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The UK economy slows down. Officials blame the warm weather,

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the Royal Wedding and the Japanese tsunami.

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Questions over meeting economic targets, growth down to 0.2%.

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We are travelling a difficult road but it's the only road that leads

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to that lasting prosperity, that lasting private sector recovery,

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those jobs that we all want to see. I thought his response today was

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staggeringly complacent. Families and businesses up and down the UK

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will say we are having a really hard time, worried about the future

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and the Chancellor shrugs his shoulders and carries on regardless.

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Also on the programme: Young lives cut short. The faces of Norway's

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massacre victims. The killers' lawyer says he's probably insane.

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He's in a war and he says that the rest of the world, especially the

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Western world, don't understand his point of view that in 60 years'

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time we will all understand it. Drug addiction and the GPs who feed

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the habit. A new survey raises questions about doctors

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overprescribing. Mitch Winehouse leads tributes to

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Amy, calling her his angel daughter. Family and friends attend the

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singer's funeral. And lucky to be alive. The woman

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who drove off a Cornish cliff and the dramatic rescue that saved her.

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Good Evening. Welcome to the BBC's news at Six. There was a fall in

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the rate of growth in the UK economy, down to just 0.2% between

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April and June of this year. The Office for National Statistics said

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one-off events such as the extra Bank Holiday for the Royal Wedding,

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had dented growth. The Chancellor's said it's positive news that there

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is growth, but Labour have hit back, saying the recovery is being choked

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off. Here is our Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders.

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The letters stand for Gross Domestic Product, the sum total of

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everything that's made in the UK. It's been knocked about a bit

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lately, with delays on production lines from the Japanese earthquake,

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some hot weather and a certain marriage that took place in April.

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The result: Growth of just 0.2% in the second quarter, even less than

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before when the economy was recovering from the snow. Overall,

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our GDP's now grown by just 0.7% in the past 12 months. The ONS says

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growth would be half a percentage point higher without all the one-

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off factors, but the Chancellor would still be presiding over a

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deeply sub par recovery. You are confident in yourself that this is

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the best recovery we could be getting? Of course it is a

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difficult route out of a very deep recession, a very big banking

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crisis, the largest budget deficit of any major economy in the world,

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but any other route would lead to disaster because it would lead to

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instability, concerns over Britain's ability to pay its way in

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the world and that would lead to higher unemployment, less growth

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and that's not a path I'm prepared to see Britain travel down.

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To the Shadow Chancellor, it's Mr Osborne that's taking the gamble.

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This is a Chancellor in denial. I have to say, I thought his response

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today was staggeringly complacent. Families and businesses up and down

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the UK will say, we are having a really hard time, worried about the

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future and our Chancellor shrugs his shoulders and says, I'm going

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to carry on regardless. He's looking to me, deeply, deeply out

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of touch. So much for the talking heads in Westminster. I went to a

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different Downing Street in Birmingham to find out how the

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recovery is going there. This glass company has invested in

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new machines right through the downturn and managed to take on

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workers. But the official figures ring true to the managing director.

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The last two or so years have been a step change in reduced demand and

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the recovery has just come back from people getting a little closer

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to where they were before, so there's no underlying surge of

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demand that we can see. The British economy's had a lot of

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ups and downs since we started the industrial rev all those years ago.

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There had been plenty of slow recoveries, but this is proving to

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be the slowest in nearly a hundred Now, this is how long it could take

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us today to get back to where we were. That is if there is no more

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bad news. Some people say that's the

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inevitable price of the financial crisis, there's no way around it.

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But others say the Government should be doing more now to force

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the pace. The Chancellor's hemmed in by the

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fact that public spending has fallen quite rapidly. At the same

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time, interest rates are at rock bottom, there's nowhere else for

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them to go. So there's very little there for the Chancellor to throw

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at the economy to get it moving again. We are not alone. The US

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economy recently hit its own soft patch, but our recovery seems more

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susceptible to special factors than most.

