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The Prime Minister promises a public inquiry into the phone

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hacking scandal now engulfing the News of the World. Relatives of

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those who died in London's July 7th bombings emerge as the latest

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victims whose phones may have been hacked.

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It's a violation, isn't it? I still don't know what I think about it.

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Other than I am really angry. Rupert Murdoch breaks his silence,

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calling the allegations deplorable and unacceptable.

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Andy Coulson is back in the spotlight amid claims he authorised

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payments to police when he was News of the World editor, prompting

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questions about the Prime Minister's judgment.

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He's got to accept that he made a catastrophic error of judgment by

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bringing Andy Coulson into the heart of his Downing Street machine.

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I take full responsibility for everyone I employ, for everyone I

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appoint and I take responsibility for everything my Government does.

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What this Government is doing is making sure that - and I feel so

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appalled by what has happened, murder victims, terrorist victims

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who have had their phones hacked is quite disgraceful.

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And the price of phone hacking as public anger grows, more big

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companies likes Halifax and Virgin Holidays abandon plans to advertise

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in the paper. Also tonight: Another surge in the cost of food pushes up

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prices in the shops at the fastest rate for more than two and a half

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years. A small ray of hope in a difficult

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jobs market as the private sector has created more than half a

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million jobs in the last year. And the orphans of Somalia, the

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children who have travelled miles to find food.

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I will be here later on the BBC News channel with Sportsday,

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including the latest from Trent Bridge as England try to keep the

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one-day series alive against Sri Good evening, welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. The Prime Minister has promised a public inquiry into the

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phone hacking scandal engulfing the News of the World, though he says

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it won't begin the police investigation is complete. Tonight,

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as it emerge that had relatives of victims of the London bombings may

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also have had their phones hacked into, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman

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of News Corporation, said the allegations against his newspaper

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were deplorable and unacceptable Nick Robinson reports on the latest

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developments. Yes, there was worse to come,

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joining the list of those warned that their phones may have been

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hacked on behalf of the News of the World, the families of those whose

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loved ones were blown apart on 7/7. My mind went back to 2005 and the

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real emotional turmoil and state that we were in and that somebody

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was listening to that, it's a violation, isn't it? I still don't

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know what I think about it, other than I am alangry. Also on the list

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of possible targets the parents of Holly and Jessica, who died at

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Soham and of course, Milly Dowler, whose parents were given false hope

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that she was still alive when her voice messages were deleted after

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her phone was allegedly hacked by a private investigator.

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Last night, the Prime Minister returned from Afghanistan to learn

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of the brewing storm. This morning, he worked out his answer for the

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question he knew would be coming. Given the gravity of what has

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occurred will the Prime Minister support the calls for a full

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independent public inquiry to take place as soon as practical into the

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culture and practices of British newspapers?

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Let me be very clear, yes, we do need to have an inquiry, possibly

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inquiries, into what has happened. Let us be clear, we are no longer

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talking here about politicians and celebrities, we are talking about

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murder victims, potentially terrorist victims, having their

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phones hacked into. It's absolutely disgusting. What happened in the

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newsroom of the News of the World is already being investigated by 50

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police officers. Now there are to be inquiries into why the police

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took so long to take this seriously and the much wider question of what

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is wrong with the British media. Rupert Murdoch's competitors have

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been complaining about him for years, but no politician with a

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prospect of power dared to do it. After all, he didn't just control

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the News of the World, but The Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times, but

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today felt like a day when all that might be about to change.

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At the helm of Rupert Murdoch's empire is Rebekah Brooks, editor of

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the News of the World at the time of the alleged hacking of Milly

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Dowler and the so ham families. Today, company executives say they

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knew who had sanctioned that. There were even suggestions that she was

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away at the time. Her successor as editor was Andy Coulson, who went

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on to David Cameron's director of communications. Last night News

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International said that e-mails it had given to the police allegedly

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showed that he sanctioned tens of thousands of pounds of payments to

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police officers. At Question Time the Labour leader called on the

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Prime Minister to join him in calling for Brooks to quit. David

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Cameron refused. Next he was asked about his former righthand man.

