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A victory to remember for football manager Harry Redknapp - he's

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cleared of tax evasion. The jury threw out charges that he

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tried to hide nearly �200,000 from the tax man. It really has been a

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nightmare. I've got to be honest - it's been five years, and this is a

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case that should never have come to court because it's unbelievable

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really. Harry for England - could the

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verdict pave the way for him to take on the national team? Redknapp

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will be a very, very good choice. He's English. He knows his football,

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no doubt about that. He's doing a great job with Tottenham.

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We'll look at what the case tells us about money and football.

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Also tonight: More big pay-outs in the phone

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hacking scandal - comedian Steve Coogan is among those who get tens

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of thousands. This has never been about money. Like others who sued I

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was determined to do my part to show the depths which the press can

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sink in sharing private information. The RBS boss speaks to the BBC

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about giving up his bonus - he says he considered quitting during the

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uproar. The one-kilo chunk of rock that could hold the secrets of Mars

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- it's a meteorite that crashed to Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

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News at 6.00pm. Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp was close to tears

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when he came out of court today moments after he was cleared of tax

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evasion. The jury accepted that Mr Redknapp had not tried to conceal

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nearly �200,000 in a Monaco account. The payments relate to a period

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when he was manager at Portsmouth. The club's chairman at the time,

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Milan Mandaric, was also cleared. Our sports correspondent James

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Pearce is at Southwark Crown Court. When the verdicts were announced,

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the two men turned to each other in the dock and embraced. It was the

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end of an ordeal that had good gan back in 2007 when they were first

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arrested, the most successful English football manager of his

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generation had been found not guilty of tax evasion.

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Congratulations from waiting supporters as Harry Redknapp left

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the court having finally cleared his name. I am really just looking

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forward to getting home and seeing my wife Sandra and, you know,

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getting away from all this. It really has been a nightmare. I've

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got to be honest - it's been five years, and this is a case which

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should never have come to court because it's unbelievable really.

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Relief too from Milan Mandaric, who had been Redknapp's boss when he

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was with Portsmouth football club. I always believed in the truth and

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also believe in the British justice system. I'm very appreciative of

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that. Harry Redknapp had managerial success at Bournemouth and also at

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West Ham. I'm so proud of everyone here. Before he took Portsmouth

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into the Premiere League - that's where the allegations arose. The

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case centred around the transfer in 2002 of Peter Crouch. Harry

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Redknapp had believed that he was entitled to 10% of the profit from

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the sale and was unhappy when he only received a payment of 5%. He

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asked his chairman to sort it out. The allegation was that Milan

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Mandaric had eventually given in to Harry Redknapp's demands and agreed

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to pay him an extra �100,000. The prosecution, though, claimed that

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the money wasn't going to go through the club's accounts here in

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Portsmouth. It was to come directly from Mr Mandaric's personal account

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in Monaco. So Redknapp set up an account in Monaco named Rosie 47,

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after his dog, the one on the left. That provided plenty of laughter in

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court, but the two men repeatedly explained that the money was an

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investment, and they had nothing to hide. The former News of the World

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reporter Rob Beasley was the Crown's key witness. He'd recorded

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a phone call in which Redknapp had said that it was a bonus, not an

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Police questions soon followed. Redknapp said he'd lied to the

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reporter to get him off the phone. The payment was an investment, not

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a bonus, and it was his accountant He had told the jury that despite

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those limitations, he is a fantastic football manager. Now the

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trial is over, that Tottenham club jacket could soon be swapped for

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his country's whenever Fabio Capello is replaced. I think

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Redknapp will be a very, very good choice. He's English. He knows his

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football, no doubt about that. He's doing a great job with Tottenham,

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and he's been doing a great job with every team he had in the past,

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so I would guess it will be him. Tottenham's White Hart Lane, fans'

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joy at the verdicts was tempered by concern of their manager's future.

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If the England job comes, he's going, but to be honest, if he

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stays, we can be up there and challenging for the title. Just

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what we wanted, perfect timing. All of this hanging over him has

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affected the team a little bit, but now it will be back to normal,

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business as usual. Come on, Redknapp! The police investigation

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into Redknapp had been criticised since the day in 2007 when officer

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first arrived at Redknapp's house to arrest him, which some

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photographers had been tipped off alongside them. There appeared to

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be a leak at the heart of the inquiry which was defended by those

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who ran it. We accept the verdict of the jury but I would like to

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remind those who are evading tax by using offshore tax havens it always

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makes sense to come talk to us before we come to talk to you.

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Thank you. As Harry Redknapp left, it wasn't quite the size of a

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football crowd, but he doesn't have this sort of problem getting to his

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manager's dugout, a man used to winning on the pitch, but achieved

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a significant victory in court. It's estimated that the inquiry

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into football corruption cost �8 million. There were nine arrest.

