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Hundreds of thousands of students get their A-level results.

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Overall, there's a slight rise in the top grades

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Loser fall in those grades in England alone for the first time

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since those exams underwent major form. We will be live from clearing

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centre. The government is to withdraw

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funding from one of the largest private training companies in the UK

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after a damning report by Oftsed. A surge in the number of migrants

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crossing from Morocco to Spain. Nearly three times as many people

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are now attempting the journey. A large fire broke out

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in the early hours at a Glasgow fruit and veg market -

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firefighters say they expect to be The first ever Day/Night Test match

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in England is about to get And coming up in the sport on BBC

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News, the FA facing questions after England head coach Mark Sampson is

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cleared of making racist remarks about one of his players.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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The wait for A-level results is over for hundreds of thousands

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of young people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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This year's results show a slight rise in A and A-star grades,

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The results in England are the first since major changes were made

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to the qualifications, which mean students now

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sit their exams at the end of two years of study,

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instead of taking modules halfway through.

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In top grades, boys have moved ahead of girls.

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Our reporter Chi Chi Izundu has been with students opening their results

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Results day. Years of studying and nervous expectation even to find out

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what you have got. For the first time in six years those getting top

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marks at a level has increased and that is despite reforming the

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system. Really, really good. Hopefully going on to studying

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accounting. Are you happy? Very happy. Have you broken the news to

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your mum and dad? My mum, yes. She started screaming! She was screaming

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a lot, yes. As part of the reform, AS modules coursework will not be

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part of the final grade. Students must study for two years and sit an

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exam at the end. This year, 13 subjects are affected, including

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chemistry, biology and English literature, and universities have a

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input to the changes. It is challenging to be the first year to

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do a new exam, but the new exams reflect the needs of universities

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and employers. Universities were very clear that they wanted to see

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students arrive for their first year better prepared to cope with the

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challenges of that difficult first year. The new changes to the system

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do not apply to schools in Wales, which are still coupling macka one

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and A-level grades. We were concerned that the old AS

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qualification disappeared and there was a narrowing of the curriculum.

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It was looking like subjects in the creative arts, like music and drama,

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those are starting to disappear, and the same but modern foreign

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languages. And this is a time when the what young people to be

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celebrating creativity but looking to be global citizens, so those are

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areas of real concern. In a A* grades and A grades, boys have moved

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ahead of girls compared to last year's results. For those who did

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better than expected or even those that didn't, they will be checking

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whether they are onto their course at their university of choice. One

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very happy student is 20-year-old Malala, who tweeted news of her

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place at Oxford. The number of university places

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allocated has fallen with tens of thousands

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of places still available. UCAS, the Universities

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and Colleges Admissions Service, says that 416,000 places have so far

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been confirmed, down 2% on last year, reflecting a dip in the number

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of 18-year-olds in the UK. This is expected to mean a "buyers'

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market", with more options available to students looking for university

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places through the clearing process. Phil Mackie is at the

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Admissions Service's You mentioned the fact that there is

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a dip in a number of 18-year-olds are applying, who were available to

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apply this year, but also fewer mature students and 3% fewer EU

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students, we don't know quite yet, maybe it's because Brexit, maybe it

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is because of rising costs and debt that you face if you choose to go to

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university. For the many people who got results this morning, whether

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they got better or worse results, they are not interested in the

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statistics but in what is happening to them. For tens of thousands of

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teenagers, their parents and teachers, this is the place they

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dread calling on results day. This year if you have not quite got the

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grades, the advice is, don't panic. There are more places are available

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through clearing land usual and you never know who will pick up the

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phone. It is Lenny Henry. I'm the Chancellor of Birmingham city

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University. What is your name? Although it is expensive, University

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remains the main choice for 18-year-olds. My mum used to say you

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must get them education so that you have something to fall back on. And

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she was right. And for young people out there, that is what you have got

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to do. Take advantage of this. It is a life transforming thing. 40% of

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the student body are mature students. It is never too late. Not

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everyone agrees. Writing The Daily Telegraph, Nick Timothy, the former

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chief of staff of the Prime Minister said...

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Today there are more options available to those put off by the

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cost of higher education. More people are choosing to do

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apprenticeships because you can make money while learning. A lot of

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people think it is quite costly now, because the costs of University have

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obviously gone up. You must put the cost of university in context.

