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UK unemployment hits a 17-year high. A million of them are young people.

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New figures show the jobless total reaches almost 2.7 million in

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November, hard times for those looking for work.

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It is very demoralising, sometimes you get down for a few days, but it

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is all about keeping your morale up. You have to.

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Tonight the Chancellor tells the BBC there could be more bad news on

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the way. Also in the programme: The search of the Costa Concordia

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suspended after it slips deeper into the sea. Relatives still hope

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for a miracle. I will stay here until I have to.

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Let's see what happens. Let's see how things are. I hope. I hope.

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The captain is under house arrest accused of escaping the scene

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before his passengers. He says he fell into a lifeboat.

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A new airport for London - Ministers say they will look at

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building a new aviation hub in the Thames Estuary.

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60 years on - a pageant fit for a Queen - 1,000 boats will take to

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the water to mark the Diamond Jubilee.

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In sport: An exclusive interview with the man in the hat who denies

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any wrongdoing during Amir Khan's Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. The number of people unemployed hit nearly 2.7 million

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in the three months to November, the highest it's been for 17 years.

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Once again, young people are being hit hard, more than a million are

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jobless, that is a record. And there could be more bad news on the

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way. Today the Chancellor told the BBC that figures expected next week

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could show that Britain's economy actually shrank at the end of last

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year. That would prompt fears of a new recession.

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The latest news from the Jobcentres isn't good - unemployment is up

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again though in Wales and Northern Ireland it fell and for young

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people it is especially hard to pin down a job. John and Alex are on a

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scheme for the young unemployed run by the Wildlife Trust near Bolton.

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It teaches skills and team work and they found it worthwhile. But they

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are both frustrated they can't find full-time work. It is very

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demoralising, sometimes you get down for a few days, but it is all

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about keeping your morale up. You have to keep optimistic and keep

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trying. You can't say it is just this generation because every

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generation faces problems, really. This is our problem. We will get

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through it. The latest jobless figures dominated exchanges at

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Prime Minister's Questions. increase in unemployment is

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disappointing and it is obviously a tragedy for the person who becomes

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unemployed and can lead to real difficulty for that family and that

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is why we are taking so much action to try and help people to get back

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into work. The Labour Leader said Government spending cuts were to

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blame. Why is unemployment rising? He is cutting too far and too fast.

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It is his record however much he twists and turns, it is his record,

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that is why unemployment is going up. The flow of people around the

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world of work suggests that employment is less secure and is

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more unpredictable. If you look at the number of people in work, one

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group that has been expanding is the self-employed. Some will have

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left other jobs to work for themselves, but others will have

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been made redundant, struggle to find other work and ended up going

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it alone. Between September and November, the number of self-

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employed rose by 101,000, while the number of employees in jobs fell by

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109,000. The total wanting full- time work currently part-time rose

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to more than 1.3 million. This man lost his job in business in 2010.

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He's started out as a self-employed music teacher, but only after a

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fruitless search for full-time work. It's a common experience for a lot

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of people. It's a leap of faith to go into self employment.

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Chancellor may have been meeting his counter-part in Japan today,

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but he had a warning about the UK. Figures out next week could show

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the economy contracting. I don't know what next week's GDP number

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will be. The OBR has warned us that it may well be a negative number.

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That was their forecast in November. They didn't forecast a recession.

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So while the unemployment figures weren't all bad, the number

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claiming jobseekers' allowance has barely changed, but the news next

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week may not brighten the economic picture.

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Nick Robinson is in Downing Street for us tonight. It is quite

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something when the Chancellor appears to be preparing us for more

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bad news? It is. Twice he used the words "negative" talking about next

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week's growth figure when he was talking to Stephanie Flanders out

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in Tokyo today. He doesn't know the number for how the economy is

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growing. That will be released by the Office of National Statistics

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next Wednesday. He is preparing us all for the fact it may not be a

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number going up, it could be a number going down, that the economy

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will be shrinking. In one sense, it doesn't matter, it is just a

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statistic except of course that today we saw the human side of that

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statistic because every number on that unemployment register is a

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human story. In addition, George, there is another bit of awkward

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news for him when he returns home here to number 11 from the Far East,

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it is this: The International Monetary Fund is now saying it

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needs a half trillion more dollars to stand behind all those

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struggling countries in the eurozone. That means that you and I

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may have to find �15 billion or more to contribute to that IMF fund.

