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The hacking scandal forces Rupert Murdoch to drop his bid to take

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full control of BSkyB. The News Corporation boss bows to

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relentless pressure after crisis talks with his top executives. Nine

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days of allegations centring on the News of the World put the Murdoch

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empire on a collision course with Parliament. I think this is the

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right decision. I have been saying that this company clearly needs to

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sort out the problems there are at News International, at the News of

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the World. This is a victory for people up and down this country who

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have been appalled by the revelations about phone hacking.

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comes as David Cameron meets the family of Milly Dowler and

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announces an inquiry into the scandal.

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After another remarkable day, we'll be asking if this is a watershed

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for Rupert Murdoch and Parliament. Also on tonight's programme: 17

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years on from the Mull of Kintyre crash - the Chinook pilots wrongly

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accused are vindicated. The Papal aide who failed victims

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of sexual abuse in Ireland - a new report says the Catholic church

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ignored rules as recently as three years ago. We're going to make this

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happen, sir. And a date with one of the world's

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most glamorous women after an internet proposal from a US Marine.

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On BBC London, the Mayor is criticised for not prosecuting the

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News of the World for hacking Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

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News at 6.00pm. After days of intense pressure over phone hacking

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and corruption allegations, Rupert Murdoch made a dramatic U-turn this

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afternoon, withdrawing his plans to take over the broadcaster BSkyB.

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The announcement from News Corporation came as MPs prepared

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for a cross-party vote on the deal and as the Prime Minister announced

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a wide-ranging inquiry into the scandal. More on that in a moment,

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but our business editor Robert Peston has our first report tonight

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on the day the bid was dropped. It does contain some flash photography.

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Rupert Murdoch, the great news mogul, in the news for what he

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would see as the wrong reasons. Putting on a brave face before one

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of the great humiliations of his career, the abandonment of his

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attempt to own all of BSkyB. Here's News Corporation's explosive

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This, just minutes before, was that appalling climate for Mr Murdoch.

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Mr Speaker, when such a serious cloud hangs over News Corporation

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and with the abuses and the systematic pattern of deceit we've

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seen, does he agree with me - and he clearly does - that it would be

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quite wrong for them to expand their stake in the British media?

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And this was the Prime Minister just a little bit later. What - I

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think this is the right decision. I think this company clearly needs to

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sort out the problems there are at News International, at News of the

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World. That must be the priority, not takeovers, so the right

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decision, but also the right decision for the country too.

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the second massive setback for Mr Murdoch. Just days ago he closed

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the News of the World because his reputation had been so tarnished by

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the allegations just ten days ago that the News of the World

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instigated the alleged hacking of the phone of the teenager Milly

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Dowler and the parent of the Soham victims and that the privacy of

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families of soldiers killed in action had been invaded along with

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other shocking revelations. This is a victory for people up and down

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this country who have been appalled by the revelation about phone

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hacking, who have thought it's beyond belief that Mr Murdoch could,

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when this criminal investigation is going on, expand his stake in the

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British media. Rupert Murdoch was keen to increase his ownership of

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British Sky Broadcasting from 39% to 100% because it would have given

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him access to the vast amounts of cash generated by the UK's biggest

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television business. In the past year BSkyB's profits were around �1

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billion which would have been very useful to Mr Murdoch's News

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Corporation at a time when his British newspapers have been

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struggling to maintain their revenues. As for BSkyB's other

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shareholders, they've also paid a big price from the failure of the

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takeover. BSkyB's share prices falling around 20% over the past

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nine days, wiping almost �3 billion from the value of the company. So

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what has Rupert Murdoch lost? was a once-in a lifetime

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opportunity to acquire 100% of a business which has extraordinarily

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good prospects, which has a growth trajectory which is well understood.

