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Rupert Murdoch, one of the world's most powerful media tycoons, is

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called to account at Westminster over the phone-hacking scandal.

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Father and son, Rupert and James, heading for an unprecedented

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confrontation with MPs. I would like to say one sentence -

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this is the most humble day of my life.

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Who knew what about Milly Dowler, the 7/7 families and other alleged

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victims? Rupert Murdoch insists he is not to blame. The News of the

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World is less than 1% of our company. I employ 53,000 people

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around the world. They are great and ethical and distinguished.

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an extraordinary twist, proceedings are interrupted as a demonstrator

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tries to attack Rupert Murdoch. In the last few minutes, Rebekah

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Brooks has insisted the company acted quickly and decisively in

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dealing with the scandal. Also in the spotlight, two of the

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country's top police officers questioned about their links with

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the Murdoch empire. In other news: Police admit the

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person responsible for contaminating saline drips at a

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Stockport hospital may still be on site. Three people have died, a

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fourth is critically ill. Controversial plans are announced

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to introduce a badger cull in Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. We are at Westminster where Rupert Murdoch, one of the

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most powerful media moguls in the world, said this was the most

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humbling day of his life. Mr Murdoch insisted he was not

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responsible for the phone-hacking scandal, blaming those he trusted

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to run his newspapers. In a day of high political drama, the

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proceedings were interrupted as a demonstrator tried to attack Mr

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Murdoch as he and his son, James, answered questions from MPs. In a

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moment, I have two of the countries most senior police officers explain

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their link with the Murdoch media empire. This report contains some

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flash photography. The moment when two of the world's

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most powerful media moguls, Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, arrived

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to be held to account by MPs for the way that their News of the

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World Sunday tabloid invaded the privacy of vulnerable individuals.

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REPORTER: Do you have anything you want to say to the victims of phone

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hacking? After decades wielding huge power

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at the top of the British and tkphrobl media industry, how was it

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for the 80 -- global media industry, how was it for the 80-year-old?

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would like to say one sentence - this is the most humble day of my

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life. The media, directing a lens at the UK's biggest newspaper

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company. So what did the Murdochs know about the alleged abuses at

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the News of the World? Watched by his wife, who is in the chair

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behind, not as much as you might think, said Rupert Murdoch. Can I

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just say something? And this is not an excuse, maybe it is an

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explanation, the News of the World is less than 1% of our company. I

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employ 53,000 people around the world who are proud and great and

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ethical and distinguished people, professionals. Perhaps I am

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appointing people whom I trust. revelation only 15 days ago of the

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alleged hacking of the mobile phone of Milly Dowler at the instigation

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of the News of the World is why the Murdochs have to explain themselves.

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At what point did you find out the criminality was endemic at News of

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the World? Endemic is a very hard, is a very wide-ranging word. I also

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have to be extremely careful not to prejudice the course of justice

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which is taking place now. That has been disclosed. I became aware as

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it became apparent. And then I was absolutely shocked, appalled and

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ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks'

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ago. But was there a cover-up given that most of the alleged phone

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hacking and illegal bribing of police happened between 2002 and

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2006? James Murdoch, who became Chief Executive of News

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International at the end of 2007, says that he wasn't made aware of

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the contents of News of the World e-mails uncovered earlier that year.

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If I knew then what we know now and with the benefit of hindsight with

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can look at all these things. If I knew then what we know now we would

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have taken more action around that and moved faster to get to the

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bottom of these allegations. James Murdoch said he arelyed on advice

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from the lawyers Harbottle & Lewis that the extent of malpractice at

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the News of the World was limited. One of the things that went back

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and looked at, I suppose it was in the spring by senior people of News

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International, was that file and it was relooked at, opened up and

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looked at, it was rapidly brought to our attention that this was

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something... When did this happen? Again, this is between May - April,

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prey, June. When was it give tonne the police? It has been reported as

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June 20th? I believe it was in June after we informed the board of the

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company. What some will see as shocking was the confirmation by

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the Murdochs that their company was paying the legal expenses of Glenn

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Mulcaire, the private detective hired by the News of the World to

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hack the phones of individuals long after Mr Mulcaire was imprisoned.

