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From paramilitary to politician - Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has

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The one-time IRA commander turned his back on years of violence -

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to help bring peace to Northern Ireland.

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He was a divisive and controversial figure -

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but tributes have been paid to him from across the spectrum.

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The ledger has both a debit and a credit side

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He came across as a very reasonable man.

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This may seem crazy, given his early life,

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but, in his later life, he was an easy man to talk to.

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We'll be live in Londonderry and Westminster with more reaction.

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Inflation leaps to 2.3% - the highest since 2013.

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Economists blame rising fuel and food prices.

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MSPs begin their debate about holding a second referendum

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Stolen 15 years ago - now these two paintings are back

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Manchester United's German World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger has

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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Politician, former senior IRA commander,

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Martin McGuinness has died at the age of 66,

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two months after stepping down as Northern Ireland's

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It's understood he'd been suffering from a rare heart condition.

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Many people have paid tribute to a man who played a pivotal role

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in the Northern Ireland peace process, and whose relationship

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with former adversaries would become a symbol of reconciliation

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Lord Tebbit, who was injured in the IRA attack on the Grand Hotel

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in Brighton in 1984, called him a coward and a multi

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murderer, and said the world is a "sweeter place" without him.

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We'll have reaction from Londonderry and Westminster shortly.

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But first Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler looks back

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at Martin McGuinness's life - and a warning, his report

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To paint a true picture of Martin McGuinness,

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He was a paramilitary who once embraced violence,

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but also a peacemaker who reached out to rivals, a man who could be

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Born in Londonderry, into a large Catholic family,

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Martin McGuinness came of age as Northern Ireland's

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In that time of violence, he joined the IRA, quickly

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Can you say whether the bombing is likely to stop in the near future,

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Well, I always take into consideration the feelings

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The 1970s saw him become one of the faces of ruthless

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Irish republicanism, and he was jailed for terrorist

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McGuinness has changed considerably from the young man who used

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to swagger around the no-go areas in Londonderry, as commander

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What had started as a fight for civil rights had

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Yet, alongside the many bombings and shootings,

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Martin McGuinness saw opportunities at the ballot box for

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Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the IRA.

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Even then, the language of threat remained.

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We don't believe that winning elections, and winning

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any amount of votes, will bring freedom in Ireland.

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At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of IRA

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But after years of killings and chaos, in the 1990s,

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IRA ceasefires offered the opportunity for talks

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Not only would they shake hands, after the signing

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of the Good Friday Agreement, they joined each

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Eventually, at its head was the unlikely partnership

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of two former enemies - Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness.

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The firebrand unionist and radical republican became so close

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that they were nicknamed the Chuckle Brothers.

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There were republicans who continued to threaten that political progress.

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But when a police officer was killed, the then deputy first

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minister stood side-by-side with the chief constable to condemn

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They are traitors to the island of Ireland.

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Alongside the words, there were actions on all sides.

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The Queen's cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA.

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Yet, after the Troubles, royal and republican were able

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Thank you very much, I am still alive!

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However, relationships at Stormont always seemed strained

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after Ian Paisley stepped down as First Minister, to be

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replaced by Peter Robinson, and then Arlene Foster.

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Earlier this year, with his ill health by then obvious,

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Martin McGuinness walked out of government, amid a row

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between Sinn Fein and the DUP, the boy from Derry's Bogside

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retiring as deputy first minister after years in the IRA.