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It would have substantially increased the company by the order

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of a magnitude of a 20-25% increase. February 5th, 1989, the dawn of

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television's new age. Mr Murdoch would see himself, rightly, many

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would say, as the founder of BSkyB, so to be told by politicians who,

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until recently, were seen as his creaturess, that he shouldn't press

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ahead and do as they insisted - well, it's setback as any in his

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decades at the pinnacle of the media industry. Robert is with me

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in the studio. It has been such a dramatic turn of events. How

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damaged personally do you think Rupert Murdoch is? He hasn't had a

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completely uncheckered career, but this is as big a crisis as he's

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ever faced. Only days ago out of the blue he closed the News of the

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World which itself came only Davis those explosive, shocking

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revelation that the News of the World may have hacked into the

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mobile phone of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler. Now, he's

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had to abandon, possibly forever, his cherished ambition of owning

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all of BSkyB, a business that he created, so the humiliation is

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immense, and background for him is also incredibly difficult. His

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recent investments in MySpace, in the Wall Street Journal, are not

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perceived to have gone well. He took an enormous loss on the sale

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of MySpace recently, so investors in his business are getting restive.

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Then there is the issue of what's going to come out of the policing

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inquiry, by the other inquiries set up today by the Prime Minister.

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More shockingation expected about what went on at the News of the

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World, revelation that could damage the reputation of his business

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further, and if the reputation of his business is damaged, the

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revenues - precious revenues for Rupert Murdoch of his businesses -

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may also suffer. Robert, for the moment, thank you.

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Well, the inquiry announced today by David Cameron will have the

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power to summon newspaper proprietors, journalists, police

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and politicians who'll give evidence under oath. It came after

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immense political pressure on the Prime Minister from the opposition

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leader. Our deputy political editor James Landale has the details of

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the hacking inquiry. If anything has transformed this row, it has

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been the hacking of phones belonging not to celebrities, but

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to ordinary people. Today their unofficial representatives, the

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family of Milly Dowler, whose phone was allegedly hacked, came to

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Downing Street to tell David Cameron what they wanted. Finally,

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he had an answer. There is a firestorm, if you like, that is

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engulfing parts of the media, parts of the police, and indeed our

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political system's ability to respond, and what we must do in the

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coming days and weeks, is think, above all, of the victims like the

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Dowler family who are watching this today and make doubly sure that we

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get to the bottom of what happened and we prosecute those who are

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guilty. He announced there will be one inquiry led by a judge, Lord

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Justice Leverson, who will be able to summon anyone and question them

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under oath. He'll start by looking at the culture, practises and

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ethics of the press, their contacts with politicians and the police and

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recommend a new regulatory regime, one that'll also examine cross-

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media ownership. On this he'll report in 12 months. The judge will

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also look separately at the allegations of phone hacking within

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News International and other papers, why police investigations failed

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and why News International managers did not act. He'll also exam

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inallegations of police bribery and the hacking affair, and some of

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this inquiry will not begin until the police have finished their own

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investigations. Mr Cameron also said that politicians should be

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more open in their contacts with the media. I will be consulting the

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Cabinet Secretary on an amendment to the Ministerial Code to require

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Ministers to record all meetings with newspaper and other media

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proprietors, senior editors and executives regardless of the nature

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of the meeting. But for all this, Mr Cameron was still under pressure

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over Andy Coulson. His former communications chief was arrested

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last week over allegations of hacking and corruption while he

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edited News of the World. The Prime Minister said Mr Coulson had

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assured him he knew nothing about phone hacking. He gave those self-

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same assurances to the police, to a Select Committee of this House and

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under oath to a court of law. If it turns out he lied, it won't just be

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that he shouldn't have been in Government. It will be that he

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should be prosecuted. It -- he just doesn't get it. I say this to the

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Prime Minister: he was warned by the Deputy Prime Minister about

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hiring Andy Coulson. He was warned by Lord Ashdown about hiring Andy

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Coulson. He should apologise for the catastrophic error of judgment

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he made in hiring Andy Coulson. David Cameron's relationship with

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Andy Coulson has made this whole affair very tricky for him. His MPs

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feel that he has been on the back foot, while the Labour leader Ed

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Miliband has been making all the running. The Prime Minister's aides

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hope that the launch today of this inquiry will help redress the

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balance. Whatever that inquiry uncovers or concludes, though, the

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relationship between Britain's politicians and the Murdochs will

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never be quite the same again. Yes, they'll meet. They'll talk. But

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Other news now. The families of two RAF pilots

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whose helicopter crashed into the Mull of Kintyre 17 years ago have

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finally seen them cleared of responsibility. The Chinook crash

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in 1994 was the RAF's worst peacetime accident, killing all 29

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people onboard. Today the Defence Secretary Liam Fox said the pilots

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should never have been accused of gross negligence. Our defence

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correspondent Caroline Wyatt has the story. It was a flight which

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lasted little over 17 minutes, but the arguments over what really

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happened that day have lasted 17 years. This was the wreckage of the

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RAF's worst peacetime accident. 29 people died, including some of the

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brightest and the best in intelligence and counterterrorism.

