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The parents of the missing girl Madeleine McCann hit out at months

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of media intrusion. Kate and Gerry McCann say some reporting of their

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case was sinister and totally untrue.

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We desperately wanted to shout out it's not true but when it's your

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voice against a powerful media, it just didn't hold weight.

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Also tonight: Abused and stripped of their dignity, a report on how

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care provided in the home can amount to a breach of human rights.

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Should pregnant women be allowed to choose a Caesarean birth, even if

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there's no medical need? Running battles continue on the

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streets of Cairo as Egypt's pro- democracy protesters vow to fight

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on against military rule. rioters have control of a good

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chunk of the city centre now and they show no desire to leave.

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And you have heard of flying into trouble, but not like this. The

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pilot who lived to tell the tale. I will be here with Sportsday later

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on the BBC News channel, including the World Cup blame game. A leaked

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RFU report blows the lid off their Good evening, welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. Kate and Gerry McCann have appeared before the inquiry

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into press press standards and described months of intrusion into

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their lives, following the disappearance of their daughter,

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Madeleine. They say the media coverage turned sinister soon after

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her abduction. Kate McCann also told the inquiry she felt violated

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when her private diary was published. Nicholas Witchall's

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report contains some flash photography.

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Few people have endured the shaming excesses of the media in the

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anguished circumstances that Gerry and Kate McCann faced in the summer

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of 2007. They had been on holiday at a resort in Portugal, one

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evening their daughter Madeleine disappeared from their apartment.

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Her parents were desperate to find her. The media were desperate for

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stories. The McCanns said they had never

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given evidence before, they had come for this reason. A system has

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to be put in place to protect ordinary people from the damage

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that the media can cause. Initially after Madeleine's disappearance the

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media was supportive but then the Portuguese police named the McCanns

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as arguido meaning they could be asked questions in the presence of

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a lawyer but the media portrayed them as suspects and the worst of

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the coverage began. The clear message that was going out

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nationally throughout Europe and internationally was that there was

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very strong evidence that our daughter was dead and we were

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somehow implicated in her disappearance. These were desperate

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times. We were having to try and find our daughter ourselves, we

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needed all the help we could get and faced with, we will come on to

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headlines, but corpse in the car, I don't know how many times I read

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body body tphraoupbdz in -- tphraoupbdz in the -- fluids in the

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car. When it's your voice against a powerful media, it just doesn't

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hold weight. We are desperately shouting out internally please stop

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what you are doing. We are trying to find our daughter and you are

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stoppingous chances of finding her. Among the worst offenders were

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newspapers owned by the Express Group, story after story which

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implied, falsely, that the McCanns were involved in Madeleine's

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disappearance. They were shown some of the headlines. Their reaction.

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Nothing short of disgusting. think this same journalist, if

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memory serves right, said we stored her body in a freezer. And then

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more than a year after Madeleine's disappearance the News of the World

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obtained a copy of Kate McGann's private diary, probably from the

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police T published her without telling her. I felt totally

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violated. I had written these words and thoughts that were most

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desperate time in my life, most people don't have to experience

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that and it was my only way of communicating with Madeleine and

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for me, you know, there was absolutely no respect shown for me

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as a grieving mother or a human being. And all the while at their

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home in Leicestershire they were under almost continual surveillance

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by photographers, even when they went out with their young twins.

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Photographers would either spring out from behind a hedge to give I

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guess a startled look they could attach, I don't know, fragile,

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furious, whatever they wanted to put with a headline. But there were

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several occasions where they would bang on the windows sometimes with

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a camera lens and Amelia said several times, mummy I am scared.

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From Kate and Gerry McCann five years after Madeleine's

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disappearance and their mistreatment by the media a simple

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plea, something has to change. And we can talk to Nick at the Royal

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Courts of Justice. We have concentrated on the McCanns, but

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who else appeared at the inquiry today? Indeed, powerful testimony

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of course from the McCanns. Two of the other witnesses today, Sheryl

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Gascoigne, she's the former wife of the England footballer Paul and

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Mark Lewis, the solicitor who acts for many of the victims of phone

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hacking. Sheryl Gascoigne said that she was scared of the repercussions

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of giving evidence but believed it was the right thing to do, she

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talked of harassment she received, mostly from photographers. Mark

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Lewis, he knows the twist and turns of the phone hacking story as well

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as anybody and he said that he was convinced that it wasn't only the

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News of the World that was involved in phone hacking, that's today.