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the public is to have confidence in him, he's got to accept that he

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made a catastrophic error of judgment by bringing Andy Coulson

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into the heart of his Downing Street machine. I take full

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responsibility for everyone I employ, for everyone I appoint and

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I take responsibility for everything my Government does. What

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this Government is doing is making sure that the fact the public and I

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feel so appalled by what has has happened, murder victims, terrorist

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victims who have had their phones hacked is quite disgraceful, that's

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why it's important there is a full police investigation with all the

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powers that they need. This all began with the imprisonment four

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years ago of the News of the World Royal editor, Clive Goodman,

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imprisoned too, this man, the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

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I made a statement yesterday and due to legal constraints,

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unfortunately, at this stage I can make no more comment at the moment.

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It is his notes of private phone numbers that have fuelled this saga,

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that and the mounting anger of MPs who allege that the police simply

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did not want to investigate what he had done. I think a lot of lies

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have been told to a lot of people and when police officers tell lies

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or at least half truths to Ministers of the Crown and then

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parliament ends up being misled, I think that is a major

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constitutional issue for us to face. Tonight, Rupert Murdoch issued a

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statement describing what had happened as deplorable and

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unacceptable, stating that our company must fully and proactively

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co-operate with the police before adding, that would happen under

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Rebekah Brooks' leadership. Murdoch's enemies have long claimed

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that whoever is in power he is the real puppet master. Tonight, he,

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they, no one knows how this extraordinary drama will end.

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As the scandal grows, so too does the number of allegations. Tonight,

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the Prime Minister's former communications director, Andy

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Coulson, is back in the spotlight. It's alleged that during his time

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as editor of the News of the World he authorised large payments to

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police in return for information. Our home affairs correspondent Tom

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Symonds reports on the police and the newspaper.

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In a tabloid newsroom police contacts are gold dust but now the

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relationship between Britain's biggest newspaper and Britain's

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largest police force are under intense scrutiny. Last month, the

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paper's owners handed over documents suggesting money was paid

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by journalists for information. Did it happen? The question's been

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asked before. The one element of whether you paid police for

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information? We have paid the police for information in the past.

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Former editor Rebekah Brooks, followed by a caveat from her

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successor. We operate within the code and the law and if there is a

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clear public interest, the same holds for private detectives, for

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whatever you want to talk about. It's illegal for police officers...

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As I said, within the law. December, Andy Coulson faced the

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same question in court, at a trial involving a member of the Scottish

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Is it possible for journalists to pay police and stay within the law?

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It's been illegal certainly since the law was passed by parliament in

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1901, it's corrupt. It's bribery. The Met, which has already searched

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journalists homes over phone hacking, now has a new inquiry into

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these allegations. The latest documents handed to police appear

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to show Andy Coulson authorised payments, but for what?

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Journalists meet police officers all the time, quite legitimately.

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Often in cafes and bars around Scotland Yard. One well placed

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source has told us that efforts began about ten years ago to

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investigate the more serious leaking of information for money.

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But there was little ap appetite to go after the newspapers, there was

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some opposition within the police and few convictions. This former

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officer believes for a few there has always been a temptation for

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corrupt relationships. Perhaps a crime reporter might want

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information about a suspect, about a victim, about a significant

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witness, information that the detective would only have but it

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might have some some commercial worth when he sells it to a

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reporter. At Scotland Yard yard the number of officers working on this

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affair has reached 50, their inquiry inquiry currently has no

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obvious end. So what impact will the phone

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hacking scandal have on News News Corporation? Today, several more

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big companies, including the Halifax, Virgin Holidays and

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Butlins decided not to place adverts in the News of the World

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this weekend in response to public anger. Robert Peston assesses the

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impact on Rupert Murdoch's business. This report contains some flash

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photography. Vauxhall, Ford, and other big

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companies with with with with big brands, they've said they don't

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want to advertise in the News of the World this weekend. Because

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they don't want to be associated with the shocking revelations about

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how the newspaper obtained stories. For News International, owner of

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the News of the World, a reputational crisis looks like it

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could become a financial problem. This is a crisis for News of the

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World. Advertisers are at this very moment deciding whether they're

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going to appear in the News of the World this Sunday. I don't think

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all will pull out, but if it's not effectively dealt with this weekend,

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I think it could grow. But surely this is a small problem for Rupert

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Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, which in turn owns

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News International? After all, with global revenues of his empire are

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more than �20 billion. The worry for him is containian from what he

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described as the deplorable alleged wrongdoing to his other operations

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and big ambitions, including a planned takeover of British Sky

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broadcasting. The public will not accept the idea that with this

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scandal engulfing the News of the World and News International that

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the Government should in the coming days, in the coming days, be making

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a decision outside of the normal processes for them to take control

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of one of the biggest media organisations in the country.

