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Britain's best selling newspaper first published 168 years ago will

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print its last edition this Sunday. The surprise decision came after

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more big companies pulled advertising from the paper as

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public shock intensified. Today, detectives revealed they've

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identified 4,000 people who may have been targeted by the tabloid.

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And the Met Police promise to take action against corrupt police

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officers who took money from the paper.

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If proved, I will be determined to do what we should do and put them

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in front of the criminal courts. will be asking what this dramatic

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decision means for Rupert Murdoch and his media empire. Also tonight:

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Guilty of trafficking. The first conviction for smuggling victims

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out of the UK. Countdown to the end of an era as

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the last US space shuttle prepares to blast off. Coming of age, after

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seven books and eight films, the final Harry Potter premieres in

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London. It's like a girlfriend that you have been going out with for

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ten years and you have to go your separate ways but you will be left

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with amazing memories. Coming up: Manchester try to prise Nasri away,

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they've tabled an offer of almost Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. After days of intense pressure and growing public anger

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over the phone hacking scandal, the News of the World, the country's

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biggest selling newspaper, has announced that this Sunday's

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edition will be its last. The News International chairman, James

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Murdoch, broke the news to shocked staff at the paper this afternoon

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and said wrong-doers had turned a good newsroom bad. With tonight's

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first report, our business editor Robert Peston looks at the paper's

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demise. For years it's been perhaps the

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most famous Sunday newspaper in Britain, but the 168-year-old News

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of the World is being shut because recently it became more famous,

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notorious even, for the wrong reasons. This afternoon the

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chairman of News International, James Murdoch, the son of Rupert

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Murdoch, announced that this Sunday's edition will be the last

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and all revenues from that edition will go to good causes.

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It's the revelations that its journalism went thoroughly bad that

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mean it is will no longer be rolling off the presses. The

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alleged hacking of the phones of the murdered schoolgirl Milly

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Dowler and the phone of a parent of one of the Soham victims. And the

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invasion of privacy of the families of British soldiers killed in

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action. These are why the News of the

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Worlds had no future. It's a huge surprise. I was speaking to

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journalists on the newspaper this afternoon about an hour before it

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happened and they were feeling obviously disgruntled. This 80-

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year-old, Rupert Murdoch, pursued by skwrfrpbist -- journalists

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earlier today... I am in the making any comment. Bought the News of the

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World in 1969 and for years it was a money-spinner so it's closure

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represents a huge humiliation. What prospects for the News of the

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World's counterstaff? They're being invited to apply for other jobs

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within a media empire that also owns the Times, the sun Times and

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The Sun, in fact some believe the News of the World may be reborn

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within days as perhaps The Sun on Sunday. It's a typical management

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stunt of Mr Murdoch. In this case nobody in the senior management

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clearly involved in these matters, Rebekah Brooks a clear example,

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none of those go but the poor workers at the News of the World

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are going and there's no doubt it will become the Sunday Sun and I

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think the kind of culture that's driven all these kind of

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circumstances is as much evidence of the same editors were at the Sun

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as the News of the World. What I am interested in is not closing down

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newspapers, I am interested in those who were responsible being

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brought to justice and those who had responsibility for the running

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of that newspaper taking their responsibility and I don't think

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those two things have happened today. The News of the World's

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continued existence provided ammunition to those campaigning

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against the attempt by the News of the World's parent company News

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Corporation to buy full control of BSkyB and that prize, BSkyB, which

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is enormous compared with the News of the World is another clue to why

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the Murdoches have been ruthless in killing off a newspaper that was

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for years their golden goose. Robert Peston is here now. An

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extraordinary development and one that's all kind of implications.

