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4th half-a-million forgotten families. An official report says

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they hold the key to the causes of last year's riots. Five days of

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mayhem, 5,000 crimes. The report's authors blamed a lack of

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opportunities for young people. abiding memory will be talking to

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some young people, and they said, we need hopes and dreams and a

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stake in society. Also on tonight's programme, speeding up the planning

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process in England. New regulations come into force after critics win

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concessions. One spark a wave from a catastrophe.

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It could take months to fix the gas leak that threatens the Elgin plat

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form of -- one spark away. The price of a first class stamp

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soars to 60p, the biggest price increase for nearly 40 years.

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gosh! That's terrible. particularly happy about it, it is

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such a massive increase. creating new life, the scientists

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taking biology into a new era, with hopes of a new industrial

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revolution. Coming up on the BBC News Channel,

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England send for the spin doctor in Sri Lanka. Can Graeme Swann revive

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the tourists as they fight to save Welcome to the BBC's News at Six. A

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report into last summer's rioting says it could happen again, if what

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it calls England's forgotten families, half a million of them,

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are not given the support they need. The report says young people from

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these families lack any stake in society and had nothing to lose

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when the looting started. The authors say too many of them have

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been failed by the education system Over the course of five

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extraordinary day's last August, England learned how order and chaos

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are close neighbours. Rioting, looting and arson, spreading like a

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bush fires across the country. The politicians, initially blaming

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But then, commissioning a report to look at the deeper social causes,

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and lessons to be learned. The panel, chaired by Darra Singh, when

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too many of the riot damage neighbourhoods, including Tottenham,

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and were shocked by the sense of hopelessness they encountered.

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always found it shocking when presented with the starkness of

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some individual's views about their lives and prospects and the fact

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that they have no hopes and dreams. The abiding memory will be talking

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to some young people who said, we need hopes, dreams and a stake in

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society. The report recommends the government's plant family support

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programme be expanded to cover 500,000 forgotten families, who it

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says bump along the bottom of society. They want a new

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requirement for schools to develop policies on building character in

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young people. And a government guarantee of a job for all young

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people who have been out of work for two years. Today's report

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throws responsibility for the rights back at government. It

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identifies a slice of society which has been allowed to become

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disconnected from the mainstream. Of half a million forgotten

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families, where children grow up without the character, all the

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skills to become responsible citizens. BBC research revealed

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last year how the rioters in Manchester came predominantly from

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the poorest areas of the city. Today, residents from those

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communities gave their reaction to the report. A lot of families are

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obviously suffering at the moment. There is no work for people.

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think it was everyone jumping on the bandwagon. Here, it was, anyway.

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I don't think there was a point to it. While there riots saw some

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neighbourhoods turn-on themselves... The appalling scenes also inspired

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a flowering of community spirit. After this convenience store in

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Hackney was stripped bare by local looters, residents came together to

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help the owner rebuild his business. Today, Siva says he has been given

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those who raided his store and says the real lesson is the need for

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government to help young people. Ministers have to look for the

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youngsters and listen to what they think, rather than a politician

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talk. They should listen to the youngsters, what they want. If they

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satisfy them, you'll be fine, or this will never happen again.

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riots were initially dismissed as criminality pure and simple.

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Today's report agrees it was criminality, but concludes there

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was nothing simple about it. Some people are going to listen to

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this and say, the criminals are being excused. There is no question,

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this report does not in any way excuse what is going on. Indeed, it

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says they should be punished. But it does say that if the government

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doesn't do anything, if it leaves things as they are, they cannot

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guarantee that we will not have similar rides again. They asked a

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simple question. Some people didn't riot and their neighbours did, what

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was the difference? They found that the people involved were those who

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did not have a stake in society, who did not have the skills, the

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parenting, the Education, or in their words, the character to make

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good decisions. It was criminality, it should be punished, but this

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report is saying that if government wants to ensure we don't see the

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same thing again, they have to do something about the part of society

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that feels disconnected from the mainstream. New planning

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regulations come into force today. Ministers say it would streamline

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the whole process, releasing more land for homes and giving a boost

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to the economy. An early draft was rejected by several environmental

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groups, who have now given a cautious welcome to the latest

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version. Some still worried it could lead to a building free for

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For decades, the old planning system shaped England's development.

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Determining where green fields end and towns begin. But the system

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grew ever more complicated. These new properties in Coventry took

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years to plan, but are taking just months to build. So those who say

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we need much more housing were among the first to welcome the

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government's new framework. If it helps to deliver homes that people

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can actually afford. Planning has been an obstacle for sustainable

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housebuilding. I think if we do get a clearer, simpler system for us to

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navigate, that should help. Today's planning document is about much

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more than housing. It will be the framework for balancing the demands

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of the economy with the needs for the environment. When you fly over

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the country, what is striking is how much green space there still is.