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation wants to buy the 61% of British Sky

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broadcasting it doesn't already known. My sources tell me that B

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Sky B's board had taken the view that news corporation would have to

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pay around �9.6 billion for these shares.

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The regulator has a duty to be satisfied that the holder of the

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licence is fit and proper, there's a risk that the takeover could be

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blocked or unScram pwepled. So, B Sky B's directors may insist that

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News Corporation pay even more to compensate for the risk that the

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deal may never happen. It provides an incentive for Mr

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Murdoch and News Corporation to delay the takeover pending greater

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clarity on whether they'll be seen by the regulator as suitable owners

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of Sky in the light of what ever further shocking disclosures are

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made about how the News of the World obtained its stories.

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Robert is here now. The revelations keep on coming and you are left

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wondering how much worse this could get. Well, as you say, we have had

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the most astonishing disclosures, shocking some people would say, but

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interestingly, talking to News International executives, they

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expect worse to come. That's for two reasons, one is because their

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investigations have revealed to them that the newsroom of the News

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of the World, between 2003 and 2006, was in their words, totally out of

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control, that there was a culture at the top of that organisation

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that basically anything goes when it came to landing the big story.

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Now, News International's executives say they have no control

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over what now comes out because much of the evidence is in the

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possession of the police. It is these files they object obtained

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from the offices of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator hired by

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the News of the World, they've been sitting on these files since 2006,

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only now it appears the police are going through all those pages and

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informing the alleged victims of the News of the World's behaviour

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and guess what, when the victims get told the news it normally gets

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communicated to the rest of us and for News International that news

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has been shocking and may well turn out to be even more shocking.

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David Cameron has given more details about the withdrawal of

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British troops to Afghanistan, following a two-day visit to Kabul

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and Helmand earlier this week. He says 500 British troops will

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finished their combat role by the end a 2012, reducing numbers to

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9000. Eight former police officers have

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gone on trial accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in

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the investigation into the murder of prostitute Lynette White, 20,

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found stabbed to death in Cardiff in 1988. Three men were wrongly

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convicted of the murder before later being freed. The accused or

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deny the charges. There has been more evidence of the

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big squeeze on household budgets today as the latest figures showed

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that shop prices have risen at their highest rate for two-and-a-

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half years. Another surge in food prices is largely to blame, as

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Jeremy Cooke reports. Leicester market, where food

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shopping is now an exercise in bargain-hunting. Across the country,

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food inflation is biting into weekly incomes. Latest figures show

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that while general inflation runs at 2.9%, the price of food is

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coming up by 5.7%, year-on-year. But for convenience foods it is

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even worse, a rise of 7.2%. I am continuously learning to shop more

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leisurely -- cleverly, and if more people did that we would keep the

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prices down more. Using the markets a lot more lately, the price of the

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supermarket has gone through the roof, a weekly shop is more than it

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was. The price we pay for our food goes well beyond the question of

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local supply and demand. The economics of all of this are hugely

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complicated and are conducted on a global scale.

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For example wheat, the most basic food, is an international commodity,

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whether grown in the wheat belt of America or the vast Ukrainian

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planes, the price is the same. All of this is beyond control of the

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politicians in Westminster. There are big countries like Russia who

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can hold on to a large chunk of the grey market, but outside of those

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few controlling influences it is an open market place. We are

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powerless? Yes. But the supermarkets say they are doing

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their best to keep prices down. The chief executive of Waitrose says

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food inflation is just 3%. Some analysts remain sceptical. Food

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inflation at the moment is running at around 5%, but if you take the

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impact of the deals the supermarkets are offering, the

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price customers are paying at the tail is closer to 4% higher than

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one year ago. For most of us it is not about macro-economics, it is

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about the daily or weekly shop and the fact that food is getting

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harder and harder to afford. Our top story tonight: A public

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inquiry promised into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the

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world's as Rupert Murdoch calls the allegations deplorable and

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unacceptable. The plight of the children caught

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in the drought in the Horn of Africa.