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Let's go to Downing Street now and talk to our Deputy Political Editor,

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James Landale. As we saw in Stephanie's report, plenty of

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differences between Labour and the Government, was are there questions

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being asked now within the coalition? What's interesting is,

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on the fundamental policy of cutting the deficit, there is no

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evidence of any real division within the coalition. You've got,

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for example, the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, making it very clear

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today that he fully supports the pace and the depth of the spending

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cuts that the Government's embarked upon. On the question of growth,

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that's where there are diveriant voices beginning to emerge. You

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have the Liberal Democrats like Mr Cable saying, what you need is to

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inject more money into the economy with more quantitive easing. On the

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other side of the fence, you have the Conservatives, particularly the

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Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, saying you want tax cuts,

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reductions in things like national insurance to try and make it easier

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for companies to try to employ people or perhaps reducing the top

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rate of tax so Britain's more attractive to foreign companies to

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locate here. Now, George Osborne and David Cameron spent the day

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denying Flatley reports that they are at odds themselves over any

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future growth strategy, although it's interesting when you talk to

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them both about tax, Mr Osborne's willing to contemplate the idea of

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tax changes in the future, but Mr Cameron's much more reluctant to

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get into that. I think the bottom line though for today's figures is

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this - they don't actually change the fundamental political landscape.

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The recovery is clearly feeble, the Government is clearly under

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pressure to do more, but at the moment, that pressure is not

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overwhelming, at least not for now. All right, James, thank you.

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The Norwegian lawyer who's been asked to defend Anders Behring

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Breivik says self-confessed killer is probably insane. Breivik

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apparently believes he was fighting a war to defend the Western world.

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In the last hour, the Norwegian authorities have started to publish

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some of the names of Breivik's 76 victims. From Oslo, James Robbins

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reports on the aftermath of the attack and what's known about the

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man behind it. The official naming of Norway's

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dead is under way. A shocking reminder that most

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victims were children or very young adults. Among them is this 20-year-

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old model and talented dancer. The youngest killed in the massacre is

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believed to be just 14. Amongst those tipped as future stars was a

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21-year-old described by the Prime Minister as one of the country's

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most promising youth politicians. Among those missing after trying to

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swim away was a talented speaker who addressed a Labour Party

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Conference in April and 45-year-old Monica Bosei who ran the summer

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camp at Utoeya for years. This is their self-confessed killer, Anders

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Behring Breivik. Today the lawyer defending him described him as

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insane. This whole case has indicated he's

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insane. Have you asked him? He's in a war, he says the rest of the

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world, especially the Western world, don't understand his point of view

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that in 60' years time, we will all understand him.

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He called Breivik very cold and was asked if he showed any remorse?

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says that he is sorry that he had to do this, but it was necessary to

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start a revolution in the western world.

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An exchange of text messages between a 16-year-old girl and her

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mother at the height of the attack has been released by the family.

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The teenager believes Breivik is a The girl survived the massacre.

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This is part, just part of Norway's response to all that, the spreading

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sea of flowers outside Oslo Cathedral. Norwegians say they are

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determined to prove the killer utterly wrong in every way, wrong

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for what he did of course, but also wrong if he really believed the

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massacre would destroy Norway or start some sort of revolution.

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Some Norwegians are critical of the police and Government. The police

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for taking for too long to reach the island, the Government for

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failing to provide helicopters for a ra id -- rapid response. I don't

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think this could have gone faster, I can't see how that could be

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possible within this distance and under these conditions. So we will

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always try to be better but I can't see how we could have done this

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faster. For now though, Norway's focus is

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on the dead and those still missing. Each evening, the police will

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release more names as the terrible process of identifying all who've

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Norway's Justice Minister has praised the Security Services for

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their response to Breivik's twin attacks last Friday. But four days

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on, there are questions about whether the police were quick

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enough to get to the island where the killer went on the rampage. It

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was left to local people to help the traumatised teenagers. Our

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Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, has been talking to some of the

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rescuers. Across from the island where so

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many died, there are people still waiting with young people still

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missing. What is emerging here is the story

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of those rescued and questions about the police' response. The

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heart of this rescue was a campsite and their small boats. This couple

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launched their boat to help people swimming from the island where a

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man dressed as a policeman was hunting their friends down.

