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Six people are to be charged in connection with the Hillsborough

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football stadium disaster, 28 years ago.

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Following these thorough investigations and our careful

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review of the evidence in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors,

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I have decided there is sufficient evidence to charge six individuals

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The senior police officer at the match - former Chief

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Superintendent David Duckenfield - will be charged with

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Relatives of some of those who died at Hillsborough say

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We've got today everything that we could have asked for.

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We'll have all the reaction from Warrington.

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After the Grenfell Tower fire, the Prime Minister tells MPs it

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appears the cladding used wasn't compliant with building regulations.

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As of this morning in the cladding from 120 tower blocks across the

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country in 37 local authorities have been tested and failed the

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combustibility test. If you don't give me a permanent accommodation

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and not going to accept it. Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire

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challenge the Housing Minister And, the end of flu

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jabs may be in sight - researchers in America develop

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a vaccine patch. And coming up in the

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sport on BBC News: Defending champion Andy Murray is

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named number one seed for Wimbledon. It's the first time in 12 grand

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slams that the big four Good afternoon and welcome

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to the BBC News at One. The senior police officer

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at the Hillsborough disaster, Chief Superintendent David

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Duckenfield, is to be charged with the manslaughter,

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by gross negligence, The Crown Prosecution Service says

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it has enough evidence to charge a further five people in connection

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with the crush at the FA The former Chief Constable

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Sir Norman Bettison will face four charges -

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relating to alleged lies he told in the aftermath

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about the culpability of fans. A solicitor who acted

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for South Yorkshire Police is charged with Perverting

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the Course of Justice The families of many

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of those who died were told about the decision at a meeting

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in Warrington - from where our correspondent

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Judith Moritz sent this report. They've had enquiries, inquests and

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investigations but the Hillsborough families have never seen in public

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criminal prosecutions against anyone involved in the 1989 disaster. They

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have waited almost 30 years for this moment. This morning they arrived

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full of hope and anxiety to be told that six people are to face

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prosecution. They include David Duckenfield who was in charge of

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policing the match. And Sir Norman Bettison who is alleged to have lied

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about fans after the disaster. There is sufficient evidence to charge

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former Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield with the manslaughter by

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gross negligence of 95 men, women and children. He was the match

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commander on the day of the disaster. David Duckenfield, seen

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here in 1989, is being charged with the manslaughter of all but one of

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the 96 Liverpool fans who died in the disaster. We are unable to

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charge the manslaughter of Tony Bland, the 96 casualties who died

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almost four years Labour. This is due to time limitations imposed by

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the law implied at the time. The Liverpool fans were killed when the

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terraces at the Sheffield ground became overcrowded during the 1989

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FA Cup final. David Duckenfield ordered the opening of an exit gate

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through which fans poured into the ground. In the years after

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Hillsborough Sir Norman Bettison rose through the ranks to become

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Chief Constable of Merseyside and later West Yorkshire. Given his

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seniority prosecutors will ask jurors to find he abused the public

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's trust. Former Chief Constable Norman Bettison is charged with four

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offences of misconduct in public office. This relates to alleged lies

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he told by his involvement in the aftermath of Hillsborough and the

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culpability of vans. The bereaved families emerged from their meeting

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with the CPS having worked there will be prosecutions. I am

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absolutely delighted. We've got today everything we could have asked

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for. The decisions by the CPS in my opinion were correct, are correct.

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And we look forward to the due process through a court of law.

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Graham Mackrell was Sheffield Wednesday company secretary and

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safety officer in 1989, he is accused of failing to carry out his

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duties charged under health and safety law and the safety of sports

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ground act. Peter Metcalf was the solicitor acting for South Yorkshire

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Police who is charged with perverting the course of justice in

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relation to amendments made to witness statements. Former officers

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Chief Superintendent Donald Denton in the middle and DCI Alan Foster

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who is not shown are charged with the same offence, Donald Denton is

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said to have overseen the process of altering statements. No one from the

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Ambulance Service is being prosecuted and no organisation will

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face corporate charges. It's the culmination of more than four years

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of work by hundreds of investigators, they have looked