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Even though it breaks my heart. My heart lies in the Bogside and the

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people of Derry. The past actions of the IRA

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will colour many people's views But as a republican who worked

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towards reconciliation, he will be remembered as a key

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figure in changing Northern Ireland. Well, the former First Minister

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of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster, summed up the thoughts of many this

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morning when she said history would record differing views

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and opinions about his role. While some have paid tribute

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to his contribution to the peace process, others have said

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there are still questions about his IRA activity which may

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now never be answered. There is some flash photography

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in this report from our our political correspondent,

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Chris Mason. From an IRA commander to shaking

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hands with the Queen, a man reviled and admired. A giant of Northern

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Ireland for a generation, he would swap the gun for politics. Political

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parties of Northern Ireland have reached agreement. After the Good

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Friday Agreement 19 years ago, he would rise to become Deputy First

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Minister of Northern Ireland. Some people will remember him as the man

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of war, and who can never forget the violence of his early years, but for

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those of us who helped put together the Northern Ireland peace process

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with him, we will remember his legacy as the man of peace. I

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observed from my standpoint that wicked as those acts were by the IRA

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until the peace process, Martin McGuinness did play a significant

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part on the IRA's behalf towards bringing that to a conclusion and

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peace process. The current Prime Minister said...

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That contribution, working alongside, even joking alongside,

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Ian Paisley, a man known as Doctor no, who said yes to sharing power

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with him. As a Christian and person who reflects on life, it is not how

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you start your life that is important but how you finish your

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life and I think a lot of people will be thankful that Martin

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McGuinness finished his life a lot better than it could have been. The

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journey was remarkable. From the Republican side of Northern Ireland

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divide, this reflection from Gerry Adams, the man so often at his side.

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But some remember Martin McGuinness very, very differently. In 1984, the

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IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton, in the middle of the

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night. Their target, Margaret Thatcher. Five people were killed

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and many injured, among them a former Conservative Cabinet list

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Lord Tebbit and his wife Margaret, who was left paralysed. Lord Tebbit

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said he hoped Martin McGuinness was parked in a particularly hot and

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pleasant corner of health for the rest of eternity. He had a

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significant role because of his cowardice. He knew the IRA had been

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penetrated to the highest levels by British intelligence and that before

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long he would have been arrested and charged with some of the many

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murders which he personally committed, and so he opted for the

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coward's way out and said, I am a man of peace. Two months ago, Martin

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McGuinness was still a central figure at Stormont. It was his

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resignation that led to the collapse of power-sharing government. It was

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to be the final act of a man whose actions for around half a century

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had helped define Northern Ireland. Tim Parry was 12 years

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old when he was killed by an IRA bomb, planted in a rubbish

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bin in Warrington. His father, Colin, founded

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a charity in his memory, dedicated to improving relations

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between Britain and Ireland and he He's given us his reaction,

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and his assessment of the legacy I reached the point where I have to

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tell you I liked the man. He was a very mild, softly spoken... He came

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across as a very reasonable man, and this may seem crazy given his early

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life, but in later life he was an easy man to talk to. He was quite

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open. It was not like talking to a politician often, where they are

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almost like reading from a crib sheet. I felt he talked to me man to

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man. Any risk giving I had, we reached the stage beyond handshakes

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and he would give me a man hug. I felt awkward but I did not tell him.

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I was not fond being hugged by a man. If you split his life in half,

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in the second half, a serious and committed peacemaker in Northern

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Ireland. If you look at the totality of his life, the early part of his

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life he was a terrorist. There is no getting away from the fact he killed

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people. History is littered with former terrorists who become

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statesman. Nelson Mandela. People who forced the state of Israel.

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Martin comes from the same group who have gone from Warriors to

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peacemakers. Colin Parry, who lost his 12-year-old son in Warrington.

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We'll have reaction from Westminster in a moment,

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but first to Londonderry, and our Ireland Correspondent,

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Give us your assessment of how Martin McGuinness will be

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remembered. Looking back on someone's life too often people look

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for a hero or villain but usually it is much more complicated and that is

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true in the case of Martin McGuinness. You cannot ignore the

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fact the years he defended IRA violence and hurt caused to

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individuals throughout this society, but you have to recognise the

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contribution he made to peace and progress of politics here.

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Ultimately, how you eventually view Martin McGuinness will depend often

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on where you are and the divides that existed throughout his life

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still exist today and Unionists will see him differently to nationalists.