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George Osborne will always stress it is money that we will probably

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one day get back, but it is something that people won't much

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like doing. The search of the Costa Concordia

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off the Italian coast has been suspended today after the ship

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slipped further into the sea. Five days on, hopes of finding anyone

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alive have faded. The captain accused of leaving his passengers

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is now under house arrest. He is reported to have told investigators

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that he fell into a lifeboat. Matthew Price is at the scene again

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for us tonight. Yes, the relatives of several of

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the missing arrived here on the island to that news, anxious news

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as far as they were concerned that the rescue effort had had to be

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suspended. My report does contain some flash photography. It also

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contains some extraordinary footage that we have obtained from

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specialist cave divers who have been going into the heart of the

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ship. It is slow going inside the ship,

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moving through the floating debris of a once luxury liner. Along

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corridors turned on their side. Specialist divers here are

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searching for survivors but they know they will more likely only

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find the dead. This is how they have been entering the ship,

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through the top deck, now on the waterline.

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TRANSLATION: At one point the glass door of a shop was above me with

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the contents inside all pressing down. It could have shattered at

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any moment. The rescue though was put on hold

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today as the ship began to move slightly. Making it too dangerous

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to look for the missing. Among them, Russell Rebello, a waiter on board.

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Today, his brother Kevin came to the island and saw the wreck of the

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Costa Concordia for the first time. Does he think his brother can

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possibly be alive? It is the fifth day, it's a logical question that

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people have been making, it is an assumption that OK five days, but

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there have been miracles around, people have come home after many

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days. On the mainland, the captain's wife was mobbed by

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journalists. He's enanynumber one here, criticised for aban -- enemy

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number one here, criticised for abandoning ship. He is said to have

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slipped by mistake into a departing lifeboat. Few believe that. His

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lawyer says the captain is deeply shaken by what happened. But the

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sister of another missing crew member has no sympathy.

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TRANSLATION: It is outrageous they have him under house arrest. It is

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like he is a free man and the search is taking too long.

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salvage operation is ready to go as soon as they get permission. Large

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amounts of equipment and personnel have been brought in. Everybody

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knows that removing the ship from its current resting place is going

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to be a mammoth task. The long days are taking their toll on the

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rescuers. One collapsed exhausted today. A satellite picked up this

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image of the ship, lying peacefully against the island. While down on

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the shore, Kevin Rebello waits for his brother. You heard him there

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talking about the possibility of a miracle as far as his brother was

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concerned. In a sense, there was a slight miracle today when a German

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woman, who was on the missing list, it turned out had made it off the

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ship, back to the mainland and all the way back to Germany, so she is

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not dead after all, she is back home at the moment. But there are

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still more than 20 people missing. The High Court has ordered the

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eviction of protesters who have been camping outside St Paul's

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Cathedral since October. The judge said their campsite had a damaging

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impact on one of Britain's most important public buildings. The

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Occupy campaigners are appealing against the decision. Thousands of

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workers at Unilever have started a series of strikes over the

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company's plans to axe its final salary pension scheme. Unilever

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says the changes are needed as people are living longer.

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The clothing chain Peacocks has gone into administration. The

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retailer employs more than 9,500 people. Nick Servini is outside the

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headquarters. What will happen to all these jobs, Nick? George, 400

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people behind me were marched into a meeting this afternoon and they

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were told that the business is going to go into administration.

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The staff are now really left in an unenviable position because they

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are going home tonight and will come back tomorrow and many of them

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expect to find out whether they will have a job or not. One project

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manager told me the expectation is that many people will find out that

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they are out of work. That may or may not be the case. I have spoken

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with the administrators, KPMG, who plan to sell this as a going

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concern and say there has been a lot of interest so far. The problem

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with this group is not the profitability of the stores, it is

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an historic debt from a management buyout back in 2006. That should

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give some hope at least to the thousands of staff who work for

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Peacocks all over the UK. It's been called Boris Island and

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it is one of the options to be considered by the Government in a

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potential shake-up of UK aviation. The plan to build a new airport in

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the Thames Estuary is favoured by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

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Other ideas will be under the spotlight, too.

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It's an ambitious idea, to turn a sleepy corner of Kent into an

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airport twice the size of Heathrow. Four new runways, new roads, a

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high-speed line, and a high-profile backer, the London Mayor. I think

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this is something that would deliver a huge number of jobs for

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London and for the South East of England and would help us to

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compete in the long-term with our European rivals. London's airports

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are running out of space. Heathrow's already full and unable

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to expand while demand keeps rising. In 2010, 1 40 million passengers

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flew in or out of the city, that could rise to 400 million by 2050.

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The new airport would take 150 million passengers. More capacity

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means more routes to growing markets like Brazil, China, India.

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Some worry Britain is losing out. When it comes to our infrastructure,

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when Britain dithers others do. We have seen new runways in France,

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Germany, in Holland. Those countries could become the

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beneficiaries of inward investment if the UK doesn't act. It is hard

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to imagine but this spot here would be the end of one of the runways,

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planes taking off and landing over my head here. I would be surrounded

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by houses, by roads. They would build a new Thames flood barrier

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which would double as a road crossing. The scale is incredible.