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The two pilots, Flight Lieutenants Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook,

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were blamed, found grossly negligent by the RAF for flying too

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low and too fast before the crash. Ever since, Chris Cook has

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campaigned to clear his brother's name. Today, there was simply

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relief that after so many years he'd finally won through.

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Absolutely delighted, very taken aback. I was not expecting we would

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get quite that much today, to be and that was it. Today Jonathan

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Tapper's father Mike stood with those who had campaigned on the

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family's behalf for many years and finally heard the words they'd

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waited for for so long. I have written to the widows of the two

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pilots, to the father of Jonathan Tapper and the brother of Richard

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Cook to express the Ministry of Defence's apology for the distress

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which was caused to them by the findings of negligence. I also wish

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to express that apology publicly in this House today. For Sue Phoenix,

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watching that statement at home this afternoon, brought everything

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back. She lost her husband Ian in the crash, an IUC counterterrorism

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expert. I'm no longer angry. I don't get angry about anything. I'm

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very, very sad. I think it's the sadness of the unnecessary

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suffering for all the families, yes, but for those two families in

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particular, the fact they've lost other loved ones in their families,

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that didn't get to see their sons' names cleared, yes, I am sad.

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questions raised over the chin Clinton's safety over the crash,

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the review concluded we may never know what happened in those last

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desperate minutes over the Mull of Kintyre, but for the families,

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today's apology marked the end of a long, bitter battle to clear the

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pilots' names. At least 17 people have been killed

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and dozens injured by three simultaneous explosions in the

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Indian city of Mumbai. All three occurred during the evening rush

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hour, placing the city on a state of high alert. The attacks are the

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worst in Mumbai for nearly three years when a co-ordinated siege

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killed nearly 170 people. A retired Irish bishop who was an

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aide to three Popes has been singled out in a hard-hitting new

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report into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Uncovering serious

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failings in the way the authorities dealt with child abuse, the report

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says the church cared more about its reputation than child welfare

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and that only three years ago reports of abuse were being kept

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from police. Our Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson reports.

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He was the Pope's right-hand man. Father John McGee was not just

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personal secretary to John Paul II, but three Popes, but today the

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retired bishop stands accused of involvement in the Irish Catholic

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Church's latest scandal. It was in his diocese that clerical child sex

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abuse took place, but wasn't reported by the church to the

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police, and it happened as recently as three years ago at a time when

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the Irish Catholic Church was telling the church there would

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never be another cover-up. It is truly scandalous that people who

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presented a public face of concern continue to maintain a private

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agenda of concealment and evasion. After revelations about Irish

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paedophile priests in the early 1990s, new guidelines were

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introduced to ensure all allegations were then reported to

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the police, but in Cloin, the rules were largely ignored and for those

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who complained to the church about being abused as children, the lack

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of action left them feeling helpless. It literally feels like

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being contaminated by a horrible disease. I feel as if I have really

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been touched by the devil, and that is something that nobody will ever

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fix for me, you know? After so many scandals in recent years, the

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Catholic Church in Ireland is not only losing followers, but its

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special place in Irish society. In Cloin, there is a sense of shame.

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humbly apologise on my own belaugh as administrator of the diocese and

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on behalf of the clergy, to all who suffered and to their families. I

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am appalled by the depth and damage of suffering. He retired as bishop

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last year. In a statement tonight he admitted he could have done more

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to help some victims of abuse and Our top story tonight: News

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Corporation has dropped its bid to take full control of BSkyB.

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Coming up: A US Marine and his internet proposal for Hollywood

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In Libya, Colonel Gaddafi's forces have begun a counter attack in the

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West of the country against rebels hoping to advance from their on to

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the capital, Tripoli. The fighting has already caused civilians to

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flee their homes into the Nafusa mountains. This report comes from

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Gualish, a village caught in the crossfire. This was the Libyan

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rabbles' most forward position in the western mountains until today.