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While the divides exist, much of the conflict has gone and it is worth

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remembering the impact of the conflict that shape society and

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individuals' lives, including Martin McGuinness. When he was young, the

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Bogside in Derry was a place often caught up in turmoil and trouble.

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Those days are gone. Many of the scenes of those days whenever

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violence was a regular feature, there are murals on the wall, pieces

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of the past. I suppose in judging Martin McGuinness' legacy in the

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long-term the key question will be, can the work continue to ensure the

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images remain pieces of history? Chris Buckler.

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To Westminster now, and our assistant political

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Martin McGuinness never wanted to recognise the authority of

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Westminster but ultimately he had to work with them. I think that is

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right. There is a contradiction, paradox about his relations with

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Westminster. A man clearly reviled, loathed, detested Westminster and

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Westminster rule and the role of British governments in Ireland over

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generations and yet he had to come to terms with and deal with and

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negotiate with successive governments and it was Martin

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McGuinness who sent the message to Sir John Major saying the conflict

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is over. From the position of Westminster politicians, many viewed

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him as the hard uncompromising face of the IRA, a man with blood on his

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hands but they had to deal and negotiate with him and in a way it

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was the fact he was an IRA man that gave him such standing in the

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republican community that enabled him to bring hardline republicans

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into the peace process and make sure they stayed, despite difficulties in

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the peace process. And did not give up. Will he be forgiven? The truth

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is opinion will remain divided. He was and remains a polarising figure.

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Often it is generational. You find politicians of an older age you

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remember the IRA in its heyday and its bombing campaigns in the 70s and

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80s in Northern Ireland and Britain. You think of Birmingham, Guildford,

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they cannot forget. The younger politicians tend to focus on his key

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role in the peace process and bringing republican movement on

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board. I suspect the truth is it depends which part of his life you

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choose to emphasise. Inflation has risen

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above the Bank of England's target Prices rose by 2.3%

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in February, a bigger rise Economists say the leap

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is a result of the fall in the value of the pound,

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and rising oil prices. Here's our economics

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correspondent Andrew Verity. Until these latest figures, food had

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been getting cheaper for 2.5 years. Not any more. It is now among the

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reasons that inflation, above the official target of 2%, is back. At

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this firm of bespoke kitchen makers in Sheffield, they no-one of the big

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reasons why. The weaker pound is cutting into their profits. They're

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paying more for the raw materials they import and the fuel to

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transport them. Even though they're raising prices, it's not by enough

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to cover their higher costs. We've been hit with a lot of price rises

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on goods that we buy in from Europe, whether that be Appliances or

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components. One reason we buy in from Europe is because on those

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products, we can't get the same qualities in UK, and quality is

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really important to what we sell. Unfortunately it's been very

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difficult for us to pass all of those cost increases onto alkusshh

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customers, because we're in a very competitive market. In today's

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official figures, you can see further price rises coming down the

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line. Consumer prices are on average 2.3% higher. But at the factory

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gate, producers are charging 3.7% more than last year, not least

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because they in turn are paying 19% more for imported raw materials and

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fuel. The fact that prices are now rising as fast as pay means that

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real pay growth has disappeared. And unfortunately, in the next two

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months, it's likely that our wages in real terms will start to shrink.

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In the budget two weeks ago, the official forecast was that inflation

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would hit at 2.7%. That now looks optimistic. Inflation could go out

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to over 3%. Some people have been expecting it to be near 4%, and that

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is of course because of the fall in the pound, plus energy prices. The

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question for any everybody is, what is going to happen to sterling in

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the future, is it likely to go down even further? The Bank of England

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has not raise interests for nearly ten years. But the odds of an

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interest rate rise later this year are already getting shorter.

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In the next hour, MSP's begin a two day debate

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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced last week

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that she wants to hold a new vote, following the UK's

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Holyrood will vote tomorrow on whether to begin negotiations

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with the Westminster government on holding another referendum -

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Here's our Scotland Correspondent, Lorna Gordon.

