that

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charity and I don't have to explain why that was, my decision will be

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respected. The ruling was welcomed by Don Day, his wife suffered from

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dementia before her death and he has decided to leave estate to the

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Alzheimer's Society and not his daughter. We haven't been very well

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treated by my children. In my wife and I's hours of need, I'm afraid.

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And we both felt that this was what we wanted to do. In this battle of

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wills, daughter has lost out to an estranged mother. Charity may have

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been the winner but it certainly begin at home. Other parents at odds

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with their children will take note. Clive Coleman, BBC News.

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The UK's unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level

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with a record number of people in work.

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But official figures for the three months to the end of January show

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the number of people on zero-hours contracts increased

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Our Economics Correspondent, Andy Verity, reports.

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Few industries reveal the tightness of the labour market better

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At this site near King's Cross in north London, about two thirds

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of the skilled workers come from the new EU states such

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as Romania and there is growing anxiety about what might happen

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There is still uncertainty whether they will be

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We need these people to be in our jobs, they make up labourers,

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they make up trades, they make up engineers,

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They are a very key part of the process.

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We don't have any UK nationals to fill these roles.

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Ahead of the Brexit negotiations, the stakes are particularly high

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for the construction industry with up to 176,000 jobs that

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could be in jeopardy if we don't have access to the EU labour supply

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and half a trillion pounds of construction

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Recruitment agents say that while unemployment is dropping,

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in areas which voted to stay in the EU such as Scotland

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and London, companies are getting less and less confident about taking

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Small businesses are concerned around Brexit but it isn't only

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It is the rise in the National Living Wage, the rise in rates,

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And this uncertainty is actually stopping them from hiring.

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They are at their lowest level since 2014 in their confidence to hire.

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If employers are struggling to find the staff, it's fair to expect

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But, on average, pay rises have slowed down,

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up just 2.3% in the three months to January.

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That's faster than price rises but only just.

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The Chancellor has scrapped plans announced in last week's budget to

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raise National Insurance payments for millions of self-employed

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workers. The lorry drivers sleeping

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in their cabs for months on end because they can't afford to live

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in the countries could the two top ranked rugby union

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nations in the world England are understood to be

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interested in playing A major fund-raising campaign has

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been launched to help 16 million people facing starvation in East

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Africa. 13 UK aid agencies who make up

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the Disasters Emergency Committee say they urgently need money

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to provide food, water The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

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is in Somalia where a national Viewers may spined some of the

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images in this report disturbing. Northern Somalia and

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the riverbeds here, bone dry. And with their crops failing

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and cattle dying in the drought, people, however frail,

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are now on the move This makeshift camp in the capital

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Mogadishu is growing at the rate They are desperate for food,

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particularly for their children. This lady, dressed in brown walked

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for six days with the children to reach this camp, but not

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all of them made it. TRANSLATION: I had four children,

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two died on the journey I'm eight months pregnant,

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I don't have shoes, water or food. The red marker on the band put

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around this child's arm indicates It is estimated around

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360,000 children under the age of five in Somalia

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are now acutely malnourished. And beyond Somalia, the fear

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of famine hangs over Ethiopian, And beyond Somalia, the fear

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of famine hangs over Ethiopia, Millions of people in this region,

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now at risk of starvation. This situation that these countries

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now face is unprecedented. These are four countries the size

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and the scale and the need has There are people obviously

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in desperate situations. We have famine, we have drought,

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we also have a man-made conflict. So British aid agencies,

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already helping on the ground, are now appealing for a lot more

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money, which they need quickly. But the impact of drought

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and conflict it is affecting people But the impact of drought

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and conflict is affecting people This is Yemen, also engulfed

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in a profound humanitarian crisis The people of the Netherlands are

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voting in their General Election, which has been dominated

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by the issue of immigration. Early indications are that there is

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a higher turnout than the last election in 2012.

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From the Hague, Damian Grammaticas, reports.

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The magnet for the TV cameras today is the man hoping

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the mantle of Donald Trump and Brexit II.

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Geert Wilders, Holland's far right leader aiming

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He wants to ban the Koran, ban mosques, close borders,

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And uncompromising again today, saying Muslims who don't

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I say, if you don't like the idea, don't come to Holland.

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You are free people, you can decide where to go

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I hope we have less Islam in Holland.

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I think Islam and freedom are not compatible.

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He is the man hoping to stop Geert Wilders in his tracks.

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He warned today as he cast his vote, that this ballot in the Netherlands

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will set the tone for big elections to come in Europe this year.