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Is it not time for your organisation to say do your worst,

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you behaved disgracefully, we are not going to pay any more of your

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costs? I would like to do that. I don't know the status of what we

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are doing or indeed what his contract was. What of the friends

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in high places for long seen as the maker and breaker of British Prime

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Ministers? I was invited within days to have a cup of tea with Mr

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Cameron. No other conversation took place. High drama to the circus - a

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custard pie in the face of a shaken tycoon. Have you considered

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resigning? No. Why not? Because I feel that people I trusted - I'm

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not saying who - I don't know what level - they let me down and I

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think they behaved disgracefully, betrayed the company and me and it

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is for them to pay. I think that frankly I am the best person to

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clean this up. Many questions are still unabsed about who committed

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the appalling acts at the News of the World and who knew what when.

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The Murdochs will probably be seen to have emerged bruised but not

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broken by today's ordeal. Just hours before the Murdochs faced MPs,

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two of Scotland Yard's most senior officers were also questioned. The

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Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and the former Assistant

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Commissioner, John Yates, had denied any wrongdoing. They were

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grilled over their links to the News of the World and how many News

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International staff have ended up working for the Met. Mark Easton

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looks at the police investigation into the phone-hacking scandal. His

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report also contains flash photography.

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It was a Scotland Yard interrogation but this time it was

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senior officers who were required to answer the questions. Summoned

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to Parliament, the Met Commissioner was the first to sit in the

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interview chair. Order. Could I call the committee to order.

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committee of MPs wanted to know if his resignation statement on Sunday

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had included a coded swipe at the Prime Minister. I cannot as is

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plainly obvious control the way the media spin things or interpret

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things. I am just saying here and now I made no personal attack on

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the Prime Minister. The centrepiece of the MPs' cross-examination was

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the relationship between two institutions - Scotland Yard and

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News International. It emerged that there have been remarkably close

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links with senior officers regularly being wined and dined by

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Murdoch executives at restaurants like this one in West London. The

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Commissioner accepted that he had 18 lunches and dinners with News

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International figures in five years. Seven or eight of them with a News

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of the World journalist now accused of phone hacking. News

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International represents 42% of the press readership. If I am going to

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maintain a velgsship with the media, it wasn't my decision and I make no

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criticism here, it was not my decision to allow News

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International to be so dominant in the market. -- relationship. If

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they have 42% of the readership in this country, who am I going to

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talk to? It also emerged of the 45 staff at the Met ten are former

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News International employees. But it was another Murdoch man given a

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job at the Yard that the committee were particularly interested in,

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Neil Wallis. Now arrested for alleged phone hacking, the former

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Deputy Editor of the News of the World was hired just weeks after

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detectives had decided not to pursue press claims of widespread

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hacking at the paper. In the chair, Dick Fedorcio, head of public

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affairs. He insisted he never asked Mr Wallis if he knew about phone

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hacking because a colleague John Yates had vouched for him. John

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Yates conducted a form of due diligence on Mr Wallis and he can

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explain that to you better than I can later. But as far as I'm

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concerned Neil Wallis gave John Yates categorical assurance that

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there was nothing in the previous phone hacking matters that could

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embarrass him... Mr Yates, the Assistant Commissioner who resigned

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yesterday, confirmed that Neil Wallis had been a friend, if not a

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buddy for ten years. He was also the officer who decided there was

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no need to re-open the phone hacking inquiry following

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revelations by Guardian journalist Nick Davis. Back in the chair, he

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had occupied a week ago, Mr Yates told the committee he thought his

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role in Mr Wallis's appointment had been overegged. I sought assurances