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Some say that is because the old planning system restricted the

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growth of towns and cities. The question is whether this new

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planning framework gives as much protection to the countryside. An

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earlier draft of the guidelines contained one very controversial

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element. A presumption in favour of sustainable development. Would that

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mean a threat to areas like this Warwickshire woodlands, right in

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the heart of England? The phrase remains, but campaigners say some

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of their concerns have been addressed. Generally, we welcome

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the fact that the Government has listened to the objections, they

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have listened that we need to define sustainable development.

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They have not said how it would be implemented and that could lead to

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huge confusion. Businesses like this shampoo factory in Bradford

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mac a r Stratford-upon-Avon think the economy will ultimately benefit

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-- in Stratford-upon-Avon. The boss is all too aware of the costs of a

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dysfunctional system. Foreign companies come here and may see a

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project that will take five to seven years, and they will go to

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other parts of Europe because planning is faster in other

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countries. England is the only nation making changes. Developers

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have been anticipating them and The oil company, Total, says it

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could take up to six months to stop a gas leak on its Elgin platform in

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the North Sea. Exclusion zones have been put in place and staff taken

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off the rig. The gas is highly flammable and one union is warning

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of the potential for catastrophic devastation if the platform blows

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Empty, abandoned and leaking gas. The Elgin platform and a nearby

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drilling wick -- Rick, evacuated and powered down to reduce the risk

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of the explosion. The operators have admitted stemming the flow of

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gas, possibly by drilling another welcome it could take some time.

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The relief well is a minimum of six months, but we are freeing up rigs

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we have in other areas, so they can be made available if that is the

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option that is progress. The Elgin platform lies 150 miles east of

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Aberdeen. There are reports of a gas cloud around the leaking

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installation, so eight exclusion zone is in place. Routine shipping

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has been ordered to give at least two miles away and no aircraft are

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allowed within three miles, and 4,000 feet. The Shearwater platform

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and rig are also close to the drifting gas cloud. As a

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precautionary measure, all non- essential workers there are being

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brought ashore. North Sea workers undergo continuous survival

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training to prepare for any emergency. There are warnings this

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could be the most serious incident since the Piper Alpha disaster, in

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which 167 people died. We have never had this type of situation so

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there are so many unknowns. You can only relate it back to Piper Alpha.

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We have got everybody off, everybody is home and safe. But you

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could see Piper Alpha. The risks are well known. Tonight, two fire

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fighting vessels remain on standby, close to the leaking installation,

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in case of any explosion. Experts are being flown into hub, but it is

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still too dangerous to approach the Elgin platform, and a long and

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difficult operation to get the leak under control lies ahead.

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Tonight, the engineers say they still haven't identified the source

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of the league. Total says drilling a relief well, or pumping in heavy

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mud to suppress the flow of gas are among the options they are

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considering. Fergus Walsh is here with some details.

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This gas leak is a highly unusual situation which presents all kinds

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of safety and engineering hurdles. The abandoned Elgin platform, 150

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miles offshore, stands in relatively shallow water, 300 ft

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deep, on the surface there is a sheen of liquid gas compensate, 1.8

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square miles of it. Up to 23 tonnes has been released. There are

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several problems. The gas is more than three miles down, a huge

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drilling distance. It is emerging at very high pressure, it is highly

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toxic, containing hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide. And it is very

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flammable and emerging at high temperatures, making the large

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exclusion zone essential. There are going to be safety issues. They are

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dealing with a flammable gas, a poisonous gas. It is not going to

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be a simple task. In the case of the Gulf spill, the problem was the

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depth of the water. The case here is the problem with the nature of

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the gas that is leaking. And it remains to be seen as to whether

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this is going to be a major incident, or whether it can be

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capped fairly quickly. So what are the options for dealing with the

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leak? It could stop of its own accord. That is a real possibility

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but no one is banking on it. Engineers could be sent in to kill

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the league but it -- by pumping in heavy mud, but it could be risky.

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The surest option would be to drop it a relief well, but that could

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take six months. A remote undersea vessel should be in place to allow

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filming of the seabed, to help engineers assess what should happen

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next. A spokesman for the UN-Arab League

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envoy, Kofi Annan, says Syria has accepted his six-point peace plan.

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It calls for a UN monitored end to the fighting, the pull-out of

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government troops from opposition cities and improved humanitarian

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access. Kofi Annan has stressed this is only a first step and

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success for the plan would depend on how it was implemented.

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The former head of the International Monetary Fund,

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been put under formal investigation in

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France over his alleged involvement in a vice ring that procured

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prostitutes for parties. Mr Strauss-Kahn, who strongly denies

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the allegations, has been released on bail.