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In France and Germany, party lists are also challenging

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The Dutch Prime Minister has framed this election between a choice

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between him and Geert Wilders, his Liberal party and the rising tide of

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populism. There is much at stake in this poll, he says. So he has told

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Dutch voters that the world is watching.

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One of the things I have asked voters to take into consideration.

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What would it mean? The rest of the world will see after Brexit, after

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the American elections again, populism has won the day. But there

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are a total of 28 parties contesting this election, a huge list to pick

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from for voters at this polling station at The Hague's modern art

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museum. Some are worried about Geert Wilders winning. People across

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Europe, people shouting a lot without having solutions to what

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they say are big problems. If we get together, problems are not that big.

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Even if Geert Wilders does well, you won't win a majority. He is likely

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to be left out of power, as no other party wants to work with him.

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Identity fraud has reached a record high in the UK.

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There were almost 173,000 last year, 3,000 more than in 2015.

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The data, from more than 270 banks and businesses,

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also shows that the number of victims under the age of 21

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Here's our home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw.

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Stolen identity, civil servant Luke Croydon was the victim of one

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His name, address, date of birth and banking details were obtained

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by a thief who pinched post from his letterbox.

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Armed with the information, the fraudster applied for a bank

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card and then used it to go on a spending spree.

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When you first find out that it has happened,

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And then you get very worried because you wonder what else

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they might have done with that personal details If it is only

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opening bank accounts that is one thing, but you worry what else

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Have they signed up to websites, have they got passport applications?

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So it is a very troubling experience.

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According to the fraud prevention service Cifas there were almost

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173,000 cases of identity fraud last year, the highest total ever.

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The number of victims under the age of 21 increased

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by more than a third, with the Midlands and the north-east

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of England registering the highest identity fraud increases

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There has been a spike in the number of young people who have become

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We've put that down to the fact that they spend so much

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But not just that, they are putting so much of their personal

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information online and our appeal would be to only put out

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there what you really want people to know.

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Cifas has produced a film warning people to be careful about how much

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We know everything about you, Martin.

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Fraudsters are adept at exploiting information on social media sites.

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It advises people to use passwords, privacy settings and antivirus

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Lorry drivers moving goods for Ikea and other retailers

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in Western Europe are camping out in their cabs for months at a time

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because they can't afford to live in the countries they're working in.

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The East European drivers are being paid at the levels they would

:25:44.:25:45.

A judge has described as "inhumane" the practice

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where companies are able to exploit loopholes in European law.

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In a trailer on the edge of Copenhagen, these two men have

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created their own pop-up fiction. Cooking from scratch saves them

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money. Is this how you want to have your breakfast? No, I don't want to

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live like this, but these are the conditions. He is moving goods for

:26:19.:26:25.

Ikea, but they don't employ him. His employer is a Slovakian firm. He is

:26:26.:26:32.

paid Slovak wages. European union employment rules state, a driver

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temporarily posted away from home should be guaranteed the host

:26:39.:26:43.

nation's minimum rates of pay and conditions. But companies are

:26:44.:26:47.

exploiting loopholes in the law. A Danish driver can expect to take

:26:48.:26:55.

home 2200 euros, or 109 -- ?1900 a month in salary. But this man has

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been taken home 477 euros of ?418 a month. This is my farm, this is how

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I live. This is my bed. Danish drivers go home every couple of

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weeks, but this man spends up to four months on the road. The company

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says he can go home whenever he likes. He has just driven some Ikea

:27:23.:27:32.

stock from Denmark into Sweden. He only ever works in western Europe,

:27:33.:27:36.

sometimes it might be Germany or Norway. But he is being paid as if

:27:37.:27:40.

he is driving in Slovakia, yet he never works there. This is the

:27:41.:27:46.

biggest Ikea distribution centre in the world. It is in Germany. In

:27:47.:27:51.

front is a truck parked, turned campsite. Trade unions accused Ikea

:27:52.:27:55.

of turning a blind eye to how haulage companies treat their

:27:56.:28:01.

drivers. Ikea would say, this is in many different layers of companies

:28:02.:28:04.

operating these contracts, they can't be expected to know. But the

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Moldovan, the Polish guys, remove the furniture from IKEA. They touch

:28:13.:28:16.

the furniture. How can you deny this. They don't know what they are

:28:17.:28:22.

being paid. In a statement, Ikea said...

:28:23.:28:32.