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What we couldn't tell you until today is there was another trial

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last autumn also involving staff from Portsmouth. Again, they were

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found not guilty. The question for those who ran the inquiry this

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evening - should the charges have been brought in the first place?

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James, thank you. Our sports editor David Bond is at

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Wembley for us tonight, David. As James was suggesting there, David,

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this is going to add to speculation that Harry Redknapp could become

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England manager. Well, George, even before today, the bandwagon was off

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and rolling for Harry Redknapp to take over as England manager from

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Fabio Capello, and with today's acquittals, clearly no legal or

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ethical obstacle to him taking the job whenever Capello does move on.

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Of course, he does have two years left on his Tottenham contract, so

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his club may have something to say about it, but of course sweet

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timing that as Redknapp was being cleared at Southwark Crown Court,

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Fabio Capello was inside Wembley seeing his bosses following his

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comments about the decision to strip John Terry of the England

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captaincy last week. We're still waiting for news to emerge about

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what happened at that meeting. The most likely outcome is that an

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uneasy truce will develop between the two parties, then the

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Championships in the summer, then it will be clear for Redknapp to

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take over. Briefly, people watching this case - it seems there is an

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awful lot of money sloshing around in football. Of course, Mandaric

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and Redknapp cleared of those charges, but the case shone a

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murkier side of the game - hundreds of thousands of pounds between the

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two, net profit transfer deals and cuts in that way - really, many

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people will be surprised at this. But as James was pointing out, I

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think there have to be serious questions about the way this

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investigation was handled. Six years ago this started with an

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inquiry into Premiere League bungs and has ended today - clearly, a

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lot of money and time has been spent and that's come up with

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nothing. David, thank you. More high-profile figures have

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settled their claims for damages over the News of the World phone-

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hacking scandal. Comedian, Steve Coogan and the former footballer

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Paul Gascoigne are among the latest people to accept compensation worth

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tens of thousands of pounds. June Kelly reports. It does contain some

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flash photography. Some are from the world's of

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showbiz and sport. Others, like George Galloway, have made their

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names in politics. They've all made headlines in the News of the World.

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Now they've each got payout from the paper's owners and an apology.

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This has never been about money. Like other people who sued, I was

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determined to do my part to show the depths to which the press can

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sink in pursuit of private information. It was established

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early on that the Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes was a victim.

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It was criminal behaviour on an industrial scale. Sadly, the

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deficiencies of the original police inquiries which failed to

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investigation the clear evidence of much of the criminal behaviour of

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one of the most important businesses in our country are also

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all too apparent. The former footballer Paul Gascoigne had

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suffered mental harm and distress, the court was told. He blamed

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relatives and friends for leaking stories about him. His pay-out is

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one of the largest. And it's not just famous names who

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have suffered. An undisclosed amount is going to the mother of

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one of the victims of the 7/7 bombings. Sheila Henry's son

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Christian Small was one of the 52 who died. Her ex-directory landline

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number was discovered in the notebooks of Glenn Mulcaire, the

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private investigator employed by the News of the World. And an

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undisclosed amount too for Alastair Campbell - for years at the heart

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of the Labour Government as Tony Blair's right-hand man. Importantly

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for me, they've left open the door to further action because they've

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said they're looking at other material that may be in their

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possession, and they've said that they may then be liable in certain

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circumstances to further damages. This is the second big wave of

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settlements by the Murdoch empire. By paying out, they're avoiding

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what could have been highly damaging court cases. This way, the

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damage is limited to their bank balance. Can we have a quick word?

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The singer Charlotte Church is the only famous name who, for the

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moment, is not settling. Her court case against the News of the

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World's owners is due to start at the end of the month.

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European air safety officials are to inspect the entire fleet of

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Airbus A380 super jumbos - more than 60 aircraft - for cracks in

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their wings. Cracks have been found in several planes following a

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decision by the European Aviation Safety Agency last month to order

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checks on the 20 planes with the highest mileage.

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The Court of Appeal has ruled that Milly Dowler's killer cannot appeal

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against his conviction for her abduction and murder. Levi

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Bellfield, a former nightclub doorman, was jailed for life

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without parole last June. Syrian forces have continued

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shelling the city of Homs. Opposition activists say 50 people

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were killed overnight in what they describe as the heaviest shelling

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in five days. Our correspondent Paul Wood has spent several days

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inside the city where the government artillery appears. -- to

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be targeting areas which oppose the government. He sent this report

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about conditions inside the besieged city.

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It began at dawn, and for a fifth day, Homs is pounded.

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Some said it was the worst day of shelling - the casualties are

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mounting. SOUND OF GUNFIRE

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The people here both fear and expect those tanks and ground

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troops will move in at some point. Allah Hu Akbar. Most of the people

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who died here were killed because they went out on to the street.