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There is a price tag to match. Total cost then - �50 billion

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although there is no clue yet as to who might fund it. And it could

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take decades to build. There is also strong opposition - this crash

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in New York's Hudson River happened after birds got sucked into the

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engines. The incident of bird strike from trying to fly aircraft

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through birds that have been migrating down here would be

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perhaps up to 12 times the norm. British Airways says it will kill

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off Heathrow and Ryanair boss has called it "absolutely nuts". There

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is an election coming up in London. No-one standing against Boris likes

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the idea. It will be discussed in the spring when the Government

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starts consulting on its wider plan 27-year-old Karl Whant denies

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killing 19-year-old Nikitta Grender, who was found stabbed to death in

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her home. Our reporter was in court. You may find parts of this report

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distressing. Nikitta Grender was just two weeks away from giving

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birth to her first child, when she died. A baby girl, she had named

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Kelsey May. She told friends all she had ever wanted to be was a

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mother. The 19-year-old's badly burned body was found in the

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bedroom of her flat in Newport in February last year. She had been

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raped and stabbed to death, before the home she shared with her

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boyfriend was set on fire. Arriving at Crown Court, 27-year-old Karl

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Whant, accused of the raper and murder of Nikitta Grender, the

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destruction of her unborn child and arson. The night before her death,

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he spent the evening in Newport watching a rugby match with his

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cousin. Ryan was her boyfriend and the father of their unborn baby.

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Nikitta Grender's parents and a large group of friends heard that

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he was a self-confessed cocaine user and she thought he was a bad

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influence on her boyfriend. The jury was told he came here to the

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flat. It was a flais she should have felt safe -- place she should

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have felt safe. He denies all charges. The trial is expected to

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Our top story tonight - UK unemployment reaches almost 2.7

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million. That's a 17-year high. Coming up, I'll be reporting from

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the Somerset town where they planning to switch off every single

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light bulb, not to save electricity, but because they are hoping to look

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at the stars. In business on the news channel, 10,000 jobs at risk,

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as Peacocks goes into administration and the IMF says it

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will boost lending to help weak A thousand boats, in a flotilla

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stretching seven miles, will sail down the Thames as part of the

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celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June. The plan,

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announced today, involves historic vessels, steam boats, tugs, barges

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and passenger ships. Our Royal correspondent, Luisa Baldini, has

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been finding out. The Queen has given 60 years of unwaivering

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service to the country. What better tribute than for her to see and be

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seen by as many people as possible in a pageant on the Thames. This is

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what the organisers imagine it will be like. 20,000 people on thousands

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of boats forming one enormous float till that, arrange a Royal barge

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carrying the Queen and Prince Phillip. There are no recent

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precedents, so it's from this 18bling century painting, which

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will appear in the Royal river exhibition at the National Maritime

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Museum, that the organisers have got their inspiration. I'm looking

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forward to the river being transformed for that day.

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Transformed with colour, with noise, with shouting and cheering people.

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It being full. It being, if you like, reclaimed as a Royal route.

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The Royal barge is expected to look something like this. It will be

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clad and decorated in a secret location the month before. Moored

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in London this is how she looks now. The Queen will be here with the

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Duke of Edinburgh, is that right the owner has donated the boat

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especially for the occasion. Queen wanted to be seen, so this is

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a fantastic elevated platform and we have 64 metres of platform here,

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so accommodate a lot of people. It can be seen from all sides. Sailing

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in the float till that will be boats of all shapes -- flotilla

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will be boats of all shapes and sizes. They will come from all over

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the UK and from further afield like Australia and Canada. It is going

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to be a huge logistical challenge. Not least because the river rises

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and falls seven metres twice a day. At least one million people are

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expected to watch the pageant from the banks of the river. An occasion

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that is being billed as a one-in-a- lifetime event. David Cameron has

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accused the Argentinians of colonialism, for continuing to

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claim sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. He said he wanted to

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ensure the islands were well defended after Argentina's recent

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attempts to restrict ships from the Falklands. His comments came in

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Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons. The key point is we

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support the islanders' right to self-determination and what the

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Argentineans have been saying is March nor -- far more like

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colonialism. Our deputy political editor is at Westminster. Some

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people will say that talking about this is rather provocative? It has

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provoked a strong response from Argentina. In the last few minutes

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their interior minister said that the remarks were a totally

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offensive -- were totally offensive. There was the announcement that

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Prince William will fly helicopters out there and Argentina has

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persuaded neighbours to close their ports to ships flying the

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Falklands' flags and there have been the rows over fish and I think

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today David Cameron was trying to push back against all that. Saying,

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in his words, a clear message that the future of the islands should be

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determined by the islanders themselves. He chaired a meeting of

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the National Security Council yesterday and discussed plans for

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the 30th anniversary of the conflict, but they also made sure

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that Britain was prepared to defend. After days of hearing After days of

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hearing evidence from the editors of national newspapers, today it

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was the turn of some of the celebrity magazines. The editors of

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OK, Hello and Heat told the Leveson Inquiry they worked very closely

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with the stars they featured and were not in the business of

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printing salacious gossip. Nicholas Witchell reports. I'm Lucie Cave

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and I'met editor of Heat. I'm Rosie Nixon and the editor of Hello.