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Tomorrow among the witnesses the actress Sienna Miller and the

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author JK Rowling. Stkpwhrp.

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The latest report into the standard of care provided to people in their

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own home says it can be so bad that in some cases it amounts to a

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breach of human rights. Researchers at the Equality and Human Rights

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Commission found that some people had been subjected to physical

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neglect, such as being left in the toilet because staff were too busy.

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In many cases there was a disregard for dignity, like leaving people

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unwashed. And the report also found examples of patronising behaviour,

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carers making phone calls while tending to their clients.

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Rita Anderson, who has multiple sclerosis, has been cared for at

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home for the last 14 years. I have some lamb chops in the

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freezer we can have. They will be nice. Rita has her husband, Graham,

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by her side. Though there are times when she relies on carers. But she

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can't always count on seeing the same one every day.

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You feel very insecure. You don't feel that you have any relationship

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with the people. You don't feel that you can rely on them to do

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care properly. Carers would often turn up two hours late in the

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morning. That means by the time you are up and dressed it will be

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lunchtime. You don't want to be getting up for lunch. You know, you

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really should be eating breakfast on a morning. Rita said more than

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anything she longed to be treated as a woman, an individual. You feel

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very much like a piece of meat, they don't show any care at all. My

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clothes weren't on properly. I was feeling really, I don't know, as if

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I wasn't important to anybody. That is not how you like to feel. It's

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not always about physical care. felt very much as if I was being

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patronised, and not treated correctly as a person. No respect

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for my dignity. That is very important, that you need to feel

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that people respect what you are. But it's not all doom and gloom.

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Things are better now she's changed to a single private care company.

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She's very good. Brilliant, in fact. She just wants to do it right, do

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it correctly. She's a high standard. She's very nice. She does do her

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job well. Well that was Rita Anderson's experience of care in

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the home. With me now is our social affairs correspondent. This isn't

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the first time we have sat here and talked about care in the home, is

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it? No, you could say we have sat here too often doing this. There

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are things happening. The Government has announced in the

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last week that there will be a code of conduct, a minimum training for

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care workers. They say there will be a voluntary register, although

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plans for a compulsory register were scrapped this year. And there

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will be inspections of home care providers. Also in the spring we

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are expecting a White Paper on social care funding. But these are

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deep-rooted problems because I don't think there's much argument

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over the fact that adult social care in general is under pressure

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and generally underfunded. There are some good dedicated workers,

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but there are some very poorly paid, poorly trained people who probably

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are in the wrong job. And squeezed local authority budgets means that

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people have less time for visits, so it raises uncomfortable

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questions for us as a society, as how much we want to invest in the

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quality of care for older people. Thank you.

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A police lab worker has admitted that she wasn't concentrating when

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she wrote the wrong case number on an evidence form in the Stephen

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Lawrence murder investigation. Yvonne Turner told the Old Bailey

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that she wasn't focused at that stage, but got to grips with the

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case after that. Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murder. Tom

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Symonds report from the Old Bailey contains some flash photography.

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For Stephen's parents arrived in blacked out car this is morning

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last week's harrowing descriptions of their son's death have been

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replaced by a focus on forensic procedures. In May 1993 police

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raided the house of Gary Dobson. They seized his jacket and card

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began. The clothes were taken to Eltham police station where the

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court heard again today they were stored in a disused cell, which had

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previously held Stephen's bloody clothes. They were then sent to

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forensic scientist who is cut open the paper bags in which they had

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been kept, and subjected them to a series of laboratory tests. Various

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procedures were carried out including what's 19 as taping,

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similar to this, to pick up loose debris or fibres. Forensic