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off Mr Wallis before the contract was let to the effect - I have a

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note, I can read it if you like - is there anything in the matters

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that Nick Davis is still chasing and still reporting on that could

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at any stage embarrass you, Mr Wallis, me, the Commissioner, or

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the Metropolitan Police? I received categorical assurances that that

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was the case. Mr Yates was also asked about a job at the Yard given

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to Mr Wallis's daughter, Amy. absolutely nothing to do with her

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employment. I was simply a post box. And then there were questions today

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about yet another News of the World reporter, arrested over phone

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hacking, who it is claimed worked as an informant at the Yard. Sir

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Paul Stephenson hinting today would probably be his last as

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Commissioner of the Met, headed back to the Yard pursued by the

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media. Today has illustrated it has been a far too cosy relationship

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between police and press and particularly between the Met and

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Murdoch. I'm joined by Nick Robinson. You were in the room with

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Rupert Murdoch, we have heard Robert Peston call him a maker or

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breaker of British politicians. What was the atmosphere like?

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one stage it felt like the curtain had been pulled back on the Wizard

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of Oz. There will of course be one picture and one headline in

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tomorrow's papers, the image of that pie in his face, the headline

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"his most humble day". The most humble note came with the questions.

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His wife looked concerned. She put her hand on his shoulder trying to

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give him advice. His son lent over to try and intervene and wasn't

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allowed to do it. That was the humbling. In fact, after that

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attack by the man with the paper plate and the foam, one MP in the

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room heard someone say to James Murdoch, "Don't worry, it's fine."

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They thought that helped them. as we speak, there is a story

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breaking about Andy Coulson? It is a story not just about Andy Coulson

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but about the other man who we have heard more and more about this week,

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Neil Wallis who was his Deputy Editor at the News of the World and

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whose appointment by the Metropolitan Police to give PR

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advice caused the resignation of two senior figures. The

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Conservative Party have released a statement to the BBC, to the

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Panorama programme, in response to a question that was asked. I will

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tell you what it says. "It's been drawn to our attention that Neil

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Wallis may have given informal advice to Andy Coulson. No-one else

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was aware of this and no payment was made." The significance of this

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is it links the two people most controversial in this case, Andy

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Coulson working for the Prime Minister, Neil Wallis, working for

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the head of the Metropolitan Police. It is a link Downing Street will

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I'll be back later in the programme to see whether public perception

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has changed after the phone hacking scandal. You can keep up to date on

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line, where you can find all of the key point and video clips of per

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day's committee hearings. Now it is over to Kate Silverton.

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Thank you. Let's have a look at the day's other news. Detectives say

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the person responsible for contaminating saline drips could

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still be at Stepping Hill Hospital in Greater Manchester. Officers

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believe insulin was deliberately injected into saline containers

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used in drips. Three people have died, and a fourth is seriously ill.

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Let's go live to Stockport and Ed Thomas.

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Yes, as you can see, security is very tight. That is because we

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still don't know who is contaminating this medicine. It

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could be a visitor. But what is shocking staff and visitors is it

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could also be somebody who works here.

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Every car checked in and bad. Police covering hospital entrances.

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-- out. And all because detectives believe that whoever has been

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contaminating medicine here could still be inside the hospital.

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horrible to think that somebody may be deliberately trying to harm

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patients. And maybe still working here? Potentially. The

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investigation has focused on those who work in a hospital and those

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who have visited. Here are the people whose deaths are being

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investigated. Tracey Arden, a mother of two. Arnold Lancaster,

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who was 71. And 84-year-old great- grandfather George Keep. All of

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them had been given its saline ampoules similar to these. But they

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had been filled with insulin, which causes blood sugar levels to fall.

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It has left many patients and visitors worried about their safety.

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It is worrying. You don't know if you are going to go next. You might

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take kill yourself. Frightened. You just don't want to be ill.

