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As the rescuers discover the men's bodies one by one it's been a day

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of agony for the families. Everybody's rallying around but

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everybody's traumatised because they've not known this horror now

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for a generation or more and it's terrible it's been visited upon us.

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The conditions inside the mine, one of the few left in Wales where the

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men work in tunnels too low to stand up in.

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This is the scene at the mine right now.

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Also on tonight's programme: In court the City trader accused of

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making over �1 billion of losses weeps as he is charged with fraud.

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Eurozone in crisis, the Chancellor describes the situation as grave.

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Three, two, one... And crossing the divide, opening up

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the wall that separates the two communities in Belfast for the firs

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Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at Six. Three of the four

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miners trapped below ground in Wales have been found dead. The

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police are making a statement now with the latest on the search for

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the fourth man. Within the last few moments the Prime Minister has

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described the situation as desperately, desperately sad. It's

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been a day of agony for the families of the miners as rescuers

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discovered the bodies of the men one by one but without being able

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to confirm their identities. The men had been trapped 300 feet

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underground, more than 24 hours early by flood waters which broke

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through a retaining wall. Robert Hall has spent the day following

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events at the mine. They had felt their way through the

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filth and the darkness, defying exhaustion, straining to hear the

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faintest signs of life. The pumps were still running outside the mine

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entrance but the flow of water had slowed. Now the exhausted teams

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could begin to search the maze of galleries and dig out the silt

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swept in by the flood, hoping against hope that those they sought

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had found safe haven beyond. I have been fantastically impressed

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with all the emergency services. They've been totally professional,

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totally committed, but I won't say it won't go without emotion as well.

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There's a lot of emotion. It's a passionate rescue attempt. We care

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about the people and that's important.

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A mile away families, friends, neighbours sat together sleepless

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in the village community centre, reaching out for scraps of

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information from the Weiry men stumbling past to begin another

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shift underground. They took khrft from -- comfort from the messages

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of support, the gifts of foods and toy for the children but their

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minds were in the dark galleries on the hill above. One family, his

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wife didn't want him to go to work yesterday, but he insisted and it's

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just devastating, not only for the community, but seems to be for the

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whole valley. Everybody's devastated. With a new day had come

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dread news, three families told that their hopes had been dashed,

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that their men folk had been unable to escape the torrent. Everybody's

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rallying around but everybody's traumatised because they've not

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known this horror now for a generation or more and it's

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terrible that it's been visited upon us now. Late this afternoon

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the Prime Minister said his thoughts were with the whole

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community. I spoke to the gold commander and it's clear the

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emergency services have done everything they can, have worked

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incredibly hard and they haven't lacked for anything but it's

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obviously a desperately sad situation for everyone concerned.

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Mining has been and will be at the heart of life in these valleys, now

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the questions begin over the risks the men here faced and whether this

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tragedy could have been avoided. While we have been on air the

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police have been making a statement and have confirmed that they have

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found the fourth body of a miner. They've offered their condolences

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to the families, we can talk now to Robert Hall who joins us from the

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Gleision Colliery. This has been a terrible day for the families and

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people there and with this announcement from the police that

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all four men have died. Yes, agony upon agony really. The news has

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come out through the day, first one, then two, then three. There were

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the necessary delays in formal identification, families who were

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already in a terrible state looking for comfort from others, were

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listening to the news, trying to follow what had happened, tried to

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work out whether it would be their family who would finally be told.

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Now the news has emerged. Let's hear from the Chief Constable who

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has made this statement. I can confirm that the fourth dead

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miner has now been recovered from the Gleision mine. On behalf of us

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all, I would like to express our deepest and most sincere

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condolences to the families of Philip Hill, David Powell, Garry

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Jenkins and Charles Bresnan. Just to remind you of the names,

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Charles Bresnan, 62, David Powell aged 50, Garry Jenkins 39, Philip

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Hill 45. And as the Chief Constable said it's been an immensely

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difficult operation for his men, some of them had not seen

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conditions like it in 30 years and in the end the news nobody wanted.