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scientist Yvonne Turner carried out those examinations and was called

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to court to discuss the possibility one set of clothes contomorrow

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Nated -- contaminated another. She said keeping evidence separate was

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intrinsic to her job. She did examine instead of and's black

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jacket but in the months that followed she also looked at Gary

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Dobson's jacket and cardigan. Today she admitted losing concentration

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and putting the wrong code on the paperwork. It made records and tape

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samples difficult to keep track of. And she told the court she also

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recorded that she hadn't made the tapes when, in fact, she had. Under

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cross-examination she agreed it was highly irregular. She also said

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that it was common practice for sealed packages containing

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suspects' clothes to be bagged up with those containing victims.

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Stephen Lawrence was just 18 when he was killed at this bus stop.

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Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murdering him.

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The European Commission has put forward proposals for countries in

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the eurozone to issue a new joint bond. Under the scheme, each

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eurozone country would guarantee the debt of the others in the hope

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of stablising the current crisis. The plan has met stiff opposition

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from Germany, which believes it will reduce pressure on troubled

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states to tackle their debt. Should pregnant women be allowed to

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have a Caesarean delivery even if there is there is no medical need?

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New guidelines say they should. The advice has been issued by NICE.

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What's the thinking behind this? It's about making the advice on

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Caesarean births clearer so women are aware of the risks and benefits

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and doctors know when a C-section should be offered. At the moment

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nearly one in four births in the UK are by planned or emergency

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Caesarean section. A planned Caesarean costs the NHS about �700

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more on average than a normal birth. And the pros and cons vary from

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woman to woman but the main drawback is that the recovery time

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is usually longer. Christine Johnson desperately

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wanted a Caesarean, she found giving birth to her son Sam so

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traumatic she was terrified of going through it again. But when

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she became pregnant she had to battle for a planned C-section.

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Midwives eventually agreed she should have the operation and

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counselling to help her through labour. There were no medical

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reasons for me to have a Caesarean, I completely accept that. But there

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were emotional reasons for me to have a Caesarean section. Once she

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referred me to that counselling that made a huge difference.

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that's the kind of experience more women should be able to have in the

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future, but what's actually changed? The NHS used to say

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doctors in England and Wales could decline a C-section if there was no

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identifiable reason to have one. The new guidelines say if mums to

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be want a Caesarean they should be offered one, but they should be

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talked through all the pros and cons. Experts say a woman should

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think very hard about what a major procedure it is. Do you have health

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problems that may make recovery a lot harder afterwards? Because

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everyone assumes you have had a baby you should be up and about,

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but actually you need caring for yourself. Because you have had a

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big surgery, an operation. number of women having that kind of

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operation is higher in Northern Ireland than it is anywhere else in

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the UK. Ministers there want to see Caesarean rates lowered and don't

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plan to change guidelines. Women in Scotland are already given the

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chance to talk through all their options.

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Some people are wondering whether these guidelines will mean more

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Caesareans are carried out in England and Wales, but the experts

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who wrote them don't expect an increase if women have all the pros

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and cons explained. Our top story:

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The the parents of Madeleine McCann have hit out at months of media

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intrusion. Coming up:

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It's the future of the mobile phone, but how long before 4 G-Tech tpholg

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gets Britain in the information fast lane.

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In business on the news channel: A plan for euro bonds is back on the

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table to try to help solve the euro debt crisis. And Lloyds says it

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will step up lending to small and For the fourth day in a row there

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have been running battles between protesters and security forces in

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the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Military police fired tear gas on

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stone-throwing demonstrators and fired guns into the air. This

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evening Tahrir Square - the symbol of the uprising - is filling up

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with protesters. Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen is there.