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through thousands of documents including police notebooks from 1989

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which were recovered from lofts, garages and offices and comb through

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page by page. Investigations have cost in the region of ?100 million

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and expectations of prosecutions were high. Donna Miller lost her

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brother Paul Carlyle, today is a hard day, her mother did not live to

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see the prosecutions announced. The fact my mum is not here, this is the

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first big event she's not here, she died on the 26th of April this year

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and this was a day she was determined to be here for. So it's

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sad for me without my mum. The youngest to die was just ten years

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old, the oldest pensioner. They were all and lawfully killed. There have

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long been calls for justice, now almost 30 years after they were

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killed those said to be responsible will face trial and the prospect of

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jail. Give us more of the sense of what

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people have been saying to you, as you say after so many years? I think

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there is an undercurrent here of satisfaction. Quiet satisfaction in

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some respects and that is because the families know they are at a

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difficult stage. Nobody wants to endanger the forthcoming

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prosecutions from a legal point of view so we have heard in the last

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few minutes in fact from some of the lawyers representing the families

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who have said to us that they have welcomed these announcements today,

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that the families always knew they had justice at the inquest but

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accountability was going to be harder to achieve. They have gone on

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to say that because they want to make sure they preserve the process

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which will lie ahead and not endanger it that they will not

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speculate about the outcome of any trial. It's a similar tone taken by

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various organisations. We have had responses this morning from South

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Yorkshire Police for example saying similar things, they understand it's

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a decision for the Crown Prosecution Service but don't want to speculate

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or get involved in the detail. Also the lawyer representing David

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Duckenfield and Donald Denton has said it's not for them to make

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comment at this time. In terms of wider reaction within the House of

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Commons, we have heard at Prime Minister's Questions, the Prime

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Minister welcoming the decision and praising the exemplary campaign by

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the Hillsborough families and others and also Jeremy Corbyn similarly

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praising the campaign work. There is reaction to this, it has been

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welcomed but within careful boundaries. Everybody now having

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their eyes on these court appearances we heard about today,

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five of the six dependents will appear before magistrates here in

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Warrington in early August. -- five of the six defendants.

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Let's speak to our Legal Correspondent Clive Coleman.

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Let's focus on the charge of gross negligence, this is a charge where

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the bar is set high. This is a serious criminal offence carrying a

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maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The prosecution have

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to prove first of all a duty of care was awed by David Duckenfield to

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those who did, they have to prove that duty was breached and proved it

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was breached by gross negligence. What is gross negligence? The bar is

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set high, it is more than just a bad mistake. In one case it is described

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as behaviour which is reprehensible but that gives you an illustration

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of the bar is set. In the past it's proved challenging offence to

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prosecute. And a thought as well that we are hearing today about

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individuals, some people might have expected groups, organisations to be

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involved? Three were considered, Sheffield Wednesday were considered

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but that company only exists on paper now really, no directors could

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give instructions or enter a plea. The punishment would have been a

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fine and it has no assets to pay. Similarly South Yorkshire

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Metropolitan Ambulance Services cannot be prosecuted because it was

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part of the Trent regional health authority and that has ceased to

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exist and the criminal responsibility has not been passed

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on to the successor organisation so there was no possibility of

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prosecuting that organisation. The football Association was also

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considered in relation to health and safety charges but in that instance

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the CPS said there was insignificant -- insufficient evidence to say the

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FA was responsible for the breach of a safety certificate at the ground

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or that the FA contributed to a material risk to safety. Thank you.

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The government says 120 tower blocks in 37 local authority areas

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in England have now failed fire safety tests.

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Theresa May gave the update as she faced MPs in her first

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Prime Minister's Questions since she lost her parliamentary

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Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports from Westminster.