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The price of stamps is set to soar. First class will increase from 46p,

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two 60p. For second class, from 26 p, to 50p. The increases come after

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the Royal Mail was given the freedom to set its own prices for

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the first time. As Hugh Pym boards, the sharp rise has left many

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customers angry. The Royal Mail's message today was

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blunt. At the end of next month, it is going to cost a lot more to put

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a letter in the post. Nearly a third more for first class, and an

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even bigger increase for second. Users have been told it will still

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be good value compared to other countries. Well, no one likes to

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ask anyone to pay more. If you compare our prices to the prices in

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other major European countries, at �60 for first class, it is less

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than half of what you would pay in Germany -- at 60p. In 2006, a first

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class stamp cost �30. It is now heading for double that. Second

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class was 21 p -- a first class stamp cost 30p. Royal Mail has been

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losing money, partly because fewer letters are posted. It is largely

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because of people switching to e- mail. We found a range of opinions

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on the latest price increases. is a massive hike. If it has to go

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up, surely it could go up a few pence. I don't mind. As long as my

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letters get to where they are going. Do you know what the price is?

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I have to say. In the age of technology, we don't send that many

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letters any more. Small businesses, which used the postal system, are

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not happy. Malcolm Colgate is a flower grower in Devon. He needs to

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send regular information to his customers. It brings into question

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whether we carry on and mail out again. Whether we do away with it

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altogether. It is a big question, a big additional cost. The increase

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in stamp prices is part of the Royal Mail's attempt to sort out

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its finances in a key bit of the business, collecting and delivering

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letters. It needs to do that because it is heading towards

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privatisation, and the countdown to that is now under way. The

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challenge for Royal Mail is to prepare for the sell-off over the

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next two years, while still maintaining the so-called universal

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service. A delivery to every UK Our top story tonight - an official

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report into last year's riots says there are 500,000 forgotten

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families who need help from Government. Coming up - last time

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Fabrice Muamba was left fighting for his life. Spurs and Bolton

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prepare to replay that match. Later - the head of the OECD says the

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eurozone needs to double its bail- out fund and we look at who is

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winning the supermarket grocery It's a whole new area of science

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and could lead to the next industrial revolution. It's called

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synthetic biology and involves creating new forms of life from

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artificial DNA. The Government hopes the economy will benefit from

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innovations, including the production of new medicines and

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fuels, but some campaigners are warning of the risks. Imagine the

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power to design new forms of life, to dream up new versions of the

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genes inside every living thing on Earth and create organisms that

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have never before existed. That's what is happening here in this lab

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at Imperial College in London. The researchers aren't just studying

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life, but reshaping it. This is synthetic biology. An emerging

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science which could transform industry, medicine and the fuels we

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use. The potential for a new industrial revolution is very clear.

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It is very clear that these techniques can be applied across a

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wide range of different fields. From healthcare right through to

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energy and agriculture. What is synthetic biology? The starting

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point is something that has been around for year, genetic

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modification, where you take a cell, this is a virtual one and there is

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the bundle of genes inside. They modify them by inserting, splicing

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in, DNA from another. What they are doing now going much further. It

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relies on the fact that DNA is a kind of code for life, made up of

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just four basic building blocks, represented here by these four

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different letters. As with any engineering process, these

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components can be rearranged to design brand new genes. What the

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scientists do is take those four basic building blocks, just

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chemicals, here they are, the real thing, mix them up, to create their

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own version of synthetic man-made DNA. The final stage is the most

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extraordinary. They take a cell, with all of the own original DNA

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stripped out and insert the synthetic DNA, giving the organism

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to do whatever they want, taking control of nature. -- getting the

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organism to do whatever they want, taking control of nature. A vaccine

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can be made to fight malaria and that will be seen later this year.

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Alguy with synthetic genes would -- algae made with synthetic fuel. A

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new drought could be combated, one of several ideas. Two years ago an

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American scientist, Craig Venter, announced the first living thing

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with synthetic DNA. Are we ready for this? The advances are exciting

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but terrifying. Exciting because they offer the possibility of

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creating new life forms, that will deal with many problems, but create

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lifeforms of the human immune system and the world have never so

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far experienced or encountered. Over the year, campaigners have

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fought genetic science, attacking GM crops and then they are more

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worried about this new research, but the scientists say they're

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doing everything safely. We are working within the design phase

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about how to develop and -- develop kill switches, they are mechanisims

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that the organism would kill itself, so to ensure that it doesn't

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interfere with the natural world, which is what we don't want to

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happen. It was only 60 years ago that scientists discovered how

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genes worked as the code for life. Now, they are taking charge and

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we're on the brink of a new era and the public debate about it has only

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just begun. A coroner has praised the colleagues of a soldier who

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risked their lives to save her when she suffered injuries in

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Afghanistan. Come disposal expert, Captain Lisa Head later died in

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hospital, despite other seldiers at the scene. The coroner delivered a

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verdict of unlawful killing. Captain Lisa Head was a bomb

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disposal expert with the Royal logistic core. He was 29 and

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deployed to Afghanistan a year ago today. Three weeks into her tour of

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duty she was called to an Aliway in a village which soldiers from the

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2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment had been passing through

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all day -- alleyway. There she found a buried IED and disarmed it.