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Who decides if there's to be another referendum on Scottish independence

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and who sets the date on which it be held?

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The government in Edinburgh believes they have the moral authority

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It was, they point out, an SNP manifesto commitment

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if circumstances changed, such as Scotland being taken out

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Nicola Sturgeon is not taking no for an answer.

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The UK Government was clear in 2014 that an independence referendum

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should, in their words, be made in Scotland

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That is a principle that should be respected today.

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The detailed arrangements for a referendum,

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including its timing, must be for the Scottish

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But the Scotland Act sets out how the legal authority to decide

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on whether or not there should be a referendum lies with Westminster

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and the Prime Minister, Theresa May, has said there will be no vote

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on Scottish independence before the UK leaves the EU,

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backed Scotland staying in the UK in 2014 then supported the UK

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staying in EU in 2016, and that almost half a million

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independence supporters actually backed Brexit last year seems

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The opposition unionist parties at Holyrood agreed.

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They will oppose the vote in the Scottish Parliament,

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arguing the will of the Scottish people was expressed in the first

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and is not what Scots want or need at this time.

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The SNP are in a minority at Holyrood, but with the support

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of the Scottish Greens, the vote will likely pass.

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Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said any move

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by the UK Government to block an independence referendum will be

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democratically indefensible if she wins the backing

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Let's speak to our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith.

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That debate gets under way very soon, what are we expecting? Well,

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this is going to be one of the most important debates the Holyrood

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chamber has heard, and there will be passion on both sides. First

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Minister Nicola Sturgeon will be making the case for why it should be

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up to the Scottish Parliament to decide when there is another

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independence referendum, and she will be asking the parliament to

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vote to give her that authority. Lined up against her, you will have

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the Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems, all of them opposed to another

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referendum, one of them saying it is not what the people of Scotland

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want, that there is no public clamour for another referendum,

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apart from people who are very enthusiastic supporters of

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independence. And they will keep saying that it is more important

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that the Scottish Government should focus on running schools and

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hospitals than it is to constantly argue for another independence

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referendum. The result of the vote is not in much doubt. The Scottish

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Rings will back the SNP and when there is a vote in the House

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tomorrow, the SNP will win the vote, which means the First Minister will

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then have the authority to make a formal request to the Prime Minister

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for another referendum. She knows what the answer is going to be, we

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know that, Theresa May has already said, now is not the time. Nicola

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Sturgeon says, she's prepared to talk about the timing, maybe they

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could find a compromise there. It is not clear whether the Prime Minister

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is in the space to that. The former Deputy First Minister

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of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness, has

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died at the age of 66. He had been suffering

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from a rare heart condition. I think maybe the best thing about

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cricket is whacking the ball like say wag, what do you think? If you

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work it, you can just get out. Can cricket recapture a lost

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generation of children who've never On BBC London, the latest sculptures

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for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth are unveiled. And what does the

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weather have in store? Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh,

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which were stolen in 2002, have been The works - a seascape

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and a painting of Van Gogh's father's church -

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were stolen from the van Gogh Museum on the orders of an

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Italian crime family. They were found last year

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during a police raid in Naples. From Amsterdam, Anna

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Holligan reports. After 14 years and a traumatic

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journey, the paintings Now protected by thick screens,

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they're not taking any chances. Two early works by one

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of the Netherlands' We have no idea what happened

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to them in the intervening years. In this beach view, a small

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piece in the lower left But it does not really disturb

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the image as such too much. And the small church

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is practically unharmed. It took opportunist thieves less

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than four minutes to break in through the roof,

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using a rope and sledgehammer, rip the paintings from the nearest

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wall with brute force, and escape before the police

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arrived, leaving a hole Italian police arrested

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two men in 2016. They'd been investigating

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allegations of drug trafficking, but apparently, one detainee

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confessed that the network The Italian authorities

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were proud of their work. These two works are of vast historic

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and sentimental value. The Sea View at Scheveningen is one

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of only two seascapes painted by van Gogh during his time