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security has been increased. Saline is now kept in a locked room and

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medics were compares if they want to administer drugs. In less than a

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week, those who work here have seen the hospital go from a place of

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care to a crime scene. This is a criminal act, perpetrated by

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somebody with malicious intent. And we don't believe that it could have

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been anticipated. Their families, police and the hospital will wait

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for post mortem examination results. They hope it will show exactly what

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caused the deaths of all three patients.

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This could be a long wait. A police say this is a complex forensic

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investigation and they also say, do not expect any arrests any time

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soon. Thank you. It is 80 minutes past

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six, our top story. Under scrutiny by Parliament, Rupert and James

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Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks give evidence to MPs over the phone

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hacking scandal. Rupert Murdoch described it as the most humbling

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day of his life. Coming up, but just over a year to

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London 2012, we meet the Olympic hopeful that juggling school work

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with intensive training. Later on BBC London, at the death

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of a news of a World journalist at his Watford home is described as a

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tragedy by the Prime Minister -- News Of The World.

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The Government has given the go- ahead for a cull of badgers in

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parts of England. The cull, which will be piloted in the south-west,

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will aim to stop the spread of It looks idyllic, but many of our

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farms could be in crisis. This is one of many where bovine

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tuberculosis has struck. David Moreton has lost 18 cattle alone.

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They have been slaughtered, so that is 18 cows less producing milk.

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Have you any doubt that badgers play a role in this? No, it is

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accepted that badgers play a significant role in the

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transmission of the disease. Scientists agree that badgers carry

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bovine TB, but at the same time, they are a much loved, iconic

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character. Ministers know that their decision to back a cull of

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thousands of badgers will be bitterly opposed by activists and

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event some farmers. Personally, I don't think it will work. Many

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infected badgers are just get forced out into wider areas, and

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the biggest concern is the public backlash. The idea putting forward

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by ministers is that badgers on farms like this one bobby shot by

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trained marksmen. Initially, there will be to pilot areas. The idea is

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to make sure the job can be done effectively, efficiently and

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humanely. Already, campaigners, whose High Court action overturned

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the official Welsh policy for a badger cull, are preparing for a

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similar legal battle in England. Now cull is planned in Northern

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Ireland or Scotland, which is free A swimmer from Rochdale has become

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the first person to guarantee a place in the British team at next

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summer's Olympic Games. Keri-Anne Payne led all the way in the 10k

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open water raised in Chang kept -- Shanghai. She has already won an

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Olympic silver medal and is hoping for gold next year.

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One of those hoping to join hair is one young British weather, Acheing

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Ajulu Bushell -- joined have. Luisa Baldini has been to see how the

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teenager is managing to juggle training with her school work or

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stop this is a girl who can make a splash.

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Acheing Ajulu Bushell switched last year from representing Kenya to

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start swimming for Great Britain. Her goal is to represent Team GB at

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next year's Olympics. The 17-year- old often trains two times a day,

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before and after school. Getting up at 5am doesn't trigger get any

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easier. You get used to it, but the most of the Asian to get yourself

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out of bed -- motivation, it is always a struggle. She started

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swimming at the age of four when she was living in Kenya. But she

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was born in the UK and in 2007, decided to return here to pursue

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her dream of swimming. She boarded at Plymouth College, where she

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befriended diving gold medallist Tom Daley. But now she has moved to

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London to step up preparations for the Olympics. While most teenagers

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find it harder to drag themselves out of bed in the morning, Acheing

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Ajulu Bushell has been here since the crack of dawn. She is

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incredibly committed to has women but also very focused on her school

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work. -- to have swimming. After a cup of coffee, it is after school,

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where she is studying A-levels. Double economics is followed by

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double politics, in which she is contemplating a career. She has had

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artwork to perfect and friends to catch up with over lunch, before

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squeezing in a driving lesson. All before the end of school. There are

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times when I get really stressed and fed up, and think if I didn't

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swim, I would get better marks. But you have just got to deal with the

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situations you are given, and I want to do both of these things.