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Thank you. The Gleision Colliery is one of the

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few remaining mines in South Wales. It's small scale, just seven men

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worked there. Our science correspondent is here to look at

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what could have gone wrong. First of all, what do you know about the

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mine itself. It isn't the kind of mine that most

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of us would imagine. It's small, one of a handful of this size in

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South Wales, but the coal dug there is the highest quality there is,

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and it fetches a good price on the world market so this team of miners

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obviously thought it worthwhile to extract it.

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The entrance to a scene of tragedy, pictures taken a few years ago

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offer a surprisingly grim view of conditions inside. A battered

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convoyer belt to carry coal, wooden supports to hold up the rock, a

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miner's lamp, tunnels stretching underground seemingly unchanged for

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decades. Today at the mine a cluster of

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rescue crews, below them a steady flow of water, a positive sign

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because pumps were at work shifting flood water from inside the mine,

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an essential first step to clearing a path inside.

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It may be a case of shovelling the silt to move it out of the way,

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maybe timbers, maybe supports that have washed away and we will have

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to replace them to make it safe to enter that area. That's what

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they're trained to do. The mine is a drift mine, it's worked sideways

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into the hillside rather than downwards. You walk in through a

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hor stkaopb tal -- horizontal tunnel. The miners were working

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more than 800 feet inside. They used explosives to dislodge the

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rock, but that released flood water which filled part of the tunnel.

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That was pumped out today, but debris formed another obstacle.

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Rescuers can squeeze past it, but each step is hazardous.

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These are keen men in Britain's key industry. For centuries the coal

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mines exacted a a he tkr it -- heavy toll in casualties. With the

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small mines like Gleision expected in the same way as the largest.

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Many years there were horrendous stories and indeed some individuals

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who had no respect for safety or the employees that worked for them.

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Times have changed thankfully. This issue we faced with today is not in

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that same context. I wouldn't put it in that context although the

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effect is horrendous. Investigations are already under

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way. The hills are rich in coal but tonight there are questions about

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the human cost of getting it. Now, where mines like this one have

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been dug on and off for decades there can be invisible dangers,

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water can collect in unexpected pockets and stretches of rock can

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be weaker than they look. A job that always carries risks can be

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made even more hazardous. A city trader wept in court today

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as he was charged with fraud at UBS. After the hearing 31-year-old Kweku

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Adoboli was remanded in custody. Here is our chief economics

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correspondent. There was a big media presence at

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City of London magistrates court, but this was the only glimpse they

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got of the man accused of a �1.3 billion fraud. Kweku Adoboli was

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remanded in custody until another hearing next week. He had wept in

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court as he stood facing charges of fraud and two of false accounting,

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one of which dated back to 2008. He was a senior trader in the London

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office of the Swiss bank UBS. He was arrested at his desk in the

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early hours of yesterday. It's alleged he dishonestly abused his

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position, causing losses to the bank. His family home is in Ghana,

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his father, a former UN official, has said the family was heartbroken

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and he was hoping to hear his son's side of the story. Whatever the

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trader's motives and whatever the details of the transactions, the

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big questions being asked are why were senior management here at UBS

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not aware of what was going on? And how could losses of more than �1

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billion be racked up without their knowledge?

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It's not incredible in the sense that it will be very hard to

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regulate away any of these sort of accidents happening, it is very

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difficult to believe it's happened just now, when there's so much

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attention being put on better enforcement and regulation. It's

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not clear precisely what sort of deals Kweku Adoboli was carrying

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out, his job involved complex and potentially risky trading with the

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bank's money. To minimise risk there's a technique called hedging

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of trades, a first transaction might involve putting money on a

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market move going up, for example. But a second transaction puts money

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on the opposite outcome, a market drop. Profits are made on the small

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amount of difference in cost between the two.