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Students pay a portion of it, so does the general taxpayer. It is

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right that there was some shelling out of that cost. It would be unfair

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on the general taxpayer, many of whom have not had a chance to

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benefit from the higher lifetime earnings that come with higher

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education to bear the entire post. Here, clearing will remain part of

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the annual results day ritual for those who have not done as well as

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expected, as will trading up for those with better grades. Clearing

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itself doesn't start until 3pm. They have been in a process called

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adjustment since nine o'clock this morning. The figures will go up from

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3 million who have been in touch. It will be a busy 48 hours for those

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students who are still waiting to hear where they are going to go to

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university next year. The government is to stop funding

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one of the largest private training companies in the UK,

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after a damning report Learndirect Ltd, which provides

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apprenticeships and adult training to more than 70 thousand people,

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has been rated inadequate Learndirect Ltd, which provides

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apprenticeships and adult training to more than 70,000 people,

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has been rated inadequate The Department for Education will

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withdraw all funding by next July, and has stopped the firm taking

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on new apprentices. Insufficient training, lack of

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planning and poor quality teaching. Just some of the findings in the

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Ofsted report today which inspected Learndirect Ltd earlier this year.

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The company, one of the largest learning providers in the UK, was

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given the lowest possible rating for its training and performance. And

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those in the industry have described it as a scandal. It is very clear

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the senior leaders and directors haven't really played the attention

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they need to quality. Quality doesn't just happen by chance. You

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have to work at it all the time. Unfortunately it is learners and

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apprentices who will be losing out. On the Learndirect Ltd Facebook page

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reviews have been mixed. One said it was a huge waste of time. Another

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claimed that staff were on the train. Someone else complained of no

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support or communication -- staff were under train. Another said staff

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had been very helpful, inspirational, even. Learndirect Ltd

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didn't want to appear on camera. But they did send as a statement. It

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says the Ofsted report is not an accurate reflection of their

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performance. They also say that they are financially stable and will

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continue to meet the needs of their learners. Learndirect Ltd was

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privatised in 2011. Since then, it is estimated it has received ?600

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million of public funding. That money has come from the government.

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Due to the nature of this latest report, the contract is now going to

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be wound up. But that will not happen until next July. It is a

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particularly big scandal. The response from the government has

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been to give them special treatment. Absolutely no doubt about that. In

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fact, Learndirect said they expected to get three months termination on

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the contract which would put them into Administration. Instead,

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special treatment, those termination notices are not being served and

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they will continue to offer apprenticeships under a company that

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they have set up last year. The company tried to block publication

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of this critical report in court, but failed. It is now hoped changes

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will strewn be made to ensure that more trainees get the guidance and

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support they need to improve their futures.

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An NHS chief executive has been sacked for gross misconduct,

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following an investigation into allegations of

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Sir Leonard Fenwick, has been at

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Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 40 years.

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The Trust said allegations relating to inappropriate behaviour,

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use of resources and a range of governance issues

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Firefighters have been dealing with a large blaze

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The fire broke out in the early hours of the morning.

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Flames and smoke could be seen rising

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from the building in the north-east of the city.

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Hundreds of traders work at the market, supplying produce

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to shops and restaurants in the west of Scotland.

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In the early hours of the morning, a fire at the largest wholesale fresh

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fruit market in Scotland. The flames spread quickly and sent smoke

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billowing across Glasgow. At its height, more than 70 firefighters

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tackled the blaze. Conditions were difficult for officers working to

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bring the fire under control. The first-floor unit in the building you

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can see behind us, it has panels which make the building pretty

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dangerous for firefighters, and also assist with pretty quick, rapid

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spread of fire along its length. Blochairn fruit market supplies

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fruit and vegetables and other goods throughout Scotland, the North of

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England and Northern Ireland. Hundreds of millions of pounds of

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produce passes through this market every year. It operates 24 hours a

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day. In the morning, when this fire took hold, these buildings would

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normally be full of hundreds of workers processing orders and

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filling bands. Fortunately, no one was injured in this fire, but it is

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not yet clear what will happen to the companies which operate here, or

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the people that they employ. My father has been working for 36 years

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at the market. I was brought up at the market. It is heartbreaking for

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me to see it that way. We still need to wait and find out what is

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happening. Woke up this morning and the kids could see from the window.

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It is devastating. I don't know if I have got the job. Work has started

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to try to get the market up and running as soon as possible.

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Specialist fire investigators will try to establish what caused this

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huge blaze. The number of front-line prison

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officers in England and Wales has risen to its highest level

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in since 2013. Government figures show more

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than 650 extra staff were working in the service compared to last

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year, but the overall number of officers

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is well below the peak The Justice Secretary has said he

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wants to see a fall in the prison population.