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She made an impressive start at the British championships before

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representing England at the Commonwealth Games last year. But

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she has struggled since. She took a five-week break, partly because of

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exams, and has missed out on the squad for this month's world

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championships in China. Like any athlete, getting to the Olympics is

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going to take huge dedication and self- belief. At coach says she has

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the talent, she now just needs the resolve and determination that to

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grab her chance. That is it from me, we will go back

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out to George Alagiah at Westminster.

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Thank you, or welcome back to Westminster, where Rupert Murdoch

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has said this was the most humbling day of his life. But on the key

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question of who know -- who knew what and when on the phone hacking

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scandal, at Mr Murdoch denied he was responsible. For weeks, the

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crisis has made the headlines, but has it changed public opinion about

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the press, politicians and the police? Razia Iqbal has been

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finding out. Drama at the heart of two of the

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country's major institutions, from Westminster to Scotland Yard. And

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between the two, a street market, where we ask how the scandal has

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changed people's opinions. First, the press. Where did they get the

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stories from, if not from phone hacking, intercepting e-mails, even

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looking through rubbish bins? I really think it is has been a long

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time coming. From the media to the police. It is very, very sad.

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Robert Peel invented the Metropolitan Police, and they

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became the epitome of policing for the rest of the world. Now where

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are they? In to concerns about wider corruption. The normal man in

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the street would get the sack. Or be taken to court. It doesn't seem

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as if anything happens to these people. Pay-off, Palethorpe, pay

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off. There is no trust and no on a. Mr Murdoch, do you accept that

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ultimately... Her the News Of The World... The midst of the loud

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voices today, the whispers of widespread disillusion.

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Let's get the final thought from Nick Robinson. We have had a drama,

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controversy, but what have we learned overall today? Rupert

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Murdoch has told us that although he is always seen as being in

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charge of this hugely powerful company, that he simply didn't know

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what was going on and he feels let them. And yet when the names were

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put to him on the people who may have let him down, people who have

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now that the company, people like Rebekah Brooks, he says it was not

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then either -- left the company. We know he blames someone but we don't

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know who, he will say the police are investigating. We also know he

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says he met with Prime Minister has all the time and he wishes they

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would leave him alone. I think they might just do that now. It has

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started drizzling again now, let's get the weather.

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A banking. Western areas may have A banking. Western areas may have

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had a dry day, but in eastern parts, it has been particularly wet,

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especially across parts of the south-east. Heavy downpours here

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and across South East Scotland. Of greater concern, as we Simeon

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across Lincolnshire and Yorkshire and into the north-east, some slow-

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moving torrential storms to take us into the evening. The risk of some

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minor flooding into the evening and overnight as the showers continued.

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It is this sort of area where we are most concerned. The showers

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will barely abate for one or two. The wet weather of a return to the

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South West, but away from those areas, it will be a dry night,

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temperatures of around 11-13. Not a desperately chilly start tomorrow,

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and the North of Scotland will brighten up with a lot -- one or

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two showers. Into Northern Ireland, fine and bright, but north-east

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England, thunderstorms at this stage of the day. Some sunshine

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across other parts of northern England into East Anglia, but

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generally cloudy air in Wales and the South West. Devon and Cornwall,

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a wet start. The rate will continue, pushing across other southern

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counties -- rain. Those slow-moving thunderstorms across northern

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England in particular, but away from that, of varying amounts of

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brightness. Quite a few will stay dry, temperatures 17-20. The

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showers continued into Wednesday, even in to Thursday. But first they,

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their heaviest showers will be sudden central part of limit and

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South Wales -- first there. Friday and Saturday looks like the

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emphasis continues to push towards emphasis continues to push towards

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the drier weather. Thank you very much. A reminder of

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tonight's main news. Under scrutiny by Parliament, Rupert and James

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Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks give evidence to MPs over the phone

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