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There was then a small explosion from a second device causing her to

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retreat. The man here in the sunglasses is Corporal Adam Tucker,

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who was with her that day. He told The inquest here today heard that

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when she went back into the alley way to continue her job, he stood

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on a third IED which blew up. It left her with catastrophic injuries

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and despite a huge effort to save her life, which included flying her

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back here to the UK for treatment, she died the following day.

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Colleagues say he was the bravest of the brave. Right to the very end

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in that situation she was thinking about the safety and security of

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the battle group she was supporting and the team. She knew that if she

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walked away from that incident she would have left the device in the

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ground and the Taliban would have moved it. Thousands of people

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turned out to pay tribute to Captain Lisa Head at her funeral in

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her home town of Huddersfield. Her family said no-one was more loved.

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She had told them she had the best job in the world.

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The Pope has urged Cubians so build an open and renewed society at the

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start of the first papal visit to the country in 40 years. After

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arriving and celebrating mass yesterday, he spent today visiting

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a shrine outside the eastern city of Santiago. Later he will fly to

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half that, where he is expected to meet the former President. Cricket

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and Sri Lanka have the upper hand after the second day's play in gall.

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-- Galle. 17 wickets fell today, but England fought back to reduce

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it to 84-5. Still leaving the home side with a lead of 209.

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A man, who posted racist tweets about the Bolton midfielder,

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Fabrice Muamba, after he collapsed has been jailed for 56 days. Liam

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Stacey, a 21-year-old from Swansea pleaded guilty yesterday. Tonight

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the match is being replayed. Our reporter is at White Hart Lane. 56

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days, that sounds like a warning to others, doesn't it? It does. I

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think there was some incredulity that this young man was apparently

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intelligent enough to study biology at university and yet revulsion as

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well at his actions, the racist taunting of Fabrice Muamba moments

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after he collapsed here ten days ago. The judge, who sentenced him

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to 56 days, described the actions as vile. Jim Brisbane the chief

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prosecutor for the CPS in Wales says he hopes the case will serve

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as a warning to the comments made on-line are somehow above the law.

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It was a very long way away from the reaction that there was at the

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time, at the ground here. It's really kept on ever since. It's

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between the two sets of fans. The teams and indeed the expressions of

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goodwill between the managers that have been in the programme tonight

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before the match. Indeed, the match will be preceded by a minute's

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applause in appreciation of Fabrice Muamba. Tim, what is the latest on

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his medical condition? He is still in a very serious condition at the

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London Chest Hospital, a short distance away from here, but there

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does appear to be incremental improximity and just a sense of --

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improvement and just a sense of delight that he's still alive after

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his heart stopped beating for 78 minutes. He was visited by three

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team-mates and they didn't talk to us after, but there is a sense from

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the team they are trying to draw strength from the very fierce fight

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for life that he has exhibited. Thank you very much. Time now for

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Thank you very much. Time now for the weather with Alex. This seems

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to go on and on. It seems like it, George. There are signs of change

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come the end of the week, but more sun to come. For the third day

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running, we have broken the March record in Scotland. Aboyne reaching

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23.6C. This is the satellite picture. Incredible to see a

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picture like this. Hardly a cloud in the sky, except across Shetland.

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21 in Northern Ireland, that was close to a March record too. Now,

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temperatures are dropping almost as sharply as they rose this afternoon.

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It will be a cold one again tomorrow morning. Most places will

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have clear skies. Two and three in towns and cities. In rural areas

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maybe minus two or three. Another cracking day if you like sun. The

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mist and fog doesn't last and then blue skies pretty much everywhere.

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The far north of Scotland, more cloud here and spot or two of

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drizzle. For most, it's sunny and it is warm after the chilly start.

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Temperatures up into the low 20s across parts of the south. We could

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reach 23 again across the east of England. Generally up to 19 or 20.

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Maybe 21 across parts of northern England. Belfast 19. Somewhere in

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Northern Ireland we could get close to their March record during the

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afternoon. We may reach 23 in parts of south-east Scotland, but the

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cloud across the north it won't be quite as warm. That is a sign of a

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change. On Thursday, more cloud spilling in. Turning cloudier in

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Northern Ireland. Perhaps cloud for north-west England and North Wales.

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Maybe down the east. Temperatures a few degrees lower and still in the

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south, we could exceed 20 degrees once more. Come the end of the week

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we'll start to notice the change. It will turn cooler, thanks to more

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cloud spilling in. Those days look as though it will be dry, into the

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weekend, where temperatures will be weekend, where temperatures will be

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normal. A reminder of the main news - an official report into last

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