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From the Cabinet to the courtroom - Chris Huhne resigns.

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He's to be charged with perverting the course of justice along with

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his ex-wife for trying to avoid a driving ban.

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There is sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against both

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Mr Huhne and Ms Pryce for perverting the course of justice.

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Ms Pryce and Mr Huhne will appear in court in just under a fortnight.

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He insists he will clear his name. I am innocent of these charges and

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I intend to fight this in the court and I am confident a jury will

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agree. Also tonight: How the row over

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these words mean John Terry has been stripped of the England

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captaincy for a second time. Three Britons are known to have

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died in an outbreak of legionnaires' disease at a hotel in

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Spain. Is the Arctic? No, it is the Peak

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District as the big freeze grips the UK.

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On Sportsday on BBC News: Blink and you missed them - the batsmen were

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falling like flies on a fast-paced opening day between England and

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Welcome to the BBC News at Six. The Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, has

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resigned from the Cabinet after learning that he and his ex-wife

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will both face charges of perverting the course of justice.

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It is claimed the Liberal Democrat Minister got his then wife to

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accept penalty speeding points on his behalf ten years ago to escape

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a driving ban. The accusation only emerged last year, shortly after

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the couple separated. Chris Huhne insisted again that he was innocent

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and said he would fight the charges in court.

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It began with their marriage breaking up, it could end in prison.

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Today, Chris Huhne lost his job in the Cabinet. In a fortnight, he and

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the wife he left will see each other in court. The man who heads

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the Crown Prosecution Service today gave his verdict on the evidence of

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an eight-month police investigation. All the available evidence,

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including the new material, has now been carefully considered by the

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CPS. And we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence to

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bring criminal charges against both Mr Huhne and Ms Pryce for

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perverting the course of justice. The Prime Minister and his Deputy

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made clear to Chris Huhne this his fight to clear his name would have

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to be pursued outside the Cabinet. I'm innocent of these charges and I

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intend to fight this in the courts and I am confident that a jury will

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agree. So as to avoid any distraction to either my official

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duties or my trial defence, I am standing down and resigning as

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Energy and Climate Change Secretary. It must feel a long time since

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Chris Huhne issued these election leaflets asking "where he would be

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without his family" and telling voters that he had been married for

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26 years. His wife was with him at the count on Election Night in 2010.

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There too was the woman he was having an affair with, his media

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adviser. Huhne would go on to win his seat but to lose his wife and

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soon face allegations about who had done what many years before.

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In 2003, when he was a Member of the European Parliament, Huhne flew

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into Stansted Airport from Brussels. His car was caught by speedcameras

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on the M11. His wife, Vicky Pryce, received three penalty points for

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the speeding offence. Eight years later, in the aftermath of their

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divorce, The Sunday Times asked Pryce about rumours that Huhne had

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persuaded somebody to accept speeding points for him. "Oh gosh,

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yes, he did" she was reported to have said, before pointing out

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"there is such huge pressure on politicians to be everywhere at

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once and he does drive a bit like a maniac." Days later, the police

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opened an investigation. Today, Vicky Pryce issued a written

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statement saying she wanted to see a quick resolution of the case.

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sorry, I can't comment. Chris Huhne's absence will be noticed

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most around the Cabinet table. He was the coalition's most muscular

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Liberal Democrat. Twice staging angry confrontations with the Prime

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Minister about the treatment of his party as embarrassed colleagues

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looked on. Nick Clegg may be sorry, but perhaps a little nervous, too.

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He only just beat Chris Huhne to become his party's leader and knows

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that if he is cleared Mr Huhne could cause real political trouble.

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I totally understand and respect why Chris Huhne has stood down from

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his position in Government. If he clears his name, as he wishes to, I

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have made it clear that I would like to see him back in Government

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in a key position. But politics doesn't wait for the slow-turning

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wheels of justice. Another Liberal Democrat, Ed Davey, is the new

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Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Chris Huhne did

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eventually lose his driving licence. He lost his wife and today his

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Cabinet career. Now he's fighting to save not just his reputation,

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but his freedom. Nick Robinson is at Westminster

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this evening. This appears to be a political crisis for Mr Huhne that

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has grown out of a personal one? is extraordinary. It began so

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personally, Fiona, then it became political, then it became legal and