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They say a week is a long time in politics so the eight weeks since

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the last Prime Minister's Questions must seem like a lifetime for

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Theresa May. She is putting on a brave face but the Prime Minister

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has lost majority. Labour gained rather than shared seats, a third of

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the SNP's contingent have gone and the ten DUP MPs from Northern

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Ireland hugely influential. But an even more dramatic event dominated

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things, the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Jeremy Corbyn began by asking when

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the public enquiry will begin and was told a judge will be appointed

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soon. The Prime Minister set out the scale of the wider problem with the

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cladding of tower blocks. The cladding of 120 tower blocks this

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morning across the country in 37 local areas have been tested and

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Philby combustibility test. Given the 100% failure rate we are very

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clear with local authorities and housing associations that they

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should not wait for test results but get on with the job of fire safety

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checks and they are doing that. The exchanges became more robust when

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the Labour leader when the tragedy to spending cuts. Under her

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predecessor... Under her predecessor fire safety audit and inspections

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were cut by a quarter. Fire authority budgets were cut by a

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quarter. Can the Prime Minister give an assurance to the house that the

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further 20% cuts to the Fire Service planned by 2020 will now be halted?

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She said it wasn't the issue. The question is why is it despite that

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we have seen in local authority area after local authority area materials

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being put up that we see not complying with building regulations?

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When you cut local authority budgets by 40% we all pay a price in public

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safety. What the tragedy of Grenfell Tower has exposed is the disastrous

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effects of austerity. This should be an issue that across this house we

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recognise is a matter that has been developing over decades, is a matter

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that has occurred under governments of both colours, under councils of

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all political persuasions. Jeremy Corbyn's critics will accuse him of

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politicising this tragedy but he believes it is already highly

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political, a symbol of social inequality and poor housing

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policies. This afternoon here in the House of Commons he will broaden his

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attack, not just asking for more cash for the emergency services but

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calling for the public sector pay cap to be lifted. The badges worn

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are from the nurses union calling from a pay rise. Jeremy Corbyn will

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hope he has caught the mood of a nation but the Conservatives say or

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maybe can deliver the strong economy necessary to fund public services.

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Our Assistant political editor Norman Smith is in Westminster.

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It came across as a pretty charged atmosphere. Yes, I think there has

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been a reluctance amongst many MP's and main party leaders up until now

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not to make direct political points are arguments out of the Grenfell

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Tower tragedy. That came to a shuddering halt this lunchtime and

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we do seem to be in something of a blame game with Jeremy Corbyn

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directly suggesting cuts caused Grenfell Tower, saying the tragedy

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exposed the disastrous effects of austerity, pointing in particular to

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a 40% reduction in council funding which reduced their ability to cart

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a odd safety inspection and building regulation. That in turn seemed to

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sting Theresa May who hit back by almost blaming the last Labour

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government and Tony Blair saying it was under Tony Blair this cladding

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had gone up in the first place and it was under his government which

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the rules were changed on inspections and building

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regulations, transferring responsibility from the Fire Service

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to local councils. At that .1 Tory MP got up and said we have got to

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have a calm, nonpartisan debate. I think Theresa May realised it had

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got out of hand and said we will not get anywhere pointing the finger of

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blame. The difficulty is that until this public enquiry gets up and

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running there is something of a vacuum and in that vacuum inevitably

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the political arguments and acrimony begins to intrude. But we are still

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waiting for the judge to be appointed to chair the enquiry and

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two weeks on we still don't know who that is going to be or when he she

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will be appointed. Norman, thank you.

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There were strong exchanges this morning when survivors

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of the Grenfell Tower fire confronted the Housing

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Residents told Alok Sharma that authorities had failed to provide

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adequate accommodation since the disaster.

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Two weeks ago, the nation looked on in horror at the worst fire

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It took days for an official estimate of 79 dead to emerge

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and it is a number most on this estate believe is far too low.

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The council was overwhelmed, the relief effort too slow.

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But for the survivors, every day is a new challenge.

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You receive a call from the council saying your hotel is booked.

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You go down to breakfast the next morning, they ask you what time

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You ring them up, no one seems to know what is going on.

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They have offered us high-rise towers and I have expressed to them

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that we're petrified, traumatised and so are the kids.

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It is very hard when you do not say goodbye to someone,

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but it is even worse when you do not even know you should

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The Housing Minister met residents today on the BBC

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If you do not give me permanent accommodation,

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The government is still struggling to convince survivors

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Anyone whose home has been destroyed will be housed by next Wednesday

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in good accommodation and in housing that is acceptable to them.