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-- rebels'. They took this ground a week ago, part of a steady if slow

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advance. Gunfire this this morning, but the rebels are sure as it is

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just their own men waking up the Government forces. The rebels are

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in these positions and the Gaddafi forces are in the next town, the

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next place in the crossfire. Well, it was. That might seem ambitious

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now. The rebels have been jolted by the realisation that the other side

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is advancing, not just taking pot- shots from the town. There is a

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vehicle coming, he says. Why is it? -- where is it? All around us, the

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rebels' frontline is collapsing. It is a chaotic and sometimes panicky

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retreat. They tried to regroup at the next checkpoint. Let's go back

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to fight, says one. No, says his friend. We only have one box of

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ammunition. What can we do with that? This is a highly strategic

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area. Beyond it lies the road to Tripoli. The rebels say they will

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march on the capital in just a few weeks. They have rejected talks

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with the regime, confident that they have the forward momentum.

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Little of that was in evidence today.

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An investigation has begun into why an elderly dementia patient was

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left at home for three days without food or water. 85 year-old Beryl

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Carter from Manchester was meant to be looked after by Care UK, but the

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company said it was not cold that she had been discharged from

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hospital. -- not told. Unemployment has fallen again with

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the latest figure for the three months to make at 2.45 million,

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which is down by 26,000. The number of people claiming jobseeker's

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allowance has gone up. Many areas of the country continue to face job

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shortages, and others are struggling to find workers with the

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right skills. It is a world-beating industry, a

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cluster of firms in an area of the Midlands known as Motorsport Valley.

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Growth is accelerating, new staff are being recruited. But there is a

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problem on the road ahead. It was on the drawing board... Swan of the

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top names in British motor sport, David Richards, told me what it was.

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He runs Prodrive, a big name in rallying and design and manufacture.

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He just cannot find enough of the right staff. I need 100 engineers,

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skilled and experienced. They have to be out there somewhere. He says

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if he cannot find them soon, the progress of the company could be

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held back. It will inevitably inhibit our growth. It is

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inhibiting it today. We are not taking on the tasks that we could

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give we have the people and the resources to do it. Unemployment

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may be relatively high, but some industries have vacancies and

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cannot find workers with the right qualifications to fill them. This

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is an employer trying to recruit permanent staff and offering career

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prospects. For some other employers it is rather different. They are

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not as confident about future growth in the economy, so they are

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reluctant to commit themselves to taking on full-time workers. You

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have only got to go down the road to this Tikrit ment Agency to see

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evidence of that. Here, most of the vacancies are for part-time and

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temporary workers and there is no shortage of applicants.

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competition is very strong. You would be looking at general

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administration vacancies, and we would get up to 50 applications. I

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remember one recently when we had over 100 and we had to withdraw the

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first this month. In rural Oxfordshire, -- we had to withdraw

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the advertisement. In rural Oxfordshire, there is another

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aspect of the job Meggitt on display. This couple runs a

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catering business. They had a job, step forward those born in the UK,

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but the rest of from other parts of the world. I went from waiter to

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assistant manager, step by step. Catering is well known for taking

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on casual and temporary workers, and bosses here say that local

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recruitment is difficult. Foreign people have a very good

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work ethic. They know that the job needs to be done and they get on

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with it. They bring a lot more flexibility to the business. What

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is it about British workers? think everybody expects a full-time,

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permanent contract, and if they don't get that position than they

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are not prepared to put the hard graft in. There are jobs out there,

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but matching them with the right people and making sure they have

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the correct skills and attitude is a big challenge for the economy.

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Now, she is one of Hollywood's most glamorous women and he is the US

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Marine in Afghanistan. They have never met, but after a proposal on

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the internet, Sergeant Scott Moore has a date with the Black Swan stop

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Mila Kunis. -- Hollywood star. Never mind different world,

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different planets. He lives in a dusty checkpoint and she lives in

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Hollywood. But Scott Moore needs a date for the regimental ball.