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if Mr Huhne cannot convince a court of his innocence, it will end up

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custodial. He is far from the only person who has a messy or an

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acrimonious divorce. He is far from the only person who then has

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arguments about who did what when in the past. But being a Cabinet

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Minister it meant that those accusations made their way into the

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newspapers, into the headlines and one of his political opponents took

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them up and took them to the police. That is what makes this personal

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crisis for him such an extraordinary one. What are the

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wider political implications of this? There is no doubt that if

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Chris Huhne were to win his case and prove his innocence, he would

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become a powerful Liberal Democrat figure. No wonder Nick Clegg said

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he wanted to see him back in Government. The last thing this

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coalition would want is a revived Mr Huhne on the backbenches picking

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a fight over this policy and that. If he loses his case, if he were in

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the end to end up in prison, there would be a by-election in his seat

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which has long been a Tory-Lib Dem marginal, not very helpful for the

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coalition. I think it is fair to say the man who has always loved

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Government will not be thinking about the political tonight, he

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will be thinking of the personal. John Terry has been sacked as

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captain of the England football team. He is due to stand trial in

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July on charges of racial abuse. The Football Association said it

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had taken the decision as it didn't want the case to dominate England's

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performance in the Euro 2012 Championships. Dan Roan is at FA

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headquarters at Wembley. This is a controversial decision? It is, yes.

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John Terry's passion, commitment and focus has never been called

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into question. With serious allegations hanging over his head

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for the next five months there have been growing concerns about his

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ability to lead this team and today the FA finally agreed. He was

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informed of the decision to suspend him by the FA chairman in a phone

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call this morning. It was this incident at Loftus Road

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last year that today led to John Terry being stripped of the

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captaincy for a second time. The defender denies racially abusing

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Anton Ferdinand during the match with QPR. With the court case

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adjourned until after this summer's European Championships, the FA's

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chairman explained why Terry had to go. This decision has been taken

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due to the high-profile nature of the England captaincy on and off

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the pitch. Terry became England captain in 2006. Four years later,

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after allegations surrounding his private life, he lost the armband

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to Rio Ferdinand. 13 months on, Terry was back. Then just before

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Christmas, he was charged with racial abuse. And with a trial

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scheduled a week after the end of the European Championships, the FA

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feared Terry's troubled would prove too great a distraction. Club and

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country once again disagree. It is the FA's decision. I have nothing

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to say about it. I don't agree with it. You have to ask the FA about it

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and the people responsible for the decision. Terry's international

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manager had also backed his former captain but ultimately the decision

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was taken out of Capello's hands. The Italian must decide whether

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Terry merits selection at all and who to replace him with as captain.

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The man England turned to last time isn't interested. Honestly, no.

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don't want to be England captain again? No. I have been England

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captain before for a brief period. It was taken away from me, so I

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want to concentrate on playing for Manchester United. Despite being

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suspended pending the outcome of the trial, Terry is considering

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whether to turn his back on the national team altogether. Once

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again, just months before a major tournament England have seen their

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plans derailed by events off the field.

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Some will argue the FA should have made a decision earlier. Others

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will say they shouldn't have made it at all and John Terry has been

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treated unfairly. In a season that's been beset by various racism

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controversies, a revamped FA board wanted to show decisive leadership.

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Unfortunately, in doing so, they may have undermined the manager's

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authority and given Fabio Capello a whole new set of problems.

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The Royal College of GPs has called on the Government to cancel its

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plans to overhaul the NHS in England because it threatens to

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cause "irreparable damage" to care. It represents 34,000 family doctors

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and it is the first of the medical Royal Colleges to oppose the

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reforms outright. The Government says it's baffled by the criticisms.

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A trip to your local surgery may not look different but behind-the-

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scenes, fundamental changes are afoot giving groups of GPs the

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power to decide how Health Services will be run and crucially what

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patient care the NHS can and can't afford. It's been controversial

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from the start. Today the Royal College of GPs said it will be

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harmful to patients and withdrew its support. GPs are very worried

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about what this is going to do for the care of their patients. They

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are very worried about how services are going to join up and they are

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very worried about then having to be the rationers of care. This

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isn't the first group to come out in opposition to the Bill. This is

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the first professional medical body to call for the Bill to be scrapped

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altogether. It's coming from GPs who are central to how these

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changes will work. At the Allum Medical Centre, they are already

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happening. Doctors have grouped together to commission care so that

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patients get more treatment closer to home. We have been able to

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reshape services around the needs of the patient achieving high

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quality of care, better patient satisfaction but also value for

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money and if we continue to focus on improving patient care, then I

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think we will deliver and we will have a successful health system.