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Lisa Byrne. First, a definition of what they do. The editor of Hello

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recalled a favourite phrase of their Spanish founder. He had a

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lovely phrase, which means the frong of life. The -- froth of life.

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It is served up straight from the people. We work directly with the

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stars every step of the way. It is a serving which is deliberately

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sweet rather than sour. We are not in the business of printing

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salacious gossip. Lord Justice Leveson had Heat spread out in

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front of him. It's a different sort of journal to my normal, but fair

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enough. Why, the inquiry wanted to know, did it matter so much to

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celebrities to be in their magazines? It's because they want

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to share that they know that there is an interest in their lives.

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There was more. It his been an excursion into celebrity journalism.

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Where, according to the editors, privacy is respected and harassment

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Millions of BBC viewers have been glued to the Stargazing Live

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programmes this week. One town has decided to get involved in a new

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way. Tonight, Dulverton in Somerset is switching off all its lights so

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people there can get a better view of the night sky and our

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correspondent, Jon Kay, is there for us now. The church bells will

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ring out and that will be the cue for the 2,000 people to switch off

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every single light in their homes, businesses and street light, that

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they will all go off. Let me show you the shot from the top of the

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church tower. Later tonight, hopefully all you will see from up

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there is complete darkness. Dulverton, at sunset. But tonight

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things in this part of Britain will look rather different. At a time

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when light would normally be coming on, this evening they'll be

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switched off. The aim is zero light pollution, so the skies are as

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clear as possible. It's going to be really cool, so we can look up into

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the sky and see planets that we have never seen before. What will

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it be like when all the light go out? Scary. A bit nervous? It will

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certainly be a change. These pictures from NASA show just how

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much light there is around the world at night. Preventing us from

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getting a clear view of the stars. Here in the south-west of England,

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Dulverton is part of Exmoor, Europe's first dark sky reserve.

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This might be a small town, but there are still tens of thousands

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of bulbs. We take lighting for granted so we turn them on and off

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without thinking. What we want to show, even a small place like this

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can make a big difference. It seems everyone in this rural community is

:25:46.:25:51.

getting involved. Later tonight, traffic will be banned and the

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council will switch off every street light. Despite appearances,

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the pub is staying open, although it won't be business as usual.

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Serving in the dark will present some new challenges. There might be

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a bit of spilt beer on the floor, but hopefully not too much! It will

:26:11.:26:16.

be worse in the kitchen, I think! Hopefully nobody will get burnt

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food. After weeks of planning, tonight Dulverton finally gets its

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moment in the spotlight. Until, of course, that spotlight is also

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switched off. One thing you can't plan for is the weather. It's not

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looking great. When this goes live on BBC Two, between 8 and 9pm, I'm

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not sure you will see a huge amount in the skies, but for BBC Two, they

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have the special night-vision cameras which should at least be

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able to bring the skies to life, so they've installed them here and

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they should help people see something at least. It will be

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light off at 8.15, telescopes out, but sadly it looks like umbrellas

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but sadly it looks like umbrellas up as well. Now, a look at the

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weather. Will we see the stars? Some will, but in Dulverton is a

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case of don't shoot the messengerer, -- messenger, but it will be cloudy.

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It will be so across much of Wales, but in the north there will be

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clearer skies and one or two showers to go with it. Under the

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showers and the rain, temperatures will hold up. The further north we

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go, the colder the air will be and with temperatures very close to

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freezing there is a risk of ice around, particularly with the

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overnight showers. In the morning, dry, crisp and clear. Showers will

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arrive later. Northern Ireland, you will see one or two breaks here,

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but there will be plenty of cloud. As will be the case in northern

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England. Best of the breaks will be to the east of the high ground in

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England, but it will be a case of as you were. Similar start to this

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morning. Grey and misty in the south, but with the added bonus of

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even heavier rain. That will clear, unlike today. Things will brighten

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up. Some sunshine through the afternoon and continue to see sunny

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spells further north, but showers will get going through the second

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half of the day, particularly in the north of England and Scotland.

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Gusty winds with them. Showers turning to snow not just to higher

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ground and it will feel cold in that wind. Showers for a time

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during tomorrow night, but temperatures will rise again from

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the south-west later to see more cloud and rain spill in to Northern

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Ireland. Eventually parts of southern and western Scotland and

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northern England and Wales. For Friday, may be the brightest

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conditions in the south and to the north-east, but generally it's

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