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But it goes wrong when the balancing debt isn't made or isn't

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big enough and the markets move sharply leaving the trader with big

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losses. Clearly we don't know what's happened in this case, there

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are only allegations of rogue trading but think of allowing

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somebody the sort of authority to run up a 2 billion losses, the

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gentleman was a 31-year-old with a degree in computer science. I am

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not sure what sum of money I would allow anyone with that background,

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but it certainly wouldn't be two billion dollars of my capital.

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what was going on and why his bosses didn't seem to know may only

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become clear when the full case gets to trial.

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A soldier who was shot dead while on foot patrol in Afghanistan

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yesterday has been named. He was Lance Corporal Jonathan James

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McKinlay from 1st Battalion, The Rifles. He was hit by small arms

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fire while patrolling in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province.

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The Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness,

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has announced he's to run for the Irish Presidency. His party Sinn

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Fein has confirmed that the former IRA Leader will contest next

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month's election. He's due to be formally endorsed by his party

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leadership over the weekend. European Union Finance Ministers

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meeting in Poland have delayed until October a decision on whether

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to pay the second instalment of a bailout loan to Greece. Speaking

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beforehand, the Chancellor, George Osborne, described the situation in

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the Eurozone as grave and urged fellow European ministers to

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demonstrate their leadership. successful euro is massively in

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Britain's national interest. At today's meeting I will be looking

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for my European colleagues to send a clear signal that they truly

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recognise the gravity of the situation and that they are dealing

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with it. Let's speak to our Europe editor in Brussels. Ahead of the

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IMF and the Chancellor both said Europe must act now and today's

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announcement is of a delay. What do you make of it? Well, certainly not

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helpful, there were more warnings today as to how serious this crisis

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is. The US Treasury Secretary speaking in dramatic terms, he said

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there was catastrophic risk to the global economy from the crisis. The

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Americans at this meeting in Poland were looking for a big gesture

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perhaps increasing the size of the bail-out fund so countries like

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Italy could be looked after. But the Europeans at this stage weren't

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prepared to go along with that. As regards Greece, well we won't know

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until mid-October probably, until they qualify for an extra tranche

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of money and so put off a default. I think what today demonstrated

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once again, just how difficult it is making progress with this crisis.

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Thank you. Our top story:

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The bodies of all four miners have been recovered from the mine in the

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Swansea Valley. The Prime Minister has described it as a desperately

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sad situation. Coming up: A first glimpse through

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the wall which has divided a The Palestinian President, Mahmoud

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Abbas, has signalled a significant step in trying to break through the

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impasse with Israel. He has announced that he will apply for

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full membership of the United Nations next week. The US says it

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will veto any application on the grounds that only direct talks with

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Israel will bring Palestinians independence. He wants a state

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alongside Israel, based on the borders that existed before the

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Middle East war of 1967, when Israel captured land in Gaza, the

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West Bank and East Jerusalem, where the Palestinians want the capital.

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Israel said the plan is unrealistic and indefensible because close to

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half a million Israelis living more than 200 settlements and outposts

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in those areas. From Jerusalem, Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen

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The campaign for Palestinian membership of the UN stopped

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traffic in Ramallah, in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Israel and the

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Americans say going to the UN could put a stop to any chance of fees.

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President Abbas, in a speech broadcast live from Ramallah,

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announced his determination to go ahead with an application that the

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Americans say they will veto. We are going to the UN to ask for the

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legitimate right of full membership, he said, taking with us the

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suffering and hope of our people. He rejected criticism that he

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wanted to deal legitimise Israel. He says his only targets were it

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promises, the occupation and settlement of the land Israel

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captain in 1967, which Palestinians Palestinians say they have reversed

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long enough, their security forces here on another practice run, are

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ready for independence, they say, along for the other institutions a

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But Israel's stubbornness, the President said, means negotiations

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are at a dead end, so they are turning to the UN. Israel's

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campaign against includes a video blaming the Palestinians for not

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accepting a Jewish state. What about security arrangements? What

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about Jerusalem? It will need to be agreed. In an agreement, you give

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and take. In a resolution, you just take, that is the biggest thing.