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That's right. The News of the World was a central bit of British

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popular culture for as far back as more or less anybody alive can

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remember. For its name to go is remarkable and one should be under

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no illusion about what a difficult decision this will have been for

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Rupert Murdoch. For years as I said in that film, this was a golden

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goose for him. He bought it in 1969, to an extent his entire global

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empire was built on revenues of the News of the World and The Sun

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newspaper. Now, plainly it does not make sense for him to have no

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newspaper at all on a Sunday. There are lots of readers loyal to the

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News of the World, advertisers that were giving him useful revenue. It

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seems inconceivable that they will not launch a new tabloid newspaper

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pretty quickly, probably The Sun on Sunday, it probably has to be The

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Sun on Sunday. Who knows how viable a business that will be. One has to

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remember there's been a huge shift in the newspaper market in recent

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years in a sense Saturdays have become more important. The Sun has

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become relatively more important. The idea that somehow this is a

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sort of devastating to the business should not be overstated. In terms

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of cultural life a massive event. The surprise announcement came

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after the Metropolitan Police said they had identified 4,000 possible

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victims and hundreds more have now contacted Scotland Yard saying they

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too may have been targeted. With the latest on the investigation,

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here's our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds. This

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report contains some flash photography.

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This extraordinary affair may have spelt the end for Britain's biggest

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newspaper, but the repercussions of its existence will continue. The

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police, with the Met Commissioner facing questions, the military,

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today shocked by new allegations, and of course, hundreds of people

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who may be victims of its practices. The police are struggling to cope

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with calls from people worried their privacy has been breached. On

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top of that, Britain's most senior policeman now has a second inquiry

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into whether News of the World documents proved journalists bribed

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his officers for stories. allegations coming from the News of

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the World, which were given us to on 20th June, are quite shocking,

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that a small number of police officers may have engaged in such

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corrupt practice and that's what it is, if proved, it's corrupt

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practice and I will be determined to do what we should do and that's

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put them in front of the criminal courts. The former News of the

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World editor, Andy Coulson, told a court last year as a witness he

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knew nothing about it. The reaction from campaigning Labour MP Tom

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Watson... Two days ago News International briefed the press

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that they handed over documents to the Metropolitan Police which

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showed Andy Coulson had authorised payments to police officers for

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information. Either Andy Coulson or News International did not tell the

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truth. Discovering the truth could take months and involve delving

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into the deep history of relationships between this force

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and that newspaper. Today, Britain's military families became

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the latest group to erupt in anger against alleged phone hacking. It's

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been claimed in the press that some of those recently bereaved had

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their voicemails intercepted, unusually, no family has yet come

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forward to say police have warned them they might be victims. But

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even the allegation was enough to force the Royal British Legion to

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pull out of its fundraising with the News of the World. We felt that

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given the seriousness of the allegations and the level of

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support that we are providing for the families that we felt that

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until these allegations have been investigated that we ought to

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suspend working with News International. Police are

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investigating the case of James Phillipson killed in Afghanistan,

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according to his father e-mail messages he received after his

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death had been read, he suspects by hackers. Wrong-doers need to be

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called to account for what they've done. And to suffer whatever

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punishment is appropriate. I am sure that will happen, it's going

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to take time. He's likely to be right. Criminal investigations,

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public inquiries, the scrutiny of what went on at this newspaper

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could continue for years. Let's go live to our political editor Nick

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Robinson at Westminster. Number 10 says there was no political

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pressure to do this but closing the newspaper was a very swift and

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dramatic dramatic decision. It was and they insist they knew nothing

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about it in advance and was surprised as anyone. In a way, it

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doesn't make David Cameron's problem with this story any easier

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at all. His problem is this: Ed Miliband is able, as he's already

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been doing, to say say this isn't good enough. The woman should go.

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Someone should give, rather than something, in other words. The

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chief executive of News International, the woman who was

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editor of the News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, ought to give up

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her job. David Cameron has not matched that and it's difficult for

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him to do so, he is a friend of Rebekah Brooks, they live close to

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each other in west Oxfordshire. So, the Prime Minister finds himself

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associated with the past of the News International, not least, of

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course, because he hired Andy Coulson, the former editor of the

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paper as director of communications, and also responsible for the future,

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because still hanging over all of this is the decision about whether

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Rupert Murdoch's company should take over the whole of British Sky

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Broadcasting. That is a decision for Ministers and the sense

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everyone has really is that Rupert Murdoch is getting rid of the

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tphaoups in order to - News of the World in order to protect the

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bigger revenues from taking over BSkyB. This is not a comfortable

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evening in Downing Street. They are wondering what they should do next.