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square is once again fall with tens of thousands of people behind me

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there this evening. -- fall. -- full. It follows quite a bit of

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violence in the square itself. That is where I spent the day. This has

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been the front line since Saturday. The fight has been led by organised

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football fans with long experience The Gas keeps them back from the

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Interior Ministry, a symbol of how the old regime was involved in New

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Egypt. Life has not offered these men many favours, this is not about

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the politics of next week's election for them, the gas slows

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them but does not stop them because they are in a rage about the system

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that they believe was meant to benefit a them. We have got good

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control of a -- they have good control of a chunk of the city

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centre. Short of the army stepping down I cannot see a political deal

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that will get them out of very easily. He said these were wins

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from police shot guns. -- wins. -- wounds. On the streets, some of the

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young, poor and angry increasingly We were marched out. One man

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threatened if anyone films on my Just of Mohammed Mahmud Street, a

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businessman was clearing his warehouse. The disturbance is mean

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more damage for an economy battered by revolutionary turmoil. They

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carried out some of the stock through the tear-gas, many

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Egyptians yearn for quiet and certainty. They are just dreams

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these days. Then suddenly in mid- afternoon a truce was declared. It

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felt like a victory. The protesters left there from Lin and move back

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towards Tahrir Square, like conquering heroes. -- their front

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line. They do not like being filmed. The crowds are emotional and quick

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to anger. The Paul's lasted until dusk, then the violence started

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again. -- the quiet. Not all Egyptians like what is going on

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here and they do not all support the people in Tahrir Square. This

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time round, if you listen to radio and TV phone-in programmes people

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are tending to say we paid tribute to the fact some of them were

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killed, they are martyrs, but must they do this? The stock market and

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economy is in turmoil, the tourist trade is in ruins, why not wait

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until the elections on Monday and then see what happens? But these

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people here say they are determined to keep on going until the army

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steps down. One woman on one of those phone-ins said they are the

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new dictators of Egypt. That is what she called them.

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Thank you. It's the future of the mobile phone, offering faster and

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cheaper downloads and now it's being tried out in London and

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Cornwall. But 4G won't be widely available in the UK until 2013 at

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the earliest and, as our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones

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reports, some of the web's biggest names say Britain is languishing in

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The future of mobile phones is coming, it is called 4G and

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promises to make life on the move faster. In the UK the technology is

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still at the testing stage. In London, oh to have set up a trial

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network. You can plug a dongle into a computer to put it through its

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paces. That is going up over 90 makes. At that speed Downloading a

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TV programme takes no time. That is 10 times what you can get on a

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traditional network. So to get hold of an episode of a programme took

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us about a minute on the 4G network. On a typical home broadband

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connection that could be up to 10 minutes. On 3 G, what you use on a

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modern smart phone, you could wait 80 minutes for the programme to

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download. Another trial in Cornwall run by BT and the mobile firm

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Everything Everywhere is looking at whether Forgie could help in rural

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areas where there is no good fixed- line broadband -- 4G could help. It

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will be 2013 at the earliest before 4G rise in the UK. In the meantime

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many struggle to get even a decent normal signal. Many other countries

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are moving ahead much faster. In Sweden, for instance, 4G was up and

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running. Other countries have auctioned the airwaves needed for

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the new network. In the UK businesses are worried. EBay, which

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now get many customers through mobile phones, so the UK cannot

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afford to fall behind. desperately want better, faster

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internet coverage on mobiles. That is what we hope 4G is about. More

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than one in four of us now when Britain has a smart phone so we

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must not fall any further behind. We are using the 4G network in this

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London square to broadcast pictures live to Television Centre. The

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technology could change how we do many things but it will be a while

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before it arrives. Now, final preparations are

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underway for a major announcement next Tuesday by the Chancellor,

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George Osborne. His Autumn statement on how he intends to get

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the British economy growing will be under intense scrutiny. The

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Scottish Government says it's blazing a trail which the rest of

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the UK could follow by investing big money in major infrastructure

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projects. Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon reports

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from North Queensferry on what's It is an ambitious programme to

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build a recovery and it is called Plan MacB, the largest of the

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Scottish government's projects to boost growth is a new bridge still

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in the early stages but which will eventually saw across the waters of

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the 4th. 1200 people will be involved in the construction, many

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more in other big developments like the new railway line to the Borders.

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Scotland's budget is set by the Treasury, spending cuts here were

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delayed by one year, but the pot of money is now shrinking. Ministers

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here have made one of their priorities encouraging investment

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and finding money to make these infrastructure projects happen.