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This is not what it seems. Both sides are Israelis. They are

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rehearsing for an attack by Palestinians on a Jewish settlement

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in the West Bank. Many Israelis predict a UN vote will touch off

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new violence. The ingredients of this conflict are always the same,

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and what the Palestinians are trying to do is to change the

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diplomatic game decisively in their favour. It is a risky strategy,

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given the hostility at the Israelis and the Americans. The talk of

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imminent violence may be overdone, but there is no doubt that the

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temperature is rising again. The conflict is going to continue,

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whatever happens at the UN next week. The question is whether the

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Palestinian UN tactic makes matters better or worse.

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Jeremy is in Jerusalem now. How significant is his application by

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the Palestinian President to apply for full membership of the UN?

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think it is significant, significant because it shows very

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clearly the way the Palestinians want to go, which is no surprise,

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but it also shows that they are doing it in defiance of what the

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Americans want and what the Israelis say as possible. They are

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prepared to precipitate a crisis, to try to change the diplomatic

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game. Now, when they come back from the UN, they are hoping to enhance

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their negotiating position so that when they go into talks again, they

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will have, they say, the will of the international community behind

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them, and that will strengthen them. I think, though, it is going to be

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a difficult time, because the Americans are going to veto this,

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they say. The Israelis are talking about all kinds of retaliation,

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possibly damaging financial retaliation. So the jury is still

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out about which way this is going to go, whether it will make things

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better or precipitate a new crisis. It was put up two decades ago to

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calm sectarian violence in Belfast, and now a section of the three-

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metre high peace wall which runs through a park has a gate and has

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been open for the first time. It will be left open for the next

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three months, allowing schoolchildren from both sides to

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play together. From Belfast, here is Mark Simpson. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

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Yes! It only took five seconds to overturn two decades of separation.

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These Catholic and Protestant schoolchildren were the first to go

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through the new peace Gate in a north Belfast park. It is thought

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to be the only part in Western Europe with a three-metre high

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fence running through the middle of it. Even the river is divided.

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Alexandra parker as two separate playgrounds, in effect a Catholic

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set of swings and a Protestant said. Sectarian fighting in the area

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forced the building of the thinking the month in the early 1990s, but

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it did not stop the violence, which simply moved to streets nearby.

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Community relations have now improved, and from today's

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schoolchildren will be able to play in both parts. It is a chance to

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make new friends and we can all play together. You can play with

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like other friends from this side, and you can like take them to the

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park and show them all around the park. The adults were excited, too.

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For me, this is on a par with the Berlin Wall. I am just so pleased

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to be part of living history here in Northern Ireland. But the so-

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called peace Gate will not be up and one of the time. It will be

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shut every afternoon at 3 o'clock. It will also be closed at weekends.

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The divisions in Northern Ireland Randi. There are 59 peace walls.

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Removing these barriers will be a long and difficult process. But

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today at least it began. Back to our top story now, and

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confirmation that Paul four miners trapped below ground in Wales have

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died. -- All four. There is a strong sense of community around

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the mine in the Swansea Valley. There may only be a handful of

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working mines left, but the dangers of the industry have always cast a

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shadow. Colette Hume reports from a town near the colliery where the

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events have affected the entire town.

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These valleys are no stranger to tragedy. Over the years,

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communities across Wales have paid a heavy price for coal. Today, this

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community is paying a heavy price In this town of just 5,000 people,

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everyone has a connection with mining. The castle was once a Minas

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pub. On a handful of men work in small private minds, but emotions

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run deep. We used to hear about accidents like this happening years

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ago, but we rarely hear of events happening like this now, so it is

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even worse. I am devastated, really. I'm not sure if I know anybody

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working there, but I know a lot of local people. It does bring it home

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to you that it is a hard life that they have, where they work. This

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town, like so many in South Wales, was built on coal. Generations

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worked in the minds, and it is in this community that the families

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will find support. The fact that you feel that the community is