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want to take a moment out of my day to invite you to the Marine Corps

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Ball on November 18th. His bold invitation was seen by 800,000

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people on YouTube, but not by the actress herself. What? I was

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invited to go to the ball? Do it for your country. Her fellow chat-

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show guest Justin Timberlake played matchmaker. You know what, man? I

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am going to work on this for you. He invited you to the Marine Corps

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Ball. When is it? November. November what? I will go. Mila

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Kunis is promoting her latest film of Justin Timberlake and can now

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look forward to a trip to North Carolina, swapping the movies for

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the mess hall. She has promised Scott Moore that she will not stand

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him up. I am going to make this happen, sir. And in true showbiz

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style, her people have already been in touch with his people. It is

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officially the date. The identity of the Euromillions

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ticket holder and that has won the jackpot is still a mystery. The win

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that match all five numbers and both lucky stars to win the prize

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of one and would and �61 million in the draw last night. It is not yet

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know whether the overnight multi- millionaire is an individual or in

:24:30.:24:37.

a syndicate. -- �161 million. Now more on the news that News

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Corporation have dropped the bid to take full control of BSkyB. Nick

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Robinson is in Westminster. Even Rupert Murdoch would not have

:24:47.:24:50.

imagined such a change in perception of this bid. A dramatic

:24:50.:24:54.

turnaround. Only last week this deal would go through, and only

:24:54.:24:58.

yesterday it looked as though the Empire was just regrouping to fight

:24:58.:25:04.

at the later date. But now it is over and MPs are celebrating. There

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is an air of self-congratulation, that Parliament stood up to the

:25:07.:25:11.

Murdoch empire and won. All parties decided to back the motion proposed

:25:11.:25:16.

by Ed Miliband to say that the bid should not go ahead. They think

:25:16.:25:21.

they have seen off their media tormentors, for now at least.

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today marker line in the sand? The bid being dropped and the start of

:25:26.:25:31.

the inquiry? It is far from over. His hacking scandal has been built

:25:31.:25:36.

up bit by bit and layer by layer. At first nothing seemed to be

:25:36.:25:41.

moving and based people ignored it, frankly, but political gravity

:25:41.:25:46.

cannot be ignored for ever. This has been swept away, not just the

:25:46.:25:55.

bid, but also the News of the World. Now it has in its path, the secret

:25:55.:25:58.

of relationships between politicians, the media and the

:25:58.:26:01.

police. The Prime Minister has had a better day-to-day, having

:26:01.:26:07.

announced an inquiry, but all those questions about why he hired a

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former editor of the News of the World will remain and also

:26:10.:26:13.

questioned about his relationship with the Murdoch empire. The truth

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is that the avalanche moves on and nobody knows who it will damage

:26:17.:26:26.

Now the weather. Some sunshine out there this evening but it is not

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exactly a balmy July night. It will be chilly again outside as skies

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remain largely clear. It has been quite cloudy throughout the day in

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eastern England, and it will thicken up in East Anglia and rain

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will come in through the night. Elsewhere it is dry with clear

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spells and quite cold, with temperatures down to single digits

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in northern England. A cool start to Thursday that many places will

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start off with sunshine. In East Anglia it will be gloomy and quite

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wet, that is the exception. In the West, expect sunshine and

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temperatures up to 23 degrees in Bristol, maybe. Sunny spells for

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most of the day across Wales with just a small chance of showers here.

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Decent spells to the East of Northern Ireland, with the cloud

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increasing further West and maybe some light rain later in the day,

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as they could be across western Scotland. Showering across northern

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Scotland. Fine for northern England and eastern Scotland. In

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Lincolnshire there will be more cloud, especially in Norfolk and

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Suffolk. Some of that rain will be in Essex and possibly Kent,

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affecting the goal. The winds will be lively for the first day of the

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Open. Friday sees some sunny spells. Elsewhere the cloud increases and

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we will see outbreaks of rain. It will turn cooler and better, and

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windier for all of us throughout the weekend. If you like the

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weather, don't forget the show that is on in an hour, live on BBC One.

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I suggest you have your camera ready if you are going to tune in.

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I will explain more tonight! A reminder of the main news

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tonight: News Corporation has dropped the bid to take full

:28:21.:28:25.

control of BSkyB. This came as David Cameron met the family of

:28:25.:28:29.

Milly Dowler and announced an inquiry into the hacking scandal.

:28:29.:28:33.

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