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Our Home Affairs correspondent June Kelly reports.

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Violence is at record levels, there are staff

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Drug abuse is rife and some jails have been written by unrest.

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Reformers would like to see fewer people sent to prison

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and two months into the job, so would the Justice Secretary.

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We do need to make sure that our judges and magistrates have

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confidence in the community centred alternatives to prison

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because I think everybody wants to make sure that people who go

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to prison really deserve to go there because of the seriousness

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of their crime or the threat they would pose

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Would you like to see the population come down?

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I want to see the population come-down but we have to make sure

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that we do that in a way that protects public safety.

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Obviously this is somebody's house...

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Meanwhile, ministers are on a mission to recruit

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These new officers are learning the ropes at Coldingley Prison

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in Surrey as part of a graduate recruitment programme.

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I saw it as a stepping stone into me going into forensic psychology

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with my psychology background and that is how I saw it.

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But at the minute I am enjoying what I'm doing.

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Today, it has been announced that there has been a rise

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of 665 prison officers over the past 12 months.

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So now there are 18,755 officers in England and Wales.

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25% down on the number of officers there were in 2010.

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The format MP Jonathan Aitken became a prison reformer after

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There is a qualified welcome from him to the uplift in officers.

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Through too excessive cuts, and lots of experienced

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And they are not going to be replaced by new rookie

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prison officers who haven't been on the wings for ten years.

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So there is going to be a loss of quality whatever happens.

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But at least we are now addressing the basic need

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Staff cuts contributed to the volatile environment in some jails.

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So too have the large numbers locked up.

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While ministers say they want fewer people in prison,

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they say they believe there has to be more evidence that

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community sentences work and will prevent reoffending.

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have been getting their A level results in England, Wales

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There's a slight rise in the top grades for

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And coming up: the diamond ring that gained an extra carrot,

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how a woman was reunited with her wedding ring 13 years

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Coming up in sport, England and Ireland eyeing the victories that

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they need to stop violence take on France, England take on the United

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States. -- victories they need to progress. Ireland take on France.

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We've been talking about A level results, and among those

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receiving theirs this morning were young people caught up

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Many of those who lived in the block attended

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which sits beneath from the site of the disaster.

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Gillian Hargreaves has been to meet the school's head teacher.

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VOICEOVER: Following months of hardship, a good day for students

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Fifty lost their homes, five others lost their lives,

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in his first broadcast interview, their principal, David Benson,

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described the chaos to the BBC, not least having to rearrange

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an AS-Level maths exam that morning.

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There was the emotion of the situation, of deep concern

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that we had for the members of the school community,

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but there was also a whole lot of practical challenges,

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children have one chance in life at an education,

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these were important examinations, we have to keep going.

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Our instincts were, my team and I said,

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we've got to bring the children together into one place,

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we are not sure exactly how that will feel when we come together

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as a community but at least it will allow us to address what has

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happened and begin to move forward and resume the education.

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Pupils do die from time-to-time, children are involved in road

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accidents, serious illness, but to lose five pupils,

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four all at once, two in one year group, that is immense

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Yes. And it is very difficult.

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I'm incredibly proud of my staff and what they have done.

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What I saw after Grenfell was incredible, because they had

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the bravery and the courage to come back in, feeling very confused

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and uneasy about what had happened, and they had the maturity to listen

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And then they supported each other through it.

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So, you know, you should assume the best about children,

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and in a challenge like this, we saw the children rise to that.

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After all of that, today is a good day for you.

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That report from education correspondent Gillian Hargreaves.

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There's been a surge in illegal migrant crossings

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Nearly 600 people were rescued yesterday on what coastguards

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Some people have attempted the short journey in children's paddle boats.

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So far this year there've been almost 9,000 arrivals,

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that's three times as many as in the same period in 2016.

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Gavin Lee sent this report from Spain.

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VOICOEVER: In the mist of the Mediterranean,

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number of migrant boats which sail for Morocco in the early hours.

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One by one, the rescuers arrive, first with some Moroccans,

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exhausted and likely to be deported in days.

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sub-Saharan Africans making journeys in larger numbers now.

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One-year-old Lena from Cameroon is the youngest rescued.

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Her mother, Helen, says they were at sea

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for six hours waiting in the dark for help.

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"We were so scared and cold," she says.

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Here is another rescue boat with another 120 migrants on board.