It's not just Ikea and the big retailers that are in the firing

:28:33.:28:40.

line. Europe's politicians are under pressure to act, to stop any further

:28:41.:28:44.

deterioration in the working conditions of Europe's drivers.

:28:45.:28:49.

It was supposed to be a quick interview on BBC World News

:28:50.:28:52.

about South Korean politics, but Professor Kelly's two young

:28:53.:28:54.

children managed to turn it into a global event,

:28:55.:28:56.

at least one that's been viewed more than 100 million times

:28:57.:28:59.

What appeared to be a cute accident on live television.

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I think one of your children has just walked in.

:29:18.:29:19.

I mean, shifting sands in the region, do you think

:29:20.:29:22.

But Professor Robert Kelly, who is now being dubbed #bbcdad,

:29:23.:29:27.

received so much attention, he felt compelled to

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So here we are, finally meeting him in person in South Korea.

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It's fairly amazing, it's basically just a family blooper.

:29:48.:29:51.

It sort of went wild, there were more journalists

:29:52.:29:55.

there than have ever asked me questions before about my expertise.

:29:56.:29:58.

It then generated a second wave of Internet discussion.

:29:59.:30:03.

There was a lot of social analysis of it, sort of racism

:30:04.:30:05.

Regardless of some negative reaction, his students

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TRANSLATION: When he was giving a serious interview about a very

:30:15.:30:20.

sensitive subject, I was surprised to see the interruption.

:30:21.:30:22.

And when I found out he is a professor here,

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TRANSLATION: It was a very serious interview, but when I saw

:30:28.:30:32.

I felt they were the hope to what is a gloomy story.

:30:33.:30:40.

Professor Kelly describes the episode as a family blooper,

:30:41.:30:45.

but it certainly touched many hearts, especially

:30:46.:30:48.

Today could be the warmest day of the year so far. Lovely blue skies.

:30:49.:31:14.

Temperatures have been rising rapidly. Hardly a breath of wind.

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Not as windy across northern part of Scotland. Not as sunny either. In

:31:20.:31:24.

general, where we had a sunnier skies yesterday, we are seeing more

:31:25.:31:29.

cloud today. There are some stubborn areas of low cloud that are pegging

:31:30.:31:33.

back the temperatures, but in general, sunshine underneath the

:31:34.:31:37.

high pressure and around the high pressure we have a moist air flow,

:31:38.:31:41.

hence the cloud affecting the Northern Isles also affecting

:31:42.:31:46.

Scotland where we will see some patchy, light rain or drizzle coming

:31:47.:31:50.

in across northern part of the country. Probably drive to the

:31:51.:31:55.

south. Cloud from the north of England may wandering into the far

:31:56.:31:59.

south-west of Wales, the West Country. But for most of England and

:32:00.:32:03.

Wales it will be lovely and sunny. Temperatures of 80 degrees and

:32:04.:32:08.

possibly higher. A beautiful day at Cheltenham. -- 18 degrees. Tomorrow

:32:09.:32:14.

will be cloudy and cooler. Temperatures dipping away and

:32:15.:32:17.

turning misty across parts of England and Wales during the course

:32:18.:32:22.

of the night before low cloud arrives. Further north for Scotland

:32:23.:32:25.

and Northern Ireland, stronger wind. Another weather from bringing

:32:26.:32:29.

outbreaks of rain overnight. It shouldn't be to cold overnight. We

:32:30.:32:36.

will find this band of rain, heavy at times over the hills, coming down

:32:37.:32:41.

across Scotland, Northern Ireland into northern parts of England and

:32:42.:32:45.

Wales. Maybe brightening up but not as sunny and warm as today. We have

:32:46.:32:50.

some colder air coming into Scotland and Northern Ireland with showers.

:32:51.:32:52.

Those could be wintry in Scotland and continue that way overnight on

:32:53.:32:57.

Thursday night. It is going to be quite chilly on Thursday night.

:32:58.:33:03.

Colder than it has been for a while. Maybe a touch of frost. Coming into

:33:04.:33:08.

the cold air, we will replace the showers with longer spells of rain

:33:09.:33:11.

coming in from the Atlantic. Snow possible over some of the Scottish

:33:12.:33:15.

hills. The wet weather arrives in the South East. The wet weather

:33:16.:33:22.

originating from storm Stella. The weekend is unsettled and will feel

:33:23.:33:25.

colder with the wind is picking up and there will be rain at times.

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Goodbye from me, on BBC one we now join the BBC's news

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