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The rest of the news now. A man has become the first person ever

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convicted of trafficking women out of Britain. Anthony Harrison has

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been sentenced to 20 years after imprisoning two teenage Nigerian

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girls at his home in east London before attempting to traffic them

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to Spain and Greece as prostitutes. Jon Brain reports.

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Anthony Harrison was a man who lived a double life. A caretaker

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for his local council, who was also a key player in a sophisticated

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network of people traffickers. A network that used fear and magic

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rituals to ter rice its victims -- ter rice its victims. This was

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Harrison recorded on CCTV at a money exchange. The blurred figure

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with him is a 16-year-old girl smuggled into the UK from Nigeria.

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The plan, to traffic her to the continent for a life of

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prostitution. TRANSLATION:

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I had to promise I would do prostitution to pay the money. I

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had to promise I am not going to speak to anyone about what really

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happened to me. They said I am going to die, I believed it.

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other girl obeyed because in Nigeria they had undergone a juju

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magic ritual similar to this one shown to the jury. They believed

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they were being controlled by evil forces.

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They took them to a juju practitioner, a juju priest, to go

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through a ceremony to instill terror into them and so it meant

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that when the young women were here in this country they still felt

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that the power of that curse could still reach them. Harrison kept his

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victims prisoner here at his home in east London. Two fright bed --

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frightened girls from small Nigeriaen villages with no previous

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experience of the outside world but the plan was to move them on as

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quickly as possible. Detectives say they've never come

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across a case quite like it. have two young girls that were

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trafficked into the UK and trafficked out, which is very

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unusual from our experience. I think if you add to that the juju

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element where they've been convinced they're going to die and

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really brainwashed around the juju it's unusual for us. Tonight,

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Harrison is beginning a 20-year jail sentence. His victims have

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been allowed to stay in Britain to try and rebuild their lives.

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The Bank of England has decided to leave interest rates unchanged at

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0.5%. But in the eurozone rates are going up. The European Central Bank

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has announced an increase of 0.25%. It now stands at 1.5%. The increase

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is controversial at a time when a strong recovery is needed in debt-

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They've managed to perform transplant surgery without using a

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donor organ. Instead, the team replaced a windpipe with the

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world's first synthetic organ. Here is our medical correspondent.

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This is how the world's first synthetic organ was made, dipping a

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glass mould into a liquid pollinor, set to create an exact copy of the

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patient's windpipe. It was created in these labs in London and then

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flown to Sweden. Once in Stockholm the windpipe was bathed in a

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solution of stem cells taken from the patient's bone marrow. After

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just two days the millions of tiny holes in its surface were seeded by

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cells, a synthetic body part had become the patient's own.

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And here it is in the operating theatre being cut to size moments

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before being transplanted. The ability to create a 3-D synthetic

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organ is a significant moment in this field of surgery. This

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technique does not rely at all on a human donation. You can have it

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immediately. There's no delay and, most important, you still do not

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need any profession. The patient knows without the transplant he

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would have died. His voice is still recovering. The difference is

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between living and not living. what next?

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Just look at this. It's a one metre long synthetic artery made in this

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machine in London in just 20 minutes. It's one of many body

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parts the scientists say they can We can make hard fibres, a bigger

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diameter for the heart. And we are moving it to other parts of the

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body as well. There are limits. This cannot be used to create

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complex organs like the heart, liver or kidney. But scientists

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hope this points the way to more transplants without the weight for

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a donor. Our top story tonight: An

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extraordinary moment in British journalism as the News of the World

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announces it is shutting down, victim of its own phone hacking

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scandal. The end of an era for Harry Potter,

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as the final instalment premieres in London this evening.

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Later on the BBC News Channel, two- speed Europe. UK interest rates

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stay on hold again but eurozone rates rise. BSkyB shares take

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another hit in the wake of the Half a million people are expected

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to gather along Florida's coast tomorrow to watch the space shuttle

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Atlantis lift off for the last time. It is the final fight for the

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shuttle programme that began 30 years ago in America. The

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astronauts will blast off from the Kennedy Space Centre tomorrow

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afternoon, weather permitting. Our correspondent is there for us now.