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We are told this is the fourth boat today.

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This is Spain, back in the front line of the migration crisis

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One hour later, six more migrant boats have called for help.

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It's now the busiest day of the year for rescuers in what has been

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the busiest year since the start of the migration crisis.

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The aim for most here is to make it halfway,

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then float in Spanish waters and alert the coastguard.

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TRANSLATION: Sometimes they call us and send

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We are constantly dealing with overcrowded boats,

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which makes it all the more dangerous.

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Boats like this one, a children's toy craft,

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Ben from Ivory Coast paid 20 euros to board a similar tiny boat.

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TRANSLATION: This man paid 20 euros to board a tiny boat.

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This was a suicidal journey, 11 of us on a boat

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We travelled for 14 hours, and I was so exhausted I couldn't

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At the moment, authorities here say they are coping but Spain is now

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receiving more migrants than Greece, with no sign

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STUDIO: The South Korean president Moon Jae-in has said he can

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guarantee there will be no war on the Korean peninsula.

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He was speaking at a news conference to mark his first 100 days in office

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Yogita Limaye reports from close to the border with North Korea.

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VOICEOVER: This is the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea,

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a four kilometre Wright that wide strip of land which is a buffer

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between the two countries. -- white. A North Korean soldier there, facing

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soldiers from South Korea, strange that they are so close to each other

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but no of communication actually open between these two sides. --

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wide. In light of recent hostilities, sharp words coming in

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from Pyongyang, you would have imagined things here would be more

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tense but actually, things here are quiet and as normal. And around 50

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kilometres away, in Seoul, the president, Moon Jae-in, is doing his

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best to calm down the rhetoric between the US and North Korea. At a

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press conference to mark 100 days in office he said strong remarks from

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the US president were intended to put pressure on North Korea. He did

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not believe Donald Trump meant to indicate that military action

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against Pyongyang was imminent. People in South Korea who are used

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to aggression from their northern neighbour have been getting worried,

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as they watch the US making similar statements. And their president

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sought to reassure them. TRANSLATION: The United States and

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President Trump have promised that they will consult and get our

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agreement before taking any kind of military actions towards North

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Korea. From here in South Korea, the offer of dialogue with the North is

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open. If these talks ever happen, they will take place in this room in

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the demilitarised zone around this table. But so far there has been no

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response from Pyongyang. Jon Beason Mountains near the border, North

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Korea presses on with the nuclear programme. -- and beyond these

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mountain sneer the border. -- beyond these mountains near the

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A leading geologist has suggested that the UK's rock formations

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are unlikely to hold large supplies of shale gas.

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Professor John Underhill, from Heriot-Watt University,

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says the shale rock deposits were formed 55 million

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years too late to trap substantial amounts of gas

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and that the future role of fracking in this country has

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Our Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin explains:

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VOICEOVER: The shale gas revolution in the USA.

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Energy prices there tumbled after engineers discovered how to crack

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shale rocks to release gas trapped inside.

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The central part of the USA has vast amounts of shale gas.

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In the UK, firms have started seeking

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hoping for an American-style energy miracle.

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But a leading geologist says they might be disappointed.

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What are the reserves? Can it be got out?

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Does the geology work or not? That is the key question.

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So it may work on local scales but it isn't likely to give

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us the amount of gas production that we need

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to make a difference in terms of UK wide gas needs.

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The problem, he says, is an event 55,000,000 years ago.

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These great underground layers of rock that

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shift and float under the surface directly affected the UK.

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Disrupting and disrupting the shale rocks where gas could form.

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The UK is very different from the USA, the professor warns.

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Shale gas firms are still optimistic, though.

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I would argue that it is better to take the scientific steps to

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understand the potential resource for the benefit of the UK

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jobs and a resource that we are declining in in the UK.

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This may seem like a purely technical issue but it is not.

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Almost all of us heat our homes with gas, so is the

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-- if the UK can't get as much shale gas as it thought,

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it is going to have to import more and that would be

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is already struggling with energy policy.

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STUDIO: A judgment is due later today in two landmark legal

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challenges against Northern Ireland's ban on same sex marriage.

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It's currently the only part of the UK which does not permit

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a marriages between two men or two women, and does not

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recognise same-sex marriages from other parts of the UK.

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The ruling due to be made at Belfast High Court is on two

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separate cases that were heard together due to the similarities

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Now, in just over half an hour, the first ever Day/Night Test

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match in England gets underway, in Birmingham.