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It's not clear what exactly the Syrian Army is targeting, but

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certainly civilians are bearing the brunt, and most of them are inside

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They haven't been out to play since the uprising began, their mothers

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in despair. "The outside world won't help us, but God's vengeance

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will come down on the Syrian President," she says. The

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Kalashnikovs of the Free Syria Army can do little against tanks. They

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hope the regime's forces will crumble from the inside. The Syrian

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Army's morale has collapsed, as an officer who defected just a week

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ago - they know they're killing civilians, and they want this

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bloodbath to stop. SOUND OF GUNFIRE

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The prevailing mood here is one of despair. People feel trapped, and

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they believe no-one is coming to Our top story tonight: Harry

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Redknapp is cleared of tax evasion. He said the case should never have

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come to court. Coming up: What can a meteorite from 100 million years

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ago tell us about life on Mars? Later on the News Channel, but debt

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worries of Greece continued to halt the world's financial markets. What

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does the future hold for Thomas The chief executive of the Royal

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Bank of Scotland, Stephen Hester, has told the BBC he thought about

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resigning during the uproar over his bonus. Mr Hester said he was

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not a robot and there had been some deeply depressing moments. He was

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speaking in his first broadcast interview since he turned down a

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bonus of almost �1 million. Here is our business editor. Stephen Hester,

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the face, the symbol of the allegedly overpaid banker. Today,

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the boss of Royal Bank of Scotland admitted on the BBC he paid a big

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personal price for accepting and then rejecting a �1 million bonus.

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I am certainly not a robot. There have been some deeply depressing

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moments, by the way not just now, but over the last three years. In

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the end, in the intensity of it, I came to the conclusion that I

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thought it would be indulgent for me to resign. What I ought to do

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was to draw, if you like, on the reserves of strength I have and

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tried to make RBS a success. Stephen Hester he had the biggest

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banking time bomb in history. Stephen Hester said the money to

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rescue the bank had been lost. He meant the cost of fixing the Bank,

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writing off bad loans and making RBS more efficient, have so far

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been �38 billion. It will not be long before those costs exceed �45

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billion. As long as RBS can be nursed back to profits, at one day

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tax payers may get their money back but it will take years. How can

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banks and bankers be rehabilitated? The man credited with fixing

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laureates has some advice. Bankers need to see themselves as being of

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service to the public. They should be providing the finance and

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working for the companies they deal with, and not just come up all the

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time, tried to make huge bonuses for themselves. Take them on and

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expect them to do the job as everyone else does. The bonus of

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Stephen Hester is widely condemned in part because RBS is semi

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nationalised. Barclays is not owned by taxpayers so can Bob Diamond

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received huge pay and not be pilloried? We will know soon enough.

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The controversial bill to reform the NHS is back in the House of

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House of Lords, where it has already run into opposition. The

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Government's proposals would mean the biggest shake-up of the service

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since it was founded - giving GPs control over much of the budget.

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Earlier, it dominated a fiery session of Prime Minister's

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Questions. This is a matter of trust in the Prime Minister. Can he

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honestly look people in health service in the eye and say he has

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kept his promise of no more top- down reorganisation? What we're

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doing is cutting the bureaucracy in the NHS. We're taking out for �0.5

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billion of bureaucracy which we ploughed into patient care. If you

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do not support the reform, you are not see the money going to

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operations, doctors, nurses, hospitals, health care assistants.

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That is what is happening in the NHS. Our political correspondent is

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in the House of Lords for us. How much of a headache is this Bill

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becoming for the Government and David Cameron in particular? It may

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need an aspirin to cure. Before the election David Cameron said he

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could sum up his priorities in three letters, NHS. Now he has said

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the NHS needs to be reformed. He expects opposition from Labour.

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What concerns him of his opposition from some of his coalition partners,

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Lib Dem peers and Conservatives in the House of Lords. They have

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defeated the Government this afternoon over proposals for mental

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health. It has had to put down 136 changes to his proposals to get it

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through Parliament. Professional medical bodies and the Royal

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College of GPs and the faculty for public health have also opposed

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debt. Here is the big political problem for David Cameron. If

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anything goes wrong in the health service in the future, the danger

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will be that it will be blamed on his reforms. It could be as

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uncomfortable for him as an internal examination. It is

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designed to get a million people off welfare and into jobs over the

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next two years, without costing the taxpayer a penny. The first

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official figures for the Government's flagship Work

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Programme show that only one in five people, who originally signed

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up to it, have been found a job. But BBC research suggests that in

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some places the number is significantly lower than that. Mark

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Easton has been following the project in Liverpool to see if it

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is starting to make a difference. Liverpool, a city where today there

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are seven times as many jobseekers as the job vacancies. 21-year-old

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Cheryl Cole has been looking for work for a year. Having left school

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at 16, the economic downturn left her stranded on welfare. She

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praised the Government work programme can rescue her. What you

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hope the work programme will do For You? Hopefully get me into a stable

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job and keep me there. I am willing to take anything on. When you've

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worked in the hotel how long were you there? About two and a half

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months. This programme in Liverpool is run by A4e. They only make a

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profit if they find permanent jobs for the City's long-term unemployed.