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So what we are not going to do is if you're offered a home,

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you do not like it, and you are still asked to go in,

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68 families will be housed locally in these apartments,

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But there are almost 400 households still in hotels.

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Government money is being distributed, almost

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Including ?5,000 emergency payments to more than 100 households.

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Grenfell is a national disaster with national repercussions.

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It is now confirmed that cladding from 120 buildings in 37 local

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authority areas has failed fire safety tests.

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Talks to restore Northern Ireland's devolved administration

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are continuing, with just one full day left to reach an agreement.

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Discussions have been taking place between the five main parties

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and the British and Irish governments to try to restore

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Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler is at Stormont,

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In just over 24 hours the Northern Ireland Assembly is supposed to

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meet, a first and Deputy First Minister supposed to be appointed

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and months of political crisis supposed to be over. That was the

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plan but it does not seem like a certainty at this juncture. The

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Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein are still deeply divided on a

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range of issues but there is one in particular causing a lot of

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disagreement. That is about an Irish language act. I is the first

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language of just over a quarter of 1% of the population here but it is

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deeply important to nationalists and republicans and as a result they're

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pushing for official status for it. But the DUP are against that and

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what a much wider legislation that would look at languages and culture

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more generally. As a result we had something of a stand-off and last

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night angry words from Sinn Fein in response to the DUP, talking about

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having a parallel process, trying to get back into government and

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continue talking. That gives you no indication that a deal is likely any

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time soon. But there has been a warning from the Northern Ireland

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Secretary James Brokenshire today of serious implications for Northern

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Ireland if no deal is agreed. The clock is ticking was not long to

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find out if the deadline is met. The supermarket chain Tesco has

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announced it is to cut 1,200 jobs It comes a week the loss of up

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to 1,100 jobs was announced Our Business Correspondent

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Emma Simpson is here. Tesco says it needs to make money

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and supply business. If you are a retailer one of your biggest costs

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and staff. So it announced what it calls a significant step by cutting

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numbers at its headquarters, across all centralised functions from

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buying and marketing to finance and property. Of course staff at

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headquarters have faced job losses before because they closed the old

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HQ so the news today will be very hard indeed. Since in two dozen 14

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this business has cut at least 10,000 jobs across the board and I

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do not think this is the end of it because like other retailers it is

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grappling with a whole host of challenges. Rising wage bills thanks

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to the new minimum wage, rising costs partly due to the slump in the

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pound and of course changing shopping habits. It is having to pay

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the costs and investment in online. So these job losses are happening

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right across the industry but of course with Tesco, the biggest

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retailer in the UK, these numbers are pretty big. Emma Simpson.

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Six people are to be charged in connection with the Hillsborough

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football stadium disaster, 28 years ago.

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The senior police officer at the match - former Chief

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Superintendent David Duckenfield - will be charged with

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Mixed news for Britain at the World Taekwondo

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Heavyweight Mahama Cho has guaranteed the British

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team a second medal, but Lutalo Muhammad is out.

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If you're not keen on needles, research from the United States

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Scientists there are developing a skin patch

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to deliver the flu vaccine - it's similar to a plaster,

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and contains hair-like needles which penetrate the skin

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The patch has been described as a potential "game changer"

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for vaccination campaigns in developing countries.

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Vaccines save millions of lives around the world but getting them to

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people in remote parts of developing countries is a major challenge. Some

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vaccines must be kept refrigerated, and train staff must administer them

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and needles must be disposed of safely. But what if you could

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vaccinate people as simply as this. It might look like a plaster for a

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small cut but zoom in and you will see 100 microscopic hairlike needles

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containing the flu vaccine. They penetrate the skin surface and

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dissolve. A small study in the US found that they are just as

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effective as the regular injectable vaccine. This is potentially a game

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changer that we have. We have a technology that potentially we could

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use not just for the flu vaccine but vaccines more generally. We could do

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away with needles. The vaccines appear to be stable at 40 degrees

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for a year or more which is really good. So potentially it could be a

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lot cheaper than current technology and you do not need train staff to

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administer them. Here in the UK you can get a flu jab quite easily by

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coming to your local pharmacy but many people still choose not to.