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England's cricketers take on the West Indies in the first

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What can cricket fans expect? Well, interesting, there is a degree of

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the unexpected, the novelty, the attraction, Warwickshire, the

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organisers, have been pleased with the way ticket sales have gone, they

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reckon there is a sense of new people attracted to the mat, 2pm to

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9pm, there is a pink cricket ball used, we have talked about that,

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that will be durable and visible under the floodlights. Actually,

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those lights will not come into their own until 8pm, northern

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hemisphere conditions very different from southern hemisphere, we have

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long evenings. One of the reasons England is so keen to play this

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match is because they will be playing Australia in the winter's

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Ashes in Adelaide in day night conditions, so a bit of practice.

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There is no guarantee this will ever happen again, could be the first and

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last day night match in England, and the main concern is how they will

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keep warm come 9pm, for the spectators coming in this evening.

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We will get a weather forecast in a moment but one more story before

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that. A Canadian woman has been reunited

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with her diamond ring, 13 years after she lost it

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while weeding in her garden. Mary Grams' daughter-in-law

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picked a carrot out and found its growth had been

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restricted by the ring. had been too embarrassed

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to tell her husband she'd lost it, I thought I'd have to go

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to the jeweller today, 13 years ago, Mary's diamond ring

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fell off in her garden, lost, she thought for ever.

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I went to the garden for something and, I don't know,

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I saw this big weed and I don't know why I had to pull it,

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I should have left it alone or at least pulled it

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It must've got caught in here somewhere and it pulled the ring out

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I've got a big knuckle that it got over somehow.

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I cried so many times and I thought, "Oh, surely I'll find it,"

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Then I finally went to the jeweller and bought a cheap ring,

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She never told her husband, who died five years ago, but Mary Sun --

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Mary's son, knew the story and when he found it, knew exactly whose it

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was. My granddaughter first

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brought it this morning. They found it yesterday,

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when my daughter-in-law was digging carrots for supper and she said,

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"What's this?" She asked Brian, my son,

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and he says, "Oh, yeah." He knew, but he knew

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that I lost something. I don't know if he said

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something or if he did say From Canada to Sweden, this ring was

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lost 16 years, in Germany, a wedding ring was pulled up three years after

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going missing, it may take some time, but clearly, the crop of

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choice for gardeners looking for heirlooms, is the humble carrot(!)

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as promised, let's catch up with the weather forecast. I can dangle the

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carrot of better weather this afternoon(!)

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the rain that has been affecting east England has been moving out of

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the way, following behind that, if they're bit of sunshine, further

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north in Northumberland, the skies, just a few hours ago, looking like

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this, similar scenes at some point in the day, across wide parts of the

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British Isles. A closer look at the afternoons whether, if you

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thunderstorms working across Lincolnshire, and a fair few

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downpours expected today across Northern Ireland, western Scotland,

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away from these areas, showers relatively few and far between,

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sunshine compared with yesterday, 25 degrees in London, if we get that,

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we have equalled the highest temperature we have got since

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August, not that that is particularly high for August.

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Overnight, heavy downpours, scale and under is a possibility, and it

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will be a cool night. -- hailstones and thunder is a possibility. With a

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difference tomorrow, cold blustery wind blowing showers through, more

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prolonged rain across north-east Scotland, localised surface water

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flooding possible, wind becoming very gusty, across a swathe of

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Northern Ireland, gusts could reach about 50 mph around the coastal

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districts, that could be enough to bring down one or two tree branches,

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some localised disruption, temperature wise, knock 4 degrees of

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what we have today, it will feel cooler. For the start of the

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weekend, cooler conditions still with us, showers around, not quite

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as many. In the sunshine, not feeling too bad towards the

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south-east, temperatures into the low 20s, little bit cool in the

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wind, further north and west. Talking of wind, across the western

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side of the Atlantic at the moment, talking about this yesterday, a

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hurricane, winds of 120 mph in gusts, this storm is going to

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combine with this area of low pressure across eastern Canada. This

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normal area is going to gobble up Gert and what we will be left with

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is an area of rain right Racing across the Atlantic, tropical

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moisture, the rain will be heavy by the time it lands on our shores. We

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still have a bit of uncertainty as to where the heaviest rain will be,

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it could bring localised flooding. A reminder of our main story this

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lunchtime. Hundreds of thousands of students get their A level results

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in England, Wales and northern Ireland - there's a slight rise in

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the top grades for the first time in six years. -- six years.

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