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The Health Bill puts much of the NHS budget in the hands of groups

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of GPs. It opens the way to more competition in the NHS, private or

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voluntary companies will be able to provide Health Services. So the

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long-term diabetes care this patient needs could be done

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privately. It is that that worries the Royal College of GPs most and

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this afternoon, physiotherapists joined their opposition. The

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Government says the changes are needed to help the NHS meet growing

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demand. The real challenge is to get in there and help to make sure

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they work so that patients get first-class, high quality care

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which is what is at the heart of this programme. The Health Bill is

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due back in the Lords next week. But already in surgeries across

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England changes to the NHS are under way.

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The time is 6.13. The Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, has

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resigned from the Cabinet after being charged with perverting the

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course of justice along with his former wife.

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Coming up: It may look pretty, but the weather is said to be pretty

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grim this weekend. We will have the latest.

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Coming up in Sportsday: It's been a long 12 months in rugby union. We

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are looking ahead to the start of the Six Nations Championship this

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The chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland has admitted that bankers'

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salaries are too high and need to come down, but Sir Philip Hampton

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defended the decision to pay a near �1 million bonus to the bank's

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chief executive, Stephen Hester, a bonus he eventually turned down.

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Sir Philip did say RBS underestimated what the reaction

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would be to the proposed payout. He has been speaking to Robert Peston.

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Royal bank of Scotland, if it could go wrong, it did in the past nine

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days. First a tidal wave of complaints after Stephen Hester was

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awarded a bonus of under �1 million, complaints so forceful he chose not

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to take the reward. Then The Queen stripped Fred Goodwin of his

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knighthood because of the way that RBS's reckless growth damaged both

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the bank and the British economy. Chaired by Sir Philip Hampton, RBS

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which is 82% owned by taxpayers, has a bit of explaining to do.

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Sir Philip Hampton, given that there was such an extraordinary

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back lash to Stephen Hester's bonus, was it a mistake to award it to

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him? No, I don't think so. We evaluate his performance. We think

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he is doing a good job. It is part of the terms of his employment that

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he is entitled to a bonus. Did you simply not anticipate the public

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and political outcry? We knew it would receive quite a lot of public

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criticism. Frankly, we underestimated the scale of the

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criticism and that's something we have got to think about.

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But you are in an intriguing position because you have said to

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me in the past that you think in general bankers were payed more

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than justified in relation to rewards for shareholders? I agree.

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I think banker pay is too high. It has been too high for too long and

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that's an important business issue. The share of the cake between the

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shareholders and the banks has been wrong and it needs correcting.

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There will be a reduction in bonuses paid to RBS's investment

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bankers, sir Philip confirmed from �950 million last last year to �1.3

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billion in the previous year. But there will be many RBS bankers

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taking over �1 million each. Which is why Labour's leader argued at

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the cancellation of Mr Hester's bonus isn't enough.

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Anyone will find it hard to believe that actually market discipline is

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preventing runaway bonuses. The answer is to change the rules and

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change the culture. I hope that can be learned by the

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the banking sector. It is what the House of Commons will debate on

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Tuesday. The Government too has expressed

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its concerns about bonuses and and that's why Sir Philip says he fear

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as worrying gulf maybe opening between big businesses and

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Three pensioners died in an outbreak of legionnaires' disease

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in Spain. They were all men in their 70s. Nine other Britons have

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been treated in hospital. Several victims returned home to the UK.

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Jon Kay has been talking to one of The the beach in the resort of

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Spain. Popular with British tourists seeking sunshine here, but

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now this four-star hotel is the focus of a major health scare.

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British pensioner Isabella Clarke said there in January. Here she is

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in the ballroom and here she is now. I am not able to do anything.