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way we have addressed the public spending reductions has been in a

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fashion to sustain employment and economic activity, which gets us to

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the position where we now have higher levels of employment, lower

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levels of unemployment and low levels of economic inactivity in

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Scotland and in the rest of the UK. Lee and her husband are both

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teachers, they are not happy about the idea of the bridge being funded

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in part by a freeze on many people's are paid. It will affect

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their family. But they are more angry about pensions and say they

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are looking to Westminster to solve this dispute. If that is not, this

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time next week they would you -- joined a UK wide walkout. I do not

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want to be on strike. I am a teacher because I Kerem on the kids

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to do well. We do not believe our pensions are unsustainable. We pay

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huge contributions and we deserve them. The Scottish government

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insists when it comes to pensions their hands are tied. But they 0.2

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other things, among them a promise of no compulsory redundant --

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compulsory redundancies. -- the indicate. But will make a

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difference? I do not think when we look back we will have seen a

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dramatic difference in what happened to Scotland as compared to

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what happened to the UK average. Scotland follows closely what

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happens in the UK. With spending cuts here now under way their

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impact is still not clear. The Scottish government insists big

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build projects like this replacement crossing are necessary

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to keep the economy growing and prevent a return to recession. They

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are urging the Treasury to follow a similar route. We will find out

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next week whether the Chancellor agrees.

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A Now, helicopter missions don't get more routine than helping to

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install a Christmas tree. But when pilot Greg Gribble flew his chopper

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onto Auckland's waterfront, he was heading for disaster. He was unhurt

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but his helicopter has landed for the last time, as Luisa Baldini

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Hovering is a challenge for helicopter pilots, but for those

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with 20 years' experience like Greg Gibble in the cockpit here, it

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becomes second nature. However, as his colleagues stand below the

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chopper, nobody seems to have spotted his blades are about to hit

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In slow-motion you can see how Greg is tossed around, his head gear

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thrown from the cabin as the tale snaps and the helicopter plummets

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to the ground. Greg nearly falls out but incredibly, Rolls back

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There was a sound of the Blades exposing, then an almighty thump as

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the helicopter hit the ground. was a massive whack, a power sound,

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I turned around and saw it drop. It was halfway down already, so we

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just crashed. Security got straight to it. Greg walked away without

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serious injury. His son, also a pilot, spoke of his shock. Pretty

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nerve-racking actually, to see my father like that and habit come

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crashing down around him. It was nerve-racking. The Civil Aviation

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Authority is now investigating the crash which left a wreckage of

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twisted metal, testament to what a And now the weather... We have a

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developing storm out in the Atlantic, and almost ahead of

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cloudier. We could see winds of up to 100 miles an hour -- almost head

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of cloud. -- a mysterious head of cloud. Further south, the winds

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will be lighter, dry but not as cold as last night. Possibly some

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frost across the far south-east. Increasingly windy tomorrow,

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particularly across the far north- west where gales will develop. The

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wind will push the rain northwards through Scotland. Further south,

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most of the sunshine, although there will be a breeze, it will not

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be excessive. Broken cloud, sunshine, a reasonable day and yet

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again temperatures will be higher than they should be this time of

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year. Some sunshine for south- western parts, cloud will come and

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go but apart from the odd bit of rain it will stay dry. Sunshine,

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too, for eastern parts of Wales, further west, cloudy and windy.

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Some runners for parts of Northern Ireland but rain will move out West

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and it is the Outer Hebrides which will be buffeted by the severe

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gales. Brightness across East and Scotland for a time but then winds

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will develop across Scotland with rain pushing down from the north-

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west. By Friday it the sunshine returns, it will be cooler and

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chilly across the north. Showers will turn wintery up over the high

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ground of Scotland. An unsettled weekend coming up, sunshine, rain,

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blustery winds. The stormy spell of weather later in the weekend across

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weather later in the weekend across A reminder of the main news... Kate

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and Gerry McCann had hit out at months of media intrusion following

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