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in the Netherlands. The wind was so blustery that day,

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it blew tiny grains of sand The Congregation Leaving

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the Reformed Church In Nuenen was a gift for van Gogh's mother

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after she'd broke her leg. He changed it after his father

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died to include images The museum is deliberately

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displaying the paintings as they were found, with slight

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damage representing Now, anticipating the moment they're

:25:34.:25:35.

back in the admiring public eye. It all began when a headteacher

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in West Sussex wrote to the Government detailing his

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concerns about his school's And now, hours before the end

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of the consultation period, the number has snowballed -

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thousands of headteachers, representing one and a half million

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students, are now urging ministers to rethink their new funding

:26:09.:26:11.

formula for schools. Our education correspondent,

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Gillian Hargreaves, reports. Here are my magnets, two very

:26:15.:26:15.

powerful bring back that is. Tonbridge House in Horsham in

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West Sussex provides an outstanding Even though it's one

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of the worst funded ?2000 less per child

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than some other schools. It had hoped to be

:26:26.:26:28.

a winner when the new way of allocating cash was announced

:26:29.:26:31.

by the Government, giving more money to rural areas and less to inner

:26:32.:26:34.

cities, but when the head looked at his school's finances,

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he found he was out-of-pocket. So, we've just got another e-mail

:26:39.:26:43.

coming in and that's another head. With only hours to go before

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the Government ends its public consultation, Jules White

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is one of thousands of head teachers who've written to their MPs saying

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they can't manage and the new We're having to make

:26:55.:26:57.

devastating cuts at the moment. I'm not replacing

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staff as they leave. I lost three members

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of staff last year. year. Maybe four to five

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members of support staff, and that can be office-based,

:27:09.:27:16.

administration, also help our most vulnerable

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youngsters, we can't afford them. Under this new funding formula,

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he will receive ?180,000 more, but his costs, for things like pay,

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National Insurance, heating and lighting,

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have risen to ?220,000. So now the school is

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?40,000 worse off, even It is unprecedented

:27:34.:27:35.

for thousands of heads to come together like this

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without trade union coordination. But that's a measure

:27:43.:27:48.

of both the fear and furious teachers feel about the cuts

:27:49.:27:52.

they're having to make. At this school, these

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are anxious times for teachers and support staff,

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but it's not only southern England. There have been protests

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across the country. This one was in Cheshire at

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the weekend, with teachers saying, even with a new deal, there is not

:28:06.:28:08.

enough cash to pay the bills. The Government says

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the funding formula It's promised to help those

:28:13.:28:14.

in difficulties and is spending a At the moment, it's

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hard to see how both How does cricket win back

:28:23.:28:27.

what's known as the 'lost generation' of school children,

:28:28.:28:35.

who've never had any Cricket's governing body, the ECB,

:28:36.:28:37.

will this summer target five- to eight-year-olds,

:28:38.:28:40.

to try to attract If they are not playing cricket

:28:41.:28:42.

by eight, it is probably too late. ?4 million invested to attract

:28:43.:28:52.

50,000 children, or else Cricket is the heartbeat

:28:53.:28:55.

of the English summer. All Stars Cricket -

:28:56.:29:03.

parents sign up, their children get a backpack with accessories

:29:04.:29:12.

and eight coaching There will normally be ?40 to pay,

:29:13.:29:14.

but it is a system designed for fun. The ECB recruited an Australian

:29:15.:29:19.

expert to drive participation. He's dealing with some

:29:20.:29:21.

stark realities. We saw some stats come out 12 months

:29:22.:29:23.

ago that the average child in this country spends less time outside

:29:24.:29:30.

than a prison inmate, and that a fairly scary stat,

:29:31.:29:32.

so we need to be more proactive in getting kids to play

:29:33.:29:35.

and get them active. Well, this launch has been taking

:29:36.:29:37.

place in London 2012 territory. The cricket demonstration has been

:29:38.:29:40.