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The first thing was that they don't trust us, they shout from the water

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"can I trust you?" and we had to make some comfort to them to say

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"yes, you can trust me". The gunman roamed the island for over an hour.

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Many of the young people were using their mobiles to call for help.

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Someone had to call the police and then some other girl said, "you

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don't need to, we have but they don't believe us". The injure wrd

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drif tonne a nearby town where the police were waiting for assault

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units to arrive from Oslo. The police roadblock terrified those

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rescued -- the injured were driven to a nearby town. There was a

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policewoman there with black suit and gun and all the seven people in

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my car were screaming in shock, they shouted at me "don't stop,

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drive, drive", because that's how the guy was dressed.

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When the police swat teams arrived, they used a local police boat, but

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it was too small for them, quickly took on water and broke down. So

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they had to turn to private boats like this in order to make it

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across to the island where the gunman was.

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This was the boat eventually used by the swat teams. They captured

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the gunman after just two minutes. It was a press helicopters that

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took this picture of Breivik on the island, but the police helicopters

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was way to the south and the police teams travelled by road. The local

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community is reluctant to criticise the police' response, but it is the

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people of a small campsite who were the rescuers of shivering and

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injured young people. I have seen things that nobody

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should have to see. The overriding problem was that the gunman had

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calculated that by setting off an explosion in Oslo, he would draw

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the police there while he had time to massacre young people at a

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summer camp. Here, the BBC's learned that many

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family doctors routinely prescribe anti-depressants, sleeping pills

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and and painkillers, even though they suspect the patients may have

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an addiction to the drugs. The shocking find ition from the Family

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Doctors Association also revealed that many GPs are aware of the

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issue but find it difficult to help -- findings from the family doctors

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association. Claire Marshall has the details. In America they call

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it farm Ged don, hundreds are dying from the use of prescription drugs.

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For Rachel, it began with prescription prozac and diazepam

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for anxiety and depression. No monitored the amount she was taking.

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She's remembering a friend who died abusing prescription drugs. I would

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take the whole dose in two days then ring up the doctor and say,

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I've lost my prescription and get it replaced and do the same again,

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do it in two days. When I run out, I would buy it.

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Such abuse is on the increase. So this is codeine, you can get it on

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prescription or buy it over-the- counter. What you might know know

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is it's in the same family as heroin, they both produce a

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physical addiction. Today's figures are startling. Of a survey of 200

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GPs in the UK, nearly 80% prescribe to people who may be addicted and

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more than half are worried about the buy bues and that more research

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At a time it hit the wrong thing, but he did try to do the best how

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our patients. We neat the research. How did you used to get hold of the

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prescription drugs? I would go to people and ask them for their

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painkillers and give them money. They could get a refill right away.

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Even before the prescribed time, they could get one. Darren is now a

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counsellor. He is seeing more and more people with the same addiction.

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People sit in their homes at night, swallowing tablets, knowing they

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have a problem, but the pride, fear and shame surrounding it means it

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does not come to the surface. is no centralised system for

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recording prescriptions and with proposed changes to GP practice

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boundaries in England and Wales, it could become even easier to shop

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around for prescription drugs. Good night, my angel, sleep tight.

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Those were the words of Amy Winehouse's father at her funeral

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today. Family and close friends attended the Service in North

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London. Mark Ronson and Kelly Osbourne were among the mourners.

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After the dramas of her life, it has ended with a quiet family

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funeral in North London. Her father Mitch Winehouse, her brother Alex,

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her mother, Janis. The ranks of photographers lining the walls of

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the crematorium reminded that this was the funeral of Amy Winehouse, a

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talented pop star, famous for her voice, songwriting but also her

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troubled life. Among the mourners, her manager, her friend Kelly

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Osbourne as well. Both had known her at her lowest. While the world

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knew the pop star, they were remembering her daughter, a friend.

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Her producer, Mark Ronson, said he had lost his soulmate, someone that

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was like a sister to him. As he and other mourners left the service, we

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were told how Mitch had talked about her headstrong youth and how

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she had conquered her drug addiction recently but not her

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drinking. The service ended with the words, good night, my angel,

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sleep tight. Mummy and daddy love you ever so much.