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growing together to support them as best as they possibly can, you can

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only feel for them and all of them. Mining was once the biggest

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industry in Wales, and every family knew the risks the men faced when

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they went to work. But there was little other choice. Tonight, four

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families have been changed forever by a tragedy which unfolded

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hundreds of feet underground, a community shaved by Cole is now

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angry. -- shaped by coal. The shadow Welsh secretary Peter

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Hain joins us now from the community centre near the mine. You

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have been there since this rescue operation began. In the last few

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minutes, it is a tragic day for families there. Yes, they have been

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through tortuous long hours. Yesterday, right through the night,

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around 3am, discovering and hearing that the first body had been

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recovered, the first dead miner had been recovered, but he had not been

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brought out, so they could not be identified. Seven long hours, they

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wondered which of the four family's, they did not know, and then another

:24:41.:24:45.

dead miner was found but could not be recovered and brought out.

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Finally, of course, utter despair, as we know. Their courage and

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determination help them through that, but they have been through a

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nightmare that almost nobody could imagine. The rescue effort to find

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the men, it was unflagging, the determination to try to find a sign

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of life. Yes, it was, and these were terrible conditions. The water

:25:06.:25:12.

had to be pumped out. First, divers went down, debris, darkness, sludge,

:25:12.:25:15.

or the difficulties of that, and then the water was pumped out and

:25:15.:25:20.

the rescue workers went down, superhuman, showing fantastic

:25:20.:25:24.

energy and relentless dedication. And they were not sure whether they

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might find the roof falling in on them, so this was a rescue

:25:31.:25:33.

operation that at least these families could cling on to that

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meant everything was being done to try to recover their loved ones,

:25:37.:25:42.

and sadly, desperately, that was not possible, as we now know.

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are the local MP. What is your sense of how the community will

:25:46.:25:50.

pull together now? Well, everybody is already pulling together. These

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are communities in the South Wales valleys, where everybody has got a

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caring spirit for each other. That is what expresses the mining

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communities. They go back generations, and they never thought

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they would have a tragedy like this. They will come together, but the

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families are going to need a lot of support as they come to terms with

:26:12.:26:15.

their grief and what they have lost and the horror that they have been

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through. I'm sure everybody will rally in the spirit of the way they

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have done over the last 36 hours or so, but they will need it even more,

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that support that these valleys are also renowned for. Peter Hain,

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thank you very much for joining us from the Swansea Valley.

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Let's take a look at the weekend Not a complete washout, but we will

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need to be prepared for showers wherever you live. Blustery showers,

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too, across the southern half of the UK, where it will be quite

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windy. Nowhere will be terribly warm. Some rain across the North of

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Scotland, then showers rattling in from the West made in a night, so a

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speckling of showers first thing in the morning. Some brightness around,

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but a keen old wind blowing those showers through Northern Ireland,

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across the Irish Sea. Thundery across north-west England and Wales.

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The breeze means that those showers will move through quite quickly, so

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in no one play should it be raining for that long, but on the other

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side of the kind, the sunshine should not last long either. It

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will be one of those days. It will feel quite cool in the breeze,

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temperatures around 15 degrees typically. Across northern England,

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the winds lighter, the showers further north will last that much

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longer, so although yes across Scotland there will be sunshine, if

:27:39.:27:43.

you get underneath one of those showers, it could last quite a

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while. Blustery around the southwesterly coasts, and wherever

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you are, despite sunshine, it will fill decidedly cool, especially

:27:53.:28:00.

with the showers. 16-18 degrees, maybe 19 across the south-east in

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prolonged sunshine. No two days are exactly the same, but it would be

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very different on Sunday. Showery rain for a time across the heart of

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England, some sunshine if you are lucky, but do not rely on it to

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stay dry. If you are in the Great North Run, it will not be too warm,

:28:17.:28:22.

but go prepared for quite heavy showers. A mixed weekend, more

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A reminder of the main news: The bodies of four four miners have

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