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Later on the BBC News Channel, cutting the cost of calling, why

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roaming charges in Europe could be scrapped altogether. And house

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prices rise, but the Halifax warns It is a small ray of hope in a

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difficult jobs market. And engineering business in South

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Yorkshire officially opened a new high-tech factory today, creating

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50 jobs. It is just the latest example of private sector job

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growth, where more than half a million jobs have been created over

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the last year. But as he put reports, that figure covers a wide

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range of positions -- but as Hugh Pym reports.

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Three walkers, three very different stories.

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-- three workers. He has been taken on as an apprentice at an

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engineering business in Rotherham, before which he was made redundant

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when his previous employer could not afford his training. Losing a

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job is like losing a limb, you end up sat in the house, writing CVs

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and getting nowhere. His employer is firing on all cylinders. It

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makes large steel components and is growing fast on the back of

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overseas orders, so it is taking on new workers. We have invested

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heavily in people, the facility and equipment, our plan is to try to

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double sales in the next five years. This used to be a warehouse and

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distribution centre for a major retailer, but not any more. It is a

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sign of the Times as a manufacturer has moved into this huge space,

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leaving room for future expansion and, in doing so, creating jobs.

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Jobs for experienced workers like Michael. He was out of work for

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seven months on the opportunity was just what he needed. Had you begin

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to fear that may be a job like this would not come along? Very much so.

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I am 55, there are not many positions available, particularly

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for people of my age group. don't need to go far from that

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expanding business to find another side of the job story, insecurity

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and shattered dreams. There are more than a million people working

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part-time because they can't get a full-time job. Emma is one of them.

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Three years after graduating she lives at home with her parents in

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Sheffield and works part-time in a shop. It is not what she expected

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when she got a degree. Why didn't I do an apprenticeship? I wonder that

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sometimes, they were around when I was 16, but you were encouraged to

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do a degree and you always believe your teachers. I took their advice

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and went to university, but there are so many of us. Technically they

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are all in work, but dig beneath the surface and you find the jobs

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market is complex and does not always deliver what workers hope

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for. An appeal will be launched on

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Friday by the Disasters Emergency Committee to raise money to help

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the millions being affected by a severe drought in the Horn of

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Africa. Parts of Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia have been

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officially declared a crisis own. More than 300,000 people in

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desperate need of food and water are staying at the Dadaab refugee

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camp in Kenya, the largest camp of its kind in the world. Ben Brown is

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there. For those people fleeing from

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drought and civil war in Somalia, this desolate camp is their new

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home. It could soon be filled with about half a million, and the death

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rate among young infants here has trebled in recent months. There is

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a growing problem with the number of children here all alone.

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Among the refugees at this camp there are hundreds of lost children

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and orphans. Some were separated from their families on the long

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walk from Somalia. Others, like Abdi Salam and his sister Aisha, no

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longer have parents. Their father died in Somalia's civil war, then

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last month their mother was killed as well. TRANSLATION: It is better

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here, back in Somalia there was war. We have no relic -- relatives there

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so we fled here. We now have a foster mother to look after us.

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the camp hospital, these children have parents but precious little

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else. Drought and war mean their bodies have been horribly weakened

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by malnutrition, and by the time they reach this clinic, it can be

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too late. The doctors here are working

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frantically to save as many lives as they can, but too often they

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have to register the names of their patients here in this, the

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desperate. Inside, the names of the children who have died are recently

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registered by date. On Sunday, -- on some days, two or three children

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he will lose their fight for life. The causes of deaths are registered

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as a variety of illness and disease, but the cause is always the same

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thing, chronic malnutrition. Matinay Abdilulu is one year old

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and so frail that, like many of the children here, he is causing

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doctors serious concern. TRANSLATION: We need food, water,

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medicine, shelter and everything else that a human being needs. We

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are never going back to Somalia. Hospital staff told me if they are

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under resourced and overstressed and need the world do help. A

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donkey drawn car is the makeshift ambulance to bring fresh casualties

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to the clinic. It is not only children but the elderly who are

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vulnerable to malnutrition. This worst drought for 60 years is

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killing young and old alike. If it may sound strange, but aid

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workers hearsay the people here are comparatively well off, at least

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they have basic supplies of food, water and medicine. Be on the camp

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there is something like nine or 10 million people affected by the

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drought, many of them have not had any help at all -- beyond this camp.