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Our top story tonight: The Chancellor George Osborne has

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defended his handling of the economy, after new figures show the

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economy growing at just 0.2% in the last quarter.

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And coming up, lucky to be alive. The woman who drove off a Cornish

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cliff as the brave jogger who found her car. I did not think there

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would be anybody inside, so I climbed down, expecting it to be

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empty, but there was an ad in the passenger seat. -- her lady in the

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passenger seat. The boss of the IMF warns America

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but the clock is ticking to deal with its debts.

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And why BP profits disappoint It was one of the worst nights of

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violence that Northern Ireland has seen in years. Two weeks ago,

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petrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police during a

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nationalist demonstration in the Ardoyne area, in protest at an

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Orange Order parade. Today police have released previously unseen

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footage of the riot. The runaway car that could have

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caused carnage in Belfast. The burning vehicle was being pushed

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towards police lines, but the rioters lost control. The car was

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on a hill and it could not be stopped. The plan had been to turn

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right at this corner. That is where the police were positioned. But the

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car kept going straight on, into a wall and into a garden. That did

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not stop the rioters. Even though the vehicle was full of petrol,

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they tried to push it back towards the police, oblivious to the

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dangers. There is no doubt whatsoever this vehicle could have

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exploded in the middle of what you can see is at least 100 people.

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Mostly young teenagers, bystanders, and there were children present.

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The potential was this vehicle could have exploded. It ran out of

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control in among the crowd and it could have exploded, resulting in

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numerous casualties. The riot took place two weeks ago, in one of the

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most heavily populated parts of North Belfast, the nationalist

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Ardoyne district. Violence broke out after an Orange Order parade

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near the area. Police decided to release the CCTV footage to show

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how much damage the rioters did to their own area, and how much worse

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it could have been. Two weeks on, life on this street has returned to

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normal, but what happened here has caused alarm. Some of those

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involved in the violence were just 13 years old. Either they did not

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realise the dangers involved, or they simply did not care. Nobody

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was killed in a riot. Most of the injuries were minor. But the

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outcome could have been very different.

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And staying in Northern Ireland, five men have been arrested by

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detectives investigating the murder of a Catholic policemen in a car

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bombing in County Tyrone. Ronan Kerr was 25 and he was killed when

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a booby-trap bomb exploded under his car outside his home in Omagh

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in April. The Trinity Mirror Group which

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publishes the Daily Mirror has launched a review of its editorial

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controls and procedures. A spokesman for the company said the

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review was not in response to claims that the Mirror was involved

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in phone hacking. The company has denied those allegations.

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The Government has been ordered to make public confidential files

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about the Hillsborough stadium disaster. It follows a Freedom of

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Information request by the BBC to release details of discussions with

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the then Prime Minister of Margaret Thatcher. Some campaigners believe

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she was trying to protect the reputation of the police.

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The M4 motorway in South East Wales has partly reopened in the last

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hour, after being closed in both directions for most of the day

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following a fire in the Brynglas tunnels at Newport. A lorry fire

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badly damaged the westbound Tunnel, which authorities say is likely to

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remain shut for the for sealable future.

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It has emerged that George Osborne has met executives from Rupert

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Murdoch's company 16 times since the general election in May last

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year. One of the meetings was with Rupert Murdoch himself, just before

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Ofcom was trying to decide whether to recommend the bid for BSkyB to

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the Competition Commission. Our correspondent is at Westminster.

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How embarrassing will this be for the chance a, politically? The well,

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it is one meeting per month since the general election with

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executives from Rupert Murdoch's company. In that sense, it is quite

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a lot. George Osborne is met other people, too, in 38 meetings. This

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represents about 30% of his meetings with media organisations.