going on underneath the Orbit. And a great legacy of

:29:41.:29:45.

all that recent Olympic Britain has suddenly won

:29:46.:29:47.

medals in triathlon, Where does a traditional sport

:29:48.:29:50.

like cricket fit in now? Will English cricket ever reach

:29:51.:29:58.

the heights of 2005, when the Ashes commanded huge

:29:59.:30:01.

free-to-air TV audiences We probably have missed

:30:02.:30:05.

a generation, we probably have missed a great opportunity,

:30:06.:30:11.

but it doesn't mean you just stop and go, all right,

:30:12.:30:13.

we just let game drift. There are so many other

:30:14.:30:16.

sports that we all know about now that we didn't know

:30:17.:30:18.

about 12 years ago and I guess Part of the idea here

:30:19.:30:22.

is to demystify cricket. There is a lot to it,

:30:23.:30:27.

there are a lot of rules to it. It can be quite a complicated sport,

:30:28.:30:35.

but for the kids this age it's just about running about,

:30:36.:30:39.

having some fun and being Don't underestimate the cricketing

:30:40.:30:41.

wisdom of some eight-year-olds. A lesson I learned

:30:42.:30:44.

with with these two. I think maybe the best thing

:30:45.:30:46.

about cricket is whacking It's not about whacking

:30:47.:30:48.

it all the time. If you whack it once and do a silly

:30:49.:30:54.

stroke and just get out. If you're playing against a tight

:30:55.:30:59.

defence, you have to hit it with a ground stroke,

:31:00.:31:03.

because that's the easiest way. This doesn't look like traditional

:31:04.:31:06.

cricket, and it's not supposed to. If only the ECB could

:31:07.:31:11.

guarantee sunny summer days. That's just another

:31:12.:31:14.

part of the challenge. With the spring flowers out, the

:31:15.:31:27.

cricket season is not far away. But while some have been dancing in the

:31:28.:31:32.

sunshine, others have been sitting on the snow. Believe it or not, snow

:31:33.:31:36.

is more likely in March than it is in December. We have seen plenty in

:31:37.:31:39.

parts of Scotland and northern England as well so far today.

:31:40.:31:44.

Becoming a little less abundant during the afternoon. In Wales and

:31:45.:31:47.

the south-west of England, the showers will become more frequent

:31:48.:31:51.

this afternoon. Central and eastern areas, should stay dry. Cold for

:31:52.:31:55.

all. Arctic air in place at the moment. Rain, sleet and Hill snow

:31:56.:32:04.

across the south-west of Wales and into northern England. That could

:32:05.:32:10.

cause some problems. Towards the south and east, staying dry and

:32:11.:32:15.

frost free, but a cold night in store in Scotland. Tomorrow, much

:32:16.:32:17.

more sunshine around. For the morning commute, it is

:32:18.:32:31.

northern England where we see the ugliest of the weather, with some

:32:32.:32:35.

heavy snowfall over the top of the Pennines. Quite a bit of rain around

:32:36.:32:38.

north-west England, north-east Wales, down in towards central and

:32:39.:32:44.

southern parts of England. Bright start for the south-west tomorrow.

:32:45.:32:54.

Sunshine and showers towards the south-west, some of them heavy. Much

:32:55.:33:02.

of Scotland and Northern Ireland, a much better day than today, but

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feeling cold in a strengthening wind. Fizzling out of it, but into

:33:07.:33:15.

Thursday, plenty of cloud across England and Wales. Occasional rain

:33:16.:33:18.

at times. Scotland and Northern Ireland, driest and brightest after

:33:19.:33:24.

a frosty start. Southernmost counties of England and Wales, there

:33:25.:33:29.

could be a spell of heavy, persistent rain on Friday. But it

:33:30.:33:32.

does clear through, with high pressure building into the weekend.

:33:33.:33:39.

Crisp mornings but some lovely sunny days at the weekend.

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Our main headline... Former Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland,

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Martin McGuinness, has died at the age of 66. That is all from

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