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A massive dust storm has swept through the American state of

:24:32.:24:37.

Arizona. Flights were delayed and motorists struggled with poor

:24:37.:24:41.

visibility as strong winds tore down trees and power cables. Radar

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data showed that the towering dust reached heights of 10,000 feet.

:24:46.:24:49.

The the people of Pyeongchang in South Korea have been celebrating

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after their city was chosen to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, beating

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Munich in Germany and Annecy in south-eastern France. They will be

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the first city in Asia outside Japan to launch -- host the Winter

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Games. Back to our main story, the phone

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hacking scandal engulfing the News of the World. Nick Robinson is in

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Westminster and you have to wonder where it can go next. You have to

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wonder but you can't possibly know. The tier most powerful man in the

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land, you might argue, the Prime Minister and Rupert Murdoch, the

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great owner of most of the media, they are used to controlling events

:25:26.:25:30.

but they are not in control of these. David Cameron has launched a

:25:30.:25:33.

couple of inquiries but can't tell us what they are about, who will

:25:33.:25:38.

lead them or when. At the back of his mind must be a real fear that

:25:38.:25:42.

the appointment made years ago of Andy Coulson as director of

:25:42.:25:47.

communications may still cause real damage. Rupert Murdoch decided

:25:47.:25:50.

today to back his Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks in the face of

:25:50.:25:54.

criticism from politicians, advertisers and readers. He can't

:25:54.:25:59.

know what will happen next. The leader of the opposition Ed

:25:59.:26:01.

Miliband took an extraordinary gamble - brave leadership, some

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would say, others would say it was foolhardy - to actually stand up to

:26:06.:26:11.

the Murdoch empire in that way. Nobody one week ago would have

:26:11.:26:15.

predicted where we are tonight, let alone four years ago when the first

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individual was imprisoned over the phone hacking affair. There is no

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knowing where it goes, in truth, just a sense that nothing will be

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Thank you. And now a look at the weather: The Scottish Open starts

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tomorrow, it is a good thing they are not playing at St Andrews. It

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was an absolute deluge today. It has been pouring with rain all day

:26:43.:26:48.

across the spics way that Scotland, particularly eastern areas, where

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we have seen over an inch of rain, prompting a flood warnings. Heavy

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storms across the UK and more definite storms in Wales and the

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West Country, accompanied by particularly squally winds. Showers

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sweeping in from the south-west, a fairly wild night and heavy rain on

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your window panes. Overnight tonight in many places apart from

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the far north of Scotland, where it will stay mostly dry. It will not

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be cold, but still heavy rain to come across Eastern Scotland, the

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persistent stuff should fade away but a whole raft of stuff elsewhere

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in the UK. The downpours tomorrow will become

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aligned into discrete zones, some places will see many showers but

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others will get some sunshine. Temperatures will stick -- struggle

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to pick up in the morning, it is in the mid- teens at 8 o'clock and it

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will not get higher than that in some places. Further north, the

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winds will be a lighter, for example across Northern Ireland,

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but that will mean that the lively storms could last quite a while. A

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pretty lively day, weather-wise. If we go through the day, the showers

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keep on going, was under is a risk virtually anywhere, with pale mixed

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in -- the Sunday is a risk. When the showers come a long,

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temperatures will fall by several temperatures will fall by several

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degrees. More heavy, squally showers on Friday, a hint of

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southern and western areas turning dry on Saturday.

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The main news: The Prime Minister promises a public inquiry into the

:28:28.:28:32.

News of the World phone hacking scandal as Rupert Murdoch calls the

:28:32.:28:34.

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