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Compare that to Ed Miliband, he is just above at 31%. They are in the

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same ballpark area, but George Osborne is in Government and people

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are worried that the decisions over the News Corp bid for BSkyB up were

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being taken in Government without proper transparency. Labour have

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not publish their details of their shadow cabinet meetings with needy

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organisations since the elections, but they promise to do so. -- media

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organisations. And Jeremy Hunt, who took over responsibility of

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adjudicating that bid, met James Murdoch twice in January of this

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year. The Government are promising to publish the minutes of that

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meeting in due course. People will be poring over them, to see if

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there is any nod or a wink to what was being discussed at those

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meetings. The Cabinet minister with the highest amount of face time

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with Rupert Murdoch was Michael Gove, six separate meetings with

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Rupert Murdoch himself since the general election. This one is not

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going away yet and when the minutes come out, people will be looking to

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see if there is any hint whatsoever that there was improper discussion,

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something which the culture secretary himself denies. Thank you.

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An extraordinary tale of survival and bravery. A woman plunged over

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the side of a Cornish cliff in her car but was rescued after spending

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the entire night on the cliff side. The car was discovered by a jogger

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this morning perched on a slope at St Agnes headland. Let's go live to

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St Agnes now. George, you can see just how steep

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this cliff is. The car has now been removed. A beautiful evening

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tonight, but yesterday it was very misty, and it is thought that the

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car came over the edge, flipped over, bounced two or three times,

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before coming to rest just metres from the edge. After 18 hours,

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clinging to a cliff face, this was the moment the driver knew that it

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was going to be OK. But there was drama right until the end. The

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alarm was only raised this morning when a job that saw the car

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teetering on the edge. He scrambled down and was amazed to find

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somebody inside. She said that she was here yesterday afternoon at 4

:25:34.:25:38.

o'clock, when it was very misty, and she missed the road and started

:25:38.:25:42.

to tumble down the cliffs. She got thrown into the passenger seat when

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she was tumbling down. By the grace of God she stopped before the

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cliff-edge. It is only from the air that you get the sense of the

:25:52.:25:57.

horror of the situation. The car's precariously balanced position is

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stomach-churning. Just imagine being trapped, not just for hours,

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but in the dark and the cold overnight, never knowing if the car

:26:06.:26:10.

was about to topple over. And for the emergency services, this is not

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the kind of rescue that they are used to dealing with. This is very

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unusual. It is just one of those accidents when it happens and

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nobody knows how or why. We often have people stuck on cliffs that

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have attempted to climb up and realised that they cannot make it.

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That is our usual work on these cliffs, but to find a car is very

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unusual. The woman was airlifted to hospital in Truro where she

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underwent treatment for minor injuries. The car did not fare

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quite so well, however. The driver is believed to be a woman in her

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fifties. I have spoken to the hospital tonight and they say she

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is recovering well after receiving some treatment. If anything, she

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seems bewildered at the amount of attention that her escape is

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getting. A gorgeous evening in Cornwall, how

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So it was not to everyone's taster day, but it was sparkling in

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Northern Ireland. -- taste today. There will be some changes in

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Aberdeen, where it has been cool, and cloudy. Elsewhere, there is a

:27:28.:27:35.

lot of cloud. Clearer skies further West. Temperatures tonight will be

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similar to last night, possibly down to single figures in Scotland.

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A lot of cloud for central and eastern areas of England for most

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of the day. That finger of cloud and rain arrived from the West,

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into Scotland. For the rest of England it will be dry, brightening

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up to the East of the Pennines in the afternoon. The odd shower

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possible to the East of London. Through the Midlands, some

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brightness and sunshine at times. Sunnier spells into the South West

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of England, but some cloud arrives in the end of the afternoon. A warm

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day in Wales, with plenty of sunshine and light winds. In

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Northern Ireland, this is the change, the rain coming across from

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the West and reaching Belfast by 6 o'clock in the evening. Some rain

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coming into the western mainland of Scotland, but a warm day in

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Inverness and Aberdeen, 20 degrees in the sunshine. By the evening we

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have got some rain in Aberdeen. To the South East it will be bright

:28:42.:28:46.

and warm on Thursday. On Friday there is more cloud in southern

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England with even some showers, but further North it will be dry and

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bright. Temperatures by the end of the week, nearer average for this

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time of year. All of the details are available online and fire the

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red button. Our main news tonight: George

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