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in Bristol tonight, recovering from legionnaires' disease and being

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cared for by her family. So when you have been lying here,

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hearing now about the deaths at the hotel, what's that been like to

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hear? Well, it just bear thinking about. It really doesn't. I mean I

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am the lucky one. The other people that died, I don't know what their

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family is going through. It is bad enough and I'm here what they are

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going through. Isn't it? Absolutely. Isabella was hospitalised with

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double pneumonia when she returned to Britain. Doctors say her illness

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was caused by the legionella bacteria. She happened to take this

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photo notice her hotel bathroom, and it is the water system here

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that is suspected to have carried the bug. The UK Health Protection

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Agency says in all, 11 British tourists developed illnesses

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associated with this outbreak. Some have been treated in the resort

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itself, others have only become ill after getting home.

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A little better. I still feel a bit wiped out.

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The the travel company Isabella booked with, Sag ga, told the BBC

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they are upset by what happened. They have moved their guests out of

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the hotel while changes are made. There have been no new cases

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Computer hackers have released a recording of a conference call

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between the FBI and the Metropolitan Police in which they

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discuss their efforts against cyber hacking. The conversation revealed

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dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police.

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The hackers, known as Anonymous, also published an e-mail apparently

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from the FBI, showing the e-mail addresses of those taking part in

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the call. At the beginning of the recording officers are heard joking

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about attending a policing conference. I have never been to

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We can get more detail from Frank Gardner.

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That extract doesn't sound serious. The people of Sheffield won be

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chuffed about it -- won't be chuffed about it. There are serious

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parts of this conversation? It is a 17 minute recording. A lot of it

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goes into detail about people the FBI and the police are trying to

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prosecute who are alleged hackers, they are accused of hack nothing

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major corporations. There are two questions here. One is how did aye

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did Anonymous get hold of this. The very people who these detectives

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are trying to track, were able to intercept this and the most likely

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explanation is that it was from a hacked e-mail which contained

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either the number of the conference call or perhaps a recording of it

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posted as a link. The bigger issue is the Government is pouring huge

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amounts of money into cyber security. They are concerned about

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it. �650 million was put in at the end of last year and if this sort

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of thing can be compromised it is a worry because the Government is

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trying to secure businesses, institutions and individuals. This

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is a bad day for them. Businesses in Wales are calling for

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urgent in Wales after a report found a fifth of children starting

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secondary education education can't read properly.

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The future of Wales, a journey that starts in the classroom and ends

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with entry into an increasingly competitive job market. But an

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official report this week suggests too many children in this corner of

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the UK are struggling. Headteacher Martin Matthews has

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just started a new job in Cardiff after years working in England. He

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says lack of money is part of the problem.

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Now in England, there would be strategies that I could put in

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place that will lift those results for the the individual students and

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therefore for the school itself. That does involve interventions

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with with individual staff. It does involve mentoring and extra time

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for teachers, all of which has a price tag attached to it.

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The annual budget per pupil per year in Wales is over �600 less

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than in England. 20% of pupils in Wales arrive at secondary school

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functionally illiterate. 40% have a reading age below their actual age.

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In England, it is 16%. Ministers in Wales emphasise that

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learn through play programmes for three to seven-year-olds have been

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highly effective and will bring wider improvements. This, they say,

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is not about funding. Countries that spend more than

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Wales are doing worse than Wales. Countries that spend less than

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Wales are doing better. It is not about funding, it is about the

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application of funding. The reasons for all of the problems

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here are, of course, complex. As well as the funding gap, Wales set

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itself apart from England by scrapping SATs and school league

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tables, but whatever the reasons, the need for action here is obvious

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and it is pressing. The Crib in Wales says the -- --

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CBI says the Government here must take action. For potential

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employers there is room for improvement.

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You see so many CVs that it is clear that they are struggling to

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put a sentence together. Unfortunately, nearly always, they

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will be moved to the listened pile and you don't get to -- left-hand

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pile and you don't get to the interview stage.

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The Welsh Government says it has methods in place to improve

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There was an extraordinary day's play in England's final Test

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against Pakistan which say no less than 16 wickets tumble during play.

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England bowled out Pakistan for 99 all out, only to fall apart when

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they took to the crease. England finished on 140 for six. A lead of

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just five runs which leaves the match finally balanced. Now, it

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probably hasn't escaped your notice, it is cold. It is very cold.

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Britain is caught between an icy blast between Russia and warmer air

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to the West and that's likely to mean snow across lots of the UK.

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Daniel Boettcher is at a gritting station in Norwich. Daniel, are

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they getting ready for action there?