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It is early days. Just one in seven of their clients have found any

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kind of work. Dave has been on the BACS of A4e since last summer. He

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has been given some basic advice on improving his chances of the job in

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a local biscuit factory. Clean hands, clean nails, clean clothes.

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How worried I knew that it will be impossible for you to get a job?

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You do worry. There are that many people now looking. The jobless

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beget seems to be going up at the moment. Factory bosses will need to

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be persuaded to recruit someone who has not worked for years rather

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than someone fresh from another job. Jacobs has been employing people in

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Liverpool for almost a century. A4e have dozens of people they hope to

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get a job for. It does not get treated any differently from other

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employment agencies when it tries to find jobs in the biscuit factory.

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There are only so many jobs out there. You are in competition with

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other agencies. It is always going to be a competitive market place to

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get people into work. We have to work with our people to secure

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those positions over other companies. That is the nature...

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That does not get the job figures. That means one of your people

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rather than someone else. OK. I do not control the labour market or

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job creation. They cannot create jobs but they can create job ready

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workers which might attract or expand businesses in the city.

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Cheryl has been centre with a pile of CDs to deliver to hotels and

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shops. Can I just hand in my CV? Yes. You have all the details?

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Improving the work readiness of the long-term unemployed in Liverpool

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may boost the prospects of the city. The work programme cannot create

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work. What the unemployed in Liverpool need most is not more

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schemes, it is more jobs. Downing Street has rejected claims by

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Argentina that Britain is engaged in a military build-up in the

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Falklands. The Argentine government is to make a formal complaint to

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the United Nations about the deployment of Prince William and

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one of the Royal Navy's newest warships to the South Atlantic.

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Number Ten insisted the despatch of HMS Dauntless didn't change the

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UK's military posture. Members of Parliament are to have their pay

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frozen for the next financial year. It will stay at �65,738. Their

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pension contributions will rise by 1.85%. The decision has been made

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by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority - the body set

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up in wake of the expenses scandal. A meteorite that could help unravel

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the mysteries of Mars is being examined by scientists at the

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Natural History Museum. The rock fell in a shower of meteors over

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Morocco last summer, and the museum says it offers a unique insight

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They hurtle across space and then blazed through the atmosphere like

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falling stars before they crashed to the ground. This one is from the

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planet Mars. It is described as one of the most scientifically

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important need to rights ever to have fallen to earth. This is one

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of the most exciting me to write I have come across. It was recovered

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from the Moroccan desert. It was uncontaminated by earth. We think

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it may have samples of the Martian atmosphere trapped in it. Every

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clue we can get from this rock hopefully will help us to

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understand whether life may have existed on Mars in the past.

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Researchers used CT's Dan-Air's. They are searching for microscopic

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bubbles of Martian air. -- CT scanners. We note that the Martian

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surface is to try to support life. The terrain is covered with craters

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and dust. Hundreds of millions of years ago the meteorite may help to

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show it had an atmosphere, water, and even plants and animals. At

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auction houses, it is this intrigue that makes Martian meteorites much

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sought after by collectors. It is terribly interesting when you get

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things that have come to us from the universe. In general, meat

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rights cell from between �10,000.20 �1,000. -- meteorites. If you have

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something terribly rare, it can make a quarter of a million pounds.

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Scientifically it is priceless. Researchers may discover whether

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the red planet may once have been Now time for the weather. This

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picture behind me was taking it yesterday. More interesting photo

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opportunities in the next 24 hours. Let me take you to what is

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happening at the moment. Rain in Northern Ireland and western

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Scotland. As it falls across Scotland and northern England,

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freezing rain could occur. There could be ice and it could be

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potentially treacherous. Most of England and Wales will be dry and

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cloudy. A widespread frost. Wherever you are it will be a cold

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start and generally grey. Maybe a bit of sunshine across Kent. We

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could have freezing rain still causing problems across the far

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north of England and the South of Scotland as well. Outbreaks of rain

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coming and going in Scotland but they will ease from the north. That

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rain starts to push its way southwards through the day but it

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will be slow. Still the risk of ice and eventually snow across the

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north-east of England and the Midlands. Temperatures still

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struggling to get above freezing in a few spots but much milder across

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the North of Ireland and Scotland. Tomorrow and tomorrow night, the

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main risk of snow it is from Yorkshire, through the Midlands and

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