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Sometimes because they're worried about needles. Some participants in

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the trial were scared of needles and excited about having a technology

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that will help them go through their phobia. Most people in the study

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said that the patch was painless but some experienced mild side effects

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for a few days such as redness and itching. Researchers at Emory

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University and the Georgia Institute of technology say it will be some

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years before the patch is widely available and more studies are

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needed. The ultimate goal is for people to buy their vaccine

:25:00.:25:03.

off-the-shelf and even immunise themselves.

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The Co-op Bank has agreed a rescue package with shareholders worth

:25:06.:25:10.

It should mean the bank - which almost collapsed in 2013 -

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Our Business Editor Simon Jack is here.

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How secure is its future? This is good news for a bank which had

:25:21.:25:27.

little of that over the last few years, it has been walking would

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ever since 2013 when it almost collapse, discovering a huge hole in

:25:32.:25:36.

its finances. A bunch of American investors said it then and since

:25:37.:25:38.

then it has been limping along unable to earn its way out of

:25:39.:25:41.

trouble, they could not find a buyer when I wanted to do so those same

:25:42.:25:45.

investors have doubled down and written off some

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of the money in. That will mean that their shareholding is almost not

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entirely owned by US investors. The Co-op Group will now own just 1%. So

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it will be very different, their branding will stay and the ethical

:26:13.:26:14.

values will also stay. But the agreement between the Co-op Group

:26:15.:26:15.

which does Gross restores and funeral services and Co-op Bank will

:26:16.:26:16.

terminate. So it is a big change from 1872 when it was founded. To be

:26:17.:26:19.

almost majority-owned by hedge funds. It will be interesting to see

:26:20.:26:23.

how 4 million of their customers, who have been very loyal, will be

:26:24.:26:27.

when there are no longer part of the group. Simon Jack, thank you.

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Services which provide support for older people with complex

:26:33.:26:35.

needs face more cuts, even though extra money

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is being put into the system - that's according to a survey of more

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than 150 adult social services directors in England.

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The report found that three quarters of council directors are worried

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Here's our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt.

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They are packing the room at the University of the Third Age

:26:52.:26:54.

A third of the population here is aged 65 or over,

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the highest proportion in the country.

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Today's report warns despite the growing demand

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for support as people get older, councils are still

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I don't think it's a matter of what side of the political

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But to me the main question is, what's going to happen to me

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Essentially people have got to pay more taxes.

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You can't carry on relying on ad hoc sticking plaster solutions.

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I think it's terribly important that this age group is remembered,

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I'm not going to say looked after is difficult, because I don't

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Nearly all of the directors who run council care services in England

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They expect to make more than ?820 million in savings this year.

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Most councils had to use their reserves to pay for last

:27:55.:27:56.

Companies providing care are still handing back local

:27:57.:28:01.

And three quarters of council directors worry about

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Cliff edge, tipping point, I think nearly every organisation

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that has an interest in social care in the last year has used

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And certainly in my number of years of working in this industry,

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I have not seen a situation like this before.

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This care company provides support for people across the South.

:28:28.:28:30.

Much of it funded by local authorities.

:28:31.:28:33.

The government has put extra money in to ease the pressures,

:28:34.:28:36.

but here they say it is not reaching the front line.

:28:37.:28:40.

We certainly have not seen any material increase in fee rates,

:28:41.:28:42.

In-home care actually in some cases the fee rates have gone down.

:28:43.:28:51.

We have had to hand back further local authority contracts,

:28:52.:28:54.

we are just in the process of handing two more back right now.

:28:55.:28:57.

And we have closed another care home unfortunately.

:28:58.:29:00.

How we pay for support as we get older became a particularly toxic

:29:01.:29:03.

issue for the Conservatives during the election.

:29:04.:29:06.