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Yes, they are just loading aupt moment here -- up at the moment

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here. They have been gritting here for the last week or so and we have

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seen fresh supplies of salt brought in during the day. The problem has

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been the low temperatures, but now they are expecting snow as well.

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The Peak District in the grip of bitter conditions that show little

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sign of easing, while the snow settled here, it is expected to

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move further south and east in the coming days and there are concerns

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about what that might mean for those vun vulnerable to the cold.

:25:17.:25:20.

We are getting a frost tonight and you are already sorted for tomorrow.

:25:20.:25:23.

In the West Midlands, Richard is checking on his mother, gritting

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the steps of her home. He is one of 2,500 volunteers volunteers given

:25:30.:25:36.

salt and a shovel by the council. In In London, in family have no

:25:36.:25:39.

central heating. The boiler is broken and they can't afford to

:25:39.:25:43.

replace it. All ten are in one room around the only heater they have.

:25:43.:25:48.

When you leave the room, it is really cold and you have to wear

:25:48.:25:55.

your coat. Some of us complain to leave the room.

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Sub-zero temperatures lasting marathon seven days -- more than

:26:00.:26:04.

seven days trigger cold weather weather payments for the vulnerable.

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Freezing temperatures have put an extra strain on tight budgets as

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some families struggle to keep warm. There are simple precautions, but

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they could have life-saving. If you can, stay in a warm place when the

:26:16.:26:23.

weather is very severe. Wrap up warm even inside the house, but now,

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we advice people to keep their temperatures at between 18 Celsius

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and 21 Celsius -- 18 and 21 centigrade.

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The snow will be a challenge for local authorities, but they say

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they are ready and have enough salt to cope as they try to keep roads

:26:38.:26:41.

clear. Motoring organisations warn drivers should be prepared.

:26:41.:26:47.

Some of the things, you know, might sound extreme at times, but shovels,

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blankets, flask of tea, an extra layer of o clothing, a -- of

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clothing. A mobile phone fully charged. Some areas expect up to

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ten centimetres of snow up until Sunday. The hope is the worst will

:27:02.:27:06.

One of the problems has been anticipating when and where the

:27:06.:27:09.

snow will fall. The weather forecast has been changing

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throughout the day so they have had to adapt their plans here, but they

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are leaving one by one to start Daniel in Norwich, thank you very

:27:17.:27:22.

much. Alex Deakin is here. Come on, you

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heard Daniel saying the weather heard Daniel saying the weather

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forecast has been changing. We are confident that we are going

:27:30.:27:34.

to get significant snow fall. Central and eastern areas are

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likely to be affected. Yes, we are expecting problems. It won't snow

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everywhere. In many western areas, it will be rain that we see. We

:27:42.:27:46.

will start to get the rain across Northern Ireland later tonight. One

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or two snow showers across East Anglia and Kent. It is cold again.

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Temperatures in towns and cities minus 5 Celsius.

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A bitterly cold start to what will be a very wintry day. The wet

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weather will start to work across Scotland. Some snow here, mostly up

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over the hills, but it will start to come to lower levels as it

:28:07.:28:11.

pushes across Northern England and parts of the Midlands. It will be a

:28:11.:28:15.

cold day, but it does turn milder in the West. Many eastern counties

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will have a fine day on Saturday. However, here, things will change

:28:18.:28:22.

and change significantly. It is from tomorrow afternoon and through

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the evening and overnight into sun, we are expecting heavy snow fall

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across the central and eastern counties of England. How much?

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Certainly a few centimetres, possibly ten centimetres in some

:28:33.:28:38.

places. Yes, that is expected to cause problems. So we have weather

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warnings in force. We have an amber warning for that heavy snow fall,

:28:42.:28:44.

but there are other warnings covering ice across large parts of

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the country. So stay tuned to the forecast. A good place to do that

:28:48.:28:53.

if you are having travel issues this weekend is your local BBC

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Radio station. By the time we get to Sunday, the problems start to

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lessen. Still some snow across East Anglia and the the South East. Rain

:29:05.:29:09.

coming into western areas. Still cold across the eastern areas and

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it will stay cold into the early part of next week. Stay tuned to

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the forecast, we are live every half-hour on the news channel. You

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can read more about the warnings on The news main:

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