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Thank you. It is the Florida rainy season, so it is very hot and

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stormy, not ideal weather for launching a space shuttle. It is so

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murky that you can probably hardly see it a few miles away over my

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shoulder on the horizon. There is an extraordinary atmosphere, great

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pride at what the shuttles have achieved and sadness about the two

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that were lost. And all of this amount the tension of a countdown.

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Atlantis, on the launch pad. The last of its kind, poised for the

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final mission. It has taken weeks of effort to get to this moment.

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The space shuttles have been flying for 30 years and now this Lord will

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mark the end for while of America's ability to send people into orbit.

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It is bound to be an emotional time for these senior engineers. Will

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you feel sad? I absolutely have shed tears at each of the landings

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of the last two. I will do the same when this one lands. We have just

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put so much into this programme as a nation. There will be tears of

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pride and joy. This massive building is where they have been

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assembling the space shuttles and before them, the Apollo rockets

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that took men to the moon. But the shuttle's just won't be remembered

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in the same way. Their job was to deliver people at cargo into orbit

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and they have had real successes. The Hubble telescope was moved up

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on a shuttle and later repaired. The result, these spectacular

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images of the most distant reaches of the universe. The shuttle has

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also built the International Space Station, an orbiting Laboratory now

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the size of a football field. But there has been a heavy cost. In

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1986, the Challenger exploded. All seven people on board were killed,

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including a teacher invited along to show how safe space travel was.

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And then in 2003, the Columbia broke up, another seven people were

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killed. A disastrous record for an aircraft that was meant to make

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reaching orbit routine. Real a, these events are quite remarkable.

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They have come with tremendous cost, but anything of this kind of value

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comes with tremendous cost. I think the greater the value, often the

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greater the cost. And for now, all eyes are on the images from space

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of the storms over Florida. Conditions do not look good. Dark

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clouds over the launch pad, lift of may be delayed. Even space-age

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technology can be humbled by the weather. They are now hoping for a

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break in the cloud. The launches scheduled for just before 4:30pm

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your time tomorrow afternoon. Thank you. There has been strong

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criticism today of the police and adult social services over the

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death of a man whose headless body was found in a lake in Bedfordshire

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two years ago. He had been tortured and exploited for his benefit money.

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Six people were jailed over his murder. Three years of abuse and

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brutality, Michael Gilbert was as vulnerable as a child. Not able to

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defend himself against tormentors, he was capped as a slave, beaten

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for entertainment and hunted down when he tried to escape. He died

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aged 26 from his injuries, murdered by the whole -- household that had

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taken in vain as a vulnerable teenager. It was four months before

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his dismembered body was found at the bottom of a lake. Nobody had

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reported him missing. His disappearance went and then -- went

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unnoticed. He had been scared to report the violence to the police.

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission has found failings by

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those that should have supported Michael Gilbert as a child from a

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difficult home, ending up in care. They found that the support they

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received in residential care was severely wanting. There was no

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sustained interest in his welfare after he left. And that is only

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options for the future became sad, bad or mad. With the benefit of

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hindsight it might have been clear that Michael was an adult at risk.

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At the time these events were happening, it might not always have

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been clear. With no support network, according to the review, he became

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a victim of the extravagant cruelty of the family that took him in. He

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died in what was their home, and while the three people convicted of

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his murder are now in prison, the findings today raise questions

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about whether his killing could have been prevented.

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Finally, it has become the biggest film franchise of all time. Tonight,

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at fans of the boy wizard will be saying a fond farewell. The final

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instalment of Harry Potter premieres in London receiving and

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it is the end of an era after seven books and eight films. -- this

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evening. Thousands of fans have gathered in Trafalgar Square, many

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camping for days to glimpse the stars.

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The premiere is being held in Trafalgar Square and it is

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overflowing with people all hoping to catch a glimpse of the stars.