But in places like this there is an increasing demand

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Which underlines why this is an issue that

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The government says as well as additional

:29:14.:29:18.

money in the short term, it will be consulting on how

:29:19.:29:21.

to improve care and put it on a firm financial footing.

:29:22.:29:24.

The creator of Paddington Bear, author Michael Bond, has died aged

:29:25.:29:47.

91. He proved to be a favourite ever since he went into print. We look

:29:48.:29:57.

back at the life of Michael Bond. Paddington, charming, Peruvian,

:29:58.:30:03.

accident prone. The creation of a former BBC cameraman, Michael Bond.

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And modelled on his father. Good afternoon, he said, coming help you.

:30:10.:30:14.

My father was a very polite man and always wore a hat in case he met

:30:15.:30:19.

someone. And Paddington has a lot of him in it. He wrote the first or

:30:20.:30:23.

after it bought the toy bear. He never thought it would be published

:30:24.:30:26.

but it was just the beginning, millions were sold and translated

:30:27.:30:30.

into more than 30 languages. There was of course the TV programme. 32

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Winter Gardens. Paddington musical. Paddington film. Mrs Bird made very

:30:38.:30:47.

good stew. Friendly, polite, fond of marmalade. There have been many

:30:48.:30:50.

fictional bearers but none quite like Michael Bond's Paddington Bear.

:30:51.:30:59.

The author Michael Bond who died at the age of 91. Let's turn to the

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weather prospects. More rain to come. Yesterday I was

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soaked to the skin. Not because I forgot my umbrella but the car went

:31:14.:31:18.

by and I'm sure other people had similar experiences. A lot of large

:31:19.:31:24.

puddles out there. More rain is on the way but not necessarily in the

:31:25.:31:27.

same places. Let's look at the rain in the past 24 hours, south-eastern

:31:28.:31:33.

and eastern areas got most of that yesterday was an absolute deluge

:31:34.:31:37.

across the south-east. One particular spot in Suffolk got 90

:31:38.:31:43.

millimetres of rain. That is a lot of water, more than a month in under

:31:44.:31:50.

a day. And hence those big puddles. As far as this afternoon is

:31:51.:31:53.

concerned the heavy rain has moved away from the south-east and east

:31:54.:31:58.

Anglia. A little further north. But also some rain communion across

:31:59.:32:04.

south-western areas. It has been raining quite heavily across parts

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of Cornwall and also clipping parts of Wales. We are seeing most of the

:32:09.:32:19.

rain to the east of the Pennines. But Northern Ireland and Scotland, a

:32:20.:32:22.

different story. It is dry with some sunshine around. Some blue skies off

:32:23.:32:30.

the coast of Aberdeenshire. It looks as though the weather front will

:32:31.:32:35.

painfully slowly overnight move further north. So back into Easter

:32:36.:32:40.

Scotland and into the lowlands as well. The second arm of rain curling

:32:41.:32:44.

backing into central and southern England. So the low pressure if it

:32:45.:32:50.

moves slowly, the rain clouds will move slowly as well. So tomorrow

:32:51.:32:54.

across Scotland, into Northern Ireland, the heavier rain as well.

:32:55.:32:58.

Some of that tipping Wales and the south-west. Across the south east

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and central areas the weather is going to dry out and maybe even some

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brightness. This low pressure still with us on Thursday, moving a little

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further north. Then moving down south again. All that action across

:33:13.:33:18.

these western areas so it is not in a hurry to go. On top of that we

:33:19.:33:23.

have a wind blowing as well, quite strong. Sunshine perhaps developing

:33:24.:33:30.

across the south-east, up to 23 degrees possible but also some

:33:31.:33:34.

showers around. So we still have some more days to go in the week but

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just like yesterday, I promised some sunshine and I think Sunday is

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looking good. Thank you very much. A reminder of our main

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story this lunchtime. Six people are to be charged

:33:44.:33:45.

in connection with the Hillsborough football stadium disaster,

:33:46.:33:48.

28 years ago. Former Chief Superintendent David

:33:49.:34:00.

Duckenfield will be charged with the manslaughter of 95 people.

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That's all from the BBC News at One - so it's goodbye from me -

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