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Speaking of stars, in his only UK TV interview, I spoke to Daniel

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Radcliffe ahead of the premier of one of cinema's best-known film

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series. They have been gathering here for days. Fans from afar. Fans

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in full dress. Fans with face paint, frantic to feel part of the final

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chapter of the saga. You have been with us from the start and you will

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be with us for ever and ever. I have so many feelings inside me. I

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am so happy to be here, to meet the actors. But it is ending, too. I

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have been following it all my life. They are not the only ones for whom

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today is emotional. Daniel Radcliffe was only 11 when he

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started the magical journey that has taken up half his life. A

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journey that is now over. It is like a girlfriend that you have had

:23:58.:24:02.

for 10 years, and then you go your separate ways that you will be left

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with so many amazing memories. It is a sad thing. Few stories have

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made the impact that Harry Potter has. The books are credited with

:24:13.:24:16.

getting a generation excited about reading again, improving children's

:24:16.:24:21.

literacy. Making the movies in the UK was a huge factor in sustaining

:24:21.:24:26.

the British film industry's skill base. And as a result, Hollywood

:24:26.:24:32.

studios are committed to producing more big-budget films in Britain.

:24:32.:24:36.

The film's now not so young star is currently acting in a Broadway

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musical as he tries to shake of his child star mantle. That will not be

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harmed by an admission that his decade-long transformation from shy

:24:45.:24:48.

unknown into one of the world's most recognisable faces has

:24:48.:24:52.

sometimes been accompanied by problems with alcohol. He said that

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never affected filming and was not due to the pressure of work.

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Basically, the version that can appear on Twitter of the last few

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years was that I drank, my drinking led me to become unhappy, now I

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have stopped and I am much happier. The cast arrived to a massive

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welcome from fans tonight. For them and millions like them, the film

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series has been almost as much a part of their life as it has been

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for the stars. Harry Potter is the most successful film franchise of

:25:28.:25:35.

all time, bigger than James Bond or Star Wars. The studio behind the

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series will also be bidding a sad farewell to their magical money-

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Thank you. How is the weather? It is dry in London for the moment.

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Yes, at the moment, but nothing magical about the weather. There

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have been some heavy showers and some thunder and lightning. A

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subtle change this weekend. I think the balance will tip and more of us

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will see more blue skies. It gets very wet and windy across southern

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parts of England. The rain will sweep into Wales, knocking on the

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door of Northern Ireland later on. Try a further East, but showers

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always possible. -- drier. Heavy rain edging into County Down. Heavy

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rain through parts of Wales and gusty winds. Cool at 8 o'clock in

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the morning. The worst of the overnight rain will have cleared

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across South West England but heavy showers rattling in on that breeze,

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with just some fleeting brightness. In London there will be some nasty

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wet weather for your early morning commute. East of that, it will be

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dry and bright in East Anglia, but generally a lot of cloud and heavy

:26:57.:27:01.

rain pushing in two parts of northern England fairly promptly.

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Scotland's not doing too badly. The Scottish Open will start and then

:27:10.:27:15.

we will see some action. This has owned a long northern England will

:27:15.:27:20.

see some disruptive showers. -- this area along more than England.

:27:21.:27:28.

It will be cooler, maybe up to 21 degrees in the South East. At the

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weekend, a slow improvement. There will still be some showers around

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on Sunday buck the trend will be for fewer showers, especially in

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the South. Thank you.

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An extraordinary moment tonight as the News of the World is too close,

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victim of its own phone Hacking's - - phone hacking scandal. What does

:27:56.:28:00.

this mean for Murdoch and his empire? They hope this will improve

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things for there but I am not sure if it will make the difference they

:28:03.:28:08.

would like. The big prize they are after is full control of BSkyB, but

:28:08.:28:13.

there are many critics of that deal. Today we learn that 100,000 people

:28:13.:28:17.

have petitioned the Culture Secretary to try to block that deal.

:28:17.:28:21.

James Murdoch, at Rupert Murdoch, they will hope that in closing down

:28:21.:28:26.

the News of the World they have glanced the boil, show they are

:28:26.:28:30.

prepared to take dramatic action against a business that went

:28:30.:28:35.

seriously wrong, in their words. But in the extraordinary state then

:28:35.:28:37.

James Murdoch made today, he admitted that under their ownership

:28:37.:28:41.

for years, not only was the business controlled but they did

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